Once in a LIVEtime

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Once in a LIVEtime is a live double album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1998. It is their first full-length live album, and their second live release. It was produced and recorded by Kevin Shirley during the European leg of the Touring into Infinity world tour, at the Bataclan theater in Paris.

Jay Beckenstein of Spyro Gyra plays alto saxophone on "Take Away My Pain." Beckenstein had previously played on the song "Another Day" on the album Images and Words.

The album cover, one of two designed by Storm Thorgerson for the band, shows an overhead view of the ancient Roman theatre in Orange, France set into a head of a monk. Like Falling Into Infinity it does not feature the band's word mark due to the artist's demand. When Dream and Day Unite and Dream Theater are the only other albums without the classic font.

Track listing

All music composed by Dream Theater except where noted.

Disc one

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

Disc two

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

Covers and tributes

Throughout the album, parts of songs originally recorded by other artists are played by the band.

• The segue from "Just Let Me Breathe" into "Voices" features John Petrucci playing the first half of John Williams' "Force Theme" from Star Wars.
• The ending of "Take the Time" contains the solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" and the main riff Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick."
• "Derek Sherinian Piano Solo" contains portions of "Platt Opus" by Platypus (a progressive rock supergroup to which Sherinian and John Myung were members).
• Before the beginning of "Trial of Tears", and at the end of the song, Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The opening of the same song contains portions of the Rush songs "Xanadu" and "The Trees" played by Mike Portnoy.
• "Peruvian Skies" contains portions of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman".
• "John Petrucci Guitar Solo" contains portions of Liquid Tension Experiment's "Paradigm Shift" and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee."

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