The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
John PetrucciI 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 PetrucciWhen I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.
John Petrucci