Dream Theater returns to Metropolis at the Beacon.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
(This review is respectfully dedicated to my friend and colleague Peter Danish, who got us the tickets. Thanks again, man.)
The progressive rock band Dream Theater has enjoyed its long existence by following two rules: doing what they want to do as musicians and ignoring sniffing rock critics. (Critics have responded to this indifference by pretty much ignoring the band: their reputation rests on word of mouth.) Since I'm a classical music critic, I went to see them (for the sixteenth time since 1993) at the Beacon Theater on a night when the band was celebrating its return to its hometown of New York and I was celebrating my forty-sixth spin around the sun.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Dream Theater: (l.-r. Jordan Rudess, Mike Mangini (on drums) John Myung, James LaBrie, John Petrucci) returned to the Beacon Theater on Friday night. Photo by the author. |
The progressive rock band Dream Theater has enjoyed its long existence by following two rules: doing what they want to do as musicians and ignoring sniffing rock critics. (Critics have responded to this indifference by pretty much ignoring the band: their reputation rests on word of mouth.) Since I'm a classical music critic, I went to see them (for the sixteenth time since 1993) at the Beacon Theater on a night when the band was celebrating its return to its hometown of New York and I was celebrating my forty-sixth spin around the sun.
