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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.

John Petrucci

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John Petrucci
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 12
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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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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.
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You try to play the song better than you had before.
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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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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.
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We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.
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I have to say that our fans have been absolutely wonderful all across the world.
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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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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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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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I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)
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Many kids and parents ask me, 'What kind of guitar can I buy?' It's a great opportunity for those people to be able to buy a quality guitar that's not necessarily a little Fender or whatever. Ernie Ball signature model guitar is something that's more signature.
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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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Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.
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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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Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.
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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.
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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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To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.
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Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.
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