Dream Theater's "Live At Budokan" DVD has just been certified Platinum in the US! Dream Theater would like to thank all of their great, devoted fans for all of their support.

The latest Metal Edge Magazine (dated March 2005 with Motley Crue on the cover) has a great 4 page interview/article on Dream Theater's "Live At Budokan", including a piece on Mike Portnoy's top 10 live albums of all time.

Dream Theater's "LIVE AT BUDOKAN" will be released in the USA on October 5th 2004. It will be available as a 2-DVD set and a 3-CD set (Region 1, NTSC).

The 3-CD set will be released in Europe on November 29th.
The 2-DVD set (Region 2, PAL) will be out in Europe on October 18th.

Dream Theater - Live At Budokan 2DVD Dream Theater - Live At Budokan 3CD

USA - Click here to order

* "Live at Budokan" 2 DVD (NTSC, Region 1)
* "Live at Budokan" 3 CD

Europe - Click here to order (FREE SHIPPING!)

* "Live at Budokan" 2 DVD (PAL, Region 2)
* "Live at Budokan" 3 CD


The 2-DVD set features Dream Theater's concert recorded on April 26th, 2004, at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. Disc 1 has the complete live concert. Disc 2 is packed with special features including a Japanese tour documentary, the drum solo from Osaka, tours of Guitar World and Keyboard World by John and Jordan, the tour opening video and a multiangle version of "Instrumedley".

The tracklisting of the concert is as follows:

* As I am
* This Dying Soul
* Beyond This Life
* Hollow Years
* War Inside My Head
* The Test that Stumped Them All
* Endless Sacrifice
* Instrumedly
* Trial of Tears
* New Millennium
* Keyboard Solo
* Only a Matter of Time
* Goodnight Kiss
* Solitary Shell
* Stream of Conciousness
* Disappear
* Pull Me Under
* In the Name of God

Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio is proud to announce the Dream Theater Marathon! We will be taking our regularly scheduled programs and music and setting it aside for the upcoming weekend of August. 20-22. From 7 pm EST Friday night until 7 pm EST Sunday night, Delicious Agony will only be playing Dream Theater and related music. Hear the music of Dream Theater, plus music from the band members side projects such as Transatlantic, OSI, LTE, Tim Donahue, Platypus, Jelly Jam, Mullmuzzler, Ayreon, and former band members such as Derek Sherinian's solo work and Planet X and Kevin Moore's Chroma Key. Tune in at www.deliciousagony.com and log on to either our 24k stream for dial up users or our 56k stereo stream for broadband.

Additionally there will be an interview with Mike Portnoy on Sunday, August 22nd at 1 pm EST. Listen in as Mike talks about the Train of Thought tour, the Budokan DVD, touring with Yes, and much more!

A guitar tablature book for "Train Of Thought" was released by Warner Bros. Publications in June 2004. This album-matching 64 page folio contains guitar tab transcriptions of all the songs from the album, including note-for-note transcriptions of all of John Petrucci's guitar parts and a beautiful art section featuring the surrealistic art of Jerry Uelsmann.

1. As I Am
2. This Dying Soul
3. Endless Sacrifice
4. Honor Thy Father
5. Vacant
6. Stream of Consciousness
7. In the Name of God

A "Dream Theater Keyboard Anthology" book was released in July by Warner Publishing. The book contains exact transcriptions for all the keyboard parts to the following Dream Theater songs:

1. Metropolis Pt. 1
2. Wait for Sleep
3. Learning to Live
4. Six O'clock
5. Scarred
6. Overture 1928
7. Through My Words
8. Fatal Tragedy
9. Beyond the Life
10. Finally Free
11. Great Debate
12. Selections from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
13. Vacant
14. Stream of Consciousness
15. Endless Sacrifice

Finally, after years of waiting, the first two Dream Theater Home Videos will be re-issued together on DVD. "Dream Theater - Images And Words: Live In Tokyo / 5 Years In A LIVEtime" will be released on Tuesday, July 13th, 2004.

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Order here for European PAL Region 2 version

Budokan, Japan 4/26/04 (Filmed for DVD release)

band history video (intro tape)
As I Am
This Dying Soul
Beyond This Life
Hollow Years
War Inside My Head/
The Test That Stumped Them All
Endless Sacrifice
Instrumedley
Trial Of Tears
~~~intermission~~~
New Millennium
piano solo
Only A Matter Of Time
Goodnight Kiss/
Solitary Shell
Stream of Consciousness
Disappear
Pull Me Under
~~~encore~~~
In The Name Of God

Ytsejam Records is now accepting pre-orders for the second installment of bootlegs which include:

* When Dream and Day Unite Demos 1987-1989 (Demo Series)
* Tokyo, Japan 10/28/95 (Live Series)
* Master of Puppets (Covers Series)

They expect to begin shipping pre-orders the week of March 22nd. Orders will ship in the order in which they were received.

For a full track listing and to place your pre-order visit their website at www.ytsejamrecords.com.

On March 6th, 2004, Dream Theater performed "When Dream And Day Unite" in its entirety to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the band's 1989 debut album.

For the encore, the band was joined by original vocalist Charlie Dominici on "To Live Forever" and "Metropolis pt. 1". Dream Theater's second keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Planet X) also joined the band on "Metropolis pt. 1". Below is the complete setlist of the show.


When Dream And Day Unite (1989) WDADU 15th ANNIVERSARY SHOW
Saturday, March 6th, 2004

The Pantages Theater
Los Angeles, CA

Set #1:
As I Am
This Dying Soul
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Beyond This Life
Through Her Eyes
Endless Sacrifice
Caught In A Web
Hollow Years
War Inside My Head /
The Test That Stumped Them All
In The Name Of God

Intermission

Set #2: (When Dream And Day Unite)
(introduction by Mike Portnoy)
A Fortune In Lies
Status Seeker
Ytse Jam
The Killing Hand
Light Fuse And Get Away
Afterlife
The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun
Only A Matter Of Time

Encore:
To Live Forever (with Charlie Dominici)
Metropolis (with Charlie Dominici and Derek Sherinian)

"Well, after listening to all 54 entries (at roughly 11 minutes each!) we finally have chosen a winner!

It was a very hard decision for us to make as so many of these entries were truly incredible and worthy of reward.
The amount of time and effort put foward by each and every one of the contestants really blew us away! There is so much talent out there among our fanbase and we are truly impressed....

Being there were so many great compositions, we wanted to think of a way to award more than just the Grand Prize winner...so in order to share their wonderful talents with everybody, we've decided to take the top 7 finalists and manufacture a CD with their entries to distribute through a future issue of the Dream Theater International Fan Club magazine "Theater of Dreams". (many of the regional fan clubs are going to take part in this CD promotion as well!)

So without any further ado:

1st Place Grand Prize Winner:
Andy Rowland and Ant Law (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Andy's and Ant's entry will be played each and every night on the Dream Theater 2004 World Tour approximately 20 minutes before DT hits the stage.
They also win 4 Tickets and Backstage Passes to the 2004 DT show of their choice, a copy of "Train of Thought" signed by all 5 members of DT, and a set of the 3 latest Ytsejam Records releases (for more information, visit www.ytsejamrecords.com).

2nd Place Winner:
Daisuke Kurosawa (Tokiwadai, Japan)

Daisuke's entry was a VERY close runner-up (we had to listen to the top 2 finalists several times back to back), so we'd like to reward his incredible efforts as well with 4 Tickets and Backstage Passes to the 2004 DT show of his choice.

Top 5 Runner Up Winners:

1. Linear Sphere Theater (London, England)
2. Richard Campbell (London, England)
3. Brian Wherry (Auburndale, MA - USA)
4. Redemption (Los Angeles, CA - USA)
5. Eric Clemenzi (Byfield, MA - USA)

Each of these entries (pending their permission) will be included on the upcoming Dream Theater Songwriting Contest CD.

Honorable Mentions:
Most Creative Entry: Eric Broughton and Umesh Madhavan (Sylvan Beach, NY - USA)
Best Musical Moment: Bass Solo from Godforsaken Project (North Hollywood, CA - USA)
Best Song Title: "Slightly Ominous Cheeseburger" by Divided Sky (Exton, PA - USA)
Best Band Name: Sweet Brown Otter Meat (Renton, WA - USA)

Congratulations to all of the winners and a big thank you to all of the contestants!

C-ya on tour,
Dream Theater"

Here is an update from Mike Portnoy regarding the Dream Theater Songwriting Contest:

"We are currently in tour rehearsals & pre-production in England and in addition to learning the HOURS and HOURS of music, we are trying to find the time to listen to all of the contest entries in order to announce a winner in the coming days....

We are well aware of the fact that many entries were submitted from England where the tour begins and we want to make sure we can honor their passes should they win...."

for immediate release:

Dream Theater's latest CD "Train Of Thought" is tentatively scheduled for release on November 11th 2003.

The track listing is:

1. As I Am
2. This Dying Soul
3. Endless Sacrifice
4. Honor Thy Father
5. Vacant
6. Stream Of Consciousness
7. In The Name Of God

Produced by John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy
Engineered by Doug Oberkircher
Mixed by Kevin Shirley

Dream Theater's 2004 World Tour will kick off in Manchester England on January 16th 2004

Pre-Order "Train Of Thought" now at CDUniverse.com!