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James had a really bad case of foot poisoning holiday in 1994:

He goes on to explain, how a meal of pork, beans and rice, while on holiday in Cuba in 1994 almost left him for dead and has made him very precious […]

On his website the following can be read:
Who are your greatest influences?

In terms of Rock keyboardists: Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Patrick Moraz. As for bands: Gentle Giant, YES, Genesis, Pink Floyd, […]

Petrucci has two groups of primary influences, “…the Steve’s and the Al’s”. The Steve’s are Steve Morse, Steve Howe, Steve Vai, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Al’s are Alex Lifeson, Al Di Meola, and Allan Holdswo […]

John Myung has been the subject of many Dream Theater memes. There’s the “Cardboard cutout Myung” meme, which came from the notion that Myung appears to be identical on all photos taken with fans so DT may […]

The Chapman Stick is a unique electric string instrument. Instead of being plucked like a guitar, the act of fretting a note causes it to play. This means that you can play notes with both hands allowing you to […]

On a TAMA instructional video he says that he can achieve a much fuller snare sound with the butt end of the stick as opposed to the tip. So for this reason, his left-hand stick is always upside down.
This […]

Mike Portnoy gives his influences in this excerpt from a Daily Vault interview:

I used to like Neal Peart but I don’t really listen to him that much anymore. He was a big influence for me when I was younger. I […]

For the recording of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Train of Thought, Mike used a kit called the “Siamese Monster”. For Octavarium he used a white kit called the “Albino Monster”.

Mike uses TAMA Starclassic […]

A complete list of gear is almost impossible to create because it changes all the time.

John Petrucci currently uses Music Man guitars – and several different types. He has two distinct models: The JP model and t […]

John Petrucci did write and records two tracks for an old Sega Saturn game called Digital Pinball: Necronomicon, only released in Japan. He wrote two pieces; ” Necronomicon Prologue” and “Necronomicon Epilogue”