Arjun Menon wrote
Ha ha +1 dude. I'm listening to "The Count of Tuscany" right now! \m/
The lyrics are weird.
This is what John Petrucci said during an interview about the song:
"Yeah, that's another example of a story that I shared, you know, something that happened to me that I would tell my friends and family but I never really wrote about it. Yeah, it's sort of hard to follow the story but it's basically a few years ago when Dream Theater were playing in Florence or something and there was my friend who is my guitar tech, he's also wine importer, so he wanted to visit a winery in Tuscany, so he asked me if I wanted to come along. So, yeah, the guy who owned the winery is a count, he wasn´t the count of Tuscany, he is a count of something, anyway he brought us to this winery, it was a very old castle in the hills of Italy, it was very bizarre, you know just really weird stories the guy told, you know, like a mummified saint and a chapel, very strange and weird, I thought it would be great to tell that story, probably make a movie of it!"
This is according to Wikipedia, a guy on the Mark Portney forum came up with this:
"MYSTERY SOLVED!!!
The count is: Count Niccoli Capponi. He is a bearded, historian count who lives in the Tuscany area, and whose family is in the wine business.
He was a source of information for the Thomas Harris film "Hannibal", and is mentioned in the book. He also makes an appearance in the movie as one of the panel members for Dr. Fell's (Lecter's) selection as curator of the CAPPONI Library."
