Musicians are so much more important than anyone else

Deijavoo

https://www.facebook.com/mikeportnoyofficial/posts/969028269781482

What a pleb.

Drew_TNBD

This is the difference between high-minded-prog-wankers and diy-my-trousers-smell-like-a-sofa-jerk-offs.

fretmeister

What a tool.

PolarityMan

At first I was thinking I'd give the guy the benefit if the doubt and he was probably just venting. But then I remembered he's at least partly responsible for most of dream theaters back catalogue. So yeah....what a douchebag.

Nunogilberto

What a wanker. Lost a lot of respect for him now.

beed84

Drummers are notorious for being thoughtless...

One of the doctor's should've pulled his socks up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "there, better now."

guitarfishbay

Turbo bell cheese.

kin

I need to have a word with myself, I just spent ten minutes reading that bollocks and confirmed what I already knew, there are a significant number of stupid people in the world, some of them are famous and some of them aren't .

All of them, however, are wasting oxygen being a part of that ( sadly I seem to be one of them. ) Right, I'm off to read that thread about not having enough time to practice ...

digitalscream

A bit more on the story...

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mike-portnoy-slams-u-k-hospital-for-not-seeing-him/

I love the bit where they have to explain what the NHS is...also the bit where Portnoy comes across as even more of a dick than he did on Facebook.

mike_l

Portnoy's an egotistical tosspiece.

 

 

Gassage

He's made himself look about *this* big.

randomhandclaps

I love the way Mike Portnoy carries on like he's something special.  Avenged Sevenfold are rehashed shite and to me Dream Theater are just a Tacoma Narrow Bridge Disaster rip off with vocals.

Sometimes I like to think that on particularly heavy Tool tracks that Danny Carey cellotapes a photo of Portnoy to his snare drum .

bingefeller

What an arrogant wanker.  If he was that desperate to be seen quickly he should have went to a private A&E or a private GP as I'm pretty sure he could well afford it.  At least in the hospital where I work, no doctor in their right mind would ever tolerate or give in to such demands.  If the GMC found out they would be investigated and maybe even disciplined.  

Gassage

So- it's interesting...he's  gone off one as he drums...tastelessly and all over the show.

Steve Gadd would've said:

"OK, shame,"  in the perfect manner, exactly at the right time.

ICBM

beed84 said:

One of the doctor's should've pulled his socks up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "there, better now."

O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go.

holnrew

I'd have thought he'd be insured to see a private doctor.

bingefeller

holnrew said:

I'd have thought he'd be insured to see a private doctor.

Even if you're not insured you can pay as a self-funder.

randomhandclaps

holnrew said:

I'd have thought he'd be insured to see a private doctor.

Unfortunately the terms of his insurance mean it's only valid in Middle-earth.

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a579/imadray/Mike%20Portnoy%20Orc_zpsijiw81en.jpg

RocknRollDave

mike_l said:

Portnoy's an egotistical tosspiece.

 

 

This.

Should have learned his lesson from the whole DT debacle - where, as I understand it, he in effect got himself sacked from the band he founded by trying to bluff, only for them to call his bluff and carry on without him...but he clearly does still think he is indispensible.

Tool.

Sambostar

Is it me or does he look like a alternate universe bad Peter Andre.

bingefeller

Sambostar said:

Is it me or does he look like a alternate universe bad Peter Andre.

I guess he does - a bit more rugged and a bit less camp.