Interview With Master Musician Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater

Dreamtheater keyboardist Jordan Rudess

Interview With Master Musician Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater PT 1

The Wizard

I would like to introduce you to a master musician with over 30 years of experience which began at The Juilliard School, the keyboardist for the world famous progressive rock band Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess.
http://www.jordanrudess.com
http://www.myspace.com/jordanrudess
http://www.dreamtheater.net
http://www.myspace.com/dreamtheater

Here is a sample of Dream Theater live, with a lot of focus on Jordan’s live performance.

Interviewer: Jewish Mayhem
Video: James Dowdell: http://www.bonetrigger.ca
Location: Pantages – Toronto, ON, CAN
date: fri, aug, 14th
Interview arranged by Christopher Buttner http://www.prthatrocks.com/
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Jordan Rudess is in my opinion one of most talented and innovative rock musicians alive today, which is a pretty bold statement to make, however as you will see this from the interview and from the youtube video of a Dream Theater performance, he is a very talented, intelligent, concise, and a very progressive, future-now kind of thinker.

Jewish Mayhem had the amazing opportunity to meet “The Wizard” and to interview him before the Dream Theater concert later that day at the Molsons Ampitheater, to a completely sold out, capacity crowd. He was very generous to Jewish Mayhem with his time and patient with my mayhem and gave to me and to you, a special, live performance and demonstration of one of his projects: the JR Hexatone Pro – a unique iPhone sound sequencing app, which you can acquire here: JR Hexatone Pro . Jordan uses the Hexatone live on stage during Dream Theater’s performances, which I was able to see live that night, and the entire capacity crowd was completely mezmerized by his masterful, 21st century musical performance from beginning to the end.

Here is Jordan’s promotional video for the JR Hexatone

I was blessed to get a very rich Dream Theater experience from sitting in the 3rd row, courtesy of Jordan himself, and then to go backstage after the show to the musicians lounge to thank Jordan again and to also meet rest of the band, and as it so happened, members of other bands such as Big Elf.

Enjoy!
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