{"id":106234,"date":"2023-10-25T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106234"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:44:10","slug":"dream-theater-announce-return-of-drummer-mike-portnoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106234","title":{"rendered":"DREAM THEATER &#8211; Announce Return Of Drummer Mike Portnoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DREAM THEATER<\/strong>\u00a0announced the return of drummer\u00a0<strong>Mike Portnoy<\/strong>\u00a0to the lineup.\u00a0Mike\u00a0will be reunited with guitarist\u00a0<strong>John Petrucci<\/strong>\u00a0and bassist\u00a0<strong>John Myung<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 the trio first having formed the band at the Berklee College Of Music in 1985 \u2014 along with longtime members, vocalist\u00a0<strong>James LaBrie<\/strong>\u00a0and keyboardist\u00a0<strong>Jordan Rudess<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DREAM THEATER<\/strong>\u00a0plan to head back into the studio to begin working on their 16th studio album and the first with\u00a0<strong>Portnoy<\/strong>\u00a0since 2009&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Black Clouds &amp; Silver Linings&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;I understand&nbsp;<strong>DREAM THEATER<\/strong>&#8216;s decision to get&nbsp;<strong>Mike Portnoy<\/strong>&nbsp;back at this time,&#8221; states&nbsp;<strong>Mike Mangini<\/strong>, who joined the band in 2010. &#8220;As was said from Day 1, my place was not to fill all the roles that&nbsp;<strong>Mike<\/strong>&nbsp;held in the band. I was to play the drums in order to help the band carry on. My main role of keeping our live show working tightly on a nightly basis was an intense and rewarding experience. Thankfully, I got to experience playing music with these iconic musicians, as well as some fun times laced with humor. I also really enjoyed spending lots of time with the crew. And then there&#8217;s the&nbsp;<strong>Grammy<\/strong>&nbsp;win, which was amazingly satisfying. To the fans: thank you so much for being amazing to me. I cherish the pictures I have of you all losing your minds and having fun. Finally, I really love the band, crew and management and wish them and the entire organization all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Portnoy<\/strong>&nbsp;comments: &#8220;I am overwhelmed with joy to be returning home and reuniting with my brothers! There is so much shared history between us all\u2026so many memories, so much music\u2026to think we&#8217;re coming up on 40 years since this journey began! The idea of creating new music together is so exciting and I absolutely cannot wait to hit the road and get to play live for a whole new generation of fans that weren&#8217;t ever able to see this lineup before\u2026There&#8217;s no place like home!!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dreamtheater.net\/\">Dream Theater &#8211; Official Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DREAM THEATER\u00a0announced the return of drummer\u00a0Mike Portnoy\u00a0to the lineup.\u00a0Mike\u00a0will be reunited with guitarist\u00a0John Petrucci\u00a0and bassist\u00a0John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106243,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106234\/revisions\/106243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}