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SteveG 
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 10:06 |
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Which super drummer held down the beat better: Harrison from PT or Portnoy from DT and others.
Edited by SteveG - October 28 2014 at 10:12
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 11:52 |
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Gav!
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 11:54 |
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Portnoy:)
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 12:01 |
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Gotta go with Gavin...
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 18:37 |
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Portnoy is lame.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 19:44 |
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To be rude: Harrison plays the drums; Portnoy beats them.
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 19:54 |
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Gavin for sure.
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 20:00 |
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 21:19 |
 Argonaught wrote:
To be rude: Harrison plays the drums; Portnoy beats them. |
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Posted: October 28 2014 at 22:17 |
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Gavin Harrison, no question.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 12:05 |
Portnoy is an insane drummer, he is a mix of metal, prog, hard rock and he does it very well. He is Dream Theater in my book.... Gavin is precision, smooth and has a sound that is infectious, I love watching his jazz videos. What I wish is that PT would get back going so I can hear Gavin again....He has been too absent IMO. Gavin is who I pick here...but Portnoy is clearly the hardest working musician of the past 4-5 yrs.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 15:30 |
Harrison is very accomplished.
I like Portnoy on Neal Morse's solo albums best but he can be a bit 'samey' to my ears.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 17:02 |
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I believe (IMO) it would be easyer for Portnoy to do a Porcupine Three gig as a drummer then it would be for Gavin to do a Dream Theater gig as a drummer, while both are steller drummers, Mike is bit better at variation in dubble bass peddal work, and Gavin has stated that, that is hes least "good" techniquem, though he mangaed it very well for my view, hes dubble pedal work is quite cool.
Edited by Icarium - October 29 2014 at 17:02
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 05:20 |
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GAVIN by faaaaaaar
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 09:36 |
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Gavin Harrison, by a long way.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 09:44 |
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Can't decide. I like them equally, as different as they are.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 09:59 |
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I haven't really listened to Portnoy much, but I do think Gavin is great. To be fair I'll abstain.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 10:04 |
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Disqualified from voting; too old to know who these two musicians even are.
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 10:12 |
Gavin, but to be honest none of these are among my fave drummers. Too much...erm....perfection involved. I think many musicians with this kind of talent (many different kinds of talent in music) have great difficulty in playing something "wrong" because their whole style revolves around being on.the.beat.the.whole.time. I like "flaws" and they add to music that little bit of je ne sais quoi that I just don't get from perfection. By the time they get to that stage they're not even flaws any more. Then again I prefer music attained through the same method as the one found in my sig concerning flight 
Edited by Guldbamsen - October 30 2014 at 11:45
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Posted: October 30 2014 at 10:36 |
richardh wrote:
Harrison is very accomplished.
I like Portnoy on Neal Morse's solo albums best but he can be a bit 'samey' to my ears.
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I agree...I think Portnoy's playing of the past couple years with NM has been fantastic. Seeing him live on both T2 and Momentum Tours was fantastic, Portnoy was playing with such passion..he was having fun you could tell. Versus the last tour with DT-BC&SL he looked bored and lifeless. The samey to me is what Portnoy is doing with Transatlantic.
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