me playing guitar (don't act like you're not impressed)

in fact only one track down on the same cd is 'red barchetta' which is a way better song and one that everybody isn't sick of yet

My station plays spirit of radio and working man more than tom sawyer, fly by night sometimes too.

I've never heard working man on the radio ever in my life, in fact the first time I ever heard that song it was the dream theater cover of it and that just kind of ruined it for me

also I know I'm the one who brought them up but do not get me started on dream theater unless you want this thread to go 20 pages

Dream Theater should have an "Up our own asses" contest with Tool, REM, and Radiohead

Is it weird that I love Rush and Queensryche but hate a band that alternates between trying really hard to be Rush and trying really hard to be Queensryche?

Is that why even the more famous artists can only dream of having Tool's number of record sales?
Even though Tool gets played on the radio considerably less than other artists

it's interesting to me that a you think a band that tries as hard as they can as human beings not to be up their own asses, is up their own ass

i've never even listened to them but my friend goes on and on about them

hmmm just tried listening to some dream theater on youtube..
i actually don't want to listen to any more of it for fear that it may ruin my taste in music and skill as a guitar player,
it sounds like what me and my friends come up with improvising on the guitar when we think "what would sound cool to other people and sound like we possess complexity?"
i guarantee they are just building together bits and pieces of riffs they heard other bands play, and constructing them in a way that sounds original

radio here plays a good variety of rush, but a canadian band is going to get lots of airplay in canada i guess. Tragically hip is over played by about 400% and i can't tolerate them anymore