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Dream Theater - The Fix For '96

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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 ...

John Petrucci G3 Bootlegs + Paris 1997 Clinic

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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