In the following interview, the least you can say is that James Labrie is full of praise for his new drummer: “incredible”, “full of unbelievable amounts of energy and excitement”, “a phenomenal drummer”, “extremely musical”, “very talented”, “very intuitive”, “very spontaneous”, “very instinctual”, and so on. If those highly enthusiastic comments are to be believed, his arrival within the band has put new life into Dream Theater. And in the end, those same comments sort of highlight what remains unsaid, or rather what is implied, about the band’s former leader, Mike Portnoy.
But this interview also revealed the extent of the pressure the band found itself under because of the line-up change. The vocalist mentions that the band had to prove themselves all over again during the tour promoting A Dramatic Turn Of Events, and suggests that they were particularly attentive to their fans. In point of fact, during the whole conversation, Labrie kept referring to the fans to justify Dream Theater’s desire to prove that nothing has changed, and that their new, self-titled album gathers all the elements that are to be expected from the band.
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