IF THERE WERE an award for the most active guitar player over the past year or so, it might just belong to Dream Theater virtuoso John Petrucci. His second solo album (Terminal Velocity) arrived in 2020, some 15 years after his debut, and now he’s ready to unveil the third Liquid Tension Experiment album (Liquid Tension Experiment 3), which arrives 22 years after its predecessor and features Tony Levin, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and, of course, Petrucci. Clearly, good things come to those who wait.
You’ve definitely been keeping busy during the lockdown.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August 2021 من Guitar World.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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