I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

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.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.