John Petrucci

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John Petrucci at a Dream Theater concert in Madrid 2012
Guitarist John Petrucci at the Dream Theater concert in Düsseldorf, 2005

John Peter Petrucci (born July 12, 1967 in Long Island , New York ) is the guitarist of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater .

Life

John Petrucci began playing the guitar at the age of eight in an attempt to emulate his sister, who was also learning to play an instrument at the time. However, it stopped after a short time. When he was twelve years old, his friend formed a school band. This moved him to start playing the guitar again. During this time he met John Myung , who is still the bass player for Dream Theater.

Petrucci's main musical influences include bands like Yes , Pink Floyd , Rush , Metallica , Iron Maiden and guitarists Steve Howe , Steve Vai , Alex Lifeson , Al Di Meola , Allan Holdsworth and especially Steve Morse . In interviews he sometimes jokingly refers to his role models as the "Als and the Steves". Petrucci was a student with Myung at the Berklee College of Music in Boston , but only for one year. It was there that they met Mike Portnoy , with whom they founded the band Majesty , which later became Dream Theater.

John Petrucci is married to Rena Sands and has three children (Samantha, Reny and Kiara).

music

The music of Dream Theater is a mixture of progressive rock with metal influences, which, due to its speed, its numerous unusual rhythm and tempo changes and its demanding song conceptions, demands a high level of concentration, precision and the highest technical skills on the instrument from the musicians. Famous Petrucci came through his often out audible from the songs of the band virtuoso skills, especially to mention his outstanding alternate picking technique is here ( Engl. Alternate picking ). Not least because of this, many see him as one of the most virtuoso rock guitarists in the world.

In addition to Dream Theater, Petrucci a. a. also participated in the instrumental project Liquid Tension Experiment . These included the two Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy (drums) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards) as well as Tony Levin (bass), who was involved in numerous other bands (including Peter Gabriel and King Crimson ). In 2000 he performed with Jordan Rudess at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center . A recording of this performance has been published under the title An Evening with John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess . The three tours with the so-called G3 should also be mentioned . Petrucci accompanied the famous guitarists Steve Vai , Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert on tour in 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

On March 1, 2005, his first solo album Suspended Animation was released .

In a textbook, Rock Discipline , which has been commercially available with video cassette, DVD and CD since 2002 , Petrucci explains his philosophy of guitar playing; Furthermore, with numerous technical and warm-up exercises, he helps guitar students to improve their skills.

Equipment

Since 2000, Petrucci has been playing his signature guitars from Music Man , a 6-string and a 7-string with 24 frets and DiMarzio pickups specially made for him . Furthermore, he occasionally uses a doubleneck guitar at concerts, the necks of which are strung with 12 or 6 strings. Before that he played models made especially for him by Ibanez . He gets his amplifiers from Mesa / Boogie , and he particularly values ​​their tonal versatility and constancy. During his live performances, with Dream Theater, there are usually several Mesa / Boogie amplifier towers, consisting of several 4x12 "boxes of the type" Mesa / Boogie Traditional Rectifier 4X12 "Cabinet", on the stage. He is currently playing on a "Mesa / Boogie JP-2C" made for him, which he uses as a pair for stereophonic sound imaging. John Petrucci is also known for the "Mesa Boogie Mini Recto SL" that he uses directly at his playing position.

Effect devices such as B. the for him developed "The Dreamscape" from TC-Electronics as well as further effect devices from Mesa / Boogie, TC-Electronics and other manufacturers.

Discography

Videos

Web links

Commons : John Petrucci  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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Dream theater
Studio albums

When Dream and Day Unite  (1989) • Images and Words  (1992) • Awake  (1994) • Falling into Infinity  (1997) • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory  (1999) • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence  (2002) • Train of Thought  (2003) • Octavarium  (2005) • Systematic Chaos  (2007) • Black Clouds & Silver Linings  (2009) • A Dramatic Turn of Events  (2011) • Dream Theater  (2013) • The Astonishing  (2015) • Distance over Time  (2019)

Extended plays

A Change of Seasons  (1995)

Live albums

Live at the Marquee  (1993) • Once in a LIVEtime  (1998) • Live Scenes from New York  (2001) • Live at Budokan  (2004) • SCORE (20th Anniversary World Tour)  (2006)

personal data
SURNAME Petrucci, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrucci, John Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island , New York