My friends and I would hang out, and we’d crank Fly by Night, A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres – all of that. Once that happened, I went back and checked out everything. So at that point, you went from “This is a band I like” to “This is a band I need to follow.” Go listen to The Trees from Hemispheres.” Or they’d say, 'You’ve got to listen to 2112.' And that opened the whole thing.” They’d be like, “Oh, you’ve got to check out the earlier stuff. “Around this time, I had several good friends – they’re still good friends, actually – and they were big-time Rush fans. I heard The Spirit Of Radio and really liked it, but it was when I heard Tom Sawyer and Limelight that I really started paying attention. “Growing up on Long Island, I heard Rush on the rock radio stations. In the following interview, Petrucci further details his unabashed love of all things Lifeson, Lee and Peart, and he discusses the impact Permanent Waves (which he calls “the Oreo cream” that helped comprise his three favorite Rush albums – Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures) had on him.Ĭould you name any particular Rush song that was the gateway drug to really getting into the band? With a lot of guitar players, you can hear the blues rock roots very strongly, but with Alex, even though he had those influences, there was other stuff in there “And the way we’ve called things Part 1 or used Roman numerals, or even how we’ve had three different sections like Erotomania, Voices and The Silent Man – we were absolutely wearing our Rush influences on our sleeves.” He laughs, then adds, “I’d be lying if I said otherwise.” “Concept albums and our manner of storytelling – none of that would have happened without Rush,” he says. Petrucci points to various aspects of Dream Theater’s music that have been lifted from the Rush playbook. In terms of how to do things with originality, creativity and wit, they’re the ultimate band, one that I continuously fanboy over. “They’ve always intrigued me, and they’ve never disappointed me. I can’t think of a time they made a wrong move. “A lot of times, if we have professional conundrums like, ‘How should we handle this?’ or ‘How should we present this?’ we’ll kind of refer to Rush. In terms of how to do things with originality, creativity and wit, they’re the ultimate band, one that I continuously fanboy overĮven today, Petrucci admits that the question “What would Rush do?” gets bandied about during group rehearsals and meetings. Suddenly, we were like, ‘We should call the band Majesty.’ So right from the beginning, Rush were influencing our choices.” “I think we were listening to Bastille Day and we were commenting on how majestic it sounded. In fact, Petrucci reveals that Dream Theater’s original name, Majesty, was derived from a Rush song.
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