1. John Peter Petrucci was born on July 12,1967 and is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
23 Facts About John Petrucci
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John Petrucci produced or co-produced all of Dream Theater's albums from Metropolis Pt.
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John Peter Petrucci was born on July 12,1967, in Kings Park, New York, to an Italian American family.
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John Petrucci picked up the guitar at around the age of eight because his older sister was allowed to go to bed later to practice the organ.
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John Petrucci picked up the guitar again at the age of 12.
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John Petrucci has said he committed to practicing guitar six hours a day when he discovered it was his passion.
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John Petrucci has released a guitar instructional video, Rock Discipline, which covers warm-up exercises, exercises to avoid injury while playing, alternate picking, sweep picking, chords and other techniques for developing one's guitar playing.
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John Petrucci appeared on the 2005 and 2006 G3 tours, and in 2007, went on G3 tour again, this time with Paul Gilbert and Joe Satriani.
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John Petrucci wrote and recorded two instrumental soundtrack songs for a Sega Saturn game titled Digital Pinball: Necronomicon.
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In 2012, John Petrucci was invited to join Joe Satriani on the G3 tour, along with Steve Morse.
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John Petrucci was accompanied by bassist Dave LaRue and drummer and Dream Theater bandmate Mike Mangini.
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In 2018, John Petrucci joined Joe Satriani on the G3 tour.
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John Petrucci is respected for his variety of guitar styles and skills.
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John Petrucci is Dream Theater's most prolific lyricist, with each album including at least three songs featuring his lyrics.
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John Petrucci has acted as a backing vocalist live since the Awake Tour.
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John Petrucci is a baritone, producing a sound darker than that of James LaBrie's tenor voice.
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In live performances, John Petrucci now replicates some vocal parts originally sung by Portnoy, with others being recorded samples.
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John Petrucci was voted "Best Prog guitarist" by The Prog Magazine and the "Greatest Guitarist" by Burrn magazine and Mariskalrock.
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John Petrucci was named as one of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" by GuitarOne magazine.
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In 2012, John Petrucci was ranked the 17th greatest guitarist of all time by a Guitar World magazine reader's poll.
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John Petrucci is an avid fan of bodybuilding and dedicates much of his off time to weight training.
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John Petrucci is a voting member of The Recording Academy.
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Dream Theater bandmate Jordan Rudess revealed in an interview that John Petrucci is a practicing Catholic.