Liquid Trio Experiment 2 - When the Keyboard Breaks (Live in Chicago) (2008)

When the Keyboard Breaks is a live album by progressive metal group Liquid Trio Experiment 2. The album was recorded during a live show of Liquid Tension Experiment in Chicago, IL. The album came about when, during the track "Universal Mind", Jordan Rudess' Roland Fantom-G8 keyboard started playing half-step higher notes on every fourth key. Following the song, he went off stage to see if his technical crew could fix the keyboard. In the meantime, the other three musicians decided to improvise until Jordan was ready to come back. Jordan was on the phone with Roland in Japan for at least 20 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong. The other three just continued to jam with drummer Mike Portnoy giving updates every now and then (the determining point for the track splices). In the end, Rudess took John Petrucci's guitar and started jamming, then Petrucci took Tony Levin's bass, and Levin played Chapman Stick. When that jam was over, Portnoy ended up taking Levin's bass and Charlie Benante ended up playing drums. The keyboard was never fixed that night.

The production of the album was not official, as it was taken from a live stereo recording from the mix off stage. Thus there was no way for it to be properly mixed so everything is how the audience heard it.

The name of the album is a pun on the Liquid Tension Experiment track When the Water Breaks from Liquid Tension Experiment 2.

Tracklist :

01. Universal Mind (When the Keyboard Broke)
02. The Chicago Blue & Noodle Factory
03. Fade Away or Keep Going?
04. The Haunted Keyboard
05. Close Encounters of the Liquid Kind
06. Ten Minute Warning
07. That 'Ol Broken Down Keyboard Blues
08. Liquid Anthrax (contain excerpt from Led Zepellin - How Many More Time)
09. That's All Folks!


Line Up:

John Petrucci: Guitar
Jordan Rudess: Keyboards
Tony Levin: Bass: Chapman Stick
Mike Portnoy: Drums

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John Petrucci - Necronomicon (1995)

In 1995 Petrucci wrote two instrumental soundtrack songs for a Sega Saturn game titled Digital Pinball: Necronomicon. Each track is roughly two minutes long and they are simply titled "Prologue" and "Epilogue". Petrucci is an avid Sega Saturn gamer, and has revealed in interviews that he never tours without one.

An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess (2000)

An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess is an album by fellow Dream Theater bandmates John Petrucci (guitars) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards). This album is unusual in being performed live (except for the last track) by just these two musicians, and only guitar and keyboards. The live recording was made on June 20 2000 at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Nyack, New York. "The Rena Song" was dedicated to John Petrucci's wife Rena Sands Petrucci.

Tracklist :
1. Furia Taurina
2. Truth
3. Fife and Drum
4. State of Grace
5. Hang 11
6. From Within (Jordan Rudess)
7. The Rena Song (John Petrucci)
8. In the Moment
9. Black Ice
10. Bite of the Mosquito (studio version)

• John Petrucci: guitar
• Jordan Rudess: keyboard

John Petrucci - Suspended Animation (2005)

Suspended Animation is studio album by Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci, released on March 1, 2005 on Sound Mind Music. The songs "Glasgow Kiss" and "Damage Control" have been played during the G3 tour, and are featured as openers to the DVD and live album, G3: Live in Tokyo. The album was recorded at the same time as Dream Theater's Octavarium album.

Tracklist :
1. "Jaws of Life" [7:29]
2. "Glasgow Kiss" [7:48]
3. "Tunnel Vision" [6:35]
4. "Wishful Thinking" [7:28]
5. "Damage Control" [9:15]
6. "Curve" [6:22]
7. "Lost Without You" [4:56]
8. "Animate-Inanimate" [11:38]

• John Petrucci – electric guitar, production
• Dave DiCenso – drums (except track 3)
• Tony Verderosa – drums (track 3), electronic drums (track 3)
• Dave LaRue – bass guitar (except track 3)
• Tim LeFebvre – bass guitar (track 3)

G3: Live In Tokyo [Satriani, Vai, Petrucci] (2005)

Petrucci :
1. Glasgow Kiss
2. Damage Control

Vai :
3. The Audience Is Listening
4. Building The Church
5. K'm-Pee-Du-Wee

Satriani :
6. Up In Flames
7. Searching
8. War

The G3 Jam :
9. Foxy Lady
10. La Grange
11. Smoke On The Water