Portnoy Justified?

Portnoy is of course justified! He's a nice guy, but then again Tate is an egoistic bitch anyways. So why say the obvious?

ALL CREDIT TO PORTNOY. FOR HE IS, NO DOUBT, THE FINEST DRUMMER OF THE 1990'S, 2000'S, ETC

A DEFINITE HEIR TO NEIL PEART'S MASTERY!

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Coming from a direct outsider, it's difficult to fanthom absolute justice among the circumstances at hand, though, it seems to me Portnoy had enough reasons so as to retaliate on Tate's apparently continuous offences and regardless of how elegant it'd be to stand above a hypothetically drawn line of probity and polite elocution, Portnoy is still emotionally humane and not that much of an adept to stoicism, it seems. Of course, words could have parted differently from his urge to rightful expression, but, even overlooking the fact not all detain the most of self-control or unconditional eagerness to please the public, there wouldn't be that many to consider indulging lenient remonstrances as to how insidious one person can be to imbibe anger from, as musicians and celebrities are still and will always be humans, susceptible to commit about the same mistakes in judgement and contract similar emotions as the least popular crowd.

The only way he's gonna get justice is by getting Chris Jericho to body slam Geoff Tate.

Maybe it was a little out of control, but when someone talks about you in a bad manner you have every right to stand up for yourself. I just don't know if calling him a "2-faced douchebag" helped his case at all.

TheProgtologist wrote: Got to Blabbermouth.net to find out more about it. I think Portnoy's ego is getting a little out of control. A hugely talented drummer but as a person he has much to learn.

On the contrary, Mike Portnoy is one of the nicest guys you can meet.  Roine Stolt has said that Portnoy would never say a bad word about anyone.  Obviously with this recent episode with Geoff Tate, Portnoy has sad a bad word about someone.  What Tate was doing to Dream Theater was terrible, but that doesn't mean Portnoy should have responded the way he did.

As always I hate it when musicians put down other musicians publicly.  Therefore, I'm going to vote that this is not justified.  I would like to say given Mike Portnoy's reputation as such a nice guy, I'm going to say as unjustified as I may think this is, Geoff Tate is even worse provoking such a known nice guy.

TheProgtologist wrote: No matter what Tate said about him,Portnoy stooped down to Tate's level by the response he made to the media.I think he could have handled it  in a more mature manner.

Agreed. There were plenty of other, more mature ways to have handled it.

No matter what Tate said about him,Portnoy stooped down to Tate's level by the response he made to the media.I think he could have handled it  in a more mature manner.

Got to Blabbermouth.net to find out more about it.

I think Portnoy's ego is getting a little out of control.

A hugely talented drummer but as a person he has much to learn.

After reading what Portnoy had to say I think it's definitely justified. If Tate is
insulting Dream Theater and Portnoy numerous amounts of times than his
comments weren't justified to begin with. Portnoy is just letting something
out due to his anger. It's probably not the best thing to do (and he is doing
it in an immature way) but it is justified.

He could've easilly said it more professional such as "Due to Mr. Tate
continual critisms of Dream Theater and myself personally, I have lost all
respect that I once had for him."