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clutnuckle · 10-25-2010, 07:01 PM

That whole 'soulless' wankery argument is bothersome in itself. Technical prowess is a good thing in music, you know, if you can use it...

Now that said Dream Theater have terrible terrible TERRIBLE production, so sparkly clean and polished; it sounds cheesy and ultimately very bothersome to a listener who doesn't want to hear a band who deny the existence of a bassist, have an overly compressed sound, etc... . Live, they're passable; their music is nothing special, but their actual recordings are overly bothersome.

Also, they rip so many prog artists off all of the time that they're not even original. Petrucci often boasts how many scales he knows; yet he still restricts himself to stealing riffs from King Crimson, Yes, and even Pink Floyd...

10-25-2010, 07:01 PM	#78 (permalink)
clutnuckle Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: -_-_-_-_~__~-~_-`_`-~_-`-~-~ Posts: 1,276	That whole 'soulless' wankery argument is bothersome in itself. Technical prowess is a good thing in music, you know, if you can use it... Now that said Dream Theater have terrible terrible TERRIBLE production, so sparkly clean and polished; it sounds cheesy and ultimately very bothersome to a listener who doesn't want to hear a band who deny the existence of a bassist, have an overly compressed sound, etc... . Live, they're passable; their music is nothing special, but their actual recordings are overly bothersome. Also, they rip so many prog artists off all of the time that they're not even original. Petrucci often boasts how many scales he knows; yet he still restricts himself to stealing riffs from King Crimson, Yes, and even Pink Floyd...