Mike Portnoy
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Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967 in Long Beach , Long Island , New York ) is an American drummer. He is best known as a founding member of Dream Theater , which he left in 2010.
Life
Born in Long Beach , New York , Mike Portnoy grew up in a Jewish family. Portnoy's father was rock'n'roll - disc jockey . Portnoy says he taught himself to play drums through his father's records when he was eleven. After high school, where he played in several bands, Portnoy moved to Berklee College of Music in Boston , where he met John Petrucci and John Myung , the other founding members of Dream Theater . Together with guitarist John Petrucci Portnoy wrote most of the lyrics for Dream Theater.
Mike Portnoy suffered from alcohol addiction, which he treated with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous . This is dealt with in the lyrics of the songs in the Alcoholics Anonymous Suite , which the fans call it . He has been abstinent since 2000.
On March 23, 2007, Mike Portnoy released his new drum kit instructional video, In Constant Motion . This video consists of three DVDs with a total running time of more than 7 hours, on each of which songs from the albums Train of Thought , Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Octavarium are played. It is similar to the predecessor Liquid Drum Theater . For this video, Mike Portnoy had a drum set, the In Constant Motion Kit , made especially to be able to better play and demonstrate the songs of Transatlantic .
On the 2009 album "Black Clouds & Silver Linings" he wrote the ballad "The Best Of Times" in which he dealt with the death of his father.
After the tragic death of the Avenged Sevenfold drummer , Mike Portnoy helped the band with their studio work on short notice and also represented the late James Owen Sullivan, whose favorite drummer he had been, on the tour for the new album. In September 2010, Portnoy left his band Dream Theater to take a year-long hiatus and pursue other challenges. The rest of the band declined a later requested re-entry.
In January 2011, Portnoy teamed up with Steve Morse , Neal Morse , Dave LaRue and Casey McPherson to record an album. The band operates under the name Flying Colors ; the album was released on March 26, 2012.
Also in 2011, founded Portnoy along with Russell Allen , Mike Orlando and John Moyer , the hard rock - / heavy metal - supergroup Adrenaline Mob appeared, whose self-titled EP in the same year. The album Omertà followed on March 13, 2012 , which includes four original compositions, some cover songs.
Since 2012 Portnoy has been working with Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan and guitarist Richie Kotzen on a project that has been called The Winery Dogs since 2013 . The power trio released their self-titled debut album on July 23, 2013. In 2013, Mike Portnoy joined the progressive rock band Bigelf as the new drummer.
In April 2015 it was confirmed that Mike Portnoy would go on tour with Twisted Sister .
Drums
The Albino Monster
The "Albino Monster" was created between the recordings of Train of Thought ( 2003 ) and the band's eighth studio album, Octavarium ( 2005 ). With several other musicians (including Daniel Gildenlöw of the Swedish band Pain of Salvation ) Portnoy were a handful of concerts as "Hammer of the Gods", a Led Zeppelin - cover band . He liked the John Bonham- style drum set used so much that Mike made it the right half of the albino monster.
Mike Portnoy - Albino Monster Kit Configuration
- A: OCT343N 343mm × 6 "octobane
- B: OCT390N 390mm x 6 "octobane
- C: OCT443N 443mm x 6 "octobane
- D: OCT472N 472mm × 6 "octobane
- E: MP125 12 "× 5" MP Signature Snare Drum
- Q: SMF1616 16 "× 16" Floor Tom
- G: SMB2218 22 "× 18" bass drum
- H: SMT0808 8 "× 8" Tom Tom
- I: SMT1009 10 "× 9" Tom Tom
- J: SMT1210 12 "× 10" Tom Tom
- K: SMB2218 22 "× 18" bass drum
- L: MP1455 14 "x 5.5" MP Signature Snare Drum
- M: SMT1406 * 14 "× 6" Tymp Tom (custom model with resonance head)
- N: SMT1410 14 "× 10" Tom Tom
- O: SMB2614 26 "× 14" bass drum
- P: PBS265 14 "x 6.5" Brass Snare Drum
- Q: SMF1616 16 "× 16" Floor Tom
- R: SMF1816 18 "× 16" Floor Tom
- * not standard size
Ultimately, Mike Portnoy changed his configuration of the albino monster after recording the album Systematic Chaos ; but only the right side of the kit. According to his own statement, it was too big for him and so he had it changed to a "normal" shape, more like the standard drums (toms smaller and a 20 "× 18" bass drum instead of the 26 "× 14"). The Mirage Monster was born from this idea.
The Mirage Monster
The "Mirage Monster" is a Tama Starclassic Mirage Set, a huge, transparent set. There are still two sides as with the Siamese and Albino Monster, but the right side of the kit is a mixture of the right side of the Siamese and Albino monster, which means that the large floor tom of the albino kit and the gong bass drum of the Siamese kit are both available.
Mike Portnoy uses this set on the 2007 Chaos in Motion Tour. The set made its debut at the Gods of Metal festival in Italy on June 3, 2007.
Discography
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with Adrenaline Mob: with John Arch:
with Avenged Sevenfold:
with Dream Theater:
with Flying Colors:
with Liquid Tension Experiment:
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with Liquid Trio Experiment:
with Neal Morse:
with OSI:
with The Winery Dogs
with Transatlantic:
with Sons of Apollo:
as a solo artist:
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Awards
Awards by the readers of Modern Drummer :
- Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
- Best Clinician (2000, 2002)
- Best Up & Coming (1994)
- Best Recorded Performance of the Year
- Awake (1995)
- A Change of Seasons (1996)
- Falling into Infinity (1998)
- Scenes from a Memory (2000)
- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
- Best Educational Video / DVD
- Liquid Drum Theater (VHS) (2000)
- Liquid Drum Theater (DVD) (2002)
Mike Portnoy was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2004 . In addition to Neil Peart , Mike is one of the youngest members to receive this award.
A special honor was paid to Mike Portnoy with the 3-CD album "Honor Thy Drummer - A Tribute to Mike Portnoy", which the producer Anthony Morse compiled and made freely available.
In 2011 Portnoy received a Revolver Golden Gods Award for best drummer.
Web links
- www.mikeportnoy.com - Official website
- www.dreamtheater.net - Official website of the band Dream Theater
- [1] - The Winery Dogs project CD announcement
- [2] - Official Facebook page of The Winery Dogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portnoy in the German charts
- ↑ a b Dream Theater's Press Release. (No longer available online.) Dream Theater - The Official Site, September 8, 2010, archived from the original on February 1, 2008 ; Retrieved September 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dream Theater. at laut.de . Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ^ Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater. Songfacts.com, June 22, 2010, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ DVD review - Mike Portnoy's In Constant Motion. Drummertalk.org, May 17, 2008, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ^ Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater. Songfacts.com, June 22, 2010, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Schetter: MIKE PORTNOY: The Two Most Creatively Fulfilling Years. Prog-Sphere.com, September 19, 2012, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ^ Mike Portnoy's official website. www.mikeportnoy.com, accessed January 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Flying Colors Official Website. flyingcolorsmusic.com, accessed February 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Adrenaline Mobs Official Website. (No longer available online.) Www.adrenalinemob.com, archived from the original on December 13, 2012 ; Retrieved December 2, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Albino Monster. Official website, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Mike Portnoy inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame! mikeportnoy.com, May 15, 2004, accessed September 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Mike Portnoy. (No longer available online.) Modern Drummer Magazine, October 2007, archived from the original on January 9, 2011 ; Retrieved September 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Honor Thy Drummer - A Tribute to Mike Portnoy. www.spaceprog.com, accessed December 25, 2010 .
- ↑ metalinjection.net/golden-gods-awards-2011 , metalinjection.net. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Portnoy, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Portnoy, Michael Stephen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Long Beach N.Y. , USA |