Mike Portnoy

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.

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.

CCVP wrote: 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.

Hi,

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!

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.

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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Jim Garten wrote: James McProgger wrote: I honestly hope they kick Labrie out A dangerous opinion... but one I support... Shhhh!

Anytime, Maani - nice to see a founding father back on the site

Mike:

Edited by James McProgger - December 13 2010 at 10:17