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Live at the Marquee (1993)

Where the lyrics of Live at the Marquee take you, and where it was really made.

This live album holds the only release of 'Bombay Vindaloo', a piece played live only six times and never recorded in a studio.

Key places

The night at the Marquee (1993)

Live show Marquee Club — Dream Theater recorded this live album at London's Marquee Club on April 23, 1993. The Marquee Club location is marked at building level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mixing in Suffern (1993)

Recording site BearTracks Studios — Doug Oberkircher mixed the album at BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York. The point marks the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live at the Marquee: the first live album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater
• Recorded live at London's Marquee Club on April 23, 1993
• Released 25 July 1993 on WEA International
• Features the exclusive release of 'Bombay Vindaloo', an improvisation-based composition
• 'Bombay Vindaloo' was performed live only six times and never recorded in a studio
• The album's cover image is inspired by the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Background

• Most of the album's set comes from the band's studio albums up to that point, When Dream and Day Unite and Images and Words
• Line-up at the time: James LaBrie, Kevin Moore, John Myung, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy
• Kevin Moore later left the band to pursue a solo career, after the recording of the third studio album

Recording

• Recorded live with the Fleetwood Mobile Recording Unit
• Tim Summerhayes handled recording and Vinnie Kowalski handled live sound
• Most of James LaBrie's vocals were re-recorded in a studio
• 'Another Hand' was written on tour as a bridge into 'The Killing Hand'

Cover

• The cover image is inspired by the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Petrucci, Myung and Portnoy formed the band under the name Majesty while attending Berklee College of Music.
• The band was renamed Dream Theater in 1988 after a legal challenge from a Las Vegas group also named Majesty.

Members

• Current members are John Petrucci (guitar), John Myung (bass), James LaBrie (vocals), Jordan Rudess (keyboards), and Mike Portnoy (drums), who rejoined in October 2023.
• Petrucci and Myung have remained in the band since its founding.

Career

• The band has released 16 studio albums; Images and Words (1992) is its highest-selling release.
• Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999) received high critical acclaim.
• By 2018 the band had sold over 12 million records worldwide.
• The band has been referred to as one of the "Big Three" of progressive metal, along with Queensrÿche and Fates Warning.
• A View from the Top of the World's lead single "The Alien" won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2022.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in 1993 on WEA International
• Copyright line credits WEA International Inc., a Time Warner Company
• Made in Germany by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe
• Mixed at BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York, and at Quad Sound Studios in New York City
• Mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City by Ted Jensen

Records

• A later repress with an IFPI code exists, identical to the original edition
• Track listing differs by market: 'Surrounded' on the European edition and 'Another Day' on the Japanese edition

Sources: www.discogs.com

Trivia

• 'Another Day' appears only in the Japanese release, replacing 'Surrounded'.
• 'Under a Glass Moon' was released only on a CD that came with the first edition of the Lifting Shadows biography.
• The Killing Hand gets a new introduction that the song did not have on the version recorded for When Dream and Day Unite.
• The album's setlist includes several tracks that were never released, such as 'Ytse Jam' and 'Take the Time'.
• Kevin Moore left the band to pursue a solo career after the third studio album was recorded.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

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