Portnoy filming a Kotzen meltdown!

[SLOgriff]

 

[garey77]

Nice grill... bumpkin.

 

[Anonymous]

im starting to really not like portnoy.

he's such an attention whore. REALLY fucking obnoxious too.

and to me, those types of people are a dime a dozen.

 

[Greg Riley]

 

[JTyson]

 

[Bob Savage]

I thought it was funny... Not seeing your perspective on this one yeti.

 

[SLOgriff]

...(Kotzen) "you know I was in a band called Poison, right.....(Portnoy) yeah, that was like 20 years ago....(Kotzen) yeah, but you heard of 'em..."!

Hahaha....Kotzen has a great sense of humor!!

 

[Ventura]

I didn't mind this.

 

[yngzaklynch]

 

[Hard&Heavy]

 

[King Guitar]

That was awesome, Evidentially Ritchie has a sense of humor.

 

[Bob Savage]

Love his grill.

 

['63-Strat]

I'm not a portnoy fan, but kotzen is cool in my books.

 

[Inca Roads]

"I made a Funny"

 

[Bob Savage]

What is it people generally don't like about Portnoy? He definitely lost it in that video and I hope he learned something from it but he's always seemed like a decent dude to me and in my opinion a smokin' drummer. He's a modern day Neal Peart as far as I'm concerned. The dude has held the pocket/ (and then some) for a band that whether you like them or not, have an incredible library of music that's impressive in many ways both technical and artistic.

 

[Red_Label]

What is it people generally don't like about Portnoy? He definitely lost it in that video and I hope he learned something from it but he's always seemed like a decent dude to me and in my opinion a smokin' drummer. He's a modern day Neal Peart as far as I'm concerned. The dude has held the pocket/ (and then some) for a band that whether you like them or not, have an incredible library of music that's impressive in many ways both technical and artistic.

While I won't address Mike's obvious excellent drumming ability, I will say that his resemblance to Peart only goes as far as being an excellent drummer in a prog band. Peart is as much a perfectionist as any out there, but his way of dealing with adversity is the opposite of Portnoy's (as in NOT having curse-laden meltdowns). He's also shy and avoids making himself a spectacle... which is of course also the opposite of Portnoy's attention-whore, ranting style.

I don't dislike Portnoy as much as most here (and elsewhere), and at times I find myself not always liking Peart (I own all of his books). But he's a class act. Portnoy will doubtful ever be accused of being that.

 

[spanny]

DT is my fav band, so im going to try to say this without the least amount of bias, great drummer, annoying individual. Complete egomaniac. Glad he left DT. Always seems to be so much drama surrounding him. I thought people grew out of that after high school.

 

[Gorehog]

love portnoy,love kotzen.great vid.i love this kinda shit.adds the human element!!!

 

[WizardSouth-JP]

funny how a bad set of teeth makes someone look totally hick, hilarious

 

[Bob Savage]

While I won't address Mike's obvious excellent drumming ability, I will say that his resemblance to Peart only goes as far as being an excellent drumme r in a prog band. Peart is as much a perfectionist as any out there, but his way of dealing with adversity is the opposite of Portnoy's (as in NOT having curse-laden meltdowns). He's also shy and avoids making himself a spectacle... which is of course also the opposite of Portnoy's attention-whore, ranting style.

I don't dislike Portnoy as much as most here (and elsewhere), and at times I find myself not always liking Peart (I own all of his books). But he's a class act. Portnoy will doubtful ever be accused of being that.

Admittedly, I don't follow Portnoy to any significant degree but this rampage is the first thing I've seen that would make me think he's not a "class act."

As far as "attention-whoring," everyone in the entertainment business has to maintain activity to remain visible. Nothing in that video says "attention whore" to me.

Thanks for the explanation... just different perspectives I guess.