Calling out Ola Englund
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Dream Theater fans who lambasted the trend of fake Instagram and TH-cam guitarists are in a bind, now that there is evidence of musical deception committed by LaBrie and Petrucci. I chose to make an example of Ola Englund in this video, but there are many others who are guilty of similar hypocrisy, including Become The Knight, Rick Beato, Nik Nokturnal, and Steve Terreberry.
To be clear, I think Ola is a good guitarist. I've liked his playing in every video of his I've ever watched. On the subject of Dream Theater, he had a blind spot.
To all of the folks saying "the Instagram video is obviously a joke," it's not obviously a joke, due to the sheer amount of crap that's been going on with this band since 2015-ish. If someone had told me 10 years ago that Dream Theater would make an album of warmed-over Disney musicals, and then LaBrie would start lip-syncing, I'd assume they were joking. You really can't put anything past this band at this point in time, and they never clarified the Petrucci video was meant to be a joke.
I agree with a lot of the points you make in most videos. But this video is obviously a joke or simply something meant to tease fans.
If you're referring to the Instagram video, it could be, but then you have the matter of the faked vocals at live shows.
Bro when i saw that video i literally laughed out loud at how blatantly sped up it is
Man I appreciate your determination in going against Dream Theater and JamesaBrie. I mean, I don't fucking get why you would do such a thing with such a dedication, but it has to be appreciated. I'm sure I'm gonna sound banal, why don't you just let go and enjoy some other music?
Look at the lame ass excuses put out by the band's fans, and you'll see why I keep going.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 yes, but even then, why do you care so much 😅
@@robertopinto8100 Because I care passionately about the truth and think our society has gone off the rails with the amount of dishonesty. Dream Theater is but one microcosm of that, of many more millions.
@@griffinrichardson715 EZ block
@@robertopinto8100 somebody needs to do it.
i completely get what you feel about the band but dude, just stop acting as they owe you a damn thing. just chill and enjoy the music they have written while they were in their prime. it's a live show, Petrucci has to play lots of complex stuff and everybody knows he's lip-syncing for ages. who cares? i personally don't and i wouldn't consider this as a problem. LaBrie should have quit the band when he was still a respected vocalist. overdubbing the vocals of the whole live album is just another level of "LaBrieing" but did he fake some of the lead vocals at the live shows? lol it's better for me. i already paid for a show in the summer and i don't want my ears to bleed. you can't theorize everything. i used to watch and dig all of your videos the time you were MrDreamTheater2 but the point is, you really should stop attacking the band in this way. looks just childish to me.
like Akerfeldt said once, people carry their favorite bands in their pockets as if they own them. anyways, On the Backs of Angels solo over The Enemy Insıde is fucking dope.
I care, plus i bet the majority of the fans doesn't realise this stuff is happening.
Keep the videos going, bro.
I don't get the DT fan argument that "I act like the band owes me something." I'm not asking for anything from the band but basic standards of honesty and respect.
@@sepita10 yeah and probably they won't realize but about the caring circumstance, i guess it all comes to personal perspective thingy. i'm a musician as well and i'm thinking if i had complicated guitar work similar to Petrucci's, i wouldn't even attempt to look like i actually sing. the backing vocal stems would just go in and go out and there wouldn't be a microphone in front of me. maybe that would be better tho, nobody claims they sing the backing vocals in that situation.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 i wouldn't define myself as a typical DT fan tbh.
A lot of fans or DT lovers act like the band owes something to them, it wasn't some sort of personal criticism. But with the videos you make, you act like they have to give an account of themselves. i'm trying to criticize you as neutral as possible since i'm neither a blind faith fan nor a hater.
@@thesmileofdawn In spite of playing highly complicated guitar parts, Petrucci DID used to sing backing vocals. It stopped when Mike Portnoy left the band.
I've seen some of these videos and footage from their latest live shows. It's CLEAR some things are being hidden on purpose and overdubbed, it's a shame but I can understand the reason for it.
it's sad though because it basically means Labrie is completely worn out and can barely sing at all, I wish he could take a long break and try to heal his voice but commercially I suppose they can't stop.
I don't believe these actions are done in order to deceive fans, I do believe they're trying their best to be professional towards the outside. I personally stopped listening to them almost 10 years ago.
It reminds me the mili vanili story where all of it was fake and it was discovered (there are different versions as to how it was discovered) and the Grammy was taken from them.
I don't believe anyone is going to take their glory and frankly I don't understand the purpose of the video.
TH-camrs have been enabling DT to get away with their crap. That's the point of this video.
Great to have you back!
At those recent shows LaBrie got a bit better, but they still fake that bridges in the sky part, even though he's now capable of singing it. What a travesty, I swear, I'd rather prefer LaBrie to sing with a real time pitch correction that seein him just fucking mimic singing and ape around the stage (even out of sync with the playback, lol)
I liked the new album personally and I’m just curious but did you like the new album? Probably not but I’m just curious cus I still like listening to the band but not any of their live performances although I did see them live for the first time recently and thought it was alright if maybe a bit too loud, I personally agree with most things on this channel like the lip syncing stuff and what not but I mean it doesn’t bother me as it might you cus I only like listening to the albums on Spotify but hey nothing wrong with disagreeing right?
Haven't listened and don't want to. In the few bits and pieces I heard, was turned off by the fake vocals, cheesy keyboards, and same monotonous guitar tone we've been hearing for 20 years from Petrucci.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 fair enough
Which bands do you listen to then if this isn’t your thing?
@@Fxsjwjw Anything but "prog metal," "djent," "-core," hip hop, modern country, or top 40 radio crapola.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 ah so like black metal and classic rock stuff like the Beatles and Elton John then?
The latter examples are sketchy but that vid of Petrucci was obviously fake to anybody with eyes I’m sure they made that satirically
It would be cool if you would do a rant on become the knight, probably the most pretentious guitar oriented youtuber, which isn't a surprise considering how big of a dream theater and "prog" fanboy he is... All the bands he despise or doesn't care about, like Black sabbath, Megadeth, Death or Voivod are million times more progressive and creative than any of the modern djent prog that he likes...i mean, he thinks it is cool to be self-proclaimed "music snob", even though being any kind of snob is a really bad thing.
I talk about him in my video called "Who Wrote Distance Over Time?" He doesn't interest me too much as a target, nor does Ola. There are so many opportunist idiots on TH-cam, so little time. I'm particularly irked by people who specialize in "reaction" videos, or grade-school level humor applied to rock and metal - Steve Terreberry, Jared Dines, Samus66, Bradley Hall types. One thing you'll notice about these fake ass "rock and metal TH-camrs" is that they rarely, if ever, take genuinely controversial stances on anything like I do. No balls. They just want to fit in.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 These"Fake Ass TH-camrs"???yeah they are all accomplished and kickass musicians..and obviously wayyyy more talented than you ever will.be..thats why they dont take on "Geniunely Controversial Stances"Like you do..
Coz u aint got the talent like they do..and hence you making all these videos...
Get A Life Dude.
Who the hell even listens to DT in 2022 ? They can play cardi b covers for what I care. Havent heard a consisten album from the since Train of Thought.
I constantly ask myself the question of who would still consider themselves a fan of this band after:
1. Really bad drum engineering on 2013 album
2. Live At Wacken
3. The Astonishing
4. Continuing farcical vocals from LaBrie
A lot of it is people who can't stop circle jerking on DT social media sites.
@@theravenskillrebelmilitia139 luckily I don't use social media , maybe apart from TH-cam, so I don't see that.
From what I see during their concerts , most of their public are musicians.
I do play guitar, but i go to the concert to listen to the music
As long as it's interesting, the performer can have a flop or two. I really don't mind.
The problem I have with DT is that , their music is no longer giving me any chills.
If I would dive into the technical aspects... Yes.. probably I would go ecstatic , but I approach them as normal listener who likes to listen to some story told with interesting sounds, and for the past 15 years I don't hear that in their music.
I think BC&SL was their last decent effort. Coincidentally their last record with Portnoy.
Anyway, the writing and melodies from I&W and Awake have never been reached again.
They became a show-off technique band, especially recently. The fanboys probably had something to do with it, with their constant hype and elitism for decades.
I still remember this comment "with Kevin Moore they were 100% Dream, after they became 100% Theater", or something like that. Wich isn't far from the truth.
@@livingbeing1113 That's a bastardized version of my saying "Moore was the Dream, Portnoy was the Theater." They were still a good band after Moore left, but they didn't 'have as many "dreamy" parts like Wait For Sleep, the intro of Surrounded, Space-Dye Vest, to name a few.