Nathan, my dude, thank you so much. I've been a huge fan of Riverside since Second Life Syndrome was released and I never see them recognized in reaction videos. I know they don't have a ton of good live footage to go off of, but they still deserve a nod. I'm glad I was able to see Riverside before Piotr Grudzinski died, and once more since then. I miss Grudzi, but they're still a great band. Riverside is easily in my top 5.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Also, I feel really validated because of this video. Not being a musician myself, after they released their second album the best way I could describe them to people was that they're kind of a mix between Pink Floyd and Tool. Both of which you also heard in their music. Thanks for doing this.
@@TheDondoran I've been throwing Riversides name around countless reviewers but mostly nada! Kills me as I try and get as many people as possible in my life to hear them haha
Andrew, Riverside (Polish band) is a rather known name in the prog world. The live performances are stunning, great playing and a lot of humor with the audience. If there is a opportunity, you have to see them.
This was really cool to watch. I saw Riverside here in the US a month or so before Piotr Grudzinski's (lead guitar) death which sucked the air right out of me. I am still trying to catch my breath. This was the first time that I have watched Piotr on drums. Fantastic. It was hard to see this perspective from the audience. Plus I was transfixed on PG and Maruisz. I have seen them all. By far, this was one of the best live shows that I have EVER seen. So glad that others are getting turned on to these guys.
The bass player and singer of Riverside is called Mariusz Duda, and he is one of my favourite artists. He has his own solo career, 7 albums as "Lunatic Soul" and is starting to release music under his own name. A different style from Riverside, less metal, but one of the best song writers of the moment
Riverside is an excellent band. I saw them described as Dream Theater with half the notes and a more soulful singer and sound. Spot on. By the way, Mike Portnoy loves Riverside, and is a friend of the band.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Extremely! Love the unique sound. I found a video from symphony x that shows off some pretty nice drums. I couldn't find any still from the nevermore drummer ( van williams. ) ua-cam.com/video/5gcdeXnL4Oc/v-deo.html
Yeah! Progressive rock bands have some of the best drummers. Piotr truly plays for the song without showing off. I really like Riverside's music and they sound perfect every time on a gig. Those fast metal drummers wear you out very fast and they sound so alike.
🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼HeLL YEahHHH! Great way to start the day Andrew!! And many 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 thanks to Nathan- man, You Rock - great pick and intro to new band for me! Loved the drums, dug the guitar runs with crunchy metal chords chopping up now & then… but gotta admit the Emerson-esque piano 🎹 nailed it 🔨… now I gotta track down more of this band for sure.
amazing band, unfortunately their lead guitarist and founding member Piotr Grudziński passed away in 2016. I'm not sure if they can ever be the same without him :(
Wow!! What threw me off the most in this song was how, at times, Piotr seemingly played double the tempo that the "feel" of the song would naturally call for. It created a lot of tension, which was awesome! I m definitely intrigued on checking out more from this band.
I discover Riverside a couple of years ago, I love it, very atmosferic and melodic, all musicians are brillants, not virtuos but in a group builds a hypnotics themes.
His body is so still when he plays, it's almost like he isn't doing very much. But from this angle you can see there is a LOT going on, and he never misses a beat.
It’s funny that you notice gaming music thing. Mariusz Duda (Riverside bassist and singer) is a gamer. They even recorded a song for The Witcher 2 game.
The guy seems steady cause he used to play in death metal bands so he has lots of time for relax and activities in this one. I call it: death metal headroom.
Piotr (Mitloff) is a fabulous, tasteful drummer. His contributions are often overshadowed by Piotr Grudzinski's incredible guitar work, Marius Duda's wonderful vocals and bass playing and Michael Lapaj's superb keyboards, but Piotr is the glue that holds it all together. All in all, Riverside is one of the best bands around. Try the track Second Life Syndrome. Just beyond belief.
So many amazing bands and drummers - absolutely love Riverside! I hope you will take a look at Bill Ward soon - Black Sabbath - "Behind the Wall of Sleep" - Live in Paris 1970! Best regards from Norway
Hi Andrew, loving the content mate. Riverside are an awesome band that you should definitely check out. Shrine of the new generation slaves is a phenomenal record, my particular favourite off it is the song 'deprived', it's absolutely stunning.
A band that means allot to me is solstafir from Iceland. I like there drummer Hallgrímur Jón "Grimsi" Hallgrímsson. Don't know if there is any drum cam
Definitely would make a FANTASTIC soundtrack for some kind of Futuristic/Sci-fi, "Spaceship Blaster" type of game. Even has its own "Boss Battle" theme built into it! 👍🏻
I agree a hundred percent Katatonia is a awesome pick... but he's got to pick the band when they had the brothers in it... their last name escapes me Norrman I think...
I actually worked with some rather unique individuals who while getting drunk one snuck his ding ding into the others pants pocket and pissed. I'm paraphrasing here but dude said "yeah, I was pretty mad at first but the more I thought about it I realized it was pretty fucking funny". True story.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I stand corrected on that. My younger brother gave me burned copies of O.S.I., Black field, S.W.'s solo album "Insurgents", and an album from Riverside. So I associated him with that band since he contributed to the other projects. I just looked it up though and that's not the case. My bad.
Love your stuff! Here's an idea. There are no serious bassists doing reviews like this. So, if know any, put a bug in their ear. We have great players, such as yourself, and other musicians, but no bass analysis/reviews. A lot of potential for fresh vids in that niche. Anyway, always look forward to seeing you, and appreciate all you do. Thank you.
Mitloff (Piotr) doesn't get the credit he deserves in Riverside. He's an incredibly accurate, sensitive and creative drummer. But he's in a band with 3 other incredible musicians. And Mariusz Duda is an incredible vocalist. Riverside are BY FAR the best prog metal band.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I love these videos your expressions on your face are priceless I know where your from you have yet to hear a lot of these bands. But another band you should check out is Katatonia Daniel Liljekvist along with a set of brother with the last name Normann one of which is the bass player in my humble opinion go hand and hand with each other as they both set the tempo I'm not a bass player but have played bass is very under appreciated part of the band unless you're Geddy Lee or such as John Myung etc...
Yes! Really glad you dug it! Riverside is a fantastic group, their vocals are actually very beautiful. Check then out more!
I will. Crazy cool stuff Nathan. REALLY enjoyed this.
Nathan, my dude, thank you so much. I've been a huge fan of Riverside since Second Life Syndrome was released and I never see them recognized in reaction videos. I know they don't have a ton of good live footage to go off of, but they still deserve a nod. I'm glad I was able to see Riverside before Piotr Grudzinski died, and once more since then. I miss Grudzi, but they're still a great band. Riverside is easily in my top 5.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Also, I feel really validated because of this video. Not being a musician myself, after they released their second album the best way I could describe them to people was that they're kind of a mix between Pink Floyd and Tool. Both of which you also heard in their music.
Thanks for doing this.
@@TheDondoran definitely! Just spreading music!!
@@TheDondoran I've been throwing Riversides name around countless reviewers but mostly nada!
Kills me as I try and get as many people as possible in my life to hear them haha
Andrew, Riverside (Polish band) is a rather known name in the prog world. The live performances are stunning, great playing and a lot of humor with the audience. If there is a opportunity, you have to see them.
Thanks Mario!
This was really cool to watch. I saw Riverside here in the US a month or so before Piotr Grudzinski's (lead guitar) death which sucked the air right out of me. I am still trying to catch my breath. This was the first time that I have watched Piotr on drums. Fantastic. It was hard to see this perspective from the audience. Plus I was transfixed on PG and Maruisz. I have seen them all. By far, this was one of the best live shows that I have EVER seen. So glad that others are getting turned on to these guys.
Never knew what Piotr was up to behind the kit. He always sounded great.
Watch the live Second Life Syndrome song off of the Reality Dream concert you get it ALL in that song!
Every single person in the world should listen to Riverside, we will all be better off.
Yeah this was great. First time for me!
They absolutely do have a lot of vocals and they're all great.
I need to get back to this band!
The bass player and singer of Riverside is called Mariusz Duda, and he is one of my favourite artists. He has his own solo career, 7 albums as "Lunatic Soul" and is starting to release music under his own name. A different style from Riverside, less metal, but one of the best song writers of the moment
Thanks for the info Sylvain!
Spot on. Amazing song writer & his voice is absolutely sensational.
Love Riverside and have for years. Thanks Andrew for giving them (Piotr especially) some very well deserved attention.
You bet Lou! Really dug this
Great video, greetings from Poland 🇵🇱🇵🇱
Riverside is an excellent band. I saw them described as Dream Theater with half the notes and a more soulful singer and sound. Spot on.
By the way, Mike Portnoy loves Riverside, and is a friend of the band.
Sadly, guitarist Piotr Grudinski died a few hours after seeing Mike Portnoy play in The Winery Dogs.
One of my favourite bands ever. Almost every single song is a masterpiece. Thank you guys for that!
Goddamn, Riverside is one my favourite bands, thank You for this reaction!
Love it Felix! WAHOO
I recommended this band to you. :] Glad someone else did. One of my favs. Out Of Myself, Second Life Syndrome, and REM are 10/10 albums.
these albums got me through some tough times in college!!
@@t3hgir the feels are strong. Amazing compositions filled to the brim with feelings. Same it is my music i use when i feel low a pretty often.
Yes very cinematic and atmospheric. I could imagine getting right into this
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Extremely! Love the unique sound. I found a video from symphony x that shows off some pretty nice drums. I couldn't find any still from the nevermore drummer ( van williams. ) ua-cam.com/video/5gcdeXnL4Oc/v-deo.html
Riverside is a great, great band. If you ever have a chance to see them live, do it. You won't be disappointed.
Riverside are awesome. Lots of good albums to choose from.
Riverside is awesome band! Definitely a prog band that has to be explored!
Definitely!
Discovered Riverside about 2005, and have been a favorite of mine since, you'll love their music.
Excellent!
Brilliant band, all musicians of the highest calibre, and the song writing is magnificent.
Yeah! Progressive rock bands have some of the best drummers. Piotr truly plays for the song without showing off. I really like Riverside's music and they sound perfect every time on a gig. Those fast metal drummers wear you out very fast and they sound so alike.
GREAT drummer!
Riverside is a very good band. Glad you got a chance to hear them.
Really enjoyed it David
🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼HeLL YEahHHH! Great way to start the day Andrew!! And many 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 thanks to Nathan- man, You Rock - great pick and intro to new band for me! Loved the drums, dug the guitar runs with crunchy metal chords chopping up now & then… but gotta admit the Emerson-esque piano 🎹 nailed it 🔨… now I gotta track down more of this band for sure.
EXCELLENT! Yup Nathan always brings the heat with his picks
Remember seeing them live. Must be 15 or so years ago. Used to follow this band.
💯👌
8:20 is onwards is very very Dream Theatre ish. Great band and most certainly drummer. WOOW!
Glad you liked it Sean!
Riverside. All time favorite band.
Listen to Left Out next. Amazing.
Never heard of this band before...pretty impressive. 🌹
amazing band, unfortunately their lead guitarist and founding member Piotr Grudziński passed away in 2016. I'm not sure if they can ever be the same without him :(
@@t3hgir Such a shame. Thank you for sharing! Have a great day!🌹
Wow!! What threw me off the most in this song was how, at times, Piotr seemingly played double the tempo that the "feel" of the song would naturally call for. It created a lot of tension, which was awesome! I m definitely intrigued on checking out more from this band.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can't wait to see/hear more :)
Lovely instrumental song (As all 3 parts of Reality Dream), I do love whole Riverside catalog
I discover Riverside a couple of years ago, I love it, very atmosferic and melodic, all musicians are brillants, not virtuos but in a group builds a hypnotics themes.
Good one! This is one of my favorite prog bands.
Riverside is by far one my favorite bands . Piotr is an amazing drummer !
Agree!
That went, for me, from a very Kansas vibe with the Hammond in the intro, to a very Dream Theater vibe with the synthy thing.
His body is so still when he plays, it's almost like he isn't doing very much. But from this angle you can see there is a LOT going on, and he never misses a beat.
Very zen Graham
It’s funny that you notice gaming music thing. Mariusz Duda (Riverside bassist and singer) is a gamer. They even recorded a song for The Witcher 2 game.
The guy seems steady cause he used to play in death metal bands so he has lots of time for relax and activities in this one. I call it: death metal headroom.
Riverside is a prog band from Poland with 4 members. One of my favorite bands
I know I stumbled upon these guys yeas ago and was very impressed
Their first album was incredible.
ALL of their albums are incredible.
I’m a big fan of Lunatic Soul but never checked out Riverside before. This is great
If you want to see some of Piotr’s best drumming on a Riverside I’d highly recommend checking out their live performance of HYPERACTIVE
Nice pick! It actually reminds me of Marillion on one hand and a German artrock band called Eloy on the other.
Nice! Thanks Claus
Piotr (Mitloff) is a fabulous, tasteful drummer. His contributions are often overshadowed by Piotr Grudzinski's incredible guitar work, Marius Duda's wonderful vocals and bass playing and Michael Lapaj's superb keyboards, but Piotr is the glue that holds it all together.
All in all, Riverside is one of the best bands around.
Try the track Second Life Syndrome. Just beyond belief.
I need to get back to this band
So many amazing bands and drummers - absolutely love Riverside! I hope you will take a look at Bill Ward soon - Black Sabbath - "Behind the Wall of Sleep" - Live in Paris 1970! Best regards from Norway
Amazing drumming, and band the.....Riverside.
Piotr is one of the best! Andrew Rooney Drums, greetings from Poland !!
GREETINGS Wojtek!
Hi Andrew, loving the content mate. Riverside are an awesome band that you should definitely check out. Shrine of the new generation slaves is a phenomenal record, my particular favourite off it is the song 'deprived', it's absolutely stunning.
A band that means allot to me is solstafir from Iceland. I like there drummer Hallgrímur Jón "Grimsi" Hallgrímsson. Don't know if there is any drum cam
Alittle dream theater sound I’m hearing pretty good
please more Riverside !!!
Like a true drummer, I'm not first, but I'm going to say I was. Love the vids! Keep it up!
hello, I'm looking for the sheet music "i'm done with you" if by chance you have it that would be great, thank you ! or big tech brother
Hi Andrew! You need to see "Hermeto pascoal" playing "Trezão". You go have a surprise on this guy.
I kind of get a Dream Theatre vibe. Great drumming and time, off beats are for sure great!!
Right on Brian!
Strong ELP vibe from Mical Lipaj!
I thought Pink Floyd and 30 seconds later you said Floyd vibe. Cool band we have here. That dude could be an arm wrestler as well.
Yeah man! Very cinematic and atmospheric
Polish names meme: ua-cam.com/video/AfKZclMWS1U/v-deo.html (subtitles available)
Have you done one on Buddy Rich yet
Hi Jay. Yup 3 or 4 so far on Buddy :)
First! Love the channel
Yo!
I love your Tshirt!
HAHA! Thanks Radka :)
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I have asked my husband if he could buy such Tshirt for my birthday ;) I hope he will! :D
Loooooove Riverside. 9:25 LMAO
Very 80's Marillion. With a 90's heavy prog added.
Definitely would make a FANTASTIC soundtrack for some kind of Futuristic/Sci-fi, "Spaceship Blaster" type of game. Even has its own "Boss Battle" theme built into it! 👍🏻
Yes Patrick! 🤣👌
Van Damme everywhere 💪💪💪
Can't keep him out my vids!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums part of history :D
Definite influence by old Dream Theater. Nice drumming.
If you like this genre, give Katatonia a spin.
I agree a hundred percent Katatonia is a awesome pick... but he's got to pick the band when they had the brothers in it... their last name escapes me Norrman I think...
Thanks for the recommend!
Vooolkan Okteeeem pliiiiz xD
Amazing drumer
Please do Chris Kontos of Machine Head performing "Rage to Overcome " 2020 live drum cam.
Thanks for the tip. Will do my best!
I actually worked with some rather unique individuals who while getting drunk one snuck his ding ding into the others pants pocket and pissed. I'm paraphrasing here but dude said "yeah, I was pretty mad at first but the more I thought about it I realized it was pretty fucking funny". True story.
Nevertheless.....that song was tight as fuck. Riverside is one of Steven Wilson's projects if I'm not mistaken
HAHA Dallas!
Oh Steven Wilson is involved!?
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I stand corrected on that. My younger brother gave me burned copies of O.S.I., Black field, S.W.'s solo album "Insurgents", and an album from Riverside. So I associated him with that band since he contributed to the other projects. I just looked it up though and that's not the case. My bad.
Man....took over 3 minutes to get on with it. 😳
Take a look to Simon Phillips/Protocol 4. Phentangle. Studio Live Session. 🙄
Love your stuff! Here's an idea. There are no serious bassists doing reviews like this. So, if know any, put a bug in their ear. We have great players, such as yourself, and other musicians, but no bass analysis/reviews. A lot of potential for fresh vids in that niche. Anyway, always look forward to seeing you, and appreciate all you do. Thank you.
Brother please check drummer from Indonesia his name oki Fadhlan - deadsquad ( anatomi dosa) . Amazing drummer 👍👍 👍 tx 🙏 brother
sounds like some john lord hear
Ciao Andrew fai una reaction su Deadsquad di Oki Fadhlan? Per me e mostruoso!!!
Hey nice videos ! Have a look at Matt Greiner from the band August Burns Red ! :)
I have Emilie!
Mitloff (Piotr) doesn't get the credit he deserves in Riverside. He's an incredibly accurate, sensitive and creative drummer. But he's in a band with 3 other incredible musicians. And Mariusz Duda is an incredible vocalist.
Riverside are BY FAR the best prog metal band.
Yup I really dug this
Tight, almost as tight as two clowns and several instruments in a porta potty.
That's tight!
Tight, like those who incessantly leave clown core requests without patreon support.
Plz react to yan bercier .. Gone in april drummer he got awesome playthrought
💔
Two other great songs are Loose Heart and Panic Room besides these great three master pieces! There are three parts to this song. Obviously lol
Can't wait to hear more!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I love these videos your expressions on your face are priceless I know where your from you have yet to hear a lot of these bands. But another band you should check out is Katatonia Daniel Liljekvist along with a set of brother with the last name Normann one of which is the bass player in my humble opinion go hand and hand with each other as they both set the tempo I'm not a bass player but have played bass is very under appreciated part of the band unless you're Geddy Lee or such as John Myung etc...
What exactly does it mean to pee in one's pocket?
Hi Andrew. Try pronouncing his name as /peeotr kozhee'rad-skee/, hope this helps.
Thank you Michal!
Wasn't trying to be funny BTW. Genuinely had no idea!
Jay weinberg set the tone
Beware, Riverside is a gateway drug to more Prog. ;)
Oh no!!! 👀
Thanks Albert 🤣👌
Polish Prog Power
Yes Paul!
To think that this guy used to play in "evil" death/black metal bands, one of which even was, let's say politically shady...
huh? even I know riverside...
Riverside are far far better than Tool.
Big call Steven!
Do you consider them similar at least?
@@AndrewRooneyDrums in parts. You really need to check out their body of work. 👍