Yeah Mangini is wildly overrated. Dude plays like a robot. He can talk about the “musicality” and how he plays with emotion all he wants. He doesn’t. Zero feel. Portnoy WAS dream theater. He wrote so many of the lyrics as well.
@@rexross5189 yup. The feel as you said. It feels lost to me with mangini. Kudos for them to keep going of course but their sound and songs just isn’t my thing now. I listen to the portnoy era DT. Thats it.
What an awesome set of drums. Tama are far and away the kit makers around and this proff of that. Plus Portnoy is a real legend. What more could you want? Brillaint.
"I played many of the different lines from Imperialstar (as a kid) to you know aahhhh (shit what was it named?...) Starclassic Maple..... (shit, I realize I just played 2 lines from Tama) and NOW I'm playing the Bubinga Shells (puh.....).... and for me it's (ok, why I'm playing the bubings shells??? Hmmm....) the richest sounding drum I've ever played. (Cool, that's because I'm not playing maple anymore)." Love this interview! So authentic and real :D Once he said in an interview it doesn't matter what he playes, essentially he hits things. :D
+JulianFernandez Sounds not good in a promotional video if you say: Well, I first played Tama but Mapex endorsed me at first, so I played Mapex for 3 years and then Tama came up with an endorsement" :D
+AAXplosion I would have just said, "Before I became a part of the Tama family, I used Mapex drums and then I found out that there are so many other drums in different drum brands out there in this world that sound 100x better so I wrote a foul language'd letter to Mapex saying screw you then I made the big switch to Tama after testing out 500 crappy drums by 20 crappy brands like Yamaha, DW, Ludwig, OCDP, Pearl, Sonor, etc. I think Tama should be the only company to sell drums hands down and those other brands should go suck my fluff ;) *end interview*
@@bball98038 mapex screwed me, the rep repeatedly lied. They could not provide the drums I ordered. The Saturn are great drums, but mapex CS blows ass. They have a bad habit of showing things online that they cannot provide. At one point, they lost the veneering company, and knew they could not produce the drums, but kept saying "Maybe 30-90 days". After a year, still nothing. Never again.
I think this guy has been here been there since the 90's but left in the 2000's i guess. Eric Disrude was a pretty interesting character. I'm pretty certain it was Jose setting up Mike's kit from scratch in the intro of his Progressive Concept DVD.
I always loved bubinga. I love the star series bubinga now even more than these (except the price being almost 5x as much). I wish more companies made them.
@OneTakeJesus If you're talking about the floor tom to the left of the 2nd hi-hat (if you are standing behind the kit looking at it), I think it's just a 14" Tom that is only 5.5" deep. I looked on Mike's website, but the most recent setup he had up there was the mirage monster. It looks the same on the main side of the kit and it listed that drum as a 14" Tom. I also think it has a bottom head here...it has two rims on it. The tom he talks about at 4:00 is single headed.
i would have to disagree...though his soloing style is rather spastic, he is actually extremely musical in ability. has a perfect grasp over timing and dynamics really. that's why they picked him, he matched what was on the record flawlessly.
Yes that is true philburzynski. I know that when he played on the awake album of 1994, he used Mapex. But for the most part, he has play the best drums in the world, TAMA. No other drums come close. Would you agree?
@clance13 I don't see how you could classify the kit he's referring to as a jazz kit simply because it only has one up and two down. The toms could all be above 13 inches. Would you now consider it a "jazz kit"?
So after looking up the TAMA custom shop price guide and Sabian. Mike Portnoy's drumset is worth over $35,000..... Not including the rack hardware and pedals..
that´s why the drums are so expensive! and also the Heads.. special Evans!! They have a lot of endorser who get the Material for Nothing but to absorb costs the consumer must pay a price wich is not justified!!
@triforce10155 yeah i know now just at the time i had no idea about it. I wouldn't say they would be better off without him. They probably just didn't want to take a break, and may have thought that it was disrespectful of make to ask for one. Since as we all know a lot of musicians have huge egos.
Still my favourite drumer. I play the Starclassic Perf. BB and it sounds great, live and in the studio. I also play a bubinga bassguitar. Bubinga is a great wood and I if money comes easier I will buy a Starcl. Bubinga myself. For me Tama ist the Strongest names in Drums! The hardware is pretty good, the finishes are nice and the sound is great. Why paying twice for a DW or a Orange County Kit? I don't get it. You need 3 things for a good drum sound: Skills, a good Kit and a good soundingeneer. The best Kit in the world is worth nothing if the soundingeneer sucks. On the most Hifi Systems you also don't heare the different betwen a Tama Bubinga or whatever and a DW. Better save the extra money and rent a good soundingeneer. And by the way... if Tama is sooo bad, Mike would change to DW or another "high class" brand. They would give him also all he needs.
Tamas high end drums are as good if not better than DWs. I think they actually sound better. DW uses the "custom" bs as a way to charge a fortune. What's so custom about it if it's in sitting in guitar center though and they still want 6500 bucks for it. I personally prefer sonor and Yamaha as two favorite drums. Sonors just have such a warm tom sound imo.
04:58 little did he know..
The foreshadowing...
hahaha, man, you're bad xD
oof
@Vic Santiago yeah but i think double bass pedals are much better sound than single bass with twin pedal thats why fans still choose MP drum sounds
I miss this guy playing for dream theater
Max Stevanus, without him I just stop listening dream theatre cause to me it doesn't feel the metal part.
Yeah Mangini is wildly overrated. Dude plays like a robot. He can talk about the “musicality” and how he plays with emotion all he wants. He doesn’t. Zero feel. Portnoy WAS dream theater. He wrote so many of the lyrics as well.
@@rexross5189 Nah, most certainly he is NOT a robot. Watch his late 90's drum solo. Man has everything Portnoy wishes he had
@@rexross5189 yup. The feel as you said. It feels lost to me with mangini. Kudos for them to keep going of course but their sound and songs just isn’t my thing now. I listen to the portnoy era DT. Thats it.
@@lcollingwood5959you’re missing out heavy dude. Distance over time is one of their best albums ever. Top 3 imo
I actually really liked his Mapex sounding kit on Awake and a Change of Seasons. I really love that drum sound.
especially the snare
"...Mike Manginniiiiii..."
litttllleee did he know
"Mike Mangini"
Zachary Phillips Oh, that irony of life... ^_^
What an awesome set of drums. Tama are far and away the kit makers around and this proff of that. Plus Portnoy is a real legend. What more could you want? Brillaint.
I loooove that clicking sound he gets out of his bass drum!
The drum tech is John Myung's brother
We all want good old fashioned wood in the right circumstance.
He cited Mike Manginni, he prophesied his successor! Portnoy Lives in my heart forever! But Manginni is very good drummer too!
i love how he says at 3:28 "A traditional Metal Kit"XD
Even his "small" kit is big:D haha i love you Mike:D!
I like saying Bubinga... Such a fun word to say :)
"I played many of the different lines from Imperialstar (as a kid) to you know aahhhh (shit what was it named?...) Starclassic Maple..... (shit, I realize I just played 2 lines from Tama) and NOW I'm playing the Bubinga Shells (puh.....).... and for me it's (ok, why I'm playing the bubings shells??? Hmmm....) the richest sounding drum I've ever played. (Cool, that's because I'm not playing maple anymore)." Love this interview! So authentic and real :D Once he said in an interview it doesn't matter what he playes, essentially he hits things. :D
that parrot colored bear is awesome
At 5:24 its A rite of passage from Dream Theater's Black clouds and Silver Lining album
Tama, Sabian .... Damnnn!
I think this is his best looking kit yet
All the more reason why Mangini is a good choice to take on Mike's throne. Great player and a great friend of Mike!
From 17? Really? Forgot about Mapex, huh?
+JulianFernandez Sounds not good in a promotional video if you say: Well, I first played Tama but Mapex endorsed me at first, so I played Mapex for 3 years and then Tama came up with an endorsement" :D
+AAXplosion I would have just said, "Before I became a part of the Tama family, I used Mapex drums and then I found out that there are so many other drums in different drum brands out there in this world that sound 100x better so I wrote a foul language'd letter to Mapex saying screw you then I made the big switch to Tama after testing out 500 crappy drums by 20 crappy brands like Yamaha, DW, Ludwig, OCDP, Pearl, Sonor, etc. I think Tama should be the only company to sell drums hands down and those other brands should go suck my fluff ;) *end interview*
+Alex Grachek hahahaha. that a way of answering
He actually can't say or show anything about Mapex. On his Tama contract says that
@@bball98038 mapex screwed me, the rep repeatedly lied. They could not provide the drums I ordered. The Saturn are great drums, but mapex CS blows ass. They have a bad habit of showing things online that they cannot provide. At one point, they lost the veneering company, and knew they could not produce the drums, but kept saying "Maybe 30-90 days". After a year, still nothing. Never again.
"i really wanted some good old fashon WOOD........... to beat up."
u guys want to hear them in action look up dream theater live 2010 and look for a rite of passage, these drums sounded amazing
List of songs in this video please????
Mike portnoy should nene around and troll the internet I think he would be great at it
What an awesome beard!!!!!!!
the song is Rite of Passage from Dream Theater's Black Clouds and Sliver Linings album...currently being toured, BTW
he has a nice beard! :-D
at first I thought it was the light around him...
Mike is great!
hey mike, congrats on winning 2011 drummer of the year btw your my idol
A rite of passage :)
I MISS PORTNOY IN DT SOO BAD!!!
And the Black clouds silver lining album def. IMO got the nicest drum sound of all the albums!
I think this guy has been here been there since the 90's but left in the 2000's i guess. Eric Disrude was a pretty interesting character. I'm pretty certain it was Jose setting up Mike's kit from scratch in the intro of his Progressive Concept DVD.
thanks man
Bubingas , like a very good speaker, have a wide frequency range unlike any other drums made today.
I always loved bubinga. I love the star series bubinga now even more than these (except the price being almost 5x as much). I wish more companies made them.
portnoy is the best!!!!!!!Tama freee drums for all DRUMMERSS!!
I have this kit and its stellar
Well, now that I'm not in DREAM THEATER anymore... I just use
a 4-piece kit... LOL
so he had full bubinga kit in Black Clouds & Silver Linings finish which is now B/B only?
Damn they sound nice
@OneTakeJesus If you're talking about the floor tom to the left of the 2nd hi-hat (if you are standing behind the kit looking at it), I think it's just a 14" Tom that is only 5.5" deep. I looked on Mike's website, but the most recent setup he had up there was the mirage monster. It looks the same on the main side of the kit and it listed that drum as a 14" Tom. I also think it has a bottom head here...it has two rims on it. The tom he talks about at 4:00 is single headed.
Mike rules
the best drumer
@LarsThusingDrummer What do you mean by back heads? One's that the bass pedal hits (Batter) or the part on the front of the drum that say TAMA?
@Skyoneer2007 Right...I would go with the deccabons because they're by ddrum, but I do enjoy Tama just as much
i would have to disagree...though his soloing style is rather spastic, he is actually extremely musical in ability. has a perfect grasp over timing and dynamics really. that's why they picked him, he matched what was on the record flawlessly.
in the next catalog, "mike portnoy signature kit, $5000" LOL
lol if I was Mike I would rather pay like 10 grand but make a bigger drumset than Mr. Bozzio
🤣🤣🤣🤣
very thick and some kind of natural sound.
NOW YOU CAN SCALE DOWN :D...
Hope it isn't to early for that kind of jokes
Mike, please come back to DT
Yes that is true philburzynski. I know that when he played on the awake album of 1994, he used Mapex. But for the most part, he has play the best drums in the world, TAMA. No other drums come close. Would you agree?
bit of a novice with Dream Theater but have just discovered how awesome Mike Portnoy is what is the song at the start?
HaHA...LMAO. Classic!
Gimmee a Bubinga guitar
@allmetaliswelcome The only thing I can think of is Jungle Kit.
What are these heads on the toms ? cool effect ! look like the Aquarian but Portnoy is with Remo !
@Pearldrum07 Actually he was kicked out. He wanted to take a break but the rest of the band thought that itd be better off with out him.
Mike Porntoy
That beard is BAD. ASS.
he mentions mangini so casually, i doubt he thought he would be his replacement haha
0:46-0:50 is a complete photobomb!
Are you kidding? I'd have a blast setting this up.
Buzzzinga xD
He changed his drum tech? I liked that dude from the dvd. wonder where he went to
It's all up to what you like, but you can't go wrong with Tama drums and hardware.
And where can I buy this?
La serie starclassic ya no se fabrica en Japón??
@clance13 I don't see how you could classify the kit he's referring to as a jazz kit simply because it only has one up and two down. The toms could all be above 13 inches. Would you now consider it a "jazz kit"?
Anybody know what that song playing is? I love it :D
Fuck me tama make awesome stuff. That finish is incredible. Loved it for years
Good job man
el mas grande!!
sou muito Fã da TAMA
@c0d3x001
it can stimulate u to become that kind of person who can afford buying a drum set like that
can someone tell me the song in the beginning thanks
i wish i had two crazy huge kits two play on
Is his floor tom on the left side of the kit a snare? O_O
SpinalAlloy But why?????!!!!😄
traveling and setting up is a PAIN IN THE ASS, i feel bad for whoever has to do it :l
Can I not buy these anymore?
@Bostafito. The snear is not iron you fool. It is steel. If you have played the drum before you must surely know what it's made of.
you can say that for both the Mike's ..
@Forage17
a rite of passage
@JimNayseum Ah, alright :) Great man, thanks!
he said WOOD TO BEAT UP, HOHO~
Does anyone know what the composition of the shells is on the right side/smaller kit are/is?
When they get the drum kit from gig to gig, do they have to set all that shit up or is it on some kind of platform?
@inimicalODDITY
the dude I replied to asked how this sort of kit is called. this kit isnt by far a jazz kit
"Wanted some good ol' fashioned wood to beat up"
What are acrylic drums made up of?
Jesus Portnoy...
Back when he was in Dream theator
So after looking up the TAMA custom shop price guide and Sabian. Mike Portnoy's drumset is worth over $35,000..... Not including the rack hardware and pedals..
@musicman387. Never were truer words spoken. You cannot play music unless you enjoy first. Without fun there is nothing to look forward to.
that´s why the drums are so expensive! and also the Heads.. special Evans!! They have a lot of endorser who get the Material for Nothing but to absorb costs the consumer must pay a price wich is not justified!!
@r4pt0rP5K you're right although if we save enough money we can afford i
@triforce10155 yeah i know now just at the time i had no idea about it. I wouldn't say they would be better off without him. They probably just didn't want to take a break, and may have thought that it was disrespectful of make to ask for one. Since as we all know a lot of musicians have huge egos.
his snare drum
OMG LOL "good old fashioned wood to beat up......" anyone else see the dirtiness in that?
Song at the beginning??
Still my favourite drumer. I play the Starclassic Perf. BB and it sounds great, live and in the studio. I also play a bubinga bassguitar. Bubinga is a great wood and I if money comes easier I will buy a Starcl. Bubinga myself.
For me Tama ist the Strongest names in Drums! The hardware is pretty good, the finishes are nice and the sound is great.
Why paying twice for a DW or a Orange County Kit? I don't get it. You need 3 things for a good drum sound: Skills, a good Kit and a good soundingeneer. The best Kit in the world is worth nothing if the soundingeneer sucks. On the most Hifi Systems you also don't heare the different betwen a Tama Bubinga or whatever and a DW.
Better save the extra money and rent a good soundingeneer.
And by the way... if Tama is sooo bad, Mike would change to DW or another "high class" brand. They would give him also all he needs.
Tamas high end drums are as good if not better than DWs. I think they actually sound better. DW uses the "custom" bs as a way to charge a fortune. What's so custom about it if it's in sitting in guitar center though and they still want 6500 bucks for it. I personally prefer sonor and Yamaha as two favorite drums. Sonors just have such a warm tom sound imo.