Drummer has shared the playlist he's compiled for 's 40th anniversary tour. after leaving in 2010, has traditionally been responsible for the music the audience hears before Dream Theater take to the stage. Among the tracks on the playlist are the opening by fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy, 's epic , and two songs from electronic jazz-funk duo Knower, including last year's excellently-titled single.
"One of the things I love doing for all of the bands and tours I’ve ever done is programming all of the pre-show house music," says Portnoy. "Here’s what attendees of the DT40 shows have been listening to leading up and to start the show every night." Snarky Puppy - Lingus The Flaming Lips - Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung Air - Playground Love Frank Zappa - Fifty-Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7) Knower - Do Hot Girls Like Chords The Pillbugs - Thou Doth Warm Me (Like The Sun) Biffy Clyro - Cop Syrup Beck - Lonesome Tears Sonoride - Vagabond Avenue Chris Cornell - Follow My Way Queens Of The Stone Age - The Vampyre Of Time And Memory Muse - Sing For Absolution Jack White - Lazaretto Knower - It's All Nothing Until It's Everything Opeth - To Rid The Disease Mr.
Bungle - Ars Moriendi After this selection, the audience hears – a regular Portnoy choice during his first tenure in Dream Theatre – before the intro tape proper (the title theme of Bernard Herrmann's score for the classic Alfred Hitchcock horror movie ) gets everyone in a celebratory mood. The entire playlist is embedded be.
