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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. Mike Portnoy

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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. Mike Portnoy

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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. Mike Portnoy

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With Dream Theater, every creative aspect of the group went through me. I oversaw it all from top to bottom. Mike Portnoy

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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. Mike Portnoy

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When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs. Mike Portnoy

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I usually have three to four bands a year going at any given point. Mike Portnoy

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I think if there's any one band that every member of Sons of Apollo has been influenced by, I think Van Halen is the common ground for all five of us. Mike Portnoy

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