Mike Portnoy comments

Check out the first song on [John Petrucci’s] fave album of the year.... WOW, the arrangement and orchestration sounds awfully familiar!! Surely it must be an intentional ‘nugget’ for the fans... It couldn’t possibly be blatant formula plagiarism, now could it...?? I just have to laugh...

http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/fb.ashx?m=2733872

Hey...I’m not trying to start a war.... and I am indeed totally in a happy place in my life and career... I’m just merely making an observation and posting openly on my own forum like I always have and always will... If anybody ELSE wants to blow this up, it’s their choice and doing...not mine!

And PS - to defend music that I co-wrote/arranged (that were cited previously in this thread), there’s a difference between ‘inspiration corner’/’copping a certain vibe’ and blatantly re-writing an existing song or formula section by section...

Hey, I’m not mad...just merely sharing an observation as a listener...sorry, when I heard that RED song, it immediately jumped out at me and was pretty obvious.