Mike Portnoy Leaves Dream Theater - :(

[guitarguru777]

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Wow ... Just wow!

I know many of you aren't fans, but for those of you that are

 

[The_Children_of_Decadence]

Firstly i thought this is a joke, however i knew this moment will come one day. Lars, i hope you are reading this thread

 

[Malergion]

Too bad.
He was the only cool one.

 

[ShadowsWithin]

He was? I always thought he was kind of a douche.

 

[Malergion]

Well okay, maybe he was the cool-est one. But regardless...

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

*carries on with his life*

 

[ShadowsWithin]

lol yeah pretty much, if this were like 3 years ago I would have cared but they produced so much shit in the past few years that I really don't even care. they will probably try to go on the internetz and find some dude playing the parts on youtube really well and recruit him and he will try to imitate Portony blah blah

 

[Liverslapper]

*carries on with his life, with Steve's support*

.

 

[Ace]

Firstly i thought this is a joke, however i knew this moment will come one day. Lars, i hope you are reading this thread

Ya cause Lars would play with Dream Theater....

 

[Will Bozarth]

oh well

 

[Shpongled]

SATA cables be pissin me off right now!

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

well that was random.

he should join overkill, clearly.

 

[Dreadful]

Yeah he was one of the biggest parts of that band. It's almost like as if Eric Peterson left Testament and they were to replace him. It's gonna be real interesting to see who they get next because even though on record it's not as noticable...his drum kit was one of the star attractions of seeing them live. He's gone through so many different setups and 'names' for all of his kits. The 'Siamese Monster' was the most rad one...to my 16 year old eyes that looked like he took all the drums from guitar center room and put them together.

 

[Brooks]

He was the only one that was fun to watch live. An ego behind a drumkit, but a great drummer nonetheless.

Dream Theater made Scenes From A Memory. They will always have my props.

 

[azal]

Dream Theater were my favorite band, but I've hated their music for a long while, and Portnoy was the main reason. He was pretty much a tyrant in the band from what I saw.

Maybe the next album will actually sound like grown ass men playing prog instead of old dudes trying to appeal to Trivium fans.

It's also a great chance for a dope drummer to get some shine, maybe Bobby Jarzombek?

Probably the best thing of all this is that there will be no more Portnoy vocals on albums.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

they also made images and words, so they deserve respect for that. but oh well, the band never really stuck with me over the long term. portnoy is a great drummer, though.

 

[El Stormo]

He was? I always thought he was kind of a douche.

Being only "kind of" a douche automatically makes you cooler than the other DT members

 

[Dead Winter]

I never saw what was so great about Portnoy...he just seemed like a heavier Peart wannabe.

 

[El Stormo]

Well, to be fair, Portnoy is an incredible drummer, it's just that there's other, even better drummers out there. Like John McCain!

 

[Dead Winter]

He's an incredible drummer if all you listen to is prog...what I mean by that is most people who put him on his pedestal are Dream Theater fanatics and not necessarily objective. He's great, yes, but I'll take Carter Beauford over Portnoy any day. Portnoy just seems bland.