John Petrucci and Jake Bowen

Guitarists John Petrucci of Dream Theater and Jake Bowen of Periphery play and talk about their new DiMarzio pickups — Illuminator™ for Petrucci's Music Man JP-13 and Titan™ for Bowen's new Ibanez signature guitar. Little known fact: they're related. John is Jake's uncle.

[joebordash]

Petrucci for the 4th guitarist in Periphery

[spacejazz]

This is the first time I've seen Jake without a beard...

[realstefanodemaria]

Still can't believe Petrucci is Bowen's uncle.

[aaronbound]

you know you've made it when john petrucci says he's a huge fan of your band.

[thekalamalkakid]

"And you still play in C!"

Rofl'd hard at that one.

[stormyandcold]

Petrucci is such a "scanner".  It's like he's watching Jake and mentally he's just totally sussed what he's doing...while ripping on his own guitar.  He does the same thing at G3.  To be at such a level and still wanting to know what everyone else is doing.  One of the few guitarist's guitarist around.

[Schuytown]

Having Petrucci in your family is some of the best musical PR you could possibly have.

[EricJamesVideo]

Jakes Ibby looks badass. Not usually a fan of gold hardware but the accent of the matte chocolate finish, natural binding and gold tuners... wow. Most excellent.

[NicktheLP]

Somewhere in between the shots Bowen was like “hey, mind if I lead this jam?” And Petrucci is like “you’re getting pretty good man! ... but no”

[sacredxgeometry]

Literally replaying this video for the jams (I've memorized the entire spoken part of the video, thank you DiMazio for uploading this).
The jams are at the following times:
0:00-0:41
3:07-4:27
6:47-8:20

ENJOY!

[ILegion]

They really need to do an album together! Love the songs they jammed

[CaptnPpyPnts]

Man, Jake is so lucky to have John as an uncle. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love my uncles, but to be able to learn so much of a beautiful thing playing guitar with such love and dedication, I am jealous for sure. I would love to learn to play like Jake and John.

[Stumpy]

That last bit was so tight. Jp is a mastermind of leads

[alecwoodruffmusic]

It's so cool to see incredible old prog artists playing with incredible new prog artists. Both these guys are such masters.

[wannaberocker]

And I didn't know this but Jake is John's nephew.

[ATXmw]

awesome, courteous, informative interview. love these dudes, we need more thoughtful interviews about metal and metal music creation like this. excellent video.

[mikescanlan]

Man are they improvising together or are those actual songs?
Jake probably has the classiest looking metal guitar out there. I love it. So elegant looking but simple.

[metalxmania]

Greatest part is Petrucci is Bowen's shit man.

[sacredxgeometry]

omfg
the end song

it is so amazing

[jonathansefcik]

JP has such a calming, silky smooth voice. I could listen to him talk all day.