Officer
2006-08-16, 19:20
The chief exports of John Petrucci are 64th notes.
John Petrucci once played a solo so fast that his fingers broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Jimi Hendrix while he was trying to sleep.
If you ask John Petrucci what time it is, he always, always says, "15/8."
John Petrucci could have no hair... and still play better than you.
John Petrucci once walked into a Guitar Center and played on ever guitar in the store... in 30 seconds.
John Petrucci has a box of souls he's amassed over the years after being challenged to "shredding contests". His box includes the souls of Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, and the Devil.
Music stores have banned John Petrucci because whenever he enters, all of the guitar necks bow down to him.
When John Petrucci sends out for his Mesa amps, he sends a blank form and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to shred. John Petrucci has not had to pay for his Mesas, ever.
John Petrucci never sleeps. He rests. (Get it?)
John Petrucci once played so fast, he ruined the country of Afghanistan. The US invasion was a cover-up.
John Petrucci doesn't practice, since it implies the chance of ****ing up a note. He shreds.
John Petrucci has two modes: walk and shred.
If stranded in the forest, John Petrucci can start a fire by playing a tremolo-picked solo of 64th notes until his pick catches fire.
John Petrucci once ordered a Big Mac at Burger King... He got it.
There is no guitar companies...just axes Petrucci has decided to not play
John Petrucci once broke all the strings on my guitar... I was just listening to his CD...
John Petrucci was originally hired as the devil's guitarist in "Crossroads." Steve Vai and the Karate Kid stepped in as emergency replacements after Petrucci's solo in the duel vaporized the original lead and melted three cameras on the set.
Jordan Rudess isn't bald because he shaved his head. He's bald because he mistakenly stepped onto Petrucci's side of the stage during soundcheck, while JP was firing of a face-melting salvo of 64th notes.
Luckily, due to Rudess' keyboard shredding cred, he merely lost his hair in the process. Anyone less would have the skin tone of Skeletor.
John Petrucci's insane shredding caused hurricane Katrina
John Petrucci can play five notes at the same time...on the same string.
If at first you can't play quintuplets @ 200 bpm, you're not John Petrucci.
When you say, "No one is perfect," John Petrucci takes it as a personal insult
John Petrucci once played his Mesa at 10... and survived
John Petrucci is not metal.. metal is John Petrucci
John Petrucci's guitars set themselfs on fire
John Petrucci goes to 12.
when he wanted a seven string guitar, he just started to shred so fast that his music man morphed into a seven string guitar
John Petrucci eats D'Addarios for breakfast.
Scientist have proven that John Petrucci only has one finger, which moves so fast, it is never percieved as fewer than four fingers by the human senses. If he had more than one finger, scientists believe the universe would exceed critical energy density and collapse on itself, which would destroy everything (except, of course, John Petrucci, who can be neither created nor destroyed, only moved from one style of shredding to another).
John Petrucci has filed lawsuits with Gillette, claiming that their razor product named "Mach 3" is actually the name of Petrucci's first three fingers on his left hand.
They were going to release a John Petrucci edition of Clue, but the answer always turns out to be "John Petrucci. In The Library. With the Speedy Lick."
John Petrucci is a major cause of house fires. Home stereo speakers burst into flames from the effort of reproducing his playing, quickly turning into a raging inferno that consumes everything in the house. Except John Petrucci cd's.
John Petrucci is the only person Area 51 can trust to shred top secret documents. If fact, he shreds them so fast that he breaks the documents down to a molecular level.
In 1989, John Petrucci performed the first 128th note run in the history of music, resulting in the Loma Prieta earthquake that disrupted the World Series.
In 2000, John Petrucci performed a whammy bar pull up so intense, the prime minister of Japan suffered suffered a coma-inducing stroke. From this point on, the use of locking trems on his guitars were disallowed by international law.
John Petrucci once told the cavemen that he gets his tone by using lizard skins as grille cover cloths. That was the end of the dinosaurs.
john petrucci once played flight of the bunble bee at 3200 bpm before a stunned audience, unfortunately they didn't hear the billion notes that were too incremental for even quantam physics to gauge -
john petruccis right hand is so fast it is actually twelve years younger than the rest of his body.
john petrucci is afraid to masturbate - the damage to his penis at that speed would be aweful - this is why he now plays guitar.
john petruccis music is so fast it cancels itself out by breaking the speed of sound.
John petrucci has had the tendons in both wrists replaced with kevlar -
john petrucci once transcribed and played an entire phonebook on guitar - in under twelve seconds.
amphetamines are made from DNA scraped from john petruccis right hand
john petrucci doesn't play for dream theatre - dream theatre play for john petrucci.
john petrucci invented tig welding - when he used stainless strings and a metal pick
john petrucci invented gravity - when space-time tried to keep up with his right hand.
john petrucci never slows down, he simply feels sorry for you and gives you a chance.
john petrucci invented fire - need i say how?
john petrucci was hidden in the hull of the sr71 blackbird.
john petrucci recently returned from orbit, and he did it faster than anyone else.
john petruccis sperm is so fast that it destroyed james labries larynx - raising his voice twelve octaves.
john petrucci using a bee and a megaphone for a metronome.
John Petrucci doesn't need pickups and amplifiers, what you hear is actually the screams of the strings, brought to life by the high speed massage of his fingers on the fretboard, and tortured to agony by his high speed picking. He just uses the pickups and amplifiers to make it louder...because he can.
The real "Liquid Tension Experiment" was John Petrucci attempting to bring himself to orgasm while performing a solo using a slide which he was holding with his...well, lets just say, it worked, and the results were never released for obvious reasons.
John Petrucci IS The Matrix.
John Petrucci doesn't get sore fingers, the guitar gets sore frets.
John Petrucci flosses with gauge 70 B strings.
It takes 14 puppeteers to make John Petrucci smile, but only 2 to make him dial in a Road King. With his eyes closed.
The birth of John Petrucci made the Big Bang look like the Small Wang.
When John Petrucci cracks his knuckles, it levels buildings in a ten mile radius.
John Petrucci can clean his entire house with the vacuum created by his sweep arpeggios.
If Yngwie was half as fast as John Petrucci, the enegry consumed by his right hand would burn off all the excess fat on his body.
In the future, the speed of warp drives used for faster than light space travel will be measured in Petruccis. The speed of light is approximately 1.89x10^-50 Petruccis.
John Petrucci does not own an 8-string, because in his hands it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
Mesa does not make amps for musicians. Mesa makes amps for Petrucci, who selflessly allows us to use them. The amps are free, but we are all required to pay John Petrucci a suckage tax.
It took five women two years to give birth to John Petrucci
Petrucci backwards is "Iccurtep" - which is iroquai for "madman with lightning fingers".
Word has it that if you enter your bathroom at night and watch yourself in the mirror, saying "petrucci" three times in a row, John Petrucci will materialize behind you and play air guitar using 256th note runs, causing your head to explode.
John Petrucci tried out for American Idol once, that's why there's only 3 judges now
John Petrucci once played a solo so fast that his fingers broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Jimi Hendrix while he was trying to sleep.
If you ask John Petrucci what time it is, he always, always says, "15/8."
John Petrucci could have no hair... and still play better than you.
John Petrucci once walked into a Guitar Center and played on ever guitar in the store... in 30 seconds.
John Petrucci has a box of souls he's amassed over the years after being challenged to "shredding contests". His box includes the souls of Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, and the Devil.
Music stores have banned John Petrucci because whenever he enters, all of the guitar necks bow down to him.
When John Petrucci sends out for his Mesa amps, he sends a blank form and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to shred. John Petrucci has not had to pay for his Mesas, ever.
John Petrucci never sleeps. He rests. (Get it?)
John Petrucci once played so fast, he ruined the country of Afghanistan. The US invasion was a cover-up.
John Petrucci doesn't practice, since it implies the chance of ****ing up a note. He shreds.
John Petrucci has two modes: walk and shred.
If stranded in the forest, John Petrucci can start a fire by playing a tremolo-picked solo of 64th notes until his pick catches fire.
John Petrucci once ordered a Big Mac at Burger King... He got it.
There is no guitar companies...just axes Petrucci has decided to not play
John Petrucci once broke all the strings on my guitar... I was just listening to his CD...
John Petrucci was originally hired as the devil's guitarist in "Crossroads." Steve Vai and the Karate Kid stepped in as emergency replacements after Petrucci's solo in the duel vaporized the original lead and melted three cameras on the set.
Jordan Rudess isn't bald because he shaved his head. He's bald because he mistakenly stepped onto Petrucci's side of the stage during soundcheck, while JP was firing of a face-melting salvo of 64th notes.
Luckily, due to Rudess' keyboard shredding cred, he merely lost his hair in the process. Anyone less would have the skin tone of Skeletor.
John Petrucci's insane shredding caused hurricane Katrina
John Petrucci can play five notes at the same time...on the same string.
If at first you can't play quintuplets @ 200 bpm, you're not John Petrucci.
When you say, "No one is perfect," John Petrucci takes it as a personal insult
John Petrucci once played his Mesa at 10... and survived
John Petrucci is not metal.. metal is John Petrucci
John Petrucci's guitars set themselfs on fire
John Petrucci goes to 12.
when he wanted a seven string guitar, he just started to shred so fast that his music man morphed into a seven string guitar
John Petrucci eats D'Addarios for breakfast.
Scientist have proven that John Petrucci only has one finger, which moves so fast, it is never percieved as fewer than four fingers by the human senses. If he had more than one finger, scientists believe the universe would exceed critical energy density and collapse on itself, which would destroy everything (except, of course, John Petrucci, who can be neither created nor destroyed, only moved from one style of shredding to another).
John Petrucci has filed lawsuits with Gillette, claiming that their razor product named "Mach 3" is actually the name of Petrucci's first three fingers on his left hand.
They were going to release a John Petrucci edition of Clue, but the answer always turns out to be "John Petrucci. In The Library. With the Speedy Lick."
John Petrucci is a major cause of house fires. Home stereo speakers burst into flames from the effort of reproducing his playing, quickly turning into a raging inferno that consumes everything in the house. Except John Petrucci cd's.
John Petrucci is the only person Area 51 can trust to shred top secret documents. If fact, he shreds them so fast that he breaks the documents down to a molecular level.
In 1989, John Petrucci performed the first 128th note run in the history of music, resulting in the Loma Prieta earthquake that disrupted the World Series.
In 2000, John Petrucci performed a whammy bar pull up so intense, the prime minister of Japan suffered suffered a coma-inducing stroke. From this point on, the use of locking trems on his guitars were disallowed by international law.
John Petrucci once told the cavemen that he gets his tone by using lizard skins as grille cover cloths. That was the end of the dinosaurs.
john petrucci once played flight of the bunble bee at 3200 bpm before a stunned audience, unfortunately they didn't hear the billion notes that were too incremental for even quantam physics to gauge -
john petruccis right hand is so fast it is actually twelve years younger than the rest of his body.
john petrucci is afraid to masturbate - the damage to his penis at that speed would be aweful - this is why he now plays guitar.
john petruccis music is so fast it cancels itself out by breaking the speed of sound.
John petrucci has had the tendons in both wrists replaced with kevlar -
john petrucci once transcribed and played an entire phonebook on guitar - in under twelve seconds.
amphetamines are made from DNA scraped from john petruccis right hand
john petrucci doesn't play for dream theatre - dream theatre play for john petrucci.
john petrucci invented tig welding - when he used stainless strings and a metal pick
john petrucci invented gravity - when space-time tried to keep up with his right hand.
john petrucci never slows down, he simply feels sorry for you and gives you a chance.
john petrucci invented fire - need i say how?
john petrucci was hidden in the hull of the sr71 blackbird.
john petrucci recently returned from orbit, and he did it faster than anyone else.
john petruccis sperm is so fast that it destroyed james labries larynx - raising his voice twelve octaves.
john petrucci using a bee and a megaphone for a metronome.
John Petrucci doesn't need pickups and amplifiers, what you hear is actually the screams of the strings, brought to life by the high speed massage of his fingers on the fretboard, and tortured to agony by his high speed picking. He just uses the pickups and amplifiers to make it louder...because he can.
The real "Liquid Tension Experiment" was John Petrucci attempting to bring himself to orgasm while performing a solo using a slide which he was holding with his...well, lets just say, it worked, and the results were never released for obvious reasons.
John Petrucci IS The Matrix.
John Petrucci doesn't get sore fingers, the guitar gets sore frets.
John Petrucci flosses with gauge 70 B strings.
It takes 14 puppeteers to make John Petrucci smile, but only 2 to make him dial in a Road King. With his eyes closed.
The birth of John Petrucci made the Big Bang look like the Small Wang.
When John Petrucci cracks his knuckles, it levels buildings in a ten mile radius.
John Petrucci can clean his entire house with the vacuum created by his sweep arpeggios.
If Yngwie was half as fast as John Petrucci, the enegry consumed by his right hand would burn off all the excess fat on his body.
In the future, the speed of warp drives used for faster than light space travel will be measured in Petruccis. The speed of light is approximately 1.89x10^-50 Petruccis.
John Petrucci does not own an 8-string, because in his hands it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
Mesa does not make amps for musicians. Mesa makes amps for Petrucci, who selflessly allows us to use them. The amps are free, but we are all required to pay John Petrucci a suckage tax.
It took five women two years to give birth to John Petrucci
Petrucci backwards is "Iccurtep" - which is iroquai for "madman with lightning fingers".
Word has it that if you enter your bathroom at night and watch yourself in the mirror, saying "petrucci" three times in a row, John Petrucci will materialize behind you and play air guitar using 256th note runs, causing your head to explode.
John Petrucci tried out for American Idol once, that's why there's only 3 judges now