James LaBrie – ‘I am Open’ to Collaborating With Mike Portnoy

With Dream Theater singer James LaBrie and former drummer Mike Portnoy lastly clearing the air earlier this 12 months, LaBrie revealed in a brand new interview that he would take into account working with the musician once more.

Portnoy exited the band in 2010, with the group pulling in Mike Mangini on drums whereas Portnoy pursued a number of band alternatives within the years since. Over time, the drummer has mended fences with different members of the band, and even labored once more with guitarist John Petrucci and keyboardist Jordan Rudess in Liquid Stress Experiment. However the relationship with LaBrie was the final one which remained strained till the 2 musicians met up at a Dream Theater present again in March.

Chatting with Sonic Views in April, LaBrie revealed that he had grown uninterested in carrying across the negativity, so he agreed to speak with Portnoy on the present. “We’re speaking to at least one one other, we’re chatting and all that stuff. And that is the form of world that I wanna reside in versus negativity, hate and frickin’… It is simply not value it. It is not value it,” stated the singer on the time.

Now, in an interview with The Loaded Radio Podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), LaBrie was requested if he’d ever take into account working with Portnoy once more. “I believe something is feasible,” stated LaBrie, including, “Pay attention, Mike and I are in an ideal place. We have been texting forwards and backwards on occasion. I needed him a contented birthday; he wished me a contented birthday… So we’re staying in contact.”

He went on so as to add, “Mike’s an ideal musician. Put it this manner… Who is aware of what the long run holds? Perhaps there will be a day and I will go, ‘Holy shit. This observe can be excellent to have Mike do that.’ Or it is perhaps one thing that comes from him, from his aspect. So we’ll see. You understand what? I am open. And that is the factor, is that we’re in a extremely good place now. And yeah, it ought to have occurred a very long time in the past. However human beings, we tend to… our pleasure will get the perfect of us.”

Whereas Dream Theater is his predominant precedence, LaBrie is making the most of some out there time within the band’s schedule to advertise his new solo album, Lovely Shade of Gray.

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