I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE BATON TWIRLERS DANCE TO DREAM THEATER

A song’s got to be pretty damned well-known to be played by a marching band. And though no Dream Theater songs have or ever will approach the ubiquity of a modern day marching band staple like “Iron Man,” that one of their songs is being covered by the Teal Sound Drum & Bugle Corps speaks to the band’s longevity and staying power. The complex arrangements of DT’s music make it suitable for marching band cover and I have to say these guys do a pretty good job of it, especially given some of those righteous time signatures. Although that metronome is annoying as fuck.

Apparently Teal Sound are a traveling independent troupe so it’s not like you’re gonna hear Dream Theater at your next Big Ten football halftime show (Go Blue!), but still, if I were a member of Dream Theater I’d be pretty damn psyched/flattered by this.

-VN

Thanks: Matt Hendler