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Having been disappointed by the prolonged wait, Hitler is excited to finally be able to see Scenes From a Memory, the greatest album of all time, in full live. However, he is distraught when he discovers how short the tour is. Please bear in mind that many of Hitler's views on the band do not reflect my own and are used for comedic effect.

00:00 - 00:03 Dream Theater have just announced that next year

00:04 - 00:05 they will be touring Europe and

00:05 - 00:07 playing Scenes From a Memory in full.

00:08 - 00:12 The UK shows will finish the run at the end of February.

00:12 - 00:15 Tickets will go on sale on Friday at 1000 hours.

00:17 - 00:19 Good, get me lower balcony

00:19 - 00:21 seats for Manchester and Birmingham.

00:24 - 00:26 But sir,

00:27 - 00:28 they're only playing

00:31 - 00:33 London and Glasgow.

00:34 - 00:36 Ticket sales were too low in 2017.

00:53 - 00:58 Everyone whose favourite song is either Pull Me Under or Metropolis Part 1, leave now.

01:13 - 01:15 Are the promoters insane?

01:15 - 01:17 The new album got outstanding reviews.

01:18 - 01:23 And Scenes is enough to bring back even the most disillusioned fans.

01:25 - 01:28 They were playing Wembley 5 years ago!

01:29 - 01:31 This is the shortest UK tour since 2003

01:31 - 01:34 when Train of Thought came out.

01:34 - 01:37 At least that album was shit!

01:37 - 01:40 I'm glad I didn't get that album in full as half of a show.

01:40 - 01:42 Sir, many fans loved the heaviness of that album.

01:42 - 01:46 How can you have an album where only 3 minutes is a proper ballad?

01:46 - 01:48 They were trying to make a proper classic metal record.

01:48 - 01:52 Master of Puppets is a classic metal record!

01:53 - 01:54 That's not proper Dream Theater.

01:56 - 01:57 I just want to see Petrucci go

01:57 - 02:00 into bear mode on The Spirit Carries On one more time.

02:00 - 02:03 Is that too much for an old timer to ask?

02:04 - 02:08 Mangini hitting stuff from five feet away with three limbs tied behind his back.

02:08 - 02:13 The wizard playing all of his wacky gadgets and using his nose to play a solo.

02:14 - 02:16 Myung moving slightly once in a while!

02:17 - 02:21 They're all magnificent human beings with out of this world musicianship skills.

02:27 - 02:29 The current setlist is outstanding.

02:30 - 02:34 They're even finishing with a new song. A NEW SONG!

02:34 - 02:36 That kind of thing makes setlist nuts like me go wild.

02:41 - 02:42 They haven't played The Ministry

02:43 - 02:47 of Lost Souls for over a decade and I still give them my money.

02:48 - 02:53 I could handle missing that fantastic chronological 30th anniversary set in 2015 because they were

02:54 - 02:56 only doing European festivals that year.

02:56 - 02:59 I wasn't bothered about missing the two London Palladium shows in 2016

03:00 - 03:02 because they were only playing THAT album.

03:04 - 03:07 Don't worry, I liked The Astonishing too.

03:14 - 03:16 We may not even get the tickets anyway.

03:19 - 03:23 We'll have to hope for the best in the Eventim presale, bless their souls.

03:25 - 03:26 I hope the prices haven't gone up.

03:31 - 03:33 I could see 8 bands at the Eleven club for that kind of money.

03:40 - 03:46 I suppose it's not really the band's fault, they'd play even Millwall if they would get a big enough crowd.

03:46 - 03:49 Bring me the Chaos in Motion boxset.