6/12/2020 Bio - Dream Theater

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Early Days/Majesty
Dream Theater's debut studio album was 1989's When Dream and Day Unite, which would earn the group Dream Theater
comparisons to well-known progressive rock bands such as Rush and Queensrÿche. Unfortunately,
Chroma Key
Mechanic was unable to fulfill many financial promises made to Dream Theater prior to signing their contract,
OSI
so the promotional tour for the album consisted of just five concerts. The first show was at Sundance in Bay
Shore, New York, opening for the classic rock trio Zebra. After the fourth show, Dominici was fired due to Film Soundtracks
creative differences. It would be two years before the band selected a replacement vocalist. Guest Appearances

In its search for a singer, Dream Theater

auditioned over 200 people before
settling on James LaBrie of the Canadian
glam metal band, Winter Rose. After
signing a seven-album deal with ATCO
Records, a division of Elektra Records,
the band's breakthrough came in 1992
with the album, Images and Words. It
featured the band's highest-charting
single to date, "Pull Me Under," which
included lyrics by Moore and reached
#10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock
Tracks chart. A video for the song saw
heavy rotation on MTV, and the record
earned gold record certification in the
U.S. and platinum status in Japan.

In 1994, the band released its third studio album, Awake, which was its highest-charting album with Moore,
peaking at #32 on the Billboard charts. The album has been viewed by some as Dream Theater's darkest
work mainly due to lyrical content with many of the songs dealing with internal conflicts. It also contained
Moore's signature song, a haunting piano-driven ballad called "Space-Dye Vest" that describes a heartbroken
man flipping through a magazine and falling in love with a stranger modeling a vest. The song, which is
considered by some fans to be the magnum opus of Moore's career, was not performed live by Dream
Theater until 2014 – a full 20 years after the song's release.

Shortly before Awake was mixed, Moore announced that he wished to concentrate entirely on his own
musical interests and would be quitting Dream Theater. In a press release on Aug. 22, 1994, he stated: "It
came to a point where my views were so different from the rest of the band that we were having trouble
relating to each other's ideas. At the same time, I was finding a great deal of fulfillment writing and recording
my own material. Eventually, this became more important to me than anything." The band ultimately tapped
Derek Sherinian as the band's new keyboardist, and later replaced Sherinian with Jordan Rudess in 1999.

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