There's something sterile there still... I can get why portnoy wanted to take a break.
To be a shredder before the Petrucci meme appeared, is something weird.
Never got that DT got so big, for him to be considered a guitar hero...
His picking technique is quite bad (for the shredding standard), but I do get the technique has something to say when mixing some chords and some voicings.
Gotta drink more to find it... or what...