Very cool DT moment

So I went bowling last night with a couple of my friends last night. One is a huge Dave Mathews fan and the other a Lil Wayne Solja Boy (Or whatever) fan. They were picking songs for a while so I went up to the jukebox and was flipping through the albums. Towards the back I started seeing a lot of jazz and even a Yes album (Fragile) and then like 2 records from the back I found Awake. The only thing was the album not have Scarred just like the cassette version from 94.
I thought that was really cool because I was definatley not expecting to see a DT record in a Bowling Alley jukebox.

That's pretty damn awesome, I should really check for some DT more often at places like that. Give some people some education, you know.

Did you play any songs? Which one?

Simo46

Did you play any songs? Which one?

This.

Just Two.
Voices and Innocence Faded.
Good choices though.

Little pat on the back for yourself, there, eh?

But yeah, good choices. Except for the lack of THE SILENT MAN, the second-most underrated DT song of all time.

I actually think Anna Lee gets that title.

^ And the most is?

You Not Me, Anna Lee, Prophets of War, Honor Thy Father, I Walk Beside You?

the bar i go to time to time has Systematic Chaos, few songs on their jukebox, they have a lot of music on it, im sure they'll have some BC&SL soon. i dont get all excited about it, dont see the point, i just go oh cool and i put on something else.

Right on! That's awesome!

I just came back from the beach.  While I was hiding in the sand dunes.......naked... with a pair of binoculars looking at topless chicks, some guy was playing the Silent Man on his guitar on the boardwalk.


*burps*

Yesterday when I got out of my Spanish class and went to my car, the guy from the car next to me was also leaving. And I guess he saw my copy of SC in the backseat and was like "oh, you listen to Dream Theater?"

I went "yeah, they're pretty much my favorite band."

Him: "Oh, cool. You ever listen to Porcupine Tree?"

Me: "Yeah, they're great, I have one of their CDs in my car too."

Him: "Awesome." And then he got in his car and left. I was about to tell him about The Incident, but I guess not. As I was driving home blasting Prophets of War, my thoughts were THAT WAS SO FUCKING WEIRD.

ergh... too late to edit...

And sometimes when I pass by people with say, DT or SX shirts or any bands I like, I give 'em a nod, you know, just "nice shirt, dude!" Once I saw a guy wearing a Green Carnation shirt!

But nobody ever responds or acknowledges it. Damn you prog-nerds and your anti-social tendencies.

DefyingMortality

Damn you prog-nerds and your anti-social tendencies.

OMG PEOPEL

At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

skip63


At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

Lol. Nice way to get your money's worth.

I have yet to see any DT in a jukebox or the like.  But I remember it was awesome that in high school my chemistry teacher was a big dream theater fan so it was always fun during double lab periods.  It would always seem to be playing in the background.

My favorite bar has Karaoke night. The guy who does it has 10 or so DT songs. One is ACOS. You guys don't know how many times I wanna sing it.

By the way, when I see someone with a DT shirt, I show them my Majesty tattoo.

DefyingMortality


Yesterday when I got out of my Spanish class and went to my car, the guy from the car next to me was also leaving. And I guess he saw my copy of SC in the backseat and was like "oh, you listen to Dream Theater?"

I went "yeah, they're pretty much my favorite band."

Him: "Oh, cool. You ever listen to Porcupine Tree?"

Me: "Yeah, they're great, I have one of their CDs in my car too."

Him: "Awesome." And then he got in his car and left. I was about to tell him about The Incident, but I guess not. As I was driving home blasting Prophets of War, my thoughts were THAT WAS SO FUCKING WEIRD.

Thats a good story.
I have gotten a few of my best friends into DT but most people at my school have never heard of them (Besides the Rock Band and Guitar Hero players). There was one senior that played bass in my school's stage band last year and knew the intro to Panic Attack and the Metropolis Bass solo.

I have yet to find anyone at my school that has heard of Porcupine Tree.

Good work on choosing Voices.

I walked into our bowling ally once heard DT songs. Followed by Opeth. I searched everywhere for someone bobbing there head. Noone. Every time i put DT on it never plays.

skip63


At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

LOL Very nice!! You definitely get your money worth, I have to do that next time i see a jukebox.

ResultsMayVary

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At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

Lol. Nice way to get your money's worth.

Yes... that's really cool and funny!
"A Change Of Seasons", "The Glass Prison" and "In The Presence Of Enemies" and you can feel confident that there will be only good music for the next hour...

I was at my band's show yesterday and they play a bunch of songs on the PA in between the band's set and i was able to find the sound guy. After 10 minutes of talking to him, i managed to get him to play This Dying Soul in between the sets of two post-hardcore bands. From what i could see, they were loving This Dying Soul. haha.

skip63


At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

Nice one!

Years and years ago (15 plus) a local teen hang-out had a copy of Images & Words (the owner of the place was a local musician and knew his stuff). I used to put on Learning To Live for that exact same reason. The song would end and then the Wait For Sleep reprise bit would start and you'd hear all these people go "Oh come on!!!!" while I'd be sitting there grinning.

joshua12

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At the bar I go to has one of those new digital online jukebox.
Just about every DT album except for some of the older stuff.
4 songs for a dollar and I choose the long epics to get my moneys worth.
I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

Nice one!

Years and years ago (15 plus) a local teen hang-out had a copy of Images & Words (the owner of the place was a local musician and knew his stuff). I used to put on Learning To Live for that exact same reason. The song would end and then the Wait For Sleep reprise bit would start and you'd hear all these people go "Oh come on!!!!" while I'd be sitting there grinning.

It was the same thing at the end of This Dying Soul where the guitar solo stops, then there is a pause, and then the insane unison to the end. Everyone kind of stopped and went "WTF?!". It was priceless.

I always like using the ones that you can download any song for an extra credit and of course I usually play one of the epics like 8V, CoS or ITPOE

The day after I went to see Dream Theater I wore their shirt under my school uniform and showed a few people. The response was "who the hell is Dream Theater?", except from one guy who'd just enrolled that year.

He said "they're progressive rock, like Porcupine Tree." We've been great friends since.

Boo, I never see/meet anyone who likes/knows Dream Theater, and it's never played in any bar or whatever.
When I go to their concerts I'm like, 'where do all you people come from!?'...sigh, stupid tiny country...

Meh, I think the "saturation bombing" theory of playing 4 long DT songs back-to-back isn't the best way to get people to like them... and if you're listening to it for yourself, why not do it in the car or something. I don't know, good story nonetheless though

Don't really have any DT stories unfortunately. I WAS in class once and asked a punk guy if he had any Protest the Hero on his laptop, expecting him not to know them, but he shook his head and said he wish he did. We talked for a while after that... pretty cool

I was in a mall in Toronto wearing my chaos in motion short not too long ago and while I was riding up an escalator some guy yelled DREAM THEATER!! We had a good \m/ moment from fairly far away

djmetalhead


I just came back from the beach.  While I was hiding in the sand dunes.......naked... with a pair of binoculars looking at topless chicks, some guy was playing the Silent Man on his guitar on the boardwalk.


*burps*

  XD

Bowling alley near me has a digital jukebox with most of the dream theater and opeth catalogue.  One day I noticed they had a change of seasons.  Out of curiosity I put in the dollar to get 2 songs.  I chose that and Home.  To my surprise I got to he both all the way through.  I got like 30+ min of music for a dollar when most only get maybe 10. I won that day

I have got two stories.

1.
I wore a DT-shirt and 8v was released a few weeks ago back then. I was in the supermarket when a 16 year old kid (I was 24 at that time) asked me, if I like the new album or not.

2.
That was about 8 weeks ago. I wore my SFAM-shirt and went to a room with student assistents from a professor to get the password for the download stuff for a reading. There were 3 women- about 24, 25 years old- and one of them looked at me, then looked away, smiled, looked at me again, recognized that I recognized that she looked at me, but turned away again nonetheless, but then said: "I know DT." I asked "Why is this?". She answered "Good taste", smiled and said that she has been to a concert in 2004 in Berlin.
That was the funniest part here for me, because I was at exactly this concert, too, but Berlin is about 170 miles away from where I live and because for us Germans this is a quite long distance I thought this coincidence was/is funny. And on top of this comes the fact that this concert is one of my favorite concert experiences, because the sound was just awesome and the venue there is cool, too.
But this story is NOT OVER YET...

About two hours later on that day I was walking on a corridor and listened to music on my iPod. About 5 or 6 meters in front of me stood a man, who is 38 (I am 28) and pointed at me and said something, but because I listened to the music I didn't understand him, of course and I was lost in thoughts, too and so I had no idea what he could want from me.
Then I stopped the music and walked over to him and then he said: "Cool shirt". We started to talk and it turned out that SFAM is one of his all-time-favorite-albums, too and that he is very much into Prog, too.
We talk now about one time per week about music and give albums we think the other one would like maybe to each other.
Another funny thing about this is that he is a doctor of political science at our university and there are sometimes fellow students who know him and are participating in his reading- I didn't know him before we met that day and have never even seen him before-.
It was about 3 or 4 times up to now that I had that feeling that a fellow student looked a bit "strange" and I guess they then thought something like "Why the heck do those two guys hang out together?!" when we were drinking coffee on the campus or stood talking in front of the library.
But I'm totally NOT thinking something like "Yes, look at me. I'm hanging out with this man. Look and see how cool I am!", but it's just a funny thing...

So... that are my 2 stories...

Last night I walked into the bar I usually go to shoot pool, and as I'm walking up I hear the music, and I think "I know that song."  It's ACOS!!!!!  This is the first time I had heard DT on the jukebox and I wasn't the one who put it on.  I went around the bar to find who had done it, I think he was perhaps a little creeped out by a stranger approaching him.   But it was so weird I had never heard DT played by someone other than me. 

I so rarely see anyone wearing any DT swag, let alone playing DT from a car or whatever.
Surprisingly twice I have gotten positive comments on DT shirts from girls who must have been about 20 years old (one bagging groceries and another working at a pizza parlor).  THAT SHOCKED ME! 
I'd like to think they were just hitting on me, but I am married, 3 kids, over 40, etc.

skip63

I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.

 
 
You should have told him ,..."It ends where it begins, silly..... !!!!"

skip63 I heard one guy say "when is this song going to end?" during Octivarium.     You should have told him ,..."It ends where it begins, silly..... !!!!"

 
Good call.

Good pick with Voices. . .
 
Did peoples head explode when JP hit that solo? .. Most epic solo EVER.
 
I purposefully blast DT in my car and drive REALLY slowly through parking lots with my windows down (regardless of the weather). I'm always searching for the few who were predestinely chosen to "get" DT. . .the search continues. LOL

As much as I love DT, I don't try to annoy people with their music. Bars and social hangouts are no place for 10,20,30+ minute epics. In that case it's bad music. Yeah maybe Pull Me Under, Burning My Soul or Root of All Evil would probably go over well. But 8V? Just wouldn't do it. That kind of stuff can suck the wind out of a room or bar.