Classical Composer Reacts to Liquid Tension Experiment: Key to the Imagination | The Daily Doug
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2023
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In this #metalmonday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm releasing my reaction to Key to the Imagination by Prog/Metal Supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment. I recorded this reaction as part of my Fan Favorite series at the beginning of the year, and I just had to share this one with y'all. Each of these musicians is among the very best on their instruments. Amazing!
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(obvious keyboard solo starts). "Get it, John."
Yeah, I was surprised Doug didn't get that
😂
he just ghosted the za tho
Happy Birthday to Tony Levin, 77 years of pure class. June 6th, 1946
Wow, same as Steve Vai!
Despite the technicality, they never give up on the musicality. It really is beautiful.
Did not expect Doug to light up out of nowhere, LOL
My God JPs lead tone is so freaking good. Crystal clear and tight with just the right amount of bite.
Love the casual bowl moment 😂.
8:49 OMG, Doug loves the chronic! I salute thee kind sir. 😁
This is probably my favorite track on the album. It's just a masterful execution of LTE being LTE and that middle solo section has one of the coolest exotic feels of anything they've ever written.
Agree man.. the ending is just.. man. I’m lost for words. This song defines prog.
I agree fully. P.s.....should I be ashamed that I have made love to several women while playing this on the stereo? Lol
most intense
I remember being a kid listening to LTE1, and just being floored. John is one of my favorite players, and he's only gotten better at his craft throughout the years.
I'm glad you got to this one Doug. It's one of my favorite LTE songs, probably top 5 for sure. Glad y'all liked it.
One of my top 5 LTE’s. Up there with when the water breaks which is my favorite.
LTE is just a supermassive masterpiece. It has all what makes DT awesome, without vocals but with even more madness!
Somebody would say the annoying vocals... not me btw.
“No boring, unnecessary, childish and epic vocals of DTs” is what makes all the difference. Another member of DT that is not missed here is the keybord player.
@@nsgobbi huh?
@@nsgobbi Jordan Rudess is part of LTE lmao
Different tip of the iceberg comparison for DT. They are their own thing and amazing
I've only recently started listening to this band's music, but the more I hear of their stuff, the more I like it!!! Excellent stuff!!! 😀
I mean this type of music is just like a drug for the ear. It is so addictive.
One of the best things about this band is you never tire of the songs. Every relisten let's you hear something you missed the first 35 times.
Doug, you nailed Mike's fill at 11:28. Your air drum skills are improving!
When the water breakes is a must hear.
haha sparking up a bowl. :)
Please do LTE When the water breaks live version! It is masterpiece
My fav LTE song. Simply radical.
At least 10 moments of goosebumps in that song. LTE is just too good overall
This is my favourite track of LTE3, excellent choice. All of LTE is really cool, and this track is absolutely insane. If you want some other great ones from LTE, definitely try "When the water breaks"
@@Doug_Helvering-..couldn’t agree more. When the water breaks is quintessential LTE and Rudess 🤤🤤
Especially the Live in LA version. Seeing id believing
LOL @ 10:19 , thinking that was John when it was Jordan - I made the same mistake when I first got into Dream Theater 20 years ago or so, when I first listened to Scenes From A Memory. I never heard a keyboard sound so close to a lead guitar until that album, and had me fooled the first time.
Such an incredible jam. One of my favorites.
You absolutely need to hear Allan Holdsworth. Just even for the harmonies he wrote.. let alone the improvising that’ll never be equalled
@Doug, if I might suggest Alan Holdsworth during his time in Bill Bruford's band, which included Jeff Berlin on bass. Anything Holdsworth did is amazing, but I really love his work with Bruford (and this includes his work with the "supergroup" UK!)
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@@mhlevy can’t go wrong with any Holdsworth! Bruford was great, the harmonies in some of his solo work are unrivalled! Definitely the most difficult chordal stuff I’ve ever attempted to learn..
yess
Gong expresso kicks ass
What a masterpiece, up there with their best. LTE are just in another dimension.
I see what you did there
Something tells me you didn't pick that phrase Biaxident
@NotNotAUsername i just love how we're all just a bunch of kindred spirits here. Sorry i couldnt resist
It seems we're here by osmosis
Their Rhapsody in Blue is pretty damn good, too. Glad you’re checking out LTE!
I like the original live recording of it more but yeah
he already reviewed that
9:25 reminds me of something off of Train of Thought. So good.
My favourite part too. which part of TOT are you thinking? I have that feel too..
This Dying Soul
I have to say "JIMMY T Meslin" is one of the best mixxing enginers out there.. he has done all Dream Theater recordings since 2013, including LTE... so impressive the balance and clarity.. EXCELLENTE !!
Finally! I have typed this on one of your videos over a year ago recommending this song.. such an underrated piece!! Finally a proper reaction!
I am familiar with the muscians, but have never heard of the group before. This was stunning! Went immediately to my playlist - "Good music".
Probably one of, if not, my favorite songs of not just this album, but from them in general! Such a great groove and melodic throughout the whole thing
This watch gave me a new appreciation for this one… HOWEVER… I would love to see your reaction to When the Water Breaks. It’s from their older stuff, and a long one, but I think it’s their finest work.
Great song
Aweeesome. Great choice for song. My favorite on LTE3 for sure. Love your reactions brother. Cheers from Brazil
This is truly one of the best albums I've heard in a few years.
Lets get this gentle genius to 300k subs! Amazing video as usual doug, wouldnt mind hearing more of this album or more previous work such as biaxident, paradigm shift or acid rain
Tony Levin played Bass on
John Lennon’s album,
“Double Fantasy”…
That’s quite a calling card.
The man is a legend, who nobody knows about. Check out his album credits. Way, way too many to list. Some of the highlights include: King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd and many, many more. Not to mention his solo albums and his band, The Tony Levin Band, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2002. Amazing musician and a great human being!
Oh wow surprising choice! 😊 Been playing the song on drums with clone hero 😅 anyway I highly recommend The Passage of Time on the same album. I just love the little details Mike Portnoy adds while drumming
Passage of time is awesome!
I‘d sell my soul for seeing them live once.
I was lucky to see them on their first and only tour. They did five shows in the US and two nights in NYC😀
It was great to be there at B.B.Kings in NYC - small venue and you are watching these great musicians...
My absolute FAVORITE track from LTE3! Glad to see Doug break it down and react to it.
I only just discovered your channel, and I already consumed several hours. I love your attitude. I love your demeanour, and the sheer unrehearsed rawness of your reactions. Your musical expertise shines a spotlight on the technical structure and construction of music that - being musically unqualified - I have only ever just listened to and enjoyed for its own merits in the past. Just goes to show that metal and rock has a lot more in common with classical music than most people give it credit for, although I think this has been highlighted by things like The Scorpions "Moment of Glory" album, and Metallica's "S&M". You're already introducing me to stuff I never heard before. In this case, I love these guys individually, and Dream Theatre in particular. Never heard of LTE until now.
I have things I should be doing, but I'm addicted to your videos.
greatest track you've chosen thank you good man.
i love how you keep analyzing the song while enjoying it! exactly like my reaction every time i hear DT & LTE, only the difference is i dont have any musical knowledge, im just enjoying its musical and lyrics!! 🤣
Key to the imagination IT’s just a MASTERPIECE , IT’S AN AMAZING SONG
I think this is my favorite album from LTE and this is also their best overall song.
cheers Doug! 🍃love lte and dream theater so its always fun to watch along someone that appreciates and understands the music..
great reaction Doug!
LTE !! Yay ! Great video, thanks Doug
Ya gotta listen to another long one, When The Water Breaks
Yessss!!! One of my favorite songs ever!!
FINALLY!! Someone reacts to this epic masterpiece. Thank you Doug!! 😊
LTE is Amazing. Enough said.
Great react Doug.
My favorite off the new album!!! A headbanging masterpiece!!!
Petrucci’s a MONSTER ! ALL OF THEM BTW !!
I'm glad to hear that Tony Levin is probably your favorite bass player. He is outstanding. I know you have a bazillion songs you want to react to, but if you get a chance check out his solo band called Stick Men. Their first album was released in 2010. That band consisted of Tony on the Chapman Stick as well as another Stick player with Pat Mastelotto on drums. I think the songs to start with from that album are:
The Firebird Suite
Hands
Fugue
Sasquatch
So cool seeing the wheels spinning in your mind in real time. Especially with a piece like this!
8:48 that's the move right there, let's have it.
Next to Key to the Imagination there are my two favorites song in the album, Blink of an Eye and Solid Resolution Theory
This is one of the best there is!
I was just thinking earlier today that I'd love another LTE reaction from you...
ive been wanting him to react to this song for ages
great selection, my friend
Love the petrucci terminal velocity album cover!!
There's a live concert of Liquid Tension Experiment they did years ago. Not sure if they'll ever do it again, but you could react to that for the next best thing. It should be on UA-cam somewhere. It's obviously very long, but it's quite the experience to watch them play this crazy stuff live. They even have a few bloopers in there because they had to re-learn to play stuff they only ever learned when recording the first time, and most of that was improvised.
we need more leprous Doug! Cheers from Argentina :)
I have not heard this group before. That was fun.
Love that we're getting some more LTE3 stuff, my favorite other than Rhapsody in Blue and the piano/ guitar duet is Beating the Odds, it's just such an upbeat, happy tune all around and Petrucci's fade out solo is possibly his best since "The Best od Times."
I keep pestering about this, but seeing that Haken album in the background and listening to LTE makes me just so eager to see if Doug will do Leprous and Ihsahn in the future. Just the other day I was trying to analyse Leprous's Forced Entry and was so confused when they leave it vague if it's minor or major, you might assume it's obviously minor and then they throw a lead in major BUT use minor 3rd and I couldn't just figure it out. Or watching drum react channels go crazy for Sky Is Red with idk pattern of 11 shifting over something else. And Einar Solberg's vocals, I could die for them. It's no surprise they named Opeth and Porcupine Tree as some of the guitar role models. But same can be said about interesting drum patterns and vocals on Ihsahn as well, Homecoming is such a beautiful piece too. And of course Einar Solberg and Ihsahn have featured on each other's music.
Love LTE. Still, and always hoping for some Lovebites on a Metal Monday. Preferably something live, but anything would be good.
Are you still doing Weird Wednesday? Mr Bungle, Carry Stress in the Jaw is my favorite track off their 2nd album. That whole album sounds like if Frank Zappa wrote a soundtrack to a David Lynch film.
And for a metal Monday: anything really from Blotted Science but as an example: Synaptic Plasticity. they use 12 tone but not in the traditional sense. It’s very interesting
Thanks for all you do, Doug!
Love the Album and the band. More LTE is always a great thing. Hopefully we’ll get a new album sooner rather than later of a gap like the last releases.
Wonderful
Awesome
NGL I cracked up at "Sounds like Tony's breakfast isn't really agreeing with him."
The song that comes after this "Blink of an eye" is maybe the most powerful song I've heard in years. I feel like Keys to the Imagination is just getting the listener prepared for it.
Great song, new to me. Reminded me a lot of Rush. 👍🏻
Big DT fan here, never really listened to LTE. Wonderful piece, that would have been perfect in Metropolis Pt 2 (the mid sections sound like an extension of Home and Beyond this life) ♥️
Great song, great reaction, great video!! I would love to see you reacting to Grendel by Marillion. There is literally only 1 reaction video and this song deserves so much more. Love your channel!
Man, you SO need to do one on Sons of Apollo.
This is hands down my favorite track from LTE3. The entire album blows me away but I don’t think that they could have chosen a better outtro!
Years ago, there was Genesis (the real one) and Yes (the real one), today there's LTE.
Yes They r my fav on what they do too..DT and LTE members are The best living musicians . ( FOR ME )
Would be interesting to see Doug dive a bit further into the abyss of prog metal and react to something like Blotted Science's Bleeding in the Brain. :D
Saw them at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC in January 1999
I think it was @ B.B.Kings on 42nd Street😅
TLev is my favorite, too!
I would love to see you reacting tk the Life is but a dream album from Avenged Sevenfold - it is a metal/rock progressive masterpiece with deep and dark thoughts.
Its time for some Ron Jarzombek, surprised he hasnt been requested as he is the mad scientist of technical prog. Oscillation Cycles is a good short one that shows his genius, its a 12 tone row repeated back and forth and at diferrent tempos - something I didnt pick up on originally. Imo he has to be the most underrated guitar player sadly, I think its too much for non musicians, even more so than this. This reminds me a lot of Planet X.
The best one on the album LTE forever
and yesterday was the Tony Levin Birthday!!! Bess Bass Man ever!
Next up: Acid Rain from LTE2
For some more Tony Levin instrumental goodness, check out the "Black Light Syndrome" album by Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin, and Steve Stevens. Tremendous album. The opening cut, "The Sun Road," is an incredible piece of music.
Don't know if anyone has ever requested this but...Lucifer's Friend. They started as an early heavy metal-ish band as one might expect with that band name, but their album Banquet is pure prog and fusion.
Would recommend Spanish Galleon. It's one of the most enjoyable combinations of different 70s genres I have heard. Don't want to spoil any more as quite the ride :)
Real music this.
Acid Rain - Acid Rain - Acid Rain - Acid Rain - Acid Rain....erm, yes. It is not an instrumental - it is 9-and-a-half-minute not-improvised all-in-solo. They called their work: "Let's do some REALLY bizarre!" after having recorded some very outstanding stuff already. And that's what it is: insane, bizarre, unplayable. But they can do it. Watch the 2008 live version available! Tony Levin has a smile on his face, as if he is playing some sweet song live with Peter Gabriel. Ruddess, who at time of its creation was NOT yet in Dreamtheater, has to entangle his fingers near the end, before he dances a Rondo with his keyboard, Portnoy needs to de-cramp his wrists after finishing this drum orgasm, and Petrucci is simply magical.
This sounds more Dream Theater than Dream Theater.
Tony Levin is just a fantastic bass player and musician as a whole. He has some pretty good solo albums and other projects besides this, the Peter Gabriel and King Crimson stuff.
And the album he did with his brother is really fun!
Tony Levin on Bass. Bull Bruford Chris Botti David Torn: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities B.L.U.E. "Cracking the midnight glass." I saw them live in Boston in a tiny club up close. Amazing. Here is a live shot from that tour: ua-cam.com/video/6F1G4p5z_DU/v-deo.html
God I love this song.
It's just great. But it's Dream Theater 💙
I would love you to interview John Petrucci...
Doug should react to Acid Rain or When the water breaks... Great songs by LTE!! Greetings from Brasil
Tony Levin has said that when the other 3 handled the sheets to learn the songs to him he has to concentrate a lot because it's the most difficult music he's ever played.
I can believe that being the case for sure. It's amazing that he was even able to just join such a project in the first place.
If you're getting into LTE you should do a video on Biaxident
LTE is actually 3/4 Dream Theater!!!!! Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, and Mike Portnoy original DT drummer
LTE is amazing, but i see the terminal velocity back there 😊
Love when you start air drumming an intricate progressive metal piece like that. We all do that and inevitably end up off the beat in one second 😂
another great one! i really think you would love a new avenged sevenfold song, Cosmic. Truly magical and it's from their album that ventures into progressive