Unique attributes of each member

[Agalsed]

Super random thread, but go with me here. I was thinking about attributes that are unique to each member--not musically or anything, just random funky things. Here are the ones I thought of:

Jordan: Only bald one
Myung: Only non-white member
James: Only non-American member
Mike: Only one whose name doesn't start with J.
John: I have no idea. Couldn't come up with one for him. Only member to write all the lyrics for an album?

Are there any other unique attributes you guys can think of?

[Dream Team]

I believe JP is the only Ursus Horribilis.

[SebastianPratesi]

Isn't JP the only one with an earring?

(Does he still wear one? I remember one of the pics of John's ear in the Six Degrees booklet)

[SebastianPratesi]

Another one could be that JP is the only one who doesn't have 2 kids - he has 3, based on the acknowledgements in many albums' booklets.

[red barchetta]

JP is the only one who looks like a Taliban.
JM is the only one always wearing black clothes.
jLB is the only one with a french descent family name.

[hefdaddy42]

JM is symmetrical.

[red barchetta]

JM is symmetrical.

 

[MirrorMask]

When I saw the title, I thought the thread was about MUSICAL attributes of each member 

[Cable]

Semantics here, but JP is balding, and JLB I reckon is too. I feel like JLB got a hair transplant, and there was a middle of the point 2000s where it looked bad. JR is both balding/bald and shaven. I haven't really looked closely at his dome to see his balding process, and he keeps his dome against the grain smooth. I'm much more lazy with my noggin.  I haven't seen the usual lighter vs darker patches where hair still grows with JR, but u haven't really looked either.

IMO, JP is getting closer to a point where he will either transplant, shorten it, or just continue and Devin Townsend it.

I honestly do not know any attributes of them, so the only things we have are physical things. Some of those are changeable in themselves- JP is clearly the most active working out, but JM does like 250 push-ups apparently before shows. JLB fell out of shape only to get in shape in 2003.

[pcs90]

Not sure if anyone else does this but JR is the only one I've heard who consistently says the word "because" differently..."be-coss".

[Cable]

Giant photo of JR. https://magnacarta.net/Jordan_Rudess/images/jr8x10print.jpg

So as a fellow head shaver, baldness on the top, but not super advanced to produce a full blown horseshoe as I call them. Not sure when the photo is from though.

Not sure if anyone else does this but JR is the only one I've heard who consistently says the word "because" differently..."be-coss".

Thanks, inadvertently reminded me! Due to JLB's heritage as already mentioned, he naturally has some Canadian accents. JP has a bit of Long Island accent-isms, and MM has some Boston accent-isms.  So at least three out of the five have different minor accents.

[MirrorMask]

Not sure if anyone else does this but JR is the only one I've heard who consistently says the word "because" differently..."be-coss".

If we're discussing words, then let me add that Petrucci is the master of the "you know" thing. Maybe the native speakers don't notice it, but as a foreign, the use of "you know" in sentences really stands out to me, and whenever there's a Petrucci interview, you can be sure he shoots out more "you know" than the notes during This Dying Soul's solo.

This is of course not a knock on him, every language has its peculiarities and the english / american one has this "you know" thing that really stands out to someone who's not a native speaker.

[Crow]

labrie: sings the most
petrucci: guitars the most
myung: basses the most
ruddess: keyboards the most
mangini: drums the most

[MirrorMask]

labrie: sings the most
petrucci: guitars the most
myung: basses the most
ruddess: keyboards the most
mangini: drums the most

Aaaaaand the thread is won.

 

[Bill]

Not sure if anyone else does this but JR is the only one I've heard who consistently says the word "because" differently..."be-coss".

If we're discussing words, then let me add that Petrucci is the master of the "you know" thing. Maybe the native speakers don't notice it, but as a foreign, the use of "you know" in sentences really stands out to me, and whenever there's a Petrucci interview, you can be sure he shoots out more "you know" than the notes during This Dying Soul's solo.

This is of course not a knock on him, every language has its peculiarities and the english / american one has this "you know" thing that really stands out to someone who's not a native speaker.

Love JP's friendly and modest demeanour, but I have never heard anyone say 'kinda cool' more than him.

[CB]

MM is the only one who stopped being a touring musician to earn his living doing a "normal" job (teaching)
MM is the only one who's extremely short for a man
JLB is the only one wearing interesting clothes on stage
JLB is the only one who doesn't stop talking in interviews
JM is (obviously) the only silent one


About the hair/balding thing - I might be wrong but I don't think that JLB is balding. To me it seems he just constantly forgets to re-dye his hair, from a distance the light grey parts look like balding. On some photos it's quite obvious.

[Salies]

LaBrie - Is a Beyblade
Mangini - Many faces during performance
Myung - One face during his entire life
Petrucci - From an androgyne-like guy to a Taliban-like one.
Rudess - Can clone himself to play the bass in Liquid Tension Experiment

I think that settles it...

[hefdaddy42]

JR's hands: right handed
JR's feet: ambidextrous