Artist: LIQUID TRIO EXPERIMENT [DREAM THEATER]
Album: SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (DIGI)

Release date: 2007
EAN/UPS: 0614286906026
Media type: CD

In October 1998, Liquid Tension Experiment reunited at Millbrook Studios in upstate New York to record their 2nd album. A few days into the sessions, John Petrucci's pregnant wife went into premature labor leaving Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin stranded in an already set-up and booked recording studio. So like any creative and productive musicians would do, they decided to stay and JAM...and JAM they did!

Over the course of two days, they played for hours on end. The Trio consciously did not "compose" or "write" anything. They simply went wherever the music took them.

Several of these jams ended up being used on LTE2. The rest of this music has remained unreleased until now.

For some bizarre and still unexplained reason, the master tapes of these jams were misplaced during the mixing process. But, luckily, Portnoy records almost everything he ever does and as a result his live 2-track stereo DAT mixes are the only remaining traces of this historic jam.

So what you have here is as live and raw as it gets. No overdubs, no editing, no mixing. Just 3 guys, their instruments and their spontaneous imaginations feeding off of each other.

So finally - almost 10 years later - here is Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin flying by the seat of their collective, musical pants.

Better late than never!

TRACKLIST:

1. Chris & Kevin's Bogus Journey
2. Hot Rod
3. RPP
4. Hawaiian Funk
5. Cappuccino
6. Jazz Odyssey
7. Fire Dance
8. Rubberband Man, The
9. Holes
10. Tony's Nightmare
11. Boom Boom
12. Return Of the Rubberband Man
13. Disneyland Symphony

LINE-UP:

Jordan Rudess (keyboards)
Tony Levin (bass instrument)
Mike Portnoy (drums)