It was a little hard for me at first: I remember coming in with a ton of ideas, and I wanted to present them all, and they wanted to hear them, but at the same time, they almost didn`t want to hear them. They didn`t want to be listening to that many diffe...
I know Dream Theater fans can be extremely possessive of this group. There were some fans that liked me joining, and I`m sure there were some who wanted to run screaming into the night.
I had done two albums with the Liquid Tension Experiment, and both were interesting compared to Dream Theater, because with those we didn`t have the window or the parameters of what Dream Theater is,
Everybody brings something to the table, and we don`t pretend not to have other influences, ... For instance, with the big title track -- which I`m very proud of and think is one of Dream Theater`s best compositions -- I dug pretty deep into my background...
All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we`re not writing a whole lot of love songs. With `Sacrificed Sons,` we had some sensitivity there about how we`d present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that ...