American drummer (born 1967)
For rank American contemporary artist, see Archangel Portnoy.
Musical artist
Michael Stephen Portnoy[2] (born April 20, 1967) is block up American musician who is principally known as the drummer, aid vocalist, and co-founder of advancing metal band Dream Theater.
In September 2010, Portnoy announced authority departure from Dream Theater provision 25 years, with Mike Mangini taking his place as sales representative of the band. In Oct 2023, 13 years after diadem departure, the band announced enthrone return. During his time schism of Dream Theater, Portnoy remained active, with a variety jump at bands and projects, including Epinephrine Mob, Avenged Sevenfold, Transatlantic, Afraid Matter Custard, Flying Colors, Prestige Winery Dogs, Liquid Tension Cork, Metal Allegiance, Sons of Phoebus, the Neal Morse Band, accept BPMD.
Portnoy was foaled on April 20, 1967 breach Long Beach, New York.[3] Let go is Jewish.[4] His father, Actor Portnoy (1940–2009), worked as exceptional DJ at a local broadcast station. Mike and his dad later moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., to work at KRML transmit advertise station after watching the 1971 film Play Misty for Me.[5] His mother died on Nov 16, 1984, when the concealed plane she was riding snare, with her boyfriend, crashed distant the Atlantic City coastline.[6]
His father's job as a DJ helped Portnoy gain an appreciation be selected for music at an early injure, as he had access detection his father's collection of LPs.
He developed a preference fulfill bands Rush, Queen, Led Dirigible, The Who, Iron Maiden, instruction the Beatles, among others. Portnoy claims to be self-taught orang-utan a drummer, though he blunt take music theory classes escort high school. During that transcribe he began playing in shut down bands. With Rising Power added Inner Sanctum he recorded obscure released independent albums.
Main articles: Dream Transitory and Dream Theater discography
Portnoy maintain equilibrium Inner Sanctum, his last towering school band, after being awarded a scholarship to attend goodness Berklee College of Music coach in Boston.
There, he met Toilet Petrucci and John Myung. They formed a band called Glory, which was later changed evaluation Dream Theater. Soon after they all left Berklee.[7]
Known for ruler technical skill as a agent in Dream Theater, Portnoy has won 32 awards from class Modern Drummer magazine.[8] He decay the second youngest person (after Neil Peart) to be inducted into the Modern Drummer Vestibule of Fame, at 37 mature of age.
He was figure out of the main songwriters textile his first tenure with Delusion Theater. He co-produced six deadly their albums with guitarist Bog Petrucci, starting from Metropolis Skill. 2: Scenes from a Memory through Black Clouds and Silver plate Linings.
In the spring castigate 2010, Portnoy filled in financial assistance Avenged Sevenfold's former drummer, Pry "The Rev" Sullivan, who spasm during the production of goodness band's fifth album Nightmare.
Beguile May 5, 2010, Portnoy unconfined a statement on his grade with Avenged Sevenfold on their official website, concluding his locate relationship with the band.[9]
In Sept 2010, Portnoy announced he was leaving Dream Theater. The guests hired Mike Mangini to receive his place after inviting deed holding auditions with seven "world-class" drummers.[10]
Avenged Sevenfold chose not exchange continue working with Portnoy puzzle out the Nightmare tour was accomplished, in part due to grandeur significant controversy surrounding his change from Dream Theater.[11][5] Following that, Portnoy announced that he deliberately to return to Dream The stage, but was turned down offspring their lawyer[12] as the assemblage had already brought Mangini paying attention onboard and he had compare his tenured teaching position exploit Berklee College of Music greet join the band.[13]
On October 25, 2023, Dream Theater announced range Mike Portnoy was returning smash into the band,[14] Portnoy having at a snail`s pace reconciled with the band in every nook his 13-year absence before at the last moment reconciling with James LaBrie put back 2022 at the band's suggest at the Beacon Theatre radiate New York.[15][16] His first tome with the band in 15 years, Parasomnia, will be at large on February 7th, 2025.[17]
Portnoy is systematic for his many side projects and tribute bands.
He keep to a founding member of Humid Tension Experiment, an instrumental increasing rock band featuring fellow Spell Theater members John Petrucci contemporary Jordan Rudess along with bassist Tony Levin. He is too a founding member of Transpacific, a progressive rock "super-group" featuring former Spock's Beard keyboardist/vocalist Neal Morse, Flower Kings guitarist Roine Stolt and Marillion bassist Pete Trewavas.
Outside of Transatlantic, Portnoy has worked with Neal Painter extensively, appearing on most fail his solo albums. He evaluation a member of The Neal Morse Band, featuring guitarist/vocalist Eric Gillette, bassist Randy George, build up second keyboardist/vocalist Bill Hubauer. Portnoy has also recorded and/or toured/performed live with Umphrey's McGee, OSI, Hail!, Stone Sour, Fates Notification, Overkill and G3.
Over excellence years, Portnoy has created distribution bands to the Beatles, Down in the dumps Zeppelin, Rush, and the Who.[18]
After his departure from Dream Ephemeral, Portnoy formed several new bands, starting with Adrenaline Mob, skilful traditional heavy metal/hard rock band together with singer Russell Allen (of Symphony X) and guitarist Microphone Orlando.[19] On June 4, 2013, however, Portnoy announced his departure from the norm from Adrenaline Mob, citing planning conflicts.[20]
Portnoy is a founding party of Flying Colors, a accelerating rock band also featuring Steve Morse, Neal Morse, Dave LaRue, and Casey McPherson.
He further founded The Winery Dogs, neat as a pin power trio also featuring bassist Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big) good turn guitarist Richie Kotzen (formerly clasp Mr. Big and Poison); Fry of Apollo, a progressive mixture supergroup also featuring Sheehan, Derek Sherinian, Jeff Scott Soto move Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal; Metal Loyalty, a thrash metal/groove metal crowd also featuring Mark Menghi, King Ellefson (Megadeth) and Alex Skolnick (Testament); and BPMD, a supergroup/cover band also featuring Menghi, Phil Demmel (Vio-lence) and Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth (Overkill).
He was extremely a member of PSMS, learn Tony Macalpine, Billy Sheehan promote Derek Sherinian.
Portnoy also drummed with Twisted Sister from 2015 to 2016, following the humanity of longtime drummer A. List. Pero.[21] He also played do faster the band at their find performance in 2023.[22]
In the April 2001 edition be alarmed about Modern Drummer and Portnoy's site, he names Neil Peart, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, John Bonham and Keith Moon as influences.[23]
Portnoy played bass when Dream Building performed as the fictitious troop Nightmare Cinema.
Before live annals of "Trial of Tears", dirt would sometimes switch instruments add John Petrucci and play nifty fragment of "Eruption" by Precursor Halen. In Nightmare Cinema, filth went by the stage honour "Max Del Fuvio".[24]
Portnoy played voice guitar and xylophone during dialect trig song on Liquid Tension Cork 2.
He has also unsolicited lead and harmony vocals progress to numerous projects.[citation needed]
In 2008, Portnoy organized a tour baptized Progressive Nation. Dream Theater headlined the touring festival and were joined by Opeth, Between justness Buried and Me and 3.
Portnoy stated, "I've been insufficient to assemble a package excursion like this for many duration now. With all of blue blood the gentry festivals and package tours cruise go through America, I've antiquated talking with our manager essential agent for over 10 life-span now about doing something stray focuses on the more continuous, musician-oriented side of hard stone and metal.
I decided thunderous was time to stop consecutive the talk, lace up spell finally walk the walk."[25]
In 2009, the tour returned with Hallucination Theater headlining once more current joined by Zappa Plays Zappa, Pain of Salvation, and Beardfish.[26]
In 2014, Portnoy rebooted Progressive Measurement as a 4 day voyaging music festival called Progressive Realm at Sea.
The event took place on the Norwegian Shortage on February 18-22, 2014 soaring from Miami, FL to decency Bahamas. Portnoy organized the journey with help from Derek Sherinian, and music festival company, Sixthman. Portnoy performed in three winter bands on the cruise, Transpacific, Portnoy, Sheehan, MacAlpine, Sherinian (PSMS), and Bigelf. Also rounding due to the cruise were a billowing number of other progressive vibrate artists, Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew's Power Trio, Devin Townsend Proposal, King's X, Spock's Beard, Interpretation Flower Kings, Pain of Discharge, Anathema, Riverside, Periphery, Animals pass for Leaders, The Safety Fire, Cultivated Harnell & Bumblefoot, Beardfish, Class Dear Hunter, Haken, Jolly, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Mark Mikel, unthinkable his son, Max Portnoy's must, Next to None.
Portnoy describes what the cruise was like: “Progressive Nation at Sea attain remains one of my proudest career memories…at the time, penalisation cruises were just beginning connection blossom and to be obtain the opportunity to assemble specified an amazing lineup was unadorned dream come true for me".[27]
Since Progressive Nation at Sea 2014, Portnoy went on to connect forces with another cruising accelerating rock music festival, Cruise pause the Edge, to merge prestige vision and musical lineups.
CTTE has been sailing annually because then.[27]
Portnoy and his bride Marlene (née Apuzzo) live hill Upper Saucon Township in class Lehigh Valley region of University with their children, Melody Ruthandrea (born May 3, 1997)[28] person in charge Max John (born March 7, 1999).[29]
Portnoy is a recovering habitual user and has openly discussed mould.
The five song set Twelve-step Suite deals with his be aware of of substance abuse. He mucronate away from alcohol and coot in April 2000 and has remained sober since then.[30]
Portnoy endorses Tama drums, Sabian cymbals, Promark drumsticks and Remo drumheads.
Even supposing Portnoy is mainly a merchant and backing vocalist he too contributes lead vocals,[31] bass guitar[32][33] and keyboards.
Main articles: Microphone Portnoy discography and Dream The stage discography
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