Tag Archives: John Petrucci

Dream Theater Rocks Albany

Dream Theater Rocks Albany

It was a full day of guitar for me. First, I played guitar for my church (Terra Nova) in our morning service. Then I went to the John Petrucci clinic that afternoon. And I JUST got back from the Dream Theater concert in downtown Albany. I have to say it was [...]

John Petrucci in Albany

John Petrucci in Albany

John Petrucci, a guitar master and prog-rock genius playing for the band Dream Theater, will be giving a clinic in Albany, NY this weekend while his band is in town doing a show… a show which I have tickets to.
The clinic will be at Trick Shot Billiards [map] - right behind Parkway Music [...]

The Guitar Solo

The Guitar Solo

Many of you know I play guitar. As such I have a particular fancy for the so-called guitar solo, also widely known as the “electric” guitar solo. This beauty was a staple of 80’s hair metal, but it’s musical role is a device that transcends all styles and genres of music.

Today the term guitar [...]

Art, Talent, and the Tyranny of the Subjective

Art, Talent, and the Tyranny of the Subjective

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but who exactly is this mythical “they” entity anyway? Things like art and music - so easily perverted into the ethereal chaos of the subjective - can really cause engineers like me to seg fault (that’s basically a metaphorical parallel to an intellectual seizure). [...]