Rudess on DT, Tarrytown, MindMeld, and MorphWizLast week before his show at Tarrytown, Jordan Rudess sat down with one of the guys from Altec Lansing, a speaker company. The interview covers a ton of topics, including Dream Theater.
Jordan says that Marco Minnemann, who recently played with Rudess at the Musical Mind Meld online concert was one of the guys to try out for the Dream Theater drumming job.
“I knew about Marco for a while and I always wanted to work with him,” said Rudess, “but recently we had auditions for the Dream Theater drumming gig and Marco came down and I met him there. I was really blown away by his playing, I just related to where he was coming from.”
On the new drummer: “I’m telling everybody to just chill out and the information will come at a time that’s the right time,” he said. “There’s many different levels of balancing that’s deeper than most people know, but it’s going to be fun to announce when we can and all is well in Dream Theater land.”
When asked if the guys had previously known the drummer Rudess declined any further comment on the subject.
As for Dream Theater in the studio he said, “We’re writing, it’s gotta happen first.”
Jordan also gives a complete rundown of the Tarrytown show, some background on how the Mind Meld Show came together, and a demo of MorphWiz. Jordan also added that the Tarrytown show was recorded, “We’ll see what happens, but if it doesn’t get recoded tonight in a way that’s something I want to release, I’ll certainly make it available when the time is right.”
You may recall that a few weeks ago, Blabbermouth said that Minnemann was not selected for the job. At this point though, who knows?
A few weeks before that, James LaBrie said “When ourselves, management, the label, and everything like that have deemed it the appropriate time, then at that point it’ll go out and everyone will know instantaneously.” So while frustrations rise that we have to wait longer to hear who it is, keep in mind that it’s not totally up to the band.
In DT-in-studio news, John Petrucci tweeted last night, “Our first month in the studio has been tremendous! I am so psyched about how the songs are turning out so far.”----------------------
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