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Topic: New super group?
Posted By: Red Porschetta
Subject: New super group?
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:51
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I just read on Drummer's Digest.com that Mike Portnoy, Steve Wilson, and Mikael Akerfeldt want to do an album together. Both Mike and Steve said they want the band to be heavy, but Mikael wants it softer. Could be very cool. If you are wondering... Portnoy=Dream Theater Wilson=Porcupine Tree Akerfeldt=Opeth ------------- There's no bread, or lemony cake |
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:56
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Will be 'heavy' then if democracy reigns.btw how many prog supergroups does Portnoy want to be in??! |
Posted By: stechell
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:56
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WOWWWW!!!!...can´t wait for that experiment...three solid musicians, three different styles, but common roots, three nationalities...SUPERGROUP!!! Who will play the guitar?? Wilson or Akerfeldt?? My vote goes for Akerfeldt, even though Wilson is also a great performer, but I bet he will compose most of the tracks., |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 15:07
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But the question is: When will the album be for sale? I won't have high expectations for it so that it won't dissapoint, but I'm lookiing forward to this. ------------- 
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Posted By: Red Porschetta
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 21:38
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Album wont be out for a while. Portnoy said they haven't started anything yet. It may not even happen, who knows. ------------- There's no bread, or lemony cake |
Posted By: Prog-man
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 23:01
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IS THAT TRUE? WHO ARE THE OTHER MUSICIANS OF THE BAND? WHAT A NEWS, MAN!!!
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OH, MY GOD!!!
WHEN? WHERE? HOW? 
Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 23:07
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Holy sh*t, this sounds good.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 08:12
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There will have to be a lot of acquiescing from all parties for it to work, I think. Wilson seems like he's a bit too full of himself. Portnoy will work well with any metal band, and Akerfeldt would need to cease growling completly to get my attention. Seeing that he wants the album to be softer, this might not be a problem. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Antennas
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 08:34
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Yep, read that as well. Sounds very interesting indeed! But hey, didn't Steve Wilson quite recently mock bands like Dream Theater, and said he didn't like them (which I understand, heheh)? Wonder if this 'supergroup' is set up for the music, or for the money...? ------------- 
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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 08:46
I hope its mellow and similar to Opeths "Damnation", where Wilson played some georgeous mellotron and sang and wrote the lyrics for one song. 
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Posted By: Gonzalo
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 12:47
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i think progressive metal is boring ------------- 
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:13
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portnoy just wants another paycheck Aaron |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:31
Let's hope he earns it. |
Aaron wrote:Posted By: MorgothSunshine
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:41
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Oh God I hope no!!! I'm a fan of all those three guys but i hate cash-cow side projects! The only great one i've listened is Liquid Tension Experiment...but stop it's enough! and please...stop Mike Portnoy and all his terrible tribute projects...Betles covers, Zeppelin covers, Who covers! please stop!!! ------------- For every truth even the contrary is true... 
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Posted By: kidofthecentury
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 15:34
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I really bet that it'd be good. Ya'll trying to say that they're not compatilbe musicians, but I DO have high hopes 'bout it (obviously, if it actually happens... ¬¬) ------------- http://www.mylodonrecords.com/ |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 15:42
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Hopefully it will go beyond prog metal...Porcupine Tree with Theater´s drums and Opeth growling...mmm interesting!!!
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Posted By: Red Porschetta
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 19:17
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I believe Wilson has already worked with Portnoy. Wasnt he a guest musician for OSI? I think hae sang one song.
And Portnoy isnt doing it for the cash, he is just one of the hardest working musicians around today, and I think thats very cool. He just likes to create and play!! ------------- There's no bread, or lemony cake |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 20:57
As if Portnoy needs another paycheck. Surely he's in the highest paid progressive rock band out now!  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 22:36
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There was a thread about this awhile ago. I'm suprised you guys missed it. -------------  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 22:37
Wilson sang and co-wrote the song SHUTdown on the OSI album. What amuses me is people treat OSI like it's some Mike Portnoy band or project.OSI is the brainchild of Kevin Moore. ------------- |
Posted By: Littlewashu5
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 02:47
Speaking of which am I the only one who thinks "Free" sounds like the soundtrack to a lame N64 Action-shooter? The album sounds like it was assembled in Pro-Tools. I love computer sound effects in music as much as any man can but seriously Free is overkill..... |
Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 14:31
I couldn't agree more about OSI's new album "Free". It sounds like modern alternative rock done for some sort of soundtrack or something. Is Portnoy 16 again? As much as I love the musicians in OSI in general, they really messed up. Unless this is for the purpose to break into the mainstream, but that seems unlikely since they have no real backing or huge promotions, Dream Theater is much bigger for example. Since they don't make lame N64 action-shooters anymore, why they made "Free" is beyond me. |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 14:14
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IS THAT TRUE?! Steven and Mikael are my heros that would be insane if they did something together again i wonder what it will sound like (anyone remember Blackwater Park?) that would be so awesome ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 14:19
thats true i just thought of that. i remember the interview. im not a DT fan either i hope this isnt just for the money ive got a lot of respect for SW and Mikael but this sounds fishy portnoy i could care less about as long as he plays well ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong
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Posted By: DeepPhreeze
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 16:11
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I absolutely LOVE what Steve Wilson has done since 1988, the only two Opeth albums I've liked were both produced by him... But in my eyes it's going to come out as yet another project that sounds like Damnation (which sounded like an adult version of Porcupine Tree). Oh well. As long as PT is staying, I'm happy :) |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 17:09
Jim Matheos, not Kevin Moore... It was Jims idea and he wrote most of the material. KevMo "just" turned it all upside down... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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but I'm just a picky b*****dPosted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 17:33
I stand corrected.  OSI was indeed initially meant as a Matheos solo project. ------------- |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 20:07
You guys have already heard the album? I didn't think it was out for a few more weeks. Anyway to preview some of the songs? I had been looking forward to this album for some time but now you all have me a little concerned. |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 20:09
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Deephreeze wrote: Oh well. As long as PT is staying, I'm happy :)
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Posted By: Man Made God
Date Posted: April 03 2006 at 08:15
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Yeah, I've read about this one a couple of months ago. And then there always are the people who must say it's all about cashing and stuff. Please!
And maybe he's just a guy who loves music, and wants to spend every minute he's got doing what he does best: drumming & thinking of other projects to make music with! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/manmadegod/?chartstyle=ScarlettJohansson1"> 
Focus on the music... Focus! |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 19:48
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Man Made God Said:
And maybe he's just a guy who loves music, and wants to spend every minute he's got doing what he does best: drumming & thinking of other projects to make music with! ^ ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong
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sure whatever you say Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 22:17
Don't be worried..... if you like alternative rock. |
Posted By: Littlewashu5
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 01:43
Uhhhhhhh, I LIKE alternative rock. I don't know where you're getting that from. It sounds like a lame attempt at an Industrial album more than anything..... |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 13:59
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An update on Akerfeldt-Wilson-Portnoy.....it's CONFIRMED.
OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt has confirmed reports that he is planning on collaborating with PORCUPINE TREE's Steven Wilson and DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy on an as-yet-unnamed new project. "We've been talking the three of us," Mikael said in a recent interview with Tony of KASC The Blaze 1260 AM (web site) (the campus radio station at Arizona State University). "It started with me and Steve. Once we first met, which was like six years ago or something, we've been talking about doing something, like writing together. And since he worked with [OPETH as a producer] for a couple of albums, we got that whole collaboration thing put on hold because we were already working together. With him in the studio, it was a very creative relationship that we had, but we've never really written music together, so that's still… I'm 100 percent [sure] that that's going to happen. And Portnoy... PORCUPINE TREE toured with DREAM THEATER and he wanted to be involved. I used to be a massive DREAM THEATER fan — I'm still a fan of them and he's a really nice guy, good drummer, so that's cool. And we're looking at some other people, maybe to involve some guests. I think we're gonna start slow — it's not gonna be something blown out of proportion, it's just gonna be for the sake of our love of music. I think we're gonna do a song that Steve wrote for the 'In Absentia' album that didn't make it, which is a massively fantastic song. That's what we're gonna record first, I think, unless the band comes around and they record it as a PORCUPINE TREE song, but I'd love to record that song with him and then just write some stuff. And I don't know what it's gonna be like. It's just talk right now. [But] I'm sure it's going to happen." ------------- |
Posted By: Man Made God
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 07:12
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Great news. This is probably one of my most anticipated collaborations
over the last couple of years. I also like the fact that they
absolutely do not want to be some kind of 'supergroup', and therefore
interviews will be sparse. Man, I can't wait. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/manmadegod/?chartstyle=ScarlettJohansson1">
Focus on the music... Focus! |