Originally published in Guitar Techniques magazine 342 · January 2023
Mark Tremonti interview (excerpt)
Interview1 min read
GT: What three guitar instrumentals would you consider iconic, or have inspired you?
MT: I would say John Petrucci's Liquid Tension Experiment. The whole record is just fantastic. And there's a lot of great instrumentals on there. So I would take any track from that record. Metallica, ‘Orion’, could be one of my favourite songs ever written. That's my favourite song from my favourite record. And just to stay with Metallica, I think ‘The Call Of Ktulu’ from Ride The Lightning is another one of my favourite instrumentals of all time. And why? ‘The Call Of Ktulu’ is one of the songs I picked up that really helped me develop my picking style – it's a song that I'll always appreciate for its mood and its dynamics and just the way it helped me develop as a guitar player.