What’s the story behind Mike being in the band Inner Sanctum?
MP: During the summer of 1985, some friends of mine in a local band called Inner Sanctum lost their drummer and asked me to temporarily help them out. We did a couple of local shows and then they asked me to record some songs before I left for Berklee (where I ended up meeiting John and John, and formed Dream Theater). Those songs are tracks 1-8 on this CD. To get those brilliant drum sounds, one of the guitar players came over to my garage, set up about 4 microphones and plugged two of us directly into a boom box! At the time, I had no idea that anything would be done with these tapes (much less that it would come back to haunt me later). Although the production is horrible and the playing is pretty simple (when you can make it out), I did get a kick out of hearing this music after so many years. The music was pretty heavy for 1985 and at the time, I thought it was some pretty cool stuff.
