While not that big a deal, this is not the first time he has done that in an interview, list all of the great bass players he has played with and not mentioned Myung
Yeah and it's not great. It seems that JLB and JM are the people who haven't really rebuilt their relationships with MP, and as a result he doesn't even wanna mention them now when it's warranted to do so, and previously they were only singled out in a negative context. We can argue about why that is*, and why JLB and JM have gotten this treatment while JP and JR get a full public reconciliation. Mike isn't hostile, but the more people are telling him about the optics of making these comments, the more he doubles down, because in his head he didn't mean to do harm by simply not mentioning someone he doesn't wanna mention, and if someone else wants to read it that way, that's their problem.
Well, maybe Mike should tell some little white lies here and there; it's the general assumption that James and Mike are not exactly the best of buddies, but in the occasional interview you see the casual remark from James about how Mike was doing a great job at creating setlists or whatever. It would stick out like a sore thumb if James would say "Petrucci is so great at writing setlists I can't imagine anyone else in the band doing it". The casual mention of his former bandmates, for Mike, should come easy as long as it's just a casual remark and not a detailed request to go very in depth.
Because James is very much aware about the implications of what he says and of what he doesn't say. In fact, he got burned very hard by MP because of what someone else implied in a headline to an article about a James interview post-split. So now he's aware of the implications of what others can say as well.
* Not that we should! But it's inevitable, most splits nowadays follow the business script and they always say there is absolutely no bad blood, so it's interesting to see someone openly holding grudges that we know they must have. What's sad about MP's case is that he always seems like he is pissed off every time someone takes his words at face value and says "well, this guy has a grudge", and it's like he doesn't understand why that happens. Well, here's why.
Topic: The Mike Portnoy Appreciation/Discussion Thread (merged) (Read 312884 times)
