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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.
John Petrucci
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John Petrucci
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 12
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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 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.
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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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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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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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