Essential Dream Theater official bootlegs

I had overlooked those two early concerts, but they seem very promising, specially the Tokyo one, so I might want to try and check them out. I haven't logged into that page for buying the official bootlegs... I don't even know if it is still working since Portnoy left the band, so I don't know if I would still remember how to log in (username and password) and if I would still be active. The few things I got there include The Falling into Infinity Demos, which I did like a lot. The very best songs from the original album I still think are better on their final form, but there are several songs that indeed were ruined, or totally overlooked, on the final product. You or Me is great, despite never liking You not Me, as well as Burning my Soul being much better, and including Hells Kitchen as a middle instrumental section helps both songs to be more enjoyable to me. There's a few "new" songs that I do like, but I don't really understand why the producers wouldn't keep "Speak to me", I would think it might actually have worked as a single or for promoting for radio airplay. As for the Metropolis early draft, it's interesting, but not really that enjoyable... however, since DT seem to love doing medleys (which I generally dislike a lot), they might have used this draft for creating a Medley of that album on later tours (I might actually have ended up liking such a Medley). When Day and Dream Re-unite was actually rather underwhelming for me. I did expect more of it, and of LaBrie singing it (since I always thought Dominici was an even worse singer), but somehow LaBrie didn't really deliver nicely enough on that concert. And I really miss Kevin Moore on keyboards, and that 80's sound of the synths. On the other hand, the songs do sound heavier and the band more mature, so it's take some things and leave others. And about the Bucharest DVD, I had actually intended on buying it, but never came around to do it, so I might consider it once again. As for other essential official bootlegs... well, I don't know about essential, but I did get the covers live albums they did, and I did enjoy them well enough. There was the Dark Side of the Moon one, the Master of Puppets one (I guess the one I liked the least... since I don't actually like the original so much either, and I don't think the band delivered it the best way possible), the Number of the Beast one, the Made in Japan one, and the uncovered 2003-2005 collection of covers.

For me, their best official bootleg is the demos for the Falling into Infinity. As worthy as the album itself. 

^ Micky, you don't have to be sarcastic every time someone mentions DT here on PA. Everyone already knows how much you dislike this band...

Cristi is right of course. Sorry Pekka...  seeing a DT thread is like a red dress and heels to me. Takes willpower to avoid.. something I have very little of I'm afraid.