Dream Theater was formed in September 1985 when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to add a band to form their free time while attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They come a drummer, Mike Portnoy in one of the rehearsal rooms at Berklee, and after two days of negotiations, they managed to invite Mike Portnoy to join in. After that, the three of them would fill two vacancies in the band, and Petrucci asked his band mates, Kevin Moore, the keyboardist. He agreed, and when Chris Collins are invited to the singer of the band, has already been completed.
With five members, they decided to name the band under the name Majesty. According to the documentation DVD Score, they are five tickets for the concert arranged at the Berklee Performance Center Rush when listening to the Rush with a boom box. Portnoy said that the end of the song (the day of the Bastille) sounds very "majestic". That's when they decided Majesty is the name for a band, and remain well so far.
At present, Petrucci, Portnoy and Myung still struggling with their college, even with part-time work and education. Their schedule was tight tips, so they must choose between pursuing a career in music or the end of the band Majesty. But ultimately concentrate the majesty and three wins from Berklee in his musical career. Petrucci comment on this in the documentation DVD Score, said that when the difficult questions of his parents to music. And more difficult to convince his back from his parents that he could be out of school.
Moore also finally out of school, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate on the band.
Their debut album, When Dream and Day Unite was recorded by Charlie Dominici as a vocalist and keyboardist Kevin Moore as. Dominici age much older than any other member wants to play the music of others, so he closes the group. Then they find an ideal replacement for two years until finally met with James LaBrie, singer from Canada through auditions.
Together they LaBrie images and words "throw Another Day" their names to the ranks of the international hit, "Pull Me Under" and. Awake their last album with Moore is then replaced for the album by Derek Sherinian was Falling Into Infinity. Sherinian eventually replaced by Jordan Rudess and education is still survive to this day. They have launched a concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory double album and six degrees of Inner Turbulence. In 2003 they decided to record an album of non-concept Train Of Thought which is deeply influenced by thrash metal groups like Metallica.
Staff entry for Dream Theater
Mike Portnoy
Mike Portnoy was born April 20, 1967 and raised in Long Beach, New York, where his interest in music began at an early age. "My dad was a DJ rock n 'roll, so I was always surrounded by music constantly. I have a lot of collection when I was young and really like the Beatles and Kiss. No wonder if I would end up being a musician. Although Mike himself drumming learned, took his music theory classes in high school. During that period, began his local bands playing intruder, rising power and Inner Sanctum, the last band mike and friends - brought friends an album of their own. Mike left the band after earning a scholarship to the Berklee College of music in Boston.
big john
Big John on Long Island, in the King's Park, where he, John Myung & Kevin Moore went to school together. John studied guitar when still aged 12 years (before he ever learned when he was 8 years old, but gave up when she saw her older sister stayed up late had every evening to learn to play the organ. He is not going to be he learned the guitar after school and in the end he is interested again). But he begins numerous influenced by sort guitarist guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Iron Maiden, Steve Ray Vaughn, and large group of species, yes, rush, Dixie dregs others he was determined to achieve the level of play, as they are . John lived with his wife Rena and her three SamiJO and Reny, Kiara, in New York. If he does not play the guitar, he spent much of his time with his wife and children by playing skating, biking, train and movies.
John Myung
Since the days of the 1980s (when the creation of Dream Theater), John Myung, whose parents are from Korea and two other staff helped Dream Theater passed the critical moments and the fall bangunnya.
As an avid listener of classical music, she chose the violin since the age of five still. Until now aged ten years, John Myung decided to pick his favorite instruments such as a bass guitar.
During his studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston in 1986, Myung met with two school friends, guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy. Added a keyboard player and a singer, they finally formed a band, Your Majesty. get next year they bid a record. But the band Majesty this turned out to be only a short-lived because of a conflict with the band in Las Vegas which has the same name. Finally me