Why Jordan Rudess Did not Anticipate Dream Theater to Win First-Ever Grammy

After being nominated for a Grammy 3 times, Dream Theater took residence their first win on April 3 on the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards. Keyboardist Jordan Rudess lately spoke to Andrew Daly of VWMusic concerning the win.

“I’ve to say that I did not actually count on to get it as a result of I used to be getting used to being nominated and never getting it,” he says. “The opposite purpose I believed we would not get it’s that Dream Theater is de facto prog steel, and we have been in a steel class. I imply, that was one of the best class for us, however I believed possibly the voters would kind of stick collectively in that extra conventional steel way of thinking.

“I used to be actually happy that we bought that type of recognition and validation, and it is the one award that positively makes a distinction,” he continues. “In a musician’s life, a Grammy can have an effect on your complete profession. It adjustments the way in which you do enterprise with folks, and the way in which folks cope with you. It is a actually large deal. I positively should say that it feels actually good. We’re using excessive over it for certain.”

The band have been nominated for Greatest Metallic Efficiency for “The Alien” from their 2021 album A View From The High Of The World. Their earlier nominations have been for “On The Backs Of Angels” from 2011’s A Dramatic Flip Of Occasions and the only “The Enemy Inside” from 2013’s Dream Theater.