Portnoy’s Complaint

I’m not sure if this was some dude doing the ultimate troll, or an honest mistake, or just idiocy plain and simple… regardless, it’s pretty funny.

Over the weekend, in a post which has since been deleted from his Facebook page, former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy groused:

Little wonder that Portnoy pulled the post — it’s moronic. For one thing, I doubt many people can find a Dream Theater shirt from 1985, since the band’s first album didn’t come out ’til 1989, and any merch they manufactured prior to that is probably considered a big time collector’s item now. But for another thing… who gives a shit? Okay, so I can see where Portnoy might find such an action eye-rolling, but “insensitive”? It’s not like the guy wore a shirt portraying a plane crash and the words “Mike Portnoy’s Mom Goes Down” or something. Hell, Portnoy wasn’t even fired from Dream Theater — he quit! If anything, it would be more offensive to wear a Winery Dogs shirt (or whatever horrible project Portnoy is involved with this week) to a Dream Theater meet and greet.

Maybe worst of all: no one even would have known about this if Portnoy hadn’t written this post. Now EVERYONE with a sense of humor is gonna wanna wear a post-Portnoy-era DT shirt to meet him. Fuck it, given the chance, I’d flat out wear a Mike Mangini shirt. I can’t even seem to find one online, so I’d have to have it made, but it would be totally worth it just to think that I may have made Mike Portnoy cry. Consider it my revenge for unleashing James LaCheese on the world, Mikey.

Thanks: Joseph M.