I still say his tone was way better when he played Ibanez. I haven't heard a Dream Theater guitar tone that I loved as much as Images and words. But all subjective
@@tgnz24 I have quite a few RG's, yes they're based off the RG's, but still not the same. First it's a Prestige, it has the "picasso" graphics, Dimarzio Steve's special and air norton and the Low pro edge trem, a JPM neck w/ dunlop jumbo frets and gotoh tuners..
I love what he said about it feeling like "driving a racecar" that's exactly how i described it getting my Majesty. I remember saying it was the Lamborghini version of a guitar.
That's the great thing about Music Man. For the longest time, they essentially only made signature models when it came to guitars. The Music Man models are the only models of signature guitars I've ever bought because they aren't just fancified version of production models like most other brands. Got my first JP6 in 06, ended up with 3 (while touring for different tunings) and bought myself the JP15 on my 15th anniversary of getting a JP model. haha. Just a little treat. I've given away a few, and sold one, but I'll always have my first JP6, and my JP15. Funny story, when I was shopping around for my first "really nice" guitar, the guy I knew at my local music store called me up and said "I got the guitar you need." so I went in to check it out. He handed me a blue JP6 and I was like..."That thing is f'n ugly, I don't want that." and he was like "Just play it." so I sat down and played it and just sighed and said "you got one in black?" "I just have blue" he said "...I'll take it." haha. Had that guitar now for 16 years, put my 20,000 hours practice in on it, played hundreds of gigs with it. So I'm always grateful for John. Great interview Phil, and thanks John for giving a damn about the details.
The Ernie Ball JP guitars are really high quality and great instruments. I love his old Ibanez JPM due to nostalgia. Could you imagine if they made a Majesty with a retro Picassoesque design. It would sell so fast, heads would spin.
I believe one of the reasons might be that the Majesty is its own thing, instead of a slight variation of an existing model. Another reason might be that it's a very good guitar.
Yea, at this point if JP develops something its gonna be baseline really good. Its crazy how the small details on his guitar make a world of difference.
Damn, this interview just upped the awesomeness quotient of this channel a billion percent, and it was already awesome. Great interview, perfect questions. I find the development of JP's signature models, especially with Music Man, fascinating. They are the most unique signature instruments ever produced.
0:53 Risk of making the Majesty and guitarist stubbornness 2:18 Development of the Majesty 2:58 First Neck through design 3:40 Highest selling guitar behind the Les Paul 4:30 Efficiency and performance 5:39 Namm show debut and initial reactions 6:08 EBMM's thought process and approach to sig guitar development 9:00 Majesty Prototypes 10:25 CNC and hand crafting 10:42 8 string 11:41 Awake album and first time playing 7 strings 12:45 Thoughts on multiscale and parallel fret placement 14:02 Wood selection 14:48 Colours 17:00 JPC Mesa Cool vid
I wish this conversation lasted another hour or so. My JP-6 is one that will never leave my herd. Majesty is in my cross hairs for the future. Tx Phil and John!
Great questions Phil - I'm sure Petrucci gets asked the same stuff all the time, but you could see that he was into this one. Especially after you made the connection with Awake.
My only gripe is the back plates aren't recessed. But having owned the Ibanez, Original JP, BFR, and a Majesty - the Majesty is the best playing of all of them.
Great vid Phil. Petrucci is a legend!!!! Been a fan from the very start. A lot of talented players in that band! Still haven't pulled the trigger on one of his models.
My fav band since I was in high school. I remember the first time I play the tape n "Pull me under" starts to play....can't describe it. Then "Another day" came in, me and my drummer start looking at each other....man....how can a drummer play like that on this kind of song? By that time, we were just starting to learn musical instrumen
I own a Majesty, and honestly it's the best guitar I've ever played. It's just so much easier to play, and that's important for someone like me who struggles to play well at all.
Great interview. I've been playing guitar for over 45 years. In a few bands. His guitars are really cool. I think, or thought though the Jem is the best selling guitar that is named after an artists besides the Les Paul. ? I'm really picky about fretwork, bridge, and especially the pickups for tome. I also really care about the nut and tuners, etc..hardware basically. If the guitar looks good and is semi comfortable. I think the strat style body was genius and the strat is the best guitar to work on because of it's pickups in a pick guard and common measurements and bolt on, etc. I don't believe in tone wood on solid body guitars. Physics works . 😂 Great channel. I watch all the time and just don't comment a lot. Thanks so much. ♥️
I never heard of Dream Theater but I do not listen to Metal on the radio to much but I listened to the first 2 songs on this album on Apple Music and then downloaded all the albums because I enjoyed the songs so much. Thanks for this video and thank you John Petrucci and the band for such wonderful music.
Thats because ibanez had all the best nu metal artists. They didnt need dream theater. Do you remember the 98 and 99 ibanez catalogs? Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, everyone on the family values tour used em. The most popular music of the era. Nobody i know listened to dream theater
@@petrucci973 he’s right. Back then it was the nu metal crazy and every teenager and pre teen was jamming nu metal bands. Myself and all my friends included. Dream theatre and pretrucci’s style were not existent to the mainstream. I like watching John play and be interviewed but I find dream theatre boring as hell. Saw them live open for Iron Maiden and even my dad said these guys are so boring. No stage presence at all either. They just don’t do anything for me honestly
To the best of my knowledge, the Jem is the best selling Signature guitar behind the LP, and that's even if you count the LP in this day and age as a signature, but more of an actual type of guitar. Even still, I always thought that Vai was a little too niche to have the best selling true signature, took me by surprise when I first heard that. However, I do see an awful lot of people here on RUclips playing JP's guitars, so I wouldn't be surprised if his guitars have now surpassed Vai's in terms of sales in the past few years. Is there anywhere online where you can see yearly guitar sales for different manufacturers?
I doubt any of them will release that information but this stat comes purely from a comment from the EB CEO, I don't think it's true in the slightest. Reverb releases the best selling guitars and the only signature that keeps showing up the past few years is the PRS Silver Sky. Obviously that's only a few years old but I think by production numbers the JEM and the Jr have to be top.
This is very awesome!! I love JP! He’s been my favorite guitar player for 25 yrs and I’m a bass player, so technically Myung is my favorite! But JP is my guitar lord! His concepts are to genus especially small details like the rubber on the knobs, BONGO Bass took a bash also because it’s different looking but if you play it, it’s one of the best basses I have ever owned!!! Ernie ball “musicman” is the best!!! I play all stingray basses!
@@robertclarkguitar nice man!! Gotta get ya a Majesty! I want one and don’t even play guitar lol, I want Myungs signature bongo tho for sure! But 3k and no bongo 4 band eq only a 5 way rotary switch kinda lame
I wonder where the EVH/Peavey Wolfgang stands on best selling signature guitars? Do they even count the Wolfgang as a signature guitar? I'd imagine that more Wolfgangs have been sold than JP signature models. I went looking for the source about JP signature guitars being the #2 best seller and it was apparently a quote from Brian Ball. Not exactly a neutral source.
I think about that too. The Wolfgang has been around longer, Eddie is a way bigger name than petrucci and tons of people own Wolfgang’s. My biggest regret was selling mine 15 years ago. Huge mistake, but I was young and dumb
@@GeorgeZimmermen I recently restored my Peavey Wolfgang. The frets had become badly worn. Got a new EVH neck which fits the old Peaveys and gave it a fresh paint job. I love my Wolfgang. It was the first nice guitar I bought.
I trust what JP says and he seems really sincere and his actions back up his words. So when he says his current setup is the best yet, I believe him. However everyone is different and the best means something different for every person. As far as quality, workmanship, and dependability goes though I'm thinking Ernie Ball guitars are arguably the best. I mean who else would know better if not John friken Petrucci.
Was a fan of early DT but stopped following for some reason. Definitely checking out the new album and need to try a JP Majesty. John seems like a really nice, genuine, down to earth guy who liked talking gear. Very cool to see. Thanks Phil!
I'm not sure anymore. His live tone of late is unbeatable. He's also got the best Amp in the business and I don't think I've ever heard a better combination of gear than what he's using now.
Love JohnP and have learned so much! Yet, all I hear about the EB guitars is Henning Pauly’s rant about the back plates not being flush with the body, something that would take a minute at most with a CNC. Everything else is so flush and comfy though, it’s a bit confusing EB made that choice?
I wonder if Eddie VanHalen leaving Ernie Ball Music Man because they were too small to keep up with demand for his signature guitar.. Amoung other reasons im sure, but I wonder if Ernie Ball expanded their production when they did allowing John Petrucci to be the most units from an artist sold becase Sterling didnt wanna lose another big artist to another company over their production numbers
I love JP tremendously, but the tone wood farce has got to be put to bed. The wood doesn’t have any appreciable effect on the tone of a solidbody electric guitar, 0.
I find it impossible that JPs have sold more than Jems. Jems have been sold for way longer and at many more price points than the JP until very recently.
In scrubbing through the video timeline, I didn't see anything showing the Ibanez. I watched the first couple minutes and this seems to just be EB spam. I will say this: I owned a Majesty and the neck twisted (shortly after I sold it, and because it was now possessed by a new owner, though had I still owned it it would have been under warranty, EB wanted to charge the poor buyer $1500 to fix it -- and mind you, the buyer was an EB fan who had two other Majestys), and the same happened years before to a good friend of mine where they couldn't even fix the neck but rather replaced THE ENTIRE GUITAR. Meanwhile, my 1990 Ibanez RG750, made in the same factory as the Ibanez JPs, has had less issues than any of my other guitars and remains stable AF.
to all people assuming JEMs sold more: yes, it has been around for longer, but do you see any other artists playing JEMs ever? You actually see modern prog metal artists playing Majesty guitars everywhere nowadays
I guess that when steve vai was at his peak people might bought a lot of jems but i dont think thats the case anymore. Many people argue that jp is better or even guthrie govan is the best guitar player and i think majesty sells more only by the fact people like jp so much and hes a nice guy. For me steve vai always was a egecentrical person, his playing shows that.
@@BrunoGarciaMusic I love JP as much as the next guy, but I don’t see how you can call Steve Vai egocentric based on his playing. In every interview I’ve seen he seems like just as a down to earth guy as John.
@@absence7445 yeah ive seen his interviews but when i watch him play live with other guitarists it gives me the impression that he doesnt like to be the 2nd best in the room. Thats ego. but yeah ive never truly met him so i dont know for sure
First, what a great guy! Someone you could hang with and talk guitars/gear all day! The guitar just looks a bit... different. That upper horn would have to grow on me a bit. There must be a reason for it, it just looks odd. Of course one of my fav shapes is the Firebird, some people feel the same way about that. I'd love to try one some day.!! JMHO 8) --gary
"Petrucci" signature gives you certain level of security, that what you are ordering is going to be very good quality. You don't need to necessarily test those signature product in shop to know that it is going to be good. It's a set of standards what is applied to the product. He doesn't want to put his name on bullshit products, because it would ruin his image also. And this goes beyond the music gear. I have beard and moustache and I love the Nebula beard oil what he have done together with Captain Fawcett. But comparing Petrucci to Disney was maybe not the sharpest idea from him... Disney have done some serious screw ups... Like ruining the Star Wars for starters.
Think he lied saying Majesty is the most sold signature guitar behind Gibsons. I remember seeing Steve Vai's JEM being the top after all these years. The Majesty I never even met a guitarists who has it or badly wanted to get it. Feels like it's just way too dialed in to JP and no one else. On top of that I just don't find them attractive in any sense at all compared to the early Ibaneze he used, ye the only time JP actually looked cool and was interesting. Now his music is just the same-same so interest is going down fast with a style very few in the world listened to in the first place.
Did Phil just say Wake The Monster? 😂🤣 Also, I think the Ibanez JEM series far exceeds the Majesty guitars in sales. No. I know it. I don!t think it. Listen, I’ve been a huge DT and Petrucci fan since When Dream And Day Unite when Charlie was singing. Still love Petrucci. But he has become a pitch man. That’s cool though. Nothing wrong with making a buck.
JP a great guitar player...on the guitar....played a couple...didn't like it...not for me,....,on the highest selling sig guitar? ehhh you'd have to prove that one to me
I wish he and musicman would make a stripped down bolt on version of the Majesty without the complicated piezo system and inlays Edit: 9:14 it's totally possible :D
Agreed! Biggest myth and marketing lie sold to guitarists to upsell exotic and expensive woods. They all say the same bullshit talking points too. Warm, bright, sustain, etc. it’s such crap. Even if it did matter, it’s so minuscule and your amp and pickups can adjust for any tone difference anyways.
The highest selling signature guitar behind a les paul? I don't believe that. Almost no one owns a JP, they're way too expensive. I never see anyone playing them live either, even for touring bands and such.
Oh he’s right when he says “highest selling”. Majesty is expensive as hell. I’ve played them multiple times at the store, plays great. Just still can’t justify the price. Its not custom shop, handmade, or a one off guitar.
Any random Ernie Ball Music Man guitars (All EBMM guitars are hand crafted American made) are at minimum equal to or better than any custom shop guitar, regardless of brand. I have never seen a bad one. I picked up a cutlass awhile back which is like their cheapest model. It's a strat basically. I could not believe how great this instrument was. The neck looked more flamey than any other guitar I had ever seen. Every little nook and cranny of the thing was flawless and hand worked, you could tell. The thing played better than it looked too. From a distance they just look like overpriced strat copies. In reality it's like having a guitar that functions 3 times better than any Fender American or not and twice as fancy as any custom shop. And this was a used one for 1700 bucks. New they are closer to 2500 but a custom shop strat will set you back 5 grand. After seeing and playing a EBMM guitar It made me realize how Fenders are like junk comparatively. I'm not exaggerating at all. I feel like it's impossible to exaggerate how much better it actually was. It was a base model.
@@drewjohnson4794 that’s funny because I own a USA ernieball musicman cutlass. Got it off eBay used 6 years ago for a good price. I mainly play metal but I wanted a strat guitar and I wanted it to have modern features. Not stupid designs from the 50’s and 60’s. Yeah it’s a good guitar, but I barely play it. I will say one thing, the pickups just aren’t that great and stratty. I walked into a guitar center the other day killing time between jobs at work and picked up a Mexican strat and that thing could quack way better than my musicman. Same with my friends strats who only plays vintage style stuff and older music. My cutlass never gets a great quack sound that strats are known for. I have 3 other guitars I like way more than my cutlass. It’s a good guitar, but not worth more than I paid imo
Hmm. Sounds nice "best selling signature besides the Les Paul", but really? I'd would wager that the Ibanez Jem has FAR out sold any Petrucci signature. Besides, his best every albums were written and recorded on just that, a repainted Ibanez RG so... yeah. I'm just not impressed.
@@american2236 I would even argue the Wolfgang has probably sold more. Pretty sure the jem has sold more regardless of what John and ernieball says. Maybe in the past few years with the progressive guitar movement the jp has sold more, but I doubt in lifetime sales it has
I don't think very many of the signature Ibanez models were sold, comparatively speaking. And the quality of DTs music is pretty subjective. Yes they changed their style after Y2K but IMO they've still written plenty of great songs since.
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His Ernie Ball guitars are nice and all, but I really miss the Ibanez Jpm's.. Those graphics on those.. Still my all time favorite guitar
I still say his tone was way better when he played Ibanez. I haven't heard a Dream Theater guitar tone that I loved as much as Images and words. But all subjective
@@instrumentalist28 🎸👍
Just buy an RG.It’s the same thing
@@tgnz24 yep
@@tgnz24 I have quite a few RG's, yes they're based off the RG's, but still not the same. First it's a Prestige, it has the "picasso" graphics, Dimarzio Steve's special and air norton and the Low pro edge trem, a JPM neck w/ dunlop jumbo frets and gotoh tuners..
I love what he said about it feeling like "driving a racecar" that's exactly how i described it getting my Majesty. I remember saying it was the Lamborghini version of a guitar.
The JPMs are the reasons why I finally bought a RG. The I&W, Awake albums are the most melodic albums to me, his Ibanez years.
Thanks Phil, love it when you do these interviews you have these artists so relaxed and just talking with a friend. Kudos!
Thank you
That's the great thing about Music Man. For the longest time, they essentially only made signature models when it came to guitars. The Music Man models are the only models of signature guitars I've ever bought because they aren't just fancified version of production models like most other brands. Got my first JP6 in 06, ended up with 3 (while touring for different tunings) and bought myself the JP15 on my 15th anniversary of getting a JP model. haha. Just a little treat. I've given away a few, and sold one, but I'll always have my first JP6, and my JP15.
Funny story, when I was shopping around for my first "really nice" guitar, the guy I knew at my local music store called me up and said "I got the guitar you need." so I went in to check it out. He handed me a blue JP6 and I was like..."That thing is f'n ugly, I don't want that." and he was like "Just play it." so I sat down and played it and just sighed and said "you got one in black?" "I just have blue" he said "...I'll take it." haha. Had that guitar now for 16 years, put my 20,000 hours practice in on it, played hundreds of gigs with it. So I'm always grateful for John.
Great interview Phil, and thanks John for giving a damn about the details.
I love the ibanez guitars he used...wish he spoke about them..
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The Ernie Ball JP guitars are really high quality and great instruments. I love his old Ibanez JPM due to nostalgia. Could you imagine if they made a Majesty with a retro Picassoesque design. It would sell so fast, heads would spin.
the Picasso design is what always drew me to the JPM Ibanez guitars
I believe one of the reasons might be that the Majesty is its own thing, instead of a slight variation of an existing model. Another reason might be that it's a very good guitar.
Yea, at this point if JP develops something its gonna be baseline really good. Its crazy how the small details on his guitar make a world of difference.
Damn, this interview just upped the awesomeness quotient of this channel a billion percent, and it was already awesome. Great interview, perfect questions. I find the development of JP's signature models, especially with Music Man, fascinating. They are the most unique signature instruments ever produced.
0:53 Risk of making the Majesty and guitarist stubbornness
2:18 Development of the Majesty
2:58 First Neck through design
3:40 Highest selling guitar behind the Les Paul
4:30 Efficiency and performance
5:39 Namm show debut and initial reactions
6:08 EBMM's thought process and approach to sig guitar development
9:00 Majesty Prototypes
10:25 CNC and hand crafting
10:42 8 string
11:41 Awake album and first time playing 7 strings
12:45 Thoughts on multiscale and parallel fret placement
14:02 Wood selection
14:48 Colours
17:00 JPC Mesa
Cool vid
I wish this conversation lasted another hour or so. My JP-6 is one that will never leave my herd. Majesty is in my cross hairs for the future. Tx Phil and John!
Great questions Phil - I'm sure Petrucci gets asked the same stuff all the time, but you could see that he was into this one. Especially after you made the connection with Awake.
I own a 2014 jp6
Best neck and soundomg guitar i own. Stays in tune without a floyd amazing.
Great interview... as always, you ask the guest a smart question and then sit back and really let them answer!
One of the moment I remember is him testing out the prototype BFR during Score Live at New York 😁
The majesty is the best guitar ever period. It takes getting used to all the tones but you can really get it dialed in to exactly what sound you want
@@benburnett8109 ok keep playing your shitty old Strat and keep modding them hahahahahah 🤮🤮🤮🤮
John looks fantastic! He should be pushing 55 years old.
My only gripe is the back plates aren't recessed. But having owned the Ibanez, Original JP, BFR, and a Majesty - the Majesty is the best playing of all of them.
I dislike the pickups too, but those back plates are the reason I would never get one. It's unacceptable for such an expensive guitar imo.
Great vid Phil. Petrucci is a legend!!!! Been a fan from the very start. A lot of talented players in that band! Still haven't pulled the trigger on one of his models.
My fav band since I was in high school. I remember the first time I play the tape n "Pull me under" starts to play....can't describe it.
Then "Another day" came in, me and my drummer start looking at each other....man....how can a drummer play like that on this kind of song?
By that time, we were just starting to learn musical instrumen
I sincerely cannot believe that his signature guitar sells more than the JEM
The JEM has the RG series as main rival, with a lot more colors and not so crazy looks.
The jp is one of the smoothest playing guitars I've ever played
@@Patchichos and the ugliest
@@Ottophil ugly girls need lovin too
I also find it astounding that there's been more Petrucci guitars sold than all the Chet Atkins' Gretsches as well
Awesome interview!!!
I own a Majesty, and honestly it's the best guitar I've ever played. It's just so much easier to play, and that's important for someone like me who struggles to play well at all.
Great interview.
I've been playing guitar for over 45 years. In a few bands. His guitars are really cool. I think, or thought though the Jem is the best selling guitar that is named after an artists besides the Les Paul. ?
I'm really picky about fretwork, bridge, and especially the pickups for tome. I also really care about the nut and tuners, etc..hardware basically. If the guitar looks good and is semi comfortable.
I think the strat style body was genius and the strat is the best guitar to work on because of it's pickups in a pick guard and common measurements and bolt on, etc.
I don't believe in tone wood on solid body guitars. Physics works . 😂
Great channel. I watch all the time and just don't comment a lot.
Thanks so much. ♥️
Great video, love the interview with the artist to hear the stories behind their signature series product.
I never heard of Dream Theater but I do not listen to Metal on the radio to much but I listened to the first 2 songs on this album on Apple Music and then downloaded all the albums because I enjoyed the songs so much. Thanks for this video and thank you John Petrucci and the band for such wonderful music.
The Majesty is pure innovation, still love mine, even I don't really play anymore since I moved on to do something completely different
Ibanez biggest regret is losing John petrucci whom they didn’t value much back I the day.
Thats because ibanez had all the best nu metal artists. They didnt need dream theater. Do you remember the 98 and 99 ibanez catalogs? Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, everyone on the family values tour used em. The most popular music of the era. Nobody i know listened to dream theater
@@Ottophil okay
@@petrucci973 he’s right. Back then it was the nu metal crazy and every teenager and pre teen was jamming nu metal bands. Myself and all my friends included. Dream theatre and pretrucci’s style were not existent to the mainstream. I like watching John play and be interviewed but I find dream theatre boring as hell. Saw them live open for Iron Maiden and even my dad said these guys are so boring. No stage presence at all either. They just don’t do anything for me honestly
@@GeorgeZimmermen taste in everything is subjective. If you learn that taste is subjective, you'd understand life better.
@@petrucci973 no way! Ya don’t say? Never thought of that. Ya know, different opinions, tastes, and all that. I will have to keep that in mind
To the best of my knowledge, the Jem is the best selling Signature guitar behind the LP, and that's even if you count the LP in this day and age as a signature, but more of an actual type of guitar. Even still, I always thought that Vai was a little too niche to have the best selling true signature, took me by surprise when I first heard that. However, I do see an awful lot of people here on RUclips playing JP's guitars, so I wouldn't be surprised if his guitars have now surpassed Vai's in terms of sales in the past few years. Is there anywhere online where you can see yearly guitar sales for different manufacturers?
I doubt any of them will release that information but this stat comes purely from a comment from the EB CEO, I don't think it's true in the slightest. Reverb releases the best selling guitars and the only signature that keeps showing up the past few years is the PRS Silver Sky. Obviously that's only a few years old but I think by production numbers the JEM and the Jr have to be top.
This is very awesome!! I love JP! He’s been my favorite guitar player for 25 yrs and I’m a bass player, so technically Myung is my favorite! But JP is my guitar lord! His concepts are to genus especially small details like the rubber on the knobs, BONGO Bass took a bash also because it’s different looking but if you play it, it’s one of the best basses I have ever owned!!! Ernie ball “musicman” is the best!!! I play all stingray basses!
Portnoy for me but yes. I switched after almost 30 years drumming to guitar. Fell in love ...a ways to go yet but the journey is the prize.
@@robertclarkguitar nice man!! Gotta get ya a Majesty! I want one and don’t even play guitar lol, I want Myungs signature bongo tho for sure! But 3k and no bongo 4 band eq only a 5 way rotary switch kinda lame
I wonder where the EVH/Peavey Wolfgang stands on best selling signature guitars? Do they even count the Wolfgang as a signature guitar? I'd imagine that more Wolfgangs have been sold than JP signature models. I went looking for the source about JP signature guitars being the #2 best seller and it was apparently a quote from Brian Ball. Not exactly a neutral source.
I think about that too. The Wolfgang has been around longer, Eddie is a way bigger name than petrucci and tons of people own Wolfgang’s. My biggest regret was selling mine 15 years ago. Huge mistake, but I was young and dumb
@@GeorgeZimmermen I recently restored my Peavey Wolfgang. The frets had become badly worn. Got a new EVH neck which fits the old Peaveys and gave it a fresh paint job. I love my Wolfgang. It was the first nice guitar I bought.
First time I saw a Majesty back in the first production year, I thought "nah...." Now, I just can't stand not having one...
Same. Thought it was ugly as hell, now I love it’s look
I trust what JP says and he seems really sincere and his actions back up his words. So when he says his current setup is the best yet, I believe him. However everyone is different and the best means something different for every person. As far as quality, workmanship, and dependability goes though I'm thinking Ernie Ball guitars are arguably the best. I mean who else would know better if not John friken Petrucci.
I really dig these artist interviews, thanks Phil
Was a fan of early DT but stopped following for some reason. Definitely checking out the new album and need to try a JP Majesty. John seems like a really nice, genuine, down to earth guy who liked talking gear. Very cool to see. Thanks Phil!
Check out the mid-00s albums, from Scenes From A Memory to Octavarium. Those 4 albums all lead into each other and it's some of their best work.
He never openly speak about JPMs and still a lot of people consider'em with AN/SS the greatest tone he had
I'm not sure anymore. His live tone of late is unbeatable. He's also got the best Amp in the business and I don't think I've ever heard a better combination of gear than what he's using now.
@@drewjohnson4794 ya hearing it live is insane
His best tone is this IMO: ruclips.net/video/Haaf2TKYUuc/видео.html
One of my favourite Guitar players. 🙏🏻 Phil. ✌🏼
He is amazing and one of the few bands that I own most their albums
What im hearing here is if we get john a 25 string guitar we may very well get the greatest album of all time..
Seems like a nice guy...nice interview.
I picked up a Majesty and never looked back. It's so hard to play anything else.
Love JohnP and have learned so much! Yet, all I hear about the EB guitars is Henning Pauly’s rant about the back plates not being flush with the body, something that would take a minute at most with a CNC. Everything else is so flush and comfy though, it’s a bit confusing EB made that choice?
Thank Steve Morris for the connection to Musicman, he got lots of people looking
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What he says in the intro is exactly what Steve Vai says about the JEM. I'm starting to sense a pattern.
I wonder if Eddie VanHalen leaving Ernie Ball Music Man because they were too small to keep up with demand for his signature guitar.. Amoung other reasons im sure, but I wonder if Ernie Ball expanded their production when they did allowing John Petrucci to be the most units from an artist sold becase Sterling didnt wanna lose another big artist to another company over their production numbers
This jpm guitar will be best investment for grandson...just saying
I love JP tremendously, but the tone wood farce has got to be put to bed. The wood doesn’t have any appreciable effect on the tone of a solidbody electric guitar, 0.
Happy guitar Thursday
Always!
Love JP!!! Great video thanks!!!
They say during the guitar engineering weeks that Vai got this beard. He's clearly emulating Frank Zappa
Yes, sometimes it's feel weird that metal has evolved into many subgenres, but they use the same axe.
Best selling ever? Ive never seen one in real life. Ive seen the Ibanez sigs a few times but never seen one from Ernie Ball in person.
Still like his 90s Ibanez the best
Phil, is the 8 string now on your list of guitars to own lol interesting and amazing instrument 👍🤘
I wish, I'm still not ready for a 8 string. Lol
@@knowyourgear2320 eventually you’ll get curious lol. Looking forward to todays live podcast 👍🤘
What a great interview. Great back and forth with John. Gas for a JP Guitar is back through the roof now haha.
He is just a great guy who loves guitar. Al
I find it impossible that JPs have sold more than Jems. Jems have been sold for way longer and at many more price points than the JP until very recently.
Bro why you gotta bait us with the Ibanez...
typo in the title, just FYI: "About Is" vs "About His" ...
Good catch.
In scrubbing through the video timeline, I didn't see anything showing the Ibanez. I watched the first couple minutes and this seems to just be EB spam. I will say this: I owned a Majesty and the neck twisted (shortly after I sold it, and because it was now possessed by a new owner, though had I still owned it it would have been under warranty, EB wanted to charge the poor buyer $1500 to fix it -- and mind you, the buyer was an EB fan who had two other Majestys), and the same happened years before to a good friend of mine where they couldn't even fix the neck but rather replaced THE ENTIRE GUITAR. Meanwhile, my 1990 Ibanez RG750, made in the same factory as the Ibanez JPs, has had less issues than any of my other guitars and remains stable AF.
to all people assuming JEMs sold more: yes, it has been around for longer, but do you see any other artists playing JEMs ever? You actually see modern prog metal artists playing Majesty guitars everywhere nowadays
I guess that when steve vai was at his peak people might bought a lot of jems but i dont think thats the case anymore. Many people argue that jp is better or even guthrie govan is the best guitar player and i think majesty sells more only by the fact people like jp so much and hes a nice guy. For me steve vai always was a egecentrical person, his playing shows that.
@@BrunoGarciaMusic I love JP as much as the next guy, but I don’t see how you can call Steve Vai egocentric based on his playing. In every interview I’ve seen he seems like just as a down to earth guy as John.
@@absence7445 yeah ive seen his interviews but when i watch him play live with other guitarists it gives me the impression that he doesnt like to be the 2nd best in the room. Thats ego. but yeah ive never truly met him so i dont know for sure
John Mayer probably sold more just this year than Petrucci ever sold.
Is John streaming from Mount Rushmore?
fuck me i could have done it right since longer than dream theatre been on the go and im still waiting
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jon pichuchi
Petrucci LIVE from being stuck in a crevasse while hiking!
Did you already post some of this? Few months ago? Or am I having deja vu?
This is a full version
Strange Deja Vu
It is realy SAD That Musicman ist not at all lefty friendly. They wont produce 1 model for us....
came here for the Thumbnails
First, what a great guy! Someone you could hang with and talk guitars/gear all day! The guitar just looks a bit... different. That upper horn would have to grow on me a bit. There must be a reason for it, it just looks odd. Of course one of my fav shapes is the Firebird, some people feel the same way about that. I'd love to try one some day.!! JMHO 8) --gary
Thinking the same. Besides aesthetics ... I can only imagine balance. I'll never have one
... so I'm okay with whatever.
Petrucci majesty looks like the 1980s Ibanez mako abit.
The Ibanez signature is historic and maybe the best Ibanez ever imo…
There's a good video
"Petrucci" signature gives you certain level of security, that what you are ordering is going to be very good quality. You don't need to necessarily test those signature product in shop to know that it is going to be good. It's a set of standards what is applied to the product. He doesn't want to put his name on bullshit products, because it would ruin his image also. And this goes beyond the music gear. I have beard and moustache and I love the Nebula beard oil what he have done together with Captain Fawcett. But comparing Petrucci to Disney was maybe not the sharpest idea from him... Disney have done some serious screw ups... Like ruining the Star Wars for starters.
Id say the Les Paul, jimi Fender, Van Halen guitar, Hetfield Snakebyte, JEM and Kurt Cobain guitars have all outsold this signature axe
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@@BigDaddy-nt6yc 🤣
Any evidence to prove your claims?
@@andresantel2137 What claims? Its just what Id say
Think he lied saying Majesty is the most sold signature guitar behind Gibsons. I remember seeing Steve Vai's JEM being the top after all these years.
The Majesty I never even met a guitarists who has it or badly wanted to get it. Feels like it's just way too dialed in to JP and no one else.
On top of that I just don't find them attractive in any sense at all compared to the early Ibaneze he used, ye the only time JP actually looked cool and was interesting. Now his music is just the same-same so interest is going down fast with a style very few in the world listened to in the first place.
3:45 Source: trust me bro!
JEM would like to have a word with you.
EXACTLY
Is only three guitars.. a Fender Stratocaster, an Ernie Ball Music Man JP15, and Majesty
Did Phil just say Wake The Monster? 😂🤣 Also, I think the Ibanez JEM series far exceeds the Majesty guitars in sales. No. I know it. I don!t think it. Listen, I’ve been a huge DT and Petrucci fan since When Dream And Day Unite when Charlie was singing. Still love Petrucci. But he has become a pitch man. That’s cool though. Nothing wrong with making a buck.
You lost me at Disney.
JP a great guitar player...on the guitar....played a couple...didn't like it...not for me,....,on the highest selling sig guitar? ehhh you'd have to prove that one to me
Unless you consider the RG really just a JEM, lol
I wish he and musicman would make a stripped down bolt on version of the Majesty without the complicated piezo system and inlays
Edit: 9:14 it's totally possible :D
tonewood lol, myth.
It’s a lie, a myth and a marketing ploy to upsell idiot guitarists on expensive and exotic woods. Tone wood is a lie!
john is on one lmao, wood doesn't matter in electrics.
Where's YOUR top-selling signature stuff
Agreed! Biggest myth and marketing lie sold to guitarists to upsell exotic and expensive woods. They all say the same bullshit talking points too. Warm, bright, sustain, etc. it’s such crap. Even if it did matter, it’s so minuscule and your amp and pickups can adjust for any tone difference anyways.
@@american2236 we’re talking about observable science here, the wood doesn’t have any effect. Lol
Unfortunately these guitars are just out of reach for 99% of prog players - so we stick with affordable quality Ibanez.
The highest selling signature guitar behind a les paul? I don't believe that. Almost no one owns a JP, they're way too expensive. I never see anyone playing them live either, even for touring bands and such.
Here's the full video ruclips.net/video/YhSoYWfcRLY/видео.html
Clickbait. No jpm whatsoever
Thx, now I can skip this vid ;)
Oh he’s right when he says “highest selling”. Majesty is expensive as hell. I’ve played them multiple times at the store, plays great. Just still can’t justify the price. Its not custom shop, handmade, or a one off guitar.
Any random Ernie Ball Music Man guitars (All EBMM guitars are hand crafted American made) are at minimum equal to or better than any custom shop guitar, regardless of brand. I have never seen a bad one. I picked up a cutlass awhile back which is like their cheapest model. It's a strat basically. I could not believe how great this instrument was. The neck looked more flamey than any other guitar I had ever seen. Every little nook and cranny of the thing was flawless and hand worked, you could tell. The thing played better than it looked too. From a distance they just look like overpriced strat copies. In reality it's like having a guitar that functions 3 times better than any Fender American or not and twice as fancy as any custom shop.
And this was a used one for 1700 bucks. New they are closer to 2500 but a custom shop strat will set you back 5 grand. After seeing and playing a EBMM guitar It made me realize how Fenders are like junk comparatively. I'm not exaggerating at all.
I feel like it's impossible to exaggerate how much better it actually was. It was a base model.
@@drewjohnson4794 that’s funny because I own a USA ernieball musicman cutlass. Got it off eBay used 6 years ago for a good price. I mainly play metal but I wanted a strat guitar and I wanted it to have modern features. Not stupid designs from the 50’s and 60’s. Yeah it’s a good guitar, but I barely play it. I will say one thing, the pickups just aren’t that great and stratty. I walked into a guitar center the other day killing time between jobs at work and picked up a Mexican strat and that thing could quack way better than my musicman. Same with my friends strats who only plays vintage style stuff and older music. My cutlass never gets a great quack sound that strats are known for. I have 3 other guitars I like way more than my cutlass. It’s a good guitar, but not worth more than I paid imo
Wow,I’m the first viewer.
Disney is probably the worst example for a company that is doing things right theese days :-)
Hmm. Sounds nice "best selling signature besides the Les Paul", but really? I'd would wager that the Ibanez Jem has FAR out sold any Petrucci signature. Besides, his best every albums were written and recorded on just that, a repainted Ibanez RG so... yeah. I'm just not impressed.
So there ARE still flat-earther/science deniers out there!
@@american2236 I would even argue the Wolfgang has probably sold more. Pretty sure the jem has sold more regardless of what John and ernieball says. Maybe in the past few years with the progressive guitar movement the jp has sold more, but I doubt in lifetime sales it has
I don't think very many of the signature Ibanez models were sold, comparatively speaking. And the quality of DTs music is pretty subjective. Yes they changed their style after Y2K but IMO they've still written plenty of great songs since.
I'm not gay, but John Petrucci is John Petrucci...
Jeez. Now I know that John spends most of his $ on “Just for men” (deep dark) beard dye 😂👍🏻