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JcTPatriot: It's been a long time since I saw "Dream Theater" (2005?), but this is one of the hardest working, most professional, progressive rock bands: At a DT concert (it's not very well attended) there's no crotch clutching, profanity, political speeches, or other expressions of ego. What you get are three and a half solid hours (they took a 15 minute break) of intense, wickedly skilled musicianship from one of progressive rock's best drummers; one of its finest bassists, and an excellent guitarist (the old singer should be sacked, and was, I think). During this live performance, my in-house muso strained to catch John Petrucci trip up on the impossible timing DT's pieces demand. No such luck. When they stumbled off the stage, band members supported each other, such was their exhaustion. Magnificent.