Mike Portnoy
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Nov 2, 2026
CaseyHOST
It's tepid, lukewarm, fine.
CaseyHOST
that is that is like the definition of slop like oh okay this is fine like sabaro's pizza at the mall it's fine if you want to make a good game if you want to make a good pizza you don't want sabaro's mall pizza which is just unobjectionable fine pizza you know fucking uh What's the guy's name? Mike Portnoy, Dave Portnoy.
Jake DownHOST
Dave Portnoy.
CaseyHOST
One of those is a drummer, I think.
CaseyHOST
The Dream Theater drummer, I think.
CaseyHOST
Right, Mike Portnoy? It doesn't matter.
CaseyHOST
He's not going to go to Sbarro and give it a fucking eight five.
CaseyHOST
You know what I mean? He'll give it a five point zero.
MarkHOST
And it channels all the things that I love about metal from when I was a metal head.
MarkHOST
It's got what Mike Portnoy describes as balls and chunk.
MarkHOST
It's crunchy guitars.
MarkHOST
It's, you know.
JoshHOST
it's kind of an interesting like we were talking about on women and children first how the last song on women and children first growth or whatever it was called like right was supposed to start the next album but they abandoned the idea like well it's kind of an interesting continuation of that Was
PaulHOST
it ever meant to or was that just Mike Portnoy's childhood?
JoshHOST
I thought we read somewhere that they had played around with the idea of using that riff to start the next album.
JoshHOST
But I could be wrong.
JoshHOST
But
PaulHOST
Mike Portnoy definitely thought it was going to happen.
PaulHOST
I know that was Portnoy's assumption.
PaulHOST
Right.
Mike ChadwickHOST
Of course he was.
Mike ChadwickHOST
And the Dixie Dregs was the band the keyboard player in the track before was playing with when he met the two guys from Dream Theatre, Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci.
Mike ChadwickHOST
Of course, I'm talking about Jordan Rudess, who was featured on keyboards.
Mike ChadwickHOST
And the bass player on that track was Tony Levin, the Project The Liquid band.
Martin PopoffHOST
But no, he wrote a lot of the the key lyrics to all the big hits there.
Martin PopoffHOST
Mike Portnoy is an important part of Dream Theater.
Martin PopoffHOST
And yeah.
Martin PopoffHOST
conceptually writing wise and a super important drummer in that band.
Chris O'BrienHOST
So Bob the Painter's who dis this week is the Winery Dogs.
Chris O'BrienHOST
Now, the Winery Dogs is Mike Portnoy on drums.
Chris O'BrienHOST
Of course, Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater.
Chris O'BrienHOST
Sons of Apollo.
Chris O'BrienHOST
Sons of Apollo.
Martin PopoffHOST
Um, but, uh, and it's still like, still sound like they were written by a German, but no, he wrote a lot of the, uh, the key lyrics to all the big hits there.
Martin PopoffHOST
Mike Portnoy is an important part of dream theater.
Martin PopoffHOST
Um, and, uh, yeah.
Martin PopoffHOST
conceptually writing wise and a super important drummer in that band.
James CoxHOST
Okay.
James CoxHOST
So I think that was a band formed by Mike Portnoy, which was the Dream Theater drummer.
James CoxHOST
And they have an album with one song, okay? Okay.
James CoxHOST
That'd be a
Uncle SteveHOST
But I think the reason people say he's not as good of a drummer is because everybody else is so good.
Uncle SteveHOST
Like the Mike Portnoy's of the world, the Charlie Benante, the Dave Lombardo, the whoever drums for Megadeth.
Uncle SteveHOST
But Lars... fits the bill in that band and i thought he does a good job on that album i think his drumming is really good and i i just can't be a part of the group that says oh large sucks maybe if i've ever said that i'm not in that group i just disagree he's maybe his chops
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have
Uncle SteveHOST
I thought other drummers are so good.
Uncle SteveHOST
And maybe Lars isn't as...
Uncle SteveHOST
I mean, Lars is no Mike Portnoy, and he's no
MattHOST
Charles...
JerryHOST
song.
JerryHOST
One person who I was surprised was not in the documentary was Mike Portnoy because he was such a close friend of Neil's and he's a prominent drummer himself.
JerryHOST
I wonder if it's because maybe Getty and Alex aren't that close to him or I wonder why.
JerryHOST
Maybe scheduling.
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