Well let's see instead of buying a new a guitar, I bought all of Dream Theater's cds and dvds (except When Dream and Day Unite but I hope to find that soon, and the Score cd set). I am listening to DT right now and look at my sig. Yeah best band ever. My brother is really into Rush and puts it on whenever we're in the car. I like some of their stuff but it's not completely my style. Pink Floyd is amazing and David Gilmour has the best guitar solos ever. Tool has some good stuff from what I've heard of them but all their songs sound the same.

The thing I love about DT is that they have progressed through different styles throughout the years. They started out mostly with more epic songs and are now completely heavy and very metal. They just need some more Kevin Moore piano songs (like Wait for Sleep or Space-Dye Vest) which Jordan Rudess isn't gonna give us because he was playing that kind of stuff at age 10 and has now moved onto shred, shred, pitch wheel, shred more, shred on Continuum, Shred. Yeah i can see why people don't like DT.

The one thing that really makes some prog bands stand out are the singers. You can tell a Rush song when you here when because of Geddy Lee's voiec and same with DT. People either love or hate James Labrie. I think he's great. The one thing that I always thought was funny is that the only time I ever realized that there is a person singing on Tool's Vicarious is when he gets to the climax ("Vicariously I live while the whole world dies" towards the end). I obviously knew there was someone singing but the voice just doesn't stand out.

In a world where the radio plays non-music (hip-hop and wannabe punk) prog is one of the better things to listen to (along with jazz).