Any of your bands cover any Dream Theater songs?

[capnsandwich]

We're doing one called "Walk Beside You." It's one of their easier songs. I actually didn't know it was them until I saw the CD cover. It sounded like a U2 wannabe band playing it.

[Ian Perge]

A cover band that I subbed in at my friend's university did one Dream Theater song a year for the three years we played the late Spring "Band Bash" from '97 to '99 (people dragging their couches from third floor dorm rooms to the quad, "Water" bottles filled with Rum or Vodka... ah, youth. ) - One year we had a keyboardist and managed to do "New Millennium" justice with my tapping out JM's Chapman Stick parts on my six-string, once we did a great job on "Hollow Years" with a *real* Classical Guitarist (and not the late-'80s "Power Ballad" they've turned it into ) and lastly we didn't screw up "Lines In The Sand" too badly with myself and a second guitarist comping the piano and synth parts.

Great times overall, and there's nothing like a setlist that contained DMB's "Don't Drink The Water", NIN's "Wish" with myself covering the synth parts with an octaver, envelope filter, and copious amount of Distortion, DT, Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love", and Jethro Tull all in the same set.

[Trapezius]

I've played DT only once live, it was Overture/Strange deja vu. I played keyboards. Fun and challenging stuff, although those songs are pretty easy (for a DT song, that is).

I've also played Dance of eternity and Beyond this life at rehearsals (still keyboards). Never really practiced those enough to play them good enough with a band, but fun anyway.

[seamus bass]

lie is a nice groove and nothing beats the guitar solo at the end

[Stickk]

Originally Posted by seamus bass

lie is a nice groove and nothing beats the guitar solo at the end

I'd say the guitar solo in "Hollow Years" beats the guitar solo in "Lie". Anyways, my prog band is working on "Instrumedley" right now, we'll probably play it live.

[MistaMarko]

My band covered "These Walls" at one of our bigger shows this past November. I'm still wondering why we haven't put it up on our YouTube channel, I feel we played it really well.

Easy song, so yeah.

[alapantera]

One of my former bands would play Strange Deja Vu and Erotomania quite frequently.

[El Bajo]

We've done quite a few actually:

Erotomania
Voices
Walk beside you
Lines in the Sand - Never made it live as we didnt have a singer at the time
Dance of Eterinity - I refused to do it live because it was such a mess, the keyboard player was so dissapointed becasue he had it nailed
Overture - Never done live, Erotomania was favoured, and two instrumentals at one gig is pushing it!

Got a caouple of vids up which can be seen via this link:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f19/my-band-dreamtheater-covers-436486/#post5757919

[Psychotic_Hell]

I bust out Metropolis and Steam of Consciousness as a warm up at practice. Just chuck on the Ipod w/ noise canceling headphones, find a corner and play away.

I would ask the guys to cover it but i dont think they'd like it :P

[rarisgod]

As much as I would absolutely love to perform a Dream Theater song live
(something like Constant Motion, Root of All Evil, Forsaken, Home, etc.) it's too difficult to find musicians that are capable of performing any of them convincingly around where I am.
Someday, perhaps...