The "important dates in DT history" thread

[Rodni Demental]

October 18, 2000 - Glasgow: the most batshit crazy, totally awesome concert in DT history.*[verification needed]

Set List:
Laura Palmer's Theme (intro tape)
1. Metropolis part 1 (w/ excerpt of Mean Street (Van Halen))
2. Overture 1928
3. Strange Deja Vu (w/ excerpt of Hot for Teacher (Van Halen))
4. Fatal Tragedy (Ass and Balls version)
5. The Mirror/The Mirror (reprise) (w/ excerpts of Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin) and Wipe Out)
6. The Canadian Rap
7. War Pigs (Black Sabbath) (w/ audience member on vocals)
8. Another Day (w/ extended keyboard solo at the end)
9. guitar solo (w/ Loch Lomond (Scottish bagpipe piece))/
10. Gladiator Theme
11. Home
12. keyboard solo (w/ excerpt of The Dance of Eternity)
13. Erotomania (w/ extended drum fills)
14. Voices
15. The Spirit Carries On
16. Learning To Live (w/ extended keyboard solo and excerpt of Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) on the last chord)
~~~encore~~~
A Change of Seasons:
17. I The Crimson Sunrise
18. II Innocence
19. III Carpe Diem
20. IV The Darkest of Winters (w/ new solos)
21. V Another World
22. VI The Inevitable Summer (w/ extended guitar solo)
23. VII The Crimson Sunset

All of those covers were kind of out of the blue, and they were apparently just exhausted and strung out.  They pulled some fucker out of the audience to sing on an impromptu cover of War Pigs, and of course, the Canadian Rap.  This is hands down one of my favorite bootlegs.  Just insane.  And JLB comments on it at various times throughout.

A lot of that stuff can be heard on the "Scenes From A World Tour" fanclub CD.

Ah of course! I knew a bunch of that stuff looked familiar, it's the Scenes From a World Tour stuff. Funny how stuff from this one show seems to take up half the disc.

[chaossystem]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

[Another_Won]

What about the date they became a band?  Do we need to have an actual date?

[TheGreatPretender]

What about the date they became a band?  Do we need to have an actual date?

September 1984? They said they met Portnoy a few weeks into their college Freshman year, right? And they pretty much started jamming right off the bat. There's really no hard date that anyone can pinpoint, is there?

[Prog Snob]

What about the date they became a band?  Do we need to have an actual date?

September 1984? They said they met Portnoy a few weeks into their college Freshman year, right? And they pretty much started jamming right off the bat. There's really no hard date that anyone can pinpoint, is there?

I'm sure MP has it written down somewhere.

[hefdaddy42]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

The "important dates in DT history" thread

[Prog Snob]

Sometimes the font just isn't big enough to get your point across.   

[hefdaddy42]

[Prog Snob]

 

[Another_Won]

What about the date they became a band?  Do we need to have an actual date?

September 1984? They said they met Portnoy a few weeks into their college Freshman year, right? And they pretty much started jamming right off the bat. There's really no hard date that anyone can pinpoint, is there?

I'm sure MP has it written down somewhere.

Yea, true

Wouldn't it be September of '85? 

I agree that it hard to pinpoint the date for this one which is why I was asking the question.  Is it a solid "dates in DT history" or is it more "dates and some events?"  I don't know the details of Bosk's project so I wasn't sure if I could mention something that didn't have a specific date.

Bosk - You know you'll have to share more details eventually, right?

[TheGreatPretender]

Yea, true

Wouldn't it be September of '85? 

I agree that it hard to pinpoint the date for this one which is why I was asking the question.  Is it a solid "dates in DT history" or is it more "dates and some events?"  I don't know the details of Bosk's project so I wasn't sure if I could mention something that didn't have a specific date.

Bosk - You know you'll have to share more details eventually, right?

Yes, sorry, 85, and it could be October, for all we know.

But considering that MP has never even acknowledged the actual date of when the band was formed apart from the year, I'm sure even he's not sure when the right exact date would be.

[JiM-Xtreme]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

Weren't they in Kobe when the earthquake hit in '95?

[TheGreatPretender]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

Weren't they in Kobe when the earthquake hit in '95?

Yup!

[JiM-Xtreme]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

Weren't they in Kobe when the earthquake hit in '95?

Yup!

Well, that.

I don't know the exact dates, and I'm too lazy to go and look them up 

[chaossystem]

It would be interesting to see if anyone else could come up with more examples like the one that I posted:
Situations involving WORLD EVENTS, not JUST the history of the band ITSELF!

The "important dates in DT history" thread

Just in case you didn't get the point, what I MEANT was: a situation in which the BAND was involved in a major-or at least minor-HISTORICAL event, such as the earthquake in Japan in 1995, or the one I already posted about!!!

[hefdaddy42]

Oh, OK.

[TheGreatPretender]

This thread really made me take notice, looking over Lifting Shadows, just how much the importants of dates seems to deteriorate as the book goes on. At the beginning, every little date is made note of, the day they went into the studio, the dates the albums were released, the dates when certain events (i.e. James's throat accident) happen. By the time it gets to SFAM, no hard date about when they got into the studio is told, and by the time ToT comes around,  it doesn't bother to state when the album came out at all. 

[XB0BX]

This thread really made me take notice, looking over Lifting Shadows, just how much the importants of dates seems to deteriorate as the book goes on. At the beginning, every little date is made note of, the day they went into the studio, the dates the albums were released, the dates when certain events (i.e. James's throat accident) happen. By the time it gets to SFAM, no hard date about when they got into the studio is told, and by the time ToT comes around,  it doesn't bother to state when the album came out at all. 

Sounds like every college paper I wrote.

[sylvinception]

Next decisive date in DT's history : the choice of a producer, other than JP.

[puppyonacid]

I wonder if JP going to Musicman back in 1999 could be considered.

Would have used the Baritone models otherwise? Did being with Musicman help to bring about the downtuning that we'd hear in DT songs from Train of Thought and onward?

[TheGreatPretender]

Next decisive date in DT's history : the choice of a producer, other than JP.

JP: "For this album, we wanted to get an outside producer to give this album a unique sound that DT has never had before. So we decided it was time to rekindle things with Mike Portnoy. We brought him on board to co-produce the album with me."