- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Dream Theater, every creative aspect of the group went through me. I oversaw it all from top to bottom.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Adrenaline Mob, I'm not the leader, but I'm on the board of directors, and that's OK. I'm not stressing out over every detail. I'm sharing the load.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to be creative all the time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politician; I'm a very open, honest guy, and that's the way it is - that's the way I am; take it or leave it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the '70s, we had records. In the '80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it's sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you've got to roll with the times and the technology.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, when I'm sitting in a hotel room at 3 in the morning, and I see something on the Internet that interests me in the form of a band I want to hear, I like the ability to just go online to iTunes and download it immediately.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with Adrenaline Mob.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd just like to be remembered as a huge music lover.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so much gratitude that I get to do this for a living and that I actually have fans who come to the shows and buy the records and support me online.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been a lot of crossing paths with the Yes camp over the years for me. The first one was when Dream Theater and Yes toured together in 2004, which was a lot of fun.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love for Yes is pretty well-documented.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I surround myself with incredible musicians who inspire me to always do my best.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather be entertained and go to a show and watch a drummer and have somebody that makes me actually smile. So I don't judge drummers based on their technical ability; I judge them based on the overall package and what they bring to the music they're part of.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially right after I left Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, there was a lot of drama going on in my life, so the book companies came at me thirsty for blood and gossip. And I turned down all the deals.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like when I see bands that are just a memory of what they used to be, and there's a few out there that I've seen recently that are still touring... I'm not gonna name them, but some of the members can barely play their parts, and then they have a lot of other members that weren't even originally in the band.
- Extroverted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always very extroverted and loud.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making this kind of music, you don't need a producer. If you're making pop albums or trying to write hit singles, then yeah, but if you're writing 20-minute prog epics, as long as you know how to make it sound good, and you have a good mixer, that's all you need.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.
- Fun Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can put me in front of any kit, and it is a fun thing to have to adapt. It inspires me to try different things. I like that.
- Dogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came out with the Winery Dogs, I had a Bonham set-up. That was such a departure from the huge kits that I had become known for. It was really enjoyable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it's more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
- List
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my heroes are John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford... The list goes on and on and on.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best' drummer.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down to do an interview, I try to be polite and answer the questions that I'm asked.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020