Editing Once in a LIVEtime (section)

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{{Short description|1998 live album by Dream Theater}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Once in a LIVEtime
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Dream Theater]]
| cover      = dream theater oialt.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = October 27, 1998
| recorded   = June 25, 1998
| venue      = Le Bataclan (Paris, France)
| studio     =
| genre      =
*[[Progressive metal]]
*[[progressive rock]]
| length     = 154:09
| label      = [[Elektra Records|EastWest]]
| producer   = Kevin Shirley
| prev_title = [[Falling into Infinity]]
| prev_year  = 1997
| next_title = [[Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory]]
| next_year  = 1999
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/once-in-a-livetime-mw0001967260 |title=Once in a LIVEtime - Dream Theater &#124; AllMusic |first=Greg |last=Prato |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=129}}</ref>
}}
'''''Once in a LIVEtime''''' is the second live album by American [[progressive metal]] band [[Dream Theater]], released in 1998. It is their second live release. It was produced and recorded by [[Kevin Shirley]] during the European leg of the Touring into Infinity world tour, at the [[Bataclan (theatre)|Bataclan]] theater in [[Paris]].

[[Jay Beckenstein]] of [[Spyro Gyra]] plays alto saxophone on "Take Away My Pain". Beckenstein had previously played on the song "Another Day" on the album ''[[Images and Words]]''.

The album cover, one of two designed by [[Storm Thorgerson]] for the band, shows an overhead view of the [[Théâtre antique d'Orange|ancient Roman theatre in Orange]], France set into a head of a monk. Like ''[[Falling into Infinity]]'' it does not feature the band's traditional logo due to Thorgerson's distaste in working with existing band logo designs. ''[[When Dream and Day Unite]]'' and ''[[Dream Theater (album)|Dream Theater]]'' are the only other albums without the classic font (although the font can be seen on the spine of ''Dream Theater'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dreamtheater.net/discography/once-in-a-livetime/|title = Once in a LIVEtime}}</ref>