Albino Monster Drumkit

Best drumkit ever

[@Mrlegodj]

RIP the drum tech

[@jacobodelriomolano4373]

I'm so happy to see these after recent events.

[@danielbrian3988]

my favorite drum kit.. my favorite DT days..

[@wendhawendha3197]

Genius drumer...

[@mediclimber]

Sweet kit. I still have my Tama Saturn 12 plus 1 from 1978-79(?). Way back in the day. I've had other drummer ask me how do you play something like this and the answer is you don't have to use every drum in every song.

[@scott___1737]

Love that kit. Octavarium is my favorite DT album.

[@ivandkhar3271]

Mike you are genius

[@Nn0611]

🥰😎fantastic!

[@juni3r]

Great kit... But my favorite for several reasons is the purple/green/red monster! It was the first one that I saw live in a Portnoy workshop in Portugal 🇵🇹 ...Back in 1999... I think! 🤔

[@coreyw5981]

I never knew their was a tour of this kit!! This set always made the most sense out of his big kits. Its just two medium normal looking kits put together in the middle. The one purple one he had though i thought was just real messy looking

[@dandavidson1704]

Fun fact over half of octavarium was played on the small lot. 4 songs plus the first part of scarified sons

[@777Jonathan777]

Interesting that the "floor tom" between both kits is a 14x5.5 Melody Master snare as a Tom. Love it

[@MaelstromMephistoPEM]

It's actually a 14x6, if the various diagrams around the Web are to be believed.

[@mattnormandrums]

Why do you think he used such a shallow drum for his 14” tom?

[@Swedish_Drummer]

@@mattnormandrums My guess is to avoid tripping on it. Might also be sonic reason; the relationship between the width and the length gives you different sounds depending.

[@mattnormandrums]

@@Swedish_Drummer he got such a low note out of a shallow floor tom. Very interesting drum.

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

I'm incredibly disappointed & frustrated that he didn't even mention or acknowledge this particular drum, especially as unique & important it is to him and his overall setup. So glad & appreciative that YOU brought the info & specs behind this really cool, interesting and different custom piece of percussion to light... Seriously it was driving me nuts lol

[@japanegao6818]

Mike você gosta de bateria? Apenas um pouco! Vem aqui meu cachorro BUMBO, meu papagaio SPLASH, meu gato CRASH, meu filho Max smacks...hehehe ...Isso é muito bom.

[@VacantSpirit]

next kit will be sick

[@amirmpr]

Really I like so much just DW

[@leo_the_dorito1922]

*uznips pants* I present to you... My Albino Monster

[@irawanferry4452]

My thacher is my idol Im suhu engkau adalah inpiransiku

[@austinsatterfield4981]

Year 2 of rebuilding this set in my own way, the main set is done minus max stscks and Octobans I have the other Sabians and a white pearl tama superstar kit with his sizes, nkw to save 6k more for the small drumset part, which will be a bonham amber acrylic set

[@austinsatterfield4981]

Oh don't have the melody master yet either. That's expencive stuff

[@MaydupNem]

we're going to need videos whenever you finish this. . .

[@amirmpr]

Really DW is the best drums on the world infact

[@MrGuitarandvocals]

Sonor shits all over DW

[@Sixdramaticsystemsfromamemory]

Dw is so overrated

[@heraldman1]

does anybody know what are that kind of shims which hold up the stands? There's no simpy rack clamps look at 2:57 on the right side

[@henry4237]

Thanks.

[@danielhambrook3669]

Anyone know what the exact snare drum on the Bonham half of the kit is?

[@trainspotter360]

I know Portnoy likes Tamas a lot but was he signed with Mapex for a short period? His first dvd shows him with a giant Mapex kit.

[@MaelstromMephistoPEM]

Yup. He was with Mapex from 1994-96.

[@Kookiebiskit]

I know this is a really old comment and I'm sorry for necroing it, but here's Mike's explanation from his archived FAQ: In 1993, as Dream Theater was starting to “break,” I was getting many drum endorsement offers. Because I had been playing Tama for so many years, I felt the need to “play the field” a bit before “getting married.” Mapex was starting to establish themselves as an up and coming company, and I liked the idea of being “a big fish in a little pond” as opposed to vise versa. (unfortunately later on, I became a big fish dying in an empty swimming pool!!! ) Jump ahead...I decide to go with Mapex...they build me a beautiful U.S. Maple kit...I love it. Problem #1 - shortly after, they stopped offering the US Maple series to the public, which means I am playing and endorsing a type of drum set that the public can't even buy. Problem #2 - They changed U.S. distributors and the drums were very hard to find in stores...and I had started doing alot of clinics, which meant that I was playing clinics on Tama drums, Pearl drums, DW drums, Yamaha drums, etc. because the dealers weren't dealing Mapex. I then did a few very *high profile* drum festivals where I strongly suggested to Mapex that they might want to consider shipping my kit with me in order for Mapex to be properly represented at the shows. They asked for me and my management to arrange for the shipping and send them the bills. A few months later when we were waiting to be re-imbursed for the *10's of thousands* of dollars we laid out for them, they told me they wouldn't re-imburse us until I signed onto them for another 3 years!!! I flipped my lid, told them I will *definitely* not be re-signing to them unless they paid back my manager (which they immediately did) and then I split. As word got out, the drum companies came running back to me - and ultimately, I returned to my first love (Tama - who had just introduced the great new Starclassic line) and I've been back home ever since!

[@trainspotter360]

@@Kookiebiskit Thanks much dude. Appreciate the very detailed answer!

[@drummerdan95]

​@@Kookiebiskitthat's really interesting, I'd never heard that explanation before

[@JG93B]

Why do I want Blue Gatorade now...

[@fortnoy80]

What hihat use? Hhx 14?

[@JUNpower]

AAX stage hats

[@mariothedevil1537]

3:25 + 9:21 how is it not possible to love Mike?

[@ricardosalluca4171]

I think it's imposible not to admire him, he's the reason why I'm still playing drums, but, we're still waiting for the "Marlene" cymbal or pedal

[@paradigmshiftz7]

@@ricardosalluca4171I wanna see the Marlene Tambourine. Would arguably be the catchiest name of the three MP signature stuff.

[@sammullin9667]

Which cd is this off?

[@sammullin9667]

@Aaron P. Chur mate

[@thomaszurcher9958]

🇨🇭🙏♥️

[@amirmpr]

Dear mike,, portnoy, why don't you use DW???

[@guss-wb5pz]

should have portnoy and mangini on it for a song

[@drummerdan95]

They did a drum battle/duet on stage at a DT show years before Mangini was in the band, you can find it on YT

[@guss-wb5pz]

ill have to try to find it thanks

[@jamieseiple]

It's overkill. Be honest.

[@Sixdramaticsystemsfromamemory]

That's the point though, it's supposed to be fun.

[@amirmpr]

I live in Iran and here is not DW even 1 kit 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 even 1 kit 😢😢

[@FedericoLynch]

I know this one is old and probably someone already pointed this out, but here goes nothing.... so, he's basically beating up his kids on stage, hahaha

[@amirmpr]

Please send me DW dear lovely likey

[@grahambrown5013]

John Bonham did all of this with one bass drum, a snare and three tom toms.

[@methyod]

three???? hah, what a poser. elvin jones did all of this with two. kids these days are so spoiled......

[@TaxinGigs]

😅

[@Sixdramaticsystemsfromamemory]

Bonham did not play this complex of music💀 what are you talking about about

[@grahambrown5013]

@@Sixdramaticsystemsfromamemory yet he was one of the greatest rock drummers of all time....

[@nielswil]

Nothing beats beating drums and cymbals named after your kids instead of beating your kids, right?

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

Yes, quite brilliant thinking right there honestly ;) lol

[@nielswil]

@@hippiesaboteur2556 😎

[@unaldurmaz250]

Lol DVD

[@Beans_978]

Bet that pdf file he mentioned is now a virus LOL

[@chaneppchannel_365]

Only talk no hit

[@robbyramone6920]

Somebody is full of themself

[@bvq330]

How does this video make him seem full of himself?

[@Sixdramaticsystemsfromamemory]

What you talking about? 🤔