Get Revitalized Versions of When Dream & Day Unite Instead of The Original

This version of When Dream and Day Unite should be thought of as one of Dream Theater nonessential releases.  It is most definitely a good album, but these songs have been revitalized elsewhere in Dream Theater's catalogue.  Highlights include "Status Seeker," "A Fortune in Lies," "Afterlife," "The Killing Hand," and "Only a Matter of Time."  I recommend either the Official Bootleg version of WD&DU instead and/or "Live at the Marquee."

Five Stars, 1.  Dream Theater by Dream Theater

Five Stars, 2.  Awake

Five Stars, 3.  Octavarium

Five Stars, 4.  Images and Words

Five Stars, 5.  A Dramatic Turn of Events

Five Stars, 6.  Systematic Chaos

Five Stars, 7.  Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Five Stars, 8.  Train of Thought

Five Stars, 9.  Falling Into Infinity

Four Stars, 10.  When Dream and Day Unite (I recommend getting either the Official Bootleg of this live with James LaBrie, or Live at the Marquee)

Four Stars, 11.  Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Four Stars, 12.  Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (I recommend the totally awesome 4 Degrees of Radio Edits, or Score instead)

Review of Falling Into Infinity by Dream Theater

Falling Into Infinity is a bit softer than the music on some of Dream Theater’s other albums, but it does get a little heavy on the song “Peruvian Skies.”  Other highlights include “Hollow Years,” “Lines in the Sand,” and” Take Away My Pain.”  Detractions include “You Not Me,” and “Burning My Soul.”  However, overall Falling Into Infinity is a tremendous album.

Rated in order:

Five Stars, 1.  Dream Theater by Dream Theater

Five Stars, 2.  Awake

Five Stars, 3.  Octavarium

Five Stars, 4.  Images and Words

Five Stars, 5.  A Dramatic Turn of Events

Five Stars, 6.  Systematic Chaos

Five Stars, 7.  Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Five Stars, 8.  Train of Thought

Five Stars, 9.  Falling Into Infinity

Four Stars, 10.  When Dream and Day Unite - Get the "Official Bootleg - When Dream and Day Unite."  It is far better.

Four Stars, 11.  Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Four Stars, 12.  Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Get the totally awesome "4 Degrees of Radio Edits," and/or "Score" instead.

Mostly Sophisticated Summer Music Mix 2014

This is a list of the cds I have in my 100 disc changer.  It is not a top 100 list, but it is all good music that I recommend.  Usually, I have posted this list every 6 months or so, such that normally this would have been posted in the beginning of June.  However, I haven’t been able to listen to cds much lately because on humid days, which are frequent, the amplifier’s “Protect” function shuts down the amplifier, supposedly to prevent damage.

Porcupine Tree – Deadwing (discs 1 and 2)

Porcupine Tree – In Absentia (discs 1 and 2)

Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun

Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree – Coma Divine

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing

Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning (disc 1 and 2)

Flower Kings – Space Revolver

Flower Kings – Stardust We Are (disc 1 and 2)

Flower Kings – Retropolis

Flower Kings – Back in the World of Adventures

Flower Kings – The Rainmaker

Dream Theater – Dream Theater

Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events

Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos

Dream Theater – Score (disc 1)

Dream Theater – Master of Puppets

Jordan Rudess – Notes on a Dream

An Evening With Jordan Rudess and John Petrucci

James LaBrie’s Mullmuzzler – Keep It to Yourself

Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door

Mix cd of Tony MacAlpine and Led Zeppelin

Wes Montgomery – Full House

Wes Montgomery – Fusion

Fates Warning – Chasing Time

Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon

Alice In Chains – Dirt

The Mighty Mighty BossTones – Devil’s Night Out

Megadeth – Youthanasia

Megadeth – United Abominations

Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction

Ayreon – The Human Equation (disc 2)

Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle (disc 2)

John Coltrane – First Meditations

John Coltrane – Impressions

John Coltrane – Live at Birdland

Poison – Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986 – 1996

Symphony X – Twilight in Olympus

Symphony X – The Odyssey

Stryper – Seven

Extreme – II Pornograffitti

Extreme – III Sides to Every Story

The John Scofield Band – Up All Night

John Scofield – Pick Hits Live

The Who – Who’s Better Who’s Best: This is the very best of the Who

Amazing Journey – Disc 1

Metallica – Kill ‘Em All

Metallica – Ride the Lightning

Metallica – black album

Steve Morse – Coast to Coast

Dixie Dregs – Industry Standard

Dixie Dregs – What If

Dixie Dregs – Free Fall

Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland – Like Minds

Pat Metheny - Secret Story

Pat Metheny Trio – 99 00

Rollins Band – End of Silence

Stanley Clarke – School Days

King Crimson – The Power to Believe

Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Abbey Road EP

Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Freaky Styley

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble – Greatest Hits

Soulive – Doin’ Something

Pantera – Far Beyond Driven

Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power

Phish – A Picture of Nectar

Steve Vai – Sex & Religion

Gil Evans Play Jimi Hendrix

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire

King’s X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Radiohead – OK Computer

B.B. King – 20^th Century Masters

Joe Satriani – The Extremist

Bozzio, Levin, Stevens – Black Light Syndrone

Roy Hargrove – The Vibe

Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles

Green Day – Dookie

Niacin – Niacin

Testament – The Ritual

Transatlantic – smpte

Fear Factory – Transgression

Platypus – When Pus Comes to Shove

James LaBrie – Winter Rose

Death – Individual Thought Patterns

The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

Pearl Jam – Yield

Deep Purple – Machine Head

Joe Pass – Virtuoso 2

Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today

Queensyrche – Here in the Now Frontier

Tool – Aenima

Bill Frisell – Live

Black Label Society – Kings of Damnation Era

Savatage – The Wake of Magellan

Craig’s Picks: Dream Theater’s Studio Albums Rated as of June 2014

From Best to Least Best

Five Stars, 1.  Dream Theater by Dream Theater

Five Stars, 2.  Awake

Five Stars, 3.  Octavarium

Five Stars, 4.  Images and Words

Five Stars, 5.  A Dramatic Turn of Events

Five Stars, 6.  Systematic Chaos

Five Stars, 7.  Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Five Stars, 8.  Train of Thought

Five Stars, 9.  Falling Into Infinity

Five Stars, 10.  When Dream and Day Unite

Four Stars, 11.  Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Four Stars, 12.  Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (I recommend the totally awesome 4 Degrees of Radio Edits, or Score instead)

***** Dream Theater by Dream Theater: The Best Album in the World to Date.

This is the best album I have ever heard, hands down, everything else is secondary, and probably everything after Dream Theater by Dream Theater will be secondary. This is it. This is perfect. This is the new standard. This is better than any jazz I know of. This is better than any classical music that I know of, including greats like Beethoven and Dvorak. This album is eternal. I can rest now in my search for great music because this one will probably hold my attention for years and years.

I have been a music lover since I was a child. I can still remember listening to Vivaldi on my Walkman at my now deceased grandmother’s house, which means my love of music goes back to the time when cassette tapes ruled the market and cds had not yet been invented. I am now in my thirties, and I have been a fan of Dream Theater since I heard Pull Me Under on the Z Rock 50 on 94.1 WHJY, which was a hard rock top 50 countdown that prided itself by saying Casey Casum (or however you spell his last name – the guy who did the pop music countdown, which never seemed to give metal a chance) doesn’t have a clue.

Well, now that I have heard Dream Theater by Dream Theater, I can die, and know that there is probably never going to be another album that is as good as this one, especially when it comes to complexity. I’m a cerebral guy, and I don’t believe that it can get better than this. This stuff blows away Aphex Twin, a computer musician programmer who actually tried to program good music. Because I am a guitarist, programmed music will never touch me the way people do who are actually playing real instruments, even if effects are used.

Reviewing this album, I am so happy to hear my son say one of the songs on this one is his favorite. My boy already has good tastes, and without coaxing. He knows what he likes, and Dream Theater is a part of that already. He likes the song that sounds like Limelight by Rush, but is 10 times as good as it.

I completely enjoy the seriousness of this album, as compared to A Dramatic Turn of Events. Don’t get me wrong, both albums are 5 star albums, but A Dramatic Turn of Events was super dorky with all its silly messiah talk.

**** Live at Budokan by Dream Theater – Far From Bad, but also Far From Essential

Let’s face it; Dream Theater is better in the studio than live.  Live at Budokan isn’t bad at all though.  The mix does suffer a bit.  Live at Budokan sounds like an assembly of songs with less sound quality than a studio disc, and it doesn’t even serve well as a greatest hits package because there is never a song that seems like parts of it aren’t filler.
Why Dream Theater bothers releasing anything but their best live stuff is beyond me.  All the way back to “Once In a LIVEtime” they released a cd where James LaBrie’s voice was hoarse.  Why on earth that they would have picked this, one of the last stops on that tour to make a live set (for Once in a LIVEtime) is perplexing?  They did the same thing when they practically wasted the first cd of Live Scenes from New York.  Disc 2 was great off that one, but when they played the entire Scenes from a Memory from start to finish on Disc one, on that particular day in New York it was a catastrophe, IMHO.
Most bands never come close to being this good, and that is where the 4th star comes from.  However, what Dream Theater is doing with disc sets like Live at Budokan is saturating an already saturate market.  I would scarcely miss this one if I no longer had it.  Additionally, there is enough good prog metal that makes this even further nonessential.
It is a good set of three discs and all 3 are good, but it is just no where near as good as their average studio album, and they have plenty of studio albums by now, well maybe.  It does seem like I always end up craving a new Dream Theater album.
I have been burnt enough on Dream Theater’s low quality live albums that I am not looking for the next live album coming down the pike.  For example, I am not even going to waste my time on Live at Luna Park.  I am not going to say DT can’t play live.  They proved that they are one of the best live acts on earth when they released Score.  However, for the most part their live acts are a disappointment.  Even the times when I have personally seen them live, the band seems to lack personality, and can’t compare with more suave acts like Queensryche.
Granted it seems like there is not a track that doesn’t have both a highlight, and also lull.  But, for the most of the part, I wouldn’t reach for this one off the shelf, having a chance to listen to others is because the bulk of this material has dry parts, or parts that are cheesy in quality or lack feeling.

**** Live at Budokan by Dream Theater – Spotty. Buy It If You Are A Fanatic. Skip It If You Are Not.

This was my first indication that the album 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence was not a total loss. Score proved that without a doubt, and so did 4 Degrees of Radio Edits. Score is a 5 by any standard, and those that criticize are not correct, they are wrong, but that is not this album.

Now, I know that I am in the minority, as most fans loved 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence. My major criticism of that album, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence, is that the songs on it are too repetitious. For some reason on Live at Budokan, songs from that album don’t bother me as much.

There are definitely some tracks on this one that are not as good as they could have been. If they took Live at Budokan into the studio, and worked some magic, I might have loved this album. For example, “In the Name of God,” has an absolutely incredible guitar solo, but LaBrie is a little lacking on that song, and there are a few times when it sounds like the show nearly falls apart given a little improvisation. That is how this album goes. Usually, it is not perfect like a studio album, and Dream Theater is the type of band that needs to sounds perfect, or else they sound like they are playing under their own ability levels!

Sometimes Jordan’s keyboard sounds cheesy, sometimes John Petrucci’s guitar sounds cheesy, James LaBrie’s voice sometimes sounds awesome, other times it needs some help, and the bass is almost non-existent. Mike Portnoy comes across very well.

This is not an essential Dream Theater album IMHO. With Dream Theater, you can expect to hear flawlessness, especially with their studio albums, but as usual, and with Live at Budokan, the live albums Dream Theater releases are spotty.

**** Listen By Jordan Rudess – Excellent, But Not Jordan’s Best

If you like Marillion, then chances are that you will like “Listen” by Jordan Rudess. My guess would be that if you have heard of and listened to Marillion before looking for this more obscure work, as it is his first album, predating his more famous work with Dream Theater, but times are a changin’, and Jordan Rudess has achieved super star popularity in the band Dream Theater, far more popularity than Marillion ever had.

If you are looking for something that reminds you of Dream Theater, while this music is still quite technical, I would have to urge you to look somewhere else. This album has hardly any resemblance to Dream Theater. If you are interested in collecting all of Dream Theater’s and their members solo projects, then this one might be a good one to own in the way that James LaBrie’s Winter Rose is worth owning (both of these pre Dream Theater efforts are really good.) I do have to admit, though the rest of the band does not remind me of Dream Theater at all, by the time Jordan produced Listen, a good deal of his technical style, which so far as I know was uniquely developed by him is possibly a result to the musical doors that had been unlocked to him through keyboard technology. Some people find this technical stuff, sounds that only could be produced by a keyboard played with what seems like high precision randomness to be annoying, others, like me, love it.

This album is not a 5 star work though. It is not an essential album in any way. It is the music of a serious young musician, someone well on the path toward being virtuoso, if not even a virtuoso by this album. I can’t quite put my finger on why this work falls short of 5 stars from a technical point of view. Dare I say that it is the song craft that makes this a 4 star album; I think so. That’s it. If you believe this is a 5 star album, I understand if you disagree with me, however.

**** Greatest Hit (...and 21 other pretty cool songs) by Dream Theater - Great for Fans of Mellow DT

Though I would give most every Dream Theater album 5 stars, it always seemed that on every album there was one song that stuck out like a sore thumb. These songs where often released as singles for some reason, as they never gave the band any popularity.

Most of Dream Theater’s fans like it complex, heavy, and fast. Most of the songs on songs on this album have a modest amount of complexity, but no heaviness or speed, and when I say heaviness I mean strictly slammin’ riffs, and not emotional heaviness, as one could perhaps conclude that these songs are in fact heavier than the others, according to personal taste.

Prior to this album, however, these songs were not among my favorites by DT. In fact, they were my least favorite prior, as I liked the more complex and heavy side of Dream Theater. However, the mix on these songs sounds like they have been redone, rerecorded, and that the general quality of the music was increased.

What I can say for this album is that in an amazingly coherent and well put together way, these kinds of songs on the albums that seemed as loners fit together very well. And, frankly I was surprised at this, but Dream Theater usually does surprise me. I was surprised because when I heard that when Dream Theater said that they were going to come out with a greatest hit like package, I had no clue what that would consist of, as to me every song on most every album belonged in that a package.

Also, it is worthy to note that finally the song, “To Live Forever,” made its way onto a major album, as prior to this release it had been kicked around and reworked several times on bootlegs prior to this release.

**** Lark’s Tongues in Aspic - Excellent Progressive Rock from One of the Genre’s Founders

Compared to In The Court of the Crimson King, and even In The Wake of Poseidon; Lark’s Tongues definitely measures up.  The band was essentially playing in the style of their earlier hits when they made this one.  If that was their aim, then I would have to say that they accomplished their aim.  Notice that the volume isn’t cranked on this one, and that is the sound of music before we had compressors.  I personally am fed up with the prevalence of compressors.  I think that they take away all the dynamic from music, and spoil it just to be loud.  In my opinion, if I want my music loud, then I’ll just turn up the volume, and there is no need to compress anything.

If you want to know where bands like Dream Theater and so many others got their sonic ideas, bands like King Crimson and Return to Forever were definitely influential to their sound.

Also, you may notice that I essentially wrote the same review for both Lark’s Tongues and Islands.  That is because I felt that the music of both of these cds is very similar.  Which is not to say that these albums are identical, but in my opinion, by the instrumental music alone, one would not be able to tell perhaps an unreleased B-side one of these cds from the other.  They are essentially the same in greatness. 

**** Islands by King Crimson - Excellent Progressive Rock from One of the Genre’s Founders

Compared to In The Court of the Crimson King, and even In The Wake of Poseidon; Islands definitely measures up.  The band was essentially playing in the style of their earlier hits when they made this one.  If that was their aim, then I would have to say that they accomplished their aim.  Notice that the volume isn’t cranked on this one, and that is the sound of music before we had compressors.  I personally am fed up with the prevalence of compressors.  I think that they take away all the dynamic from music, and spoil it just to be loud.  In my opinion, if I want my music loud, then I’ll just turn up the volume, and there is no need to compress anything.

If you want to know where bands like Dream Theater and so many others got their sonic ideas, bands like King Crimson and Return to Forever were definitely influential to their sound.

Also, you may notice that I essentially wrote the same review for both Lark’s Tongues and Islands.  That is because I felt that the music of both of these cds is very similar.  Which is not to say that these albums are identical, but in my opinion, by the instrumental music alone, one would not be able to tell perhaps an unreleased B-side one of these cds from the other.  They are essentially the same in greatness. 

**** Greatest Hit (… and 20 Other Pretty Cool Songs) by Dream Theater – Strikingly Complete

When I first heard Dream Theater was going to put together a greatest hits package, I thought, “That’s impossible because almost all their songs are good.”  I couldn’t even imagine how they were going to pull this one off, but they did!

They put all the songs that in my opinion didn’t fit well on their albums, it seemed as if every album had one extra song, but I was not conscious of this when I thought of what they would do for a greatest hits package.  Well, you may wonder how these songs all fit together; the answer is that the songs are more mild than most of the other stuff on their albums.  It was always as if Dream Theater always had a token slow song, and what’s more they even released that song though usually it would get no attention for radio airplay.

Perhaps, I should have thought otherwise, but because I usually thought the released song was weaker than the rest of the album, it never occurred to me that they would put them all on 2 cds and repackage it.  As far as I know, this album, repackaging all the slow songs together ends up hitting the sonic spot on certain days, and is well worth listening to.  You just have to be in the mood for it.  Even for people that love the heaviest music, I imagine there can come a time when you feel like you need a rest.  Let me tell you, or even warn you, there are many musical rests about on this collection, as this is not the typical busy, hard hitting music I think of most when I think of Dream Theater.

***** You Go Now by Chroma Key – Pure Mellow Brilliance

I did not get the impression that the keyboardist/leader of Chroma Key, Kevin Moore, was trying to alienate his audience with this one.  The album title is, “You Go Now,” which by itself can have many meanings, and I wasn’t quite sure what Kevin Moore was trying to get at when he made the album.  I listened to it, and thought it was better than Radio Head’s OK Computer album, which is very similar to this one.  I think I finally figured out what Kevin Moore meant when he called this album, “You Go Now,” when he recorded the follow up album, “Graveyard Mountain Home,” which in my opinion has no redeeming qualities.

My review is a comparison of this with the much more popular album, OK Computer, to which I believe Kevin Moore’s effort is far better.  However, it is possible that the listener will have a difficult time appreciating this album.  I hope that is not the case because You Go Now is in my opinion a classic in its own right.

*** Black Clouds & Silver Linings by Dream Theater – The Least Essential DT Album to My Collection

I won’t say that this is a bad album.  However, I will say that Dream Theater seems to have something both similar and better than everything on this album that they have done prior to BC&SL.  Prior to this, I won’t say that Dream Theater had done no wrong.  I did think 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence was a weak and repetitive effort.  However, that much was all cleaned up when I heard 4 Degrees of Radio Edits, which is I think is totally awesome.  I’ll also say that I can’t tell if A Nightmare to Remember is supposed to be comedy or is serious, which probably means that the band was serious. Lol!

I guess what I find most disappointing about this album is that physically it offers nothing more than a typical hair band album, like say Poison, or Warrant.  Yes, I admit to liking Poison, but I don’t have any delusions about their technical grandeur, and when it comes to technical grandeur that is what I expect from them, and I feel that their offering of technical albums fills a very important role in many people’s lives, in the same way that folks where angry when Pantera broke up because Pantera filled a very important niche in peoples’ lives.

Wither is nothing but an mediocre ballad.  You know the standard ballad Dream Theater puts on an album that is just trash to attract new fans to the other stuff that they do that is better.  Except, what is different on this album is that the cheese ballad is one of the better songs on BC&SL.  Enough said!!!  .  As for this album, it doesn’t have any redeeming greatness, just mediocrity that might help them get popular, so I suggest moving on to something that will challenge you more intellectually, and not stuff that would have made it on the radio in the 1980s.

My best advice is not to buy this one and to buy a real Dream Theater album like Awake or A Dramatic Turn of Events.

*** Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater – Dream Theater’s Worst Album

In my opinion, the only good song on this album is the subdivision Solitary Shell, which is a part of the Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence song.   The rest of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence has its moments, but on the whole, with almost every song I feel like there is too much repetition.  It is as if Dream Theater was simply adding filler so that they could release a double album instead of a cd.  That said there are definitely some redeeming parts of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, and that much was demonstrated on later discs, such as Score.  On the album Score, all the parts of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence are astounding.  So perhaps you may think that it is the recording quality that I am complaining about and not the song writing itself.  That is almost certainly not the case, because I have heard 4 Degrees of Radio Edits and every track on that cd blew my socks off.  Four Degrees of Radio Edits essentially takes most of the filler out of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, making the songs more action packed and more impressionable.  So while Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is only a three star album, I would give Four Degrees of Radio Edits five stars.  Likewise, 4 Degrees cuts to the chase and is only 1 cd long, where 6 degrees of Inner Turbulence probably should not have ever been released though it is the favorite album of many of Dream Theater’s fans.  For example, I think Awake is far superior to Six Degrees, but the last I check at allmusic.com Awake was absurdly rated 2 or 3 stars, while Six Degrees was absurdly rated 4 stars.

Review of You Go Now by Chroma Key *****

Moody and Relaxing

This album is slow and moody, but it doesn’t put me to sleep.  I have to wonder how many people remembered Kevin Moore when he played in Dream Theater when they bought this album?  Kevin Moore was Dream Theater’s keyboardist for their classic album that catapulted them into the world known progressive rock acts.  At the time though, Dream Theater was still probably unknown to most people.  However, without Images and Words, the success of When Dream and Day Unite would not have been great enough to make Dream Theater a force to be reckoned with.  So, what do I think about Kevin Moore’s contribution to that album?  Generally, I think most of his keyboard work is a little hokey on Images and Words.  At the time, I don’t think keyboard technology had come along enough for it to be any better.  However, Kevin Moore is a credited song writer on the best songs on Images and Words.  What’s more, he was Dream Theater’s lyricist.  I don’t believe Dream Theater ever produced songs with lyrics where as good as they where since Kevin Moore played in the band.  That said, you might wonder if his keyboard sounds hokey on the album You Go Now.  It doesn’t.  Kevin Moore’s keyboard word on You Go Now is genius.  With Kevin Moore in the lead of his band, the band comes together much better than he was able to do when he played in DT.  He has his own ideas about music, and most people don’t share them.  However, I think he is amazing.  He is definitely not out to wow you.  His musicianship is all about song craft, and sometimes Dream Theater can be criticized for lacking song craft, and just being a bunch of show offs.

If you like Office of Strategic Influence, then you will almost certainly like You Go Now.  Office of Strategic influence was started as a super group side project back when Mike Portnoy played in Dream Theater.  Office of Strategic Influence is heavier than Chroma Key.  Chroma Key is definitely not about being heavy.  While I would say that Chroma Key evokes the same moods in me as Office of Strategic influence, and that is partly because the vocals of O.S.I. are so relaxed.

15 Albums That Changed My Life

The first ones that come to mind.

1. Dream Theater – Score

2. GWAR - Live From Mt. Fuji

3. Metallica - black album

4. Poison - Open Up and Say Ah

5. Greg Howe - Introspection

6. Slayer - Reign in Blood

7. Primus - Frizzle Fry

8. Medeski Martin and Wood with John Scofield - A Go Go

9. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

10. Ozzy Osbourne live with Randy Rhodes - Tribute

11. Deicide - Serpents of the Light

12. Dream Theater - Images and Words

13. Liquid Tension Experiment - 2

14. Planet X - Moonbabies

15. Nirvanna - Nevermind

Craig HamiltonThese aren't my favorites, but they have all met me at the place and time where I was in life, and thus made an impression. Each one is a memory, sometimes of good times, sometimes of bad times, and sometimes both.

October 15, 2010 at 6:48 pm