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Dream Theater

Back in the mid-‘70s, progressive rock bands were roundly criticized for their excessive displays of instrumental virtuosity, shifting time signatures, banks of synthesizers and fondness for concept albums. Rolling Stone magazine’s most prominent critic Lester Bangs went so far as to blame them for “the insidious befoulment of all that was gutter pure in rock.” Years later, bands like Radiohead would wince any time the term showed up in reviews.

Dream Theater’s founding guitarist and co-producer John Petrucci—whose band started out in the mid-1980s and is often described as progressive metal—has no problem with either term. Over the course of 16 albums, the group’s music has combined, and at times, transcended both genres. Dream Theater will perform Wednes

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