Thirty years later, I still play my Moog synthesizers and they continue to blow my mind. He was a really kind and wonderful guy. He changed so many people's lives.
"Jordan Rudess" is an American virtuoso keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal/progressive rock/rock band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.
More Jordan Rudess on Wikipedia.Those two Liquid Tension albums introduced me to Dream Theater fans. And it helped ease my joining a bit.
Everybody brings something to the table, and we don't pretend not to have other influences, ... For instance, with the big title track -- which I'm very proud of and think is one of Dream Theater's best compositions -- I dug pretty deep into my background in Genesis and Yes and wanted to bring some of those flavors forward.
I had done two albums with the Liquid Tension Experiment, and both were interesting compared to Dream Theater, because with those we didn't have the window or the parameters of what Dream Theater is.
We had just come off of making [2003's] 'Train of Thought,' which was a very heavy album.
I know Dream Theater fans can be extremely possessive of this group. There were some fans that liked me joining, and I'm sure there were some who wanted to run screaming into the night.
Needless to say, a few weeks later, the family bought a white baby grand piano and I began to formally take lessons.
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