A lot of people around the world were, like, very frustrated, you know "Why don't you just release the name? Why is it taking so long?" But the cool thing is that it brought people together, like you said, it brought our fans into the experience, it sort of exposed us, exposed the process, and I think it welcomed Mike Magini, because people saw what happened to get to that point.
John PetrucciI'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.
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 PetrucciObviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.
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