For the past week or so now I have been almost continuously playing the new Dream Theater cd. Systematic Chaos is their ninth studio album and I think one of their best. The musicianship is beyond even my wildest imagination. If you ever heard them you understand what I mean. Then again they are actual trained musicians. From the finest music schools in the world. The Berklee College of Music and the Juilliard School of Music.

Dream Theater shows are never predictable. Their shows never feature the same set list. All songs from their 22 year history will be played sometime during the tour. Most of the time Dream Theater performs for at least three hours with an intermission and no opening act. Beside doing very long sets their own amazingly complex music.

They have also been know to hold concerts and cover an entire album of another band, before taking a break then returning to play a 3 plus hour set of their music. Covering such records as Master of Puppets by Metallica and Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. And from time to time they switch instruments all around during a show and preform a set as their alter ego band Nightmare Cinema.

If you never heard them then you need to. They are best classed as a progressive metal band. But I have heard them preform everything from Screamo to punk, to dance, ragtime, classical, from Elton John to Pearl Jam to P.O.D. and anything or everything between.
Dream Theater has become one of the most commercially successful progressive bands ever. Check them out Systematic Chaos is a fine place to start.
Sorry if you called and I did not answer. Can't hear the phone over the stereo.