This was by far the best show I've gone to. Three and Between the Buried and Me both played for a half hour each, Opeth played for close to an hour, and Dream Theater played for around an hour and a half. The only thing that sucked dick was that the gaylords at the ticket checking area banned me from bringing my camera. OWNED!
Three mostly played stuff from their most recent effort, The End is Begun. My favorites were "My Divided Falling", "All That Remains", "Battle Cry", and their closer, "Amaze Disgrace". So yeah, basically their whole show.
BTBAM played two songs . They did "Ants of the Sky" and "White Walls", which just so happen to be my two favorite BTBAM songs. And they're both 15 minutes long. Overall, they did incredibly well.
Opeth kicked major ass. They did about six or seven songs (I can't remember exactly, I wasn't really counting), and all of them were great. My favorites were "Wreath", "Master's Apprentices", "The Drapery Falls", and "The Baying of the Hounds". My neck started to hurt from headbanging when they were done playing .
DT went on last, at around 10:15 PM. I was able to recognize every song within the first five seconds of each one. So here's the setlist:
1. Intro: Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey or something like that
2. In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1
3. Beyond This Life
4. Misunderstood
5. Forsaken
6. Never Enough 7. Erotomania
8. Voices
9. The Ministry of Lost Souls
10. "The Dark Nintendo Night": This was a shortened version of "The Dark Eternal Night" played over the PA system while a DT themed version of Mario played in sync to the music on a large movie screen. If that makes any sense at all.
11. Metropolis/Learning to Live/A Change of Seasons medley: Jordan broke out the keytar on an extended version of the middle instrumental section of Metropolis. I normally hate medleys, especially as the closing song, but this was absolute pwnage!
Overall, this night was pwnage. It was all assigned seating, so that meant no moshing. The place was quite large, and the stage was a decent size. The only band that looked kind of cramped on stage was Opeth, but that's because they had so much on-stage gear. As for souvenirs, I got a DT Systematic Chaos shirt.
Because the venue was really small all the tour busses were right outside the hall; I got to meet Mikael, Martin from opeth, the singer for BTBAM and all of Dream Theater. I was shaking, I was so nervous talking to Petrucci.
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. They did "Ants of the Sky" and "White Walls", which just so happen to be my two favorite BTBAM songs. And they're both 15 minutes long. Overall, they did incredibly well.
