Mike Mangini interview by radiometal.com, 08/06/2011

[nikatapi]

Bandmember interviewed: Mike Mangini
Date: 08/06/2011
Source: https://www.radiometal.com/en/article/dream-theater-the-spirit-carries-on-episode-2-mike-mangini-2,35867

I really believe that Mr. Mangini is an amazing person, and his enthusiasm makes me excited about the future of Dream Theater.

[rumborak]

MM is so good, he gives interviews from the future. Awesome.

rumborak

[nikatapi]

MM is so good, he gives interviews from the future. Awesome.

rumborak

Not everybody is American you know.

[rumborak]

Nonsense! As we know from Independence Day, on the 4th of July, the whole world is American!!



Just teasing you. Cool interview, I found it interesting that MM had to buy and prepare all his stuff on his own because he couldn't tell anybody that he's the new drummer.

rumborak

[Zydar]

"I'll tell you what they gave me, because it's important to me: they gave me their trust, and they gave me a new life. That's worth much, much, much more."

[The Silent Cody]

I'll tell you what they gave me, because it's important to me: they gave me their trust, and they gave me a new life.
This is great... 

[Infinite Cactus]

I love MM's interviews. I also really like that this interviewer asked questions like will Jordan be singing etc.

[Jamesman42]

This interview (and the connected JP interview) are awesome, and the interviewer asked great questions (aside from the SKOM question, that was more WTF for me).

[darkshade]

MM is so good, he gives interviews from the future. Awesome.

rumborak

Not everybody is American you know.

So the interview is from a month ago? even though it's dated July 2 on the actual page?

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

 

[Adami]

I thought it was interesting when he said that the band wants to play the older songs at the original tempos, which they haven't been able to do.

[tri.ad]

I absolutely love reading interviews with MM. It's very refreshing to see such enthusiasm, humility and restraint at the same time.

[WildeSilas]

I thought it was interesting when he said that the band wants to play the older songs at the original tempos, which they haven't been able to do.

Me too. I can't remember exact songs offhand, but there were a few times during both Score and Chaos in Motion where they started a tune and I thought to myself, "Well, that's not right..."

[ReaPsTA]

I thought it was interesting when he said that the band wants to play the older songs at the original tempos, which they haven't been able to do.

Me too, although it was a bit of a bummer too.  Part of hearing their live stuff that I enjoyed was the differing tempos.  Although in a sense I understand it.  They're getting older and they want to keep playing big shows because they know the fans want it.  Things have to give here and there, and one of them is increased consistency in the playing to keep the energy of each performance from a "how fast is it going to be tonight?" standpoint down.

[robwebster]

I imagine it's good news for the visuals, though - they always used to go right out of sync.

[Adami]

I thought it was interesting when he said that the band wants to play the older songs at the original tempos, which they haven't been able to do.

Me too, although it was a bit of a bummer too.  Part of hearing their live stuff that I enjoyed was the differing tempos.  Although in a sense I understand it.  They're getting older and they want to keep playing big shows because they know the fans want it.  Things have to give here and there, and one of them is increased consistency in the playing to keep the energy of each performance from a "how fast is it going to be tonight?" standpoint down.

Yea, but it's also a matter of just keeping the songs themselves at a semi-constant tempo. Lots of times certain parts would drastically speed up if MP was having a good time, and then slow down and so forth.

[Addy]

"I'll tell you what they gave me, because it's important to me: they gave me their trust, and they gave me a new life. That's worth much, much, much more."

Loved that answer. And the interview is great !

[The Silent Cody]

"I'll tell you what they gave me, because it's important to me: they gave me their trust, and they gave me a new life. That's worth much, much, much more."

Loved that answer. And the interview is great !

Yeah indeed. And it was a great question and one of the best answers I have ever heard from anybody.

[Victor Alexandrov]

Actually most of the time DT used to play slower than the album versions, especially or more intricate parts. When you are at the show, you can barely notice, but it's quite evident on bootlegs.

Anyway, speaking of boots, I'm really looking forward to seeing this evening's performance on Dime as soon as possible.

[ReaPsTA]

Anyway, speaking of boots, I'm really looking forward to seeing this evening's performance on Dime as soon as possible.

I don't have an account, so I'm really hoping it shows up here ASAP.

[Aniland]

08/06/2011

lol

[Nic35]

You were not part of the writing of the album because it had already been written. What about for the next ones?

Oh, I don't know. I want to approach things one step at a time. The first step for me was not to be involved in the writing for two reasons. The first reason is that John, John, James and Jordan wanted the experience of writing together with no drummer for the first time. As a fan of the band, I really wanted to see that, so I agreed with this. I wanted to have them be really happy experiencing being composers with no drummer at all. The other reason I was not part of the writing was because I had too much work to do! In other words, I still had a full time job at Berklee, and I had to prepare my equipment for the recording. It took me three months to get all my equipment ready, because I couldn't tell anybody! I needed a lot of stuff and I had to do all the work myself.

Fair enough.

[robwebster]

I don't particularly subscribe to the "System A is better than System B" nonsense. Write "math" or "maths," "color" or "colour" - I honestly don't care. But if we're gonna be dismissive, it's gonna go both ways.

08/06/2011

lol

"X of Y of Z" makes a lot more sense than "Y the X of Z." The relationship between each figure is the same. It's a simple progression from small-unit to big-unit. X < Y < Z. Rather than (X > Y) < Z, which is incredibly clumsy.

It's not only neater, but the system that every other country in the world uses.

"MM / DD / YY" makes about as much sense as writing times in the format "minute / second / hour" would be, and to everyone else, looks just as silly.

[TheGreatPretender]

"Mike's not coming back, and that's the deal. I'm the drummer, and that's the end of it. I feel confident of that."

My favorite part.

[farsight]

It's not only neater, but the system that every other country in the world uses.

rest of the world, fuck yeah! 

The first step for me was not to be involved in the writing for two reasons. The first reason is that John, John, James and Jordan wanted the experience of writing together with no drummer for the first time. As a fan of the band, I really wanted to see that, so I agreed with this.

ooh, so MP wasnt the only one who got burnt out after all

[TheGreatPretender]

The first step for me was not to be involved in the writing for two reasons. The first reason is that John, John, James and Jordan wanted the experience of writing together with no drummer for the first time. As a fan of the band, I really wanted to see that, so I agreed with this.

ooh, so MP wasnt the only one who got burnt out after all

Wait, how did you come to that conclusion from that statement?

[Jaffa]

I don't particularly subscribe to the "System A is better than System B" nonsense. Write "math" or "maths," "color" or "colour" - I honestly don't care. But if we're gonna be dismissive, it's gonna go both ways.

08/06/2011

lol

"X of Y of Z" makes a lot more sense than "Y the X of Z." The relationship between each figure is the same. It's a simple progression from small-unit to big-unit. X < Y < Z. Rather than (X > Y) < Z, which is incredibly clumsy.

It's not only neater, but the system that every other country in the world uses.

"MM / DD / YY" makes about as much sense as writing times in the format "minute / second / hour" would be, and to everyone else, looks just as silly.

Well said and all, but I you might be missing something:

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 at 6:53 pm by Metal'O Phil

08/06 is either June 8th or August 6th. 

This interview appears to have been posted on July 2nd.

EDIT: Nevermind.  Scrolled to the bottom, saw the interview conducted date.  Feel free to facepalm.

[nikatapi]

The date i wrote is the day the interview was conducted, not the day it was posted.
If you look at the end of the interview, it says : "Interview conducted on june 8th, 2011 by phone."
And sorry for any misunderstandings, but in the sticky thread it said that it isn't obligatory that we use the North American system when writing dates.

[Kotowboy]

08/06/2011

lol

Wednesday 8th of June 2011

Makes more sense than :

August the Wednesday of 2011

[hefdaddy42]

The first step for me was not to be involved in the writing for two reasons. The first reason is that John, John, James and Jordan wanted the experience of writing together with no drummer for the first time. As a fan of the band, I really wanted to see that, so I agreed with this.

ooh, so MP wasnt the only one who got burnt out after all

Wait, how did you come to that conclusion from that statement?

No kidding.