The Unofficial John Myung Page


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SITE DIRECTORY
Want to hear John playing? SOUND FILES here.
Lots of BASS TAB of John's music!
Read some ARTICLES on John, his instruments and his playing.
See some PHOTOS of John and his basses here.
Info on John's INSTRUMENTS and equipment.
See John Myung's DISCOGRAPHY.
Read some LYRICS written by John Myung.


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Sound Files of John's Bass Playing

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"Metropolis-Part I" bass solo
"Scarred" intro (coming soon)
"New Millenium" intro (coming soon)
"Lines in the Sand" bass riff


The Music of Myung
DREAM THEATER
Here are some Bass TAB files of Dream Theater songs (in .txt format):

WHEN DREAM AND DAY UNITE
-"A Fortune in Lies"
-"Status Seeker"
-"Ytsejam"
-"The Killing Hand"
-"Light Fuse and Get Away"
-"After Life"
-"The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun"
-"Only a Matter of Time"

IMAGES AND WORDS
-"Pull Me Under"
-"Another Day"
-"Take the Time"
-"Surrounded"
-"Metropolis-Part I"
-"Metropolis-Part I; Bass Solo"
-"Under A Glass Moon"
-"Wait for Sleep"
-"Learning to Live"

AWAKE
-"6:00"
-"Caught in a Web"
-"Innocence Faded" (chords)
-"A Mind Beside Itself: I. Erotomania"
-"A Mind Beside Itself: II. Voices"
-"A Mind Beside Itself: III. The Silent Man" (chords)
-"The Mirror" (version 1)-(version 2)
-"Lie" (chords)
-"Lifting Shadows Off a Dream"
-"Scarred"
-"Space-Dye Vest"
-"Eve"("Silent Man" single)

A CHANGE OF SEASONS (EP)
-Part I: "The Crimson Sunrise"
-Part II: "Innocence"
-Part III: "Carpe Diem"
-Part IV: "The Darkest of Winters"

FALLING INTO INFINITY
-"New Millennium" Intro
-"You Not Me"
-"Peruvian Skies"
-"Hollow Years"
-"Burning My Soul"
-"Hell's Kitchen"
-"Lines in the Sand"
-"Take Away My Pain"
-"Just Let Me Breathe"
-"Anna Lee"
-"Trial of Tears"

Non-album Tracks
-Solar Groove

PLATYPUS
-(Coming soon)

(More to come!)


Articles about John Myung

Articles about John Myung
Bass Frontiers, Nov/Dec 1997
Bass Player, January/February 1994
Bass Player, April 1998
Guitar School, November 1994 (Coming Soon)
Heavy Metal at the Mining Co., June 1998
Images and Words (official fanclub newsletter) John Myung Interview, Issue #13
SHOCKWAVES Magazine (Hard Radio) 1997
Gitarre & Bass Magazine, 12/98 Platypus Interview (w/Ty Tabor)

Articles by John Myung
Bass Player, August 1998 (DEEP SIX #1)
Bass Player, October 1998 (DEEP SIX #2)
Bass Player, December 1998 (DEEP SIX #3)

Misc.
IRC Chat with John Myung and Mike Portnoy.(edited version)

Album reviews
Bass Player, Falling Into Infinity Review, January 1998
"Progressive Bass Concepts" review by Roger Newell


Photos of John!


Here's a picture of John. It's from the album liner of "A Change of Seasons".
Enter the PHOTO GALLERY to see a LOT more photos.


John's Instruments and Equipment

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Equipment list from Guitar Shop 1995.


The John Myung Discography

ARTIST ALBUM TITLE
Dream Theater When Day and Dream Unite (1989)
Dream Theater Images and Words (1992)
Dream Theater Live at the Marquee (1993, EP)
Dream Theater Awake (1994)
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons (1995, EP)
Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity (1997)
Platypus When Pus Comes To Shove (1998)
John Myung on Video
ARTIST TITLE
Dream Theater Images and Words: Live in Tokyo

(distributed by ATCO/Avision, 1993)

John Myung Progressive Bass Concepts

(distributed by Rittor Music/Warner Bros. 1996)


Lyrics written by John Myung
(from various Dream Theater albums)
LYRICS


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This page copyright (c)1998-1999 by Trevor Purchase.
This page was created by Trevor Purchase using Microsoft Notepad. Last updated 07/April/1999.


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