Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy, who lately returned to the band following a 13-year absence, has performed ‘Pull Me Beneath’ for the primary time in 13 years on Drumeo.
Portnoy was lately featured in a 14-minute video for the YouTube drum training useful resource, Drumeo, depicting him discussing and taking part in via the band’s iconic ‘Photographs And Phrases’ minimize, ‘Pull Me Beneath’.
The video begins with Portnoy talking in regards to the significance of the observe to Dream Theater’s profession, describing it as “the tune that put Dream Theater on the map”.
“It’s fairly secure to say, if we didn’t write that tune, I wouldn’t be sitting right here as we speak,” he mentioned. Portnoy additionally identified that ‘Pull Me Beneath’ was a last-minute addition to their 1992 album, on the prompting of their A&R particular person, Derek Oliver, who wished yet another tune that was “extra concise” to be featured on ‘Photographs And Phrases’.
Portnoy additionally expressed that taking part in the observe for the primary time since his departure in 2010 was not troublesome. “For me to play this now, it’s type of similar to using a bicycle,” Portnoy quipped. “The muscle reminiscence is simply there for all times, ? It is going to be there endlessly.”
Following his opening remarks on the tune, he proceeded to elucidate the drum elements of the completely different sections of the observe, earlier than taking part in via it in its entirety.
On October 25, Dream Theater took to X to announce that Mike Portnoy was returning because the band’s drummer. In the identical submit, the band additionally introduced that their up to date line-up might be recording a brand new studio album collectively, 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 traditional 1999 and 2000 lineup, which consists of Portnoy, singer James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung and keyboardist Jordan Rudess. As this lineup, the band recorded six studio albums, from 1999’s ‘Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Reminiscence’ to 2009’s ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings’.
In Portnoy’s time away from the band, he produced music with a wide range of aspect initiatives, together with The Vineyard Canines, an influence trio which additionally concerned Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen of Mr. Massive, Sons of Apollo, a heavy metallic supergroup, and Adrenaline Mob, which he fashioned with Russell Allen and Mike Orlando.
