Mike Portnoy's prognation????

ive heard a while ago about the prognation tour that portnoy's putting together in collaboration with opeth, 3, and btbam....any news on that?? whens it happening?? anything ??? (been off the forums for a couple months so im kinda out of touch hehe)

where are the dates posted?

activetopics wrote: where are the dates posted?

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Mike Portnoy's website. Thinking about it now, I'm not sure if the March dates are the progressive nation ones or if they are just Dream Theater.

SOUTH AMERICA 2008
 

Sat March 1st - Santiago, Chile - Pista Atletica
Mon March 3rd - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Luna Park Stadium
Tues March 4th - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Luna Park Stadium
Fri March 7th - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Creditcard Hall
Sat March 8th - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Citibank Hall
Sun March 9th - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Chevrolet Hall
Wed March 12th - Bogota, Colombia - El Coliseo
Fri March 14th - Caracas, Venezuela - TBC

The second Portnoy supergroup eh? This one actually will turn out to be metal.

so they're flaunting how "prog" they are? isn't that completely dodging the point of progressive rock?

The lineup have been playing a 2 1/2 hour set featuring a 37 minute drum solo with about 45 seconds of participation from THREE's percussionist, Joe Stote.

Apparently the inspiration for the massive solo was Mike's image in the mirror; In an interview, Mike explained that he saw himself drumming and thought "Wow, I'm good. I'm really really good and loud and fast. I should play a solo where I'm loud and fast. It should be very long, but also very loud and very fast, and also very technical and important, so it can be interesting for people listen to. I should also let the guy from 3 play in it, because he's pretty good too." Reports from the shows say that Mike has actually found a musical way to incorporate the mirror on his drumset, rather than it just be a way to watch himself while drumming.


Edited by explodingjosh - January 20 2008 at 17:38

Mike has mentioned that he formed the new band as a side project because his drumming was "so good that it was very diverse, and there is drum work in PROGNATION that just didn't fit (it was too big) in Dream Theater's sound."

Yeah my prog-metal loving friends and I are all going to see them in Southern California (or at least I heard the tour would be over here). Can't wait to see them both, especially Opeth touring as a prog band and not with death metal crap bands like Cradle of Filth. Should be great!

explodingjosh wrote: Ummm no actually.... Prognation IS a new band formed by Mike Portnoy. It will feature an all-star lineup of Portnoy on drums, Per Wiberg on keys, Tommy Rogers and Dusty Waring from BtBaM for vocals and guitar, and finally Joe Stote and Daniel Grimsland from THREE providing percussion & additional keys, and bass. Mike Portnoy decided to name the band PROGNATION because, very simply, they plan on converting people into PROG fans by selling cds and touring the NATION, and other NATIONs as well. In fact, the conversions have already begun all across South America, and the Australia/Japan leg tour is halfway complete.

That's a bit odd, I'm hearing two stories at once now. Maybe their both true
By the way I saw the band THREE (spelled out and not to be confused with "3" which is a different band altogether to my understanding) open for Scorpions last fall... they are INCREDIBLE musicians, they put on literally the best sounding performance I think I have ever seen/heard. The sound effects were used perfectly and the vocalist did an amazing classical solo (it was a slap guitar sort of technique... there's a name for it but I forget). Their music wasn't particularly great, but the musicianship was jaw-dropping. At least I hope that's the same band we're all talking about here and not 3. Odd how those two bands ended up in the same subgenre of prog (crossover). It makes things so confusing!

^^ no, they were always pussys