I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.
John PetrucciA 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.
John PetrucciI've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.
John PetrucciThe style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.
John Petrucci