Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress - Twelve Step Suite (Multi Angle) 

Hearng this tho its no doubt James is the voice of the Theater for sure

It says a lot about the man's legacy when the concert stub reads Mike Portnoy feat. Haken

As a Dream Theater and Haken superfan, I loved this team up so much. I am so glad DT and Portnoy have finally reunited!

Mike Portnoy and Haken is a surprisingly good combination.

I'm so sad that Dream Theater never got the chance to play the full 12 Step Suite in its entirety with Portnoy. This is better than nothing but it doesn't sound the same without Labrie.

As fantastic as this is, there is something about it that makes me profoundly sad. I'm a huge DT fan and Mike is easily one of my biggest inspirations in drumming, maybe that's what makes this to difficult to process. Not to detract from the incredible amount of talent on that stage, the level of musicianship on display is nothing short of astounding, but it's got this strange uncanny valley vibe to it where it's so incredibly close to the original but closer you get the more glaringly obvious the differences are... But at the end of the day, Mike is having fun playing music and I couldn't be happier for him! As much as I hated to see him leave, I love what he's doing now with the Winery Dogs and Mangini is killing it in DT...just can't shake that strange feeling while watching this.

How do you know there were Argentinians on board? When you hear "Olé Olé Olé Olé Portnoy Portnoy!"

Eric Gillette nailing Petrucci's parts perfectly, such a talented guy. And he can actually sing.

We take LaBrie for granted. I’m not criticizing the singers who performed this (I watched it live, it was great). But you can hear that no one can deliver the same energy James does. Of course James recorded the original versions and is a lot more comfortable with the lines. But damn, his singing is powerful and he hits some very high notes.

All the guitarists are playing Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci Signature Guitars :D

Diego Tejeida, orgullo mexicano!

Its gotta be difficult for man to his the notes James hits. James is a vocal machine Ross definitely did a great job we really went into a different range for this sooo cool

Wow this guy plays The Glass Prison intro solo with alternate picking instead Sweep

If it's possible, Portnoy makes playing these drum parts look even easier now.

Amazing how many negative comments there are! Great video, thanks for the upload. Great performances (three guitar players not making any noticeable mistakes at shred parts in This Dying Soul 24:10!!!). And yes there are three guitarists as there happened to be three people there to have fun playing.

You don't realise how good Labrie was until you listen to someone else to try sing the parts.

Eric Gillette is a fucking monster. He played the his parts so well.

I am humoured by how they need three guitar players to cover the complexities of Petrucci's guitar parts, AND they need three (four?) vocalists to cover LaBrie's range and vocal diversity.

Eric Gillette is such a brilliant guitarist

Daniel Gildenlow was amazing.

This actually makes me really sad ;'(

I’m so hopeful that the return to dream theater means this might happen with them.

Thank you so much for this editing!

What a beautiful solo on Repentence!

What a stage presence,from all

Eric you are awesome. Perfect petrucci solos. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Awesome! It would have been great if Mike shared his soundboard mix to insert in the video, if he had it!

Hell yeah I'm diggin it

what a great concert, also for the ocean habitants ;)

this repentance solo is absolute magic

I WAS THERE!!!!!

It takes three guitars to emulate Petrucci :P Awesome work. Happy to see Portnoy doing well. Sad he left Dream Theater.

Repentance is the absolute highlight of this. Absolutely amazing.

Ted Leonard! nice!

Great vocals

Would have loved to be on that cruise. Id of been sooo jacked up!! 🤘🏼🍺

No offense, but they should have just let Ross do the whole thing. He just fits that style and range much better.

why not Russell allen on vocal ? he gonna take all that song to the new level

Nice!

No one makes any comments about Ted Leonard? He did a very good job!

dream theater cover, featuring mike portnoy,.. I'm speech less. 😂

That moment when they need 3 guitarists to play Petrucci's parts! (I know some sections do have 3 guitars, especially on TDS, but still...) Love to see Dani G and Ted Leonard on here, but Gildenlöw was clearly not on his best day and TDS is not a song that particularly fits his style. For those of you out there that don't know Gildenlöw and Leonard, I recommend listening to their work with their respective bands (Pain of Salvation and The Flower Kings for DG; Enchant and Spock's Beard for TL), not to mention their guest appearances with Transatlantic.

I wish the vocals were captured a bit better. They're a lot lower than they should be, but we can't expect perfection from a fan cam. All that said, I don't think it's fair to judge the vocalists' performances based on this because they're not as loud as they should be. All else sounds good to me, at least for something that's not pro-shot! Thanks for the video! A lot of us have been waiting years for this to finally happen. :)

Thanks for sharing, amazing performance. Part of me though feels sad for MP... that he has to play in a DT cover band, just to play tunes he wrote. I guess if he is happy thats what matters. thanks for sharing !! I hope this doesn't blow up, like the whole Queensryche lawsuits and stuff. That would be the worst possible outcome... as GREAT as all these tunes and musicians are.

nice DT cover.

Mike Portnoy + Haken + a bunch of singers = a good job! I love how the guitars sound. The guitar players are really gifted! P.S: It seems that Daniel Gildenlöw wasn't in a good day, plus it looks like he hadn't memorised the lyrics for "this dying soul".

in the root of all evil omg its ted leonard from Enchant!!

Here's hoping Sons of Apollo do the whole suite live one day

im sad so sad that mp is no longer in dt and i saw this i started crying

Really wanna watch the video that plays during the instrumental section in Repentance. Where is it from?

Holy shit

Did I see it right you also included some of my footage? Nice,, well done !!!!

Portnoy has the Terry Funk hair going now.

I'm curious what the sound is like being on the ocean with nothing around, and this is what dreamtheater would have probably recorded in a studio if Mike would ha e stayed. I always knew this would happen one day the shattered fortress is the baby brother of the real 12 step suite

Who were the guys at the back of the audience? They look like the were looking for the shuffleboard and found a concert instead... There was a bit of a train wreck during the shattered fortress and many vocal issues. Highlight of the show was Mike and the excellent guitar work. 7/10. Thanks for a memory Mike and happy 50th! Now go whip those boys into shape and do this show in Nashville please:)

I don't think there's one chick in that crowd.......

mike is better than mike

It takes 3 guitarists to play Petrucci's parts. LOL.

all three guitarrists have Music Man JP guitars...... coincidence???? i don´t think so.....

The DT guys couldn't give this to Mike. It would've been so amazing and cathartic to play all this with the DT lineup. The whole thing is literally about the grieving and regret that one feels while getting over alcohol addiction, and moving on, asking for forgiveness, and forgiving yourself. You'd think someone would have a heart and play along for this at least... Mike is awesome, not only as a musician, but an awesome person. I still love the guys in DT as musicians, but I can't say much of them as people. Also, I love this, all of it, mistakes n all. Its fucking beautiful

Out of all the thousands of musicians Portnoy knows , thats the vocalist he wanted to rep 12 step suite with? mehhhh still unreal though. Closest thing we'll see to mike and dt

So one, I should look into Haken, two honestly I couldn't tell how badly Gildenlöw was doing because the guitars got too damn heavy XD

Jack Griffo is mad on guitars

42:30

eric gillete is a monster! i think he could play technically as well than john ;)

seeing this makes me sad :(

Servono tre chitarristi per fare un Petrucci impreciso?

Is Daniel GIldelow on Dying Soul?

Eric gillete is Petrucci jr for sure

Am i seeing 3 EBMM's?

The sheer baldness

Its Alcoholics ANONYMOUS Mike

47:10 That guy filming with his iPad needs to learn some respect. It's one thing to have your phone out and filming, but to have a giant tablet out AND have the case hanging down & blocking the view of everyone behind him is not cool at all.

Great music! Sadly, they haven't managed to keep Steve Harris away from the editing bench.

I'm surprised Portnoy didn't get Dominici to sing at his party. To everyone who complains about Labrie's voice, here's your evidence to the contrary. He's at least twice as good as all of these people, if not magnitudes better even when he's having a bad day.

To everyone saying they need 3 guitar players to equate Petrucci. Most of DT's songs have at least 2 guitars tracked on their albums. Live they just don't play the backing tracks. So having 2 guitars would make live performances sound much more faithful to the albums. That being said the guitarists performance IMO is pretty good and the technique of the soloist is much better and clean than what Petrucci can do live. Not trying to piss on Petrucci I'm a big JP and DT fan. But playing live is not easy, John's studios performances are super neat and tidy, but on the stage not so much. If you don't think so go back and listen to the glass prison live in Bucharest or other 12 step suite performances, and compare how the solos sound with this rendition. Again not trying to piss on anybody, Petrucci is an amazing guitarist, and he is one of my favorites. Just calling out everyone that is saying that this guys can't play as good as him. What Petrucci has, is the merit of composing all of these amazing sounding guitar parts, and no super skilled guitar player may take that from him ever, but pretending that Petrucci is some kind of God that can never be beaten in performance is dumb and it needs to stop. Even Petrucci thinks this, just listen to the song Misunderstood from Sdoit, he wrote those lyrics.

I wonder if JP has seen this? Three guys rocking his signature and his parts(I'm sure MP did not write the guitar lines) :-D Still - job well done.

Vocal were a little rough that night. Everything else was really good.

People are quite harsh about 3 guitars on the stage. I think Mike wanted to reach album sound without samples etc. For me 3 guitars there sound great. But vocals... No, it doesn't work...

I actually I like these vocals better!!

Pain of Salvation, Haken and Dream Theater on one stage! I should be incredibly joyful, but I am not...

Now can haken fanboys shutup about how they "destroy DT"? They are playing DT music, not the other way around.

5 men to justify John Myung John Petrucci and even James Labrie. P.S. listening to some dude singing Labries parts, not sure I enjoyed it Still PORTNOY

No hay duda, no es lo mismo. Falta Petrucci, Myung, Labrie y Rudess; sin ellos no suena igual.

Ehm shouldn't it start with 6 o'clock???

what a fucking machine. Well Portnoy wrote the songs.... the other guy just play them badly.

This Dying Soul is just a nightmare to listen with the vocalist (don't know who that is tho)

What is the third guitar for? And by the way, the vocal is way better a lot than James LaBrie's.

3 guitarristas = petrucci

They played it fast AF in the solos part around 10:00. That sucked

This sounded better with James "I can't sing live" Labrie....

All this does not make sense

son 3petrucis!!! es mejor mike portnoy...

badly

Aguanteee mikeeee, vos solo sos mas que dream thearer ahora, . es una caca lo que hace dream theater ahora.

Sad... he has to use a lot of musicians to Play a 5 people piece of Music. but well, he owns it. he can play it When he wants.

честно, .. не понимаю Портного, зачем делать клон Дрима и играть старый материал, тем более с таким исполнением... ладно бы сочиняли что то новое своё

Would be better with Mike Mangini on drums

I sincerely have no words to describe this... just ain't diggin' it. Perhaps if I were there feelin' the vibe, I'd give a more positive comment. The singing on Glass prison... man, just dreadful.

Wow the vocals... I don't like