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.
John PetrucciUsually 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.
John PetrucciObviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.
John PetrucciWhen we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.
John PetrucciIt's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.
John Petrucci