About.com has issued an interview with DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess, conducted by Chad Bower. The following is an excerpt:

Q: You just got back from playing some shows in Europe. How was that?

A: "It's always an experience doing all of the European festivals. It's a wild and crazy scene. Some of the shows were really great and exciting for us. We played at the Download Festival in Donington Park in the UK. We had never played there before, so we were psyched to go do it because we had been hearing about it for years. When we got there, the tent was just overflowing with people. A lot of people came out and wanted to check us out."

Q: Do you still have different set lists every night?

A: "Yes, we change it up a bit. It's not completely different. We decided that on this tour, we are not doing “An Evening With” format. We have a couple of bands that are coming out with us and we'll open up for us. We are still going to play for a couple of hours. It is still a hefty night of Dream Theater, but it's not the madness that people have witnessed in the past where we walk off stage and have to resuscitate the drummer. We're not going there this time. We thought we deserved to be a little more human about the whole thing. Even with that, we change it up. Before we go out on the road we learn a lot of music. We have a bigger repertoire to call upon and we try to keep it fresh. And each leg we go on, we add different songs to the set. It's definitely one of the things Dream Theater is all about.

Read the full interview at this location.