| July 6th, 1993 | |
|---|---|
| Tour | Music In Progress Tour |
| Location | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Venue | City Lights |
| Songs | 10 |
| Previous: | Fort Wayne, Indiana July 4, 1993 |
| Next: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 7, 1993 |
A pre-show segment was done with Sam Cornette of the radio station previously known as X103 (WRZX-FM 103.3).
Due to the high temperature in the venue, the band chose not to perform an encore.
Setlist[]
"Free Mike Tyson" banner hanging on Mike Portnoy's drum kit.
Main Set[]
| # | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolis—Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper" | |
| 2 | Under a Glass Moon | |
| 3 | A Fortune in Lies | |
| 4 | Wait for Sleep | |
| 5 | Surrounded | |
| 6 | Puppies on Acid | |
| 7 | Take the Time | The Galactic Cowboys join to sing the refrain |
| 8 | To Live Forever | Including guitar & drum solo |
| 9 | Another Day | |
| 10 | Pull Me Under | |
| Tape | Twin Peaks theme song | Played from tape, post-show |
Transcript[]
| ⬐ After Track | |
| 1 | LaBrie: Yeah! All right! All right Indianapolis. We are finally here. This is our first time through this place. So it's very special for us. I tell ya! We got a crazy crowd here tonight! All right. We were hagning with Slammin' Sam today. Great guy. We were doing the acoustic stuff at the radio station. You might have heard some of that. So now we're gonna kick your ass and do the real stuff. Are you ready? All right, this is off Images and Words. This is 'Under a Glass Moon'. |
| 2 | LaBrie: Yeah. Let me ask you a stupid question. I'm over here. I'm over here. Thank you. Is it fuckin' hot out there? Oh man. This is too much. All right. We're gonna go back a few years to the first album. Has anybody guessed that uh- Mike Portnoy's a boxing fanatic? And that's all she wrote. All right. Are we ready? All right, here we go. Go back a few years back to the first album, When Dream and Day Unite. This is 'A Fortune in Lies'. |
| 3 | LaBrie: I'm gonna make another guess. I'm gonna guess that this place doesn't have air conditioning. Dude. All right. We'll move on to a different part of the album. This is also off of Images and Words. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Kevin Moore on keys. |
| 7 | LaBrie: All right. How we feelin' out there so far, people? Let me hear you! I gotta tell ya, people. You've been one of the loudest crowds we played in front of in a long time. Seriously. We're definitely comin' back to Indianapolis! Yeah! All right. We have been on the road for quite a while. Since last September. And uh, we did have some stuff laying around the archives. So we pulled up one song we worked on a while ago. We're gonna play that for you tonight. It is new. You can consider it new. All right. Everybody showered? We're ready to go on? Okay, this is called 'To Live Forever'. |
| 8 | LaBrie: Yeah! Come on people, one more time. Nice and loud. Let's hear it for Mr. Mike Portnoy on the kit! Boy, look at all this water they're able to throw on ya. You want it? All right. (???) John Petrucci on guitar. All right. A while ago we uh, we recorded-- we recorded... We shot a video for 'Another Day' and we want you people to do us a favor. Whenever you get the chance, call into MTV and request this video, please. All right? Thank you. This is our current single, it's out right now, 'Another Day'. And we'd like to play it. |
| 10 | LaBrie: Thank you very much, people. Indianapolis, you people kick ass! Yeah! All right, we'll see you all again. All right! Take care. Have a great summer. See you! Goodnight. Sam: Let's hear it for Dream Theater. Everybody in the crowd tonight, listen to X103. I want you to raise your hands up and go "fuckin' eh"! I'm Slammin' Sam, your afternoon (???) 103. Thank you for comin' tonight. I hope you enjoyed the show. If you had a good time say "Hell Yeah"! When you get in your car, crank up X10-. Thank you. |
Radio Segment[]
| # | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eve | |
| 2 | Interview | |
| 3 | Interview | |
| 4 | Wait for Sleep | |
| 5 | The Trooper intro / 6:00 Jam | |
| 6 | Blues Jams | |
| 7 | Interview | |
| 8 | Blues Jam | |
| 9 | Interview | |
| 10 | To Live Forever | |
| 11 | Interview |
Transcript[]
| ⬐ During Segment | |
| 2 | Sam: Eve. Love it. Hey I live that. I got some reverb on me. Turn my headphones up there a little bit, man. Sounds good to me. Dream Theater live in the studio. Solid Rock X103 with Slammin' Sam, on the X. Write that down. X 1 0 3. Ain't that right? That's right. Doin' everything you can to preserve real, true, cutting edge rock and roll in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. Hell yes. I'm standing here, and we're talkin' with Dream Theater live. There gonna be at City Lights tonight. You guys lookin' forward to playin' this venue? LaBrie: I'm tellin' you, we're so lookin' forward, we're uh-- you guys are gonna have a hard time keepin' us here. We gotta get over there. Get us a jet. We wanna be right now. Sam: It used to be a cat house. I guess you know that. LaBrie: It was called uh-- what was it, Celebrations or something like that? Sam: It was Celebrations. I'm just messing with ya. LaBrie: Yeah, okay. Sam: So I'm standing here talkin' with James LaBrie from Toronto, Canada. You guys, I understand, just got in to town, but on the way here you got into a big, big bar brawl somewhere. Now where did that happen? LaBrie: Oh my god. It was actually- It happened, I guess it was last Thursday night, and our audio technician right here, who's a big culprit of our bar brawl. But uh, anyways. What happened was we were in Fergus Falls. We were gettin' ready to go to Detroit Lakes and do the big uh outdoor July 4th festival, and needless to say the old uh-- we got some rednecks that came on to us and started puttin' us down because of our long hair and one thing led on to another. Even the women got involved in it. Like, their ladies got involved and started calling us every name in the book. And so uh, after-- Sam: You mean the thing where you get the women hoppin' on their backs goin' "Hit 'im John. Hit 'im. He's a-- He's a no-good", and slappin' and all that? LaBrie: Oh yeah. Curses and everything, ya know? Sam: They call ya bad names and stuff. LaBrie: Oh yeah. Every name you can think of. Which I can't say on the air, but uh anyways, so what happened was it led up to a little bit of scrapping. And ya know, there was-- there was quite a few of us and there was, ya know, a few of them. But anyways, it just led into a-- it was nuts. It was a true blue rock and roll Spinal Tap scene, ya know? Sam: James, you look like you know what you're doin', man. LaBrie: I guess so. I had fun, ya know? At the same time, havin' fun and thinkin' how ridiculous it was. It was uh, still quite an experience. Sam: "Redickless" and "dickulous". Let's get this audio (???). We're you in this? Unknown: No comment. Sam: All right, so I'm glad you got here in one piece. We got a show comin' up tonight at City Lights. We're gonna be back with a couple more live songs here in the studio with Dream Theater on Solid Rock 103, The X. It's Slammin' Sam X103! LaBrie: Yeah! |
| 3 | Moore: ...think so, yeah. And we did have one album out before this that kinda went nowhere. So we did have, ya know, It wasn't overnight. And we've been together for eight years. Go ahead. Play like, different songs from the first album as I talk about it. These, and many more songs you will never hear on the radio. Until we came out with our first single that we thought was just gonna be a college radio tune. Then we just-- That's right, John. It's 'Pull Me Under'. Perhaps you heard our single, 'Pull Me Under'? Pull me under, pull me under... I get a lot of requests for this song, man. Sam: You're outta control. Every one of ya! Portnoy: Just so ya know, this is what it's like at our soundchecks. Sam: Mike says this is what it's like at the soundcheck. Mike Portnoy. You're from Long Island too, right? Portnoy: Yes I am. Sam: What are the bars like, in Long Island, that you play? You like those bars up there? Close to the mic. Moore: There's not many much of 'em-- There's not many of 'em left. Yeah, there used to be a big bar scene out there, but now there's very few left. Sam: Let's do a song, guys. Let's do 'Wait for Sleep'. Can you do that? Moore: Okay, lets do something you'll never hear on the radio. Sam: What's that? 'Wait for Sleep'? Moore: Yes. Sam: Okay, we're live in the studio. Tonight's gonna be Dream Theater at City Lights with Galactic Cowboys. I dig those purple drum sticks, man. I love 'em. And this is a song called 'Wait for Sleep'. You are hearing it on the radio. X103. |
| 5 | Sam: Right. On. Live in the studio with Dream Theater. This is Slammin' Sam on X103. Play guys. Moore: You take my life and I'll take yours too! LaBrie: Okay. I tell ya. Sam: Hello. Thank you. LaBrie: What do you think of that stuff there Sam? Sam: They just simply blew my mind, James. How about you? LaBrie: I'll tell ya. Sam: I'll never be the same after today. What was that one line you sang, Kevin? Moore: Uh, it goes, "You take my life and I'll take yours too". Sam: You take my life and I'll take yours too. God. LaBrie: Real positive message. Sam: You guys are outta control. Well, we wanna get you outta here pretty soon. I know you have to get showers, food, sex. Everything that's-- Unknown: Nah you got all the time you want. Sam: Oh cool. You know what's wrong with this country today is they don't give the drummer enough. John Myung on Bass. Dream Theater live in the studio. Solid Rock X103. |
| 6 | Sam: You guys uh, play the blues? Of course ya do. You know, like the old, slow, laid back kinda stormy Monday, kinda like just came to Indianapolis, just got in a bar room fight a couple of days ago up the road, haven't seen my girlfriend, I've been touring too damn long on the road, I love it here, I'm gonna get down tonight. pull me under, just another day kinda blues? Solid Rock 103. The X. Sam (mid-jam): John Petrucci on guitar. Now keyboard, Kevin Moore. Sam: Kevin, we were just ready to throw it to ya, man. Okay, let's take it from that same spot and you play one. Would you do that? Moore: Oh man. All right then. Sam: Ready? Okay, Kevin's gonna take one, man. Dream Theater live in the studio. X103. Nice job Kevin Moore on keyboards. |
| 7 | Sam: Dream Theater live in the studio. Solid Rock X103. This is Slammin' Sam. Hey man, great job. John Petrucci on guitar. John can you come on over this way just a-- wait a minute, I'll come to you, man. Petrucci: Okay. Sam: This is live radio. I'm carrying the mic around. Petrucci: Hello. Sam: You are from Long Island also. Petrucci: Yes I am. Sam: What-- what is this you're playin'? Petrucci: Well, it's a little jazz blues-- I'm playing a Ibanez... Guitar. Sam: Okay. I want you to pick a words out of these words. Spontaneity, creativity, or production? Or ass. Petrucci: Oh my god. I think "spontanuity". Sam: "Spontanuity". That's a good one. We like making up new words here at the X. Petrucci: "Spontanuity" and "contineity" I believe. Sam: Did you play Long Island a lot before you hooked up with these guys? Petrucci: Uh actually, I grew up with these guys, so. We've been playing since we we're in diapers. Sam: You guys have been together ever since diapers. Petrucci: Yeah. Sam: Cool. Let me get back here to the drummer here if I-- you wanna come over here where I am? I wanna get everybody on here just one time. Mike Portnoy on drums. Who also calls Long Island, home. Portnoy: Long Island, Long Island. Sam: Who did you tell me I look like, man? Portnoy: You look like Steve Hogarth, the lead singer of Marillion. Sam: You look a little bit like... Gene Simmons? Maybe? Just a tad? Portnoy: Oh god, that's it. Off the air, off the air. Sam: He's kickin' my ass. No, you're better lookin' than Gene. Gene, if you're out there, I'm sorry buddy. But uh, Gene was in here earlier today. So what kind of kit do you play? What do you think of these? Portnoy: That's funny that these are-- this is a Mapex kit you have in here and I just switched over to Mapex. I'm still using Tama, which I've used for 10 years or so. But uh, the lovely people at Mapex are building me a new kit. So this was a nice sample. Sam: Cool. This is what we call the "5-ply maple blues"... It's a little thing we did a while ago. Portnoy: This-- If Alan Doss is out there listening. Alan, I just played a kit smaller than yours. Alan's the drummer from the Galactic Cowboys. Sam: It's small. It's user-friendly. This is user-friendly drumming we practice in here. You guys uh, you wanna do one more? All right. What are we filming here? We got, like, a video goin'. Craven. Our intern. From PBI. Fine. John Myung, the bass player, just gets up and walks out of the room. So I guess we're not gonna be playin' any right now. Where's doug, the bass player? Can we get-- can I bring another guy in? Myung: I just gotta go to the bathroom. Sam: Oh is he up there? He's upstairs. Okay. Now, what we have in the background here is we have Kevin Moore on keyboard. We just talked to John Petrucci. James Labrie on vocals. John Myung on bass. These guys comprise Dream Theater. They're gonna be at City Lights tonight. Galactic Cowboys-- Galactic Cowboys? Where the hell'd they get a name like Galactic Cowboys? That's pretty cosmic isn't it? Petrucci: Can we play a Galactic Cowboys song? Sam: Sure. Do you have to have a bass player to play that song? Cool. Kevin, it's your turn again, man. Come on back over here. Please. So where do you wanna be in five years with this band, man? Moore: Um... Brooklyn. I didn't even get it. He thought it was funny. Sam: Can you label what you do? Moore: Can I label what I do. Sam: Yeah. Can you-- Portnoy: Tell us what he does. Moore: Hey Mike, why don't you come over here and talk. Sam: Come over here, man. Moore: Mike, can you label what I do? Portnoy: Well, what he does is usually gets behind the keyboards and slams them, and plays them, and that's what he does. Sam: Oh sure. Portnoy: He does what he does what he does. Sam: Oh, sure. That's easy for you to say. Okay, let's play one. Quit jackin' around here, let's play some more. How about a fast blues number. Can you guys do a fast blues-- would you do that? Moore: We wanna play some more Maiden tunes. Sam: Like an up-tempo thing, man. Like uh... Oh, you know, like a one, two, three, four, kind of a shuffle type thing. Moore: Actually we have something else. Sam: Oh, you have something else. Well that's fine. You guys are the band. I'm just the jock on duty. Moore: John doesn't know it anyway, so we'll play it. Sam: All right, cool. What the hell, John's takin' a piss, man, what does he know? He's not even in here. You guys go ahead. Live in the studio with Dream Theater. On Solid Rock. The X. |
| 9 | Sam: You call that the-- let's give the drummer some. Go ahead, man. It's all right. Go ahead Portnoy: Huh? Sam: We're gonna give the drummer some. Portnoy: Ah, no man. I'm not used to the solo bass arrangement. Sam: Oh come on, Mike. All right. So, you guys are just here to do the show tonight at City Lights. Then on to where? Anybody just yell it out. Where you goin' after here? All: Pittsburgh! Sam: Pittsburgh. Cool. Moore: And then uh-- we're slowly-- slowly-- can you hear me? We're slowly heading home. Sam: Slowly heading home. Moore: Yeah, we've got two more weeks left. Sam: Slowly. Like a giant fungi. Edging it's way across the USA. I like that. You guys wanna-- If you're out there listening in your car goin' "what the hell is all that noise", it's Slammin' Sam holdin' on to a portable mic here. Would you guys like to do another one that's uh-- where's James at? James LaBrie. Hey James, where are ya? LaBrie: I'm right here. I'm listening to all this stuff in another room. Sam: How ya doin' James? LaBrie: I'm doing okay. Were you uh, capturing any of my singin' on those blues? 'Cause uh, they sounded like they were really following very well. Sam: They were. In fact, I was directing them. Then when you would stop singin', I would point to ya know, at John or whoever. LaBrie: Oh, okay. So you were helpin' us out. Sam: Yeah. Except for John Myung. He went to take a piss in the middle of it all. LaBrie: We lost him. We lost him. Sam He's a good guy. Plays a hell of a bass. LaBrie: Yes he does. Sam: John, how you doin' over there? Myung: All right. Sam: He's doin' good. LaBrie: And that's all you're gettin' out of him Sam. Sam: That's all you're gonna get out of John. Would you guys-- would you like to sing one more? Portnoy: It's up to him. Moore: Who, John? Sam: Hey James. Are you in the mood to sing LaBrie: What do they wanna do? Sam: I don't know, but uh, he says it's up to you. Portnoy: His choices are 'Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' or 'Forever'. LaBrie: Yeah Right. Sam: Yeah right. That's what he said. You guys in the mood to do one more? LaBrie: Might as well uh-- Sam: James, you tell 'em. They're like uh-- they're like your slaves. LaBrie: We'll do 'Forever'. Sam: You'll do 'Forever'. He says you'll do 'Forever'. LaBrie: And I'll kill them later. Sam: He says he'll kill ya later. Okay, so we got-- we got James LaBrie in the studio. He's in a separate booth here. That's why we're talkin' back and forth the way we are. In case you're listening and wondering "what the hell is that?" At it's best. This is live. You can't take it back. We have Dream Theater, live in the studio. This is a song called 'Forever'. On Solid Rock 103 FM. The X. |
| 11 | Sam: Dream Theater live in the studio. Solid Rock X103. Kevin Moore. Mike Portnoy on Drums. Kevin Moore on keyboard. John Myung on Bass. John Petrucci on Guitar. And, James LaBrie on vocals. James nice job, man. LaBrie: Yeah, thanks. But, I'm still gonna kill them. You see, the reason for that, Sam, is I usually warm up before I go on the show. And then they put a song like this across me. But it's just-- it's only personal. Sam: You know what? You can come out of the cubby hole and come on in here and join us if you want now. LaBrie: All right. Thanks a lot Sam, for lettin' me out. Sam: Sure buddy. Thanks for being uh-- let him outta that room, man. He says he's gonna kill you guys. Soon as he gets you out, ya know, somewhere where like, you can't call 911 on him. Moore: Tell him we had nothing to do with it. Sam: Great job. Thanks for being here, and we're glad to have you in Indianapolis. I hope that you have a good time while you're here, man. Moore: Everyone can come hear the real thing. Sam: Come on, closer to the mic. Anything you wanna tell anybody out there before we close this out, man? Moore: We'd like to see everybody down at City Lights tonight to catch the real thing. The real Dream Theater show. This was just a little impromptu taste of it. Myung: No, this is pretty much it. Petrucci: The saying on Mikes drum kit is not meant to offend anybody. Sam: Wait a minute. I gotta ask you about this, man. The saying on the front of Mikes drum kit is not meant to offend anybody? You know the words we can't say on the-- Portnoy: Controversy strikes. I have a sign on my drum kit tonight because a favorite athlete of mine is locked up in the state. And um, it has nothing to do with racism, has nothing to do with the male-female thing. It's just I'm a huge boxing fan. I love Mike Tyson. I'm dying to see him fight again. So anybody that comes out tonight, I have a sign on my kit dedicated to him. It's not meant to offend anybody. It's just because I want to see the man fight again. Sam: Cool. Say that again Kevin? ...James. Thanks for being here, man. Nice job. LaBrie: Yeah. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Sam: Dream Theater live at City Lights tonight. On Solid Rock 103. The X. This is Slammin' Sam. Come on out to see the lads tonight. Located at 38th and Shadeland. Everybody says "how do you get there"? Well it's on Shadeland Avenue at the corner of 38th and Shadeland. Just south 465. Used to be Celebrations, right? Cool. City Light. Moore: You will be frisked. Sam: We require frisking of each and every-- Especially the females. Kevin is going to frisk each and every woman who comes in tonight. So be there with us tonight. It's uh-- Solid Rock the X. Rising Star, show number whatever. Tonight, City Lights. Unknown: See you there. |
Personnel[]
Vocals: James LaBrie
Drums: Mike Portnoy
Guitar: John Petrucci
Bass: John Myung
Keyboard: Kevin Moore
Unofficial Recordings[]
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1996 - Stranger than Fiction (GKR 002/96) |
| Radio segment tracks 5, 6 (partial), and 8 are featured as tracks 12, 11, and 10 respectively. |