Mike Portnoy interview (excerpt)

Jerry: I saw on Facebook the other day that you met up with John Petrucci. How was that?

Mike Portnoy: Well, actually, John and I have been hanging out a lot in the last year or so and reconnected. We’ve kind of just kept that private to ourselves because we didn’t want speculation to grow. We didn’t want rumors. We didn’t want to make a whole big thing of it. He and I – and both of our families – have gotten together several times through the last year and it’s been really great reconnecting. We have a thirty three year friendship there and our families grew up together, so we really will always be family. So New Year’s Eve he and his family were at my house, and it had been private up until then, but we figured, “You know what? It’s New Year’s Day. Let’s send a nice message of friendship and give peace a chance. And can’t we all get along?” And we decided to just take a picture and put some smiles on some people’s faces to start off the new year.