As I was dressing at home, I heard excited voices from the TV in the other room. There was something that looked like a disaster movie on, and I switched it off. Twenty minutes later, I was walking through the back door of Laser’s Edge Compact Discs, ready to start the workday. Michael had arrived earlier, and had WBHM’s radio broadcast playing on the store audio system while he was trying to pull up a television signal on the store monitor. This was not a movie. Instead of a deserted store that day – as I would have expected – customers and neighboring merchants were coming in to talk and would linger in conversation longer than usual. It was a Tuesday, which is traditionally new release day in the music industry. Among the releases that day were Bob Dylan’s “Love and Theft” and a live album by Dream Theater that featured – in one of the most eerie and creepiest coincidences I have ever witnessed – a rendering of the World Trade Center in flames.
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1 Ann // Sep 22, 2014 at 6:19 PM
That is a creepy coincidence!
2 PHILIPPE // May 23, 2020 at 9:00 AM
On that particulat day, I was in Sacramento (California), I saw the news on TV in the morning, I was heading to the closer Tower Records store to pick up th awaited live album of Dream Theater. I bought it without noticing right away the cover’s freaky picture…as I was walking out the store, I realised what it was…I turned back to the cashier and told him about it, he was so surprised also…Th next day, the albums were off the shelves… Sad time
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