What About This? Dream Theater band and Twin Towers

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Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band.

The main influences are: Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Genesis, Queen, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Kansas, etc.

Live Scenes from New York is a 3 disc live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, recorded on August 30, 2000, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Live Scenes from New York are the live songs from Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory: the fifth studio album, released in 1999. It is a concept album that deals with the story of a man named Nicholas and the discovery of his past life, which involves love, murder, and infidelity as Victoria Page. It was recorded at BearTracks Studios in New York, where the band had previously recorded their second album Images and Words and the EP A Change Of Seasons. The album (Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory) is the sequel to "Metropolis, Pt. I: The Miracle and the Sleeper", a song previously featured on Images and Words album (1993)

Coincidentally Live Scenes from New York was originally released on September 11, 2001, but when it was noticed that the cover artwork depicted the skyline of New York, including the twin towers of the World Trade Center in flames, it was recalled and re-released a short time later. Some copies with the original artwork still exist, and are now a rare collectors item. The logo was based on a previous album cover, that had depicted a heart in flames. Since the concert was recorded in the band's hometown of the Big Apple, the logo was changed to a flaming apple.


What is striking is not only the name of the band: "Dream Theater" but also some of the names of the songs in the album as:

Disc 1
1 - Regression – 2:46 --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0kEa2D52Jw
2 - Overture 1928 - 3:32
3 - strange deja vu – 5:02 --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0PQ6GC6KYc
5 - Fatal Tragedy – 6:21 --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vq6NevcLOQ
10 - The Dance of Eternity – 6:24 --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dSztjpJNNk

Disc 2
1 - One Last Time – 4:11
2 - The Spirit Carries On – 7:40
3 - Finally Free – 10:59
4 - Metropolis Pt. 1 – 10:36
5 -The Mirror – 8:15
6 -Just Let Me Breathe – 4:02

Disc 3
3 - A Mind Beside Itself III: The Silent Man – 5:09
4 - Learning to Live – 14:02
5 - A Change of Seasons – 24:35

Do you think that here might have some clues about the downing of the towers, as well as Laura puts it in her book, but in this case through music? something similar happens to me when I hear "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" from Iron Maiden or "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd...

What do you thing about it?
 
Maybe it was a kind of reflection of what was going to happen, or maybe just coincidence, I remember a very famous Spaniard cartoonist (Ibáñez) that draw in 1993 a crashed plane in one of the twin towers:

_http://www.ramonmc.com/mortadelo/ibannezprofeta.html

But regarding this group, Dream Theater, I have to say that I like their music a lot, but I'm a little worried about their lyrics, because I think they present a mix of New Age ideas with some callings to violent uprisings against the bad new world order guys as in "Outcry". Of course I can be wrong, my understanding of english language is far from perfection :)

_http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dream+theater/on+the+backs+of+angels_20916377.html
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasnbzEMV08

_http://www.quedeletras.com/letra-cancion-this-is-the-life-bajar-139250/disco-a-dramatic-turn-of-events/dream-theater-this-is-the-life.html
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hs55-JBlPI

_http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dream+theater/outcry_20975663.html
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0_kBCvTH0

_http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=1596458
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GipraonNlNo

_http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=884649
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKi0Qcsgfg

What do you think guys?
 

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