First in a long series

Track of the day - Instrumedley by Dream Theater. From their album Live at Budokan, this is one of the best pieces of musicianship I've gotten my hands on in a long time. Frankly, it's pretty amazing. A twelve minute mash-up of some of Dream Theater's best tracks, including some stuff from the delicious side-project Liquid Tension Experiment. Favorite part right now is the Paradigm Shift excerpt, followed by the opening section... for some reason it just hooks me. Megaupload link here

I can't be the only person bothered by the fact that John Myung never gets in on any of these side projects. Rudess and Petrucci have worked together, MP, JP, and JR all worked together on LTE, and Mike drummed for John at several of his G3 shows (I wonder who'll get announced for 2007, or where it'll be held?)... yet the Asian bass player never gets any cred. Except for that time he tackled LaBrie. As for LaBrie getting cred... meh. DT wouldn't be DT without him, and he is Canadian, so it'd be unpatriotic of me not to like him, but other than that... he barely contributes musically at all.

Album of the week will be posted on Sundays.