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Once in a LIVEtime (1998)

Where the lyrics of Once in a LIVEtime take you, and where it was really made.

The cover shows a Roman theatre in Orange, France, set into the head of a monk, while the live recording came from the Bataclan in Paris.

Key places

Recorded live at Le Bataclan (1998)

Recording site Le Bataclan — The album was recorded live at Le Bataclan in Paris on 25 June 1998, during the European leg of the Touring into Infinity world tour. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Cover photo: Roman theatre in Orange (1998)

Album cover Roman theatre in Orange — The album cover shows an overhead view of the ancient Roman theatre in Orange, France, set into the head of a monk. Storm Thorgerson designed it. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Second live album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater
• Released in 1998; the French listing gives 27 October 1998
• Double CD presenting most songs from the 1997 album Falling into Infinity
• Recorded live at Le Bataclan, Paris, on 25 June 1998
• Produced and recorded by Kevin Shirley

Background

• Recorded during the European leg of the Touring into Infinity world tour
• Mastered at Absolute Audio, New York City
• Assistant engineers: Alex Goodison, Ian Dyckhoff, Rich Alvy
• Mastering engineer: Leon Zervos

Recording

• Recorded with the Manor Mobiles recording unit
• The live recording was made at the Bataclan theater in Paris

Cover

• Designed by Storm Thorgerson, one of two covers he made for the band
• Shows an overhead view of the ancient Roman theatre in Orange, France
• The Roman theatre is set into the head of a monk

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

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

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

• Double CD released in 1998, the second live album by Dream Theater
• Disc one: A Change of Seasons I and II, Puppies on Acid, Just Let Me Breathe, Voices, Take the Time, the Derek Sherinian Piano Solo, Lines in the Sand, Scarred, A Change of Seasons IV, Ytse Jam and a Mike Portnoy drum solo
• Disc two: Trial of Tears, Hollow Years, Take Away My Pain, Caught in a Web, Lie, Peruvian Skies, the John Petrucci guitar solo, Pull Me Under, Metropolis Pt. 1, Learning to Live and A Change of Seasons VII
• Jay Beckenstein of Spyro Gyra plays alto saxophone on Take Away My Pain
• Beckenstein had previously played on Another Day from the album Images and Words
• Shortly after release, Derek Sherinian was replaced by Jordan Rudess

Records

• Billboard 200 (United States): number 157
• Germany chart: number 59

Sources: es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind before and after Trial of Tears
• Peruvian Skies contains portions of Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar and Metallica's Enter Sandman
• The ending of Take the Time contains the solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird and the main riff from Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick
• The Derek Sherinian Piano Solo contains themes later used in Platt Opus by Platypus
• Shortly after this album's release, Derek Sherinian was replaced by Jordan Rudess

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

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