Dream Theater - The Complete Forbidden Dreams Boxset In FLAC

This was released on the Japanese Bondage Music label in 2002, and features three superb soundboard recordings which I consider to be essential for any DT bootleg collector.

The first one is from IMP AKA Imperial Hall in Osaka 1992/11/19. This one also goes under the names Images and Tour '92 (vol. 1 of the "Soundboard Masters" series) and Osaka Samurai, and there is an audience recording of this same show which gets erroneously billed under the name Moon Bubbles as the Shibuya Kokaido in Tokyo 1992/11/18.

The second recording is from Festival Hall in Osaka 1993/08/28, which also goes under the names Music In Progress Tour '93 (vol. 2 of the "Soundboard Masters" series) and Mission: Impossible.

The third recording is from Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo 1995/01/23, and also goes under the names Waking Up The World Tour '95 (vol. 3 of the "Soundboard Masters" series), and Tokyo Dragons.

There's also considerable overlap between these recordings and DT's 2002 International Fan Club CD Taste The Memories. The people who compiled the CD messed up though by flip-flopping the dates and venues of the 1992 and 1993 shows. They said "Osaka, Imperial Hall, 11/19/93" and "Osaka, Festival Hall, 08/28/92."

I tend to be a tough critic of bootlegs, especially when it comes to commercial bootleggers like Bondage Music, since the etiquette is technically supposed to be that you trade or freely distribute them rather than selling. But this one gets an A+ from me based on the fact that all of these recordings are excellent quality, and free of noise or other defects. Thank God for the Japanese. Were it not for them, there would be few excellent recordings of what I consider to be DT's coolest period: 1992-1995.

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