Drum Teacher Reacts | MIKE PORTNOY | 'The Dance of Eternity' - Dream Theater | (2020 Reaction)
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Come on in Michael!
DT or DT
(Dream theatre or Devin townsend)
@@rebelfiend1193 Yes.
Mike Portnoy era? Yes.
@@Ziri0615 I like mangini as well
Actually, what I like about Portnoy's timing is that it's NOT all metronomically precise. He's really able to push or pull, to lay back in a groove or yank back a big crash hit. Mike Mangini plays the same DT songs with even more precision and more outright technical ability but, to my ear, he loses some of the humanity that Portnoy put into the parts.
It's not the humanity, Mangini's drum tone and also his sense of precision just makes it off. Particularly live, Portnoy constantly played with his arrangements, he rarely sticks to anything too long and makes it always interesting.
Did you ever heard Mangini's interpretation of the outro to Finally Free? In the recent albums too, most things Mangini spent following Petrucci's guitar lead, Portnoy with fill it up with symbals and add so much depth you just couldn't get enough of the song.
@@subutaynoyan5372 There is a LOT of footage of Mangini playing live... People can decide for themselves
I always wanted to explain your point, but you find the right words, so thanks a lot.
well put.
Not some. All.
Glass Prison is somehow overlooked a lot as a drum masterpiece. Definitely worth checking out.
Thank you!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums The Great Debate too, both songs are featured on one of his DVDs.
Old school track scarred has an impossible drum pattern.
@@Jag211313 That song is awesome !!!
The song is a masterpiece, period.
Side note, the ragtime-like section was there because part of the story of the concept album Dance of Eternity comes from takes place in the 1920's.
#Facts
My favorite part of the song easily. It really freaks out the “normies.”
Not only is he absolutely technically perfect and proficient it’s his writing that makes him stand out. He’s so creative with what he writes.
His stuff on the Dream Theater album Systematic Chaos is wild. He seems like he's just playing guitar riffs on drums. It's insane.
I'll just dig this comment one year later just to say that the guitar solo in Constant Motion is one hell of a drum solo
The part "not on the beat" is actually in the studio version, so he meant that lol. Such a good player, loved your reaction
Thank you Gabriel! 🙏
This album (Scenes from a Memory) is a programmatic rock opera, part of which takes place in the 1920’s. That’s why there is that crazy swing section in the middle. Plus, there are references to other songs in the album and other DT albums.
Portnoy's precision and tecnique can be matched by dozens of great drummers, but when it comes to composing and to his on-stage charisma... this man is unique.
And he puts such feel into it!!!
And his drum sound is always immaculate. Similar to Pearts Moving Pictures kit.
Perfectly said, case closed..
An yes Portnoy has the best sounding kits. His engineers are amazing. Live and in studio.
The Train of Thought album has one of my top 3 all time drum sounds ever. It’s dark, full, low and heavy. Whoever tuned and mic’d those drums is a genius.
Also, Bobby Jarzombek - School. Extremely prog and criminally underrated
Dude is insane!
Peppered Cancer and So It Ain't. He's not human.
he's great in Fates Warning and Arch Matheos as well
Yeah, Bobby is crancked all the way to 100 out of 10 in everything. His drum focused recordings are just a huge WTF I just watched?!!!
Holy shit, this is kinda surprising to me. I always make comments about Bobby and always go unnoticed. Glad to see that there is more people who like the guy.
This is so funny. I remeber when this DVD came out, I gave it to my drum teacher hoping he would be as blown away as I was. His response, wow, he is so precise with his strokes.
Dude is outrageously consistent!
His Constant Motion video has some of the craziest playing I’ve ever seen.
Sounds good Brandon!
Transatlantic stuff is also rather nice. Very song writer orientated prog.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums yes! Please review his constant motion drum video! Im sure you'd be amazed, especially during the solo
YEAH! You have to do constant motion!!! The interlude part is out of this world. You almost have to watch it in slow motion to catch all the hits.
Absolutely agree!
Dream Theater - Instrumedley (Live at Budokan) - Mike Portnoy drumcam.
That has EVERYTHING and 100% live.
A change of seasons has the best drum sounds on the planet! Love that snare!!
Marco Minnemann learned this song in a weekend before auditioning for Dream Theater. Good thing he wasn't super serious about joining the band, because we got The Aristocrats!
Yeah, but with all respect to Mangini i was prefered Minnemann than Mangini :'c
Everybody knows that Portnoy's timing is impeccable, and that his sound is amazing, but what I consider to be his signature is his use of ghost notes. As an example, skip to 6:46 and listen to the ghost notes on that snare....
Mmmmm yeah keep talking to me about those ghost notes I'm close
Those seem more hard pronounced hits than ghost notes.
You must be a guitar player.
Timing, impeccable? I'm a Portnoy fan, and I think he has more feeling than anything else, if he nudges the time a little he fixes it right away for sure.
Are those really ghost notes though?
Remember, there are three other musicians who came together to make that song. So not only is Mike Portnoy an amazing and superior musician himself, but you got John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and John Myung all top notch players. It's incredible to come across a musician who is as skilled as Portnoy alone. Just think of the cosmic forces that had to align in order to make Dream Theater happen the way that it did. I really wish Mike hadn't left the band, but he deserves the freedom to go where he wants. Im just glad we got what we did with him being a key component in the formation of Dream Theater.
Scenes from a memory is s fantastic album. I've heard it countless times. Master piece
Heard about DT in 1989 when their first album "When Dream And Day Unite" came out. Fast forward to 1992, and their 2nd record came out, "Images & Words"... Saw them in a small local venue with around 60 other people in attendance, now, I'll be 60 years old in a few days and I've seen A LOT of live shows, (Led Zeppelin, Oakland Ca. 1977 for one) but up to that point i had never seen or heard a live performance that blew me away as much as DT did in 1992... Oh yeah, and the tickets were $5.00!! Great reaction to a great drummer, and i hope to see more...
1992 was when i heard them. I was 12. My brother and friends were into them and they would get rotation on WSOU here in NJ. I never heard anything (playing and music) and proceeded to take up drums shortly after hearing him. I miss those days. I did never get to see them live, ironically.
You are so very lucky to have seen them live back in 92! I watch vids of DT live from 92-93 on UA-cam and James was an absolute BEAST of a singer then. He pretty much nailed everything he sang then. There is a vid from 93 in Germany and he just runs through Learning To Live like it's nothing. Also, while I still love JP's Majesty tone, the Ibanez tone was one of his best
@@CompleteProducer84 I completely agree on the Ibanez years with John... I've always wondered why he didn't stick with them. maybe one reason is that Satch and Vai took the limelight from John, or Ibanez wasn't interested in giving him a signature model... Oh yeah, and James's vocals that night i saw them were on 🔥
I feel like Portnoy is just the right blend of robotic play and human feel, as opposed to Mangini who pushed it one step further on the robotic side both in his playing and composition. I can feel things hearing Portnoy play, right ? As perfect as he plays, he has a lot of "emotions" in his hits imo.
I totally agree.
SPOT ON!! Been saying this ever since he joined DT.
I couldn’t agree more.
Yup. The Octavarium album highlights the emotion in his playing fantastically.
Exactly the reason why I hate Mangini. It was truly sad to see such an emotionless-fast-playing-only drummer joined my most favourite band.
The interesting thing about this particular performance of this song is that it was the first time that Mike Portnoy had performed this song in its entirety. The album this song was on had just been released but at the time of recording this video for a drum instructional DVD, the band had yet to go on the road and tour for that album. They wrote and recorded the song in 3 sections. Portnoy had said this was the first time he had performed the song as one whole piece instead of 3 smaller sections and he wasn't sure if he was going to pull it off. As we can see by the video he obviously pulled it off quite well.
If I were Geddy Lee, or Alex Lifeson and I decided I wanted to tour again, this would be who I'd be calling first.
Great call Michael!
Mangini is an AWSOME drummer.....but Portnoy was the bedrock for most of these new age precusionists....He showed the way!! Peace and Love from Atlanta
Gosh, I been listening to and watching Portnoy for a decade and it still completely blows my mind
@Andre Rooney Drums Thankyou for putting this up...Portnoy at his finest !
Loved portnoy since i was 12 years old. So relaxed, unreal drummer and unreal showman.
Been waiting for more Dream Theater! Thanks man!
Wow I literally just discovered you an hour ago thanks to your infant annihilator clip being posted to reddit. watched some of your other portnoy and peart videos, looking forward to this one haha
Infant Annihilator are complete nutters. I discovered Andrew the same way!
Mike is a fanatic about drum tuning. His toms, cymbals, and bass all sound great EVERY time.
The snare sound of the Purple Monster is the first drum sound that got my ears to perk up, as a guitarist and only casual drummer, back in the day.
Absolutely mind-blowing
I don't know how I didn't see this drum teacher reaction video until now. This song is absolutely considered one of Dream Theater's most technically difficult songs to perform along with "A Nightmare to Remember" and "Erotomania" (just to name a couple of his absolutely punishing drum performances). As a former teacher myself, I love seeing people genuinely react to hearing someone like Mike Portnoy play when they hadn't heard his work before. Like any rock/metal lover, I gravitated first towards Neil Peart who is the North American Godfather of drums, but when I wanted to go more "metal" I thankfully gravitated towards Mike Portnoy and Mark Zonder (ex-Fates Warning) rather than weaker drummers in the metal genre (Lars Ulrich's name is often thrown out, erroneously, as a weaker drummer). Sticking towards the progressive metal genre allowed me to play music that isn't exclusively in the easier time signatures and taught me how to really use ghost notes. Playing along to Mike and Neil has made it possible for me to play in nearly any time signature and practice makes it possible to be proficient in those measures - measures people often avoid because they won't even attempt to play them. Mike is also a class act who rarely has a bad thing to say. For example, Dream Theater had a well-publicized acrimonious split in 2010/2011 and ultimately Mike Mangini (another drum legend) took his seat. Mike has never said anything bad about Mike and vice versa because they have mutual respect for each other's abilities and both bring unique talents to the table. I prefer Portnoy slightly over Mangini, but that doesn't mean that I don't love me some Mangini drum work - he's amazing. But, you can't attend 12 Portnoy drum clinics in the 1990's and not be fond for the guy. I literally went to every clinic he taught within a 250 mile radius of my home. Turns out the dude lives one town over from me.
You might LOVE Pat DeLeon from Imminent Sonic Destruction.
These walls drums only is a master class in drumming, thats where he sounds like everything has triggers everything is tuned to perfection the pressure tones and hit positioning is insane accurate everytime
Delighted to see you react to my favourite Mike Portnoy performance.
Like climbing a very perilous mountain through all different individual sections continuously, he has a way of making it all appear effortless and just ready for whatever obstacle the mountain throws at him. 😊
Glad you decided to check out one of his more complex songs this time. I dig your videos, will definitely check out the rest.
More to come!
Mike Portnoy plays with every piece of his soul. Tie this with the clinical precision that he has and you get this masterpiece. It's a demonstration of the genre, and it even includes motives and timing of a traditional Bulgarian folklore song.
Mike actually has a son named Max who is also a drummer for the band Tallah
Mike Portnoy's best sound was when he played the Hello Kitty / Pokemon kits... :P
Good review! Mike’s stuff is not only clean and precise but it’s also tasty and dynamic. Just my opinion, but, I think Mike is the best of both worlds. Precision and passion!
Andrew: How many time signatures are in this song?
Mike: Yes.
HAHA
Lmao
I’m glad you found this one. As I commented on “As I Am”. I lost this VHS tape 😂. On that same tape he showed how to play Under A Glass Moon and Fatal Tragedy. He showed how to play odd signature and how to subdivide a typical 4/4. Another one on that same tape was LTE “Paradigm Shift” on a smaller improvised kit.🤘🏼
A great drummer and a beloved friend of mine once told me to go and listen The Great Debate from Dream Theater. Now i'm pretty sure that this is the best drum song Portnoy has ever written so far. The song is from the 2002 LP called Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence.
The thing with MP is he is not only able to play the most complex songs and nail crazy timings, he is also able to copy styles almost perfectly. Give him a Rush Song and he's going to sound very much like Neil Peart. Give him a Beatles Song and it's going to sound like Ringo. Go check out his other Bands like Sons of Apollo and listen to the new Solo Album of DTs guitarist John Petrucci where he is drumming. He's just phenomenal.
I love the chameleons of drumming like he and Vinnie.
Mind blowing ability
I did that exact thing you mentioned with the cs snare dot and the top after this DVD came out lol
Hey mate, so glad you got to hear this song for the first time and showed us your reactions! Keep the channel going!
Wanted to suggest you check out Matt Gartska - Tooth and Claw and Matt Halpern - 22 Faces. Cheers!
You found Portnoy! I'm so happy for you
I think Andrew must check Dream Theater drummer auditions.. Well 9 years ago, Mike Portnoy and DT seperated ways, the band decided to find their new drummer with an audition and share the audition videos with the fans. They also were looking for the chemistry between the band and the new member, so they've called all of them to NY and played the selected songs live with these drummers.Finally they've decided to continue with Mike Mangini. The entire video durations may take long, so you might not allow to share on your channel, but even if you don't share, I recomend you to watch it. As a drummer, it's really interesting and really fun to watch the whole thing ((;
Agreed. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the auditions and seeing the different drummers' approaches.
so glad i saw DT during the Portnoy years 6 times! :)
What I love about portnoy is that he's not only great at keeping rhythm, but he's able to make a counter melody with just percussion.
The thing that is truly unbelievable about this song is the number of time changes. It continually changes throughout the song.
I downloaded this entire drum video too my computer and watched it many times during in the 90's, and I'm NOT EVEN a drummer! That shows how crazy it was to watch this guy play. Certainly he was at the peak of his drumming on this album. Also, funny to think how much influence this song\video had on drummers such as Blake Richardson from Between the Buried and Me.
For the groovier side of Portnoy you might check out Transatlantic or Flying Colors.
Or some The Winery Dogs drumcam videos!
And I love his drumming with Neal Morse Band.
Great review. Portnoy is my favourite technical drummer. Give him a 4 piece kit, and he blows you away. I feel like drummer like he and Peart are overshadowed by their monstrous kits.
I'm really, really digging your channel, and have spend most of the morning absorbed by your reviews and feedback.
The sound! Dream Theater's production is incredible. They kind of went the Steely Dan route with absolute precise engineering and mixing.
Check out 6:00 by Dream Theater. World class drum sound.
While we're on a fusion tangent, do you ever listen to The Mars Volta? Their first two albums featured a drummer by the name of Jon Theodore, and are a clinic in prog drumming. Cicatriz ESP and Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt are two I would recommend from a drumming perspective. You go "punk-fusion?", but just grab a listen and you'll get it.
Cheers, brother. Keep pumping out this quality content!
Have you seen the video of Portnoy playing the tiny little Hello Kitty kids' drum kit? It's pretty great
My drummer recommendation would be Craig blundell, he plays for Steve Wilson and used to play for frost, he's a top drummer
Best sounding snare ever!
Again, im not a drummer nor do i intend to be, but here I am because of Mike Portnoy 😂
Somos dos amigo ✌🏻
One of their final great instrumental performances was WHERES MY THING, HERE IT IS , live in Dallas starting with some great bass playing by geddy Lee, and half way through there's on of Neil's final shorter drum solos. One of Neil's greatest drumming performances (I think) is from the snakes and arrows tour THE MISSION a very beautiful underrate song, a song with a great vocal and keyboard performance by geddy Lee, but keep an eye on Neil, every time I watch it Neil's drumming looks and sounds amazing ,his drums have a great sound during this song. Another difficult song from snakes and arrows tour, NATURAL SCIENCE, loads of transitions and another great performance by Neil peart. There's two good drum camera videos of these two songs from this show to study them more closely. I'm a huge fan of the time machine tour, but these two snakes and arrows tour songs, Neil's performances are out of this drumming world.
LEAVE THAT THING ALONE is another great instrumental along with LA VILLA STRANGIATO both from the greatest live show THE TIME MACHINE TOUR, LIVE IN CLEVELAND. you can't go wrong with the time machine tour, even the funny INTRO into THE SPIRIT OF RADIO. Best wishes from the UK.
This track was also one that the band used to choose Mike’s replacement when he left the band too ! Along with The Spirit Carries On these were the two tracks that destroyed the drummers that were auditioning as combined they are over 13 minutes long !!!
As technical and talented he is, what i like the most of all Mike Portnoy drum parts is the vibe, the headbanging he can add to a song, always on the spot
this is a MASTERPIECE..... !!!!!!
That snare drum he used there was custom made by Tama and is controlled by a foot pedal. It's actually a really badass snare drum.
Nice Matthew!
His Majesty, Mr Portnoy. My favourite drummer.
Mangini drum solo at Luna Park. Amazing as well!🙏🏻
Hes not reaction drum solo ..
Hes reaction drumming in the song
My favorite Portnoy moment is the live version of When the Water Breaks. His solo is just perfection
The look on your face during the vaudeville interlude was priceless :D
Was NOT expecting that!
It's real fun to play this too! ;)
Mike Portnoy.. Amazing
YES
Portnoy is the BEST!!!!!!!!
I only saw them twice, butt both times they were perfect live.
There are many drummers that can do multiple time signatures, but few that can do it with the accuracy of a metronome
Great reaction once again..
I think it's time to let you in on a secret treasure: Leo Margarit - Rope End by Pain of Salvation. Talk about crazy drumming.
He is the drummer of Pain of Salvation (killer prog!!!) and his drumvideos are just wow!
Mike's got himself a nice tight little target on his snare, accuracy plus.
Oh my goodness, cleanest striker of the drum 🥁 head. Daaaaammmnnnn!
Oh yeah Sean! CRISP!
There's a video here on UA-cam named "Counting Dance of Eternity" of Portnoy listening to this song while counting the tempo out loud.
You need to react to Mike Mangini DreamTheater's drummer audition played A Nightmare To Remember also their jam section.. 🤘🏽
I know I'm late and I'm not sure if anyone said it or not, but i think it's worth noting that Mike also played with the stick backwards in his left hand because he likes the way the end of the stick sounds on the snare. Still hasn't changed it to this day.
Cheers mate!
I'm in the 'Mike got me into drumming' camp. I probably use the four on the hands, four/two on the feet fill wayyyy too often, I can't help it.
I overuse that fill also :)
Huge dream theater fan here
Hear Me - Devin Townsend (Drummer is 66Samus) thats probably one of my favorite drum throughs to watch or Singularity Devin Townsend with Anup drumming are both amazing and mind blowing drumming
Thanks Frank!
Dirk Blast into Gravity Blast = my brains going SPLOOSH
A few things to note about this snare, it’s and early signature snare that mike produced with Tama it was a 14x5.5 maple snare, what made this snare unique is that it had a cable system attached to the snare throw off attached to hi-hat pedal this would allow him unlimited sounds ranging from completely off to a really tight snappy snare, but due to price and complexity this was changed to the melody master snare he now uses
You should see his work in OSI, he is amazing
Hahaha a trick of perspective at 6:55 makes his arms look absolutely tiny. Brilliant.
Panic Attack and Dance Of Eternity are both full of awesome and amazing drumming, I highly recommend watching Mike Portnoy do the song Panic Attack
Ohhh man, this is a killer one, it's like a crazy video game on LSD
There's a video you should watch that shows Mike Portnoy with a huge sheet with all the time signature changes of this song and he breaks it all down. Definitely check it out!
Hey guys! As a way to prioritize the amount of reaction requests I'm getting via email/instagram and in the UA-cam comments...
I am going to try and do the Patreon picks first. There is no limit on the Patreon (could be $1/month).
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I still love you if you are NOT a Patreon contributor. And I will still try and get to your pick. It's a just a reward for those that help out with costs/time involved with doing the vids.
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Thanks for watching!
Have you checked out Finally free (Live from New York)
The drumsolo Mike is playing at the end is frikkin amazing.
I love how every single guu that reacts to drums ends up reacting to this song and Instrumedley. REACT TO INSTRUMEDLEY PLEASE IS SOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Another drummer (and band) that's great with time signature changes and poly-rhythmic grooves is Ray Hearne of Haken, I strongly recommend checking him out.
Heheh, "perfect is not for everybody". Now when I say that Mike Mangini makes Mike Portnoy look loosey-goosey and a bit sloppy it should have the proper impact. _That_ level of perfection, though, _does_ come at a cost. For all his precision, Portnoy still has a lot of feel, and he looks like he's having fun. Mangini has... well, I mean, there is musicality and feel, but it's the feel of a classical musician in an orchestra. He plays _precisely_ the dynamics and feel that is written on the page, with an absolutely inhuman degree of precision. Portnoy is more like the feel of a great jazz musician. Sure, he hits the figures perfectly every single time, but in between he can groove a lot more.
Great comment here!
Very thoughtful
That’s why I wanted Marco to join DT instead of mike mangini. No hate for Mike but There is a theatricality (no pun intended) to Mike portnoy that you rarely see.
Mangini is a technician for sure. Portnoy's drum sounds so different both tone and...I don't know just seems like he strikes them differently. Peart was like that too. You can just tell
I saw DT live with both drummers and Portnoy is so much creative, Mancini is good recreating the old songs but the freestyle moment was a little messy in my opinion, and the new songs are less fun. I feel like the new drummer gave the rest of the team more liberty but I lost interest.
@@alexjudge8907 I agree about the solos... Mangini's solos are just a technique demo. There's no real groove to them like a Portnoy solo, and not even in the same galaxy as a Niel Peart solo for musicality and entertainment value. If Peart was "Oh, you didn't know a drum solo could be a concert all by itself?" and Portnoy was "Let's jam and groove for a while together," then Mangini's are "Let me show off what I can do! See, I can do one-handed rolls, and one-handed rolls, and also one-handed rolls, and polyrhythms, and one-handed rolls during polyrhythms, and did you know I can do one-handed rolls!?"
However, I disagree about the overall sound and quality of the band and its music. I feel like they'd gotten very stale and samey toward the end with Portnoy, with album after album and song after song about alcoholism, depression, and insanity. Ironically, when he was fed up with its staleness himself but before telling the rest of the band, they did BC&SL, which I think was the best thing they'd done since Scenes From a Memory and parts of Six Degrees.
I also feel they'd gone kind of off on a wild tangent before Rudess joined, with the creativity and soaring melodies of Images and Words and Awake giving way to what was, _for me_ (yes, I know most people go nuts over it, but I find it just kind of pedantic and boring) a dearth of their usual genius in Change of Seasons and then a bizarre attempt to reinvent themselves in Falling into Infinity.
Just like Rudess injected new talent, ideas, and energy into the band, I feel like Mangini has done the same. I think a lot of their best work has been with him, and when I go to list my favorite albums from the current lineup, I'm kind of forced to just list _all_ of them, heh. I know a lot of people didn't like The Astonishing, but I think it was absolute genius, and an incredibly powerful emotional ride...
A Dramatic Turn of Events was a very welcome shift in sound and focus for me, and has a couple of my favorite DT songs of all time. "Lost Not Forgotten" is just amazing for me, totally on par with "A Nightmare to Remember" and "The Count of Tuscany". "Illumination Theory" is, in my opinion, their single greatest epic, though In the "Presence of Enemies, Pt. 2: Heretic/The Slaughter of the Damned" comes pretty close as the absolute pinnacle of the 12-step era.
Most recently, Distance Over Time is my favorite album overall, just edging out Scenes From a Memory at this point, mostly because SFaM is so dated nowadays and my own tastes have gotten heavier since then as well. If you haven't yet, I'd definitely recommend checking out "Barstool Warrior", "S2N", and "Pale Blue Dot" from Distance Over Time. If you don't like those three and think they've returned to their core better than ever, I'm really not sure what to tell ya. ;)
I will admit, I haven't seen Mangini live. I saw Scenes From a Memory, Six Degrees (double-header with Queensryche, woot!), and Train of Thought (opened by King Crimson IIRC) but then life got busy, and then disability happened. :(
It does help as well that LaBrie has gotten a _lot_ better in recent years. He's even almost good live! Almost. ;)
Mm, and going down memory lane, I sure do miss Portnoy and Rudess's duels...
Just but Mike's signature snare !!! : D
A change of seasons was played during the closing credits of the winter Olympics way back when. I don't know if it was just the channel broadcasting it, or if it was the actual official legitimate closing song for the Olympics, but it was awesome to hear.
Keep in mind Andrew (talking about "greasy"); John Bonham is one of Portnoy's FAVORITE drummers. And funny how in DT, this was the older "Smaller" Kit :p. He called the next series "The Freight Train" as it was 3 Drum Kits in 1, side by side. It was pretty impressive how he'd move to different parts of the kit for the various "moods" of tracks, live.
Watch the Loudwire video of him playing the Pokémon drum kit...hilarious!
Andrew. Love your channel. Got even more interested when I found out you're from Auckland, where I've lived for 6 months studying English and working in the night market. Would love to go back to your country one day.
I think you would really appreciate Acid Rain from Liquid Tension Experiment, live in L.A from 2008. Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin just doing what they do best.
Yo thanks Bruno!
You need to check his 2003’s Modern Drummer Festival presentation. He does the Instrumedley changing kits inbetween the music sections. Unbelievable!
Jean Paul Gastor - Clutch
Were do they find these drum teachers to watch so many famous drummers for the first time?? What is their a rock somewhere they all live under!