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.