This Week in Rock: August 6-12
This Week in Rock: August 6-12In which….. the green-eyed monster consumes Mike Portnoy, Aussie festival bosses fire the shotgun of blame, Ozzy & Jeff Beck become judges, Dave Mustaine plays fantasy band, Kiss plumb the depths and Charlie Sheen officially becomes a clown
Reported by Cameron Pirie
Published: August 13, 2011. © Rock AAA.
With the imminent arrival of Dream Theater’s first album made without him, Mike Portnoy declared that he felt like a cuckolded lover. As green flames of jealously engulfed him he cried on the shoulder of New York DJ Eddie Trunk, bemoaning his loss
“Nobody wants to see their ex-wife of 25 years with a new husband moving into the house that you built for 25 years. It’s a painful thing for me to hear and see,” he whined, as the truth eventually smacked him hard between the eyes that his old chums were now over his departure and happily shacked up with their new love (drummer) Mike Mangini
He was also apparently baffled that the world would continue to rotate once he had announced his exit
“A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that,”
Well what the hell DID you expect Mike? John Petrucci to join a religious sect in the Himalayas? James LaBrie to pack in the music business and become an insurance salesman? M Shadows hasn’t yet turned up flipping burgers at MacDonald’s yet either.
Aussie rock fans down under were dismayed when promoters of the Soundwave Revolution touring festival, cancelled just a month before the five shows were planned.
Due to feature the first performances by the latest version of Van Halen fronted by original front-man Dave Lee Roth, promoter AJ Maddah was incensed when news of the cancellation was leaked via Twitter by Steel Panther drummer Stix Zadinia.
He hastily arranged an interview on Australian radio station Nova 969 where he promptly blamed the festival’s demise on an un-named ‘co-headliner’ who had apparently dithered so much that the shows had to be pulled.
Mike Portnoy Monster - News
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Mike Portnoy ~ World Reference
Mike Portnoy was born on April 20, 1967 and raised in Long Beach, New York, where his interest in music started at an early age. "My father was a rock n' roll disc jockey, so I was always surrounded by music constantly. I had this huge record collection when I was real young and loved the Beatles and then later on Kiss. It was inevitable that I'd become a musician." Admitting that Mike showed himself how to play the drums, he did take music speculation classes in secondary school.Around the same time that this time he began playing in groups of intruders in the vicinity, and the rise of Inner Sanctum, the latest in discharged their collection in particular. Mike Portnoy left the band after completing a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. During this period he began playing in local bands, including two (rise and Inner Sanctum) independent albums recorded and released. He left Inner Sanctum (his last high school band) after obtaining a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he met John Petrucci and John Myung. They formed a band, initially taking name "Majesty" before changing the name to Dream Theater. They left Berklee soon after. An avid collector of many things, Mike Portnoy has a vast array of Dream Theater memorabilia including bootlegs, posters, clippings and everything else under the sun with the band's name on it. He is also responsible for capturing everything the band does onvideo tape and DAT. His huge video collection includes favorite films as 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Jacob's Ladder and The Wall along with episodes of The Simpsons and memorable boxing matches. Mike Portnoy says his biggest influences are Rush drummer Neil Peart and the late Frank Zappa. Other favorites include drummers Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, Simon Philips, John Bonham and Keith Moon and bands such as The Beatles, Queen, Yes, Metallica, Jellyfish, Iron Maidon, U2 and Jane's Addiction.
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