LIQUID TRIO EXPERIMENT
Genres: Jazz Related Rock, Eclectic Fusion • United States

In 1998, Mike Portnoy invited bassist Tony Levin, guitarist John Petrucci and keyboardist Jordan Rudess to form the supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment. During the recording sessions for their second album, Petrucci had to leave due to his wife, Rena, going into labor. During that period, the remaining LTE members, who still had studio time booked, continued to write music in improvisation. On October 23, 2007, a compilation of jams from those sessions was released under the name of Liquid Trio Experiment. The album is called Spontaneous Combustion. A few songs from Liquid Tension Experiment 2 were spawned from these jam sessions including "914", "Chewbacca", and "Liquid Dreams". A live album was also released under the Liquid Trio Experiment name after an equipment mishap at a Liquid Tension Experiment show in 2008 again left them with only three members, though on this occassion it was Jordan Rudess rather than John Petrucci who read more...