Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion

LIQUID TRIO EXPERIMENT<br><br>(Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess, Tony Levin)<br><br> SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION <br><br>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!<br> <br>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.<br> <br>Several of these jams ended up being used on LTE2. The rest of this music has remained unreleased until now.<br> <br>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. <br><br><br>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. <br> <br>So finally - almost 10 years later - here is Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin flying by the seat of their collective, musical pants. <br> <br>Better late than never!