I’m also really into bourbon, and I made a connection with the Iron Smoke Distillery in upstate New York, where the owner is a guitar player and was in a band called Modern English. He’s been rocking that for ever – and that is one serious beard.īeard kits aren’t your only lockdown merchandise, though? It’s so deep and I got really into it, to the point where I’ve partnered with a UK company, Captain Fawcett, and we’ve released a beard oil, beard balm and moustache wax. When I did that, it opened up this whole world that I didn’t know existed, this whole culture of bearded men.
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But one day I was like: let me experiment with growing a full beard. I’ve always had some form of beard, from the early nineties.
Well, as you can tell, I have a giant beard. You list your main hobby outside music as ‘bearding’. Then the war was happening in Iraq, and we didn’t know if we were gonna be drafted. I remember after our first record, we didn’t have a singer, we weren’t signed, nothing was working out. Obviously we’ve been through band member changes. But in a career the length that we’ve had, there have been many difficult moments. That was exactly when Images And Words was released, and somehow we had a radio hit with Pull Me Under that bucked the whole system. The grunge period, for us, was actually great. But have there been harder moments in Dream Theater’s career? I’m a competitive person, so I take it all as: “Well, I’ve just got to practise more.” How does somebody think that way and have that kind of facility? The bar for electric guitar has been raised so high that eight-year-old kids are playing things that used to seem impossible. I’ll listen to the late Allan Holdsworth and it just blows my mind, still. You’re always striving, you never master it. I just had to laugh.Īre there any guitarists whose stuff you can’t play? Then it hit me: I’d just rewritten Breaking All Illusions, from our album A Dramatic Turn Of Events. But towards the end of the day, I kept having this weird feeling. When I did my last solo album, Terminal Velocity, I spent the whole day in the studio working on a song – y’know, building the riff, programming drums, playing bass. Not our egos!ĭo you ever come up with a riff and realise it’s already been done by someone else? That’s what A View From The Top Of The World is referring to. Part of it is that they get to see something with their own eyes that nobody has ever seen before.
At first I thought they were out of their minds. Like slack-lining across a canyon without any net, or even cave-diving in glaciers, which are constantly moving. It’s from the title track, which I wrote about people who accomplish seemingly impossible human feats. No! I don’t want that to be misconstrued. Is the album title basically saying Dream Theater are the best band in the world? The funny thing is, when you’re doing things that are jarring and hold the listener in suspense, when the four/four section does come in, man, you can’t help but groove to that. And there’s some glue that listeners can latch on to, even though the band is playing in an incredibly unnatural time signature. But the whole compositional craft – not to sound pompous – is how you figure that out so it still sounds interesting.
When you first hear it, it sounds so weird, not comfortable at all. I love the set up and the format is perfect as I am able to organize my practice based on Jerry's guidelines - and refer back to anything at anytime.Well, the first thing you hear when The Alien kicks in is my riff in 17/8. Loving the course Jerry! Thanks for providing it to your fans! This is just what I need, thank you Jerry Its great! Love how it tracks your progress! Thanks Jerry!Īn excellent course - thank you Jerry Douglas! Great job!Ĭould anyone have a more perfect professor? And Paul Beard, to boot! Wowsers. Learning resonator will be a challenge but as a fan of yours for so long I'm hoping to raise my game. Thank you so much for this amazing course. I’ve always loved Dobro and this course is helping me realize a dream to actually play the dang thing well. Very pleased with return on my investment. Thanks for going through the pioneering archives and leading us to the legit core stuff.ĭue to this course (and putting in the time) I have made tremendous progress in a few short months. Great course ! I’m finding it very inspirational in re-energizing me to work on the Dobro.
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