"When we started Dream Theater back in '85, we were an instrumental band," the drummer recalls. Several guest drummers appear on this particular track, including (in order of appearance) Mike Portnoy ( The Neal Morse Band, ex- Dream Theater ), Navene Koperweis ( Entheos, ex- Animals As Leaders and.
Mike Portnoy was born Apand raised on Long Island in Long Beach, New York. On June 14, 2010, Mike Portnoy won the Metal Hammer Golden God Award for Best Drummer. I've been going to see Mike in concert in various bands since the summer of 1993. Mike Portnoy was born and raised in Long Beach, New York, on Long Island. As voted on by 6,500 drummers worldwide, Portnoy won the Drummies Award for Best Progressive Rock drummer in 2010, while Joey Jordison of Slipknot / Rob Zombie / Murderdolls won the award for Best Metal drummer. With most bands I listen to, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I discovered them. I'm happy with Mike Portnoy playing with Flying Colors and Transatlantic and leaving Mangini to do his thing as a metal prog drummer much more in the style that the rest of the current band is doing. The legendary supergroup comprised of Mike Portnoy (Transatlantic, Sons of Apollo), John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), and Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) has signed with InsideOutMusic for the release of their 3rd album. Portnoy quit, and they decided to carry on without him. I'm very outgoing, an extrovert, a control freak. They changed their singer twice in the late 1980s when Chris Collins was replaced by Charles Dominici in 1987. Liquid Tension Experiment, the supergroup of Dream Theater and King Crimson members, have dropped their first new song, "The Passage of Time." The album, LTE3 drops March 26th via InsideOut Music and is twenty-two years after the bands' last studio album.