The album, Suspended Animation, was released on March 1, 2005, and was available for order from his web site. In 2001, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai invited Petrucci to tour with them on the popular G3 guitar tour, which exposed him to a massive number of new fans and inspired a solo album. Petrucci also has a book named 'Guitar World presents John Petrucci's Wild Stringdom', which was compiled from columns he wrote for Guitar World magazine under that title. 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. While Petrucci is most commonly associated with Dream Theater, he is also in the project band Liquid Tension Experiment, and has appeared as a guest on records by other artists, such as the Age of Impact album by the Explorer's Club. Because there was already another band with the same name, the group later became Dream Theater. These three, in addition to Kevin Moore, formed the band Majesty. While in Berklee they often covered two of their biggest influences, Iron Maiden and Rush. Petrucci attended Berklee College of Music in Boston with childhood friend John Myung (bass), where they met future bandmate Mike Portnoy (drums). Career Įventually, his childhood friend and future Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore invited Petrucci to join his cover band. His early influences were bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and later developed an interest in progressive rock and heavy metal, exemplified by Rush, Yes, Iron Maiden, Dixie Dregs and Metallica. Petrucci has said he committed to practicing guitar six hours a day when he discovered it was his passion.

He picked up the guitar again at the age of 12. However, he decided to quit the guitar when his attempts to stay up late were unsuccessful. He picked up the guitar at around the age of eight because his older sister was allowed to go to bed later in order to practice the organ.

John Peter Petrucci was born on July 12, 1967, in Kings Park, New York, to an Italian American family.

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