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Dalezilla 
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 10:45 |
Love 'em! 
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Posted: October 21 2007 at 10:42 |
this is fun... just OK I guess, sometimes a bit too cheesy... 
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Posted: October 20 2007 at 14:28 |
Portnoy has a terrible voice,besides his bad background vocals on DT albums I don't like his singing on the second Transatlantic album either.It's the only flaw on that otherwise flawless album.
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Mlaen
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Posted: October 20 2007 at 04:49 |
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I like DT, but Portnoy vocals are awful.
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 12:52 |
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I think he's good as a backing vocalist, BUT, on SC, it doesn't always fit with LaBrie's voice.
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The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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Nightfly
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 12:19 |
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Not great by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not even that mad on Labrie either as much as I love DT.
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 10:51 |
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It works alright sometimes, but otherwise Im not really that found of them.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Snipergoat
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 10:13 |
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I think his backing vocals on Octavarium are great
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 08:08 |
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I don't really like his voice, but in small doses it's tolerable.
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Posted: October 19 2007 at 03:57 |
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Just OK.
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:54 |
I think as backing he's fine but when he's trying to take center stage and be "metal" it kind of kills it when I saw them live semi-recently he sang the first section of Take the Time and sounded fine 
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:53 |
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I <3 Dream Theater polls.
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:51 |
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He does a good job, it's not a Queen choir, but it's ok.
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:18 |
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baaaaaaad
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sean
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 19:05 |
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I think sometimes they are good, sometimes they are just okay. I've never found them to be awful (I even like the falsetto in The Test That Stumped Them All). Anyway, while I do prefer LaBrie's voice, I think the addition of Portnoy's vocals can add a nice contrast to the songs, especially the heavier ones like The Glass Prison.
I also like his voice when he does harmonizing parts with Petrucci, although it would be cool if Rudess and Myung would get in on the vocal harmonies and add that dimension. I've heard Rudess do vocals before and I think he has a nice voice, not sure about Myung though. It would just be cool to have John Myung sing because he's John Myung.
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 15:57 |
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As long as he doesn't do a falsetto like he did on Six Degrees, that was atrocious.
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Endless Wire
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 15:52 |
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He doesn't sound good on songs such as Constant Motion where he is sort of yelling, but when he and Petrucci harmonize vocals it can sound really good. Listen to the rehersal of Run to the Hills on the Special Features from the Budokan DVD if you don't believe me.
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 14:14 |
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Forgive me. Nothing annoys me more than his voice. He cannot sing. He doesn't even sound good doing the metal stuff. Some musicians should not venture out in areas they will never succeed.
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:30 |
As a singer Mike Portnoy is a great drummer hahah
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stonebeard
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Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:26 |
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The music is better without them, but I don't think they're awful.
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Mike Portnoy's backing vocals ?
