Dream Theater Score - 20th Anniversary World Tour CD

2006 commemoration of the group's 20th Anniversary World Tour on 3CD's, recorded live at Radio City Music Hall on April Fool's Day, 2006 with The Octavarium Orchestra. Almost 3 full hours of material is included and half is performed with the full orchestra. Performance highlights include "I Walk Beside You" and "The Answer Lies Within" plus the previously unreleased songs "Another Won" and "Raise The Knife". The set also features the eight-movement "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence" and the sweeping "Octavarium" multi-arc segment.

Dream Theater: Jordan Rudes (lap steel guitar); John Myung (bass instrument); James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy .
Personnel: John Petrucci (vocals, guitar); Mike Portnoy (vocals, drums); James LaBrie (vocals); Jordan Rudess (lap steel guitar, keyboards); Karen Karlsrud, Abe Appleman, Elena Barere, Joyce Hammann, Carol Pool, Belinda Whitney, Avril Brown, Katherine LiVolsi Stern, Ann Leathers, Jan Mullen, Yuri Vodovoz (violin); Crystal Garner, Judy Witmer, Vince Lionti, Adrian Benjamin, Jonathan Dinklage (viola); David Heiss, Richard Locker, Eugene J. Moye, Caryl Paisner (cello); Pamela Sklar (flute); Ole Mathisen (clarinet); Jeff Kievit, Jim Hynes (trumpet); Larry Di Bello, Daniel Culpepper, Bob Carlisle (French horn); George Flynn (bass trombone); Gordon Gottlieb (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Michael Brauer.
Recording information: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY (04/01/2006).
Photographer: Todd Kaplan.
Arranger: Jamshied Sharifi.
Sidestepping the glam and thrash obsessions of their peers, Dream Theater updates Rush's blueprint with a modern texture. The progressive metal touchstones are all here: changing time signatures, dizzyingly complicated tablature, tonsil-snapping lead vocals, lyrical bombast, and a healthy sense of self-importance. John Petrucci and Co. deftly combine all of these elements ...