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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>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc one
| extra_column = Original album
| all_music = Dream Theater, except where noted
| title1 = A Change of Seasons I: The Crimson Sunrise
| lyrics1 = (instrumental)
| extra1 = ''[[A Change of Seasons]]''
| length1 = 3:56
| title2 = A Change of Seasons II: Innocence
| lyrics2 = [[Mike Portnoy]]
| extra2 = ''A Change of Seasons''
| length2 = 3:05
| title3 = Puppies on Acid
| lyrics3 = (instrumental)
| extra3 = N/A
| length3 = 1:24
| title4 = Just Let Me Breathe
| lyrics4 = Portnoy
| extra4 = ''[[Falling into Infinity]]''
| length4 = 5:53
| title5 = [[A Mind Beside Itself#"II. Voices"|Voices]]
| lyrics5 = [[John Petrucci]]
| extra5 = ''[[Awake (Dream Theater album)|Awake]]''
| length5 = 10:34
| title6 = Take the Time
| lyrics6 = Dream Theater
| extra6 = ''[[Images and Words]]''
| length6 = 12:20
| title7 = Derek Sherinian Piano Solo
| note7 = music: [[Derek Sherinian]]
| lyrics7 = (instrumental)
| extra7 = N/A
| length7 = 1:54
| title8 = Lines in the Sand
| lyrics8 = Petrucci
| extra8 = ''Falling into Infinity''
| length8 = 13:13
| title9 = Scarred
| lyrics9 = Petrucci
| extra9 = ''Awake''
| length9 = 9:27
| title10 = A Change of Seasons IV: The Darkest of Winters
| lyrics10 = (instrumental)
| extra10 = ''A Change of Seasons''
| length10 = 3:17
| title11 = Ytse Jam
| lyrics11 = (instrumental)
| note11 = music: Petrucci, [[John Myung]], [[Kevin Moore]], Portnoy
| extra11 = ''[[When Dream and Day Unite]]''
| length11 = 4:09
| title12 = Mike Portnoy Drum Solo
| lyrics12 = (instrumental)
| note12 = music: Portnoy
| extra12 = N/A
| length12 = 6:59
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| extra_column = Original album
| title1 = Trial of Tears
| lyrics1 = Myung
| extra1 = ''Falling into Infinity''
| length1 = 14:11
| title2 = Hollow Years
| lyrics2 = Petrucci
| extra2 = ''Falling into Infinity''
| length2 = 7:01
| title3 = Take Away My Pain
| lyrics3 = Petrucci
| extra3 = ''Falling into Infinity''
| length3 = 6:16
| title4 = Caught in a Web
| lyrics4 = [[James LaBrie]], Petrucci
| extra4 = ''Awake''
| length4 = 5:16
| title5 = Lie
| lyrics5 = Moore
| extra5 = ''Awake''
| length5 = 6:45
| title6 = Peruvian Skies
| lyrics6 = Petrucci
| extra6 = ''Falling into Infinity''
| length6 = 7:50
| title7 = John Petrucci Guitar Solo
| lyrics7 = (instrumental)
| note7 = music: Petrucci
| extra7 = N/A
| length7 = 8:06
| title8 = [[Pull Me Under]]
| lyrics8 = Moore
| extra8 = ''Images and Words''
| length8 = 8:15
| title9 = [[Metropolis—Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper"|Metropolis]]
| lyrics9 = Petrucci
| extra9 = ''Images and Words''
| length9 = 6:16
| title10 = Learning to Live
| lyrics10 = Myung
| extra10 = ''Images and Words''
| length10 = 4:13
| title11 = A Change of Seasons VII: The Crimson Sunset
| lyrics11 = Portnoy
| extra11 = ''A Change of Seasons''
| length11 = 3:49
}}

==Actual setlist==
The actual setlist of this concert was: (as taken from Portnoy's concert database<ref>http://mikeportnoy.com/dates/MPTourography/ShowInfo.aspx?showId=439 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>)
(a / means "segueing into")
*A Clockwork Orange (Intro Tape) (not released)
*The Crimson Sunrise
*Innocence
*Puppies on Acid
*Just Let Me Breathe
*Burning My Soul (only released on ''5 Years in a Livetime'' VHS/DVD)
*Voices
*Under a Glass Moon (not released)
*Piano Solo
*Lines in the Sand
*The Way It Used to Be (not released)
*Scarred
*The Darkest of Winters
*Ytse Jam (w/ Drum Solo)
*Take The Time/Freebird ([[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] cover)
*Anna Lee (not released)
*Hollow Years
*Speak to Me (not released)
*Hey You ([[Pink Floyd]] cover) (not released)
*Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ([[Elton John]] cover) (not released)
*Cover My Eyes (not released)
*Take Away My Pain
*Trial of Tears
*Caught in a Web
*Lie
*Peruvian Skies (w/ "[[Have a Cigar]]" (Pink Floyd) & "[[Enter Sandman]]" ([[Metallica]]))
*Guitar Solo (w/ Paradigm Shift & Flight of the Bumblebee)
*Pull Me Under
*[[Encore]]: Metropolis Pt.1
*Learning to Live
*The Crimson Sunset

==Covers and tributes==
Throughout the album, parts of songs originally recorded by other artists are played by the band.

*The segue from "Burning My Soul" into "[[A Mind Beside Itself#Voices|Voices]]" features John Petrucci playing the first half of [[John Williams]]' "Force Theme" from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
*The ending of "[[Take the Time]]" contains the solo from [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "[[Freebird]]" and the main riff from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Moby Dick (instrumental)|Moby Dick]]".
*"Derek Sherinian Piano Solo" contains themes that would later be used in the track "Platt Opus" by [[Platypus (band)|Platypus]] (a progressive rock supergroup to which Sherinian and John Myung were members).
*Before the beginning of "Trial of Tears", and at the end of the song, Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the film ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. The opening of the same song contains portions of the [[Rush (band)|Rush]] songs "[[Xanadu (Rush song)|Xanadu]]" and "[[The Trees (Rush song)|The Trees]]" played by Mike Portnoy.
*"Peruvian Skies" contains portions of [[Pink Floyd]]'s "[[Have a Cigar]]" and [[Metallica]]'s "[[Enter Sandman]]".
*"John Petrucci Guitar Solo" contains portions of [[Liquid Tension Experiment]]'s "Paradigm Shift" (a progressive rock supergroup of which Portnoy and Petrucci are members), his own song Gemini which he would eventually release in his second solo album [[Terminal Velocity (album)|Terminal Velocity]] and [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s "[[Flight of the Bumblebee]]".

==Personnel==
*[[James LaBrie]] – lead vocals
*[[John Myung]] – bass
*[[John Petrucci]] – guitars, backing vocals
*[[Mike Portnoy]] – drums, backing vocals
*[[Derek Sherinian]] – keyboards

===Additional personnel===
*[[Jay Beckenstein]] – [[alto saxophone]] on "Take Away My Pain"

===Technical personnel===
*Kevin Shirley - engineering, production
*Alex Goodison - assistant engineer
*Ian Dyckoff - assistant engineer
*Rich Alvy - assistant engineer
*[[Leon Zervos]] - mastering at Absolute Audio, New York City

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
!scope="col"|Chart (1998)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|58|artist=Dream Theater|album=Once In A Livetime|rowheader=true|access-date=November 30, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|id=28606|59|artist=Dream Theater|album=Once In A Livetime|rowheader=true|access-date=November 30, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|157|artist=Dream Theater|rowheader=true|access-date=November 30, 2021}}
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Albums with cover art by Storm Thorgerson]]
[[Category:Dream Theater live albums]]
[[Category:1998 live albums]]
[[Category:East West Records live albums]]