Mike Portnoy's DRUMEO Breaking Down DT's New Album: "Parasomnia" NOW

[evilasiojr]

Great news for other MM era songs like The Bigger Picture, Behind the Veil, Transcending Time in that they may see the light of day for future setlists.  Fingers crossed.  I think this strongly hints that the more technical tunes may have already been heard live for the last time.  I'm glad I got to see every MM era tour and a lot of these already.

I really wanna see Surrender to Reason being played one. I think it would go really well in the set before Only a Matter of Time, which is another favorite of mine.

[DTiwbwMP]

MP could play ANY of the MM era songs. They'd just be different which is fine. I DEFINITELY want to see more ADTOE & DT12 songs played in future sets!

[bosk1]

I think some are reading too much into his comments.  The very first time he is back out with the band, we have gotten two Mangini-era songs in the set, as well as a statement from him unequivocally stating that he feels it is a good thing to include songs from that era and that it would be "disrespectful" not to.  I'm really not sure what more people should reasonably expect.

[ZirconBlue]

MP has played hundreds of across all of his various projects, as well as countless cover songs with those projects. He's toured with other bands as a hired gun and played entire shows of songs written by other drummers. For him to not want to learn/play songs by his own band, I think is just lazy on his part.
So what if he wasn't involved in making those songs? How many songs did MM play over the years that he didn't write? Or Jordan for that matter?

Obviously no one should expect them to play any of the MM-era albums in full ever again, and at most I'd expect maybe 3 MM-era songs in any given setlist from here on out, but for him to write off however many songs because they're too "technical" or "acrobatic", is lazy.

I love how people are so willing to cast aspersions on members of a band they are ostensibly fans of. 

[svisser]

I'm just waiting for them to play The Astonishing in full again.

[devieira73]

I think some are reading too much into his comments.  The very first time he is back out with the band, we have gotten two Mangini-era songs in the set, as well as a statement from him unequivocally stating that he feels it is a good thing to include songs from that era and that it would be "disrespectful" not to.  I'm really not sure what more people should reasonably expect.

MP even said that he loves those 2 Mangini songs. I think is a good start and I guess he loves more than just those 2. My only doubt is if this attitude has more to do with the 40th anniversary tour or if we'll have at least one Mangini song in the future regular tours, really not erasing this phase from history.

[hefdaddy42]

I'm just waiting for them to play The Astonishing in full again.

Well

[MinistroRaven]

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[ReaperKK]

True, but I think when comparing to when JR, DS, or MM joined the band (I know MP is a re-join, so it's not exactly the same), they would have gotten laughed at if taking such a stance.

Having said that, I for one would be totally fine with him playing a different or more MP-styled drum part for any of the MM-era songs.  I would rather that than to see them never played at all.  I don't care if he plays MM's parts note for note, just like I've never cared if JR plays KM's or DS's parts note for note.

I agree. There is a dude on youtube who plays mm material kind of in the style of mp and it sounds great. Will it disappoint DT fans if MP reworked some of the MM parts? Sure. But DT fans are always disappointed

[three__days]

I agree. There is a dude on youtube who plays mm material kind of in the style of mp and it sounds great.

which youtuber is this? would love to see more MM in the MP style.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

which youtuber is this? would love to see more MM in the MP style.

Glen Montouri (or something)

[Lonk]

which youtuber is this? would love to see more MM in the MP style.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Av6tcJxx0kg

Great drummer

[Lax]

Playing the grammy winning song could have been relevant

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

New MP interview. He talks about the set list with MM songs again and is asked about what he thinks are the main differences between his style and Mike's (8:30)

https://youtu.be/XMaqIv_zr8Q?si=lQs0ObS80Wja4mjg

[Northern Lion]

New MP interview. He talks about the set list with MM songs again and is asked about what he thinks are the main differences between his style and Mike's (8:30)

https://youtu.be/XMaqIv_zr8Q?si=lQs0ObS80Wja4mjg

Yeah, he restated it pretty clearly. We will continue to hear songs from the Mangini era.

[MoraWintersoul]

Will it disappoint DT fans if MP reworked some of the MM parts? Sure. But DT fans are always disappointed

He can have a taste of what MM had to deal with all these years

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

He can have a taste of what MM had to deal with all these years

He's already getting a taste of it regarding his interpretation or Barstool Warrior. And that's one of more straight forward MM era performances.

[Metro]

First we had MP playing Taylor Swift

Now we have Taylor Swift's bassist playing DT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB7TGJoQW2Q

[nobloodyname]

That's great! He's always really good to watch live with Taylor, too.

[durga2112]

We're getting closer and closer to "Metropolis Part I (Taylor's Version)". 

[MetropolisWatches]

MP could play ANY of the MM era songs. They'd just be different which is fine. I DEFINITELY want to see more ADTOE & DT12 songs played in future sets!

"The Bigger Picture" and "Surrender to Reason" are criminally underrated. They would be considered DT classics (if released on the 90s era albums).

[hefdaddy42]

First we had MP playing Taylor Swift

Now we have Taylor Swift's bassist playing DT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB7TGJoQW2Q

That was really nice!  I would have liked to see some footage where he talks about the song or his thoughts on it or the band.  But that was cool.

[faizoff]

First we had MP playing Taylor Swift

Now we have Taylor Swift's bassist playing DT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB7TGJoQW2Q

This just came on my feed and saw it was already posted here. I've seen Amos comment on his much older videos that he's a huge fan of DT. It's nice to see this cover, the dude's playing is fantastic.

[faizoff]

MP and Amos exchanging pleasantries on instagram.

[hefdaddy42]

That's fantastic.

[gzarruk]

Now Drumeo has recorded with Max.

[Kocak]

I like how Max Portnoy didn't go the "Let me copy my father" route with his drumming after Next to None. His drumming has a different character. While the music itself isn't my cup of tea, I appreciate that he found his own sound, genuinely.

[gzarruk]

I like how Max Portnoy didn't go the "Let me copy my father" route with his drumming after Next to None. His drumming has a different character. While the music itself isn't my cup of tea, I appreciate that he found his own sound, genuinely.

I wasn't the biggest N2N fan, but thought that had potential. His current bands (Tallah and Code Orange) are unlistenable to me.

[TAC]

Here's a great new interview with MP. I didn't want to create a new thread for it, so I'm putting it here.

It's actually cued up to the last question where he talks about how he approaches writing drum parts. There's so much comparative discussion between MP and MM, but he puts it into words pretty consicely.

[ReaperKK]

I got this queued up and I'm looking forward to listening.

[HOF]

Have been trying to find a chunk of time to watch/listen to this.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

Here's a great new interview with MP. I didn't want to create a new thread for it, so I'm putting it here.

It's actually cued up to the last question where he talks about how he approaches writing drum parts. There's so much comparative discussion between MP and MM, but he puts it into words pretty consicely.

Great interview. I didn't catch any comparative part though. I don't recall that they talked about MM at all.

[TAC]

Great interview. I didn't catch any comparative part though. I don't recall that they talked about MM at all.

Well what I meant is that some of us have been describing what  or why we prefer MP's drumming.

I was referring to discussions here on DTF. Not the interview. Sorry if I caused confusion.

[dualpalmpilots]

Mike seems like he's in a really good place. I love listening to his interviews these days.

[gzarruk]

Here's a great new interview with MP. I didn't want to create a new thread for it, so I'm putting it here.

It's actually cued up to the last question where he talks about how he approaches writing drum parts. There's so much comparative discussion between MP and MM, but he puts it into words pretty consicely.

This might be a post for the controversial opinions thread, but I think Mike sometimes forgets he's back drumming for DT and not Twisted Sister or TWD.