Dream Theater 'Images and Words' at 30 | Track By Track With John Petrucci
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2022
- On July 7th, 1992, Dream Theater released their majestic sophomore breakout, Images and Words. Their first album with frontman James LaBrie, the album synthesized their signature sound, launched their career into the stratosphere, and set a new standard for prog-metal virtuosity. To celebrate its 30-year anniversary, Dream Theater guitarist and co-songwriter John Petrucci looked back on his band's revered milestone, going through the whole album track by track to extrapolate on the history behind each song and what makes Images and Words such a uniquely beloved achievement. Watch above and let us know your favorite track off the album in the comments below!
Photos by Koh Hasebe (Shinko Music/Getty), John Lynn Kirk (Redferns), Paul Natkin (Getty), Niels van Iperen (Getty)
Background music: "Pseudo" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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Kevin Moore wrote some great keyboard parts. He might not have been a shredder like DT later recruited, but he was creative. He gave DT an emotive quality.
agreed. not hating Jordan Rudess, I love and admire him as a musician. but Kevin's keyboard part is more emotionally sweet than Jordan's
I love the Derek and Jordan eras, but in many ways I wish Kevin never left.
“Space Dye Vest” was written by Moore and it’s one of Dream Theater’s most underrated tracks.
@@siwhotmahendra not only that but his creative thought provoking lyrics are some of my all time favorites from the band.
I think it all went pear-shaped for Kevin when he wanted to call the album "Images and Turds"
One day back in 1992 I called out “sick” from work.....I was 21 years old....I was watching MTV and up pops the video for Pull Me Under. I watched it, hopped in my car and drove straight to the mall to buy the CD. It was love at first listen. Thanks Dream Theater for all these years of influence and enjoyment.
Except you worked at the music store and they immediately fired you. Then the they realized you had good taste and hired you back the next day.
Hope u r feeling better
John is so humble. Pull Me Under stood out because it is a great great song. This album is one of the greatest masterpiece ever in prog history. Love it so much.
You said it man, couldn't agree more. Although 'Awake' is my favourite DT record. When I heard "Lie" for the first time, if blew me away. 'Images and Words' is right up there 👌🏼
@@BreakingAllIllusions Dream Theater is certainly a miracle. I started listening to them 2 years ago and haven't listened to anything else but them on a consistent basis. what regularly happens is that i re-discover a part of their discography that i previously dismissed. the same happened with Awake and ACoS recently, and 6 degrees a few months ago.
I'm loving the Lie - so groovy.
@@BreakingAllIllusions I started to following this band when Awake came out. I was like 'OMG is this real? This is too good to be true. '
And then I listened to I&W. I immedietly knew I would love this band forever but I didn't know they could last over 35 years. I thank DT so much for making my life more happier and worthier.
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Easily one of the nicest guys in the music business.
Under A Glass Moon has my favorite guitar solo of all time. Still gives me goosebumps to this day.
Still my favorite DT song
@@Toddzilla1967 Absolutely - my second favorite behind Bridges in the Sky. I especially enjoy the live version on Score.
One of my favorite solos ever. I can’t think of another solo that covers quite as much varied musical ground in such a short time. Shades of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Steve Morse, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, and Allan Holdsworth all in one cohesive whole. Badass.
And it was included in the top 50 solos of all time. Mr John Petrucci was humble enough to not even bring that fact up. Class act.
i used to call it a "cat howling at the moon" solo ;) gives me that feel
Everyone talking about Kevin Moore but no one seems to reconize how great La Brie's voice was here. In this era (for me) he was the best singer alive. But yeah I also wished Kevin would've stayed for atleast some more albums. Imagine how his emotional play throughout Metropolis part 2 would've been! But Jordan is carrying the band with John now so I do have massive respect for him and his genius
Up till the food poisoning he was an absolute monster
James Labrie on Awake was so good
Possibly the nicest, most intelligent man in rock music. Imagine being so humble, knowing full well you are better than anyone else. haha
He has his own heroes he sees in the same way we see him.
He likely doesn’t view himself as better than everyone else. You only get as good as he is by learning from those who have come before who were great.
Images and Words could be released TODAY and still hold up. This was my first experience with DT and I have been addicted ever since.
Anyone who hasn't heard John's Terminal Velocity album should give it a whirl... it's joyous and melodic, something you can't say about many albums.
Be amazed if any dream theater fan hasn't heard it
Solo guitarist instrumental records are very hit or miss for me but Terminal Velocity is incredible start to finish. John is just an excellent songwriter.
glassy eyed zombies!!!!!
The Kevin Moore era of this band will forever be my favourite. While this was their breakthrough record, I heard When Dream and Day Unite around the same time, and love it just as much as subsequent works. Also love Charlie Dominici's pure power metal vocals, and he can still hit all those notes.
I’m sure Charlie can hit all those notes considering he hasn’t gigged thousands of times like LaBrie.
@@melodic777 that has nothing to do with hitting notes. It’s vocal health and a singer’s health in general that plays a big part in sustaining their range along with age that is a factor and proper training and warmup that goes along with that. LaBrie has had vocal problems in his past such as the 90’s incident with food poisoning that affected his range a little after that for awhile and I don’t think he ever truly got back to that “high” although close in some years perhaps. James is older now and they don’t write parts like that anymore for him or he himself knows he can’t hit those extremely high notes anymore. Just how it goes with the older we get and how our voices are different for everyone too.
This record literally changed my life in so many ways. Will always be one of my top 5 of all time. 😭❤
The bar by which all prog metal albums are measured - Images and Words is a masterfreakinpiece! 💯🔥❤️
Images and words - the reason I've been listening to DT albums for nearly 20 years. And THIS in my opinion is the best one!
their best LP no question
The last minute and half of Learning To Live is still one of the best album closers i've ever heard
This album to me is their best one. It's just perfect and changed progressive metal forever.
for me it changed everything!!! no only metal! everything
can't say the same but yeah! it was the album that blew my mind and got me digging into DT further. definitely one of the best
I never cared for dream theater outside of the guitar niche until I listened to images and words. That album has had me captivated for 2 years now.
their best album hands down
One of the most brilliant and influential masterpieces ever recorded. A 10/10 with no weak point.
Learning To Live up until today my favourite DT song. It’s just the perfect DT song. All elements coming together. I did buy this record based on a review in a Dutch pop music magazine, not even a metal or prog rock magazine. Didn’t listen to it at the store with those handheld headphones, if anyone remembers that. Just bought it and it went straight into the CD-player like for how many weeks or months. One of the greatest experiences in my life, truly.
"Learning to live" is my favorite DT song ever. I love it!
Images and words is just perfect. You cannot change one note.
This album is on the same level of others which changed my life, including hearing Moving Pictures for the first time in '81, Van Halen in '78, KISS in '77, etc.
Indeed...There Is Rather Alot Of RUSH Influences In Their Music...
One of my favorite albums of all time. A true masterpiece.
Headbangers Ball introduced me to "Pull Me Under". I was hooked. Saw the "Images and Words" tour in Seattle for $9.99. I was even more hooked! Met the members multiple times by the tour bus. Stand up guys and just down to earth.
30 years!!!!! Damn! Time flies! It is the greatest Prog Metal album of all time!!!! A masterpiece!!! Been a fan ever since i first heard Pull Me Under on the radio!!!
I'm totally hooked to "Lost Not Forgotten Archives" stuff which DT released in a jiffy. 11 albums released thus far and there is one more in the que waiting to be released already ('Live In Berlin, 2019'). I cannot wait to hear the remastered version of 'Images and Words Demos 1989 - 1991'. Super stoked 🙌🏼
Dream Theater FOREVER 🤘🏼🤘🏼
The Falling into Infinity demos are my fav so far
I just got the 1993 live NYC from that series and it is superb and true live!!!
the Falling Into Infinity demos album has been the one that's tempted me the most to purchase. It's good hearing some praise for it here.
@@tns4421 : The live show was recorded on March 4th, 1993. It sounds phenomenal indeed and glad you got yourself a copy of it. It was also originally part of the "Official Bootleg" catalogue. I don't understand why the liner notes on the new releases are missing though. Mike Portnoy documented those so precisely and it's a treat to read them while listen to the album!
@@ronnelson1979: The production on it is ACE and is a must have for every die hard out there. You wouldn't regret your purchase. My only gripe about these releases is the missing liner notes which were originally documented by Mike Portnoy for each of those "Official Bootleg" releases!
I remember my first and only Dream Theater gig, when they came in my little town in France. It was at the time of Systematic Chaos, but the album wasn't out yet, they only had Constant Motion running... (And they played it! Amazing song of course!) But the set list wasn't known until they hit the stage. And what they did is they played Images & Words... All the album... And I remember how happy I was because it was, and still is, my favourite DT album!
Now I also remember my friend who came with me. His favourite album was Train of Thought... He didn't enjoy the gig as much as i did, haha!
Anyway, thank you, Dream Theater!
I remember that tour! Went and saw them in Bonn, Germany in 2007, the 15th anniversary of this album! I think they played a few newer songs in the beginning before doing the whole album, and had Riverside as an opening act, also a very good band.
@@HNedel Right, they had Riverside, same tour man! And yes, very good band, I was happily surprised. Cheers!
Kevin was a divine gift for DT band,After he leaving piece by piece the band was changing,sometimes that was a good change but with Kevin the keyboards speak to your Heart deeply...i follow chromakey and osi project with much appreciation but if Kevin never leaved DT what Will be now that band?the rest was history...🔥
i agree learning to live is my favorite song of all time, from any band.
Sill! An absolutely perfect album. Changed my life, for the better. Listening to it today, I still get chills.
DT always has been my favourite band. Congratulations to DT for 30th Anniversary of I&W. Another day is melodies song I have ever heard till now which has always carried me on in my hard times. Thank you DT for your great prog music. 🙏🏾
I've always thought the production on I&W is crisp as hell, its got that clear and vintage sound that a lot of 80's hard rock/AOR albums had, the kind of stuff that metal bands tended to avoid due to its associations, but I think it really gives I&W something unique, the album's mood, songwriting and imagery all play into it
Fantastic record, and always will be
Awake was my favorite Dream Theater album growing up, but Images and Words is my favorite as an adult. It's a masterpiece. The songs never get old. Take the Time and Another Day especially are to die for. It's easily in my top 10 albums of all time.
So many great songs on this album. I didn't hear it until about 8 years after, but tracks like Learning to Live, Take the Time, Surrounded... they really spoke to me as someone who had developed a taste for metal, but had grown up in a household playing Pink Floyd, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, etc.
Love this album till death.
Legendary album. Still my favorite. Back in the 90's metal was: DT, Pantera, Megadeth, Priest, and Symphony-X.
( And a bunch of bands from Europe! )
Dude, you mentioned my favorite bands!!!
Right on, let's keep on rocking🤘🏻
@@willmolina7395 Have you discovered LOVEBITES yet? My life changed, the day I found them.
Such fond memories seeing DT on the Images and Words tour at the Cathouse in Glasgow and at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Great gigs and made me a lifelong fan.
My dad was at them both!
@@zakcostello8119 Nice one Zak!
under a glass moon is still my favourite solo ever to this date.. nothin has topped it .
I recently heard that as someone's phone ringtone, I was very surprised to say the least
This album was a soundtrack of a very special time if my live. So many good memories!!
Take the time might be my favorite DT song, I like how it`s unobtrusive with that clean funky guitar in the beginning and then guitars are like hurricane, and then chorus, of course.
Love Dream Theater, in their music I hear Kansas, ELP, queen…. And sooo many more. And at the same time I hear a sound all their own. And watching and listening to them mature to what they have become today has been awesome
Glad I managed to see them on this tour
Looking more like Paul Giamatti every day, JP is a legend!
I'm all emotion here right now! Listening to John tell stories about my favorite album of all times makes me not only remember how these guys are creative and talented but also remember how I would connected with the album back then. I wish John and the guys tells more stories like these about all the recent albuns.
you should read the DT's biography book
I was 12 years old in 1992 when I heard "Pull Me Under" on the radio; I was blown away. "Take the Time" got lots of airplay too. What special time period in music. There was so much going on musically. My only criticism of Images and Words is the drum sound. Glad they fixed that for Awake.
Yeah exactly, always thought the drum sounds were weird in some strange way, like the snare is definitely augmented with a sample or something, sounds dead and not organic at all, cymbals have also a weird artificial quality, like they totally killed off the dynamics.
Images and words is what turn me into dream theater now I'm 25 years strong as a fan..
DT is my favorite band!!!
This album made me a better drummer. Thanks DT and MP for inspiration! This record has to be one of the greatest out there!
Great album! Thanks for putting this together.
Probably my All-Time favorite album! Thank you!
Thank you John for the history and for the album! It remains my favorite album of all time. Such a Masterpiece
I drove up to Baltimore from Richmond to see them on the Images and Words 25th anniversary tour. Phenomenal. It is on my top 5 favorite albums. Whenever I hear "Learning To Live" I am transported back to high school in the 90s when I first heard it.
Very cool - thanks for puttin’ this up
Happy anniversary guys. Wow what an album. I was introduced to DT with Images. I've enjoyed following the bands journey. Here's to 30 more years of great music. Congratulations
Appetite for Destruction, Van Halen 1 and Images and Words, my three best albums of my live
Such a great everything album. Drums, guitar, keys, base, vocals. Under a glass moon solo, one of the greatest!
Time passes. This record has been with me all this time. Thanks.
One of the few albums that on first listen you knew this was a game changer. Metropolis Pt. 1 to me is still one of the most ambitious creations ever recorded. The whole album is a masterpiece.
Wow, an actual interesting interview with some specific insights into the record! Love the guitar recording experimental
techniques.
Congrats fellas from an old KP neighbor!!! Amazing album!! The solo from Under a glass moon still makes me smile like its 1992. I still recall seeing the show at Sparks! We had all just come home from our first semester break at college! What a great time for music and thank you for the memories!!!
Scenes from A Memory will always be my top DT album, but this album is number two To me in my list of favorites
Agreed.
As a drummer, I’ve been a fan of Dream Theater for many years. It still boggles my mind how these guys write these amazing songs. And “Images and Words” is no exception. The whole album rocks! 🤘So does the “Awake” album. Erotomania is a masterpiece! 🤘
Thanks John!!
Thank You John for everything.. ❤️🔥
A master piece!
This album is a personal favourite of mine, not just from Dream Theater, but in general, and I had the greatest experience watching them play it in it's entirety back in 2017. Thanks guys :D
An Absolutely Splendid Classic Record...The First DREAM THEATER Record I Ever Purchased On Cassette In 1992...Except For Pull Me Under I Didn't The Record At First Returned It Within The Hour Of Purchasing It...Till 1 Year Later In 1993 A Friend Convinced Me Its A Good Album...So I Purchased It Again On CD...And Was Glad I Did...I Have 2 Copies Of The Album Now...I Wish It Could Be This Lineup...But Kevin Moore Felt He Had To Move On...
My Images and Words story. I was 19 in 1992 and working at Hazeltine national golf course in Minnesota, when some kid working there gave me Images and words on cassette. Now, being a Rush and Van Halen fan since I was ten (1983), and just been introduced to Live in Leningrad by Malmsteen And Justice for all in 1989, both Cowboys from hell in 90 and Pornographiti by extreme (yes, I consider Nuno Bettencourt the most creatively technical player up to that point), I didn't think it could get better. But, when I finished Images, I thought that was the best album I heard, and I was hooked.
Kevin - the (key)sound of the times.
And his solo stuff is wonderfull too.
Kevin is a true Prog musician. It's a shame they parted ways. O.S.I. is phenomenal too especially their work with Gavin Harrison
@@Guppusmaximus yeah!
OSI!!!
@@geraldrauch1701 chromakey too :)
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏽 thanks for sharing this … the album changed mu music life for ever
T.G.T.D.T ! Thank God There's Dream Theater! Hard to believe it's been 30 years . . . Wow
Rock on Gentleman !
Masterpiece!
I have recently been amazed that you guys are just recently being discovered by a lot more people than I could imagine. I was going to different gigs and open mic sessions and spoken with some band members and onlookers, I was really surprised that those of us older people (some actually in their 70s) have been to more than one of your concerts, and the excitement your band creates is something else, and 30 years later people are still noticing. Amazing. Well deserved.
Best of the best! Learning to live!!
Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory was my intro to Dream Theater (and prog/tech in general), but then diving back and buying everything from DT was such a cool listening experience.
I&W had such a great front to back quality & I definitely found myself drawn into the live versions of songs from the era. Pull Me Under will always be my “tremolo testing” riff 🤘🏼😑🤘🏼
Awesome recap from the GOAT!
Watched them in Singapore for the Images and Words 25th anniversary tour. Had sore throat the 3 days following. 2nd best time of my life!
Still vividly remember hearing the first two tracks and just being blown away. EVERYTHING changed for me after DT...nothing excited me near as much and lots of other metal bands just bored me.
Awesome vid! The guitar solo for Under A Glass Moon is probably the best DT guitar solo ever
What I can say about Images And Words is that this album is, for me, by far, the best Rock album of all times! I bought one CD back in 1999 and after lending it to a friend that never returned it to me I bought another one, even after I had all the songs in the computer.
"It's meant to be listened to like we listened to records".
The funny thing is... That's something I actually learned from Dream Theater. Before that I never thought of records as a whole piece of art. I was just thinking in single songs. But when I started listening to DT I instantly felt that there was a huge connection between their songs. And then all of a sudden I started to recognize the same thing with other artists and records as well.
i remember standing in the CD store, with headphones on, hearing this for the first time. i can still live it in my mind.
This was the first DT album I listened to.. never thought before clicking play I my brain was gonna explode and the way I heard music was gonna change forever
my favourite album of all time. Perfection❤
And we still enjoy listening to it
The most influential album for modern Metal/Shred/D'jent.
All time classic album.
Take The Time, Wait for Sleep, Learning to Live especially, for me.
The last few minutes of LtL is magic.
Self-shame time: Absolutely fell in love with I&W in the day, along with Parallels. Stayed with DT through SFAM and for some reason tuned out, kept a distant eye on them, but tuned out none the less. Fast forward to quarantine and I got a hold of Luna Park. Went on to pick up all of their catalog short of the archives stuff, some of which is on my list.
2000-2020... Twenty years wasted.
Congratulations, guys. Well Done.
One of my favorite records from all time!
mucho mucho congrats to you and Mr. Dream Theater !!!!!
me wanna see you again on the stage -!
Best album for sure, always liked the drum sound on that album.
I remember coming home with Images and Words borrowed from a friend on a cold night in 1993. First play, my life was not the same after this. Certainly one of the most memorable moments for me - so thankful for it.
Masters of music!
Melhor álbum do DT sem sombras de dúvidas.
Todas as músicas do álbum são sensacionais.
I was 12 years old when Pull Me Under came out and it changed the trajectory of my taste in music.. thank you DT. I can't imagine my life without metal.
Man I can’t believe this was released 12 years before I was born exactly on my birthday date, July 7th. I instantly fell in love with the band after listening to Wait for Sleep. Images & Words, Awake, and A Change of Seasons really got me through some difficult, and depressing times in my life. Wait for Sleep along with Learning to Live will forever hold such a deep place in my heart and I can’t thank them enough for all of these beautiful pieces of music. Thank you Portnoy, Moore, Petrucci, Myung, and La’brie ❤️
Dream Theater fan for life. This album hooked me like no other. Seen them 20 times since 93. Without a doubt for me IAW is still my favorite from DT!
What a great share…thanks so much.
As for Kevin - He was so much fun. I wouldn’t have made it through my 1st year at SUNY SB without hanging and laughing with him.
“Face the candle to the wind” still gets me 30 years later 😢😢
Humble and a true gentleman.
Heard PULL ME UNDER on the radio show Sound and Fury out of Utica, NY. Immediately hooked. Listened to that song on my way to school nearly everyday after buying the cassette. Then, I saw em live in Syracuse. Mind blown.
I was 15 back then and being a drummer in a band myself I was floored upon the first hearing. They were so tight, clean, precise while heavy and the same time. I remembered saying myself that it was impossible to play like that. My favorite band ever since and my favorite album. I even got my i&W CD signed by John P. and Mike P. later while meeting them.
My fav DT Album... The masterpiece.. Album
One of the best records of all time, I would listen to this everyday in university, still bad ass music it doesn't get old to me
I remember listening to Images and Words for the first time. I was a huge fan of the debut and anxious to finally get my hands on some new stuff. Wow. It was not the record I expected - but everything I hoped for. Don't know if that makes any sense. But I still feel the same about it today. Fantastic record from start to finish.