James LaBrie's Sons Of Apollo Audition

It's karaoke night at the nursing home again

[@dirkdiggler4567]

I met dream theater outside their tour bus in Columbus Ohio a few years back. It was during The Astonishing Tour. James Labrie literally complained about taking pictures with fans as he taking a picture with me. What a dick hole.

[@Nokturnum]

Happened to me exactly in Portugal back in 2007

[@blackgrizzly4987]

I get that they're human and you can get pissed at times and want to be left alone. But fans are often driving hours and hours just to see you life. Try to be kind ffs - even if it's just a facade...Have some respect. If he doesn't wanna stand in the limelight he should simply stop singing in DT and lead a private life.

[@blackgrizzly4987]

Don't become a musician and a quite famous one at that if you can't handle the music biz and be nice for 1-2 fckn minutes

[@toxendon]

What a magnificent piece of music! I'm so happy Labrie is still in the band!

[@linuxuser2142]

You lifted my mood up with this, thanks hahaha. Some 2017 vibes here indeed... Edit: I revisited this and it's more reminiscent of Axl Rose than labrie, lol..

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

I've been trying to find this again for years, absolutely kills mw

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

I keep coming back to this, it's so fucking funny

[@petew-berg7791]

My god this had me rolling.😂🤣🤣 thank you for this laugh

[@DanyNMacF]

this is the funniest thing I've heard in ages - thanks

[@johnhinks5018]

Really nailed the ridiculous vibrato and the totally unnecessary 'screams'. "Get out of my way, WOOOOOahhhh ahahah ahah!"

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

This singing is almost indistinguishable from the sort of drivel DT fanboys defend on a daily basis. A part of me wonders if they defend it precisely because they know it's awful... like they are.

[@MassReflux]

I swear to god, I need a music video adaptation XD

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

Sync it up with a JLB Cameo video.

[@ContemporaryCompendium]

Should get MeatCanyon to do it 😂

[@Inactive194]

Sounds like a drunk Mickey Mouse.

[@SEiMEi_EXiSTS]

So Axl Rose nowadays

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

I've never really listened to dream theatre but this channel is so fucking funny. Did you add the vocals yourself? Fucking great job. I've listened to this over and over, it's so funny

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

Me doing my best Grandma LaBrie impression

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 you're a comedic genius imo, I watched all your videos over and over and I'm not even into them

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 I'm gathering they DT are a bunch of assholed. They don't let musicians write their own parts. After decades of touring they won't allow a break to recuperate even after seeing what this has done to their singer. Lastly why does the singer look so fucking weird, he has this kinda If Voldemort mixed with worm tongue from LOTR and fuck ton of makeup. Jordan did a clinic at a local guitar centre when I worked there, I was around 23, I don't remember him being shifty or nice. His tour manager (note this was a one off) was an absolute cunt. We got the wrong chocolate from his Ryder (yes he had a Ryder for a clinic) and the guy almost had an heart attack, he also threw gear at any employee in distance to carry Jordan's shit in so god wouldn't have to risk his fingers

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

@@Livelaughlimpbizkit I heard a negative story about Jordan from someone who was friends with a tech for Rod Morgenstein (Winger's drummer, who was in something called The Rudess-Morgenstein Project). Basically, the accusation is that Rudess is super cheap, and likes hiring non-unionized amateurs to work for him, so he can get away with paying them as little as possible.

[@faberbootlegs]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 what do you mean? I've never heard that story

[@zedddddful]

Woah you even nailed the zero enunciation skill's.

[@geneticsmatter3834]

That’s honestly the part of LaBrie’s bad performances that I find the hardest to listen to

[@geneticsmatter3834]

Love the little delay throw at 0:45

[@ContemporaryCompendium]

Jesus 🤣🤣🤣

[@nb-dm7gm]

lol

[@MrTherocker101]

case and point.what about him in toto?

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

AH SHEEN THA REHNS DON IN AHHFREECA

[@faberbootlegs]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 Bobby Kimball was basically the LaBrie of TOTO

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

@@faberbootlegs Never paid attention to that band. Always seemed like a waste of talent to me... not unlike DT.

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

@luciferrrrr I'm only judging based on Africa, Rosanna, and Hold The Line which are their most well known songs. Seems very lightweight to me. Jeff Porcaro is a killer drummer though.

[@SafirLamkhantar]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 That's like judging Dream Theater based on Wither and I Walk Beside you. They have a few prog epics that are worth listening to. I would advise listening to these: Jake To The Bone, Home Of The Brave, Falling In Between.

[@alexandernilssonmusic]

Too much in tune to be JLB xD

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

You don't know that it's not auto-tuned though.

[@SEiMEi_EXiSTS]

Sounds more like the Dog Of Song

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

Tiring of William Langer's comments. Every single one is a contradiction passed off as subtlety. LaBrie sounds terrible... but I wouldn't say he's untalented. I think Jeff Scott Soto is a good singer... but I hate his voice. You're not as deep you think you are, bro.

[@aaronhenning5184]

I enjoyed Soto when he sang for Malmsteen. The live Sons of Apollo album really shows him struggling to still sing like he could back in the day. A lot of singers just didn't take care of their voices while they were young and it really shows

[@reactions4u438]

what do you think of Labrie on images and words?

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

@@reactions4u438 The vocals are outstanding other than being off-tempo on Wait For Sleep.

[@reactions4u438]

@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 which album do you think his vocals got bad ?

[@theravenskillrebelmilitia139]

​@@reactions4u438 Depends whether you're talking about live or studio vocals. I've always said that live, his vocals got unacceptably bad between 1999 and 2002. First studio album which is a major disappointment for LaBrie imo was The Astonishing. That album got hyped so much in terms of the vocals, but all of the character voices sound similar, and the album is full of pitch correction artifacts and badly-spliced together vocal takes.

[@Yeomannn]

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