Mike Portnoy's backing vocals ?
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Topic: Mike Portnoy's backing vocals ?
Posted By: Yorkie X
Subject: Mike Portnoy's backing vocals ?
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 10:57
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It's a personal issue of mine and maybe mine only (who knows) that when Mike Portnoy takes to the microphone I don't hear any positive gain to the vocal department of Dream Theater. Maybe I just don't like his voice or maybe he is a little off key whatever it is I'm hearing something unmusical in the quality of his vocals I mean its hardly a Steve Walsh , Robbie Steinhardt vocal arrangement Dream Theater have. I`m somebody who thinks James Labrie is a fine singer he deserves better back up , either way I felt I better ask you people what you think, should Mike leave the Mic alone in future ? |
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 11:03
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I hate them. I couldn't tell you from a technical perspective what's wrong with them, but they just don't sound good.
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 11:04
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I think his backing vocals are bad, he's not a good singer, especially on Constant Motion from Systematic Chaos. I don't think they should let him do backup. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 11:28
| John Myung should do the backups instead. |
Posted By: explodingjosh
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 12:15
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I don't think they should have lyrics/vox at all actually.
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 12:50
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I did like The Dark Eternal Night..but that was meant to be raw. He just wants to do more then he's supposed to...his ego is quite large. LaBrie is great...he doesn't need any backups.
Petrucci doesn't seem to be for a backup. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:14
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I rather like them actually.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:26
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The music is better without them, but I don't think they're awful. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: P.H.P.
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:30
As a singer Mike Portnoy is a great drummer hahah 
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 14:14
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Forgive me. Nothing annoys me more than his voice. He cannot sing. He doesn't even sound good doing the metal stuff. Some musicians should not venture out in areas they will never succeed. ------------- 
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Posted By: Endless Wire
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 15:52
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He doesn't sound good on songs such as Constant Motion where he is sort of yelling, but when he and Petrucci harmonize vocals it can sound really good. Listen to the rehersal of Run to the Hills on the Special Features from the Budokan DVD if you don't believe me. ------------- . |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 15:57
| As long as he doesn't do a falsetto like he did on Six Degrees, that was atrocious. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 19:05
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I think sometimes they are good, sometimes they are just okay. I've never found them to be awful (I even like the falsetto in The Test That Stumped Them All). Anyway, while I do prefer LaBrie's voice, I think the addition of Portnoy's vocals can add a nice contrast to the songs, especially the heavier ones like The Glass Prison. I also like his voice when he does harmonizing parts with Petrucci, although it would be cool if Rudess and Myung would get in on the vocal harmonies and add that dimension. I've heard Rudess do vocals before and I think he has a nice voice, not sure about Myung though. It would just be cool to have John Myung sing because he's John Myung. |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:18
| baaaaaaad |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:51
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He does a good job, it's not a Queen choir, but it's ok. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Barla/?chartstyle=LastfmMyspace">  
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:53
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I <3 Dream Theater polls.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 22:54
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I think as backing he's fine but when he's trying to take center stage and be "metal" it kind of kills it when I saw them live semi-recently he sang the first section of Take the Time and sounded fine  ------------- 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 03:57
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Just OK. ------------- 
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 08:08
| I don't really like his voice, but in small doses it's tolerable. |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 10:13
| I think his backing vocals on Octavarium are great |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 10:51
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It works alright sometimes, but otherwise Im not really that found of them. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 12:19
| Not great by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not even that mad on Labrie either as much as I love DT. |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 12:52
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I think he's good as a backing vocalist, BUT, on SC, it doesn't always fit with LaBrie's voice. ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 04:49
| I like DT, but Portnoy vocals are awful. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 14:28
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Portnoy has a terrible voice,besides his bad background vocals on DT albums I don't like his singing on the second Transatlantic album either.It's the only flaw on that otherwise flawless album. -------------  |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: October 21 2007 at 10:42
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this is fun... just OK I guess, sometimes a bit too cheesy... |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 21 2007 at 10:45
Love 'em! 
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