A groups of friends ended up talking to a guy about music in a bar about two years ago, and when Dream Theater came up, he was like, "Oh yeah, I love them!" But when I said, "What do you think of the new drummer?", he was like, "Wait, they have a new drummer? What happened to Mike Portnoy?" And this was more than a year after he had left, and after ADTOE was already out, so yeah, people who aren't internet dorks like us
don't always know the inside and outs of their favorite bands.