"F**kin' Dutch..." (Portnoy interview)

[Mave]

  @ 2:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKoeWLphHew&feature=related

[perfey]

  good interview though.

[TheVoxyn]

 

[LCArenas]

FUCKING DUTCHMEN, HOW DO THEY WORK??

[MetalManiac666]

Awesome.

[GuineaPig]

The Dutch are scum.

[Nihil-Morari]

 

[black_biff_stadler]

FUCKING DUTCHMEN, HOW DO THEY WORK??

By operating and maintaining these

[ReaPsTA]

I really like that interview. Very honest. Very real.

[Nihil-Morari]

Yeah, in all seriousness... I did know he was on drugs, I figured he used to smoke weed, and hasj. But I didn't know it was as bad as taking a line during the keyboard solo's.
And that up until 2000!
No wonder he was nearly dead at the end of the LSFNY show. He was either totally smashed on alcohol and drugs, or totally smashed because he wasn't getting any of those.

[BRGM]

Poor mike! : / must have been like really freaking horrible! well, 10 years sober, a new life from 2000 and forth, not many ppl can do that

[Mladen]

No wonder he was nearly dead at the end of the LSFNY show. He was either totally smashed on alcohol and drugs, or totally smashed because he wasn't getting any of those.

I thought it was because of too much Red Bull...

[Adami]

No wonder he was nearly dead at the end of the LSFNY show. He was either totally smashed on alcohol and drugs, or totally smashed because he wasn't getting any of those.

I thought it was because of too much Red Bull...

Or cause playing drums they way he does for 3.5 hours will make anyone feel like they're about to die.

[Nihil-Morari]

Yeah I understand, especially two shows a day, in a 35 degrees Celsius room.

But...

Then you'd feel like you're dying, Mike was nearly taken to a hospital that night.
You can't deny that taking drugs and alcohol like he did, wouldn't make the situation worse right?

[KevShmev]

I think he was off drugs and alcohol by the time the LSFNY show came around.  Didn't he just get his 10 year thing from AA?  That would mean he had been clean and sober for a while by the time the LSFNY show happened.

[Adami]

I think he was off drugs and alcohol by the time the LSFNY show came around.  Didn't he just get his 10 year thing from AA?  That would mean he had been clean and sober for a while by the time the LSFNY show happened.

Wasn't it in 2000? Meaning he might not have been sober yet, or had just gotten clean.

[GuineaPig]

I think he was off drugs and alcohol by the time the LSFNY show came around.  Didn't he just get his 10 year thing from AA?  That would mean he had been clean and sober for a while by the time the LSFNY show happened.

I think he was.  I remember an interview in which he stated it was the end of the SFAM European tour.

[Silver Tears]

I really like that interview. Very honest. Very real.

Yeah, good interview.

[contest_sanity]

I think he was off drugs and alcohol by the time the LSFNY show came around.  Didn't he just get his 10 year thing from AA?  That would mean he had been clean and sober for a while by the time the LSFNY show happened.

I think he was.  I remember an interview in which he stated it was the end of the SFAM European tour.

I'm not so sure about that -- because in the book Lifting Shadows, Rich Wilson puts the discussion of Mike's decision to get sober in the Six Degrees chapter.

EDIT: just looked up Portnoy's birthday, which is April 20th, and the night on which he had his last drink.  So I guess he would have been sober by LSFNY since it was recorded in August of 2000.  A little confused then on Rich Wilson's time-line.  Maybe he discussed it out of sequence for the sake of a better narrative?

[Dr. SeaWolf]

Wow, I had no idea he did cocaine too

Good for him for cleaning up then.

[Gadough]

Epic echo effect around 1:15 

[AcidLameLTE]

How do they work?

[RobD]

The Dutch are scum.

[weezul]

no wonder Spock's Beard only almost break even when they tour