New York, NY- One night in autumn of 2000, Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci and keyboard wonder bandmate Jordan Rudess performed as a duo for the first time at the intimate Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Long Island, New York.
Thankfully, the evening was captured on tape and Favored Nationsis proud to present An Evening With...by John Petrucci and Jordan Rudesson May 18, 2004.
The evening was one of unparalleled musicianship and spontaneity. Petrucci and Rudess wrote nine compositions for the concert during a Dream Theater tour in the weeks before, but none were finished. "We were both feeling a little extra excitement because it was so unusual and we had never played the songs before," Rudess recalled. "And that's what created the magic in it. There was that little extra adrenaline rush going on."
Petrucci and Rudess are familiar to most through their prog metal outfit Dream Theater, who scored a mainstream hit in 1992 with "Pull Me Under." Fans may find An Evening With...a large departure for the duo, but it is fitting due to the technical backgrounds of both Petrucci and Rudess.
"This CD is nothing like Dream Theater," Petrucci said. "I don't think a lot of people know that both of us have a long history of schooling." Petrucci, in fact, has been playing guitar since he was 12 and studied at the Berklee College of Music, where he formed the first incarnation of Dream Theater, while Rudess entered the Juilliard School of Music as a 9 year old piano prodigy and was groomed for a classical career.
Dream Theater are currently on tour in the U.S., but there are no plans for John Pertrucci and Jordan Rudess to tour behind this album as a duo. An Evening With...by John Petrucci and Jordan Rudessis available on Favored Nations
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