Wish You Were Here - New cover

[CharlesPL]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQ3XOnMsX4

[bosk1]

VERY nice!  Jordan's piano part almost makes me wish it were that way in the original.

[mikeyd23]

Cool video, thanks for posting!

[Another_Won]

Yeah, really cool!  When was this done?  I thought they stopped doing covers when Portnoy left.

[bosk1]

  Why would you think that?

[JayOctavarium]

That was fucking beautiful

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

First thing that came to my attention: CASIO?  There's really not a brand in the planet that doesn't endorse Jordan Rudess.

Awesome cover.

[CB]

Beautiful!

I hope DT will do an acoustic show, or half-acoustic show, sometime in the future.

Unusual and nice to see James singing without a microphone,
and the handwritten notes on Jordans screen

[thosava]

Filmed in Oslo Konserthus, cool! (I was there for the concert sunday.)

[Bill]

That was simply beautiful. Wish I was there!

[Another_Won]

  Why would you think that?

Dude, I don't know.  What do any of us here think anything  

Am I alone in thinking that?  Not so much that everyone else in the band hated it, more that MP just pushed it more.

[MirrorMask]

Unusual and nice to see James singing without a microphone

I would love to see more of that! More generally, naked and raw performances of singers are so rare to come by. Studio reports are dime and a dozen, but it's very rare to find clips from singers just singing, no effects, no music beneath, just their pure voice (which is where you actually see the strenght of a singer) and nothing else!

[Scorpion]

More [..] naked [...] performances

I agree.

[Enigmachine]

Very nice cover.

  Why would you think that?

Dude, I don't know.  What do any of us here think anything  

Am I alone in thinking that?  Not so much that everyone else in the band hated it, more that MP just pushed it more.

I don't think there have been any other covers in the MM era. Could be wrong, but I'd also say that MP was the one to push covers.

[CharlesPL]

They Played Paradigm Shift and 21st Century Schizoid Man - Huntington, NY 2012

[genome]

Must be in a minority that wasn't a big fan. JP and JLB are fine, but Jordan overplays it.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Must be in a minority that wasn't a big fan. JP and JLB are fine, but Jordan overplays it.

He usually does. I used to be very annoyed by that a couple of years ago but I grew to like it. Those fast arpeggios and blue scales are so JR, you know? So I really didn't mind them in this cover.

[Kotowboy]

Can anyone see what JR has on his cheat sheet ? It looks like notation but it's far too short to be the entire song..

maybe just the intro ?

Also - nice harmonies from John.




EDIT - also the drumkit doesn't look so huge that close up and with only 2 bass drums.

[Prog Snob]

That is awesome! My favorite band playing a song by my second favorite band. It doesn't get much better than that.   

[bosk1]

also the drumkit doesn't look so huge that close up and with only 2 bass drums.

Funny, I had the same reaction when I was hanging out up on the stage with JP and Frank Aresti before the show when I saw them last tour.  JP said I could go stand behind the kit and take a closer look as long as I didn't touch anything, and I was thinking how it doesn't look nearly as big as I thought it would.

[dparrott]

I would love to see more of that! More generally, naked and raw performances of singers are so rare to come by. Studio reports are dime and a dozen, but it's very rare to find clips from singers just singing, no effects, no music beneath, just their pure voice (which is where you actually see the strenght of a singer) and nothing else!

Yes yes yes!  I'm surprised they did this, very unusual for them.

[SebastianPratesi]

Can anyone see what JR has on his cheat sheet ? It looks like notation but it's far too short to be the entire song..

maybe just the intro ?

Yes; the first staff/pentagram is what he plays from 0:46 - 0:52. The last bar of the 2nd staff is what he plays at 1:00/1:01 (the notes are A-B-D-B-E). The rest of the writing I can't make out, but yes, it's the intro.

It's confusing, though, because the last bar of the first staff makes you think he would play the last notes of the phrase an octave higher, but he plays them as the original version.

EDIT - Holy crap, already 300 posts in under a month!

[SuperTaco]

Labrie really tapped into the floydian side of his voice for this one. Awesome cover.

Those JP backing vocals though 

[erwinrafael]

Yeah, John's backing vocals is really the nice surprise in this vid.

[FsF]

Great to see them going for a cover again, always great to hear John's backing vocals. Perhaps Jordan could have toned it down a tad though...

[Lax]

Loved it !

[Accelerando]

Awesome!

[Kix]

Glad you guys dug it. I set it up with Classic Rock Magazine here in the UK a while back as part of their coverage around the album release (another piece being the current April 2016 issue's Story Behind The Song feature on Pull Me Under). We flew them out to the second Oslo show last weekend, so they could film it in the afternoon before the gig. (We didn't do it in London to let the guys have the day to concentrate on the show, given we had the very first two performances here). Think they did a splendid job! We did something else (also for Classic Rock) at the same time, so that's to come in due course too.   

[Another_Won]

Awesome, really looking forward to seeing more!

[TheOutlawXanadu]

Glad you guys dug it. I set it up with Classic Rock Magazine here in the UK a while back as part of their coverage around the album release (another piece being the current April 2016 issue's Story Behind The Song feature on Pull Me Under). We flew them out to the second Oslo show last weekend, so they could film it in the afternoon before the gig. (We didn't do it in London to let the guys have the day to concentrate on the show, given we had the very first two performances here). Think they did a splendid job! We did something else (also for Classic Rock) at the same time, so that's to come in due course too.   

Awesome work, sir! These kinds of things are great.

[Zydar]

Excellent

[Bertielee]

Glad you guys dug it. I set it up with Classic Rock Magazine here in the UK a while back as part of their coverage around the album release (another piece being the current April 2016 issue's Story Behind The Song feature on Pull Me Under). We flew them out to the second Oslo show last weekend, so they could film it in the afternoon before the gig. (We didn't do it in London to let the guys have the day to concentrate on the show, given we had the very first two performances here). Think they did a splendid job! We did something else (also for Classic Rock) at the same time, so that's to come in due course too.   

Awesome work, sir! These kinds of things are great.

Awesome work, Madam (because Kix is a girl - look at the gender).

B.Lee

[Stadler]

  Why would you think that?

Dude, I don't know.  What do any of us here think anything  

Am I alone in thinking that?  Not so much that everyone else in the band hated it, more that MP just pushed it more.

I don't think there have been any other covers in the MM era. Could be wrong, but I'd also say that MP was the one to push covers.

And this wasn't in an official concert with the full band. 

[Mladen]

A very nice cover. Could have done with some of Jordan's improv, but that's the way he feels the song.

[hefdaddy42]

I loved it.  JP's backing vocal was really nice.

MP was definitely the driving force behind doing covers, especially the full-album covers.  I love this, because it is a cover that we get to see and hear, and it isn't a direct copy of the original, and it isn't taking up "DT concert time".

Looking forward to the next one.