Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
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Free Music Review: Amazing Musicianship
Hit: 5 Stars
Every once in a while geniuses meet and proceed to prepare a masterpiece. Such is this case. Unquestionably, it is a labor of love. For all proggers it is a must buy!!!!! Enjoy.Free Music Review: Absolutely killer
Hit: 5 Stars
Liquid Tension Experiment's second outing is another classic outing into the unlikely marriage of prog metal, jazz fusion, improv, and a smorgasbord of other styles. 'Acid Rain' starts the disc off on a fast and furious note which blows my mind everytime I hear it and rockets by so fast that before you know it the whole 6 minutes is past. It also features one of the hardest-to-play licks I've ever attempted to learn, before the guitar-keyboard unison section with the fusion-y free drums. As a guitarist I've been learning this track for the past month and it's this lick that continues to frustrate me in its difficulty. 'Biaxident' and 'Another Dimension' are excellent as well: the former being a sort of ballad, with its piano intro that for some reason reminds me of water (the cover perhaps?) and the latter being another exercise in bombastic soul-smashing prog-metal-fusion. '914' is a short but sweet improv piece, 'When the Water Breaks' and 'Chewbacca' sound almost completely improvised and have yet to grow on me but are impressive in their own right. The disc concludes with the slow and beautiful acoustic piece 'Hourglass' which proves once and for all to Petrucci haters who claim he's "all about flash" that this man is just as amazing when he plays slow and clean. The best track here, however, is the stunning 'When the Water Breaks', an epic ballad somewhat analogous to LTE1's 'Freedom of Speech', though much longer, more epic, and containing arguably more emotional and soul-melting melodies. Just stunning.
I'm not exactly sure if LTE1 or this disc is superior, but does it matter? I think not. In short, essential.
Best Tracks: When The Water Breaks, Acid Rain, Biaxident, Another Dimension
Free Music Review: received as expected
Hit: 5 Stars
Item received as described. Excellent seller. Quick shipping. Would buy from this seller again.Free Music Review: Dream Theater & Levin
Hit: 4 Stars
This is basically a Dream Theater album without vocals in my mind. The song "914" is obviously a Tony Levin song in which he shines brightly. The rest of the disc sounds like the band I know from New York without the Dream Theater vocalist. Amen. I prefer Dream Theater when they not encombered by vocals although I do enjoy some of their lyrics and their older albums. This is great stuff here though and I must give credit where it is due. John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy and Tony Levin rock and prove themselves as masters of their individual instruments. Well worth the price. - CiaoFree Music Review: Worthwhile Leftovers
Hit: 3 Stars
If You LOVE LTE 1; you are a confessed gear freak, guitarist that does not wince when people know you Love Prog??? This a must purchase. It is a shame that it seems like maybe scheduling prevented these guys from putting together a continuation or extension of this project that lives and breathes as well as the first...buy it cause nothing else like this exists.
A true Gem with Petrucci/Rudess is the Solo Piano/Guitar disc that is on Vai's "Favored Nations" Label...absolutely worth the effort and every penny.