In response to Mike Portnoy's "last" post:
Mike, for God's sake, you left the goddamn band. YOU LEFT. Instead of getting what you want by going on hiatus and basically making your bandmates find another avenue for income (which you had no problem with, because you knew you had A7X if you wanted it), you didn't do the one thing you should have:
ASKED THE DAMN BAND THAT YOU TAKE A HIATUS AND THEM BRING ON A FILL-IN FOR AN ALBUM CYCLE SO THAT YOU COULD CLEAR YOUR HEAD.
Had you actually done that, instead of what you did, none of this would have happened. You have some sort of need to feel wanted, and while that is human, you caused all of the backlash the way you have continually put yourself in the spotlight for attention.
How are you the "bad guy?" READ ABOVE. You need all this damn attention it seems. What you SHOULD HAVE DONE, is do what I said above, OR, OR...instead of releasing your own messages, had the BAND ANNOUNCE EVERYTHING, AND YOU JUST ANNOUNCE ABOUT THE NON-DT stuff.
Instead, you had to be an attention whore.
MP - I love what you did for all the fans, I love you as a drummer, and I have complete respect for you as a musician. But dude, you have a serious need for attention, and you make really stupid comments publicly because of it. If you didn't want to fully leave DT, you didn't have to. YOU made that choice by going to one extreme or another. THAT is YOUR fault. Not anyone else's.
So for God's sake, shut up now, go play with A7X, go do the projects we'll all check out, and let Dream Theater BE Dream Theater. Because frankly, DT is a LOT bigger than just Mike Portnoy. If Pink Floyd can go on without Roger, successfully, then Dream Theater can very easily go on without Mike Portnoy. That's not a shot at ya bro, it's just reality.
Go live life and enjoy the new chapter. Let time take its course. HOPEFULLY, this post finds its way to you.