WHEN CONNOR KAMINSKI was a kid, his dad would drive him across Preston, in north-west England, for his weekly guitar lesson, and always supplied the mood music.
“He’d blast The Verve, U2, Pink Floyd,” the shredder recalls. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here. It’s funny listening to that and then Dream Theater – stuff like Octavarium – because that’s so inspired by Floyd. It’s like it’s being passed down.”
The 28-year-old is partial to Rush, TesseracT, Haken… but for him, and many others his age, Dream Theater are the OGs, and John Petrucci’s the Greatest Of All Time. He recently befriended Jordan Rudess on Instagram, and after the keyboardist cadged a guitar lesson Kaminski took a punt.
“I said, ‘Look, I’m getting this album together – would…
