Well, I haven't burned my guitars yet! :) The show was as expected: simply amazing. I got to the venue (an old theatre, what a room...very cool vibe in the place) about 2.5 hours before doors and there were already ~50 people there. When they finally opened up, I hurried into the theatre and got a great position: dead center, about 10 feet back from the rail. Even better was that I was surrounded by people who were mostly shorter than me, so the view was really excellent.

This is DT's 20th anniversary tour so, naturally, they would do something special for this one. They opened the show with the first track from Octavarium, the new album, followed by another new song. After that, a 'rewind' sound came over the PA and the video screens showed their album covers and release years rolling back, ending at 1985 and their original logo when they were called 'Majesty'. The next song was the very first song they wrote. From then, they played a song from each consecutive album up through the epic combo of 'The Glass Prison' and 'This Dying Soul', then two more Octavarium songs, closing with the 24-minute title cut. The encore was a pair of songs (really, they work best as a pair) from Images and Words (1992). Between two sets and the encore, they played for about 2.5 hours.

Does James LaBrie ever stop getting better?! He hit every single high note and then some...the F# in 'Learning to Live', the G# or A(!) in 'Octavarium', and an improvised B (or higher!!) in 'Take the Time' that's just about the highest I've ever heard a male voice get. He owned everything. Wow. I hope (and don't doubt) that he'll be in the same excellent form on 4/1, when the tour's final show will be filmed for a DVD.

There were no major surprises from Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung and Rudess. Petrucci and Myung took a page out of the Steve Vai-Billy Sheehan book and spiced up their John-John pose by doing stunts like playing over the neck and fretting notes on each other's guitar. Rudess had one of those hulking small-room-size '70s synths, a lap steel and a Continuum Fingerboard (kinda like a giant ribbon controller, or what might happen if you made a slide keyboard)...he had a bunch of new tricks and used them very well. Portnoy's Albino Monster drumkit was huge as always, and Petrucci's three-quarter stacks (x4) had the 'underwater scene' art (with the octopus, five fish and Majesty symbol stop sign) from the Octavarium booklet airbrushed on the grilles...that was really cool. I was hoping to get a good photo of that work when the show ended and people emptied out, but the roadies came out as soon as the band left the stage. :(

Speaking of photos, I took a ton. :) 290, to be precise! Most were crap, but I whittled it down to 50-75 decent ones. I made a video slideshow with about 80 photos set to 'I Walk Beside You', an Octavarium cut that was in the set. I also took a few videos which didn't turn out as bad as I thought they would. I crunched one, the outro guitar solo of 'Octavarium', for your viewing pleasure. I've also put about 50 of the better photos in a Webshots album.
Links:
Webshots album
Slideshow movie, set to "I Walk Beside You"
"Octavarium" guitar solo
(Videos are encoded with the H264 codec for better quality/size; you'll need an H264-capable player such as VLC or QuickTime.)

Setlist:
In the Name of God outro (intro tape)
The Root of All Evil
Never Enough
Another Won
Afterlife
Take the Time
Innocence Faded
Peruvian Skies (w/Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) and Wherever I May Roam (Metallica) breaks)
Strange Deja Vu
--intermission--
The Glass Prison/
This Dying Soul
I Walk Beside You
Octavarium
--encore--
Wait for Sleep/
Learning to Live (w/extended guitar solo and jam)