![]() ![]() Mike was able to recruit 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 playing with the jazz fusion group Dixie Dregs at the time, but there was still a guitarist missing. Many were the attempts to put the group together through most of 1997, but most of them failed due to one pivotal problem: they were lacking a member. In spite of declining the offer at first, he eventually agreed to assemble a super ensemble. Liquid Tension Experiment had its genesis still in the year of 1996, when Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was contected by Peter Morticelli (head of the label Magna Carta) and Mike Varney (vice president of the label Magna Carta) and was asked to, according to Portnoy, try and "put together a couple of Super Groups (for the lack of a better term!)". ![]() Active between 1997-1999 - Regrouped in 2007 (as a trio) and again in 2008 (full band)
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