Where Everybody Knows Your Name other to create the "group sound" of the hook.) It was also decided to maintain the simple feel of the New York demo in the TV version by keeping the number of instruments to a minimum. The finalized version of the "Cheers" theme song was recorded on August 13, 1982 at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, California. The song received an Emmy Award nomination in 1983 for Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics. In a 2011 Readers Poll in "Rolling Stone" magazine, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was voted the best television theme of all time. In 2013, the editors
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