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Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy, who recently returned to the band following a 13-year absence, has played ‘Pull Me Under’ for the first time in 13 years on Drumeo. Portnoy was recently featured in a 14-minute video for the YouTube drum education resource, Drumeo, depicting him discussing and playing through the band’s iconic ‘Images And Words’ cut, ‘Pull Me Under’.The video begins with Portnoy speaking about the significance of the track to Dream Theater’s career, describing it as “the song that put Dream Theater on the map”.“It’s pretty safe to say, if we didn’t write that song, I wouldn’t be sitting here today,” he said.
Portnoy also pointed out that ‘Pull Me Under’ was a last-minute addition to their 1992 album, at the prompting of their A&R person, Derek Oliver, who wanted one more song that was “more concise” to be featured on ‘Images And Words’.Portnoy also expressed that playing the track for the first time since his departure in 2010 was not difficult. “For me to play this now, it’s kind of just like riding a bicycle,” Portnoy quipped.
“The muscle memory is just there for life, you know? It will be there forever.”Following his opening remarks on the song, he proceeded to explain the drum parts of the different sections of the track, before playing through it in its entirety.On October 25, Dream Theater took to X to announce that Mike Portnoy was returning as the band’s drummer. In the same post, the band also announced that their updated line-up will be recording a new studio album together, marking the band’s first studio recording with Portnoy since 2009’s ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings’.Portnoy’s return thus reverts Dream Theater to their classic 1999 and 2000 lineup, which consists of Portnoy, singer James
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Nickelback.During a recent appearance on education drum channel Drumeo, Portnoy – who has in the past performed with Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs and Avenged Sevenfold among other bands – revealed that he was contacted by Nickelback to fill in on drums for a gig in 2022 after their drummer wasn’t able to make a show.For his appearance on Drumeo, Portnoy was tasked to perform a song he had never heard of, which turned out to be Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Ground’. Providing some backstory, Portnoy said: “Their drummer I guess was having surgery and they asked me to play a show with them.
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during their annual walkabout at St Mary Magdalene Church at Sandringham.Ferguson — who is also affectionately known as Fergie — joined the Windsors for the holiday alongside her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, for the fist time since the 90s.According to “Charles III: New King. New Court” author Robert Hardman, the reason why she was welcomed back for the Yuletide occasion was due to King Charles’ love for Beatrice, 35, and Eugenie, 33.“Life moves on.
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