Funny but true. He is actually running around with a bottle of warm water and vocalizing and vocalizing while the others go dolululululuulululululu and the faster version called the pfffffrrrrrrrrrt.
Once I saw them playing in norway, they played a really great show. At the end of the set he Said "We just came from Finland.. and we drank a lot of vodka.. and a lot of beers. We are very hungover. And all of us caught the cold. that's why we're underperforming tonight". The concert was fucking flawless and nobody in the crowd could believe it..
I’ll never forget, years ago when I seen them at the Trocadero in Philly, after one of their songs ended, I screamed Deliverance! Mikael said very calmly, “Hush now puppy”... and then they played Deliverance. I felt blessed by the Gods.
In Sydney the year before last the crowd kept yelling for Blackwater Park and every time Mikael said “Oh Blackwater Park that’s a German progressive rock band” I think towards the end the crowd was just trying to get him to repeat the joke again.
@@BJ.Cardoso well but in this context, the person you payed to see tells a story, and other people try to follow that story and you make the concert experience harder for them by not shutting you hole and not listening
There was going to be something like that once, with Portnoy, Akerfeldt, and Steve Wilson from Porcupine Tree. Somehow Portnoy got dropped and the other two made a very soft sounding group called Storm Corrosion. I always wished to hear Portnoy and Akerfeldt playing something heavy.
The respect Opeth and Dream Theater have for each other is awesome. If there was a mount Rushmore of prog metal, you would definitely have both groups up there.
@@heramann6916 Devy is also hilarious. Him and Mikael are both funny but in very different ways. Mikael's dry wit would actually pair nicely with Devin's mania. But I don't think you can say one is "funnier" objectively.
My best friend who passed introduced DT music to me...had i never met him i probably would have never known the band existed...and that would be a tragedy
I simply looove this guy ! I've been a fan of DT also, but since Opeth are continuously evolving and surprises us, DT are more and more over-indulgent, even boring, at times.
@@jethrotool4828 Here we see your local ignorant fool who thinks that Petrucci can only shred. Listen to through her eyes, breaking all illusions and the best of times then come back to me on this.
@@jethrotool4828 What? Petrucci can objectively play with feel your opinion doesn't change that. Now if you listen to the three songs I gave you all the way through you would realise that. You may not like the songs but you would see the slow and melodic side of JP.
Mavilla I’ve been listening to Petrucci for over 20 years. I respect and appreciate his talent. I just find it sound robotic. Like something you could program digitally in a computer music program. If you get feeling off of it then more power to ya. But it’s still subjective, regardless of how you feel
I'm a DT fan and thought this was hilarious! He's right of course. DT isn't for everyone. I will say that they have done some of their best work with producers. Their entire 90s catalog was more or less done with producers and its probably their best work. The guys in DT are like a nuclear explosion and sometimes I think having a producer in the studio to try to contain that energy results in more focused work. But DT is DT - they are a player's band and have been since day one.
@@blackharpy7468 they are in different worlds. Not even comparable in what they're doing but all world class musicians. Petrucci could play any Opeth song thats for sure but it would sound not good. Same goes for the other members and in both directions.
Of course dream theater has to practice before a gig...when your music is that difficult what other choice do you have? Kudos to them for not dumming it down with age like every other band.
0:11 - "Back when the other Mike was in the band" I can't tell if the audience's reaction was a collective cheer or jeer... or maybe both? Personally, I wish Portnoy could return to DT; but I also wish Kevin Moore would, too, so I'm just a dreamer, I guess lol
@@jesseclaborn749 well... For as much shit it got on realease The Astonishing was new and original. Its my fav album and probably the only truly great they have made since Mike left. Unpopular opinion I know.
Riff Raider Well, MP’s projects don’t bring a lot of new stuff to the table, do they?? SOA is just DT/FII era sounding, NMB and other MP/NM releases sound like anything NM released lately, Metal Allegiance is just Old skool thrash without anything new and TWD is plain been-there-done-that-rock... It’s about time MP releases something fresh and kicking!
Mikael is a fenomenal guitarist and songwriter. Proof that you don't need to be overly technical to create amazing songs, although... Opeth actually is very technical 😂
I like DT, but I also get a vibe like the music is a constant exercise in self indulgence. DT give me this feeling like they are out to be as technical as can be (for its own sake), while the song itself is a secondary by product of that exercise rather than the primary goal. In other words DT is serving its ego first, and the songs second. Something like that. I think that is what people mean when they comment that for all of DT's talent, the songs seem uninspired. I won't go too far to that extreme. They've got some memorable stuff for sure. The truth I reckon is somewhere in the middle.
Agreed. DT does the opposite of what Tool or Devin Townsend does I think. Tool/Devin, especially Opeth play music to express an idea, a story. Not every song needs/has a solo because it takes away from the emotional story being told. That's partly why I like Devin so much because he can shred and solo circles around people like Petrucci, but he doesn't do it that often because most songs don't require it and it's a form of self-indulgence, jerking off rather than artistic expression. Devin literally has a comedic instrumental song called Willy Wanka where he just engages in this self-indulgent guitar playing on purpose. Like Tool accidentally writes odd timed riffs, DT does it on purpose. Lateralus started as hey this riff turned out to be 9/8, 8/8, 7/8, wait thats a number in the fibonacci, ayyyyyy lets make the entire song about that now. Whereas DT does it as a form of technical showmanship (cough cough Dance of Eternity). It's the difference between it seeming fluid/natural versus forced and synthetic. Both sound good, but the prior is more inspired.
It's just redundant for almost 20 years. But on the other hand, gotta give it to them, as they stayed loyal to an almost gone style. I liked when they came up with Liquid Tension Experiment.
I feel like anybody who feels this way hasn't really delved very deeply into DT's catalogue. I can't stand bands that are overly wanky. For as technical as DT can get, they've got some great songwriters in the band. It was probably more evident in the older stuff, but I'd say Octavarium is a more recent example of that.
After seeing Yngwie make an asshole of himself on several videoclips, it feels so wholesome to see an actually funny but polite Swede doing his stand up thing.
I've been a hugh fan of DT since 1993 and I don't feel offended at all. Mikael is not speaking ill of DT. They are very good friends since what.. around 2000? He is just talking funny that's all. I love both DT and Opeth desperately.
Was gonna say someone needs to knock that dumbass heckler out cold. He’s mad that he made the dream theater joke earlier if you listen to him yell “nooo” in the beginning. What a jackass
