LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT

Spontaneous Combustion

(2007)

1. Chris & Kevin's Bogus Journey 7'54
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
2. Hot Rod 6'21
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
3. RPP 3'06
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
4. Hawaiian Funk 4'40
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
5. Cappuccino 3'26
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
6. Jazz Odyssey 8'50
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
7. Fire Dance 8'23
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
8. The Rubberband Man 6'52
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
9. Holes 4'39
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
10. Tony's Nightmare 2'49
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
11. Boom Boom 6'34
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
12. Return Of The Rubberband Man 9'43
(LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT)
13. isneyland Symphony 4'47
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Total Time: 78:04

  • Jordan Rudess - Keyboards
  • Tony Levin - Bass Guitar
  • Mike Portnoy - Drums

    Produced by LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT
    Additional Engineering by Pat Thrall, Spyros Poulos and Kosaku Nakamure
    Art & Design by Paul Undersinger
    Band Photos by Paul Laraia
    Additional Photos by Thomas Picard & Gavin Mills

    All Music Written by LIQIUID TRIO EXPERIMENT

    Recorded by Chris Cubeta at MILLBROOK SOUND STUDIOS, Miulbrook, New York - October & November 1998
    Mastered by Jim Brick at ABSOLUTE AUDIO, New Jersey

    WHEN THE WATER BROKE ...

    In October 1998, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIN\ENT reunited at MILBROOK STUDIOS in upstate New York to record our 2nd album. A few days into the sessions, John Petrucci's pregnant wife went into premature labor - leaving myself, Jordan and Tony stranded in an already set-up and booked recording studio. So like any creative and productive musicians would do, we decided to stay and JAM ... and JAM we did!!

    Over the course of two days, we played for hours on end. We consciously did not "compose" or "write" anything ..... we just were enjoying the free spirit of jamming and improvisation ... never discussing any preconceived ideas, riffs or direction ... but simply "diving in without a safety net" and going wherever the music took us.

    Several of these jams ended up beihg used on LTE2. "914" was slightly edited, but was left in it's original trio orchestration. While "Chewbacca" and "Liquid Dreams" were two of these original trio jams that John ended up adding guitar to.

    The rest of this music has remained unreleased ... until now!

    For some bizarre and still unexplained reason, the master tapes of these jams were misplaced during the mixing process. But luckily, I am the ultimate archivist and record everything I do! So the only remaining recording of these sessions in existence was my live 2-track st DAT mixes.

    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 spontahious imaginations feeding off of each other!

    I think there is some truly magicai moments in these jams that I'm glad will finally be shared with our fans. It was making me crazy having this cool music in my iPod all these years, but not being; able to share it with anybody! So finally - almost 10 years later - here are myself, Jordan and Tony fjyjng on the seat of our pants and letting it all hang out!

    - Mike Portnoy