Obviously 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.

With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking too much time.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

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.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.