CHRISTMAS CD 2000 - SCENES FROM A WORLD TOUR

On this live "album", LaBrie try to mime the rude Ozzy style to introduce the some tracks ("d'ya wanna hear some more sh.t" ?)... Since it is a "Christmas" present to their fans, one cannot compare this mini-album (almost an hour) with a true live "DT" albums. Well, yes and no.

It features the same and poor self-indulgence already to be noticed on "Once In A Livetime". Never-ending soli : Petrucci (on both acoustic and electric guitar : over ten minutes, and it has been cut. Totally insipid) and Rudess (at times classical). There are lots of short medleys (not as good of course as the one that was available on their previous EP : "Through Her Eyes" and recorded in Brussels).

The worse is of course " What Did They Say, Wipeout, Canadian Rap" : absolutely awful. Very short bits and bites of excerpts from several concerts. Absolutely useless. Since LaBrie sounded like Ozzy in the intro it's about normal that "DT" plays a cover from this band. "War Pigs". One of the "Sabbath" anthems. Poorly rendered here.

To be complete, I would say that the sound is not great (while it was on the live part of "Through Her Eyes") and that LaBrie sounds rather weak for most of the time (just listen to "The Spirit Carries On", the short moment during which it is a song since they will need to stop the show during this song. Ordered by the police).

I also wonder why most of the "songs" are featured when they had already started...

All these great "characterisitcs" make this (non)-release a fully completionist item. One very little star.