Here is another, rather long, mix I finished last night. I was just trying to play with a little easy guitar riff and some dissonance as an experiment. I was quite happy with the result because it proves that you not always have to play within ‘proper’ harmonies. This track might wind up in [...]
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Australian Pink Floyd – Dallas, TX (2008) I have to admit I had never heard of these guys before. Hence my shock when I received my Ticketmaster weekly newsletter letting me know Pink Floyd was going to be in town. I thought to myself: “WOW! I’ve either lived on a dream all these time [...]  Dream Theater lineup It was not too long ago -maybe a little over a decade- when my first Dream Theater album landed on my honky CD player back in my bedroom in Buenos Aires. It was Images & Words. That was the ‘hook, line & sinker’ that got me into their music. It is probably, the first ever album I left to play from beginning to end without interruption, skipping or pausing. IAW had a spellbound effect on me, maybe because it reminded me of the good ol’ heavy, but melodic nature, of some of the most polished Europe-era glam songs I remember listening to over the radio; or maybe simply because every single arrangement on every single song seems to jell so fantastically well. Whatever the case maybe, weeks later I was rushing to the most popular music store in town only to be disappointed: “Dream What?!” the clerk told me “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them…I don’t think we carry any of their albums” he closed. I had to rush downtown Buenos Aires in order to get my hands on some more of their music. It was after a bit of scouring and shuffling through aisles and aisled of albums @ the most obscure CD stores that I was able to land the next big thing: Falling Into Infinity. For me, it was a downhill spiraling fall into fanaticism from there. Continue reading Prog Rock: Dream Theater & their legacy
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