I have a friend who is a Super UBER Fan of DT, he also his a pretty decent guitarist and plays some DTs stuff. I play Bass guitar and appreciate good musicians , I love Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and others like John Petrucci. Being a bassist, DTs John Myung is pretty damm good, but I don't own an 8 string bass, so I can't even attempt to play it. I have seen them live once and they put on a good show. My only beef is the extremely long and repetitive virtuoso songs. Yes, it's amazing playing, but after 12 minutes, and after a whole album of 8 to 12 minute songs, I get bored, it get's tedious and boring. To much of a good thing. I will say that the only album I liked so much I actually purchased it was the last one, Octovarium. The songs are shorter and some songs are more accessible but by no means is this "poppy" radio play stuff.
Awsome music, but in small doses for me.
My 2 cents..
Cheers
