Dream Theater finally played their 2009 track “The Best Of Times” live for the first time ever on March 22 at Radio City Hall in New York City, NY. The song is a particularly emotional one written by Mike Portnoy about his father, who had died from cancer at the age of 68. The Radio City Hall show was also Dream Theater‘s final show on their current 40th anniversary North American tour. The full show ran as follows:
- “Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper”
- “Act I: Scene Two: I. Overture 1928”
- “Act I: Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu”
- “The Mirror” (with “Lie” solo outro)
- “Panic Attack”
- “Barstool Warrior”
- “Hollow Years” (’96 demo version)
- “Under a Glass Moon”
- “The Dark Eternal Night”
- “Orchestral Overture”
- “Night Terror”
- “Midnight Messiah”
- “Vacant”
- “Stream of Consciousness”
- “Octavarium”
- “The Best of Times” (with Jonathan Dinklage)
- “Pull Me Under”
Source: metalinjection.net
