I’m very disappointed with this DVD release…
I’m still asking me … Why in High Definition times, Dream Theater, a band with 20 years of career, makes a DVD that looks like a 1990 VHS? I understand that the intention of the DVD was to make a sort of Reality about the tour… but.. in bad quality?. Something must be wrong. Even the “Live In Los Angeles” unofficial bootleg DVD has better video quality.
The band has been in Chile 2 times: The first time they give us an excellent and humble show, but no small at all. I liked this show, but I wanted a bigger show… That’s what happened when they came the second time. What do I mean? This time the show was perfect: the sound, the lights, the images, all of it. But the DVD looks like this tour was pour, without colors, and bad sound, with out audience noise… nothing like I lived here in Chile (I don’t think that the Santiago Show was the best show of the tour, but you get the idea)
Did you think about your Latin-American fans at the moment when you don’t put Spanish subtitles in this DVD? What happen with the respect to the fans?, and the respect for bands that you have like an example, bands you admire, like Rush, who after more than 30 years of career are making a Blue Ray 1080p presentation for their last tour.
I’m still a fan of DT, i like your last work (but not so much), but if a see the big picture, this pour release makes the old fans never expect a DT surprise. The DVD looks pretty on the outside, but ugly in the inside (it’s a cliché, but is true).
If you want to get more fans, keeping the old ones, just make all your works been better than the previous. That’s we expect from a big and mature band (if you really are a band like this).
And at last, but no less, James LaBrie is making an embarrassing performance in stage, he doesn’t reach the high notes, and the vibrato for long notes… is awful, another user told it before. I can’t tell more about it, you know this is true, unless you don’t want to see it, o listen it.
He is the voice of Dream Theater, but like other bands, this voice can be replaced. MP said in an interview that after SCORE, with a new home (Roadrunner), this is a new stage, a new moment for DT. I think that replace James LaBrie would be one of the changes that DT needs to make this new stage valid, unless you compose for the actual voice of him, because it’s not the same than 1992.
I’m writing this, while I watch and listen the last DVD of David Gilmour, Live in Gdansk. I hope you get the idea.
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