GTDS! Podcast : Bobby Jarzombek talks about being asked to audition for Dream Theater
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2013
- Interview taken from Give the Drummer Some! Podcast.
The full episode can be heard on Episode 33 of Give the Drummer Some! at gtdspod(dot)com! You can subscribe for FREE on iTunes, search : 'give the drummer some podcast.
Bobby Jarzombek talks for the first time about being asked to audition for Dream Theater in 2010. Marco Minnemann, Peter Wildoer, Derek Roddy, Thomas Lang, Aquiles Priester, Virgil Donati and Mike Mangini all auditioned for the job with Mangini getting the chance to play with the band. You can check out the drummer audition on the UA-cam documentary 'The Spirit Carries On'.
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A super class act. He was honest with the band. He gave the winner props and admitted that Mangini was the perfect fit. And he had nothing negative to say about anybody or anything. Bobby Jarzombek is a cool and respectful consummate professional. This is a stark contrast to the Derek Roddy interview.
+John Wright I agree with every word you said. Still, it would have been awesome to hear him jam with the band and hear his take on the riffs Rudess had prepared.
@@chessbrainiac To be honest, I've always hated Rudess's candy ass keyboard parts and that same Nintendo synth tone he uses on everything like putting ketchup on steak. The perfect keys player for DT would have been Jon Lord...bless his soul.
@@stevej.1428 Wow, and I thought I was the only one who hated Rudess's playing... ketchup on steak is the perfect analogy.
i dont think derek said negative stuff, just different perspective
If you see Thomas Lang talking about it his points pretty much match Derek's. Thing is, Mangini was picked before anyone else auditioned. They just needed extra footage for the documentary. The situation is similar to what actors experience in auditions, where the person for the part was already chosen, but legislation forces people to hold auditions. Reality shows have this aspect of painting winners and losers based on the end result of something. When you consider the drummers that were picked for the audition, any of them could've walked out of the gig with the position.
4:00 this aged well. Bobby called it!
I know right? Too good lol 😂
many of us did
imagine Bobby on DM....that would be scary as fuck
If Jeff Bridges doesn't want to do a Big Lebowski sequel they should call Bobby. The dude abides!
Bobby is the best
He totally sounds like Ron.
I'd much rather hear some new Spastic Ink than have him join DT
Musician are, after professional. When you get called for a new job, it might seem exciting, but you have to think of the risks, and what you leave behind. Bobby is very successful and busy, and as much as I'd like to have seen him at least audition, how he explains it perfectly makes sense
In pop business there is nothing but a professional level (I think so) but in Rock and Metal there are „Bands“( sometimes of Brothers...) and there has to be a fit on the personal level too. There are a few freelancers like Bobby and the Testament Drummer who are playing in nearly dozens of bands as a studio and/or live musician.
@@Andyw1228 Testament drummer is named Gene Hoglan
Abeer Haroon yes, I know and he is beast behind the drums. They sound live better than on CD.
It would have been great to see and hear Bobby playing some Dream Theater, but in hindsight it seems clear he made the right choice by not getting involved.
That whole audition seems to have been a very weird thing and it sucks that it appears they weren't totally honest with the drummers involved.
i love this idea of a drum podcast. first of its kind! at least from what i've seen. awesome stuff man, keep 'em coming! i'm subscribed.
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoy the podcast! All the best! CT
Bobby is Riot and Arch/Matheos. Would have been cool just seeing him Audition though!!
The room would have imploded
@@CBT5777 agreed
Very interesting to hear!
"Not my gig" nuff said....
I find the DT management asking him what he means by „let me think about it“ rather arrogant. They must assume that EVERY DRUMMER automatically loves to join DT and thus digs their music... one cannot assume that.
If DT wasn't being full of themselves and trying to turn the whole DT drummer opportunity into a big "Look at us, we're auditioning the who's who of drummers who should be darn lucky we even called them" PR event, and just said: "Hey Bobby, we know you're an immense talent and even Portnoy thinks you're the shit, we would love to have you in the band and will you come aboard?" He probably would have said yes...even though I think he'd be neutered in DT and it would be a bad fit for him. I mean, does Sabbath back in '78 call Ronnie James Dio and say "Hey, we're auditioning singers, already have few lined up, do you want to give it a try too?" How do you think that would have went? Yup, probably "Let me think about it." Seriously, Bobby should have just said; Go get my DVD, or a Spastic Ink recording, there's my audition right there. Get back to me if that's good enough because I have to take a shit right now.
That's an interesting perspective. Good points.
spot on dude, spot on. Also, I hated to see Virgil on this farce. He owns all other drummers combined and DT should be crawling on the floor to even have the chance to witness him performing their songs but I guess he was too much of a old school DT fan (and always hungry for a million gigs/paycheck) to say no. But yeah, on he went to play with freaking Allan Holdsworth of all people haha. Glad I witnessed that live.
@@hazardeur Yeah, Virgil is a monster drummer. I really enjoyed his playing with the Steve Vai band. What a line up!
Bobby called it
Bobby's the perfect fit for Fates Warning, so I'm glad he turned DT down
He sounds EXACTLY like Dwayne from Home Movies. XD
...and way more talented.
Fates Warning deserves him. It is meant to be.
Exactly, Bobby and Jim Matheos compliment each other perfectly
As much as I love Derek, this is a better interview. I'll have to respectfully disagree with geometricpatterns6. The way Mike P's going these days, I highly doubt that he's going back to DT. Unless there's a secret meeting of the minds (perhaps with only Petrucci and Myung in a room with Mike P)...
Well bro… Here we are 10 years later lol 😂
Bobby joining DT would be like Peart joining Rush..
Bobby is too much for DT Bobby does not need Dt to grow up because he needs to be free on his style.
This guy is too much. I love DT, grew up with and inspired by them, both personaly and musicaly, but no way, booby is too much for the stuff DT does, I agree that he must be free from commitments and DT is just a big commitment to do stuff that isn't Bobby's. DT is to great, but Bobby is even greater. There is no comparison to what it would be like.
Agree. We wouldn't get the great Arch/Matheos stuff either if he was forced to be DT's bitch.
Really bad you didnt join them. DT would be the best Band in the world.
Well Fates Warning takes that mantle now ;)
DT can't be the best band with this boring singer.
He would have been the waaaaay better drummer for dream theater BUT Dream Theater was not the better option for him. Mangini´s playing is pain boring. 100%technical, 0% emotional. and it translates into the band. I guess if he´d join them the music would be so much more alive.
He did the right thing in turning it down. DT is coming down so fast....it´s a shame
Felipe Dromundo
I really miss the feeling and emotion in MP’s playing. Even the older material seems like there’s something missing... I was heartbroken when Mike left DT...
It's good he's honest with the band but kinda seems like he couldn't be arsed to learn the songs. I agree with DangerousDrummerDado. Thank god he didn't join the band
He was on tour, of course he didn't have the time.
Thank god he didn't join the band.
Over qualified
It's a long, stupid and boring sleepy commitment bobby the real deal doesn't need. He'd be bored.
Markus Carter He seems to know what boredom is all about... Case-in-point: his playing on that terrible new Fates Warning album. This guy gets more credit than he deserves.
+Jer TechDeath you obviously haven't hear him play with spastic ink. And you haven't heard his solo stuff either! He is the most technical guy you'll ever meet on drums.
+Jer TechDeath Listen to Thundersteel and then shut the fuck up. Bobby's best performances were with that legendary band.
Thanks God he didn't audition and join DT, what a waste of talent would that have been. All the Fates and Arch Matheos stuff his has done since then is musically way superior to what DT have released after Portnoy's departure. Mangini was indeed the perfect fit since they weren't looking for another drummer-musician-songwriter in the vein of Portnoy but rather for a reliable drum machine and in the end they got one. You can always replace a drummer but you can't replace chemistry and DT was always about the chemistry between Petrucci and Portnoy and that's why Post-Portnoy-Theater sucks.
So what you are saying is you are a portnoy fan boy and you bash Mangini we get it
plain and simple truth
Just goes to show.. He is not that caliber of drummer... 😂
Oh it's you again, the guy that shits on any Fates Warning related video. It's okay, your whining is drowned out by Bobby's awesome drumming anyway
dream theater is nothing compared to spastic ink,dream theater is FM metal for young girls ...!
+gino delavega They're both great. Bobby does not belong in DT. Mangini is great too. Too bad he's turned Dream theater into a flat bottle of soda.
+BrownMoses Bobby belongs to Riot.
Dream Theater lost their balls when Portnoy left. Theylost their "edge" when Mike P left. I am not getting into the "this one is better than that one", but the band as a whole had balls with Portnoy. Like you said BrownMoses... Flat bottle of soda
IndepenDRUM1 Old Portnoy was my favorite. When he still had interest in improving and learning new stuff. Awake/Six Degrees/Metropolis Pt 2. Damn that was exciting stuff to experience. I couldn't learn every single note of the drum parts fast enough. lol pure obsession.
Spastic ink....insane