Ep375: Mike Portnoy - Record Collector
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Mike Portnoy (Winery Dogs, Sons of Apollo, ex Dream Theatre) joins us to talk about his record collection, rare vinyl of his career, his approach to his music collection, meeting Beatles, working with legends of music, the new Winery Dogs LP and more.
Topics include:
- Mike's record room
- We are not a gossip podcast
- Did the band know The Winery Dogs III would be made?
- Mike's dog Mickey joins the interview
- Making The Winery Dogs III LP
- Richie's vocals are incredible
- How involved is Mike after basic tracks are done?
- When is the vinyl version coming out?
- Why Mike separates old records from new ones
- Mike collects different formats – 8-track talk
- Mike's listening preference is MP3s
- The most precious records of Mike's collection
- Mike's autographed vinyl records
- Mike met Paul and Ringo
- Having a conversation with Paul McCartney
- Mike loves his boxsets
- What's the most Mike ever paid for a record?
- Where does Mike shop for records?
- Mike's conversations with Kevin Gilbert
- The collectability of The Winery Dogs vinyl
- Will the prior Winery Dogs albums be reissued on vinyl?
- Working with Storm Thorgerson on album covers
- Dream Theatre logo changed for the Storm Thorgerson album covers
- Earliest bands - Mike's band "Rising Power"
- The Winery Dogs 2023 tour
- Mike's vinyl videos on YouTube
- Does Mike get vinyl deliveries all the time?
- The rarest record of Mike's career
- What records of his career is he missing?
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves |
| 0:04.3 | for your vinyl collection. Ask for the Groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. |
| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show. |
| 0:16.3 | Well, hello, everyone. It's Nate. Welcome to episode 375 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, and great googly-mugly we have with us today, Mr. Mike Portnoy. |
| 0:28.4 | Now, you likely know Mike is the world-renowned drummer for the Winery Dog, Sons of Apollo, Liquid Tension Experiment, Formerly of Dream Theater, and lots more. |
| 0:37.3 | And today, he's not only talking |
| 0:38.5 | about the new Winery Dogs LP, but also his extensive record collection and his approach to the |
| 0:44.6 | hobby. Now, Mike has some amazing online videos. Going through his record collection, we deep dive |
| 0:50.2 | into that today. We talk about Mike's approach to collecting, the rare records of his |
| 0:54.6 | collection and career. We talk about meeting multiple Beatles and more, plus the new Winery |
| 1:00.6 | Dogs LP, The Winery Dogs 3, out February 3rd. There's a few tracks on streaming services now. |
| 1:06.6 | Go check them out, search up the Winery dogs, and set yourself up to hear the whole album |
| 1:11.2 | on February 3rd. |
| 1:13.4 | And if you're new to the show, make sure you follow or subscribe to the Vinyl Guide podcast in |
| 1:18.4 | your podcast app. |
| 1:19.6 | Over 370 other episodes and interviews featuring the likes of Ben Blackwell of Thirdman |
| 1:25.8 | Records, talking all about the white stripes |
| 1:27.8 | and rare records, episode 374, Kenny Jones of the Who, the faces, the small faces, episode |
| 1:34.5 | 339, Jack and Dino talks about his time recording Nirvana and working for subpop, episode |
| 1:40.4 | 334. We even chat to John Petrucci of Dream Theater, episode 314, Carmine Apiece, Episode 313, Peter Frampton, Episode 300, Tom Scholes of Boston, Episode 297, Billy Gibbons of Zizi Top, Episode 293, and lots more. |
| 1:57.5 | Follow, subscribe, and enjoy the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 2:05.3 | And with that, grab some popcorn and let's get into our record nerdery with Mike and Mickey on the Portnoy family record collection. |
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