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

Neil was one of Mike's biggest influences and he talks a little bit about the intricacies of Neil's drumming and how it affected him. The new MIKE PORTNOY DVD from DC DVD is available on www.drumchannel.com and from your favorite Pro Drum Shop

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[Anthraxicus]

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

[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.

[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.

[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. 

[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 :-)

[junito52]

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

[blorgensteen]

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

[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!