Tag Archives: Mike Portnoy

Among American listeners, japan trio Mad Capsule Marketplaces has most regularly been in comparison to Atari Teenage Riot, because of the crashing punk and metallic guitars which overlay the band’s intense digital backdrop of commercial, techno, and drum’n’bass rhythms. However they’ve been documenting a lot longer than ATR, developing completely …

The technically proficient guitar playing of John Petrucci elevated Wish Theater towards the upper echelons of contemporary rock. While its lineup provides continuously advanced, the Longer Island-based quintet provides consistently shipped sharp-edged music. Wish Theater is well known because of its high-energy concert shows. While they’ve released many live albums …

Mike Portnoy was the drummer for Wish Theater. Blessed in 1967, he started playing drums in his teenagers for various little bands, like the group Internal Sanctum, which released one record. He went to Berklee Music University and became a founding person in Dream Movie theater, but announced he was …

This one-off project was come up with by US producer Jim Steinman (b. 1 November 1948, Claremont, California, USA) to record his rock and roll opera, Initial Sin. The music group presented Roy Bittan (piano), Jeff Bova (synthesizers), Jim Bralower (drums), Eddie Martinez (acoustic guitar) and Steve Buslowe (bass). Employing …

Experienced American hard rock trio the Winery Canines feature the talents of vocalist/guitarist Richie Kotzen (Poison, Mr. Big), bass participant Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Steve Vai), and drummer Mike Portnoy (co-founder of Fantasy Theater). Influenced by ’70s traditional rock aswell as the gathered outputs of their prior …

Prog and pop/rock and roll supergroup Flying Shades include a bevy of virtuoso music artists including ex – Endochine member and Alpha Rev business lead vocalist Casey McPherson, ex-Dream Movie theater drummer/vocalist Mike Portnoy, Dixie Dregs bassist Dave LaRue and guitarist Steve Morse, and ex – Spock’s Beard keyboardist/vocalist Neal …