My studio was wired by my ace tech, Robert Dorion this last weekend. He took a break from the usual road travels to stop by my place in NY and get down and dirty with a whole bunch of Planet Waves cables and wires and did some great work with some assistance from my boys – Gianluca and Jay. Things … Read More
Tour Update
Life on the road is interesting for sure. One of the things I really don’t like about the road is waking up in the various parking lots across America (or anywhere else for that matter). Let me the share the events of a special morning with you. Detroit, Michigan, May 14th. I awoke when I decided that being cornered by … Read More
The tour begins…
Wow! The tour has begun! It was a crazy intense feeling to get things back together for the start of this leg. Not only was it the first show of the tour but it happened to be in front of 10,000 people in Mexico City. I flew out to Mexico City from NY accompanied by Mr Petrucci. I met him … Read More
Ticket info for LTE show at Bay Area Rock Festival in San Francisco!
Bay Area Rock Promotions is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Bay Area Rock Festival at the Independent in San Francisco on June 27th and 28th 2008. Liquid Tension Experiment and Jeff Scott Soto will headline the premier west coast festival for progressive and melodic music. In 1998 and 1999, Liquid Tension Experiment released two instrumental albums that set the … Read More
Piano Diary 5 – The Forum Challenge
OK people… What I did was take ALL the notes that you suggested in the order that they were received and had one of my transcribers (Jordan Baker) write it down in musical notation. Then I came up with some interesting harmonic motion which I used for this diary entry! This was a cool challenge! The order of the notes … Read More
Keyboard Magazine Rudess Masterclass Available to Purchase
Following the fantastic online masterclass held by Jordan for Keyboard Magazine, Tom Brislin who accompanied Jordan has written a short article about the experience on the Keyboard Magazine website. Read Tom’s article. For those who missed out on the web cast, you can now purchase it from the Keyboard Magazine Archive. Visit the Keyboard Magazine Archive.
Piano Diary 4
Today I did a bunch of piano practicing early in the morning after I got back from walking my younger daughter to the school bus. I have been practicing a very hard piece, so I’m actually working it out on the digital piano with the volume on very low. There is nothing worse to me then listening to me or … Read More
Piano Diary 3
Today was quite busy for me. Took some time off programming LTE stuff to explore LOGIC 8 and KOMPLETE by Native Instruments. A mix of joy and frustration occurred. The usual when getting into new technology. About half of the Komplete package is not working right yet, so I made a bunch of notes to get to the technical people … Read More
General Update and Piano Diary 2
Things are busy in JR land. I’ve been buzzing about many things here on my break and very busy with my musical endeavors. The Keyboard Magazine Webcast went very well the other day. It was exciting to do as it was a very new thing for all of us. My host was Tom Brislin who also accompanied me on some … Read More
Dream Theater's Progressive Nation 2008 TV Commercial
With the Progressive Nation 2008 tour gearing up to kick off, you can now view a commercial for the tour below! Dates for the Progressive Nation 2008 tour can be found in the Tours section of the website.