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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #595 on: November 22, 2014, 08:33:39 PM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #596 on: November 22, 2014, 08:40:42 PM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #597 on: November 22, 2014, 08:47:49 PM »
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« Reply #598 on: November 22, 2014, 08:49:57 PM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #599 on: November 22, 2014, 08:53:23 PM »
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« Reply #600 on: November 22, 2014, 09:00:57 PM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #601 on: November 22, 2014, 11:05:38 PM »
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Mike Portnoy wasn't on that song.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #602 on: November 23, 2014, 04:35:33 AM »
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« Reply #603 on: November 23, 2014, 04:45:57 AM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #604 on: November 24, 2014, 01:25:47 PM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #605 on: November 24, 2014, 01:48:28 PM »
I know he wasn't involved in the song, but...

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #606 on: November 26, 2014, 09:40:53 PM »
I know he wasn't involved in the song, but...

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #607 on: December 04, 2014, 09:07:29 PM »
It's definitely gotten quiet around the guy lately, at least in this thread. Is anybody still actively following him? I never would have thought it possible when he left DT, but there's no project of his left that I find musically interesting. FC was the last one, but they kinda killed it off, at least for me.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #608 on: December 04, 2014, 09:16:34 PM »
It's definitely gotten quiet around the guy lately, at least in this thread. Is anybody still actively following him? I never would have thought it possible when he left DT, but there's no project of his left that I find musically interesting. FC was the last one, but they kinda killed it off, at least for me.

If by actively following you mean read his Facebook posts, then yeah, lol.

But yeah, musically, I haven't really been interested in what he's been doing lately. For all the praise that Flying Colors and Winery Dogs got, neither really hooked me. They were good, but nothing I found unique and interesting enough to start collecting, and like you said, now FC is dead in the water anyway.

Given his choices and tastes lately, I can't imagining him doing anything that would catch my interest, short of joining Megadeth, as people have been wanting.  :lol
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #609 on: December 04, 2014, 10:46:22 PM »
Wait what happened to FC? Is that project over?
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #610 on: December 04, 2014, 11:09:18 PM »
Wait what happened to FC? Is that project over?

No, but I'm guessing TheGreatPretender wasn't a fan of Second Nature based on the comment that they're "dead in the water anyway".

I, for one, loved the album, and it sits high with Kaleidoscope as two of my favorite albums of the year, both with Mike Portnoy (and Neal Morse) on them. His drumming might be a bit same-y, but good-same is still good. He hasn't gotten WORSE, by no means, but he still has the same power as he always has. I doubt he'll slow down and turn into Alan White anytime soon.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #611 on: December 04, 2014, 11:20:06 PM »
Second Nature and Kaleidoscope are completely opposite for me. I've really warmed up to Second Nature and rate it as highly as the debut now, and Peaceful Harbour might just be the best thing the band has done. Kaleidoscope on the other hand didn't make a great first impression, and it hasn't really improved at all since then. Very disappointed.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #612 on: December 04, 2014, 11:22:12 PM »
Wait what happened to FC? Is that project over?

No, but I'm guessing TheGreatPretender wasn't a fan of Second Nature based on the comment that they're "dead in the water anyway".


I actually haven't heard it... Sorry, I misread Rumbroak's comment about them killing it. I thought he meant they killed the project. Kaleidoscope didn't impress me though. Was the follow up particularly different?
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #613 on: December 05, 2014, 12:16:55 AM »
There's some good stuff on that album. It's nowhere near as special as the debut, which makes me less enthusiastic about the project as a whole, but there's some good stuff there. I love Cosmic Symphony and Lost Without You is good too. It's good, but a little too Transatlantic-lite for my tastes. Open Your Eyes might be the worst song they've recorded. Talk about a rickety start to the album.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #614 on: December 05, 2014, 12:33:54 AM »
My thoughts on Kaleidoscope have more or less been consistent since its release, though its initial luster has worn off somewhat. It's one of the weaker Transatlantic releases, but the two epics it offers are still enjoyable.

Second Nature is a bit of the same story. I didn't come out of it loving it or anything, but thought it was an overall decent effort. Peaceful Harbor might be the best thing they've put out yet, but a lot of the songs towards the middle of it just fall flat for me.

Open Your Eyes might be the worst song they've recorded. Talk about a rickety start to the album.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #615 on: December 05, 2014, 06:01:40 AM »
Second Nature is an excellent album - the opening track doesn't interest me much but after that it's really great and continues on the great stuff from the first album.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #616 on: December 05, 2014, 06:58:33 AM »
Second Nature is an excellent album - the opening track doesn't interest me much but after that it's really great and continues on the great stuff from the first album.
This, it's nothing like Transatlantic (except MAYBE for the first track), I dunno how anyone could say that.
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« Reply #617 on: December 05, 2014, 07:12:14 AM »
Yeah, my comment was meant to mean "they changed direction of the project so much that I'm not too interested anymore". There was something very different and distinct about the debut album, but the sequel can mostly only be enjoyed if you like TA's and Morse's current output.
Either way, back on topic, I guess he bridged some time and revenue with the Metal Allegiance thing, which I'm of course totally not interested in. And I haven't really hard of anything new in the works by him.

EDIT: Come on Hef. The first track is total TA/Morse attack. At the very least, it has *nothing* to do with what the debut album was.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #618 on: December 05, 2014, 07:21:46 AM »
SN is proggier but they still have the essence of the pop qualities and great hooks in this album.  I love the harmonies.  I miss that in some of the newer music I've been listening to.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #619 on: December 05, 2014, 07:47:29 AM »
EDIT: Come on Hef. The first track is total TA/Morse attack. At the very least, it has *nothing* to do with what the debut album was.
Yeah but that's only the first track. There is PLENTY of music over the rest of the album, none of which is even remotely like TA.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #620 on: December 05, 2014, 08:02:41 AM »
Even if the rest isn't exactly TA sounding, it's still waaaaaaaaay more prog than pop sounding, which I think Rumby is really trying to get at.

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« Reply #621 on: December 05, 2014, 08:29:11 AM »
EDIT: Come on Hef. The first track is total TA/Morse attack. At the very least, it has *nothing* to do with what the debut album was.
Yeah but that's only the first track. There is PLENTY of music over the rest of the album, none of which is even remotely like TA.

"Only" the first track, which is 12 minutes long. And it's not as if it stops there really. Neal digs out several of his tired TA/SB patches and applies them totally inappropriately across the album.
I mean, as I said, it's their project, they can do whatever they want with it. To me it's just a shame that they couldn't stick to the special thing they had, and rather morphed it into yet another TA/Morse clone.
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« Reply #622 on: December 05, 2014, 08:34:32 AM »
In terms of keyboard sounds, NM's patches are all over the first album as well. As I said at the time when Second Nature came out, I get the feeling you (and others) have been put off by the opening track and it's soured your view of the whole album. Honestly, when I listen to the album, I usually skip the first track.

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« Reply #623 on: December 05, 2014, 08:44:43 AM »
Nah. I'm listening to it just now again, and A Place In Your World just came on. How is that, other than the chorus, not just a NM solo song he plugged in?
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« Reply #624 on: December 05, 2014, 08:56:35 AM »
Yeah a bit, sure, but no more so than songs like The Storm and Infinite Fire (and to some extent Better Than Walking Away which sounds very NM to me). NM is one of the band so of course some of the music will sound like he wrote it. I'm not saying you can't hear NM's influence, I'm just pointing out that it was there on the first album as well. The only real difference is Open Up Your Eyes, which I completely agree with you about.

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« Reply #625 on: December 05, 2014, 09:13:39 AM »
Thing is, it's really hard for me to tell how much, as you say yourself, the horrendous positioning of the opening track has soured my perception of the album. On the debut album they had the wisdom (or sheer luck) to put the prog epic at the very end. I have no idea what complete lack of understanding how people perceived the first album made them put the track right at the start.
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« Reply #626 on: December 05, 2014, 10:35:43 AM »
EDIT: Come on Hef. The first track is total TA/Morse attack. At the very least, it has *nothing* to do with what the debut album was.
Yeah but that's only the first track. There is PLENTY of music over the rest of the album, none of which is even remotely like TA.

"Only" the first track, which is 12 minutes long. And it's not as if it stops there really. Neal digs out several of his tired TA/SB patches and applies them totally inappropriately across the album.
I mean, as I said, it's their project, they can do whatever they want with it. To me it's just a shame that they couldn't stick to the special thing they had, and rather morphed it into yet another TA/Morse clone.
You're listening with different ears than I am.  I hear NM touches here and there, but no way is this a TA/Morse clone. If anything, there is a freshness and differentness about this that I think NM could use in his solo stuff.  I mean, neither TA nor NM would produce anything like, well, any of the last 3 tracks, for sure.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #627 on: December 05, 2014, 10:48:42 AM »
Thing is, it's really hard for me to tell how much, as you say yourself, the horrendous positioning of the opening track has soured my perception of the album. On the debut album they had the wisdom (or sheer luck) to put the prog epic at the very end. I have no idea what complete lack of understanding how people perceived the first album made them put the track right at the start.

I have the same feeling towards the 1st track. Totally kills the mood for the album...When I skip it, I enjoy the album more and can say that the rest of the album is excellent.

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« Reply #628 on: December 05, 2014, 12:14:01 PM »
I have no idea what complete lack of understanding how people perceived the first album made them put the track right at the start.
Yeah I definitely agree on that front. I like the rest of the album so much that I can easily look past (and often ignore) that song though, and excluding it still leaves 54 minutes which is easily a full-length album. :lol

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #629 on: December 05, 2014, 12:40:39 PM »
rumbo, I think you are just stubbornly sticking by your stance.  There are no such things as SB or TA patches; those are Neal Morse patches!!  And you should expect to hear them at some point on just about any album he does.