Originally published in Sea of Tranquility YT channel · March 2021
Mike Portnoy chat (excerpts)
InterviewMike Portnoy1 min read
Mike Portnoy: The first shows that we ever played as Dream Theater – even before Dream Theater or Majesty – was Sundance that was pretty much our hometown gig. Whenever we were playing, that's where it always was. We were always at Sundance and you'd go on at three in the morning.
Pete Pardo: Oh yeah! It's like the first band wouldn't go on until like 10 and there'd always be at least six bands, right? And you were you were never getting home until five-six in the morning because of course you had to go out and eat afterwards.
MP: Exactly.
PP: Great times.
MP: Yeah. It's not like that anymore. That was the 80s scene and the thrash scene. I used to see my wife's band all the time playing at those places. She was in an all-girl band, Meanstreak, and I used to see them opening for Overkill and Megadeth. Yeah it was a great, great scene back then.
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MP: I also saw them [Talas} opening for Yngwie at um at the Beacon Theatre in ’85, which is so funny because I was there and it was Talas opening for Rising Force, and now 30 years later I'm in a band with Billy Sheehan and Jeff Scott Soto! And not only that – [at] the very, very first Dream Theater show ever, we played ‘I'll See The Light Tonight’ by Yngwie and we played ‘The Farandole’ by Talas and then ultimately I ended up in bands with those two.