Sons of Apollo (feat. Portnoy & Sherinian)

[Schurftkut]

he didn't get any credits for parts of Scenes he'd written that they used on the album.

[efx]

Derek started talking about royalties (I think, feel free to correct me if wrong) and what I remember is him specifically using the phrase "screw job" to describe it. Not totally out of character for him in general but considering this was while SOA was active I thought it was weird.

[abydos]

Yeah, I have no idea how these work, but if he wrote it and they used it, he probably should have gotten some. Unless it was one of those deals - you work for a company, anything you make is theirs.

[Setlist Scotty]

I remember watching a Porntoy interview a while back where he said that he didn't want to be the main guy for SoA and deal with everything like he did before, that if this was to work as a band and his other projects, he'd have to have less responsibilities outside of the music.

Freudian slip or intentional? 

Anyway, I would be curious to see the interview where he said that specifically about SoA, because from what I recall, it was quite the opposite. While he was either a team player or just a drummer with everything else he did post-DT, at least in early interviews about SoA, he had commented about how much he had missed being in the driver's seat like he had with DT. So when he and Derek put SoA together, at least to some extent it was modeled after the roles MP and JP had in DT with MP heading more of the creative aspects with Derek heading up the business aspects.

[efx]

I remember watching a Porntoy interview a while back where he said that he didn't want to be the main guy for SoA and deal with everything like he did before, that if this was to work as a band and his other projects, he'd have to have less responsibilities outside of the music.

Freudian slip or intentional? 

Anyway, I would be curious to see the interview where he said that specifically about SoA, because from what I recall, it was quite the opposite. While he was either a team player or just a drummer with everything else he did post-DT, at least in early interviews about SoA, he had commented about how much he had missed being in the driver's seat like he had with DT. So when he and Derek put SoA together, at least to some extent it was modeled after the roles MP and JP had in DT with MP heading more of the creative aspects with Derek heading up the business aspects.

You could even see that reflected in the first albums cover. It's very apparent whose band this really was.

[abydos]

I remember watching a Porntoy interview a while back where he said that he didn't want to be the main guy for SoA and deal with everything like he did before, that if this was to work as a band and his other projects, he'd have to have less responsibilities outside of the music.

Freudian slip or intentional? 

Anyway, I would be curious to see the interview where he said that specifically about SoA, because from what I recall, it was quite the opposite. While he was either a team player or just a drummer with everything else he did post-DT, at least in early interviews about SoA, he had commented about how much he had missed being in the driver's seat like he had with DT. So when he and Derek put SoA together, at least to some extent it was modeled after the roles MP and JP had in DT with MP heading more of the creative aspects with Derek heading up the business aspects.

I may be misremembering it and twisting it around, I tried looking for it but couldn't find it now.