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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1050 on: April 05, 2015, 03:34:58 PM »
No, I guess I've just never seen an artist respond back to comments in an article about themselves on Blabbermouth  :lol
I see it sometimes, usually most other artists I see just handle it better. But to Mike's credit he's handling it decently enough so far on blabbermouth.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1051 on: April 05, 2015, 03:44:12 PM »
While he's keeping it together this time, the very fact that he's entertaining the trolls gives him bad publicity. Just like with the KM stuff back in the day, he still thinks that if he pushes his viewpoint enough, people will follow.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1052 on: April 05, 2015, 06:27:47 PM »
While he's keeping it together this time, the very fact that he's entertaining the trolls gives him bad publicity. Just like with the KM stuff back in the day, he still thinks that if he pushes his viewpoint enough, people will follow.
Rumbo, I get criticizing MP from time to time, and I consider you one of the more intelligent posters here, but your constant badgering is kind of off putting.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1053 on: April 05, 2015, 06:30:53 PM »
wow! I just checked it out.  He literally just went down the list of comments and pasted a stock answer about 10 different times.  How very effective. 

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1054 on: April 05, 2015, 07:28:39 PM »
I'm with TAC. What he did on Blabbermouth may not be your (speaking broadly here, not just at one person) style and it may not be what you would have done, but it was perfectly legitimate and harmless. Jumping on the guy over this just seems petty to me.
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« Reply #1055 on: April 05, 2015, 07:44:01 PM »
While he's keeping it together this time, the very fact that he's entertaining the trolls gives him bad publicity. Just like with the KM stuff back in the day, he still thinks that if he pushes his viewpoint enough, people will follow.
Rumbo, I get criticizing MP from time to time, and I consider you one of the more intelligent posters here, but your constant badgering is kind of off putting.

Sorry, I actually realized the same thing after I posted that. Been a long week with not-so-great sleep in mediocre hotels. I apologize.

BTW, I was actually pleasantly surprised at how levelheaded he responded to the interview questions. It's just that he has a knack for undermining his own PR achievements a minute later, this time by responding to Blabbermouth posters. I don't know how much MP is familiar with Blabbermouth, but one should never engage with Blabbermouth posters. Like, ever :lol
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1056 on: April 05, 2015, 09:26:36 PM »
I don't understand why he thought any of that was a good idea.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1057 on: April 05, 2015, 10:27:04 PM »
*edited for my capriciousness* 
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1058 on: April 06, 2015, 05:34:03 AM »
Ouch, dude.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Mike Portnoy
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1060 on: April 06, 2015, 07:30:52 AM »
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #1061 on: April 06, 2015, 07:42:09 AM »
That's an insult to anybody who participates at the Special Olympics.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1063 on: April 06, 2015, 08:02:49 AM »
Don't you mean with your ears? I, for one, prefer them to the latter-day Portnoy albums.

Not just mine, I'd say a majority of the DT fans probably feel similar. At least most of the comments I've read since his departure have lead me to believe that.




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« Reply #1064 on: April 07, 2015, 06:55:38 AM »
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« Reply #1065 on: April 07, 2015, 07:04:47 AM »
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« Reply #1066 on: April 07, 2015, 07:12:57 AM »
People who like to make lists are really annoying  :lol
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1067 on: April 07, 2015, 09:31:01 AM »
A few years back I went to a museum in Boston, and they had this banner saying "Monomania is the key to success". Kinda rung true (or maybe I just liked using it as an excuse why I'm not famous :lol )
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would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1069 on: April 07, 2015, 07:43:35 PM »
no way

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« Reply #1070 on: April 07, 2015, 07:48:09 PM »
MP: 'My OCD is a blessing and a curse'.

"I don't need to be professionally diagnosed to know there's something going on there!"

That just confirms what many of us suspected all along: he has never been diagnosed as OCD, which makes it insulting for him to say he has it, since there are people out there with actual mental disorders who need help.

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« Reply #1071 on: April 07, 2015, 08:17:18 PM »
It's not OCD. He just has control issues. My daughter, who goes to a special school, has habits that could be considered OCD.  She can't leave the house without the television being shut off, even if someone else is still home watching it. She goes into a fit like Rainman did when he couldn't fly Qantas and she's only 5. Things need to be a specific way with her or she has a fit.  So yeah, Mike doesn't have OCD issues. He has control issues. Being a perfectionist has nothing to do with OCD. Besides if Mike is such a perfectionist, can he explain Never Enough?

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« Reply #1072 on: April 07, 2015, 08:48:03 PM »
He also says "I have discussed it with doctors." He does not divulge the contents of those conversations.

As someone with professionally diagnosed (albeit mild) OCD, can I say that I don't mind if he says he has it, and that I believe that it's certainly possible that he does? OCD can vary dramatically in severity and often has symptoms that would not be readily visible to fans of a rock musician. In fact, it would be totally possible for someone to have mild OCD and not even have anyone besides their family suspect it.


Edit: Forgot to mention that another good reason for me to believe him is the accuracy of Constant Motion.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1074 on: April 08, 2015, 04:16:59 AM »
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1075 on: April 08, 2015, 04:21:57 AM »
Sooo don't know if it actually belongs here, but Next To None signed with Inside Out and announced their debut.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1077 on: April 08, 2015, 05:49:07 AM »
I'm always skeptical of anybody that self diagnosis a mental disorder then proceeds to use it as a peg on which to hang things that would otherwise be considered major personality flaws.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1079 on: April 08, 2015, 08:29:04 AM »
I'm always skeptical of anybody that self diagnosis a mental disorder then proceeds to use it as a peg on which to hang things that would otherwise be considered major personality flaws.

That's what I was thinking, too.  I say I have OCD tendencies but I don't think I have full-blown OCD.  I look at my daughter and I see someone having OCD to the point where any deviation from her ways causes uncontrollable outbursts. This is why she is in a special school that caters to her needs. So someone who cannot function beyond what is familiar to them is someone with severe OCD.  I think, like I mentioned above, MP just has control issues. Things have to be his way. He tries to sugarcoat it and say he's a perfectionist but I don't see it that way. 

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1080 on: April 08, 2015, 11:18:33 AM »
I could definitely imagine there being an Iron Maiden fan in 1997 being really really confident that Bruce would be back getting told by everyone else "it probably isn't going to happen," and coming out being right in the end.

Current DT and 90's Maiden are very different situations.  The backlash against IM without Bruce was much more prevalent and unanimous than whatever backlash there's been against DT without Portnoy.  I don't think DT sees a real reason to change the status quo as it exists now.

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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1081 on: April 08, 2015, 12:25:04 PM »
I'm not saying they'll fire Mangini to bring back Portnoy like Maiden did with Blaze. I'm saying that in both situations there existed a point where it seemed impossible that the old guy would come back into the band, but that with Maiden it did—and that's why I wouldn't exactly count out Portnoy coming back someday.

As for OCD, I won't say anything more on the subject because there's no way this results in a fruitful conversation. I just wanted to throw my chip in earlier as "guy diagnosed with mild OCD who believes MP could also possibly have mild OCD."
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1082 on: April 08, 2015, 01:23:22 PM »
I frankly don't think it's a big deal. Sure, I'm absolutely certain the guy doesn't have OCD, and that he's probably rather "anal retentive" in some fashion.
Of course, who calls themselves "anal retentive" publicly, as it is almost exclusively negative in connotation. So, he uses the term OCD, sort of how people use "retarded" in a sentence like "lol, I guess I'm a bit retarded when it comes to XYZ".
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1083 on: April 08, 2015, 01:39:40 PM »
I'm not saying they'll fire Mangini to bring back Portnoy like Maiden did with Blaze. I'm saying that in both situations there existed a point where it seemed impossible that the old guy would come back into the band, but that with Maiden it did—and that's why I wouldn't exactly count out Portnoy coming back someday.
Did there exist any acrimony between Bruce and Ari? Much less, acrimony to the degree there seems to be between MP and a couple of members of DT? I told a chum the other night that if there were to be some sort of reunion it'd be LTE, since there seems to be no ill-will between him and JR, and certainly far less (if any) with JP. Just a hunch, but I suspect JM and JLB would rather pack it up than get back into a band situation with MP.
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Re: Mike Portnoy
« Reply #1084 on: April 08, 2015, 01:59:51 PM »
Maybe I missed what was said, but when did it become obvious that there was bad blood between MP and JM.  I know of the issues with JLB and MP.