Where Everybody Knows Your Name the perfect theme song for their upcoming NBC sitcom, "Cheers". Upon learning that "People Like Us" was legally bound to the musical Preppies, the Charles Brothers asked Portnoy and Hart Angelo to take a shot at composing a theme specifically for "Cheers". The song that resulted, "My Kind of People", was somewhat of a reworked version of "People Like Us". It was subsequently rejected. Portnoy and Hart Angelo then wrote and submitted two more potential themes for "Cheers". One of them, entitled "Another Day", contained a lyric line "There are times when it's fun to take the long way home"
Mike Portnoy tribute "bar bands" In the October 2009 issue of "Rhythm" Magazine, Portnoy was listed as #5 in their list of the Top 50 Drummers of All Time. He was featured on Fuse TV's "Talking Metal" where he joined with Bobby Ellsworth and the show's hosts in covering Motörhead's "Overkill." In June 14, 2010, Mike Portnoy won the Metal Hammer Golden God Award for Best Drummer. As voted on by 6,500 drummers worldwide, Portnoy won the Drummies Award for Best Progressive Rock drummer in 2010, while Joey Jordison of Slipknot/Rob Zombie/Murderdolls won the award for Best Metal drummer. At the Revolver