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.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

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.

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.

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.

We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.