Live near NYC?? Want to be on the new DT??

^^I dont get that

^^ me neither

^^ What they said. 

ORIGINAL: Virtuoso80

STOP! Whoever wishes to be on the next Dream Theater album must answer me these questions three...WHAT, is your name? WHAT, is your favorite color? etc...

Monty Python & the Holy Grail!!

ooooooooooooooooooooh! yah i know that!!

Anyone who doesn't recognize a blatent Monte Python reference should be IMMEDIATELY banned from participating in this all together. Shame on you three!!!  
 
BS

 soreeeeeeee

ORIGINAL: Virtuoso80

STOP! Whoever wishes to be on the next Dream Theater album must answer me these questions three...WHAT, is your name? WHAT, is your favorite color? etc...

 
NO.
 
You must show up precisely at the aforementioned time and date.
 
This will turn out to be a battle of the Chaffeurs.

reminds me of the "Calls to God" thing Pain of Salvation did with BE. Yours truly participated, and while my call did not end up on the album, it did end up on the BE DVD
 
I'd love to, but I can't conceivably afford it. "Chanting"..I don't question the guys ability to have it sound how they like and good..in key, etc. But the 1st thing that popped into my head when hearing this was a part of the album having a bunch of crazed (and sounding) drunken fans trying to chant..and being off-key and not totally together. But maybe that's something that I've heard a few too many times (including myself  in Karaoke sessions at the CONs

Gee I hope that the 40 that make it in can at least hold a tune & somewhat sing in key, remember this is going to be what we'll hear on the next all time classic DT album. Something to think about before you go that can maybe make the album sound stronger?

I have to think if it was something that required singing actual notes, then they wouldn't leave it up to a bunch of random people. Regardless, I have some choral experience, just don't ask me to hit LaBrie high notes.

wow, just wow
 
I'm speechless

Great Idea!

ah!!! u new yorkers are soo lucky

Holy shit, that's awesome.

I think people will be chanting outside..............Satan makes me kill the fans who did came in.........................

Maybe they will pick out the normal people, let them go in and than hold a microphone out of the window and record those people outside.

Unbelievable, DT is the best band. EVER!!!!

Make sure to warm up beforehand!

 WOW ! How awesome !!
Good luck and have fun you all from NYC !!
 
Hopefully Mike will have it filmed or something...wow how amazing !
 
Caroline

ORIGINAL: thefunkygibbons

wow, just wow

I'm speechless

That's you disqualified from the chanting session then.

ORIGINAL: jmccon

Holy shit. That has to be the coolest fucking thing you've yet to offer us DT fans. Much respect for that, Mike. I think any forumers should have their real name and their forum name listed in the booklet.

 
Totally agree - It is really cool!  I wish I could be there! Lucky New Yorkers!

That's pretty nice. I don't think you'll be hearing any new DT material though. 

ORIGINAL: abson

That's pretty nice. I don't think you'll be hearing any new DT material though. 

I think being new DT material is cool enough

Incredible. Us fans have the best band in the world!

I am going to phone in my part. Cool.

Another brick in the wall...of Avatar's Studios
Maybe a chorus like that?? another epic song?...oh man can't wait!
Let's hear you, DT fans!!!

I think Steve Johnson's post was very well thought out and well said.  Might be worth investigating that idea.

ORIGINAL: dtfanatic

I think Steve Johnson's post was very well thought out and well said.  Might be worth investigating that idea.

 
Pretty neat idea but I doubt it will happen. Dont make me sit here refreshing this page all day!
 
 

Mike is just trying to lure me down there to lay down a few drum tracks. I know it.
 
 

ORIGINAL: SteveJohnson
 
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3. Anybody turning up at 1 PM will find at least several hundred fans "not lining up" near the door. I pity the security guys that will have to deal with the ensuing melee and try to work out which 30-40 fans are "first".
 

 
That's the first thing I was thinking.  There will be no rhyme or reason for the fans showing up early to line up in an orderly and proficient manner.  Yeah, there will be people milling about all morning in the area, guaranteed.  Maybe its a clandestine sting operation to catch the impersonator also. 
 
Someone could film what happens at that door around 1:00p.m. and in the surrounding area.  Should be interesting to see how people conduct themselves.  Hopefully the random people that show up are cool and don't tarnish a great idea like this.
 
Don't take this the wrong way anyone, but couldn't help noticing some people are traveling from hundreds and hundreds of miles away, while Mike was asking for people who live near New York.  Someone traveling half way cross the country doesn't seem to qualify as "near New York."  Just one way of looking at it.  Hope everyone who goes from here does make it in, but hopefully won't piss and moan if you travel all that way and don't end up getting in.
 
This offering by Mike & the band is the greatest idea ever by the way.

is anyone else at all concerned with the fact that there will be chanting on the new record?  i really cant think of any instances of chants or crowd noise sounded good when it appeared on a studio record (for example - Fates Warning - the chanting in APSoG just annoys the hell out of me)
 
anyways, JMHO...

ORIGINAL: colin007

is anyone else at all concerned with the fact that there will be chanting on the new record?  i really cant think of any instances of chants or crowd noise sounded good when it appeared on a studio record (for example - Fates Warning - the chanting in APSoG just annoys the hell out of me)

anyways, JMHO...

There was chanting at the end of In the Name of God.

Isn't there chanting in The Glass Prison?

Holy shit, that would be awesome!

I wish I was in the area...

i can imagine the day... do you think it's gonna be a moment in DT history, no, i'm pretty sure it's gonna be a moment in 30-40 people memories :) Hey you're gonna tell your grand children that "YOUR" voice is one of the Dream Theater albums, you're gonna go like 'did you hear that son', that's me :) hehe
i can cleary the day from now and M.Portnoy is acting like a director/composer and keep saying 'you guys are crazy'  'give me some more' ... And the luckiest fans go like Yeah,Yeah!!!!!! I wish i live there...

But I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a bonus or a hidden track in some of the DVD's in the future or upcoming 'making of' videos you think so? Plus we were not able to see the studio sessions making of 8VM.

I wonder why they just dont have John M. do the chanting.

ORIGINAL: jelly experiment

i can cleary the day from now and M.Portnoy is acting like a director/composer and keep saying 'you guys are crazy'  'give me some more' ... And the luckiest fans go like Yeah,Yeah!!!!!! I wish i live there...

 
That's the part I'm most interested in experiencing... meeting Mike's expectations of perfection.

Chant: ALL HAIL THE PUMPKIN KING! ALL HAIL THE PUMPKIN KING! ALL HAIL THE PUMPKIN KING

JM: I am the Pumpkin KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

Wow, that would be fun. It would take me about 3-4 hours, depending on traffic, to get there. Knowing my luck, I wouldn't be one of the lucky 30, so I may just sit this one out. Besides, you can clearly hear me yelling on LSFNY, along with 3 thousand other people.

Damn it!