MIKE PORTNOY Quits DREAM THEATER

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by midgetbolt

The only truly "great" rock drummers (and rock music is an important distinction here) in the last 30 years have been Peart, Portnoy, Carey, and maybe Terry Bozio. Very good drummers would include McBrain, VanHalen, Travis Smith, The Rev, Lars, Lombardo, and I can't think of many others.

You clearly don't know a ****ing thing about drummers.

Alex Van Halen?



Andy Johns could tell you a few stories. Didn't you just love his Simmons drums on 1984, 5150 and OU812? They were the BOMB!



And LARS? ****, Dude. The ENTIRE Black album was cut and paste to TAPE. Not a computer, tape. They cut so much ****ing tape that all of the cymbals had to be re-cut because they were chopped off when trying to get the drums in time.

There are an ENDLESS number of players who could play Portnoy's parts.

Dave Weckl, Brian Tichy, Taylor Hawkins, anyone that's played with Zappa or Vai (Chris Frazier, FTW?), Phil Collins, Bill Bruford, Robin Dimaggio and an and on and on.

If Portnoy is thought to be "special", it's because of the attitude and vibe he brought to the band. The sense of direction.

Not because of his chops.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

There are an ENDLESS number of players who could play Portnoy's parts.

Dave Weckl, Brian Tichy, Taylor Hawkins, anyone that's played with Zappa or Vai (Chris Frazier, FTW?), Phil Collins, Bill Bruford, Robin Dimaggio and an and on and on.

If Portnoy is thought to be "special", it's because of the attitude and vibe he brought to the band. The sense of direction.

Not because of his chops.

If there are an endless number of drummers that can play Portnoy's parts then there are an endless number of guitarists who can play Petrucci's parts.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

If there are an endless number of drummers that can play Portnoy's parts then there are an endless number of guitarists who can play Petrucci's parts.

Untrue.

My experience has been that there are far more extremely talented drummers that "hide" their chops in order to work.

Conversely, many guitarists struggle to do even the simplest things, let alone shred like a Petrucci.

I gave you names of many drummers that could step right in an not miss a beat in a live show for the fans.

If you'd like, go ahead a name the guitarists that could fill in for John and play his parts perfectly.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Untrue.

My experience has been that there are far more extremely talented drummers that "hide" their chops in order to work.

Conversely, many guitarists struggle to do even the simplest things, let alone shred like a Petrucci.

I gave you names of many drummers that could step right in an not miss a beat in a live show for the fans.

If you'd like, go ahead a name the guitarists that could fill in for John and play his parts perfectly.

I don't feel like typing out the names of like 200 guitarists.

I will take your word for it re: great drummers that don't show it. You obviously the experience to make that claim. I can say that I hate all of these drummers that I don't know because they are denying the world their talent.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

I don't feel like typing out the names of like 200 guitarists.

Lame