Mike Portnoy interview (excerpt)

Radio Futuro: Thinking about great times, we will never forget that first time we had you in Chile. I think it was the first time in 2005 with Dream Theater, with the ‘Octavarium’ tour. It wasn’t really expected to be such a huge audience, but the fans were really crazy, and I think it was at that point the biggest audience the band had ever had at this time. Twenty thousand people, I think. Do you remember that?

Mike Portnoy: Of course. I mean that was my first time there. It ws our first time there. That wasn’t the biggest audience we ever played to, because we played many, many festivals where you get a lot of people. But it was the biggest show of our own; ‘An Evening with Dream Theater’ where it was not a festival. We have no idea what to expect and it blew our minds! Once we got up there and looked out there, it was like, f***, we wish we had brought more amps. We had this giant stage with nothing to fill. But yeah, it was a truly memorable first impression.