Dream Theater Italian Fan Club Closes Down

DREAM THEATER's long-standing Italian fanclub, Italian Dreamers, have closed down after 14 years.

They have issued the following statement:

"It is hard to find the words to write down this announcement and it is for sure the hardest task for us since 1993.

At that time our Fan Club was only a sort of a bet, a bet we have won thanks to the determination and the generosity of some people, joined by the same passion and able to create and preserve with brilliance and devotion an incomparable and unique patrimony made of images and words, and a lot of music. This is a voluminous book in which all of us, together with you, left a little sign. This is a dream lasted 14 years with its ups and downs, sacrifice and nuisances, joys and sorrows for which everyone of us has always given his best to write his part of the story. A story that ends in the best way possible, with everyone happy to be there and celebrate. That was it.

It passed exactly one year from the La Finale contest for the Official Tribute Band in Rimini. The organization of that great event was the hardest and most important job we ever did.

The great success of that night and your estimation have been the greatest satisfaction for all of the people of the fan clubs staff that were there to work for you.

The day after, when we met to arrange the last things left in our cars, there was a second of silence where everyone looked each other in the eyes and said: And now? How can we exceed last night success?. The constant challenge to improve ourselves day by day has always been the Italian Dreamers soul. That day we understood that it would have been hard to accept another challenge and thats why we took the decision, not a sudden one but a decision reached gradually in a time beat by our private life.

It was sheer chance that the name we gave to that event it is now signing the Final step of Italian Dreamers Fan Club.

We have always known only one way to manage the Fan Club: always give 110% of ourselves, always be the example to be followed. That was the only way to give you a part of this great passion produced by this incredible music.

Now our jobs and our families prevails over it and we really think that it is not fair to keep a halting creature alive or entrust it to some unknown opportunist that would accept to keep on this adventure alive only for the pleasure to be named Italian Dreamers.

Time has come, it is time to stop.

We are proud to have spread the disease, we are proud for your support.

Our thanks to everyone and Good Luck!"

Simone e Marco
Italian Dreamers Staff

Source: BW&BK