John Petrucci shares his thoughts on the use of backing tracks

In a recent interview with Guitar World, Dream Theater‘s guitar virtuoso John Petrucci weighed in on the use of backing tracks.

In Petrucci’s words:

“It depends on what people are doing because some people don’t tour with their whole bands, so they have sound effects and things going on. If they’re up there playing their asses off, and they have some sound effects backing that up while they’re doing it, that doesn’t really bother me. 

Having said that, I think that if anybody’s up there faking it or pretending, that’s a whole different thing. 

But I think things have changed a lot; you’ll have a lot of bands that just go out with two guys now, maybe it’s just a guitar player and a drummer, so they need a pre-recorded bass player. If that’s the case, then I guess they have to do what they have to do to keep the show going. So, while I am not for people fake playing, it really depends on the situation.”