hehehe, REALLY funny story I have involving SyX and email...
OK, a few years ago (when I was 16 or so) I started fucking with the music notation program Finale. Its REALLY a bitch to use, especially for transcribing guitar parts. Well anyway, I posted some shit on their user help forum about the problems I was having to see if anyone would reply.
The next day I see an email in my inbox from "Michael Romeo". I'm thinking "wtf? no way, it can't be." Well, aparently, it was! I had recieved an email from Romeo saying that he saw my post on their help forum about the fucked up guitar notation in Finale, said he was having the same problems and asked if I had figured a way around it.
So, needless to say, I replied with all the info I had, and also mentioned that I just happened to be a Symphony X fan
. I guess that must have suprised him hehe. We sent another 1 or two emails back and forth after that (just talkin guitar stuff mostly). All this happened before V even came out, so, I can understand why he was a little bit more accessable at this time (around DWoT era, a friend of mine found his phone # and called him - they talked for an hour or so). But since LotO mentioned the deal with some guy posting clips from V up when MJR asked him not to, I can see why he's not very internet bound anymore.
But the first time i got to meet him (the infamous "bike show" in NJ) I mentioned who I was and he remembered