As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.
John PetrucciI experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
John PetrucciMusic is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
John Petrucci