From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Once in a LIVEtime
Live album by Dream Theater
Released	October 27, 1998
Recorded	June 25, 1998 - Le Bataclan, Paris, France
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	154:13
Label	EastWest
Producer(s)	-
Professional reviews
Allmusic link
Dream Theater chronology
Falling Into Infinity (1997)	Once in a LIVEtime (1998)	5 Years in a LIVEtime (1998)

Once in a LIVEtime is a 2CD live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, recorded at the Bataclan in France and released in 1998.

Once In A LIVETime is Dream Theater's 2nd live release featuring most of the songs from the 1997 album Falling Into Infinity. Shortly after the release of this album, Derek Sherinian was replaced by Jordan Rudess.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 2 Miscellanea 3 Personnel 4 Chart performance

1. "A Change of Seasons I: The Crimson Sunrise" – 3:56
2. "A Change of Seasons II: Innocence" – 3:05
3. "Puppies on Acid" – 1:24
4. "Just Let Me Breathe" – 5:53
5. "Voices" – 10:34
6. "Take the Time" – 12:20
7. "Derek Sherinian Piano Solo" – 1:54
8. "Lines in the Sand" – 13:13
9. "Scarred" – 9:27
10. "A Change of Seasons IV: The Darkest of Winters" – 3:17
11. "Ytse Jam" – 4:09
12. "Mike Portnoy Drum Solo" – 6:59

1. "Trial of Tears" – 14:11
2. "Hollow Years" – 7:01
3. "Take Away My Pain" – 6:16
4. "Caught in a Web" – 5:16
5. "Lie" – 6:45
6. "Peruvian Skies" – 7:50
7. "John Petrucci Guitar Solo" – 8:06
8. "Pull Me Under" – 8:15
9. "Metropolis" – 6:16
10. "Learning to Live" – 4:13
11. "A Change of Seasons VII: The Crimson Sunset" – 3:49

Dream Theater have often placed riffs or parts of other band's songs into their songs when playing live. On this album, there are several examples of this.

• Before the beginning of Trial of Tears, John Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• Peruvian Skies contains portions of Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar and Metallica's Enter Sandman.
• The end of Take the Time contains the outro solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird and the guitar riff from Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick.
• John Petrucci Guitar Solo is almost entirely comprised of Liquid Tension Experiment's Acid Rain and parts of Paradigm Shift.
• The segue from Just Let Me Breathe into Voices features John Petrucci playing the first half of the Force Theme from Star Wars.

• James LaBrie - vocals
• John Myung - bass
• John Petrucci - guitars
• Mike Portnoy - drums
• Derek Sherinian - keyboards

Billboard 200:

• Once in a LIVEtime - #157

Germany:

• Once in a LIVEtime - #59

Dream Theater
James LaBrie | John Myung | John Petrucci | Mike Portnoy | Jordan Rudess
Chris Collins | Charlie Dominici | Kevin Moore | Derek Sherinian
Discography
Albums and extended plays: When Dream and Day Unite | Images and Words | Awake | A Change of Seasons | Falling into Infinity | Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | Train of Thought | Octavarium | Systematic Chaos
Live albums: Live at the Marquee | Once in a LIVEtime | Live Scenes from New York | Live at Budokan | Score
Videos and DVDs: Images and Words: Live in Tokyo | 5 Years in a Livetime | Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York | Live at Budokan | Score
Songs: Pull Me Under | Another Day | Metropolis | A Mind Beside Itself | The Glass Prison | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | Stream of Consciousness | Instrumedley
Related articles
History of Dream Theater | Jelly Jam | Liquid Tension Experiment | MullMuzzler | Nightmare Cinema | OSI | Platypus | Transatlantic | True Symphonic Rockestra | YtseJam Records
This box: view • talk • edit