So it was a dream theater in the Loreley's amphitheater.
It was a multisensory show - cosmic music, subtle effects, lights, video background-screen, black clouds and ... you name it.
Total playing time was 1:h 50min
The algorithm for the setlist this year was : pick a piece from each album so far and add some more for the last 3 albums. And the setlist was:
Under a Glass Moon
These Walls
Forsaken
Endless Sacrifice
drum solo
Ytse Jam
Peruvian Skies
The Great Debate
On the backs of angels
Caught in a Web
Fatal Tragedy
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The Count of Tuscany
The performance of Jordan Rudess was eye-catching (ear-catching is clear :). He seemed not to be satisfied by gravitation and was systematically tilting and rotating his keyboard sideways, up and down as it was on a movable stand. In the solo of "Endless Sacrifice" he came afront with his groovy ZenRiffer vertical keyboard and dueled with Petrucci. Whether he is comparable to Kevin Moore is an unending discussion, but he is surely one the geekiest keyboard players. It struck me as well how he was operating simultaneously on his manual and a hardware synthesizer in the synesthetic piece "The Great Debate".
On purpose Mike Mangini, the new drummer who replaced Mike Portnoy recently, did a compact but astounding drum solo. Well, I confess - DT's drum-set is the most versatile and complex I've ever seen.
That was my first progressive metal festival and I was impressed by the high frequency of seeing fans that weared "Rush" T-Shirts. Keeping an eye on the distribution of names on the T-shirts on such events one can track the popularity of bands. Well, seems that the good old canadian classic is still popular, although of course DT-T-Shirts predominated.
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