GTDS! Podcast : Bobby Jarzombek talks about being asked to audition for Dream Theater 

A super class act. He was honest with the band. He gave the winner props and admitted that Mangini was the perfect fit. And he had nothing negative to say about anybody or anything. Bobby Jarzombek is a cool and respectful consummate professional. This is a stark contrast to the Derek Roddy interview.

4:00 this aged well. Bobby called it!

If Jeff Bridges doesn't want to do a Big Lebowski sequel they should call Bobby. The dude abides!

imagine Bobby on DM....that would be scary as fuck

Bobby is a class act. Would have been great with DT, but he did the right thing. Who knew he’d be playing country music 10 years later.

He totally sounds like Ron.

Musician are, after professional. When you get called for a new job, it might seem exciting, but you have to think of the risks, and what you leave behind. Bobby is very successful and busy, and as much as I'd like to have seen him at least audition, how he explains it perfectly makes sense

Very interesting to hear!

i love this idea of a drum podcast. first of its kind! at least from what i've seen. awesome stuff man, keep 'em coming! i'm subscribed.

Bobby is the best

I'd much rather hear some new Spastic Ink than have him join DT

Bobby is Riot and Arch/Matheos. Would have been cool just seeing him Audition though!!

It would have been great to see and hear Bobby playing some Dream Theater, but in hindsight it seems clear he made the right choice by not getting involved. That whole audition seems to have been a very weird thing and it sucks that it appears they weren't totally honest with the drummers involved.

Bobby called it

"Not my gig" nuff said....

I find the DT management asking him what he means by „let me think about it“ rather arrogant. They must assume that EVERY DRUMMER automatically loves to join DT and thus digs their music... one cannot assume that.

If DT wasn't being full of themselves and trying to turn the whole DT drummer opportunity into a big "Look at us, we're auditioning the who's who of drummers who should be darn lucky we even called them" PR event, and just said: "Hey Bobby, we know you're an immense talent and even Portnoy thinks you're the shit, we would love to have you in the band and will you come aboard?" He probably would have said yes...even though I think he'd be neutered in DT and it would be a bad fit for him. I mean, does Sabbath back in '78 call Ronnie James Dio and say "Hey, we're auditioning singers, already have few lined up, do you want to give it a try too?" How do you think that would have went? Yup, probably "Let me think about it." Seriously, Bobby should have just said; Go get my DVD, or a Spastic Ink recording, there's my audition right there. Get back to me if that's good enough because I have to take a shit right now.

Fates Warning deserves him. It is meant to be.

Bobby's the perfect fit for Fates Warning, so I'm glad he turned DT down

He sounds EXACTLY like Dwayne from Home Movies. XD ...and way more talented.

As much as I love Derek, this is a better interview. I'll have to respectfully disagree with geometricpatterns6. The way Mike P's going these days, I highly doubt that he's going back to DT. Unless there's a secret meeting of the minds (perhaps with only Petrucci and Myung in a room with Mike P)...

Bobby joining DT would be like Peart joining Rush..

Bobby is too much for DT Bobby does not need Dt to grow up because he needs to be free on his style.

This guy is too much. I love DT, grew up with and inspired by them, both personaly and musicaly, but no way, booby is too much for the stuff DT does, I agree that he must be free from commitments and DT is just a big commitment to do stuff that isn't Bobby's. DT is to great, but Bobby is even greater. There is no comparison to what it would be like.

Really bad you didnt join them. DT would be the best Band in the world.

It's good he's honest with the band but kinda seems like he couldn't be arsed to learn the songs. I agree with DangerousDrummerDado. Thank god he didn't join the band

Thank god he didn't join the band.

He would have been the waaaaay better drummer for dream theater BUT Dream Theater was not the better option for him. Mangini´s playing is pain boring. 100%technical, 0% emotional. and it translates into the band. I guess if he´d join them the music would be so much more alive. He did the right thing in turning it down. DT is coming down so fast....it´s a shame

Over qualified

It's a long, stupid and boring sleepy commitment bobby the real deal doesn't need. He'd be bored.

Thanks God he didn't audition and join DT, what a waste of talent would that have been. All the Fates and Arch Matheos stuff his has done since then is musically way superior to what DT have released after Portnoy's departure. Mangini was indeed the perfect fit since they weren't looking for another drummer-musician-songwriter in the vein of Portnoy but rather for a reliable drum machine and in the end they got one. You can always replace a drummer but you can't replace chemistry and DT was always about the chemistry between Petrucci and Portnoy and that's why Post-Portnoy-Theater sucks.

Just goes to show.. He is not that caliber of drummer... 😂

dream theater is nothing compared to spastic ink,dream theater is FM metal for young girls ...!