But do you admit that what he did say could be interpreted as having that exact same meaning?
No. Every time I've seen every person I've ever interacted with in even the most superficial way "that band's song sounds like... that band," it's been negative. Even when they like a band. It's like when someone asks you how one of your friends is doing and you say "Eh... Jimmy's Jimmy." He's your friend, but he was being annoying and/or unsatisfactory that day.
I mean, question to Jaffa, are you American? Because I know ariich is British, and maybe in Britain the language is different. Because I cannot stress enough that in America saying "It sounded like... DT" is universal code for having a negative opinion of it. I showed one of my friends who doesn't really like Dream Theater the single, you know what he said? You do know where this is going right?
"It sounds like Dream Theater dude."
Ah well, Jerry's gonna be Jerry sometimes.
If he wanted to take a dig, wouldn't he leave out the obviously positive stuff?
Well, it's not obviously positive.
And also, there's no way he'd ever openly insult the song unless he truly hated it. RR might cut him off from playing future DT material/singles, and he doesn't need to have a bunch of headlines saying "NYC Metal DJ Eddie Trunk Blasts Dream Theater, Defends ex-Drummer Mike Portnoy."