What will mike portnoy do now

Asked what he learned from the whole episode, Portnoy said: "I learned that the Internet is a very scary thing, because that first year after the split, I just couldn't say anything without it becoming these giant clickbait headlines on these web sites. No matter what I said, no matter how tastefully or gracefully I tried to say it, it always got twisted and misinterpreted and turned into some sort of catchphrase clickbait headline.

So I learned, especially in that first year after I left, that I had to just really be careful what I said, or don't say anything at all. I had to start to tread carefully. Because we live in this age now where everything is in real time, and people, the Internet trolls, just love to bury you — they love to run with whatever they can. When I was a kid, you had to really wait to find out the news and find out the dirt. Nowadays, we live in a time where everything is in real time.

And people were acting as if I put out some sort of press release. It wasn't a press release — it was my feelings and my explanation of what happened. And what these things do is a journalist will ask the artist a question, and I like to answer the question as honestly as I can, or don't answer it at all if I choose not to.

But I'm not lingering on these things — I'm answering a question that you're asking about my career and my life and the split. And that's what we do — we do interviews. Portnoy added, "Just the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel for a week or two, putting everybody, the crew and the gear and the trucks and everything on hold, and the venues — it's scary. And I understand the hesitation to go back out.

We had to look at the situation and say, 'Look, we really wanna play. We're dying to get out there. But is it worth the risk, both in terms of health and in terms of financial? And you're losing the show guarantees; you're losing all that income. It came out in and the musical landscape was turned upside down because there was a lot of grunge at that time. To be frank with you the album helped Dream Theater a lot. I say thank you John that you took a few minutes talking to me. By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies.

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Johan Hagberg 1 year ago. Hello John. Nice to hear your voice and welcome back on record. Is there a market out there for instrumental music? Will there be any live shows along with this album?

Do you have a favourite song playing live?