#284: Dream Theater Keyboardist Jordan Rudess

Dream Theater keyboardist and solo artist Jordan Rudess is our
guest this week. We discuss his new solo album Wired for Madness
and how he finds time for his own material within Dream Theater’s
busy schedule, how blues influenced the album, the importance
of using musical elements that make people smile in contrast to the
heavy stuff and the importance of the visual aspect of the album's
title track. We also talk Dream Theater: if the polarizing response
to The Astonishing played a part in the direction of their new
album Distance Over Time, celebrating the 20th anniversary of
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, the difficulty of finding
all the sounds he used on the original recording to replicate live,
and at what stage in his life he discovered he needed to be a
creative person. Petar and Jozalyn tackle the church burnings in
Louisiana, David Hasselhoff making metal songs, how Knight Rider
would make a great concept for a metal album, Hot Topic somehow
still thriving in the modern climate, the release of Oli Herbert’s
cover of a Eurythmics song, his widow's strange behavior after that
release, and the ongoing campaign to name the recently-photographed
black hole after Chris Cornell. Songs: Jordan Rudess - “Why I
Dream” Dream Theater - “Fall Into The Light” Dream Theater -
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