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>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:24:42 -0500
>From: "Rob P" <ytsejam2002@hotmail.com>
>Well I see a huge difference in wankery (which is most of the solos on ToT)
>and virtuosity. The solos are fast for the sake of being fast, as in showy.
> It used to be that the solos were complex but melodic and were a part of a
>journey. Metropolis is a good example. Now its all cut and paste. You'll
>have a solid theme and then BANG, superfast soloing to show off. Seems like
>that is metal to Dream Theater. Not to me. I've listened more and more to
>ToT and the problems are just getting more obvious. I don't know of one
>song that I can say I COMPLETELY like...let alone love. Very strange album
>for me. You want metal with some solid progressive playing...no
>wankery...get anything by Threshold. To me, they set the standard.
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Well said Rob. I think that's one of my major problems with ToT
and with Dream Theater on the past 2 CDs. The solos have very little to
do with the rest of the song and in fact in general they seem to have
forgotten about theme and development. It's like they copied in a chunk
from an LTE song and pasted it into ToT. In comparison the solos from I&W
and other DT CDs work around strong themes which make the whole song (for
me) are much more enjoyable. I've already touched on the melodies so I
won't get into that again.
Steve
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