Once in a LIVEtime

Once in a LIVEtime
Cover art by Storm Thorgerson
Live album by Dream Theater
Released	October 27, 1998
Recorded	June 25, 1998 - Le Bataclan, Paris, France
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	2:34:09
Label	EastWest
Producer	Kevin Shirley
Dream Theater chronology
Falling Into Infinity (1997) Once in a LIVEtime (1998) Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)

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Once in a LIVEtime is a 2CD live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, and their second live release, which featured most of the songs from the 1997 album Falling Into Infinity recorded at the Bataclan, France and released in 1998.

The album cover, designed by Storm Thorgerson, shows an over head view of the ancient Roman theatre in Orange, France set into a man's head.

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"The Crimson Sunrise"	(instrumental)	Dream Theater	3:56
2.	"Innocence"	Mike Portnoy	Dream Theater	3:05
3.	"Puppies on Acid"	(instrumental)	Dream Theater	1:24
4.	"Just Let Me Breathe"	Portnoy	Dream Theater	5:53
5.	"Voices"	John Petrucci	Dream Theater	10:34
6.	"Take the Time"	Dream Theater	Dream Theater	12:20
7.	"Derek Sherinian Piano Solo"	(instrumental)	Derek Sherinian	1:54
8.	"Lines in the Sand"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	13:13
9.	"Scarred"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	9:27
10.	"The Darkest of Winters"	(instrumental)	Dream Theater	3:17
11.	"Ytse Jam"	(instrumental)	Petrucci, John Myung, Kevin Moore, Portnoy	4:09
12.	"Mike Portnoy Drum Solo"	(instrumental)	Portnoy	6:59

Disc two

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Trial of Tears"	Myung	Dream Theater	14:11
2.	"Hollow Years"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	7:01
3.	"Take Away My Pain"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	6:16
4.	"Caught In A Web"	James LaBrie, Petrucci	Dream Theater	5:16
5.	"Lie"	Moore	Dream Theater	6:45
6.	"Peruvian Skies"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	7:50
7.	"John Petrucci Guitar Solo"	(instrumental)	Petrucci	8:06
8.	"Pull Me Under"	Moore	Dream Theater	8:15
9.	"Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"	Petrucci	Dream Theater	6:16
10.	"Learning to Live"	Myung	Dream Theater	4:13
11.	"The Crimson Sunset"	Portnoy	Dream Theater	3:49

Covers and tributes

Dream Theater have often placed riffs or parts of other band's songs into their songs when playing live. On this album, there are several examples of this.

• Before the beginning of "Trial of Tears", John Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• The opening of "Trial of Tears" also contains portions of the Rush songs "Xanadu" and "The Trees".
• "Peruvian Skies" contains portions of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman".
• The end of "Take the Time" contains the outro solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" and the guitar riff from Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick".
• John Petrucci's guitar solo is composed almost entirely of Liquid Tension Experiment's "Acid Rain" and parts of "Paradigm Shift". It also contains a portion of "Solar System Race Song", Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" and The Godfather's Tarantella.
• Mike Portnoy's solo contains the intro to Dream Theater's own "6:00"
• The segue from "Just Let Me Breathe" into "Voices" features John Petrucci playing the first half of the Force Theme from "Star Wars".
• At the end of "The Crimson Sunset", the intro of "A Fortune in Lies" is played right before ending the show.
• Mike Portnoy's drum solo is essentially inserted into the last third of "Ytse Jam", which is cut short on the track listing but finishes in the last two minutes of the solo track.

Personnel

• James LaBrie - vocals
• John Myung - bass
• John Petrucci - guitars, backing vocals
• Mike Portnoy - drums, backing vocals
• Derek Sherinian - keyboards

Additional Personnel

• Jay Beckenstein - alto saxophone on "Take Away My Pain"

Chart performance

Billboard 200:

• Once in a LIVEtime - #157

Germany:

• Once in a LIVEtime - #59