Do-Over: Band Atones For Troubled March Show

Many fans who attended Dream Theater’s show at the Web Theatre in March left disappointed . The band had promised a three-hour show climaxing with the epic title track of its new album, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence.

But from the start, something was obviously amiss. Sound problems plagued the group and the musicians’ frustration was immediately evident. Not a note of ‘Six Degrees’ was heard in the shortened set.

Fortunately, Valley fans will get another chance to see Dream Theater tonight as part of a guitar-god show that includes axman extraordinaire Joe Satriani and the Beatle-esque power trio King’s X.

“We had major equipment problems,” keyboardist Jordan Rudess says of the March show. “Phoenix was the first gig on the U.S. tour, we had just finished a series of shows in Mexico and a lot of our equipment was held up at the border.

“That’s the problem with the first show of the tour, sometimes all the kinks haven’t been ironed out. If you catch a later show, we’re usually tighter. But the excitement at that first concert usually makes up for it.”

Again, Phoenix is getting the first show of the tour. And although DT is playing only a 90-minute set, Rudess doesn’t rule out performing all 45 minutes of ‘Six Degrees’.

“Phoenix is the only U.S. city we did not perform it in, and we do want everyone to hear it,” he says. “We’ll see what happens.”