Quote Originally Posted by 3LB
I think Portnoy showed unusual restraint on the first one because of editing and/or direction. I liked about half of Free. Bought last year's Blood, thought it sucked, traded it.
On the Portnoy, yes.............Moore's edits or direction...........and it worked very well.
The video reflects that they had one day to go over the charts and get the feel and then recorded the next day............it could also be that Portnoy is too busy reading and counting to get too inventive..............almost no rehearsal time.
Portnoy does not display that restraint enough on his DT releases...........many times, it is so overplayed ("because I can") that it borders on dominance and the music suffers.

I have not heard any of the other OSI CDs..............after buying three Chroma Key releases, my guess would have been exactly as you describe.
Is BLOOD the one with the drummer from Porky Tree ?