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Liquid Tension Experiment (USA) -Liquid Tension Experiment had its genesis still in the class of 1996, when Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was contected by Peter Morticelli (head of the label Magna Carta) and Mike Varney (vice chairman of the label Magna Carta) and was asked to, according to Portnoy, try and "put together a pair of Super Groups (for the want of a better term!",.

In spite of declining the pass at first, he finally agreed to meet a super ensemble.Many were the attempts to put the grouping together through most of 1997, but almost of them failed due to one pivotal problem: they were missing a member. Mike was capable to raise a bass player, who was Tony Levin, of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel's band fame, and a keyboard player, who was Jordan Rudess, which was acting with the jazz fusion group Dixie Dregs at the time, but there was nonetheless a guitarist missing. Every guitarist that was originally invited to be voice of the group refused the offer due to conflicting schedules.Finally, in the form of 1997, Mike decided to bid John Petrucci, Dream Theater guitarist, to join Liquid Tension Experiment and, with his acceptance, the grouping was finally complete and set to commemorate their first album, the self titled Liquid Tension Experiment.The idea, or the concept, of that album was to fully write, rehearse and record the whole matter in a week, and so it was done: from September 20 to September 25 of 1997 the whole operation was successfully done and the album was released in the following year, in Process of 1998.The members of the set and Magna Carta were so satisfied with the results of the first attempt that they decided to enter yet another album. In late 1998 the band regrouped and in the bridge of two months wrote, rehearsed and recorded what would be their 2nd album, entitled Liquid Tension Experiment 2. This time, just like with Liquid Tension's first album, it was released on the following year.Nearly ten days later the disbandment of the Liquid Tension Experiment, in late 2007, a third studio album was released with new band material. The free entitled Liquid Trio Experiment had jam tracks from the set without John Petrucci, who was with his wife at the hospital expecting his baby to be born at the time. Unlike the two previous studio albums, Liquid Trio Experiment was mostly ill received by critics and fans alike.On the 10th anniversary of the liberation of their self titled album, Liquid Tension Experiment decided to get a commemoration tour throughout the USA in 2008. Unfortunately, the circuit did not went through other countries, but it spammed a considerable sum of live recordings that were released in the next year by Mike Portnoy's own recording label, the Ytsejam Records/Lazy Tomato.Liquid Tension Experiment's music could be described as the confluence of jazz fusion, heavy metal, latin music, funk, progressive rock and enormous doses of improvisation delivered by some of the best musicians the worlds of progressive rock, progressive metal and wind have to offer.