Mike Portnoy talks about Neil Peart - from the new MIKE PORTNOY DVD - DVD Trailer

[noobsmoke261]

Can't really understand why people are hating on Dream Theater. I guess they haven't heard their good songs? Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence/Octavarium/Count of Tuscany, and millions more. They have some of the most Musicality i've ever seen and especially with Mike Mangini hitting bass drum with Bass Guitar "Unisons" and Splash cymbals with one hand with John Petrucci's stabs. I guess people can't necessarily hear the music/skill that each one of them brings to the band.

[lifeson46]

tried really hard to like Dt but I just cant, they just dont have good songs. They are a really talented great band but just dont have it.

[Wampaa]

Dream Theater is a band that cannot write a song to save their lives. They have great chops, but that is not enough.

[AnonymousRetards]

People shouldn't even try to compare when Rush went to keyboards in the 80's to what Jordan Rudess does with his keyboard. Totally different approaches. Mike doesn't hate keyboards he just didn't groove with what Rush was doing at the time.

[reasons2believeorg]

semilivedj you must be the most arrogant idiodic person i've ever fucking seen, you really think someone like neal morse would look up to and put up with portnoy if he was as much of a dick as you say he is, he left dream theater because he wanted to pursue different things and different projects not because he was a dick, the band even said they would never be the same without him you think there going to say that if he's a douche bag, lebree is the douche bag not portnoy. he has changed drums

[semiLivedj]

He is a dick! Nobody wants to play with him.He will yell at you on stage if you miss a part for any reason.Dream Theater pushed him out.Because he is a dick! He talks like a dick,acts like a dick.Is a dick!

[priamyvate]

You'd imagine if he was a huge influence he could pronounce his last name correctly

[tyme4mike]

Hey Portnoy? You couldn't carry Neil Peart's piss bucket. Neil "knows" he's great and doesn't act it nor brag. You just "think" you're great.

[watro1]

And God created Neil Peart so that lightning would made sense to the world.

[ben2nd]

Good video... but I dislike the appearance of terry bozzio trying to be on camera... No-one wants to see bozzio.

[aakkoin]

Portnoy has a surprisingly closed mind... He always sees music and drum rhythms as some stereotypical genre or as someones lick, and he does not consider the true deeper musical value and meaning of them....

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

if half the world is, then three thirds of the part aren't.

bassisst impotrtant humble pie uriah heap snodgrass

[bluco22]

Both of my favorite bands were included in this video. O.O

[donbut66]

Well said V4r!

[MrHandfromEbay]

This guy Mike Porkoy is pretty good.

[barnabas50]

I loved it when Rush added keyboards.

[termsofusepolice]

Isn't Dream Theater that band of computer programmed, soulless, musical instrument playing automatons?

[EduardoTucciDrums]

@termsofusepolice No, that's just you being envy.

[aidyspady999]

@termsofusepolice no that's the Jonas Brothers

[MrMikej413]

Finally someone who knows how to pronounce Neil's last name the right way. It's peart(as in ear)not as in hurt.

[Enigmatikos]

@mystikrhythms61 well it s a Different approach of keyboards! The rush keyboards have little things in common with the Dream Theater keyboards!! You can't say for example whitesnake and Dream Theater are alike because they use a guitar!!;)

[mjp1638]

@Enigmatikos Agreed. Not to mention, Rush is a 3 piece band doing a 5 piece gig. Where as dream Theater needs the 5. And DT's music isn't near as interesting in my opinion. Rush's epic songs (10 minute or more) don't seem as long as they really are. They're broken up into parts brilliantly and very little repeats itself.

[return2energiser]

Millions of drummers wow!

[ptwolf1]

imho, he seriously lacks in rhythm.

[unyeal11]

Portnoy is a baby before Peart and so is Dream Theater before the great RUSH. Peart is so natural while Portnoy tries just to hard to make an impression. RUSH rules

[ienjoyagooddrum]

portnoy will smoke peart

[dustyowl99]

@ienjoyagooddrum this is a video about portnoy and how he Looks UP to peart

[demoniod369]

@ienjoyagooddrum The shit you don't know could sink a ship.

[alkimst13]

@ienjoyagooddrum sure he will skippy. you're young, huh?

[mistarax]

I really wish that people would stop comparing musicians to other musicians when leaving comments. I get it. You like a particular drummer , or bassist, or whoever.. I'm sure that the person who posted that particular video didn't intend to insult your favorite guy, nor did he post this for you to shoot down or start an argument. I'm more a Peart fan than a Portnoy fan, but I've never thought either was "better" than the other. if you dont like the post, dont watch it.

[spamsponge]

@mistarax Thank you sir, for making a sensible and well-written comment.

[2333jim]

Does Dream Theater still play? I only know one song of theirs, and it was about 20 years ago.

[benoitdrums1996]

@2333jim yeah i saw them live a couple of weeks ago but their drummer is not portnoy anymore...Its Mike Mangini.

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

this guy's just an overated biker.

/watch?v=mkoTdpsibhQ

variations on a theme

dreamtheatre is just applied Yes

lots of hype and harley and humble but no BMW motorcycle

[ohYew812]

He's pretty good, but Neil Peart is the best. Of ALL time. Period.

[idontbelieveok]

@ohYew812 youngest hall of famer for drums and he is just "pretty good", you mean like your friend in high school who is/was "pretty good". come on...

[chinesefake]

Dream Theater? give me strength! The are a bunch of guys who were all fans of great bands so they can obviously play well, but they can't write shit.

[DethThrasher1]

@chinesefake disagree, listen to metropolis part 2

[Vigrans]

You gotta love that Mike Portnoy speaks about nil pirt.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

yeah that's great but can you play it fast?

[PookieAndBuddyShow]

Peart and Portnoy are different drummers. I personally think they are both equally as good as the other, just different styles. I do think it is a compliment to Neil to always have every great drummer in the world compared to him...

[DRUMyourgoals]

0:36.... LOL

[Sim2428]

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[guitarheroiga]

Peee eart?

[CP3x2007]

@guitarheroiga That's how it's pronounced.

[mystikrhythms61]

He also said he lost interest in RUSH when they added keyboards. So he's in a band with keyboards as a primary instrument. Hmmm...

[funkster007]

@mystikrhythms61 Very true, but in Dream Theater the keyboards never dominated the guitar. He meant Rush were too synth-poppy for him through most of the 80's. Rush lost a lot of their die-hard fans in that period.

[xiXHARDDRUMERXix]

@mystikrhythms61 yh but he left dream theater lol

[Ignore14]

@mystikrhythms61 keyboard rush was worse, it's true.

[aiyic]

@mystikrhythms61 And when Neil dropped the second kick-drum too.

[jbealsmusic]

@mystikrhythms61 Mike Portnoy is in a band?

[stevedrums]

@mystikrhythms61 God forbid, a band tries to stretch beyond what made them famous unlike his dopey former band. What an arrogant asshole this guy is. And the thing is, he isn't original. He's got no feel. Having chops doesn't make you a legend. I suppose using copies of other people's drum kits and pretending to be them passes as a legend. The only things bigger than his kits are his ego and his mouth.

[dreamtheaterfan360]

@mystikrhythms61 But rush took out the prog element and alot of the guitar when the added keyboard

[pillsareyummy]

@my You can't compare the use of keyboards in Dream Theater to how they were used in Rush. To many, the keyboards in Rush took away some of the complexity of their music, compared to their more guitar orientated material. DT incorporates keyboards in a manner that actually increases the complexity and texture of their music (especally since Rudess joined). I don't like keyboards in metal bands, however in DT they not only work, they're an essential component of their music.

[Ignore14]

@mystikrhythms61 they use keyboards in very different ways.

[AnchovyRun]

@mystikrhythms61 It wasn't the keyboards that he disliked, but the change that the music took when the keyboards became the primary instrument. You can't say that subdivisions and xanadu are very similar, even though they are both great songs.

[elixergtarist]

@AnchovyRun Yup That's absolutely right

[ggamer2004]

@mystikrhythms61 And then he left

[vaportrails44]

@mystikrhythms61 Mike is a hypocrite...nearly every band he has played in has keys oh and Mike...all of those 70s records you jerk off to? 2112? Hemispheres? A Farewell To Kings? Yeah...all keyboards on there bro. Ditto Permanent Waves. Keys on every single song.

[philradz]

@mystikrhythms61 Exactly, in Dream Theater it's a primary instrument - Rush used it more for rhythm and ambience. It's different.

[garbobbage]

@mystikrhythms61 I get your point, but keyboards sound better in his band than they ever did during the "techno" era of Rush. I lost some interest in them at that time as well for the same reason. They got away from their operatic concept pieces and good kick-ass, RUSH-style rock and got too experimental.

[blorgensteen]

@garbobbage being "too experimental" is what makes Rush Rush.

[junito52]

@mystikrhythms61 what me meant with that is that the band became more pop.

[manvaix]

@mystikrhythms61 well man i understand this kinda shit because for example i love to play death metal but i almost never listen this style! Except Death, compared with them there´s not other death metal :-)

[Herreken]

@mystikrhythms61 It wasn't when they added keyboards, but when the keyboards Took Over the music to the point where the guitar was castrated.

[parafleet]

Is there any truth to the rumor that this man was conceived during Monty Python?

[ArthurLav]

I know Peart - God! Who's Portnoy, a guy with a tattoo of drums?

[tastefulphrasing]

@ArthurLav Portnoy is the evolution of Peart. Peart is not the greatest anymore... not even close.

[theothertroll]

@tastefulphrasing - Evolution of Peart? LOL ! PYHOOYA! Fuck man, your not even sane anymore, not even close. Mike is a street punk drummer lucky enough to afford a big kit to bang all over - he's talent but NOT creative, he steals - he always played covers good.

[MrPelicanPants]

@tastefulphrasing That's completely absurd. Peart is the evolution of Peart. He's still learning and developing as a drummer after all of these years. As much as I love the guy, Peart never was the greatest and never claimed to be.

[americanintokyo1]

Pee ear t.

[GuitarZero95]

@V4rVendetta Well said!

[V4rVendetta]

If Portnoy is Kobe, Neil is Jordan.

[ztmdrums]

@V4rVendetta thats brilliant

[Anthraxicus]

@V4rVendetta No, if Portnoy is Kobe, Neil is God.

[charliehustle141]

@Anthraxicus No. Neil IS god, at least the God of drums.

[walmartisfun]

I'm not caring to go back and look but go watch a Rush live DVD and he hits those drums hard. I've been watching them for the past hour and I was thinking how hard he hits those. It's amazing, really. I can't hit that hard and I've been drumming for a long time, to Rush even if you care to check my channel. He hits REALLY hard, he just doesn't play with the sound loud. Remember. Analog recording was a lot more dynamic than music today. The softer songs are soft for a reason. Now its all loud.

[mypearldrums]

Mike Portnoy is Kobe. Neil is LeBron. Now you losers argue about what i say.

[rammjet666]

For all of you idiots saying Peart "lacks the power" of a Mike Portnoy...throw your sticks away you have no clue what you are talking about. Neil Peart is 6'4 and hits his kit as hard as anyone else on the scene. Remember this you idiot saplings who know nothing about drumming - you don't have to throw your hands high in the air in order to hit a drum hard. Now go back to your practice pads and sheet music and study. Oh yeah and it is pronounced "PEEERT" Mike is saying it RIGHT. Dummies.

[850wagonT5]

@rammjet666: It takes a lot more control to hit the kit soft and slow, than it does to hammer on it hard and fast. That's what these kids don't realize. The natural error musicians make it pushing tempo; it's harder to slow down and lighten up because it goes against that natural tendency. Especially when you're Peart's size...that's control and discipline right there.

[cglass1000]

he said peart wrong

[TheBostonRage]

@cglass1000 no he said right. its pronounced "peert" not "pert". a lot people get it confused

[MrHandfromEbay]

This guy looks like a dirty ashtray,get a haircut you hippie!

[themusicman777]

@MrHandfromEbay this hippie get slaid more than you, more money than you, and more people like him than you...so I guess I see why you envy him hahahahaha.

[AncientItalianSecret]

Kobe of drumming? Who'd he rape?

[nypad5]

man...I love dream theater. It makes me sick when the next pop stars voice is auto-tuned to a midi drum track and midi styled pop sounds...uuughh. These guys are real musicians... I watched them open for maiden last summer...my god they did an epic Violin opening before the broke into "As I am" and i was like...Wow...

[wordofadvice1]

My my, that is really some great drum playing! God Bless You.

[TheBearRamage]

its pronounced peert?????????? not pert?

[steve51704000]

@TheBearRamage - yes, Neil has even said it himself - rhymes with EAR (pEARt)

[Mohamed636]

its pronounced 'peert'? god im such a noob, i thought it was 'pert'

[Legionbass19]

@Mohamed636 I still pronounce it "Pert" even though I know it's "Peert". If I make a video where I talk about Rush, I'll be sure to make a change to avoid harassment from fellow Rush fans though.

[gerardrum20]

MIKE PORTNOY IS G O D ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡... IS A HUGE, HUGE INFLUENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

[Kudan26]

@gerardrum20 sad that future generations are growing up with music with not instruments at all

(electric things, gaga, etc.) hope it changes

[IPstixrawesume]

@Kudan26 Jojo Mayer is kind of trying to beat out electronic music by playing it better with his band Nerve. Cool listen, actually. But he's a whole different beast than Portnoy.

[risingwarem]

such a waist he left DT for an emo band !!!

[PapaJobin]

@risingwarem uhh he didnt leave DT? he is just touring with a7x till they find a new drummer.... and a7x isnt emo either? my chemical romance and the used are emo. get your shit right

[MyFallenIdolMusic]

@PapaJobin no mike did leave DT follow the link on my channel to read the article written by mike himself. he wanted to do a hiatus with DT so he can tour with A7X but the DT guys wanted to hit the Studio in January but mike couldn't do it so he left. and i want him to go back i hope he does; but one of his tweets say, "my time with A7X is done, i have many other musical projects that i have in the future" or something alone the lines.

[eatrush]

neil development, today's musician's imitate rather than develop

[jaredbroider]

Did he just say Neil peeart?

[paultheactor1]

@jaredbroider Yes Thats how it is pronounced! Piert!

[jazzycat1]

You are all wrong. Check out "The Drumming Lawyer" on Youtube. Now THATS a drummer!!! not...

[francky101]

fucking mike portnoy, left for fucking avenge!!!!!!! dont mind if he left, its his descision, but fuckign avenge??....

[paice95]

@francky101

he was kicked out!

[drummerb0y117]

@francky101

1) Dream Theater was never that great as people pretend

2) He was kicked out of said /\ overrated band

3) Avenged Sevenfold is one of the best things that has ever happened to todays rock music, they made the step from screamo to something totally different.

4) Mike is doin "The Rev" justice by carrying on his legacy in Avenged 7X

[paulwall1981]

@drummerb0y117. You are worng. DT were not overrated when Portnoy was in the band. Plus Avenged Sevenfold good though they are are not as good as DT. Don't ever forget that.

[DannyWDrums]

Wheter you like it or not, Neil will always be the best, there´s no argument to that. Mike is also very good though, dont get me wrong

[LukeSnyderMusic]

@DannyWDrums There is indeed an argument. Because Peart is not the "best." There are drummers that exceed his abilities in every aspect. He is undoubtedly one of the greats, but certainly not the best.

[gumbalooza]

@LukeSnyderMusic there is no "the best". its all subjective.

[REALCougarsRmales]

@LukeSnyderMusic I'm curious (for the sake of wanting to discover other great drummers). Who do you think exceeds his abilities in every aspect?

[Mjbabycakes7072]

@REALCougarsRmales

Listen to as many drummers as possible. Come up with your OWN opinion.

[Chavezoid]

@LukeSnyderMusic Most of today's top drummers vote Neil as the top drummer for reasons beyond drumming. There is no other drummer that has infuenced more drummers than Neil Peart. They all say it. The magazines say it. Neil's the only one that doesn't say it.

[AKtifosi]

neil was a big influence to mike , but mike does everything better, mike is like bacon!!!!!!

[6393dude]

Peart is the king and Portnoy is the general

[PsuedoNam]

@6393dude I think it would be more accurate to go by Neils more common nickname "the Professor".

If Neil is the Professor, then Mike is the Student.

[JCinWilkes]

@PsuedoNam I would say Portnoy is the Dean.

[kevnak717]

Portnoy is the Kobe of drumming.

[libernull]

@kevnak717 so Neil Peart is the Michael Jordan

[DrewDrums76]

@libernull No.no.no .... Michael Jordan was the BUDDY RICH of basketball ! :D

[Killenmachine05]

@kevnak717 he be rapin?

[axacingdude]

@kevnak717 must be crap then

[TheFunnyMan9113]

@kevnak717 A rapist? 8D

[kfreezy23]

@kevnak717 and peart is the jordan of drumming.

[TheMan750]

@kfreezy23 took the words right out of my mouth

[KingZerxst]

@kevnak717 Because he rapes the drums and no one seems to talk about it anymore?

[ThomasMetal75]

@kevnak717 FUCK KOBE!

[aspasiz]

@kevnak717 That means Neil is Michael Jordan

[gotmonkeyfinger]

i think mike holds back his feelings a bit cause hes always being compared to Neil. he should just let it go and say it like it is. I love mike but Neil is King.

[oscarskate1]

@gotmonkeyfinger no

he is god and mike is jesus :)

[BillyJimmyBobbyTimmy]

@gotmonkeyfinger Um...what? Idt Mike should do anything other than keep being Mike. Portnoy > all.

[triforce10155]

@BillyJimmyBobbyTimmy no. Portnoy = Peart

[mautico]

@gotmonkeyfinger Neil was the king...now he is a God!

[halodemo65]

@gotmonkeyfinger and those tatoos make him look a little less... professional maybe? Idk they're just kind of a turn off.

[molomono]

@halodemo65 That's merely subjective.

I really respect Neil, love him, great drummer. But i think that he lacks the power Portnoy has, when mike hits he hits hard (at least he can hit hard if he wants to), and for his style i think it's a great fit. For my style it's a better fit too.

So who's better?

Irrelevant.

I don't care, all i care about is that both drummers are worth using as an influence in your own drumming. Comparing drummers is just childish and useless.

[justentime77]

@molomono Watch Neil play, he hit's extremely hard! Too hard, as far as I'm concerned. A lot of drummers labor far to much in trying to crush the drums and it's really just wasted energy. Good dynamics play a far bigger role in driving the groove and staying in the pocket. Watch Portnoy and then go watch Dave Weckl.

[metalmike83]

@justentime77 I just did and Weckl, as good as he was, is boring compared to Portnoy. Good dynamics is important but when you lay into the drums they produce a really excellent sound - especially the toms. Loud dynamics are usually better during a solo and when you play rock, you really gotta hit hard. Playing softer is for jazz. Weckl does his hard himself on the accents and backbeats. I think Dave is a better fusion drummer, but Mike is better at prog rock, double bass, etc.

[manicospic]

@metalmike83 Are you really comparing Mike to Weckl? Weckl with one hand and one foot can do more than Mike with an extra pair of limbs. Not saying portnoy is a bad drummer, i think his excelent but weckl is just a different league than portnoy. not even comparable.

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

@manicospic you are also uneducated.

[nodrush80]

@gotmonkeyfinger Totally on the money!

[TmmySaxondale]

@gotmonkeyfinger I don't know about that. Neil is a very great, technical drummer, but he is a "tighty whitey". Check out drummers like Lenny White, or if you are a prognut, I really dig Christian Vander. Jazzy and scary at the same time -- how is that possible? Neil Peart is (ironically) the great drummer of the masses. It's ironic, because the Ayn Rand "masses vs. the individual" stuff. Well, the masses thing he's the greatest drummer. Drummers who listen to lots of different music? He's great

[Rurouni101]

@TmmySaxondale Not trying to argue and not saying I intimately know Neil Peart; but I'm fairly sure he drew on more influences than hard rock. In fact, I'm 99.99% positive of that because they said Peart repped the original drummer because the original was too caught up in hard rock only. Secondly, I'm fairly sure he never tried to get so many follower. Again, I'm very sure, as he has said, he doesn't even like signing autographs.