Mike Portnoy on That Metal Show

[snapple]

Mike looks like he's in incredible shape.

edit: iPod is such a universal term. It could have been a phone. What if there was a problem at home that needed attention via text message or something? I guess you could excuse yourself from the table at that point.

[tristl]

Here is the YT-link for those who can't watch it on VH1.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znCBzum9WEE&feature=related

EDIT: After watching the interview, I feel that there is hope, if you can put it that way. I think Mike showed that he is moving on, although he is of course still heartbroken, which I assume anyone would be after leaving a band that he partly founded 25 years ago. To think that he would just leave it behind him like nothing had happened is ridiculous.

As far as the two events he described as wake-up calls, I have the following to say.

Realizing that your social network of friends isn't necessarily the same as your other friends/colleagues is just sometimes you'll have to face as you get older. However, it might be a shock when you first discover it. But that's normal. It happens all the time in peoples lives and there is nothing you can control, since we are all individuals. I've got to agree with him on the "iPod-incident" though, if it really went down the way he described it. To come to a farewell party with the band and especially the crew, who have worked their asses off in order to make the show work, and then just sit and listen to music, is just plain rude. I don't care if you've had a crap day and just want to be alone. Go there, eat something, act civilized and then retire early for the night if you want to have a moment for yourself. Sitting there and actively not socializing is not really that nice, and I don't think Mike overreacted when he described this as a weird moment for him.

Once again, I don't know for sure that it went down exactly the way he described it, and until we hear anything else from another source, we will never know for sure.

Sorry if what I have said has been said countless times. I just wanted to get my opinion off my chest

I don't think that it is polite to sit with your band and crew with the ipod on.
But let us speculate,
i would guess that the ipod guy is one of the two wifes with whom MP fell out of love with, and maybe just maybe, he is a sensible wife and felt that already.
So to protect her/him - self of this negative vibes and to show that he/she is emotionally hurt he/she has the ipod on .

serious now, the more i listen to this interviews which MP still loves to give, there is this feeling that he really had problems with the singing style of JLB and the communication talents of JM.
Maybe even JR and JP are boring because they don't hang with anthrax and zhe other boys, but creative heads they are essential for MPs baby, even in his opinion.

IMO its a pity MP left, but if i had to choose between DT without MP leaving on own will, and DT without JLB and JM because they are not loved by their husband anymore, i would always choose option 1.

P.S. I never saw a drum solo like MM's in rome and watching the audition DVD he is such a nice new husband 

[Nekov]

Mike looks like he's in incredible shape.

edit: iPod is such a universal term. It could have been a phone. What if there was a problem at home that needed attention via text message or something? I guess you could excuse yourself from the table at that point.

He did also say that the guy with the iPod was also wearing headphones. I believe that if this person was talking on a phone, Mike wouldn't have been so critic of the situation.

[snapple]

Mike looks like he's in incredible shape.

edit: iPod is such a universal term. It could have been a phone. What if there was a problem at home that needed attention via text message or something? I guess you could excuse yourself from the table at that point.

He did also say that the guy with the iPod was also wearing headphones. I believe that if this person was talking on a phone, Mike wouldn't have been so critic of the situation.

I didn't rule out texting. And even if that was the case, you can excuse yourself from the table, too.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Interesting!