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![]() Rockhal Esch-Sur-Alzette 2012
♫ Getting there
♫ The people
Well but the guys from Luxembourg were really cool I think. Why I said 'Guys'? Because for every 15 guys there was maybe one girl at the show. And most of them were just there because of their boyfriends and they don't really seem to like the music at all.
And I've seen Jesus.Not only once. ♫ Getting through 'security'-checks
I don't get the point why the venue forbids every kind of camera. The big sign over the entrance titles the 'no camera' thing with "For your own security" lolwut? I gave my ticket to that guy but he had trouble to scan it so he had to call for help and so on... anyways when I was finished there I went to the security guy with my bag opened.
Me: Do you want to look inside my bag?
LOLWUT?? How stupid is that ?XDD I got a place in the 2nd row behind two cool guys. At first I was disappointed that it was only 2nd row (1st was mainly occupied by the Meet&Greet people) but later on when I saw how security was stopping everyone from making pictures and videos I was happy again. I was able to hide the camera behind the back from the guy infront of me - he was standing between me and the eyes of the Security guy :D ♫ Periphery
Let me go on with the singer. I think he thought he was sexy but.... Nooooooo you got it wrong dude. He was making movements like a women doing pole-dancing, moving his hips like...... you get the idea. His singing, although he was screaming at his best like he's lead singer of a screamo band was barely audible. Either a technical difficulty or the thankworthy try of his band members to keep things to a more sufferable level.
All my negative critics don't implicate that I will never listen to their music again. When listening to their records before there were indeed some parts I found pretty interesting. And their music is just way too complex to give up on them after a few listens. So of course one day they'll get another chance. And maybe then I'll understand why a band needs 3 guitarists
♫ Dream Theater ♥
Already their Intro was mindblowing. They used 'Dream is Collapsing' from the Inception movie and showed a story with cartoon characters on the screens. To be more concrete these characters were the band members. For examble the keyboard and piano player Jordan Rudess is also known as "The Wizard". The cartoon wizard was showing him. In the end of the clip the members entered a plane with the Dream Theater logo on the side rudder and it took off over the cloud cover. Just like on the album artwork from 'Dramatic Turn of Events' (the record they're touring with)the rudder was the only thing visable over the cover and there was the One-Cycle-driving-clown balancing on a rope which was about to break high over the clouds. Here you can see the artwork and Here the video from the Intro I recorded
Well then the plane landed and the members jumped out of it following a sign saying "STAGE ->" and then we could see the shadows of the cartoon band enterinng the stage with their instruments and the crowd EXPLODED. We were already mental when the characters of the members on the screen appeard, when they entered the plane and so on but when "Bridges in The Sky" started playing and the OneCycle-Man was balancing on desert cliffs while the Shaman opened the song....You definately have to watch my video this Intro was so thrilling I think I've never seen such a good Intro.
Only a shadow like the cartoon at first.
But undoubtly HIM.
The most manly looking metalhead-guys screaming "I LOVE YOU JOHHHNN!!!!!!!"
I already felt like unrolling my prayer-rug although he didn't even touch his guitar.
The best guitarist in the whole universe.
JOHN PETRUCCI
I'm sorry but he is just my favorite guitarist and well...seeing him live was a whole new experience for me. Seeing him united with his guitar lost in the music was sth that made him "sexy" in a way I never though he could become. I truly understand all these guys now. When playing with his guitar he became a God. And his eyes. So so so sooooo beautiful. They were dark brown nearly black and they were shimmering as if a 6 year old boy was playing this show and not a 44year old man with an amount of muscles I usually define as turn-off.
Now a bit more concrete about the show itself:
It was so awesome to watch this show surronded by other Dream Theater Fans. You know sometimes I find it depressing that I don't have contact to fans of bands like Dream Theater or also Bands like In Fear And Faith and so on to talk to them. So these people were just so nawwwww although their french was a turn-off. But they were singing along to the lyrics. Shaking their heads, clapping the rythms and so on they knew and loved the music as well as I did. When these two guys infront of me started to heavily Headbang during The Root of All Evil my heart melted xD
I could copy-paste all their awesome lyrics now because I was just enjoying every moment of singing along but no....
Anyways it was SO awesome ♥♥
I don't want to go into details but after the acoustic part a few more highlights came.
And then my camera was taken away by the security guy XD That dick came over to me while I tried to record "War Inside My Head" and "The Test That Stumped Them All" in a row because it's just the order from that amazing record they're from. Ahhhhhhh >.<
♫ My shirt and getting home
After their mind-blowing gig I really HAD to buy a shirt. As you can already imagine it was tricky to get a shirt that suits me since they only sell mens wear. But I finally found a shirt and fell in love with it:
The lyrics written on the shirt are from a >20minute long song called 'Octavarium' and say:
♥♥♥
So many years have passed
I'm in love with this shirt it's so comfortable, awesome design and it's black of course :D
So to get this to an end.... I don't regret anything. I only regret that I haven't seen Dream Theater earlier when they played Loreley last year. They played 'The Count of Tuscany' on that day.... my absolute favorite.
But I swear I won't miss their shows again.
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