Nightmare Cinema
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Nightmare Cinema is a warped version of Dream Theater, deriving its name from the approximate opposite of "Dream Theater". It features John Petrucci on drums, Mike Portnoy on bass guitar, John Myung on keyboards, Derek Sherinian on guitar, and James LaBrie on vocals.
During their encores at concerts, starting with November 1, 1997 at the House of Blues in Chicago, the members of Dream Theater would sometimes deviate from playing their native instruments and each play something else, with the exception of LaBrie remaining the vocalist. The songs they would usually play was Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers"; on one occasion, they played Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution".
Once Derek Sherinian left Dream Theater in 1999, Dream Theater stuck to their own, and Nightmare Cinema never played again. According to Portnoy, there was a certain connection amongst the band members that allowed this experimental group to exist, but this was lost when Sherinian had left. This is an interesting fact, as the replacement for Sherinian, Jordan Rudess, is more than capable of playing the guitar, and has performed as the guitarist in a song on one of his solo albums, Feeding the Wheel.
[edit] Line-up
The members of Dream Theater took on alternate stage names while in Nightmare Cinema in addition to different instruments:
- Abdul Matahari (James LaBrie) - vocals (vocals)
- Nicky Lemons (Derek Sherinian) - guitar (keyboards)
- Johnny James (John Petrucci) - drums (guitar)
- Juice Malouse (John Myung) - keyboards (bass)
- Max Del Fuvio (Mike Portnoy) - bass (drums)
[edit] External links
- Nightmare Cinema at Dream Theater's FAQ
- A video of Nightmare Cinema performing Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers
| 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 |
