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Songs like Spirit Carries On really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.
John Petrucci
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John Petrucci
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 12
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I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.
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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.
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I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really important, because that's the things that's going to separate you from everybody else, that's going to give you your unique voice as a music that you create.
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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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We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
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It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.
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