Title: OVER-RATED
Product review: I don't have a large budget to spend on progressive rock CDs, so when I plunk my money down, it had better be good from start to finish or else it gets dumped on Ebay. Sadly, this one is Ebay-bound.After the initial excitement of the hot playing wore off, I realized that for every killer riff, there is an equal amount of aimless noodling that goes absolutely nowhere. But such is the nature of "improvised" music, as this purports to be. If you were to get together with your band and jam for an hour, there would be some sparks of brilliance which you would extract and build a song around. There would also be a whole lot of mediocre junk which would remain on the shelf.In the interests of being extreme, Petrucci (guitar) and Levin (stick bass) also occasionally wring some horrifically ugly sounds out of their instruments.The second LTE album is more focused. Actually, if you combined the best tracks from both albums, you'd have one killer disc!!!
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