LTE - 10th Anniversary Reunion

[YtseJam]

יומן מסע מההופעה ב-Downey (עם נפילת המתח ב-rig של פטרוצ'י)
http://tonylevin.com/lte08_4.htm

שימו לב להסעה של החבר'ה להופעה...


נייס


ומישהו יסביר לי מה זה החפץ האדום שפורטנוי מתופף איתו...

[YtseJam]

הסיכומים של טוני לוין מכל ערב:

June 29, San Francisco
Extraordinary Experiment

Last night was the final show of our too-brief run across the U.S. with Liquid Tension Experiment.
Plenty of unique things in the show, as usual, (this time including John cutting off Mike's beard in the encore!) The jams were really cool (maybe because we knew we're not recording this one multitrack) and the renditions of our songs are still a bit different each night.
A great crowd helped things along too.

I'll be fashioning a web page of the many photos I took, (yes, of the beard cutting...) and will add some recently discovered ones from previous shows.
We're kind of sad it's over - such great musicianship, and lots of fun too - I can only hope it's not another 10 years till we do it again!

June 28, Los Angeles
Keyboard Karma

Who'd have thought it... after the episode in Chicago where the keyboard went down, tonight, at the Downey Theater, the show was going along fine, and, just during Jordan's short keyboard solo, the guitar rig went down!

So, with John unable to join in, Jordan was required to keep playing, solo, while they hovered around the guitar rack, getting it going. We certainly didn't mind - nor did we (Mike and I) join in to make it a jam ... just let Jordan play on (he did a great job) and voila, after 10 or 15 minutes, the guitar rig was working and the keyboard karma had adjusted itself!

June 26, Chicago
Jolly Jamming

Big surprise tonight, at the ParkWest, Chicago show. After 2/3 of the show (my guess here...) Jordan's keyboard went out of order. The other three players jammed awhile while techs and Jordan worked on it. But couldn't get it fixed. The jam took epic proportions... it turned out Jordan, in his efforts to get it fixed, got on the phone to Japan, where a panel of people from the keyboard company was trying to determine the problem. But still, we couldn't work it out, and we couldn't move back to our written material without the keyboards.

Anyway, Jordan ended up the night's hero, not by having his keyboard fixed, but by joining in the jam, on guitar! with a rockin solo.
Then.. more jamming... and we had to end the night without playing any more of our prepared pieces.

Certainly out of the ordinary, and a blast for us. I can only hope the audience enjoyed it. Good thing this is a band that loves to jam!

Oh, and... I rarely look at the 'guestbook' section of my website, but just took a peek, and somebody wisely pointed out that I had forgotten to mention a few small details about that jam: Anthrax drummer, Charlie Benante sat in at one point - and there was some major instrument switching when Jordan played guitar, John moved to bass - at another point Mike took over on bass too! (I Stuck to the Stick.)

There. Thank you Charlie, thank you Tim Shokley, for pointing it out. I gotta read my own site's comments more often!

June 24, New York
Touring Tension

Wow, an exciting, intense night of playing, at BB Kings last night. Great crowd - crowds, really, because we (Liquid Tension Experiment) did two shows - a couple of hours each. The Dream Theater fans turned out in force for this one.
I've got lots of photos to organize, and will try to do that on the plane to Chicago today and have a page about the shows uploaded soon.

June 22, Bethlehem, PA.
Leaping Liquid

Wild show last night -- lots of surprises, lots of fun, and nobody got hurt by all that music!

We had prepared, quickly in two days of rehearsals, a metal rendition of Rhapsody in Blue... (yes, I know that's a little hard to imagine, and it wasn't so easy to arrange either.) Anyway, instead of being a shaky attempt thrown into the set, it felt like one of the high points of the show. Another surprise came right at the beginning when our walk on tape (Ride of the Valkeries!) stopped near the end -- we were poised to crash in right after the last note, which left us in a bit of an awkward position -- start the cd over, or admit defeat, and humbly count off in silence!

I've got lots of photos, as usual, but little time yet to make a new page about the tour - there'll be one by sometime this week for sure.

By the way, NearFest is a great weekend event every year... this is the third time I've played it. There isn't a better setting for music fans, and it feels something like a large family getting together to share their enjoyment of music.

On to B.B. Kings in New York tomorrow, including an extra second show the same night. I'll bring my espresso machine!

June 21, Bethlehem, PA.
Nearing NearFest

The reunion tour of Liquid Tension Experiment is about to begin here at Progressive Rock's prestigious NearFest weekend.
We've been here a few days, rehearsing, and I'm excited about the show tonight. The music, from two albums we recorded about 10 years ago, is technically difficult, and presents a great challenge. We'll also do lots of improv, and have spent most of our rehearsal time preparing a new piece.

More soon, and when the dust settles I'll put together a page of my photos from rehearsals.

[YtseJam]

וזהו... נפרדים מ-LTE, בתקווה שלא יעלמו לעוד 10 שנים!
בשנה הבאה בישראל...<ג'יימי/>

יומן מסע לסאן-פרנסיסקו
http://tonylevin.com/lte08_5.htm

מייק, ג'ון ורודס שלושתם מנגנים על הקלידים - קליפ של זה בקרוב.


וההיי-לייט של הערב: פטרוצ'י חותך לפורטנוי את הזקן...

[B-Boy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1GN-xunL4I[/youtube]

[MrReD]

חחח זה כל כך הולך להיות למכירה בEbay

[Mari]

מטורפים על כל הראש...
איזה כיף!

[Ozerivarium]

יומן מסע מההופעה ב-Downey (עם נפילת המתח ב-rig של פטרוצ'י)
http://tonylevin.com/lte08_4.htm

שימו לב להסעה של החבר'ה להופעה...

זה ההאמר הכי ארוך שראיתי !

[Ozerivarium]

ידעתם שיצא בוטלג של LTE ??? - שמו Testing for Tension ויצא ב99' , מה שטוב בו שיש כמה קטעים שפורטנוי ולוין מדברים , אולי אני אוריד את זה .

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3341 ... ackpo7.jpg
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5742 ... ontdl7.jpg

[ufomatan]

נראה שלכבוד חגיגות 10 השנים, מגנא קארטא החליטו להשיק גרסת Vinyl של LTE1, וישנם רק 1000 עותקים כך שזה הופך להיות collector's item... (נבלות).

http://www.magnacarta.net/news.html (האייטם השני אחרי לאברי)

רכשתי במיטב כספי הרגע

הגיע היום!!
חזק מאוד, שני תקליטים באריזה אחת, הראשון כולו צבוע ירוק (צבע מוזר לתקליט) והשני כולו בבורדו.
שווה כל אגורה, איכות טובה מאוד, אני לא בטוח אם באמת עשו רק 1000 עותקים כי העותק לא ממוספר, אבל בד"כ עידן יודע מה שהוא כותב...

[Greenburger]

ד"א, אם מישהו מכיר את הסדרה "החיים בלופ", השבוע ראיתי שם את ההאמר/לימוזינה הזאת

[YtseJam]

חלק 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMIMVIeL-M[/youtube]

חלק 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvEhQc0P2kk[/youtube]

חלק 3
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjR9KCfyBU[/youtube]

[YtseJam]

Liquid Tension Comix
http://www.tonylevin.com/comix/ltc.htm

[YtsejAmir]

החלק השני - kindred spirit השיר האהוב עליי של LTE תענוג, רק למה לעזאזל הסירטון נקטע לקראת סוף השיר בדיוק שהשיא של השיר מגיע. הייתי עושה הרבה בשביל להיות באחת מהופעות האיחוד.