On May 9th, DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy issued a tour blog (found here) from the Progressive Nation '08 Tour, which also features OPETH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and 3. He has issued the following updates:

"Footnote to my PN08 Blog post....

Just wanted to spread the word that the 'something very cool and special in store for fans of DT and Opeth' that I mentioned in my last PN08 Blog post is sadly now NOT going to happen. The idea turned out to be a little too logistically difficult to pull off so it needed to be blown off.

Oh well....sorry about the tease!!!"

MP

"Footnote to my footnote!!

Just so not to leave this up for eternal speculation....

We were asked by Roadrunner to do a special unique one-off performance for a few limited fans on one of our days off (in between Albany and Boston to be precise) with a few DT members and a few Opeth members combined to do like a little intimate, unplugged-type performance.

Myself and Mikael had already decided the six piece band line-up (three guys from each band) and picked the songs to play, but in the end it was just too difficult to pull off (logistically, not musically of course).

Now of course, you all want to know the line-up and songs picked....but man, I have to leave SOMETHING to the imagination don't I?????

Yes indeed it would've been VERY cool...but in the end was just too hard to put together because of gear, rehearsals, crew guys, rerouting the tour buses and hotels, etc, etc.

The good news is, Mikael and myself are STILL planning on someday collaborating (along with Steven Wilson)....so it's not like my footnote implied that THAT was no longer happening...."

MP

Remaining Progressive Nation Tour dates are as follows:

May

16 - Columbus, OH - LC Amphitheater
17 - Cleveland, OH - Time Warner Amphitheater (Tower City)
18 - Albany, NY - The Armory
20 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theater
21 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
22 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
26 - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
27 - Richmond, VA - The National
28 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
30 - Miami, FL - The Fillmore
31 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock

June

1 - Tampa, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
4 - San Juan, PR - Coliseo of Puerto Rico *

* no OPETH, 3