It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.
John PetrucciI often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.
John PetrucciWith the Road King amp, you're able to switch power tubes and speakers and do all these different things. And I didn't want to have five different heads in my rack. And there's something about, when you do the type of setup that I have, unless you have a dedicated amp to a dedicated speaker and you're actually switching, you have to use the same power section of the main head that you're using.
John PetrucciI've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.
John Petrucci