Dream Theater's search for a new drummer!

[egan.]

cool, that i became aware of Peter Wildoer through this.

and yeah, congrats to Mangini; probably really fits best for this job.

Peter is sooooo nice and soooo good that he deserves any attention that he gets ten times over. I don't know any of the rest of the drummers but he came off exactly how he is in regular life.

 

[006]

I voted Mangini. I know it's typical and easy to say after-the-fact, but, before I watched the episode with the result I already knew Mangini had it in the bag. Minneman would have been my 2nd choice, as it was DT's, really incredible drummers all around though. Really cool to see each of them in that element and see them do stuff they wouldn't normally do.

 

[Cheesebone]

I've always been an enormous fan of Virgil Donati (the stuff he did with OTV, like "Native Metal" is some of the most awesome music I've ever heard) and it would have been cool to see him fill the spot. But, Mangini is probably the best fit for the band for sure.

Instead of complaining about Petrucci's grunts and Portnoy's vocal contributions, I'd gladly keep them if we could put a different singer altogether in the group, lol. I always thought Casey Sabol's vocals would be fucking awesome with this band, Brandon Boyd too.

 

[DanLights]

When does he do grunts ??

Glass prison, look for the classic live video (Japan I think) of that song

 

[crillemannen]

So one thing I haven't seen discussed is who will handle MPs vocal parts?

Noone, i always hated mikes vocals.

 

[Fragle]

regarding dream theater....i think no other band has a this well documented series of fuckups....gotta love youtube.

this one, while not a fuckup per say, absolutely takes the cake though. i'm literally shitting myself right now XD
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[Manifesto]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzsSZly1FZU&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Cheesebone]

Not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but just in case anyone needs a refresher..



Lol..

 

[JBroll]

I don't like Labrie's face, he looks like a mongolian evil emperor.
I wish they look for another singer.

This is why Jevil will always be one of my favorite people ever.

Prob because he's already in a better band.

This, on the other hand...

I've never gotten BTBAM. I have several of their albums, and every time I listen to *any* of them my thought process is basically

"Drums are... well, guitars are... erm, vocals are... balls with it, I'm just going to listen to Cynic. How are these kids a band again?"

Granted, Dream Theater is one of the bands that got me into heavy stuff from the beginning. (The others are the usual suspects... Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, and Nevermore, apart from all of the old guys like King Crimson, Yes, ELP, Rush, and so on, so I'm a bit boring right now... oh, well.) I've *really* tried to care about BTBAM, but bringing them up in a DT thread is like mentioning the goldfish that 'bit' your friend's sister's cousin in a shark thread... I'm pulling a blank here.

The first Gigantour that Dream Theater played was also the first heavy show that I saw... just in case I wasn't already biased enough. When I saw BTBAM on tour (with Devin Townsend and Cynic supporting, because that isn't *absolutely fucked in every way imaginable*) I was just completely missing the point. Again, I had already heard several of their albums a few times - I'm even listening to Alaska right now, because... seriously, I don't understand how I have spent so much time missing everything positive that everyone has ever said about this band and just heard the musical equivalent of someone taking a not-unreasonable looking blonde, stacking eight pounds of silicone and fifty dollars of makeup on a table next to her, and pretending that everything had already been assembled into some sort of sex goddess just for the sheer unbridled shitfuck of it all. I'm rather slow, but I never thought I was *that* slow... everything I've ever heard sounds like it has all of the ingredients of a monumental album but had them mixed together by a Downs baby that communicated entirely through bowel movements.

I'm pulling a total fucking blank here. How is there *any* comparison between a band that for *years* pushed envelopes of all shapes and sizes and a band that gets called revolutionary for pushing trendy rubbish back and forth in a slightly randomized way? "Oh, fuckitydoo, we're from North Goddamn Carolina and we have one non-vegetarian member, and this useless rubbish makes it all the way to our Wikipedia pages!" Yay, if we pretend that involuntary reactions are a reasonable substitute for interest then I can almost vomit a fifth of Bombay out of excitement over Alaska! Somebody please just kill me. This is stupid.

Jeff

 

[waltz mastering]

Ha.. Good times. That's my old studio..never seen that vid before.
I've recorded Mike quite a few times..amazing drummer.

Not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but just in case anyone needs a refresher..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQTBtkB_mWQ

Lol..

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Jeff, that was probably the greatest rant of yours I've ever read And agreed on the sentiment, if not the specifics (trisomy 21 babies communicating through excretion and the like )

 

[Wohma]

I wish they end up with Minneman. The guy fucking rules.

I second that, in my eyes he was the best. And Wildoers did a great job as well. But it has been already said that Mangini has the Berklee background and he seemede to be most enthusiastic about the whole thing...

 

[Cheesebone]

Ha.. Good times. That's my old studio..never seen that vid before.
I've recorded Mike quite a few times..amazing drummer.

Now THAT is badass.