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  Liquid Tension Experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The combo was formed as a side project to Dream Theater in 1998 (though some theorise that Rudess was asked to join the band largely because of the success of the Liquid Tension Experiment (having already declined a previous offer to join in 1994 and instead becoming a member of the Dixie Dregs)).
Liquid Tension Experiment released two albums, Liquid Tension Experiment (1998) and Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999) on Magna Carta records.
Mike Portnoy has stated in numerous interviews (and on his web site FAQ) that there will not be a third LTE album, as 3/4 of the band is in the current Dream Theater line-up.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment   (218 words)

  
 MAGNA CARTA RECORDS > Artists > LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT
It's no secret in the industry that the first Liquid Tension Experiment album was both a creative and commercial success for Magna Carta Records, the label gambling on the fact that their fan base could take a trip that prog-rock-dangerous and emerge unscathed and, in fact, renewed.
Liquid Tension Experiment has always been about fierce creative interaction, a mixture of the spontaneous and the composed, almost violent but good-natured collision (think bumper-cars) countered with periods of solitary introspection.
Like that first ground-breaking Liquid Tension Experiment album, LTE 2 was a sort of trial by fire, a shocked immersion into a creative bath that could only bear stormy results.
www.magnacarta.net /artists/lte.html   (1324 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liquid Tension Experiment 2 is the second album by the band Liquid Tension Experiment.
There is a "baby soundscape" to landmark the part of the piece being written when he got the news.
John Petrucci tells us in the notes to the album that hourglass was written and recorded in the wee hours with old strings - an indication of how much freer Liquid Tension Experiment is musically than Dream Theater.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment_2   (171 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liquid Tension Experiment - s/t - 1998 Magna Carta (74:02)
LTE is a one-off project, the brainchild of Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy.
LTE has everything from DT-ish prog-metal rockers, like the smoking nine-minute opener "Paradigm Shift," to quiet acoustic piano pieces, like the soft and beautiful "State of Grace." Some of the songs are slow and melodic, whereas others are incredible rockers filled with tremendous soloing from Petrucci and Rudess.
dynamitemetal.com /reviews/lte.htm   (435 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment CD Reviews
Compared to the debut recording, "Liquid Tension Experiment 2" has a more studied approach that lacks the panicked and dangerous energy of the rushed recording of the debut.
Liquid Tension Experiment have produced themselves again with mixing assistance provided by the legendary Kevin Shirley (who has worked with Journey, Aerosmith, Silverchair, and Rocket From The Crypt).
Liquid Tension Experiment produced themselves on this record with renowned producer Kevin Shirley handling the mixing chores.
www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/l/liquidtensionexperiment.htm   (834 words)

  
 New Millennium - FleXable's Home Page
LTE may be the most chops-crazy display to emanate from this duo to date, an enthused opportunity to create well outside the restrictions of Dream Theater's self-imposed commercial considerations.
Dream Theater producer Kevin Shirley was brought in at the conclusion of this wild ride, bringing his recent experiences with Aerosmith and Journey with him, enthusiastic at capturing so much rock virtuosity on one record, working towards his stated goal of demarcated instrumentalidentity within such a surprisingly cohesive band setting.
All in all, Liquid Tension Experiment is a resounding, proof-positive success, an internalization and effortless emanation of prog rock knowledge, generations deep.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Hollow/9445/lte.htm   (836 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liquid Tension Experiment is an all-acoustic progressive metal tour de force, the brainchild of Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy.
Besides the incredible musicianship, the most remarkable thing about LTE is that the entire thing was written and recorded in the span of one week.
Most bands spend months on the writing and recording, while LTE got in the studio and just threw this monster of a record together without batting an eye.
dynamitemetal.com /1998/06.htm   (190 words)

  
 Gracenote: Search CDDB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liquid Tension Experiment / Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Liquid Tension Experiment / Liquid Tension Experiment 1
Liquid Tension Experiment / LTE Live [Disc 2]
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 Ground and Sky review - Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Maybe my expectations were too high though, because with repeated play the first half of LTE 2 has grown on me. The second half still doesn't do much for me, but that may be because after 40 minutes or so of this kind of music, I get a little burnt out.
On LTE 2 it's just one high-speed progmetal piece after another for close to 74 minutes, which is more than I can take.
Still, LTE 2 lacks a lot of the spontenaity, enthusiasm and interest I found in the first disc.
www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=lte-lte2   (678 words)

  
 LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT Liquid Tension Experiment 2 reviews and MP3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anyway, the both albums of LTE are unique in their styles mixing fast melodies and head popping complexity.
Liquid Tension Experiment was formed as a supergroup and Jordan Rudess was not yet a member of Dream Theater at the time.
The second and last in the LTE catalog, this album is a swan song for this particular lineup.
www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=814   (3373 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Liquid Tension Experiment
A sort of instrumental prog-rock/prog-metal supergroup, Liquid Tension Experiment features Dream Theater's John Petrucci (guitar) and Mike Portnoy (drums), keyboardist Jordan Rudess (who has worked with the Dixie Dregs and has since joined Dream Theater), and bassist extraordinaire Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, and many others).
Liquid Tension Experiment hasn't posted a blog yet.
Liquid Tension Experiment hasn't posted any shows yet.
www.purevolume.com /liquidtensionexperiment   (129 words)

  
 MAGNA CARTA RECORDS > Releases > LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT (self-titled)
So with the organizational impetus of Magna Carta's Pete Morticelli and Mike Varney, these four talents were gathered, and sent away to Portnoy's home in the early autumn of '97 for six hours of coffee, pizza and creative freeflow, establishing a common language on which to build Liquid Tension Experiment.
There is a consistent heaviness throughout the album, or at minimum a buzzing hive of highly electric activity which keeps academic and purely emotional listener alike craning to see where the band will take them next.
Dream Theater producer Kevin Shirley was brought in at the conclusion of this wild ride, bringing his recent experiences with Aerosmith and Journey with him, enthusiastic at capturing so much rock virtuosity on one record, working towards his stated goal of demarcated instrumental identity within such a surprisingly cohesive band setting.
www.magnacarta.net /releases/LTE.html   (881 words)

  
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 Tony Levin - LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT TOUR Road Diary
Tonight, at the Bowery Ballroom, was the first (ever) concert of Liquid Tension Experiment.
Liquid Tension will be playing a concert for Sabian Drums, on Saturday the 30th.
finally at 1:40 in the morning, as Liquid Tension went on the stage, the stage manager told us we could play only a half hour (we'd planned an hour show.) We went onstage, readjusting our set to be shorter, and as we began the first piece, the guitar amp and pedals self-destructed.
www.tonylevin.com /diary-lte.html   (750 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment 2 by Chuck Moe
Well, you get what's commonly referred to as a super group called Liquid Tension.
Joining for their second album, Experiment 2, the guys put together another great CD that ranges from progressive, hard rock, jazz, fusion, with hints of Latin all melded together with a heavy foundation.
"Liquid Dreams" is one of the more mellow songs with some great bass grooves reminiscent of Peter Gabriel.
www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0301/liquidtension2.htm   (564 words)

  
 Abiro - The Lab - Music
Liquid Tension Experiment is a part "spin off" from Dream Theater, with John Petrucci (guitars), Mike Portnoy (drums), Jordan Rudess (keyboards) and Tony Levin (bass).
As mentioned earlier Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment and Fates Warning are among my favorites and are all in the prog metal genre.
Notably Microsoft's Windows Media format is a competitor, that is even claimed to sound as good as MP3 at half the bit rate (64 kbps), yet my practical experience is that this is not at all true, and in the "free world" it seems MP3 has already won.
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 Ground and Sky review - Liquid Tension Experiment - self-titled
After the slew of tribute albums ran their course, the label started setting up all-star prog lineups, coming together for one time only (that was the initial idea, at least).
The second of these projects is Liquid Tension Experiment, bringing together members of Dream Theater, the Dixie Dregs, and King Crimson for a short period of jamming and recording.
Unfortunately, the follow-up CD LTE II seems like kind of a half-hearted affair.
www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=lte-lte   (1251 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It doesn't often happen that a one-off project the likes of Liquid Tension Experiment (with John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess of the Rudess/Morgenstein Project and Tony Levin of King Crimson and countless others) gets a chance to be a two-off project.
LTE 2 features 70+ minutes of instrumental music that's guarenteed to get any prog's rocks off.
The first Liquid Tension Experiment album had a few odd-ball songs.
www.karsmakers.net /stuff/metal-e-zine/lte_lte2.htm   (404 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock L
On "Seagull" the effect created by the mellifluous middle section full of liquid piano and Mellotron strings and woodwinds in what is otherwise just a slow-grinding, chugalong rock tune is a bit too cut and paste to avoid sounding contrived.
LTE are heavy but not metal, new but not neo, indulgent but not repetitive.
LTE is part of that all too fleeting second golden age we will reminisce about fifteen years from now.
www.gepr.net /l.html   (13779 words)

  
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 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Notwithstanding all the soloing and tempo and moodchanges on this track, there is a certain obviousness to this track, almost Toto like in their older days.
The tension is felt on this track, and after atmosphere changes going from tense to heavy going to almost singalong.
And that they're not kidding is shown by the loss of sound quality at the end since otherwise the last part of this jam would have been missed.
www.cs.uu.nl /people/jur/reviews/liquidtensionexperiment.html   (775 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Now and then, someone gets the luminous idea to put together a few people from existing bands, thus calling into being a group like Black Light Syndrome or, indeed, Liquid Tension Experiment.
Nothing commercial about the songs, either, which is something of a relief after the rather polished "Falling into Infinity".
Liquid Tension Experiment improves every time you listen to it.
www.karsmakers.net /stuff/metal-e-zine/lte_lte.htm   (278 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Dreams - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Dreams - Last.fm
3,289 people have listened to Liquid Dreams by Liquid Tension Experiment.
Of all 16,049 people that have listened to songs by Liquid Tension Experiment, this represents 20.5%.
www.last.fm /music/Liquid+Tension+Experiment/_/Liquid+Dreams   (104 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment - Music & Musician Forums
I listened to samples of some tracks on Windows Media Music and it's cool rock music and I was thinking of buying Liquid Tension Experiment (the first album).
Actually, I think he was trying to say something else, but...
I just ordered LTE 1...it should be here Tuesday.
www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=28717   (171 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment : Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Liquid Tension Experiment : Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
The second Liquid Tension Experiment album doesn't contain anything quite as self-indulgent as its predecessor's chops-heavy half-hour jam session "Three Minute Warning"; the epic piece here, the 17-minute "When the Water Breaks," is much more composed and therefore focused (even if it's not what you'd call a tight listen).
Elsewhere, the music blends Dream Theater-esque progressive metal (logically) and spontaneous interaction with mellower, more lushly textured pieces; the high level of musicianship is, of course, beyond question.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,849138,00.html   (190 words)

  
 Liquid Tension Experiment - 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ending is quite involved with lots of riff based rocking and something like shortcircuiting keyboards.
We come right into the opening piano of Liquid Dreams.
The title is well chosen, since this is a rather calm, dreamy (but also bouncy) track.
www.cs.uu.nl /~jur/reviews/2.html   (601 words)

  
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 Liquid Tension Experiment - Chewbacca - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Music > Liquid Tension Experiment > Liquid Tension Experiment 2 > Chewbacca
3,587 people have listened to Chewbacca by Liquid Tension Experiment.
Of all 16,049 people that have listened to songs by Liquid Tension Experiment, this represents 22.4%.
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