“In between songs, we had to ask if there was a chiropractor in the house and literally stopped the show": How Mike Portnoy has played through pain for over two decades

Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater.

Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy has opened up about the toll his body has taken playing (on and off) with the prog institution over the course of four decades.

In a new interview with Samus Paulicelli (bewlo), Portnoy spoke about how those long punishing sets – Dream Theater often play for three hours plus – have all added up over the years. “It's a lot for the body to take," he admitted.