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As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.
John Petrucci
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John Petrucci
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 12
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Real thick strings - your hands start to get fatigued. As much as you practice, and as much experience as you have, and as long as you've been playing, there is a fatigue point during the show, as with anything that's physical. So I wanted to basically pace myself better.
John Petrucci
We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.
John Petrucci
Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.
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Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really require a lot of studio to do that. I need a good sounding room and a Pro Tools rig, and some Neve mic-pres, and I'm good.
John Petrucci
When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.
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My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.
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I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
John Petrucci
The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.
John Petrucci
It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.
John Petrucci
I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.
John Petrucci
Personality wise, we are all kindred spirits. I've said this before if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect.
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I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.
John Petrucci
Usually we're all comfortable playing the songs, but during the song there might be one part where you're like „oh, this part's coming up, I have to really focus, a lot of songs have those moments in them.
John Petrucci
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
John Petrucci
Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.
John Petrucci
I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.
John Petrucci
Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.
John Petrucci
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.
John Petrucci
Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
John Petrucci
Sometimes I'll hear a certain approach that kinda cathes my ear, like „It's kinda cool what that guy's doing there, or maybe an effect that somebody's using, or a guitar sound, or something that kinda makes me open up. But the funny thing is i realise over time how sort of traditional i am.
John Petrucci
