Yeah perhaps you are right. I have no idea how they feel about it, obviously. For me, I just feel like that band isn't the same when I see them play and the albums post portnoy just the songs don't seem like as many great songs as the ones with MP. To me some of the songs are more forgettable in the last three studio albums. Like for Train of Thought, Octavarium, SFAM when I heard those for the first time, six degrees I was hooked, the post portnoy albums not so much. I just gotta think that having one of the main guys no longer in that process affects the songs.