The Mike Portnoy Appreciation/Discussion Thread (merged)

[Lonk]

Count me in. Can someone create a fundraiser or something?

Just do it......

https://www.gofundme.com/sign-up

[Evermind]

Just spent 15 minutes setting this up and filling up the data only to discover you have to be an American citizen to set this up and then withdraw the money without complications. Well shit, good luck with this then.

[ytserush]

Bands I love in no order

Liquid Tension Experiment
Flying Colors
Transatlantic
Neal Morse/Band
Tribute Bands
Macalpine, Sherinian, Sheehan, Portnoy

Bands I like.

Winery Dogs


Bands that are  indifferent to me so far.

Sons Of Apollo

Metal Allegiance

Shattered Fortress

Bands I'm just not into

AMob

Avenged

Big Elf

[devieira73]

Something a little different from Mike:
https://www.facebook.com/116713035013014/posts/3102552533095701?s=100000056893649&sfns=mo
A solo band playing songs from all his bands?

Hey Brazil! 🇧🇷
Looks who's coming to play some special shows in Oct/Nov 😎

RedEMpTiON ToUr
NOTURNALL + MIKE PORTNOY 
Feat. EDU FALASCHI
A historical evening!!!

Legendary drummer MIKE PORTNOY (EX-DREAM THEATER / THE WINERY DOGS / SONS OF APOLLO / TRANSATLANTIC), reencounter his ADRENALINE MOB former band mate, the fantastic guitar player MIKE ORLANDO, and both will join one of the biggest bands of the Brazilian Metal scene, NOTURNALL, to play ONLY BIG CLASSIC HITS! Also joining them on stage is iconic singer EDU FALASCHI as special guest!

And the night will be even more spectacular with the magic of WANDER RABELO.

All of this will be recorded for a DVD that will also capture EVERY SHOW OF EVERY CITY OF THE TOUR, crossing Brazil coast to coast!

The shows:
MiKe PoRTnOY
The legendary drummer is back to Brazil, as a special guest to NOTURNALL to perform some CLASSIC HITS of his career!
PORTNOY will go back in time and play the several hits of his career, adding a very special surprise for the Brazilian audience...
Get your ears and heart ready for a historic night!!!

NoTuRNaLL
The band returns on stage after the successful tour in Russia with the American band DISTURBED to present the new album, "COSMIC REDEMPTION".
Known for Hollywood-like refinement shows,
NOTURNALL will not disappoint this time, besides presenting the new "Zombie Exotic Dancer"
LARISSA MIOTO, the band will also bring on stage Magician WANDER RABELO, with the most super-produced illusionistic show of the history of the band. And all of that will be properly captured for a DVD RECORDING directed by the renowned ALEX BATISTA!!!

EdU FaLaSCHi
(SpEciAL GuEsT)
And to make everything even more perfect,
EDU FALASCHI will join the team to brighten up the night with some classic of his own!
In addition to showcase surprise songs from his own career, he will join THIAGO BIANCHI for an exciting tribute in honor of ANDRE MATOS.

GuESt BanDs
The Brazilian Metal Scene will sure be well represented in each city that the tour will pass, bringing in the best of the vast national barn of bands.
Three bands will open each event. They are all tuned and in sync with the evening we are about to present, both on the covers they will play as well as on the quality of their own songs. Those are going to be must-seen shows!! 
Support bands still to confirm.

ToUr DaTEs:
Thursday  – 31 Oct  – FORTALEZA (Armazém)
Friday      – 01  Nov – BH (Mister Rock)
Saturday  – 02 Nov  – BRASILIA (C. de Convenções)
Sunday     – 03 Nov  – GOIANIA (Bolshoi)
Thursday – 07 Nov  – SÃO PAULO (Tropical Butantã)
Friday      – 08 Nov  – RIO DE JANEIRO (TBC)
Saturday  – 09 Nov  – LIMEIRA (Bar da Montanha)
Sunday     – 10  Nov – PORTO ALEGRE (Opinião)

[Lethean]

I saw that devieira and thought it was interesting.  Noternall did a similar thing with James LaBrie last year right?

Do you think Edu will be on stage at the same time as MP at all? I'm guessing not unless it's to perform MP stuff - I don't see MP learning Angra songs.

[Cool Chris]

...besides presenting the new "Zombie Exotic Dancer"

Color me intrigued.

[Bolsters]

It's weird reading that with the use of aBNorMaL CapiTAliSAtIOn because it's obvious he doesn't know what it means.

[devieira73]

I saw that devieira and thought it was interesting.  Noternall did a similar thing with James LaBrie last year right?

Do you think Edu will be on stage at the same time as MP at all? I'm guessing not unless it's to perform MP stuff - I don't see MP learning Angra songs.

Right, JLB played with Noturnall, within their set, last year. They played 2 JLB songs and PMU. But I guess that this will be a bit different, with MP making a whole set with songs of his career, possibly with his own band. It would be cool if MP played with Noturnall something from Angra, maybe one of the more progressive ones from Temple of Shadows or Acqua (a personal favorite).

[cramx3]

I don't think I'd have much interest in this eventual DVD.  I dont understand why they are even doing this, just seems weird since JLB has already worked with Noturnall and MP is back to just doing his old music? 

[Grappler]

Well it's Noturnall's tour and it's probably a pretty big deal for them to have Portnoy and Edu Falashi as guests.  So they want to document it. 

It's not like Portnoy said "if I play with you, we need to make a DVD!" 

[cramx3]

Yea, I'm sure it's a big deal for them.  But it's not for me and that's fine.  If MP wants to do his old music again, I'd rather him play with his Shattered Fortress band again personally because that show was kick ass and those guys are all fantastic.  The stuff I've seen of JLB with Noturnall has mostly been bad.

[Anguyen92]

Wasn't Noturnall that band that had JLB in a masked costume to enter in?

[gzarruk]

The shows with JLB were also recorded for a live DVD, and iirc, it was never released. Noturnall just went through a BIG lineup change where 3 out of 5 members suddenly left, and that might have something to do with the band never releasing it. I see this as them still wanting to put out a live album in a similar vein to what the other one was supposed to be, but with the current lineup, and that's probably how the MP/Edu Falaschi thing came to be (speculation, of course).
Btw, if any of our brazilian friends here has more info on this, please share it with us. I've tried to understand what happened with the band, but my Portuguese knowledge isn't too good

About the MP part of the set, I originally understood it will be MP playing the songs with Noturnall playing the rest of the parts (same case as with JLB), nowhere in the article does it say that MP will have his own band with him or anything like that, but maybe I'm reading something wrong?

As for Edu, I expect him to come and sing a couple DT songs with them as the encore.

[Lethean]

No, I don't think you're reading it wrong. I don't think MP will have his own band, except it says Mike Orlando will be there too.

For Edu, it says he'll be doing classics of his own and participating in an Andre Matos tribute, so I'm guessing there will be two separate sets, but as you say maybe he'll do some songs for the encore of MP's set.

[gzarruk]

No, I don't think you're reading it wrong. I don't think MP will have his own band, except it says Mike Orlando will be there too.

Mike Orlando is the new (old/rejoined) guitarist for Noturnall.

[TAC]

It's weird reading that with the use of aBNorMaL CapiTAliSAtIOn because it's obvious he doesn't know what it means.

It's as if chaossystem wrote the release.

[Lethean]

No, I don't think you're reading it wrong. I don't think MP will have his own band, except it says Mike Orlando will be there too.

Mike Orlando is the new (old/rejoined) guitarist for Noturnall.

Oh OK, thanks.  Now it makes even more sense - probably a lot easier for them to get MP on board.

[cramx3]

It's weird reading that with the use of aBNorMaL CapiTAliSAtIOn because it's obvious he doesn't know what it means.

It's as if chaossystem wrote the release.

[Ben_Jamin]

Overkills' Facebook page posted a picture of Mark Menghi, Phil Demmel, Bobby Blitz, and Mike Portnoy. The headline reads more info coming soon.

Is this another Metal Allegiance or another project? I hope its a new project, should be great with that lineup.

[ReaperKK]

If this is true it sounds like this going to be best project MP has ever worked on.  No project will come close to this.

Itll be like Neal Morse, Pink Floyd, The Flower Kings, Dream Theater, Genesis, Adrenaline Mob, Katie Perry, Soundgraden, Metallica, Limp Bizkit all rolled into one.

[Zydar]

[ProfessorPeart]

Overkills' Facebook page posted a picture of Mark Menghi, Phil Demmel, Bobby Blitz, and Mike Portnoy. The headline reads more info coming soon.

Is this another Metal Allegiance or another project? I hope its a new project, should be great with that lineup.

MP posted the picture on his Twitter. It's at his house in his studio. Said they would be there a few days working on something.

[Stadler]

If this is true it sounds like this going to be best project MP has ever worked on.  O project will come close to this.

Itll be like Neal Morse, Pink Floyd, The Flower Kings, Dream Theater, Genesis, Adrenaline Mob, Katie Perry, Soundgraden, Metallica, Limp Bizkit all rolled into one.

You know, if I thought there was even a possibility of this, I'd be pumped.

But increasingly, Mike's projects are the "neo-prog stuff", the "metal" stuff, the "trad prog" stuff, the "hard rock" stuff... none of it seems to be that genre-crossing, genre-busting stuff that Dream Theater was.  The closest thing (for me, anyway) is the Flying Colors stuff. 

So I can hope, I can dream, but I feel like it's going to ultimately turn out to be generic (see the root of the word!) thrash-ish metal.

[gzarruk]

If this is true it sounds like this going to be best project MP has ever worked on.  O project will come close to this.

Itll be like Neal Morse, Pink Floyd, The Flower Kings, Dream Theater, Genesis, Adrenaline Mob, Katie Perry, Soundgraden, Metallica, Limp Bizkit all rolled into one.

[ytserush]

Overkills' Facebook page posted a picture of Mark Menghi, Phil Demmel, Bobby Blitz, and Mike Portnoy. The headline reads more info coming soon.

Is this another Metal Allegiance or another project? I hope its a new project, should be great with that lineup.

That wanders into territory I'm just not interested in although I'd give it a listen just to make sure.

I suppose that's where the opportunity lies these days.

[emtee]

Hard to believe that 9 years ago MP announced he was leaving
DT. DT has rebounded nicely but honestly,  I've lost the passion for
MP and his multitude of projects. I keep trying but I'm not sure
how much longer I will keep buying music that I know won't have
any lasting impact.

Don't remember the exact date but I know it was September of 2010.

[Stadler]

September 8th.  I know this because my birthday is the 10th.   

[The Walrus]

September 8th.  I know this because my birthday is the 10th.

Hey! Happy late birthday buddy!!

[hefdaddy42]

September 8th.  I know this because my birthday is the 10th.

Mine is the 9th.  I didn't see the announcement until the morning of my birthday that year.

Happy birthday to me!

[Adami]

Happy birthday to Hef, Stads, and me!

[ReaperKK]

September 8th.  I know this because my birthday is the 10th.   

Same here, I remember everything about MP leaving but nothing about my birthday from that year

I was actually listening to some DT earlier today and I was thinking to myself how awesome MP's drumming is.

[cramx3]

Happy birthday to Hef, Stads, and me!

Happy birthday to all you guys!

[ProfessorPeart]

Bringing this back on topic, MP is getting a colonoscopy! The man does love to share. Maybe we'll get pics!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hornHjbw9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[gzarruk]

Bringing this back on topic, MP is getting a colonoscopy! The man does love to share. Maybe we'll get pics!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hornHjbw9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Some things are not meant to be shared in public, oh boy

[Cool Chris]

I was actually listening to some DT earlier today and I was thinking to myself how awesome MP's drumming is.

I was recently listening to some live releases from MP's time in the band and this was readily apparent to me the throughout.

I do also recall seeing Mike's announcement on this forum. I don't know how long after it was made, but it was either that day or the next. My first immediate thoughts were "is this it?" Is this the end? No more music from my favorite band?"