I think if he decided to do ACOS anyway, the only comparison would have been the vocals, to which I'm sure James would have gotten some not so good opinions about him.
Also, I think he may only be friends with JP and JR at this point. He and James aren't cool for obvious reasons, but I don't think he and JM have any beef, and it's probably more of the fact that JM is so introverted that he just never decided to stay in touch. I mean, how much did they actually talk to each other during the 25 years they were together?
MP actually explicitly said on FB that he has been on good terms with 3 of the 4 members of DT that he left behind, so I think he's mended any wounds he opened with JM over the years, if there were any at all.
-Marc.
That's good to hear.
Yes I noticed that was odd. The Facebook post was done just before the tour started but this interview was done after the Tilberg show.... so what happened? suddenly beef with someone in a few days or MP just mistyping or mis counting
I know for quite some time that things between him and JM were not cool, so a simple explanation is that maybe since he first invited the guys to join him on the cruise, that he's since patched things up with JM. After all, JM and MP literally live within walking distance of each other. So I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they crossed paths, intentionally or not.
Why aren't MP and Labrie in good terms? What happened? Source?
Only speculation, but Mike has talked shit about James over the years, and I'd assume James doesn't like that too much. He may have even been the main person keeping Mike from doing collaborations, which in turn would cause Mike's dislike.
Honestly, what "shit" has MP talked about JL? Aside from being stupid enough to get pissed off after seeing a click-bait Blabbermouth headline, nothing MP has said publicly could be described as what you are saying. Yes, there were different times that MP spoke candidly about how JL's vocal style might not be best for what DT wanted to do at the (then) present time, but I'd hardly call that talking "shit".
As for being the main person to keep MP from doing collaborations, not at all - no chance of that at all. What the guys do outside of their committed time to DT is entirely up to them.
The people that trash on MP are no better. I think many read into his posts too much and take things out of context. I'd be willing to bet MP would be a fun guy to hang out with, I sure wish I could jam with him. I've jammed and recorded with some good drummers but that would be a whole different league..
So true about people talking trash. And I recall one guy on here (forget his name) who just LOVED to talk crap about MP, but when he managed to get backstage at a festival MP was at, and MP complimented him on the (MP-era) DT shirt he was wearing, the guy totally pussied out and didn't have the balls to talk like he did here.
As for MP himself, you're completely correct in that he's a great guy to hang with. I've had the pleasure of having dinner with him 3 different times, besides doing 3 interviews, hanging out with him before the Cygnus and the Sea Monsters show (walking around Chicago, going into record stores) and just chatting with him at aftershows numerous times. He is a great person to spend time with - not some cocky rockstar jerk like many haters probably like to imagine that he is.
Yeah, he was fine in that interview. I still think he should be playing ACOS if he wants to. People get it.
Amen! I soooooo wish he would, for himself and for the fans.
I've been guilty of using couple and few improperly, although I try not to. It could be the same for MP.
Yeah, maybe.. But to confuse 30 (amount of DT lyrics he claims to have written in the interview) with 14 (actual amount of DT lyrics he wrote), that's another thing I suppose.. I wonder if he does these kind of things -cuz is not the first time precisely- on purpose; I mean, with the obsessive that he is with this little details and all that, I doubt he wouldn't know how many lyrics he wrote for a band he was in for 25 years and just after reviewing them in order to select some among them..
Also, he says he wrote, besides their lyrics, the vocal melodies for the three SFAM songs they're playing now?.. About that now, I just don't believe him, if that's what he meant..
While MP is detail oriented, he is also extremely honest. So in that case, I'd imagine he pulled that number out of the air, just has he does when he jokes about how he's in 86 bands at the moment. So, no, I doubt he's taken the time to count out exactly how many songs he wrote DT lyrics to. Funny too, because I'm counting that he wrote lyrics to 20 different songs (altho in the case of 2 of them, they were co-written: SDoIT and 8v); maybe you need to do a recount too.
And regarding writing vocal melodies to the SFaM tracks? You better believe he has. That has always been a rule within the DT camp: whoever writes the lyrics writes the vocal melodies. While you may not think so, MP is more familiar with music than just being a drummer. He knows theory and has come up with musical parts to various DT songs (altho not as many as JP and JR). So it shouldn't be surprising that he did write the vocal melodies to the songs he wrote lyrics for. In fact, there's a version of TBoT with MP singing the lyrics, because he came up with the vocal melodies.
The only one who doesn't, is JM, who always submitted lyrics in poem form, requiring the other guys to reformat the words into lyrical format, which was one beef that they (not just MP) had.