\"After the Dream Theater tour ended, I spent the first few months of my \'vacation\' working on the \"Score\" cd and dvd (which I directed)... As I\'m sure you all now know, they will be released on August 29th (date varies in different countries). As I\'ve already stated, the show at Radio City Music Hall was a career highlight for me and this dvd totally does that incredible evening complete justice, capturing all of the energy and magic in the air. Also, the 20-year retrospective documentary on the second disc is well worth the price of admission alone as it covers every step of our career through interviews and rare archival footage and serves as the ultimate Dream Theater historical piece.\"

In a few weeks, Mike Portnoy will be heading up to Allaire Studios in upstate New York to begin work with Rob Wallis and Paul Seigel on his new drum instructional dvd. The 2-dvd set is going to be packed with footage, information and playing covering everything Portnoy has done (in Dream Theater and outside of Dream Theater) in the seven years since his last instructional video. The dvd, entitled \"In Constant Motion\", will probably be ready for a late 2006/early 2007 release through Hudson Music.

He is also wrapping up work on the dvd of his Rush tribute show from last year. In the coming weeks \"Cygnus & The Sea Monsters - One Night In Chicago\" will be available on cd and dvd exclusively from the online store at MikePortnoy.com.

Next month, Mike Portnoy will be heading over to Nashville to record Neal Morse\'s latest progressive masterpiece. Finally, Dream Theater will reconvene in September to begin work on their next studio album, which is set for a spring/summer 2007 release.