1989 |
Status Seeker (Single) |
Guitars |
1989 |
Afterlife (Single) |
Guitars |
1989 |
When Dream and Day Unite |
Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7), Guitars, Songwriting (track 3) |
1992 |
Images and Words |
Lyrics (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6), Guitars |
1992 |
Pull Me Under (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
1993 |
Live (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
1993 |
Images and Words: Live in Tokyo (Video) |
Guitars |
1993 |
Another Day (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals |
1993 |
Live at the Marquee (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
1994 |
The Silent Man (Single) |
Guitars, Vocal |
1994 |
Wach auf! (Split) |
Guitars |
1994 |
RockVideo Monthly - Heavy Metal Releases - Spring 1994 (Split video) |
Guitars |
1994 |
Awake |
Songwriting (tracks 1-8), Guitars, Lyrics (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 10) |
1994 |
Lie (Single) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
1995 |
Tears (Single) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
1995 |
A Change of Seasons (EP) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
1996 |
Fan Club Christmas CD 1996 (Compilation) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
1997 |
Hollow Years (Single) |
Guitars |
1997 |
You Not Me (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
1997 |
Falling into Infinity |
Guitars, Lyrics (tracks 2-4, 7, 8) |
1997 |
Fan Club Christmas CD 1997 (Compilation) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
1998 |
Touring into Infinity and Beyond (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
1998 |
Live Bonus Tracks (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
1998 |
Once in a Livetime (Live album) |
Guitars |
1999 |
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
Lyrics (tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 11), Vocals, Songwriting (tracks 1, 4), Guitars |
2000 |
Through Her Eyes (Single) |
Guitars |
2000 |
Fan Club Christmas CD 2000 (Compilation) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2001 |
Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2001 |
Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2001 |
Live Scenes from New York (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2002 |
The ATCO Demos (Demo) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2002 |
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
Songwriting, Guitars, Lyrics (Disc 1: tracks 3, 4; Disc 2: tracks 2, 6-8), Vocals (backing) |
2003 |
The Majesty Demos 1985-1986 (Compilation) |
Guitars |
2003 |
Los Angeles, California 5/18/98 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals |
2003 |
Train of Thought |
Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6, 7), Lyrics (tracks 1, 3, 7), Guitars |
2003 |
Graspop Festival 2002 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2004 |
Tokyo, Japan 10/28/95 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2004 |
Master of Puppets (Live album) |
Guitars (lead) |
2004 |
Live at Budokan (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2004 |
Live at Budokan (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2004 |
A Sort of Homecoming (Fan Club CD 2004) (Compilation) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2005 |
A Walk Beside the Band (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2005 |
When Dream and Day Reunite (Live album) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
2005 |
The Number of the Beast (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2005 |
When Dream and Day Reunite (Video) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
2005 |
Octavarium |
Lyrics (tracks 2-5, 8), Guitars, Vocals |
2006 |
Romavarium (Fan Club DVD 2006) (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2006 |
Old Bridge, New Jersey 12/14/96 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2006 |
Awake Demos 1994 (Demo) |
Guitars |
2006 |
Dark Side of the Moon (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2006 |
Dark Side of the Moon (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2006 |
Score - 20th Anniversary World Tour Live with the Octavarium Orchestra (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals |
2006 |
Score - 20th Anniversary World Tour Live with the Octavarium Orchestra (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals |
2007 |
Forsaken (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2007 |
Forsaken / Set the World on Fire (Split) |
Vocals (backing), Guitars |
2007 |
Systematic Chaos |
Vocals (backing), Lyrics (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 8), Guitars |
2007 |
New York City 3/4/93 (Live album) |
Guitars |
2007 |
Made in Japan (Live album) |
Guitars |
2007 |
Bucharest, Romania 7/4/02 (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2008 |
Forsaken EP (EP) |
Guitars, Backing Vocals |
2008 |
Chaos in Motion 2007-2008 (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Stargazer (Single) |
Guitars |
2009 |
Tenement Funster / Flick of the Wrist / Lily of the Valley (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Odyssey (Single) |
Guitars |
2009 |
Take Your Fingers from My Hair (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Black Clouds & Silver Linings |
Lyrics (tracks 1-3, 6), Vocals (backing), Songwriting (tracks 1-6), Guitars |
2009 |
To Tame a Land (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2009 |
Uncovered 2003-2005 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Train of Thought - Instrumental Demos 2003 (Demo) |
Guitars |
2009 |
Santiago, Chile 12/6/05 (Video) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Progressive Nation 2008 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2009 |
Wither (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2009 |
Wither (EP) |
Vocals (track 3), Guitars |
2010 |
Raw Dog (Single) |
Guitars |
2010 |
God of War: Blood & Metal (Split) |
Guitars |
2011 |
On the Backs of Angels (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2011 |
A Dramatic Turn of Events |
Songwriting (tracks 1-9), Lyrics (tracks 1-6, 8, 9), Guitars |
2013 |
The Enemy Inside (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2013 |
Along for the Ride (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2013 |
Dream Theater |
Songwriting (tracks 1-9), Lyrics (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9), Guitars |
2013 |
Live at Luna Park (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2013 |
Happy Holidays (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2014 |
Illumination Theory (EP) |
Guitars, Vocals (backing) |
2014 |
Breaking the Fourth Wall (Live from the Boston Opera House) (Live album) |
Guitars |
2016 |
The Astonishing |
Lyrics, Guitars, Songwriting |
2016 |
Our New World (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2018 |
Untethered Angel (Single) |
Guitars |
2019 |
Fall into the Light (Single) |
Guitars |
2019 |
Paralyzed (Single) |
Vocals (additional), Guitars |
2019 |
Distance over Time |
Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1-4, 6, 9) |
2020 |
Distant Memories - Live in London (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Images and Words - Live in Japan, 2017 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: A Dramatic Tour of Events – Select Board Mixes (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
The Alien (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Train of Thought - Instrumental Demos (2003) (Demo) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Master of Puppets - Live in Barcelona, 2002 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
Invisible Monster (Single) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2021 |
A View from the Top of the World |
Lyrics (tracks 3-5, 7), Guitars |
2021 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: When Dream and Day Reunite (Live) (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2022 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Awake Demos (1994) (Demo) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2022 |
...and Beyond - Live in Japan, 2017 (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2022 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Live in Berlin (2019) (Live album) |
Guitars, Vocals (additional) |
2023 |
Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Live at Madison Square Garden (2010) (Live album) |
Guitars |
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Biography
John Petrucci is the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of Dream Theater.Originally started playing the guitar so he could stay up later at night since his sister was allowed to stay up late in order to practice the organ. He stopped taking lessons, but began practicing again later. During high-school, he had a pact with John Myung, that they should both practice for six hours a ...
Trivia
In 2009, he was ranked the No. 2 best metal guitarist (behind Dave Mustaine) by Joel McIver in his book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. He was also ranked as one of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" by GuitarOne magazine.He is married to Rena Sands of the band Meanstreak.
Childood friend of Kevin Moore, who used to live around the corner from his house.