Who sings on the satiric “Wanted Dead or Alive” demo?
John Petrucci originally recorded this demo as a practice tape for one of his guitar students before IAW was released. The demo tracks laid down by John were recorded with guitar and a drum machine only and no added vocals. Eventually, Chris Collins, one of Dream Theater’s earliest vocalists got hold of the tape and decided to add some vocals of his own to the background music. The final result is the “heliumfest” you hear on the demo. [note: It was previously listed that Rich Kern (Kevin’s old roommate and programmer for “SDV”) did the vocals. Kern himself denied this in an email message and said it was Collins. There is an alternate source (the DT Tourography) that says Kern was at a DT show and admitted he did them.
