Mike Portnoy and Dream Theater are collectively once more, and Drumeo is celebrating with a deep dive into the band’s (arguably solely) main hit “Pull Me Below” from the 1992 album Photographs & Phrases. Which is not a shot on the band – they’re clearly in on the joke given their best hits report known as Biggest Hit (…And 21 Different Fairly Cool Songs).
“‘Pull Me Below’ was the track that put Dream Theater on the map,” stated Portnoy. “I believe it is fairly protected to say if we did not write that track, I would not be sitting right here right now. It is bizarre, it wasn’t even imagined to have been on the album and on the final minute our A&R man on the time Derek Oliver requested us to put in writing yet another track; possibly one thing slightly extra concise. Though at eight and a half minutes lengthy, I do not know if we nailed the concise half.
“I believe we undoubtedly nailed one thing that was simply digestible. I imply, it is not a very troublesome track. I believe for me, for the drum components, it was extra about simply being as artistic as doable, however on the similar time it is all just about 4/4 and nothing that is actually terribly troublesome to play.”
On taking part in “Pull Me Below” for the primary time since rejoining Dream Theater: “It was solely introduced that I am rejoining Dream Theater only some weeks in the past on the the purpose of filming this, so for me to play this now could be… it is type of similar to using a bicycle. The muscle reminiscence is simply there for all times, you already know? It will be there without end.”
Mike Portnoy lately rejoined Dream Theater and is working with the band all through 2024 on a brand new report. When requested during a recent Q&A if there’s any probability Dream Theater would do a sequel to their 1999 progressive steel masterpiece Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence, Portnoy stated the band does not have any particular plans for brand new materials in the intervening time.
“We’ve not talked about it but, however that might be the apparent factor. However possibly as a result of it is the apparent factor, we would not do it. However you by no means know… It undoubtedly could be enjoyable to do, however I believe, uh… I do not know. We’re gonna begin from scratch and reconnect and simply go into the studio and stay collectively. We’re in a distinct section of our lives. After I left the band 13 years in the past, we have been all in our 40s; now we’re all in our 50s and 60s. It is gonna be attention-grabbing to see how we type of exist now on this new world. So, yeah, I am simply trying ahead to being with the fellows and making music collectively once more.”
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