Liquid Trio Experiment

This album is shameful. It is nothing like DT or LTE. I can heard Portnoy say "Let's put out the scraps of a session, they'll buy it".

Hey Mikey...we don't buy (and then love) everything you all create.

I love all these guys but without Petrucci it is just empty. If you liked the first two LTE albums and/or like DT, don't buy this.

I'm sorry, but anybody who owns the two LTE CDs is going to be VERY unhappy with this CD. It's a very week rehash many of the ideas used on the LTE albums. What a waste of time. I really expected better of Tony Levin. Money is more important than the music here. Listen to this CD in the context of background noise, other than that just don't bother. These guys don't deserve your money for this lack of effort.

Well. I couldn't wait to get this CD after I heard the other LE works. This one however, falls short of the brilliant tracks you hear on their other CD's. It sounds like three people jamming and not knowing where they are going as if you have a new lineup. I couldn't even classify the style; Does not sound progressive or rocky or anything like that. I don't know if it's Portnoy's influence or input because this Cd sounds a bit like the latest OSI. The three stars are for the band members on the merit of their talent but not for this CD. Sorry guys, this experiment does not do it for progressive rockers.

This album is pretty much like the "Item Description", musicians playing around in the studio. This may be an album a hard core Portnoy fan may want who collects everything an artist puts out. There are some spots of good instrument playing here but no real coherency. The rhythm section catches a groove and about the time the keyboardist invents a melody the drums switches time and it all falls apart. The musicians are just playing around and jamming, this should not have been released as an album. There are spaces between tracks but these aren't songs. It is so obvious that during these tracks the musicians get lost from one another and are just flying by the seat of their pants. If they were going to release this they should have taken the found melodies and grooves off the tape and composed them into something tight and resembling a song, then put an album together. Since none of these musicians are dead or bankrupt I don't see why something like this would hit the street. This is a novelty at best. If you want to hear what musicians jamming in the studio sounds like when it is ready for public consumption get James Newton Howard & Friends on the Telarc label. Anyone who has ever been on the car audio competition circuits should recognize some tracks off that album.