James LaBrie

three I had ever been in before On another time around the wheel I would probably know just how to deal With all of you And I feel Like I've been Like I've been here before And you know It makes me wonder What's going on Down Under You we realized love's not all that it's supposed to be Oh yeah Oh yeah Knowing that you would have wanted it this way I do believe I'm feeling stronger every day I know we really tried Yeah, we had a lot of So now the time has come For both of us to live our lives

Hey everyone, this is James Labrie from Dream Theater, and you're listening to New Year's Prog Show.

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We did one one time, and it got buried in the Not Fest thing that y'all went to, but- Oh, yeah ...

I think the change from Charlie Dominici to James LaBrie in Dream Theater was a big, huge change for the better.

I wouldn't know.

And I think, uh, Ray Alder replacing John Arch in Fates Warning was a massive change for the better.

Uh, look, there's, there's bands with operatic vocalists that I, I'm really into, you know, and have been historically over the years, maybe not so much these days.

But, you know, James Labrie with Dream Theater, Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickinson, uh, I mean, these guys have all got big vibrato, and they're powerful singers.

And I don't love all of what they do either, but just, it just, it got me right from the start, and I just went, "I, I don't know if I love this." And I've listened to it, I, you know, 15, 20 times because I want to love it because it's Tony, and, you know, I have such reverence for the guy.

And as you said, the production is clean, the mix is good, the captures are solid, but it's just something about it that didn't make me wanna immediately play it again, though I did, because I w- I kept asking myself, "What am I missing? Why don't I like this as much?" And it's probably because it's a bit, it's...

Do you think that you would find the track more appealing then?

I think maybe with a different vocal style I would.

Bruce, again, has that really operatic style too, so I don't know if I would've received it that much differently with him or James Labrie, which, again, I, I f- feel like I'm ready to take bullets f- for feeling [chuckles] this way, but I do.

I just don't love it, and I want to love it.