John Petrucci on VH1 Classic "That Metal Show"

[darchirnoj]

Nice!!

 

[DevRock]

what should John have done instead? how much say do you suppose he had in the matter?

Well, if you watch the show regularly, I guess you would understand more. I don't know if I can explain it. He just didn't seem all that inspired to play much. I think it's farking stupid they're not allowed to play "copyrighted material." It's just that with a player of this magnitude, I had the expectation of going to commercial break with my jaw on the floor every time. That never happened. Obviously, I wasn't the only one who felt that way here.

I don't understand what you mean by "how much say" he had. As long as it's not a copyrighted song, he can do what he wants. You think anyone was going to tell some monster guy with a giant beard what he could and couldn't do?

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I think its strange that a show that is all about rock and metal, hosted by guys that love the genre is not allowed to play rock and metal!

 

[Screamindv]

They can play anything they want but they have to pay for it. My band did a reality TV show. We had to keep a record of every song we played so that if a scene was aired with us playing, even in the background, VH1 could pay for the rights.

 

[savannah_sean]

Well, if you watch the show regularly, I guess you would understand more. I don't know if I can explain it. He just didn't seem all that inspired to play much. I think it's farking stupid they're not allowed to play "copyrighted material." It's just that with a player of this magnitude, I had the expectation of going to commercial break with my jaw on the floor every time. That never happened. Obviously, I wasn't the only one who felt that way here.

I don't understand what you mean by "how much say" he had. As long as it's not a copyrighted song, he can do what he wants. You think anyone was going to tell some monster guy with a giant beard what he could and couldn't do?

I agree about being able to play bits of copyrighted material. i would have enjoyed hearing what johns choice of rush tune would have been when he said he was so tempted to play one (any guesses? i would guess xanadu, la villa strangiato or natural science)

about "how much say": Im just curious with things like this about how it all works: did they contact john and say "hey we want you on the show, and you will do X with Y gear in timespots a, b and c" or what...I imagine the logistics could get pretty complicated, even if it was just something like having a cd of backing tracks from his solo album.

 

[BrickGlass]

It was cool to see JP on there. If you watch the show regularly most guitar guests just improvise something going into the commercial breaks. I would much rather have seen JP do that every single time instead of playing snipets from his solo material. JP is amazing at improv so I would have loved to just see him wing it, just let it fly and see what comes out like most guitar guests do. Oh well.

 

[TheGame]

It was a nice segment, it was nice to see JP talk about his equipment!

 

[pentaspan]

To be frank, I was really underwhelmed by what John did on the show. I was really disappointed. Otherwise, the show was fantastic. Geddy was a great guest.

you gotta be kidding...yeah, he started out a bit slow, but pretty much all the riffs were in the RUSH vein. I'm sure Geddy was thinking, "Damn, that would sound great on our next CD". I was impressed.

only thing I was dissapointed by was the reaction when the kid got a free Sterling hat. So he was clueless to the company, but it just seemed ungrateful...until he got that kick-ass guitar.