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Live Scenes from New York (2001)

Where the lyrics of Live Scenes from New York take you, and where it was really made.

The album's first cover showed the burning twin towers, so it was recalled shortly after its 11 September 2001 release.

Key places

Live recording at the Roseland Ballroom (2000)

Recording site Roseland Ballroom — The concert was recorded live at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on August 30, 2000. Only the CD carries the full concert. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live Scenes from New York: third live album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater
• Recorded live on August 30, 2000, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City
• Audio counterpart to the Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York DVD, released in 2001
• Only the CD carries the full concert; disc three adds two videos not on the DVD
• Disc three also holds the music video for "Another Day" and Jordan Rudess's keyboard solo
• First Dream Theater live release with Jordan Rudess; first full-length live release
• Holds the only officially released live performance of Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory in full

Background

• Recorded with the Record Plant Mobile studio unit
• Additional recording, transfers and digital editing by Pat Thrall at Studio P.T.NYC
• Mixed at The Hit Factory and mastered at Sterling Sound
• Drummer Mike Portnoy collapsed after the concert and was carried out of the venue hours later

Recording

• Credited engineers include Kevin Shirley and Kooster McAllister
• Kevin Shirley also credited with mixing the album
• Jay Beckenstein plays soprano sax on "Another Day"

Cover

• Originally released on September 11, 2001
• The cover showed the New York skyline with the World Trade Center twin towers in flames, so it was recalled and re-released shortly with the band's Majesty symbol in gold
• Original artwork based on the Images and Words cover, with an apple in place of the burning heart for the nickname "The Big Apple"

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

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

• Billboard 200 chart position: number 120
• Billboard Top Internet Albums chart position: number 7
• Originally released on September 11, 2001 with the original cover
• Cover was recalled and re-released shortly after with the Majesty symbol in gold

Reappraisal

• The re-release's musical content is the same as the standard version
• Copies with the original cover art still exist and are now rare collectibles

Records

• Billboard 200: number 120
• Billboard Top Internet Albums: number 7
• Two cover versions exist: the recalled original and the gold Majesty symbol reissue

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

Trivia

• Drummer Mike Portnoy collapsed after the concert; he attributed it to over-exhaustion, dehydration, stress, too little food and nutrition, and too many Red Bulls.
• The version of A Change of Seasons on this album includes a baseball anthem sung by John Myung, a Simpsons theme played by John Petrucci, and a piano solo played by Jordan Rudess, none of which are part of the original piece.
• The CD-ROM data section on disc three includes previously unreleased video of "Another Day", Rudess's keyboard solo, and a trailer for the Metropolis 2000 home video.
• Live Scenes from New York (2001) and Live at Budokan (2004) were the band's live releases of that period.
• Some copies with the original cover art still exist and are now rare collectibles.

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

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