This is why he will be the voice of Dream Theater until the end. He was simply perfect. Sad how age hit him. He still does amazing when he’s having a good day.

This is about as magical as it gets within the Dream Theater mythos. The youth, enthusiasm and energy of everyone in the band, and James finally coming into the fold to bring it all together as the singer they needed. A Change of Seasons, Images and Words, Awake. That is their legacy.

@byom3100

3 жыл бұрын

For me, SFAM and Octavarium also are great DT albums and belong to their legacy.

@ShatteredWindowpane

3 жыл бұрын

@@byom3100 I agree with that. But those came with Jordan Rudess in the band, after Kevin had left. Kevin, The two John's, and Mike were all the founding members of the band, and spent several years writing what would end up being the albums I mentioned. James came in to complete their line up and bring those albums to life. SFAM and Octavarium are also great albums, but they were written in a different era of DT, one where they had matured and evolved from the sound of their first albums. I love both of those albums too, but the ones I pointed to are what helped to define the genre of progressive metal, as it is today.

@147pablox

3 жыл бұрын

@EnergyDeficit You are wrong. Their legacy is their whole discography. ut if you want to narrow it down to a few albums, then the golden era is definitely from SFAM to BC&SL. And I love every album that came after, especialy The Astonishing. But yeah, those six albums in a row are just the best thing thast ever happended to humanity.

@muhtasimshahriyar8351

2 жыл бұрын

@@147pablox Images and Words/Awake/SFAM is their golden era. Anything other than that is nu-metal/groove metal alternative garbage. Octovarium sounds like a U2 album rather than a prog metal record. The song writing went downhill after Kevin Moore and Derek left.

@LudwigJager7

Жыл бұрын

@@muhtasimshahriyar8351 oh no, one of the annoying DT fans that hates everything after scenes

Phenomenal voice in both low and high tones... James LaBrie was just perfect. It doesn’t even look like an audition!

@dlemmafred

2 жыл бұрын

That's because this isn't an audition recording. I believe this was a recording of a fanclub day in The Netherlands.

If not for James we may have never heard of Dream Theater.

@123612100

3 жыл бұрын

I would have, but than again I'm a nerd for late 80s early 90s prog metal.

@123612100

3 жыл бұрын

@Johnny Dong yeah, gimme da cookie!

Honestly man...at this point in his development, James might’ve been the best tenor in rock. That high clarity, sheen and effortless belting. Not even Geoff hit these kinds of notes with such ease...

@MrRafa1919

4 жыл бұрын

And Geoff is a baritone, haha. ;)

@manifestgtr

4 жыл бұрын

Rafail Mitopoulos Geoff was such a freak at his best...deep and rumbling to superhuman highs

@MrRafa1919

4 жыл бұрын

@@manifestgtr I know my friend, I know... 👊😎

@NatashaSallesSoprano

4 жыл бұрын

I think that no tenor will ever beat Dio and Bruce Dickinson in metal...

@davethefam7420

3 жыл бұрын

Geoff Tate was amazing noone beat him back in the 80's

What a voice! Unique , clear, powerful...at least theses days

I went to school with Kevin and his brother........great great people.....they were funny and would give you their shirt off back.....where he come from we are not groupies...just normal folk...Cheers

This version of To Live Forever is so good that you could post it separately.

@DTArchive

6 жыл бұрын

I think Mr. Robo4900 has it posted individually, and it's a version modified from the Subconscious disc.

@woodenhoe

3 жыл бұрын

Another version of this song can be found jn Cleaning The Closet

James sounds UNREAL in Learning to Live. I could listen to this version everyday.

Hearing this, it's easy to see why they chose James over everybody else.

Keep up the good work dude. This channel is incredible

Man, thank you for share this amazing material with us. I love this channel!

My favorite singer after Neal Morse. This is a very impressive audition, the other guys surely were excited!

This is just phenomenal. Such an intimate look into the days right before they recorded the album that would forever change their lives. I could listen to this stuff for hours. Just subscribed 🤘

I love his voice! LaBrie rocks!!!!!

What a powerful Labrie's voice

He is one of the greatest, no doubt.

Im pretty sure that harmonization with the solo on learning to live is what got him the spot

thank fk for Labrie coming into the band.

Pra quem curte o que importa é ver a banda mantendo seu nivel e trazendo de volta Mike, então quando jovens os cantores costumam ir onde terão mais dificuldade com a idade. Porém os grandes sabem conduzir a obra! Labrie🎉

In ‘92 on images and words tour I got to go back stage and tell him he sang the Charlie stuff even better! But feel so bad that on the falling into infinity tour I got to talk to him by the tour bus and told him the album sucked oh a fooled asshole I was! James your still awesome!

Yeah he was a phenomenal singer back then, no doubt.

Woow learning to live!!

He sings a hell of a lot better than I do.

@sammathis

2 жыл бұрын

That's how I feel about it too. Yeah he's not perfect, but the dude is the voice of DT for a reason.

Kevin Labrie Kevin Moore John Petrucci John Myung Mike Portnoy Mike Mangini Jordan Rudess... are we sure that his real name is not Kevin, John or Mike!?!?

@AcidicBiaxident

4 жыл бұрын

maybe his real name is Derek :P

@asabovesobelow2299

3 жыл бұрын

@@AcidicBiaxident hahahah

@wediardin6606

3 жыл бұрын

Or charlie ruddes

@TheDarkEternalKnight07

Жыл бұрын

@@AcidicBiaxident good one

@germdisco

9 ай бұрын

Michael Jordan should join 😛

I always figured it was a no brainer. Labrie seemed to fit in every corner of the Dream Theater realm. He had what they needed and they had what he wanted.

Take The Time is freaking unreal, such a rockin version.

OMG!!! Powerful :D

Divina voz melodias soñadas lo sinfonicos modernos gracias

no matter how much you hate James LaBrie now, you still have to admit that he used to be a very good singer

@majosoadicta

3 жыл бұрын

And he's still being great, just different because of the passage of time and the poisoning that damaged his vocal cords

@MrDuneedon

3 жыл бұрын

@@majosoadicta I actually didn't know that happened. Just looked it up. Wow.

@147pablox

3 жыл бұрын

If someone actually HATES LaBrie (or any other great musician like him) then that person doesn't deserve to be alive.

@aguynamednathan

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, James has aged better than most rock singers. Have you heard Vince Neil lately? How 'bout Axl Rose? Rock and roll takes it's toll on singers.

@kristofkovacsRisy

3 жыл бұрын

@@majosoadicta That is one thing, but the other thing - pointed out by vocal coaches - is the way he and many other singers used their voices.

This video its a treasure !!!!!!

Com certeza essa é a melhor execução do hino learning to live na voz do Labrie

He kinda sounds like a mix between Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, and Geddy Lee here

Priceless

The best audition

Labrie is the best singer early 90's, hand down lml

@spudfella4937

Жыл бұрын

LaBrie in the early 90's is easily one of the best metal singers of all time, if not THE best. Check out the gig at Deer Park. Just search on youtube Dream Theater Deer Park, you'll be blown away by LaBrie's performance that night.

He did a great audition

Me imagino las caras de Portnoy, Petrucci, Myung y Moore en 11:41

@asabovesobelow2299

3 жыл бұрын

Todos cargados jajaj

11:52 so LaBrie made the second half of Petrucci’s solo? :0

@asabovesobelow2299

3 жыл бұрын

He did something like that in scene from New York

@TheDarkEternalKnight07

Жыл бұрын

@@asabovesobelow2299 yeah, and the melodies are almost the same

@asabovesobelow2299

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDarkEternalKnight07 yessssss

@AndreCoelhoMatos

5 ай бұрын

So good!

On December 30, 1994, while vacationing in Cuba, LaBrie was stricken with a severe case of food poisoning from contaminated pork and while vomiting, he ruptured his vocal cords. He saw three throat specialists who all said there was nothing they could do except have him rest his voice as much as possible.

@AndreCoelhoMatos

5 ай бұрын

I’ve heard this story many times but is there an official source? It makes sense because it was just before Awake.

@rafaellago172

4 ай бұрын

@@AndreCoelhoMatos James himself has said it in interviews.

I love this video because afther know the most increíble músic I ever hear with this video know the first steps of the band who makes me fly , thanks DREAM THEATER .

Wow I'm just reminded how beautiful and unique his voice was... Still love him to this day but the notes of their songs are too much for a 50 year old guy

@thundersnow93

9 ай бұрын

Listen to the classic Petra live concert from 2012 with Greg X Voltz. He killed the high notes with ease in that concert at 62 years old!

this is why this guy was hired

James siempre será el mejor.

I'm not always a James LaBrie fan but it's clear the was the right guy for the job.

11:41 What we all came here for.

Young LaBrie has charizmaric voice.

Feels so weird to hear this demo version of "Take the Time".

20:14 sounds like entering heaven

@AndreCoelhoMatos

5 ай бұрын

Which is exactly how DT should feel

damn those bass lines

Can't believe 17.39 made it into the final version.

@whoshotjj

11 ай бұрын

Wdym? There's nothing wrong

Dream Theater Is This Voice.

He has charismatic voice

R.I.P. Charlie Dominici

Aunque a muchos no le guste James labrie es Dream Theater. Pues la voz de un vocalista es lo primero que te entra de la banda. Pues si alguna vez es cambiado pareceria una banda de cover de Dream. Es verdad que a tenido un desgaste muy grande en su voz, pero todos ya saben porque fue.

LaBrie in his prime was superb vocalist. He fitted the band perfectly. Now he is their weak spot.

Jeez i didnt know that rich chycki was in winter rose with james. Rich engineered some later rush albums like snakes and arrows i believe. Small world.

@DTArchive

3 ай бұрын

Rich is also complicit in slopping up some of the more recent Dream Theater albums with bad vocal editing and bad drum engineering. Not a man I respect.

Pristine lovely

wow

I can't understand what does he say from 4:30 to 4:45, anyone can help me please?

@imagez11

5 жыл бұрын

Francisco Roldan This just in from Baghdad, seven Patriot missiles (SAM) have been spotted *among cuepacs*

@phabi0

5 жыл бұрын

@@imagez11... Have been spotted *above Cuba*

11:41 :O

Still sad there was never an official studio recording on any of the albums. I suppose the "Best Hits" one counts but I don't like the lyrical change at the end.

I'm not sure why James was so fond of the short shorts, but I'm glad he ditched them.

@shiaominglee

3 жыл бұрын

maybe Canada is so cold that US is hot in comparison lol idk

Not related but would you happen to have the Grateful Dreams’ 5 Days In a Livetime bootleg? I’ve tried looking almost everywhere for this one and only found one song off of it on KZread.

@DTArchive

6 жыл бұрын

I have it, but the Grateful Dreams people didn't want their stuff being shared electronically. I think it's a stupid rule.

@fixxxer7786

6 жыл бұрын

DT Archive Considering that the bootleg itself is out of stock on both Discogs and their own website, therefore making it impossible to get, is pretty stupid but thanks anyways!

@DTArchive

6 жыл бұрын

The only thing that stands out as being particularly interesting from that show is the Pink Floyd Run Like Hell cover, which is on the Dark Side Of The Moon official bootleg. Beyond that, it's pretty similar to the other December 1998 shows. I want to eventually get Acoustic At The Electric Factory and Heading For Planet X up on this channel.

@fixxxer7786

6 жыл бұрын

DT Archive The electric version of Cover My Eyes from that show also surfaced but that’s about it. I was honestly curious how good the recordings were for The Way It Used To Be, Hell’s Kitchen and a few others. Since other live recordings of those songs are not really the best from that era.

@DTArchive

6 жыл бұрын

The quality is OK. The drums sound pretty good.

Perhaps he made it big too late, and peaked too early in terms of recording anything that anyone actually listened to. And then he had that vocal rupture in '94 which was pretty much the end. At least we had the first two albums with him.

@mootbooxle

8 ай бұрын

yeah he was definitely not the same after that incident in 94…but it seems to me that he started pushing his vocals waaaay too hard on the 95 tour, trying to add this more aggressive edge…not humanly possible to keep that up forever! As long as the muscles and joints and tendons hold out, a musician can play their instrument at a high level for many many years…but the human voice seems to be much less resilient! His singing in the last several years is what we’re left with after all the years of him trying to keep up that same intensity and range he had in his 20s…Tragic in a way but it is just nature!

So when he came down in late 90 did he sing with the live band? Or sang over a recorded track?

@nikostheater

2 жыл бұрын

With the band.

Did they tell him what to sing or did he do his own thing?

@kevinstewart8120

3 жыл бұрын

@Johnny Dong yes what 😐

@percyrobles8897

3 жыл бұрын

Dream Theater already gave the vocal melodies for each song to all the singers in the auditions. You can see in ACOS or Metropolis demos with another singers, and they sing the same vocal melodies.

What are the odds of damaging your vocal chords after food poisoning ? Now same question, but combined with the odds of being one of the best singers in the world. Talk about terrible luck 😮

HOW did you get this?

@joeking9760

6 ай бұрын

bribery and intimidation.

Kevin James?!

@AndreCoelhoMatos

5 ай бұрын

Yup. He joined the band as James bc there was already two Johns, and so they didn’t want two Kevins, with Kevin Moore being one of the original members. I think DT went down creatively after Moore left. JR is technically great but can’t match Mr. Moores’ energy, soul and creativity. In my opinion

@grannen2258

4 ай бұрын

@@AndreCoelhoMatos Yeah I agree, Images is yhe best album much thanks to Moore. Kevin Moore was the Dream and Mike Portnoy the theater.

I saw 'Take the Time' on MTV in 1992 at the age of 18 and was hooked...until 2016 when "The Astonishing" happened...blah...haven't bought anything since.

@lowdz68

2 жыл бұрын

You’re missing out. The Distance Over Time album is excellent xcellent

@beaumanikoth9142

2 жыл бұрын

@@lowdz68, not one memorable song to my ears. Kinda sad, really. The latest single, 'The Alien,' sounds like a leftover from Systematic Chaos. But, being a fan, I will probably buy AVFTTOTW. Lets hope it won't end up at Goodwill like "The Astonishing."

@hayalaln2302

Жыл бұрын

I recommend listening to A View from the Top of the World, awesome album from start to finish

@kristenbuildsstuff

Жыл бұрын

A View From the Top of the World is much better than Distance Over Time, which I wasn’t a huge fan of.. The Astonishing, I don’t speak of - I’m covered in DT tattoos and just couldn’t rock with it. I would definitely give the new album a try, though. Even if just for the title track!

@alfredoooooooooooooooooooooooo

2 ай бұрын

astonishing may have a cheesy story but the songwriting and playing is amazing

honestly, idk if there was anyone ever who sang better than James of that era. he's not doing the operatic thing of the metal of the decade prior, his voice isn't thin like in classic prog rock. it's somehow natural, both clear but still substantial. it's interesting, as much as I'm drawn to DT's music as such, what keeps me away from other prog metal bands is their vocals cuz they all try to do that power metal shit, which I can't help but perceive as pretentious and fake. James is just authentic. Sorry Charlie, but DT made the right call with James.

How can this be a real audition if there are at least two james labries singing o.Ô ? (7:15)

@blackholesun2836

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they arranged it later

@TobiaTesan

4 жыл бұрын

I suppose they dragged JLB in the studio, recorded a demo, overdubbed a few things and decided they liked how this guy sounded overall?

@byom3100

4 жыл бұрын

@@TobiaTesan Exactly, I would rather call it a demo than an audition.

@camilomoreno6396

3 жыл бұрын

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@byom3100

3 жыл бұрын

@@camilomoreno6396 Thank you for this interesting comment :D

Our lives in 2024, why lord..why tell me why?

È bravo ma non si applica. Si distrae ed è poco preciso. Comunque le faremo sapere...😂

He's still an amazing singer, it's hard to sing this way LIVE.. James on his worst day is a king compared to Dave Mustaine lol

I think Labrie should be replaced. He's too old now and is struggling way too much to reach a mediocre at best level. I like the guy but even years ago he was off.

@DTArchive

5 ай бұрын

100% this. I don't get the people who act like he's entitled to remain in the band indefinitely because he was a good singer once. That's like saying Jeffrey Dahmer never turned into a serial killer because you can point to a time in history when he was not a serial killer.