Instrumedley

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"Instrumedley"
Song by Dream Theater
From the album Live at Budokan
Album released October 5, 2004
Recorded April 26, 2004 - Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Progressive metal
Song Length 12:10
Record label Elektra Records
Producer Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci
Track Number 8

Instrumedley (a portmanteau of instrumental medley) is an instrumental musical piece performed only during live shows by the progressive metal band Dream Theater.

This instrumental was first performed on Aug 10, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA during the second leg of their North American tour World Tourbulence.[1]. The instrumental itself is actually a medley of several Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment classics. Using "The Dance of Eternity" from the Scenes From A Memory album as a shell, "Instrumedley" is played by inserting popular riffs and segments of other instrumentals and songs throughout "The Dance of Eternity." These segments are usually recognizable by avid Dream Theater fans, even when hearing "Instrumedley" for the first time, making the instrumental one of Dream Theater's most interesting musical pieces.

The instrumental was made popular when it was featured on the live 3-CD or 2-DVD release Live at Budokan.

[edit] Analysis

The following is a list of the instrumentals and songs that are sampled in "Instrumedley," as well as their locations within "Instrumedley" according to the time stamps based on the 12:10 version from Live at Budokan:

  1. [0:00] - "The Dance of Eternity" (Scenes from a Memory)
  2. [1:38] - "Metropolis Pt. 1 - The Miracle And The Sleeper" (Images and Words)
  3. [2:01] - "Erotomania" (Awake)
  4. [3:41] - "The Dance of Eternity"
  5. [4:24] - "Metropolis Pt. 1 - The Miracle And The Sleeper"
  6. [5:18] - "A Change of Seasons IV: The Darkest of Winters" (A Change of Seasons)
  7. [6:07] - "Ytse Jam" (When Dream and Day Unite)
  8. [7:47] - "The Dance of Eternity"
  9. [8:32] - "Paradigm Shift" (Liquid Tension Experiment)
  10. [9:33] - "Universal Mind" (Liquid Tension Experiment)
  11. [10:20] - "The Dance of Eternity"
  12. [11:01] - "Hell's Kitchen" (Falling into Infinity)


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://lits.shine1.com/dtnettourography.asp?show=658
Dream Theater
James LaBrie | John Myung | John Petrucci | Mike Portnoy | Jordan Rudess
Chris Collins | Charlie Dominici | Kevin Moore | Derek Sherinian
Discography
Albums and extended plays: When Dream and Day Unite | Images and Words | Awake | A Change of Seasons | Falling into Infinity | Scenes from a Memory | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | Train of Thought | Octavarium
Live albums: Live at the Marquee | Once in a LIVEtime | Live Scenes from New York | Live at Budokan | Score
Videos and DVDs: Images and Words: Live in Tokyo | 5 Years in a Livetime | Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York | Live at Budokan | Score
Songs: Pull Me Under | Another Day | A Mind Beside Itself | The Glass Prison | Stream of Consciousness | Instrumedley
Related articles
Jelly Jam | Liquid Tension Experiment | MullMuzzler | Nightmare Cinema | OSI | Platypus | Transatlantic | True Symphonic Rockestra | YtseJam Records
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