Dream Theater
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Dream Theater (often called DT for short) are a progressive metal band formed in the mid-1980s in the United States. Their current members are:
- James LaBrie (vocals)
- John Myung (electric basses)
- John Petrucci (guitar)
- Mike Portnoy (drums)
- Jordan Rudess (keyboards)
The band was founded by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy and they are the only original members that are still in the band today. They changed their singer twice in the late 1980s when Chris Collins was replaced by Charles Dominici in 1989. Dominici left the band only one year later, in 1990, and James LaBrie joined and stayed until today. Dream Theater's keyboardist also changed twice. Kevin Moore played with the band from 1989 until 1995 when he left and Derek Sherinan took his position until 1999.
The members of Dream Theater are known for playing their instruments almost perfectly and for their songwriting. Their music is very complex and the songs are often long (normally between 6 and 10 minutes) and sometimes very long (for example A Change of Seasons, 23 minutes). There are a lot of long parts in the songs, where no vocals are heard and only the intruments play (these parts are called "instrumental passages") and also many solos. The songs change very much, and are called progressive, since they are really many songs together in one. They once said that other bands have trouble making long songs. They said they have trouble making "short" songs. Most of Dream Theater's music is very difficult to play because of the high speed it has to be played with and the complex rhythm. Some people think that this is mainly used by the musicians to show how good they are, whereas others think that the music they play is simply beautiful and needs to be so difficult.
