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You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space a good head space.

John Petrucci

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John Petrucci
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 12
Composer
Guitarist
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Songwriter
John Peter Petrucci
Everyone
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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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With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and geeking out during sound check by taking too much time.
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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.
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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.
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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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Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.
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I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
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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.
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First and foremost, with everybody we wanted to see if they can pull off the songs, play them correctly, and that they it felt right musically. That's something Mike [Mangini] did, it felt like the band. He really gets the style and delivers in a powerful metal way.
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In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.
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Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.
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The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
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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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I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.
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I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.
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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.
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When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever.
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Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.
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Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.
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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.
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