Как вам Dream Theater?

[Добряк]

Левша, а у тебя нету случайно Модерн Драммера посмотреть?

[ILoveBurunduk]

после 99 го ничего путевого не делалось ИМХО
интересны и любимы мной альбомы 92-97

[ILoveBurunduk]

из похожего есть такая грюппа Threshold...хотя жалкая пародия
неплохи Spiral Architect, Ark, хотя последнее оч ориентировано на семидесятнический хард

[dr-johnson]

Сообщение от Добряк

Сейчас у В. С. Бутрина обучаюсь

Валерию Семёновичу ПРИВЕТ!

[Добряк]

dr-johnson, ок

[Jam]

И от меня!

[Добряк]

Jam, а как вас представить при передаче этого самого привета?

[Darkshine]

Добряк, сколько же щас у него занятия стоят?

[Байт]

КэГэБэ в эфире:

Сообщение от Guitarast

Тул твой гораздо стремнее: ни музыки, ни техники, ни голоса у вокалиста.

Guitarast, вот после этого поста начинаются сильные сомнения по поводу твоего профессионализма.
Добряк, про барабанщиков прафф. Керри убирает Майка.

Сообщение от Tonic

скажи "нет" музыкальным инженерам в домашней коллекции! =)

харош тУпить. музыка бывает ОЧЕНЬ разная. Дримы(и почти весь прог и современный тяжеляк) это в первую очередь РИТМИЧЕСКАЯ музыка. И не надо там искать супер мелодику и сравнивать с Пинками и Кримсонами, которые несут прежде всего МЕЛОДИКУ. различать надо!

[Добряк]

Из жж френдленты...

Новости от DT
На днях стало известно название нового альбома группы Dream Theater, и называться он будет... "Systematic Chaos"!!! Ура, товарищи. Видимо, ДТ вдохновились небезызвестными "101 правилами прог-металлиста", а в них 34 правило гласит: "Название твоей группы должно быть оксюмороном, например: Silent Noise, Tender Harshness, Healing Gun". Ну, ДТ, конечно, не эталон прогрессивности, поэтому оксюмороном назвали лишь альбом!
А если серьёзно, то очень жду этого альбома Как никак - обещается 25 минутный эпик, а слабых эпиков у группы я ещё не слышал... Как впрочем и песен слабых у ДТ, имхо, почти нет Так что - ждём июня! Ждать осталось недолго, а кажется - только Октавариум ждали...
Также на официальном сайте сообщается что Dream Theater теперь на ROADRUNNER RECORDS, где издавались многие другие команды... Кто знает, как у нас с этим издательством? Будет ли Союз или ещё кто там официально издавать в нашей стране новый альбом?..

[Добряк]

Так же оттуда:

Сегодня было выложено интервью с этим талантливым барабанщиком. Есть информация по поводу грядущего альбома и прочие интересности. Не переводил, ибо всё и так вроде понятно. Если что - потом могу перевести.



Tama.com has uploaded a new interview with DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy. In the interview, Mike talks about the new DREAM THEATER album "Systematic Chaos", his Albino Monster, the upcoming G3 tour with John Petrucci, his new instructional DVD "In Constant Motion", working with Neal Morse and more. A coupl of excerpts from the chat follow:

TAMA: What is DREAM THEATER up to these days?

Mike: We've been in the recording studio since September '06. And we are, at this moment, completing work on the new album. We're actually mixing it right now, and we should be finished in about two weeks. So come mid-February, the album will be done, and it's gonna be out in June.

TAMA: How would you describe the direction of this album?

Mike: Heavy and technical, powerful and dynamic — all of the elements that people kind of expect out of a DREAM THEATER album. All of the styles and sounds are intact, but we wanted to make it a real sonic explosion. It's very dramatic and aggressive. I don't know — all of the above adjectives fit [laughs].

TAMA: You will be drumming for John Petrucci on the upcoming G3 tour with Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert. What sort of material will you guys be playing?

Mike: We just do stuff from John's solo album, which he put out a couple of years ago. That was stuff he wrote specifically for G3, so that's the stuff we always play on the G3 tours.

TAMA: You recently recorded a new instructional DVD. Can you tell us some more about that and what topics it will cover?

Mike: It comes out in a few weeks, I think March 1st is the street date. It's called "In Constant Motion", and it's a mammoth DVD. It's the titanic of all instructional DVDs. It's a three-disc set, about seven hours long, and it basically just covers everything I've been doing ever since my last instructional DVD, "Liquid Drum Theater". So it covers a lot of ground. The first disc concentrates on DREAM THEATER and music from the last three albums that we've made. The second disc is everything I've done outside of DREAM THEATER, so it ranges from TRANSATLANTIC, to Neal Morse's solo music, to OSI, to all four of my tribute bands — the tributes I did to THE BEATLES, THE WHO, LED ZEPPELIN, and RUSH, as well as guest appearances with John Arch and FATES WARNING and OVERKILL. So it really covers a tremendous amount of ground. And then the third disc has additional bonus live tracks with DREAM THEATER, as well as three different drum solos from throughout the years, one of which includes the duets I did with Jason Bittner, Charlie Benante, and Richard Christy. So there's just a tremendous amount of stuff on this whole set.

TAMA: Has your playing and/or approach to drumming changed at all from the early DREAM THEATER days to now?

Mike: Within DREAM THEATER, not that much. If you listen to our early demos from Berklee back in 1985 up till what I do now in DREAM THEATER, it's a definite style that has been maintained and continued through the years — except I think I've just grown better and more mature in executing it. But it's always been about progressive, odd time signatures, chops, and exciting, over-the-top playing, and that's been the style that I've always incorporated with DREAM THEATER, for 22 years now. However, outside of DREAM THEATER, especially over the past 6 or 7 years, I've been able to do so many different things, and I think those are the areas that have really defined me as a drummer. The fact that I've been able to play, like I already mentioned, the simplicity of some of Neal Morse's music, all the way to the kind of postmodern drumming that I've done with OSI — playing with drum loops and samples and things like that. And then the tributes I've done have all been a different style, from Keith Moon to John Bonham to Ringo Starr to Neil Peart. Those are four completely different styles that I've been able to become completely obsessed with and kind of morph myself into. So to answer your question how have I changed from the beginning till now, I think I've been able to try so many different things, because of the side projects, and that's really helped me be a better musician.

TAMA: What are some of your favorite DREAM THEATER songs to perform live?

Mike: They all become equally boring after a hundred times [laughs], but I tend to like the more challenging ones just because they keep me on my toes. So, songs like "The Dance of Eternity" and "Octavarium" — all kind of the instrumental or the long pieces. Those songs are the ones that are the most challenging, therefore, I enjoy those.

[Добряк]

И, если кому интересно. Интервью Портного с Ульрихом.

DREAM THEATER's Mike Portnoy conducted a phone interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich on November 8, 2006 for the January 2007 issue of the U.K.'s Rhythm magazine (cover), for which Portnoy acted as guest editor. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Mike Portnoy: How's the new album coming along?

Lars Ulrich: So far it's been a fun year [2006]. There are no film crews, there's no psychiatrist, no producers. It's just the four of us. We sit around and write and play and sweat and have fun. [Producer] Rick [Rubin] has been coming up once in a while, listening in and throwing ideas at us. We carried this ProTools system on the road and we'd jam in the tuning room every day before the show so it's all those ideas. We're about 25 songs into it and Rick's coming up the day after tomorrow. We basically told him that we're done writing now, it's time to pick some songs and get recording.

Mike Portnoy: What's it like working with a new producer for the first time in 15 years?

Lars Ulrich: It's a completely different energy, a whole new vibe, after five records and 15 awesome years with Bob [Rock]. The guy is and always will be a member of the extended METALLICA family, but we had to try something different. Rick is more of a bigger-picture guy. He's not so much about a double chorus there or adding four more bars of that. He's more, like, "Turn the ProTools off, go play and arrange it on the floor." So far he's forced us to work and sweat a little more and push ourselves.

Mike Portnoy: So all this time it's been the writing process. You haven't actually recorded any drums yet?

Lars Ulrich: We had probably 30 to 40 hours of source material, of riffs and ideas and jams, and we promised ourselves that we would go through all of that. We're 25 songs into that now, so we're going to trim it down, but you've got to remember we did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then we were in South Africa for three weeks, then we did Europe for six weeks, then Rob [Trujillo, bass] had a kid so we had a few weeks off.

Mike Portnoy: It's old-school. LED ZEPPELIN would record a little bit, then go out and tour, then come back.

Lars Ulrich: This has not been like "The Black Album," with 16-hour days, six days a week for three months. We've been touring and Kirk [Hammett, guitar] had a baby, and if it takes longer, we're OK with that."

Mike Portnoy: We're in the same boat, because we have been locked in the studio for a couple of months and we're booked until early next year. We're taken breaks — me and the guitar player just did the G3 tour, and we're going to do another one in Australia next month, so we come and go and work around life.

Lars Ulrich: Exactly. I don't have the stamina for nine months in the studio, then 18 months on the road — that kind of thing where everything gets pushed to the limit.

Mike Portnoy: I loved the direction on the last album ["St. Anger"] with the longer songs, the heavier songs, the more unorthodox arrangements. It reminded me a lot of the older stuff. Is the new stuff a continuation of that direction or is it more straight-ahead?

Lars Ulrich: When I look back on "St. Anger" now, it was an experiment, a reaction to 20 years of doing things one way, and it was like, "OK, let's sit down, the four of us, and come up with some ideas in the moment and record them." I think there was great energy there. The backside of that is that we ended up using ProTools a lot. The new songs are definitely a little longer and more intricate. It's more organic in that we're playing together, Kirk is playing guitar solos again, it's not so much, "Record eight bars and then put it in the computer." The snare is back on the snare drum. I remembered this time! In the '90s we were getting freaked out that our stuff was getting so sterile and it was missing that live spark. We had to see if we could find that with "St. Anger" so we recorded all these moments but then we ended up putting those moments together in the computer, so it became artificial in a different way. This time we're definitely going to record more like we used to, so we'll see what happens.

Mike Portnoy: What were your relationships like with Cliff [Burton], Jason [Newsted] and Rob [Trujillo]? What are some of the differences between the three of them as bass players in terms of a musical communication with you?

Lars Ulrich: Cliff was unique. Me and James [Hetfield, guitar/vocals] and Kirk always felt that Cliff was so far ahead of the rest of us. He had been to music school, he studied classical music, he was just so much more gifted than the rest of us, and it was an incredible relationship to be part of.

Mike Portnoy: I guess when somebody dies that early, you always wonder what could have been — what would Jimi Hendrix be doing today if he were still around? What would Randy Rhoads be doing? And Cliff is like that, there's that mystery of what could have been.

Lars Ulrich: Exactly. He was just so in his own world. Jason was awesome in that he was incredibly motivated, incredibly focused, sometimes we felt that he was almost too focused. He was always the one who was, like, "Come on step up." He was more untraditional, he was more with the guitars than the drums. There are moments in "Enter Sandman" and some of the more groove-oriented songs on "Load" and "Reload", like "Ronnie", where the drums and the bass really are in the pocket, but that was something that Bob had to push us towards. Rob is so grounded. He tends to look to the drums first rather than to James' guitar, and I think that what he and I are coming up with now is really exciting and when people hear this, they'll trip on it. He's always there with the bass drum, locking into that. Live, he just holds it together. Rob is the perfect fit. I don't think METALLICA have ever been happier or gotten along better, and that is in no way a diss on what Jason or Cliff brought to us, but there's a serenity in the band, without sounding too corny. Everybody's getting along and having a good time. It feels balanced.

[Левша]

Спецом нашёл и почитал 101 правило прог-металлиста. Истинная правда!!! Особенно правило 26. "Никогда НЕ связывайся с выпускниками Беркли. Те, кого отчислили, намного лучше." Очень долго не мог встать...

[Guitarast]

Сообщение от Байт

[B]Guitarast, вот после этого поста начинаются сильные сомнения по поводу твоего профессионализма

Ну, тебе конечно виднее. Если ты измеряешь профессионализм музыканта по его музыкальным пристрастиям, то мне тебя искренне жаль.
Всем, если кто не понял, я высказался про группу Тул для того, чтобы показать пример общения, при котором люди оперируют оценочными суждениями типа стремно и т. д., по отношению к группам, которые имеют мировую известность. Читайте все сообщение, включайте голову и не выставляйте себя дураками. Не буду кривить душой Тул действительно не в моем вкусе и вокалист мне не нравится, несмотря на его уникальный и оригинальный голос, но не боле того. Я не считаю, что это стремная группа, просто мне она не нравиться, меня она не цепляет. Разговоры про то кто там кого и куда убирает - это вообще пионерство. Есть вещи, которые некорректно сравнивать, так как они слишком разные. Есть два профессиональных барабанщика, с разной манерой игры и разными фишками. И никто никого никуда не убирает. Думаю, они, услышав ваши речи, дружно бы над ними посмеялись. Чуваки, будьте на своем месте, не берите на себя слишком много, а то это глупо выглядит.

[Левша]

Тотально прав........

[Guitarast]

КэГэБэ, Хорошо!

[Добряк]

Трек-лист "Systematic Chaos" выглядит так:

01. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.1
02. Forsaken
03. Constant Motion
04. The Dark Eternal Night
05. Repentance
06. Prophets of War
07. The Ministry of Lost Souls
08. In The Presence of Enemies Pt.2

[Добряк]

Новый альбом Дримов выйдет в двух вариантах исполнения.
1. Regular Edition CD.
2. Special Edition - CD+DVD
The special-edition DVD will include:

* The entire album mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound
* "Chaos in Progress - The Making of Systematic Chaos" (a 90-minute documentary directed by Mike Portnoy)

Также группа снимает видео на песню для первого сингла с нового альбома - "Constant Motion"

[Alison]

Обложка диска красивая

[Добряк]

В ру_прогметал выловлено:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bkatzmmmjmg - Constant Motion
Первый сингл с нового альбома!

[Добряк]

Делимся впечатлениями!

[Добряк]

Чувствуеццо сильное влияние Метлы и Стон Саур...

[rozza]

13 метров почти......грабеж, однако!

[Добряк]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.se/shar...heater_EPK.mov насколько я понял, это видео о том, как они писали этот альбом.

[FRANK HORRIGAN]

Отличная группа мне нравится.

[Добряк]

http://tm.gwn.ru/music/The%20Dark%20Eternal%20Night.mp3 - качаем "The Dark Enternal Night" так же с последнего альбома. Качество не очень, но послушать и сделать выводы можно.
П. С. Портной что-то стал много на себя брать... Как сказали в сети, скоро главным вокалистом будет он, а Лабри на подпевках... Вобщем Дрим Театр медленно, но верно умирает... Какие-то закосы под Мадвейн, Вая ( в соло Петруччи), ну , и вообще под nu metal...
П. П. С. Вобщем ребята выдохлись.
ИМХО

[Jam]

Сообщение от Добряк

П. П. С. Вобщем ребята выдохлись.

Это было понятно после выхода Six Degrees...

[skserg]

Сообщение от Добряк

Какие-то закосы под Мадвейн, Вая ( в соло Петруччи), ну , и вообще под nu metal...

это тоже не слишком понравилось...( Хотя опять же все равно отличается и довольно сильно от вышеназванного. Да и невозможно из альбома в альбом играть одно и тоже, так что может эти изменения и не такие уж и плачевные... Хотя мне как-то не слишком и последний альбом их понравился...Не знаю, как-то альбомы середины 90-х мне нравятся больше...

Сообщение от Добряк

П. П. С. Вобщем ребята выдохлись.

вцелом соглашусь... Но клавишник своими вставками порадовал, как и Петруччи

[skserg]

а вообще, второй раз послушал - а так и ничего! Все-таки хочется новый альбом услышать после этого трека! может и еще чем удивят!

[HepB]

У кого-нить есть что-нить из нового альбома? Скиньте плз!
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