Picture taken from the husband's cell phone.
Tuesday night I saw Dream Theater in concert. I haven't been able to go to any of their concerts before, so I rejoiced at the happy convergence of overtime pay and a free night and went. I haven't been able to load their new album onto my iPod (nicknamed iParsley because I'm silly), but they played a number of songs from the entire breadth of their discography. I especially enjoyed Surrounded, because pretty much all of us without shame were singing along like this huge mob-like choir. Also, The Dark Eternal Night features the video of the group as the "North American Dream Squad," which pleased both my hubby and myself with its old style geekiness.
Of course, while Dream Theater was excellent, the same couldn't be said about both opening bands. Redemption was pretty good. I like my hard rock/prog rock/heavy metal (or whatever we're calling it today) to have musicality. Screaming isn't music. The instrumentalists were spectacular, but the lead singer needed a little more oomph and enunciation (a problem with pretty much every musician I've ever heard including Tori Amos and Rush - though Pink Floyd was excellent for enunciation). Into Eternity was the opener for the opener as it were. They were very old school metal with much in the way of driving beats and screaming vocals. I joked with the hubby that I could understand the words, but it didn't count because they were the title of the song.
Oh, and one phrase: blink crotch. Do not put a blinking light as part of the drum rig. Furthermore, do not have the lead singer standing in front of the rig as the light is blinking. Just no.
I did get some knitting done that morning and on the trip home. The Shifting Sands scarf is over halfway done and might be done by Friday depending on how much knitting I get done tonight. Once that is done (and I will celebrate if I finish two WIPs in a week), I will go back to working on the Swiss Cheese scarf with is still in time out in the freezer. I need to tink back another couple of rows because I forgot to alternate the cast off row. Other than that, knitting land isn't going too badly either.
