Including my own”, Weezer’s River Cuomo best summed it up. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. And I do believe I missed out on much in my teenage years because I didn’t listen to good music – “Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana’s music. It was only years later that I understood that that truly was the last rock ‘n’ roll revolution. Sure, I heard Nirvana songs all the time and I am the one who bought my brother all their albums, but I didn’t listen, I didn’t want to listen, I didn’t know what to do with their music yet. Yes, I spent the best years of my life (in terms of forming my musical culture) listening to bad music, the kind that said nothing to me, that meant nothing to me, that did not help me figure me out and shape my personality, all those things music is supposed to do.
In our teens, my brother used to listen to Nirvana and I listened to crap. Kurt Cobain photographed by Charles Peterson Today I am taking the time to acknowledge some of the photographers who, through their passion for music and talented eye, have helped create the visual identity of rock music and of three of the most extraordinary musicians this world has known. They have played a major role in creating the image of our favourite or most influential musicians, and that image has been taken for granted without much acknowledging the photographer who took it. We were in a van and it was like frickin showering at the venues and living dirty and man, rock 'n' roll for sure.There are countless rock & roll images that are burnt in the public’s collective memory. And we started that tour September 27, 1992. It initially went gold, and then it went on to sell two million albums, right? Worldwide, 8,000 albums! And I remember when we started that tour on September 27, and you can ask the guys in the band, I've got this uncanny memory for like where we were, what we were doing when we did it. If "Pull Me Under" hadn't gone through the roof… I don't know if you're aware of these facts, but when Images and Words was released, the label put out, distributed, 8,000 copies.
Let's put it this way man, you and I wouldn't be talking today if that hadn't happened. It's Dream Theater's highest seller and obviously "Pull Me Under" was the highest charting single in the mainstream. I know there was a huge audition process for the new vocalist, and then you move into the creation of this record, which was through the latter part of 1991 and then released in summer 1992. Images and Words marked your start in the band. But 30 years, it's like what the hell is going on? If someone was to say yeah, that was 10 years ago, OK, that registers in my head. And it just blows my mind because when we talk about stuff like this as a band we're like, it doesn't feel like it. Like if somebody had said to me in 1992, 'Hey, man, check this album out, it's from 1962,' I would have been like 'what the fuck are you talking about?' And the thing is it's just hard to fathom. Well, it definitely put us on the map for sure.
It really blew me away that this will be, this July, 30 years of Images and Words, which for many fans is the definitive Dream Theater album. During a recent sit down with LaBrie in promotion of his latest solo effort Beautiful Shade of Grey, the long-time voice of Dream Theater dove into the ground-breaking and game-changing record for the band, one driven by fan support as opposed to record-company machinery, and one that changed the lives of he and his bandmates forever.
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