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Here are all the episodes of the drummer audition tapes:

Then when the Self-titled album came out, it had a memory stick with the following video on it:

In a recent IRC chat, Mike said the following:

[Portnoy] starting with SFAM, we kinda layed down a new lyric rule….if you are going to present lyrics, they must be properly formed, phrased, constructed, etc. to […]

Battle Hymn of the Republic is a song from the civil war, written by Howe to replace the profane and uninspiring songs the Union soldiers were singing. Many Christians, not just Mormons, enjoy the hymn.

Lyrics in […]

The following is from an online chat with Mike Portnoy:
[AgentCooper] I was wondering whom the lyrics of Honor Thy Father were directed at? They seemed quite brutal, and personal.
[Portnoy] Let me clear this up […]

The Glass Prison” was written about the first three steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step Program, and after Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence came out Mike said he would like to write a song on each album that […]

“We didn’t do this album at Beartracks, simply because we wanted to be fair to John and John. We have done the last 2 or 3 albums at Beartracks, which is up where Jordan and I live and both Johns had to commute […]