Where Everybody Knows Your Name the Charles Brothers gave it their stamp of approval, and once Portnoy and Hart Angelo had complied with a request for a few lyric changes intended to broaden the song's appeal to a more general audience, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was officially designated the "Theme from "Cheers"". The original opening verse: was changed to: After several months of mulling over possible outside singers, the producers eventually asked Gary Portnoy to record the vocal for the opening credits of their new series. (The chorus of the song is six of Portnoy’s vocals that he recorded one on top of the
Mike Portnoy Golden God Awards in April 20, 2011, he won the "Best Drummer Award" for his work with Avenged Sevenfold. In June 7, 2011, Portnoy posted on his Facebook that he had won "Drum!" magazine's "Drummer of the Year Award" and the "Metal Drummer Award". Portnoy won the "Virtuoso" award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards. Portnoy played John Myung's bass when Dream Theater performed as the fictitious band Nightmare Cinema. Before live performances of "Trial of Tears", he would sometimes switch instruments with John Petrucci and play a fragment of "Eruption" by Van Halen. In Nightmare Cinema he got the