
Mike Mangini started playing the drums when he was two and a half years old. He would practice two to four hours a day and by the time he was nine he was already mimicking Buddy Rich performances. By high school, he was performing in school bands and participating in the prestigious All-County, All-State, and all Eastern United States ensembles. After graduating from Waltham Senior High School in...
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A View from the Top of the World is the fifteenth studio album by progressive metal band Dream Theater. This acts as their first album to be recorded at their own studio, DTHQ (Dream Theater Headquarters), and their first since Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009) to include fewer than nine tracks. Additionally, it is their first album since Dream Theater (2013) to both contain a track of at least ten minutes in length and end with the longest track.

Recorded Feburary 2020 in London, during the band's much anticipated 'The Distance over Time Tour: Celebrating 20 years of Scenes from a Memory'.

Live at Budokan 2017 was a live TV broadcast that only aired in Japan on September 11, 2017. The broadcast was of Dream Theater's performance at the Nippon Budokan for their Images, Words and Beyond World Tour. The band had previously recorded another album, Live at Budokan, at this venue.

Live at Wacken 2015, open-air heavy metal music festival in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. Setlist: 1. False Awakening Suite 2. Afterlife 3. Metropolis Pt 1 4. Burning My Soul 5. The Spirit Carries On 6. As I Am 7. Panic Attack 8. Constant Motion 9. Bridges In The Sky 10. Behind The Veil

On March 25th, 2014, Dream Theater performed at the Boston Opera House with very special guests from the Berklee College of Music orchestra and choir. Filmed and directed by Pierre and François Lamoureux, and mixed and mastered by Richard Chycki.

Dream Theater at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan 1. Interviews 2. The enemy inside 3. Overture 1928 4. Strange Deja Vu 5. Pull me under
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Dream Theater at Knebworth Park, Knebworth, England The Enemy Inside The Mirror Lie On the Backs of Angels The Looking Glass Along for the Ride Overture 1928 Strange Déjà Vu Pull Me Under

Live at Luna Park is a live album/video by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on November 5, 2013 through Eagle Rock Entertainment. The concert film was produced by Over The Edge Productions and directed by Mike Leonard. The album is available on Blu-ray, a two DVD set and Blu-ray plus two DVD combo with three CDs and a Deluxe Edition with a 40-page book. The album will also be available on iTunes. The album was recorded over two nights at Luna Park Stadium in Buenos Aires. The DVD-Blu-ray will also feature a documentary as well as Behind The Scenes-footage. It is also the first Dream Theater live recording to feature drummer Mike Mangini, following Mike Portnoy's departure in 2010. Dream Theater are rocks supreme virtuosos with many awards to their name and here in concert they bring all the power and drama of their music to life with breathtaking performances of classic tracks from across their career.

Mike Mangini Audition Improv Jam Documentary

A little more than a month after original drummer Mike Portnoy's sudden departure from Dream Theater, the band held three days of auditions in New York City. Over an amazing and productive three-day period, the band played, jammed and spoke candidly with seven of the world's greatest drummers, learning about them musically, personally and professionally, and assessing the fit of each drummer's incredible chops with the band's trademark prog-rock sound. Dream Theater would like to share with its fans some of the intense process, along with the musical joy, that went into choosing a new drummer. Who is the best fit behind the kit?
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