Dream Theater - Screaming For Me Long Beach / It's All Instrumental (1990)
These are recordings of the two shows Dream Theater played in 1990 while they were still searching for a full-time replacement for Charlie Dominici. Both shows were at Sundance in Bay Shore, Long Island, and were conducted on June 9th and November 17th respectively. The June 9th show started with instrumental performances of Learning To Live (then known as Creep With Tonality), Ytse Jam, and A Change Of Seasons. This was the first time LTL and a full version of ACOS were played, some of the sub-sections of ACOS having been played live in 1989 (no recordings of this unfortunately). Dream Theater then brought out prospective lead singer Steve Stone AKA Stephan Erickson to sing Metropolis, A Fortune In Lies, and The Killing Hand. This was the only time Dream Theater played a show with a lead singer other than Chris Collins, Charlie Dominici, or James LaBrie.
Unfortunately, Stone badly embarrassed himself. He allegedly “practiced too hard” in preparation for the gig, resulting in a strained voice. He pretentiously shouted “this is the new Dream Theater” and “Long Beach, everybody scream to me!” mimicking Bruce Dickinson from Live After Death, when Bay Shore is not Long Beach.
Perhaps because the show with Stone was such a disaster, the band’s next gig was entirely instrumental. I recall reading somewhere, perhaps the Lifting Shadows biography of Dream Theater, that they were even considering being an instrumental act ala Dixie Dregs. This show quite possibly represents the debut of Take The Time, which was then known as "Grab That Feel."
The recording quality of these shows is bad, and the Steve Stone one especially. A friend of mine described it as being classed “in its own category of awful” by DT collectors due to the distortion, noise, and overall lack of fidelity. A source who’d prefer to remain anonymous gave me a lossless version of the instrumental gig. This is much appreciated because the two versions I had previously were lossy, which probably further complicated the sound woes.
https://mega.nz/#F!QmpzRDaI!p9yjYJISYe8-Up3JNRYj-Q
https://mega.nz/#F!Ezhwjbjb!3wn48-Qp0kQc-HKFMOAW8w
A note about the bonus tracks on the "It's All Instrumental" bootleg. Ytse Jam is the "Fasten Your Seatbelts" version from The Roxy in Boston 1997/12/13. It's not clear to me where Eve and Hell's Kitchen come from, but they're likely from one of the "Intimate Evening With Dream Theater" shows in December 1998. The version of Eve does not sound like Moore and Portnoy's Images and Words drum kit to me, and prior to the Images And Words 25th Anniversary Tour, Hell's Kitchen was basically only played as a standalone song during the "Intimate Evening" shows.
Unfortunately, Stone badly embarrassed himself. He allegedly “practiced too hard” in preparation for the gig, resulting in a strained voice. He pretentiously shouted “this is the new Dream Theater” and “Long Beach, everybody scream to me!” mimicking Bruce Dickinson from Live After Death, when Bay Shore is not Long Beach.
Perhaps because the show with Stone was such a disaster, the band’s next gig was entirely instrumental. I recall reading somewhere, perhaps the Lifting Shadows biography of Dream Theater, that they were even considering being an instrumental act ala Dixie Dregs. This show quite possibly represents the debut of Take The Time, which was then known as "Grab That Feel."
The recording quality of these shows is bad, and the Steve Stone one especially. A friend of mine described it as being classed “in its own category of awful” by DT collectors due to the distortion, noise, and overall lack of fidelity. A source who’d prefer to remain anonymous gave me a lossless version of the instrumental gig. This is much appreciated because the two versions I had previously were lossy, which probably further complicated the sound woes.
https://mega.nz/#F!QmpzRDaI!p9yjYJISYe8-Up3JNRYj-Q
https://mega.nz/#F!Ezhwjbjb!3wn48-Qp0kQc-HKFMOAW8w
A note about the bonus tracks on the "It's All Instrumental" bootleg. Ytse Jam is the "Fasten Your Seatbelts" version from The Roxy in Boston 1997/12/13. It's not clear to me where Eve and Hell's Kitchen come from, but they're likely from one of the "Intimate Evening With Dream Theater" shows in December 1998. The version of Eve does not sound like Moore and Portnoy's Images and Words drum kit to me, and prior to the Images And Words 25th Anniversary Tour, Hell's Kitchen was basically only played as a standalone song during the "Intimate Evening" shows.
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