Zardon

Now here is a man with REAL taste.

Falstaff

Always like Petrucci, the G3 concert with Vai and Satch was damn good. Takes me back to the 70s or was it 80s...or 90s...these guys have been busy for at least 15 years, I have other CD's because they were big in Japan. You can play it loud and it sounds better, not like that death metal crap kids are listening to today.

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Zardon

petrucci is mindblowing, and if anyone who plays guitar watches him live, you will end up wanting to take a job as an insurance salesman, he is that good.

Dream theater are also probably the most underrated rock band ever, there is no justice in life sometimes, they should all be household names by now - they would eat a band like metallica for breakfast and spit them out. At least they never sold out to popularity, and they could have.

Falstaff

because they are not mainstream usually peaks my interest. I have heard lots of influences in popular music today, including the chaps that fighting the foo, but DT is genuinely different in many respects, including the compositons, you cant draw direct correlations with anything you may have heard before, etc. Now with the Foo Fighters you can hear Crosby Stills and Nash, Niel Young, etc. its all over it. DT does fill a niche of sorts and should remain beyond the pale of the mainstream.

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