Dream Theater has been my favourite band for decades and I just realized now that Mike Portnoy has a real heavy New Yawk accent 😁

so glad you had mike on with ya! i always enjoyed his work :)

Would love to see an updated episode, especially with the amount of Albums Mike has coming out this year haha. Whats the potential of Bringing him back for a Featuring 1 day, Drum-Off Brooks vs Mike haha

Brings back memories! My first EVER live music experience, was watching Avenged Sevenfold with Mike drumming, in Manchester, UK! Stone Sour and Hell Yeah there, too. The day before my birthday! Been hooked ever since.

Great interview Johnny!

This is fucking awesome!!!

Still crazy how this still has this little views

Why can’t I see the records and drum kits really wish I could !? Otherwise excellent cast!

This is fucking awesome! Keep up the stellar work Johnny🔥 Looking forward to Trevor Wallace next week. Any chance you would have Jason Richardson or Luke Holland on the show? Love ya brother✌🏻

Great dude ! I Subbed ya man !!!

OMG Johnny what a blast listening to those stories from recording Nightmare to the fucking jet ski incident! Needed that laugh. Love ya

Brooks is a great drummer but I'm kinda sad that Mike never became a official A7x Member. "Nightmare" was a KILLER record.

Mike's last show w/ Avenged was in December of that year in Vegas.

foREVer a7x :)

I get it …portnoy spent 25 years in DT and his net worth only only 1.2 million- once he recorded on nightmare his net worth shot up to 9 million. He was getting older he wanted to join A7x to lay back play huge arenas and make a shit ton of money - A7x net worth is legit 10x more lucrative than DT. But they even said they couldn’t afford him. If they didn’t pay him a lump sum for nightmare god only knows what he would of gotten on the backend. That album went #1 it was a great homage to jimmy but it was also a marketing giant for fans. Dt is huge in other countries, his fan base wanted to come watch him play w A7x. But he wouldn’t of stayed sober ( if he did) and they knew it would be a liability.

Halestorm played with you in Uproar 2010, not Hell Yeah. :P

Where the fuck have i been....oh shit...my bad ~R2Deathbat1666R3~

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Dave grohl is not even metao drummer and not only that he is not even Technical again why people love his drumming ... People will hate me for what i said but i dnt care i never find anything wow factor in his drumming i will understand if he Awarded overall musician or multi instrumentalist like vocal guitar and drum he is good at it but on individual instrument he never stand on guitar or playing drum... Why he is even inducted maybe he is popular thats why maybe but interm of skill and technicality dave is never a Legend drummer his drum part are every body who has 7 to 8 month exprience in playing drum can play