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 More Quotes by John Petrucci More Quotes From John Petrucci Many times we talk about the people that have come to enjoy the show. They went through a lot to get here, whatever they needed to work out in their lives; they got babysitters, they traveled, and purchased the tickets. So it's up to us to deliver the goods! John Petrucci ticketswork-outpeople Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back. John Petrucci coming-backblacknames It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired. John Petrucci tiredrealhands 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. John Petrucci albumsrosepeople I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. John Petrucci progressiverocksworld 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. John Petrucci japanguitarnice We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?" John Petrucci dreamwritingsong 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. John Petrucci behind-youpoliticalbelieve 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 guitarplayerlistening I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing. John Petrucci chaserstonehopeless I have to say that our fans have been absolutely wonderful all across the world. John Petrucci fanswonderfulworld I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?" John Petrucci heybandpeople I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables. John Petrucci telephonesballstoo-much I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing. John Petrucci marketingdevelopmentfun 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 funny-thingsguitarguy 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 trackdreamneeds 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 too-muchtoolssound I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original. John Petrucci importantsoundthinking I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in. John Petrucci realplayfather We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album. John Petrucci writingsongorder
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