Best Heavy Metal Band of all time. (Do people still listen to metal?)

faceman said

VH1 had an excellent documentary on Ozzie. His wife told a great story about Rhodes. Rhodes showed an interest in
guitar at an early age. His mother signed him up for lessons with a teacher in classical guitar. A few weeks later the
teacher cut him from class and told his mother " I cannot teach him any more". Rhodes was born with "it". To quote
one of Ozzy's lyrics he was a bad bad boy. He left us way to early just like Hendrix

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Yeah, he was brilliant, it would have been nice to see how he evolved and how dynamic he would have become. It speaks volumes that (my personal favorite) Steve Morse formed a tribute band to honor him....(Living Loud).....

Poison said

I also can’t work out if I like Dream Theater or not. Some days I do and some days I don’t. I like Mike Portnoy but sometimes I feel like they’re the musical equivalent of a director trying to make an arthouse action movie.

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Portnoy has been out of the band since like 2010 I think....I really liked their more proggy period (Scenes From a Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence) which was heavily influenced by Portnoy. I don't care for much of anything else they have done.

As far as musicianship they are way more advanced/dynamic than most metal bands. Petrucci is incredible but I've always found his playing a big stiff (we share Morse as a favorite player).....Rudess is an incredible keyboardist, I saw him play an acoustic show and he did unbelievable covers of old Yes/Genesis/ELP songs....a lot of talent in that band but something doesn't seem quite right chemistry wise....