Dream Theater - Rage Interview 1993

This is a very hard-to-find interview that Dream Theater did with an Australian-based TV show called Rage. I don't know exactly when or what venue this was recorded at. I unfortunately only have this interview in the form of a poor-quality mpg file, so this is unfortunately the best I can get this video to sound and look. It's still definitely worth watching though, as the interviewer asks the band very interesting things that I haven't heard many other interviewers mention, like DTs involvement with John Arch, and David Prater's influence on Images and Words. By the way, if you're wondering who the "one guy" is that Kevin talks about, who was supposed to be the bands' singer until James came along, that guy is Chris Cintron. He previously sang in a band called Reckless, and sang backing vocals on Twisted Sister's "Love is for Suckers" album.

[@HalenShredder]

I love how open Kevin was about the video. "Yeah, it makes literally no sense, and I had nothing to do with it, but it's whatever." I bet the label didn't appreciate him being honest, and that makes me love it even more.

[@soundman00]

So this is not footage from an Australian TV show, this show was a local cable access show from just outside of Boston MA called Whiplash TV, the venue it was recorded at was called Chapter 2 in Salisbury MA and it was recorded on Jan 9, 1993. I have the original copy of this somewhere, I was the host.

[@YesOkayButWhy]

Wow, cool!

[@DTArchive]

Never seen this one before. Thanks for posting.

[@chriscollins50]

Thank you for this!

[@munton5150]

Legends in the making

[@zakariahlafreniere1332]

The Mount Rushmore of musical genius from New Yawk. Yeah!

[@lizlorde3190]

Love seeing the boys.

[@sanjivharikumar]

Also, did John mention that "this guy named Slash" sat in front of them and looked like a weeping willow tree? Was Slash mostly under the GnR umbrella at the time, and thus was unknown alone or are they referring to someone else?

[@alkaratz52]

wow.

[@TheBlackQueen]

Didn't realise the phrase "Grindcore" was regularly uttered in 1993...interesting

[@todessehnsucht]

It was! Death Metal and Grindcore were kinda thrown together in the same pot!

[@TheBlackQueen]

@@todessehnsucht I think Napalm Death was really the band that made the distinction between the two when they played both genres but highlighting the Punk roots of Grindcore to separate it from the more Metallic Thrash-roots of Death Metal

[@thomaspollock8167]

Kool

[@alessandromininni8112]

Thanks for posting. You kinda could tell that Kevin was starting to drift off. He looks totally uninterested

[@powerbannk7719]

Not as uniterested as John Myung tho, nobody can beat John Myung :) The man was probably thinking "I just want to go home and practice my bass" Edit: typos

[@TheDarkEternalKnight07]

​@@powerbannk7719Myung is not uninterested, he is just shy.

[@numetalinkin]

Now we need the MTV video

[@sanjivharikumar]

I was browsing through youtube and I think it might be the unplugged concert they gave in 1992. Here's the intro: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SvgYitZrtjmZY It matches John's description of having to sit on a couch or so and clap so I am just perusing through these to see if I can spot DT.

[@sanjivharikumar]

Then again, they gave so many performances at MTV even before 1993, so it's hard to figure out which one.

[@numetalinkin]

@@sanjivharikumar The light in the video is unfortunate, even if it was we could not know lol

[@sanjivharikumar]

@@numetalinkin agreed. That's why I was wondering how the interviewer could have seen them then :(

[@danielkelley7548]

Portnoy: stfu back there. Silence.

[@paulgraves1392]

This is a very interesting interview- but I don't think this is Rage. For one thing, I don't recall DT ever touring Australia in 1993. The other thing is that Rage's format is primarily music videos selected by a guest host.

[@jamescross9692]

Honestly I don’t think any of them where interested lol in doing a interview I wouldn’t be lol

[@Bangyourbirdnumb]

Where was this filmed?

[@soundman00]

Sailsbury Massachusetts

[@ridehead8771]

JP here looks like Dave Grohl in 1993 lol