[Dream Theater / Tiles soundcheck Rush jam session]

As I've mentioned before, prog-metal band Dream Theater are huge Rush fans and often play Rush covers during their live shows. Drummer Mike Portnoy and friends (Paul Gilbert, Sean Malone, and Jason McMaster) even performed an entire Rush tribute show last year in Chicago which, as I recently posted, will be available on CD and DVD soon from MikePortnoy.com. Another prog-rock band that are huge Rush fans is Tiles from Detroit, MI who have worked with former Rush producer Terry Brown. In 1999 Tiles toured with Dream Theater in Europe. I recently located a video on YouTube of a soundcheck Rush jam session involving members of both bands. You can watch it here. The author explains the video:

Chris Herin [Tiles guitarist] and Mike Portnoy [DT drummer] ran through more Rush tunes with John Petrucci [DT guitarist] on bass and Pat DeLeon screeching an occasional vocal. Then some Zeppelin and improvisation before Jeff Whittle joined on bass for a Police medley.
"The place was so small that people could hear our sound check jam from outside the venue," says Chris Herin. "It was kind of funny because the doors were not opened yet, but the crowd applauded after each song we did. Most of it's captured on video and is fun to watch. I wish James Labrie or Paul Rarick would've ventured out for some vocals!"

The YouTube video is a shortened version. You can obtain the full 12-minute version from the author, anjilinexile.

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