Who determines who will open for Dream Theater on tour? Does Dream Theater pick the opening acts or are they “political” moves by the record labels?
MP: In the early days, before we “carried” an opening band – the club owners would just put local bands on the bill (we had nothing to do with them). From 1993 on, we decided what opening bands we would carry on tour with us (the Galactic Cowboys was the first time we did that). Although it obviously something I discuss with the other band members, management and our booking agent – usually it happens to be *me* who ultimately picks our opening acts.
