Mike Portnoy comments on SA Adams release

Taken from Borivoj Krgin's BITS; in the May '06 edition of METAL MANAICS:

Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy  has commented on the upcoming release of S.A. Adams  "Unearthed: The Mike Portnoy Sessions, Volume 2", a collection of recordings made by S.A. Adams and then 18- year-old Portnoy between 12-28-85 and 1-11-86 at Mike's Long Beach apartment.  The CD was described by Adams as "definitely NOT progressive rock/prog-metal-it's serious sledgehammer-to-the-balls metal.  Fans of Motorhead, Exciter, Raven, early Megadeth, Venom and Tank will definitely find a home with this disc.  It sstill amazes me to this day that Mike was able to do Dan Beehler/Charlie Benante-style drumming before he could legally touch a bottle of beer!  If anyone has any doubts of Mike's talent, just listen to what he was doing at 18."

Commented Portnoy: "For the record, I am totally fine with this release, unlike the other Magna Carta stuff (previously released without Mike's approval) and S.A. did approach me and cleared the project with me beforehand. So it comes with my thumbs-up approval.  Keep in mind that it was recorded when I was 18 and is very much in the oldschool metal vein as described in the press release.  But if you are cool with those disclaimers, then it is worth checking out for the "Mike Portnoy completists" out there!

Hmmm...kinda makes me regret trashing "Falling Into Infinity"