Originally published in Ytsejam.com · April 2003
Kevin Moore interview (excerpt)
InterviewKevin Moore2 min read
CL: Alright, if you don’t want to answer this one?
KM: Dream Theater?
CL: Yeah. Actually, this is my only one, I promise.
KM: That’s fine. Go ahead.
CL: Back when they were doing the CD, the “Live Scenes from New York,” I think Mike had asked you if you wanted to do “Space-Dye Vest” live and do two keyboards on “Learning to Live,” I think. At least that’s the word that got to me. Why did you not want to do that? And if he (Mike) asked in the future, now that you’ve worked in a kind of prog metal thing again, would you be interested?
KM: Well, the specifics of that I don’t really know about, but he did ask me to play a show with them. I know what you’re talking about. I don’t know, it just doesn’t sound like fun to play a 10-year-old song to a bunch of people that already know it. For what? Just a cameo appearance? I don’t even like it when I see other bands do it. “And now our old guitar player!” For one song. From Costa Rica to play that one song. It just seems silly. I really don’t have anything musical to offer. It’s not creative. It’s not fun.
CL: Well, I think a lot of people see it as their favorite Dream Theater songs. And it’s one of the only ones that has never been performed live.
KM: Well, from that point of view? But from my point of view, think about it. Would you really want to do it?
CL: So, it just wasn’t any sort of musical disagreement? It just was not worth all the effort?
KM: It’s not about the effort, the traveling. I don’t mind stuff like that. It’s just gratuitous. There’s nothing creative about it. There’s nothing I’m going to learn. There’s nothing I haven’t experienced before. I’ve played that song millions of times for people. It’s just going to be another time, and it doesn’t sound like an interesting project. This (OSI) was an interesting project, to do something and have a lot of fun with it. I’m not interested in just going up on stage and doing the reunion, just for old time’s sake.
CL: Basically, you’re more excited about moving forward than nostalgia?
KM: Yeah.