DREAM THEATER Audio Interview

[foolosophy]

Mike Portnoy is such an awesome dude. He's one of the few musicians who embrace modern technology and methods. He encourages his fans to film bootlegs at their concerts, how awesome is that! More Dream Theater plz!

[Apples]

This makes me really excited to think of the possibility of even more DT songs in rock band.

Agreed. Especially since they appeared to have a pretty reasonable relationship with him.

[HMXMusoman]

Good stuff. Props to the interviewer for bringing up Transatlantic...one of the best 'supergroups' I know. Shame they don't have anything planned for the future...but that talk of a Liquid Tension Experiment reunion makes me very happy.

I'm with you there...I saw Transatlantic on their only Boston show, playing for a near-empty house behind the first album, and they were truly amazing. I did hear that three-quarters of Transatlantic (minus the bass player who's touring with Marillion) are playing a prog festival somewhere-- I guess Portnoy thought I was asking about a full-fledged reunion which still seems a ways off.

Thanks for all the response!

[skitch78]

The best question in that whole interview:

Interviewer: "So, do you purposefully make stuff as hard as you can because you can?"

Portnoy: "Yes."

Paraphrased. Can't remember the exact quote, but it was something along those lines.

Haha, that reminds me of this webcomic: http://xkcd.com/70/

[WhiffleBallTony]

Haha, that reminds me of this webcomic: http://xkcd.com/70/

Haha! that's great.

[Grayshadow-PSN]

Brett, I hope you appreciate how awesome your job is.

[NickTheNewbie]

I'm with you there...I saw Transatlantic on their only Boston show, playing for a near-empty house behind the first album, and they were truly amazing. I did hear that three-quarters of Transatlantic (minus the bass player who's touring with Marillion) are playing a prog festival somewhere-- I guess Portnoy thought I was asking about a full-fledged reunion which still seems a ways off.

Thanks for all the response!

Ok it's settled: "All of the above" in rock band 2

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also, Brett you lucky lucky guy!

[HMXMusoman]

Brett, I hope you appreciate how awesome your job is.

Believe me, I do. Though I also do a lot of stuff here that isn't quite as glamorous as talking to rock stars!

[Der_Lex]

I'm with you there...I saw Transatlantic on their only Boston show, playing for a near-empty house behind the first album, and they were truly amazing. I did hear that three-quarters of Transatlantic (minus the bass player who's touring with Marillion) are playing a prog festival somewhere-- I guess Portnoy thought I was asking about a full-fledged reunion which still seems a ways off.

Thanks for all the response!

Neat. I saw them live on the tour for their second album, but the not-so-small venue was absolutely packed! Holland has always been a very prog-minded country, I guess. I've always thought Neil Morse was the one holding off possible reunions because he only wanted to make religious music from now on (I still sorely miss him in Spock's Beard), so the fact that 'the door is open' was already good news for me.

Having some Transatlantic in the game would be great, but not too many of their songs go under the 10-minute mark. I'll settle for some DLC from the component bands (DT, Spock's Beard, Flowr Kings, Marillion), though

And, as others have said before me, great job on the interview!