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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 09:54
Also, we need more James Labrie's lyrics. It was Portnoy who didn't aloud him to write lyrics for BC&SL and that was a mistake. Jordan is great when he is compossing with John, more that shreddring with Mike, so, the change is good and eventually, when his ego ease a little bit he will be back...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 10:16
Mike:
"I mean, we have one bandmember that would literally not even sit in the same room with the rest of us for years now and we'd only see him on stage or at meet-and-greets.."

Myung, i think.


I honestly hope they kick Labrie out, I can only stand the instrumental versions of BC&SL. he should had quit since that damn fish incident


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 10:52
Jim:
 
Thanks for the warm welcome!
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 11:07
Anytime, Maani - nice to see a founding father back on the site

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 11:08
Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

I honestly hope they kick Labrie out


A dangerous opinion... but one I support... Shhhh!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 12:06
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

I honestly hope they kick Labrie out


A dangerous opinion... but one I support... Shhhh!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 15:20
What utter bullsh*t on that magazine cover.  It looks like some freaking tabloid magazine with those quotes. I definitely won't be picking that up. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 15:41
Mike leaving DT is like if Neil was to leave Rush. When JP and JMX found Mike at berkley there was a connection and this ability to feel each others music that most musicians dont get to experience. Its not everyday you just run into people you can write and connect with for over 25 years. Its like finding your dream woman. Well they were each others dream musicians. Most of the bands we all listen to were formed by producers or by guys trying to make "super groups. "yeah the music is great but you dont have the emotion. You can feel the emotion on every DT album and how they were all feeling when the record was made. DT will not be able to produce the feeling or emotion through their music without Mike. they are a team. The music will still be great but it will NOT be DT.

The largest problem with prog bands and well bands in general is that they arent writing for each other. They write to be different, or cool, or to make money. Bands like DT, RUSH, Steven Wilson(porcupine Tree), Mikael Akerfeld(Opeth), Sting,  you can truly feel what they are portraying through their music and thats why they are so successful. By being themselves an doing what they want to do they are different and people love that.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 16:38
Well I guess that he left for the benefit of him and his family.  If thats even ONE of the reasons then his decision is the right one.  If he is not happy at his "place of work" then its time to leave for all concerned, and lets hope that after a break he comes back with more exciting projects (and the fourth Transatlantic album of course).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 16:39
Originally posted by slashnmetal424 slashnmetal424 wrote:

Most of the bands we all listen to were formed by producers or by guys trying to make "super groups. "yeah the music is great but you dont have the emotion. You can feel the emotion on every DT album and how they were all feeling when the record was made. DT will not be able to produce the feeling or emotion through their music without Mike. they are a team. The music will still be great but it will NOT be DT.



We will see how much MP input was important with the band  on the next release. I am not that convince that the band can't make a better cd than the last one without MP.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2010 at 18:55
Hi,
 
Give the band a chance ... it might, in the end be for the best and the 4 guys left work together even better ... and create something stronger and more intense.
 
Bad part for the drummer is that he is in a temporary group ... and that work will be over soon, and then he will be out of a job ... maybe he is rich enough he doesn't need it ... and could use a break to help find out who he is inside ... and then get back to work ... might be the best thing that ever happened to him!
 
I can just see it ... a tour with DT and the support band is one with Mike drumming in it! His own band!


Edited by moshkito - December 13 2010 at 18:56
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 08:30
His last facebook update was so whiney, saying the only one's that got him through the year was his family...basically calling his fans c**ts in my opinion...he needs to stop being so stuck up...the rest of the band have put the split to rest and moved on...WHY CAN'T HE!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 09:01
What if Marco Minnemann would be the new drummer. Perhaps the supergroup he's in with Jordan Rudess is a sneak way of announcing him...?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 16:03
Hi,
 
I hope they get an unknown drummer ... and someone that has a bit of the "anti-music" and "anti-metal" thing to their drumming ability, so he/she can help color the music way better and make it more interesting.
 
I would think that the last thing they want right now is to sound like the last album, or like the album 10 years ago, or the album 20 years ago.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 16:16
Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

Mike:
"I mean, we have one bandmember that would literally not even sit in the same room with the rest of us for years now and we'd only see him on stage or at meet-and-greets.."

Myung, i think.


I honestly hope they kick Labrie out, I can only stand the instrumental versions of BC&SL. he should had quit since that damn fish incident


No, that's LaBrie. He has been in a long feud with Portnoy and is know to work separately from the band since Scenes, when he only acted / did anything at the time of singing the vocals, and that's how it has been ever since. Besides, LaBrie is the one with five solo albums. And he have no credit in any song in Black Clouds. This sure smell fishy.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 17:42
Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

Mike:
"I mean, we have one bandmember that would literally not even sit in the same room with the rest of us for years now and we'd only see him on stage or at meet-and-greets.."

Myung, i think.


I honestly hope they kick Labrie out, I can only stand the instrumental versions of BC&SL. he should had quit since that damn fish incident


No, that's LaBrie. He has been in a long feud with Portnoy and is know to work separately from the band since Scenes, when he only acted / did anything at the time of singing the vocals, and that's how it has been ever since. Besides, LaBrie is the one with five solo albums. And he have no credit in any song in Black Clouds. This sure smell fishy.


According to their official Bio "Lifting Shadows", Labrie never get involved in songwriting process because the band told him not to, then, after Six Degrees, Portnoy thought that he HAS to be there in the composition, so, James get involved since and that's why he has a lot of input in lyrics, at least in Octavarium and SC. But, for the Black Clouds album, he was meant to met with the band a week later for the composition, and again Mike called him saying that they won't need him for lyrics, since they have several song already done. James stated that he wanted to get involved and told Mike that he was no happy with that decission and that in the next album he wanted to be involved and that it was fine ONLY because of the band, but that it won't happened again.
 
See, again, Mike trying to tell anyone what to do and how to do it. He needs to relax a bit, because James writes better songs than him...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 18:35
Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

Mike:
"I mean, we have one bandmember that would literally not even sit in the same room with the rest of us for years now and we'd only see him on stage or at meet-and-greets.."

Myung, i think.


I honestly hope they kick Labrie out, I can only stand the instrumental versions of BC&SL. he should had quit since that damn fish incident


No, that's LaBrie. He has been in a long feud with Portnoy and is know to work separately from the band since Scenes, when he only acted / did anything at the time of singing the vocals, and that's how it has been ever since. Besides, LaBrie is the one with five solo albums. And he have no credit in any song in Black Clouds. This sure smell fishy.


According to their official Bio "Lifting Shadows", Labrie never get involved in songwriting process because the band told him not to, then, after Six Degrees, Portnoy thought that he HAS to be there in the composition, so, James get involved since and that's why he has a lot of input in lyrics, at least in Octavarium and SC. But, for the Black Clouds album, he was meant to met with the band a week later for the composition, and again Mike called him saying that they won't need him for lyrics, since they have several song already done. James stated that he wanted to get involved and told Mike that he was no happy with that decission and that in the next album he wanted to be involved and that it was fine ONLY because of the band, but that it won't happened again.
 
See, again, Mike trying to tell anyone what to do and how to do it. He needs to relax a bit, because James writes better songs than him...


Really? Shocked

I hate every single solo album that LaBrie has released so far, though his last two albums, released under his own name, were a bit better than the ones as MullMuzzler. His latest is pretty bad, though. It is as if he managed to WORSEN the already terrible Göthenburg-style melodic death metal. PinchSick


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 19:13
I personally think he's going to go the way of Neville Chamberlain... he may have done great things in the past, but history is going to remember him as the guy that left his bandmates for a younger, 'hip' band instead.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 19:20
"I'm devastated they chose to continue without me"  - Mike Portnoy

Unless that's taken out of context, that's the whiniest little baby comment I've heard in years. Anyone pick it up to confirm/deny context?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 19:36
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

"I'm devastated they chose to continue without me"  - Mike Portnoy

Unless that's taken out of context, that's the whiniest little baby comment I've heard in years. Anyone pick it up to confirm/deny context?


There is no context. He has been whining since he decided to focus on his side projects.
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