Liquid Tension Experiment
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Liquid Tension Experiment is an American instrumental prog rock "supergroup." Founded in 1997 by drummer Mike Portnoy, then a member of Dream Theater, their sound offers complex compositions -- sometimes of protracted length -- wedding riff-laden hard rock and heavy metal to knotty jazz fusion, and meaty funk with constantly shifting dynamics, rhythms, time signatures, and textures. The lineup also includes King Crimson bassist/Chapman Stick master Tony Levin, and Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess and guitarist John Petrucci. The band's self-titled debut album was cut over five days and released by Magna Carta in 1998. They issued Liquid Tension Experiment 2 in 1999 to greater critical and commercial success. A compilation entitled Spontaneous Combustion by Liquid Trio Experiment was released in 2007, composed of improv tapes cut during the LTE2 sessions by Portnoy, Rudess, and Levin. During a 2008 concert, Rudess left the stage due to keyboard malfunctions, and his bandmates continued to play, improvising for the rest of the concert; he eventually returned to play guitar. The improvised concert was released in 2009 as When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago. After more than a decade apart, the band reunited in Dream Theater's studio during the late summer of 2020. They emerged with LTE3 in April 2021. Though prog rock supergroups are so ubiquitous as to be nearly de rigueur in the 21st century, that wasn't always true. In late 1996, Magna Carta Records pitched Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy the idea of an all-star instrumental project that would kick off a series of Dream Theater side projects. Portnoy accepted the challenge and invited bassist Tony Levin and Dixie Dregs keyboardist Jordan Rudess -- who had declined a membership invitation from Dream Theater in 1994 -- to join him. Filling the guitar chair proved more difficult. None of Portnoy's initial preferences -- Pantera's Dimebag Darrell, Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple), or Jim Matheos (Fates Warning) -- were available. Portnoy reluctantly approached Petrucci. He was hesitant simply because he was a member of Dream Theater and this was supposed to be a separate project. Petrucci accepted and the band entered the studio in 1997. Their desire was to compose, rehearse, and record a complete project in seven days. They finished in five. Liquid Tension Experiment was issued by Magna Carta in March 1998, marketed as conceived, as a Dream Theater side project. The set consisted of 13 collectively written tracks ranging from two minutes to the five-part "Three Minute Warning" suite, lasting nearly half an hour. Critical reception on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean ranged from appreciative to glowing to confused -- prog fans, however, had no such misgivings and bought it in droves. Liquid Tension Experiment re-entered the studio in late 1998 hoping to accomplish the same thing. Due to circumstances beyond the group's control, this album took two months. While the sessions were moving at a clip, Petrucci received a phone call and learned his wife had gone into premature labor. With the studio already booked, the remaining bandmembers continued to improvise, recording the results. After Petrucci returned, they completed the album, but a few compositions emerged from those improvisations including "914," "Chewbacca," and "Liquid Dreams." Upon its release in the spring of 1999, the album was greeted with universally laudatory reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. The group supported the set by playing a few high-profile, select dates to maximum hype in the U.S. and in England. LTE2 marked the quartet's final studio offering for more than two decades, though they continued to play live for years afterward. 1999 also saw three of Liquid Tension Experiment's live gigs issued on CD and DVD. Furthermore, the LTE2 sessions provided the impetus for Portnoy and Petrucci to convince Rudess to at last join Dream Theater. Though fans clamored for a third album, Portnoy maintained that it wouldn't happen, that occasional tours were all they would continue to do. However, in 2007 he published a blog post stating that if conditions were amenable, anything was possible. That year, an album called Spontaneous Combustion was released by the Liquid Trio Experiment. The recordings occurred during the 1998 trio improv sessions sans Petrucci and were sourced from Portnoy's DAT tapes. Critical and fan reception was decidedly mixed. During a 2008 Liquid Tension Experiment tour stop in Chicago, Rudess' keyboard began malfunctioning. He left the stage to deal with the issue. His bandmates continued to improvise on-stage. Rudess eventually returned sans keyboard, and picked up Petrucci's guitar. The guitarist, in turn, grabbed Levin's bass while the bassist employed his Chapman Stick. The entire concert was issued as Liquid Trio Experiment 2 - When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago. Portnoy left Dream Theater in 2010 to pursue his many other projects including Flying Colors, the Neal Morse Band, Transatlantic, Winery Dogs, and Sons of Apollo. Liquid Tension Experiment's members intermittently guested with one another in various live configurations over the next decade, but didn't record together. In mid-December of 2020, the bandmembers began releasing social media posts wearing surgical masks with LTE3 imprinted upon them. On December 17, the Inside Out label formally announced a third studio album. It had been secretly recorded in August at Dream Theater's studio. They cut four fully composed tracks, a pair of duets, an improvised group jam, and an unlikely, meticulously arranged cover of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" for the set. An advance video single for "Passage of Time" was released to YouTube and streaming services in January 2021, followed by another for "Beating the Odds" in February. LTE3 was issued in mid-April. ~ Thom Jurek
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The return of Liquid Tension Experiment
After Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater few people thought they'd see prog supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment again. But in 2021 that's exactly what happened!
"There’s definitely magic and chemistry with this group of guys, that’s undeniable,” says Jordan Rudess . “Even the first day when we started to jam, oh yeah, we’re back.” The group of guys in question is Rudess, guitar monster John Petrucci , master of the bass and Chapman Stick Tony Levin , and prog’s reigning drum champ Mike Portnoy , known together as Liquid Tension Experiment . The last time this quartet released an album Bill Clinton was in the White House, the euro had just debuted as an international currency, and The Matrix was in cinemas. It’s taken a long time to get the band back together, a situation no doubt complicated by Portnoy’s departure from Dream Theater back in 2010, but then last year the drummer played on Petrucci’s solo album, Terminal Velocity .
“If it wasn’t for music as a creative outlet, I think I’d go completely mad,” says Petrucci when asked how he’s coping with being off the road for so long. But the upside to the suspension of touring has been the opportunity to resurrect the long-dormant LTE.
“It didn’t take this long because of lack of desire,” he reveals. “Those first two albums were a lot of fun, but man, everybody is just so busy. It was even hard for me to find the time to do a solo album, after 15 years I finally did a second solo album, so the silver lining of this horrible pandemic is everybody was home, not on tour, and had time.”
“The other big part of it certainly was that we went through a turbulent time in the Dream Theater world when Mike left, we couldn’t do it in that period because there was just so much going on,” says Rudess. “Quite honestly, I’ve been a big proponent of doing this whenever it was possible. I’d always say to everybody every now and then, ‘Hey, we should really do LTE. Come on guys, let’s do it!’”
While Petrucci and Portnoy were working on Terminal Velocity , texts started flying back and forth about regrouping LTE. “We keep talking about it, I said, ‘Sure, as soon as I’m done with my album’,” says Petrucci. “I don’t think they believed me, but I kept my promise. Eventually there were no more excuses. Pandemic, everything’s shut down, everyone’s home, no tours. ‘Guys, let’s do it’, life’s too short.”
So, in the summer of 2020, for the first time in more than two decades, Liquid Tension Experiment reassembled to write new music. The venue they chose was Dream Theater’s HQ in New York, which might have been awkward for a certain ex-Dream Theater drummer, but that wasn’t the case at all. “He actually recorded drums for my solo album here,” says Petrucci. “I think he was genuinely excited. When he was in the band, we talked about building something like this, but we were never able to do it, so he came in, he was like, ‘This place is so cool!’ He was actually like, ‘I have some stuff I can contribute to put on the walls!’ There was no awkwardness at all.”
Aside from an arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue , all the tracks on Liquid Tension Experiment 3 are new compositions born from the writing session last summer. Aware of the long layoff, Rudess was keen to arrive at Dream Theater’s HQ with some ideas ready to go. “I was feeling like, it’s been a long time and I really want this to be great and I want to make sure that I can contribute some good stuff,” says Rudess. “What would happen if I went into the studio [and said], ‘Oh no, I can’t think of anything!’ That would really suck! So, I started to put together some ideas.”
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Even while on vacation with his family in the weeks before LTE got together, Rudess had a little keyboard with him to put down ideas. “While they were playing in the sun, I was at this keyboard,” he says. “I was inspired because I knew it was coming and my objective was to come up with some stuff, but mostly I wanted to make sure that we covered that melodic side of LTE. Every day I’d put down ideas, four measures, eight measures, then I felt like I was prepared at least to offer something just in case I couldn’t think of anything in the moment.”
Happily, the years apart had done nothing to diminish the creative and personal dynamism between the players. “It couldn’t have been smoother and easier,” says Petrucci. “It’s like we never left. On the first two albums, Tony brought in his espresso machine, he’d make espressos for everybody, so he brought it in again. The next thing you know we’re jamming, and it was like no time had passed. There was no weirdness or anxiety, it was completely smooth, the chemistry was all there.”
LTE’s writing process is based around improvisation. The guys jam and record everything they play, then listen to what they’ve done to pick out their favourite ideas. “Jams are funny,” says Petrucci. “Somebody has an idea and you start to hear everybody understand the idea. It starts out of focus then it slowly comes into focus and, as you’re jamming, people start to understand the groove. Then you have to take it and say, ‘Let’s see, what was I doing there, how can I make this into an actual part?’”
Rudess picks out the tune Beating The Odds as a salient example of how an LTE track is delivered into the world. It began with a riff from Petrucci. “It seemed almost like a commercial guitar riff, if you will,” says Rudess, “Really rocking, not necessarily prog but he was doing something with the time signature that we were all blinking, going, ‘What? What are you doing?’ It made us smile, at first it was a little bit of a challenge to understand what was happening but once we got it, we laughed and started to play, like ‘That’s really cool!’”
Asked how everyone had developed as musicians over the intervening years and how the chemistry had evolved, Petrucci replies, “It’s hard to say. There are subtleties. That’s a long period of time for musicians to develop their style and craft. I think there are things that really didn’t change on some level, like everybody’s musical personalities are very much intact, but I don’t know. Maybe everybody got better? There was just a lot of collaboration, songwriting confidence, and Tony was bringing in more ideas than ever before. We honed and developed our sounds. In other ways, nothing changed. The drum kit Mike used was my drum kit that he got for me, for my home studio. For my solo album he couldn’t get drums here because of the pandemic, so I’m like, ‘I’ll just bring this Tama kit that you got me’, so I was the drum roadie. Then he brought in supplemental drums, like old Dream Theater Octobans [tube toms], so in some ways nothing changed at all.”
One constant that remains is the desire to improve, something shared among the four members of the supergroup. While they might not be the young lions who cut the first two LTE records, they’re still hungry for a challenge and looking for growth. “I’m always thinking I’ve got to really practise,” says Rudess, noting the two different sides to his musical identity. “I use music as a healing force personally. I can settle into that space where I’m comfortable making the music and letting it out. There’s that comfort part, but there’s also the part that’s always reaching for more and is never truly comfortable and never going to say, ‘Okay, I’ve already proved myself so there’s nothing left for me to do.’”
It’s a sentiment shared by Petrucci, who’s not content to rest on his laurels and LTE3 is a reminder of the prodigious talents of everyone involved, from the blistering onslaught of Hypersonic to the richness of the arrangement in Key To The Imagination . “The funny thing about all of us is we never stop wanting to challenge ourselves. Nobody is lazy in that sense,” he says. “I always think your music and what you put out should always try to grow and get better and better, the sound of your recordings, the sound of your guitar tone, your playing, your songwriting, and this was no different. Nobody was in any way, shape or form complacent or lazy. In fact, everybody is even more toned. You’ve got 74/75-year-old Tony Levin playing like a 20-year-old on the Stick and upright bass. The guy has no limits, so it’s awesome.”
When LTE emerged in the late-1990s, instrumental prog was something of a niche within the genre. Nowadays, from The Aristocrats to Plini , intense instrumental music is a growing movement, but can LTE ever match the popularity of the members’ better-known bands?
“LTE is a very unusual group as far as the kind of reach that we have,” says Rudess. “Through all the years hearing how many musicians were influenced by LTE, I hear from all these new bands, ‘Oh yeah, LTE is what got me into it.’ It’s pretty amazing. But that said, it’s instrumental music so I don’t think it’s really possible to have it be as wide-reaching as something with vocals like Dream Theater. It’s instrumental music, how far can it really go? Hey, I hope this next album is everywhere, but I don’t think instrumental music necessarily has that kind of reach.”
“We don’t have any false hopes, ‘Oh, how are we going to sell a million?’” says Petrucci. “The cool thing is that within the community we’re in with the Dream Theater fanbase and Mike’s fans, Tony’s unbelievably illustrious career and fanbase, people know about it. The word gets out, in fact so much so that there is no central Liquid Tension Experiment website or anything, it’s all done on our own platforms and the record label’s. We all agreed that’s the best way, just let people know it’s there.”
“Personally, and for all of us, it’s an important thing to keep going because we love to play,” says Rudess. “That kind of balance between the instruments is creatively, artistically something that’s of value to all of us, and it’s great that people can respond to that and enjoy it.”
“It’s not really a focus of something like this,” says Petrucci about the commercial potential of LTE, “but who doesn’t want their music to be heard by as many people as possible for the sheer reason it’s about sharing? Especially when you’re proud of something, I really want you to hear this.”
This article originally appeared in issue 118 of Prog Magazine.
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| Profile | of . Active between 1997-1999, regrouped in 2007 (as a trio ) and again in 2008 (full band). By their second release, (1999), had also joined Dream Theater as their keyboardist, making Liquid Tension Experiment 3/4 Dream Theater members. For this reason they decided not to continue the project, although they played some shows in 2008 in order to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Band officially returned in 2020 and released their third album in Spring 2021. |
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Liquid Tension Experiment ( LTE) is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup founded by Mike Portnoy in 1997. The band initially released two albums, between 1998 and 1999. An extension of their second regular album, with the absence of John Petrucci was released in 2007 under the name "Liquid Trio Experiment".
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LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT - The Passage Of Time (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Video by Christian Rios Order the new album "LTE3" Now: https://liquidtensionex.lnk.to/LTE3 LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, the ...
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Wow, there are some really tough customers in the reviews so far. Liquid Tension Experiment is back and sounding great! The three singles Hypersonic, Beating the Odds, and Passage of Time are pretty in-your-face with the technical virtuosity, but I think they are entertaining and engaging compositions.
Liquid Tension Experiment is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup founded by Mike Portnoy in 1997. The band initially released two albums, between 1998 and 1999. An extension of their second regular album, with the absence of John Petrucci was released in 2007 under the name "Liquid Trio Experiment". Active up until 1999, when Jordan Rudess formally joined Dream Theater, the ...
Liquid Tension Experiment 3 is a remarkable return for one of progressive metal's greatest instrumental troupes.
Liquid Tension Experiment 3 is the third studio album by the American instrumental progressive metal super group Liquid Tension Experiment. Released on April 16, 2021, [1] it is their first studio effort since 1999's Liquid Tension Experiment 2.
Liquid Tension Experiment - Hypersonic (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Video by Christian Rios Order the new album "LTE3" Now: https://liquidtensionex.lnk.to/LTE3 "Hyperso...
Liquid Tension Experiment is an American instrumental prog rock "supergroup." Founded in 1997 by drummer Mike Portnoy, then a member of Dream Theater, their sound offers complex compositions -- sometimes of protracted length -- wedding riff-laden hard rock and heavy metal to knotty jazz fusion, and meaty funk with constantly shifting dynamics ...
After Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater few people thought they'd see prog supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment again. But in 2021 that's exactly what happened!
Liquid Tension Experiment by Liquid Tension Experiment, released 10 March 1998 1. Paradigm Shift 2. Osmosis 3. Kindred Spirits 4. The Stretch 5. Freedom Of Speech 6. Chris And Kevin's Excellent Adventure 7. State Of Grace 8. Universal Mind 9. Three Minute Warning Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy (drums) and John Petrucci (Guitars) were joined by King Crimson's Tony Levin (Bass) and ...
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT is a progressive metal music artist. This page includes LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT's : biography, official website, pictures, videos from YouTube, related forum topics, shouts, news, tour dates and events, live eBay auctions, online shopping sites, detailled reviews and ratings and the full discography of albums: studios, live, compilations (boxset), EPs on CD, Vinyl ...
Liquid Tension Experiment is an American instrumental progressive metal supergroup, founded by Mike Portnoy, then Dream Theater's drummer, in 1997.
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Liquid Tension Experiment is the self-titled first studio album by the band Liquid Tension Experiment, released on March 10, 1998, through Magna Carta Records. [1] The band featured guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy, at the time both of Dream Theater; bassist Tony Levin; and keyboardist Jordan Rudess, who would go on to join Dream Theater in 1999.
The band played fast, fusion-based pieces similar to those of Dream Theater, if somewhat more jazzy, and (almost entirely) devoid of vocals.Liquid Tension Experiment released two albums, Liquid Tension Experiment (1998) and Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999) on Magna Carta records. They also played a few live shows in New York, Philadelphia ...
Liquid Tension Experiment discography and songs: Music profile for Liquid Tension Experiment, formed 1997. Genres: Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock. Albums include Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Tension Experiment 2, and Liquid Tension Experiment 3.
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Liquid Tension Experiment 3 is a remarkable return for one of progressive metal's greatest instrumental troupes.
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