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 PetrucciThe C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.
John PetrucciI'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 PetrucciWhen we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.
John PetrucciWe've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.
John Petrucci