Free Dream Theater Bootlegs And Rare Items

  Sample Spectrogram Reading:   This post concludes what has been a big month in the history of this channel with 40 new items added! I will eventually get around to posting recordings of the second 1998 fan club gig from Paris. I have something special planned for that one. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!hfhHTQhC!wONM_02Gg4Fx5P8ogxhkcg

  Sample Spectrogram Reading: I have a version of this boot where the tapes are too fast. I was thinking about correcting the speed, but then I discovered that I had another version which was the correct speed. Possibly the best quality audience recording of Dream Theater from 1992. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!ULRjxCSb!jDRr39_4jvUmnboyQsEXPQ

    Here is one of those much sought after DT shows that features LaBrie singing material from the Awake album before his vocal injury that occurred in December 1994. Quality is spotty. I was going to work on trying to remaster it, but as I become increasingly more burnt out on DT, it’s something I’m not going to get to. The fact that the sound seems to change throughout the broadcast complicates things (some tracks are way darker than others, possibly as a result of denoising/tape hiss reduction someone already did). My favorite part of this show is hands down the "instrumental," which is a mesh of the Awake Jam and A Crack In The Mirror with a really cool solo from Derek Sherinian I haven't heard him play at any other shows. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!9HpzVBiS!jmWezVfvNRO4ytWNj2QXZw

Keeping this post brief, because it was looking too messy otherwise! DT set: 01. Overture 02. About To Crash 03. Learning To Live 04. Machine Messiah (Yes cover) 05. Trial Of Tears 06. Stream Of Consciousness 07. The Spirit Carries On 08. Solitary Shell 09. About To Crash (reprise) 10. Grand Finale Yes set: 01. Firebird Suite 02. Going For The One 03. Sweet Dreams 04. I've Seen All The Good People 05. America 06. South Side Of The Sky 07. Yours Is No Disgrace 08. The Clap 09. Long Distance Runaround (acoustic) 10. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (acoustic) 11. Roundabout (blues shuffle version, acoustic) 12. And You And I 13. Awaken 14. Starship Trooper Yes DVD: https://mega.nz/#F!dfJHGRpD!bOKqAyGFaHwm4-djkquQjw DT & Yes FLAC audio: https://mega.nz/#F!dfJHGRpD!bOKqAyGFaHwm4-djkquQjw

Sample Thumbnails: DVD Specs: NTSC This is a heavily requested DVD from the Falling Into Infinity tour, perhaps because the picture and audio quality are relatively good, or because of the Nightmare Cinema performance of Perfect Strangers. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!9W5jVSJD!kZNlU3mjrBFwfIJI_KXgAw

Night 1: 01. A Nightmare To Remember 02. A Rite Of Passage 03. John Petrucci Guitar Solo 04. Hollow Years 05. Jordan Rudess Keyboard Solo 06. Prophets Of War 07. The Dance Of Eternity 08. One Last Time 09. The Spirit Carries On (incomplete) Night 2: 01. Beyond This Life 02.The Mirror 03. Lie 04. Wither 05. Solitary Shell (Extended Solos) 06. Sacrificed Sons 07. Pull Me Under (incomplete) DVD Specs: NTSC A compilation of two different shows DT played at this venue two years before the official DVD/Blu-Ray with Mike Mangini. The videos on this DVD may be AVI sourced. In The Name Of God and The Count Of Tuscany are also missing from the first night, and The Count Of Tuscany is missing from the second night. Take it or leave it. (I will get DVDs that have In The Name Of God and The Count Of Tuscany on them up though) Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!pLBGTL7b!wgsPI3yw1eBnz5aIVkekAw

Setlist: 01. Metropolis Part I 02. Under a Glass Moon 03. Status Seeker 04. Wait for Sleep 05. Surrounded 06. Puppies on Acid 07. Take the Time 08. To Live Forever 09. Drum Solo 10. A Fortune in Lies 11. Another Day 12. Pull Me Under 13. Eve 14. Learning to Live DVD Specs: Probably PAL   I consider this video to be an overlooked gem from "the Moore era" of the band. LaBrie is in top form at this show and really goes to town on To Live Forever. The support band, Galactic Cowboys, come to the stage to do backing vocals for Take The Time. The audio and video quality are both good, and the cameraman does a good job of focusing in on all the different band members (many videos I've watched focus disproportionately on LaBrie or Petrucci). Watching footage from this era of the band always makes me smile, because everything is in its right place. These poor guys probably did not know at the time that this was the peak of Dream Theater, and that the s...

DVD Specs: NTSC These are pretty common (they're on Charlie Dominici's YouTube channel even), but the quality is usually degraded relative to what you see here. Crossroads is a cover of the band Cream. I believe this was recorded in Mike Portnoy's basement. I'll also add that you would never know any of these guys were heterosexual from this video. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!BK4wwJ6b!aU613rH3vXY70UB88h7J_g

Setlist: 01) Pull Me Under 02) 6:00 03) Take The Time 04) Caught In A Web w/bathroom break AKA drum solo 05) Lifting Shadows Off A Dream 06) Acoustic Guitar Solo (For Rena) 07) Lost Without You 08) Damage Inc. 09) A Crack In The Mirror 10) The Mirror 11) Lie 12) Surrounded DVD Specs: PAL Here's a cool item from the First European Leg of the Waking Up The World Tour, the second of two back to back shows played at the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (MCV) in Utrecht, Netherlands on February 15th. According to Portnoy, the earliest ideas for Metropolis Pt. II began at the soundcheck of this show (which unfortunately there is neither video nor audio of to my knowledge). The taper accidentally destroyed his second tape of this show containing the Mind Beside Itself suite, one of only TWO performances of Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (the other being, of course, the 1995/01/31 Ronnie Scott's show featured on A Change Of Seasons), and Metropolis. Truly unfortuna...

  Here's one of those elusive recordings from the Second European Leg of the Waking Up The World Tour. This show is known to predominantly circulate in MP3 format, but the quality is still good relative to some other DT items from around this same time, and the speed on this version is also correct. I have another version of this show which is too slow. Part of a melody played in Sherinian's keyboard solo, albeit after heavy modification, became part of Raise The Knife. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!kjxgQD6T!RN-D0dRDpTJSOx1-_uuVPA

One of only five shows Dream Theater played in 1996, and saw among the earliest performances of Burning My Soul (the original version with Hell's Kitchen), Just Let Me Breathe, Peruvian Skies, Lines In The Sand (which LaBrie introduces as Drawing Lines In The Sand), and Take Away My Pain, which had a different arrangement and lyrics at the time. The grunge version of Caught In A Web also has some of the riffs which became New Millennium. Another cool thing about the '96 shows is that they saw the reintroduction of an old favorite, The Killing Hand, into the setlist. There's another '96 bootleg I have, The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY, which I prefer to this one due to better quality an LaBrie being in better form. I'm not giving away master files of that one though because it's too rare, and I need some leverage for trading. I have that one on YouTube in case people want to listen. Another thing about that one is that I seem to recall it having gaps between ...

This is a compendium of 10 different Petrucci items including G3 shows from 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012, plus a clinic from La Locomotive in Paris, France 1997/04/13, all in MP3 format. I.B.S (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) was the early working title for Jaws Of Life before John's Suspended Animation album was released. In the 2012 show (joined by Mike Mangini on drums and usual suspect Dave LaRue on bass), you get three as-of-yet unreleased songs: Cloud Ten, Zero Tolerance, and Glassy-Eyed Zombies. In the 1997 clinic, you get a playthrough of Purple Rain and the two-part Necronomicon song Petrucci composed for a SEGA Saturn pinball game in 1996. One more thing I'll mention is that the Phoenix 2001 show ("Shredfest") has some technical difficulties with Petrucci's distortion dying. He handles it like a pro though. https://mega.nz/#F!hKoUiBCa!dU_qJJ94MNcjAC4vhpRGeQ

  CD 1: 01) Intro 02) The Root Of All Evil 03) Another Won 04) Afterlife 05) Under A Glass Moon 06) Innocence Faded 07) Peruvian Skies (incl Wish You Were Here and Wherever I May Roam teasers) 08) Fatal Tragedy 09) About To Crash 10) Losing Time/Grand finale CD 2: 01) Sacrificed Sons 02) Octavarium 03) Crowd 04) Jacob's Ladder 05) Wait For Sleep 06) Learning To Live Format: FLAC Date: March 22 Location: Massey Hall Sample Spectrogram Reading: This is the show where Dream Theater did a one-off cover of the Rush song Jacob's Ladder (off the Permanent Waves album). You also get one of those much sought-after 2006 performances of Innocence Faded. Bass is thin on this recording. Take it or leave it. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!NfpQhA4R!9KuIY0XCPNUKl9O0RivXjA

  I bought a copy of this from Discogs and handled conversion to FLAC, checksum and fingerprint generation, and photo scans myself. With a name like Wake The Fuck Up, you would expect this to be from the Waking Up The World Tour, but it's actually from the Six Degrees Tour. I find this bootleg uninteresting, so it's mysterious to me why it's so common (11 copies for sale on Discogs right now). It could be that it's just not distinguished enough to sell. At any rate, I don't regret putting it out there so people can check it out and see what it's all about. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!5OxiXDwS!V2joKcl6hVTJuI1Xds3sbA

A montage of interviews and performances from the Octavarium Tour. Also contains some special compositions by Rudess which never appeared on any albums. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!oP4AAJJb!opFLmJM_Ws_9pAIRKcWyow

  A recap of some interesting things from 2000, although the "What Did They Say?" thing might be from Old Bridge, NJ 1995, provided LaBrie never sang "mercy fuck" in A Change Of Seasons ever again. This CD does not really detail where these performances are from, but I know the Canadian Rap and War Pigs are from The Garage, Glasgow Oct. 18th 2000, the truncated version of The Spirit Carries On (which was cut short by the fire marshal) is from The Palace Theater, Los Angeles Feb. 4th, 2000, and the Guitar Solo/Gladiator Theme is from the Maaspoort, Den Bosch, Holland Oct. 14th 2000. With this CD, you also get a low quality MPG file from before the final show of the Metropolis 2000 tour . As always, make sure you have VLC or another program which can handle .cue files. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!9XBzBLTY!3orFtMF3NkTzoGPJsgQuuw

Sample Spectrogram Reading: This was DT’s last show in 1994, and therefore, the last show before LaBrie’s big accident in Cuba. Unfortunately, the quality is atrocious. There are three distinct problems: extreme levels of tape hiss, speed being incorrect, and the volume also being too quiet. Generally speaking, the quieter the analog recording, the more tape hiss there is, because the more incompletely the iron oxide particles bind to the tape (but of course, recording something too loud will generate distortion). I’m hoping that some audio wizards out there will download this and try to fix the problems. After much careful pruning away of the tape hiss, I was able to get a listenable version of the Awake Jam from this show up on YouTube . Unfortunately, I can't find the master audio file I used for the video, otherwise I would have given that away too. There is also an FM broadcast of several songs from this show which appeared on the Antiquities CD from Prism Records (the ...

This is a full performance of the Octavarium album from the PalaLottomatica AKA PalaEUR in Rome on Halloween 2005. Beware, because there is a different version of this show called “Panem Et Circensis” which I’m pretty sure is just the footage from the Romavarium DVD with worse video and sound quality, and an “Access ALL Areas” watermark in the right hand corner. I have not watched this show in a while, but I think it’s the one where a lady in the audience throws a bra at LaBrie, and he drapes it across Portnoy’s drum kit. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!gG5xEByY!3u7in-gH8sp6J_HUgq9tPw

I shared this one on YouTube a few months ago and figured some people might want the DVD. It's a fixed camera. Audio might be slightly out of sync quite sadly. Both DVDs combined are nearly 9 GB total, meaning that people without paid accounts on MEGA will have to download it in at least two spurts due to MEGA's download limit. Maybe download the first DVD, wait at least 6 hours, then download the second one? Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!5bxwnAqA!__SaOmSlcAv8xQWY1Ke1Og

CD 1: 01) Metropolis Pt. 1 02) Under A Glass Moon 03) Surrounded 04) Pull Me Under 05) Ytse Jam 06) Moonbubbles 07) Another Day 08) Another Hand 09) The Killing Hand CD 2: 01) Take The Time 02) O Holy Night 03) Wait For Sleep 04) Learning To Live Format: FLAC Date: December 13 Location: Tuxedo Junction No artwork for this bootleg and I'm not sure why it was called Food For Thought. However, as far as audience recordings from 1992 go, this one, as well as Greenfield, WI (which I'll be sharing later) is a standout. At this point in time, Dream Theater had "Moon Bubbles" a haunting duet between Johns Petrucci and Myung, in the set, as well as O Holy Night, seeing as it was getting close to Christmas. This bootleg already contains a frequency analysis, so I did not bother with that. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!gGpQjQbL!DIK1Yy3cX6GM1jNc9YTTHA

  Sample Spectrogram Reading:   This is Dream Theater in the raw! One of the band's earliest shows with James LaBrie - his fourth to be exact. There is allegedly a video of DT from this show, but it's so rare, it's practically mythical. I don't know of any DT collectors who have it. There's just a listing for it on the boottrader.net database, which has generally proven to be reliable. I should also note that, since Dream Theater was opening for Iron Maiden and the stakes were high, they did a studio session warming up for this show which can be found on the When Dream And James Unite CD . Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!VeQxjajK!mExgWgVTzJmtmOapnX8LIw

 Alternate cover (but small, anyone have a higher resolution image?)   CD 1: 01) Obnoxious DJ Introduction 02) Little Green Bag Intro 03) Wake Up! 04) The Mirror 05) Lie 06) Take The Time 07) Lifting Shadows Off A Dream Intro 08) Lifting Shadows Off A Dream 09) Scarred 10) A Change Of Seasons CD 2: 01) Another Day 02) Covers Medley (The Rover/Killers/Damage Inc/In The Flesh?/Heart Of The Sunrise) 03) Voices 04) The Silent Man 05) Pull Me Under 06) Wait For Sleep (Acoustic Version) 07) Perfect Strangers Format: FLAC Date: December 28 Location: Club Malibu in Lido Beach, Long Island, NY Sample Spectrogram Reading: This the second of four shows Dream Theater played towards the tail end of 1995. It contained the first live performance of Scarred, one of the "Winter's Night" jams (never played after these shows), a full performance of A Change Of Seasons, a covers medley first unveiled during the Change Of Seasons "tour" in October 19...

Curiously, some of the items on this disc are not covers at all. Otherwise, it’s a solid compilation of some rarities including Kevin Moore's Space-Dye Vest demo and the Radio Veronica session which also appeared on the “Acoustic Dreams” bootleg. This CD offers several items from Bruce Dickinson’s radio show in January 1995, but is missing Caught In A Web. Don’t worry though, because you can get that on the Lifting Shadows companion CD I shared. I will get around to posting The Covers 1 eventually. I’m putting that one out there for a very specific purpose. All will be revealed soon. Once again, this bootleg is in .cue format, so make sure you have VLC or another program which can handle these. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!BbQDyaDb!omdACscVmoK2nfcDHKfYKw

1) Intro (Psycho Theme) 2) A Nightmare To Remember 3) A Rite Of Passage 4) Prophets Of War 5) Wither 6) The Count Of Tuscany 7) Pull Me Under 8) Metropolis General Portnoy's last stand in Dream Theater proved to be the Summer Sonic Festival in Chiba, Japan August 8th, 2010. Within approximately a month, he announced he was quitting the band, sparking a whirlwind of drama and arguing which has persisted to this day. I think he made the right decision. Every video I've seen of Dream Theater from 2010, he looks bored. He's overplaying the drums (the cymbals especially), standing up behind the kit a lot, sometimes rushing or being super erratic with the tempo. Perhaps a break could have reinvigorated him, but the other members simply did not want to comply, and so the rest is history as they say. But thanks Portnoy, not just for your musical contributions to Dream Theater, but also for staying on top of the business aspects of the band and providing so many interestin...

The best thing you get here in my opinion is the version of Repentance with Michael Akerfeldt singing. You also get a nice version of the clever "Dark Nintendo Night" remix, and I'm fond of the version of Misunderstood on here as well. This is in .cue format, so grab VLC if you need to. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!EWY11I5Q!qaTbSjMcjrDAsDD_XEgYzQ

 Setlist: 01) Bridges In The Sky 02) These Walls 03) Build Me Up, Break Me Down 04) Endless Sacrifice 05) Drum Solo 06) Ytse Jam 07) Wait For Sleep 08) Far From Heaven 09) The Great Debate 10) On The Backs Of Angels 11) Caught In A Web 12) Through My Words 13) Fatal Tragedy 14) Breaking All Illusions 15) Pull Me Under DVD Specs: NTSC My thumbnail generator (which, by the way, is the only working thumbnail generator I've been able to find for Mac) did not work for this DVD, so I downloaded a clip of Breaking All Illusions from bobhilbri's YouTube channel and used that to make thumbs so people can have a rough idea of what this DVD is like. I'm going to assume bobhilbri was the one who shot this. I should note that the sound quality is excellent. Download link: https://mega.nz/#F!RPpCBZ4Q!0prz5MZdwfFfHh80QjRbEA