When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.
John PetrucciMusic 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.
John PetrucciAs 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.
John Petrucci