Classical Composer Reacts to Rhapsody in Blue (Liquid Tension Experiment) | The Daily Doug (Ep. 121)
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In this edition of #TheDailyDoug, I'm reacting to Rhapsody in Blue. This is the brand new studio recording by Liquid Tension Experiment of their cover of George Gershwin's classic 1924 composition. It's an astounding musical achievement. Wow!
The first 10 minutes of the video has background info on the original piece and composer. Go to 11:39 to go straight to the reaction.
Reference Video: • Rhapsody in Blue
Reference Video: • Gershwin Plays Rhapsod... - เพลง
Just lettin ya know Mike Portnoy watched this video! :D He Tweeted about it a while ago, awesome.
Oh, you're right! Quoting Mike:
1. The intro is Tony on the Chapman Stick (not JP on guitar)
2. We created this arrangement of RiB for LTE’s 2008 shows BEFORE BC&SL, so THIS middle section is what inspired TCOT (not visa versa)
I jammed with Mike Portnoy once...one of my top 3 moments in my musicial life...
@@johnrader5725 you lie
@@petruccifanboi no, I was at a guitar center in Smyrna Georgia, I was trying out basses
There was a drummer setting up a drum set...
I'd play my weird off time stuff and he would play along with me...
I would stop to try a different bass
Or he'd stop to make adjustments...
Turned out it was Mike Portnoy there to put on a drum clinic...
@@johnrader5725 Awesome man , bet it was a memorable time for you! I am just jealous :D
I got see Octavarium. I'll keep recommending until the day I die
I agree! From 16’ octavarium mood is so alive!
Best song Dream Theater have ever made!!!!
Octavarium? So gay
@@Juzernejmnakurov2 🤣🤣🤣
Why is your head the lex bus mate?
Tony Levin on Chapman Stick is the instrument at the beginning (I believe).
I thought it was Petrucci tapping, but you’re right.
You are correct, Sir!!
He is indeed a master of the Stick. He plays bass for Peter Gabriel on his Secret World tour, which is up there with the very best live music performances.
@@donepearce and don’t forget King Crimson.
@Jim Bianco did I say he was the best?
18:44 Love that little bit of Elephant Talk Tony snuck in there.
Holy shit
Bicker bicker bicker BRUHAHA
*I knew that was the reference!*
*prog as it's finest*
18:44 is a King Crimson quote of ELEPHANT TALK. Tony Levin was in the 80s Crimson and still is in the band
He's done some awesome work with Peter Gabriel as well, the entirety of Gabriel's solo career in fact.
@@Dan-C-71 Yeah, Fripp and Gabriel also were close and worked together. All those dudes are connected. Hackett was inspired in his gtr playing by Fripp for example.
@@HerbalistGuybrush Really good musicians listen to other really good musicians. And why not?
@@rk41gator I have no agenda dude
@@HerbalistGuybrush ?
I love how there's no pretentiousness about this. I'm sure there's some classical guys who would turn their nose up at some prog guys playing a classic rhapsody, but you loved it and weren't embarrassed about that at all. I'm the opposite - a rock, prog and metal focused drummer who has basically zero classical background.
I don't know why TH-cam recommended this video to me, but I'm glad it did.
Classical + blues = metal
@@onearthonelegion meh, depends on the metal.
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That's okay, Gershwin originally intended this to be a jazz piece.
th-cam.com/video/0IsQ29EL6tA/w-d-xo.html
@@onearthonelegion Classical + blues = Prog Rock
Doug: “This video could be 2 or 3 hours long”
Me: let’s go 👍
The first Liquid Tension Experiment album was supposedly recorded in less than a week. Unfreakinbelievable the talent that was assembled and the fruit that it bore. Both albums are just so disgustingly incredible. Acid Rain is without a doubt, in my mind, one of the absolutely best songs that showcase every single instrument equally in a single song.
Tony Levin, the bassist of LTE was interviewed by Thomann and he said that the intro's clarinet was replaced by him on the chapman's stick.
Edit: also if I remember correctly, when LTE reunited for touring in 2007 they played rhapsody in blue and the count of tuscany's mellow part was inspired by it.
Actually that mellow section in the middle is an excerpt of a live recording of that tour in 07'. John Petrucci talked about how hard it would be to recreate it in the studio so they just inserted it from the live recording
Yes, it was a chapman stick.
@@aaronhenning5184 Oh shit really? You'd never know!
@@aaronhenning5184
Which section is that? Petrucci's three minutes solo between sections after 10th minute???
@@MnyFrNthng yes
My mom used to play this a lot!!
I'm 60 years old now and remember
It so vividly... LTE kills it on this. Also,
I'm total Dream Theater fan since
their first album from 1989.
Thanks for this Doug!! Subbed.
Best name
@M. Alwi Mujahid are you?
58 here, been a fan since buying "When Dream and Day Unite" on LP when it debuted (still have it). A Progger since 1977, and Metalhead since 1981. And I guess a Prog Metaller since 1985-86 (Thanks Queensryche & Fates Warning).
Fan of Gershwin and Dream Theater.What magic is this?!?!?
I feel like there's actually a decent amount of crossover between prog metal fans and classical fans. I know Gershwin and DT are definitely among my favorite artists, anyway.
@@DaMastaMynd There is between fans, but there really isn't between the music itself.
@@DaMastaMynd I absolutely agree! I most definitely feel there's a prodigious and proggy attitude to this particular Gershwin composition anyway and of course, DT is a very capable band and I'm nothing but stoked that they would seek to cover something as exciting and interesting as 'Rhapsody'
Can't tell you how amazing it is to hear these folks playing together again.
Mike Portnoy said that they had written this arrangement before they started recording the album that the Count of TUscany was on and he definitely used this section in that song.
I'm sure these guys were big into Gershwin and this song especially because John and Mike Portnoy are both from New York, went to Berklee, and Jordan went to Juilliard so they know their classical pieces
My dad was an audiophile when I was growing up ( 50's and 60's) and this piece was one of the standout things he used to play on his a lot.
I was going to say it sounds like an updated version of the original, until I realized it is really makes it contemporary New York, exactly like the the original was a contemporary New York. Very true the the FEEL of the time of original. A sort of now is now ( if you get what I mean).
Prog Rock is just the natural evolution of classical music concepts. Most of the original Prog Rock bands were heavily classically trained, so you really can't separate the two musical universes without calling it something else.
This REALLY reminds me of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer...
Thanks for doing this! Been listening to this a lot lately, so it's great to have your context to go with it.
Love the history lesson! Amazed you kept the video to
I can't stop listening to the recording of this song and the album for that matter. I love all of the information you covered about the original, all the musical theory and your reaction in this video. Big thumbs up from me!
Another great video, Doug!! So much info of the background of this piece!! Great!! LTE is amazing and they do a great job not only in this cover but in their own material too. Thank you so much again for the very "educational time" with great music!!! Well done!! All the best!!
Please, I want Rush's hemispheres reaction, is the best!
I've been waiting 22 years for this new album...
What a piece !
What a reference to music (any genre) !
4 virtuosos !
Thx for this reaction !
You can always tell when someone is really passionate about teaching. Thanks for all the great context!
Great reaction Doug! Very informative as usual. Really does make you want to play both versions.
John Myung and James Labrie should record an album as a duet named Solid Relaxation Experiment
Hey Doug, loving your content, especially the history and what to think about before starting the listen. Best music react channel out there!
I was waiting to see your reaction at 22:00 perfect 😆 I LOOOOVED that part when I first heard it. Great video!!
Wow.....metalhead here that discovered this song in 1989 by chance...version was Los Angeles SO wtith conductor Leonard Bernstein...it changed me....and for the better. So wonderful to hear modern interpretation
Return to Forever : "Romantic Warrior" feat. Al DiMeola, Lenny White, Stanley Clarke Chick Corea (rip) - phenomenal fusion)
Spock's Beard : "Snow" (full concept album... amazing, and a sleeper classic)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : "Suite__Judy Blue Eyes"
Snow is a big shout, love that. Such a phenomenal, victorious finale.
I've watched several Doug videos, and Romantic Warrior by Return To Forever is EXACTLY what I was thinking as well.
I still haven't decided which album by Frank Zappa... Perhaps The Grand Wazoo - Cletus Awreetus Awrightus deserves listening.
Also - after his reaction to Suppers Ready, he's ready to be introduced to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - all four sides over the course of 4 consecutive days...although one session really is the best way to appreciate it.
Dude if you like this you NEED to react to Octavarium. You NEED to. You NEED to!
he did
That was great! Besides the reaction to the song itself, we got a whole lot of a background on the brilliant Gershwin's piece and that's the kind of stuff that separates this from other reaction channels. We really learn more about the music after watching these videos.
FINALLY!! I was waiting for this reaction for ages....THANKS
It's just a joy to watch your reactions and to listen to your comments keep up the good work
So happy to see LTE on this channel, hope to see more!
I missed this video when first posted. Caught up when browsing. this was great! I have LTE 1 and 2 on CD already, so LTE 3 just got added to my wish-list...
Well, that brought a smile to my face. Whoever recommended this...you guys have TASTE! Thanks Doug (your face is an absolute picture while you're listening to this BTW).
Love the background about the piece Doug! I played this in high school once on trumpet 3, and another time on percussion 👍👍
I never knew I needed this. Thank you so much!
I haven't watched the video yet but I listened to this song a few days ago and it blew me away. Very excited to watch you go through it and break it down.
I went back and listened to the original before I listened to LTE’s take on it. It was worth the time.
Doug, I enjoy your analysis as much as I enjoy the songs you analyze. I’m not theory savvy, but the way you describe theory and chord progressions are fascinating. You’re knowledge of music history, and context are free education!
Huge respect for you!
Thanks for another great video!
Informative introduction about Rhapsody in Blue. Great reaction Doug, thank you.
Hi. First time watching one of your videos. I'm a huge LTE fan and this video was very informative and insightful. Thanks.
Yes. I requested this recently and so happy you’ve done it.
Great content. Loved it.
Keep up the good work.
I love so much how you enjoyed the piece, how you're into it, man!
Beautiful version. It brings back memories of me turning the pages of Rhapsody in blue for son when he young. Thanks for introducing me to LTE.
I recently had surgery and was surfing youtube and happened upon your channel! I am a big prog fan and this track is my favorite on the new LTE LP. I have also enjoyed your videos on YES and RUSH! Thank you! ✌
Bless you my friend. You are one of those who really understand what its all about. Kudos to you my friend.
Absolutely wonderful. Glad LTE is back!
What an incredible recording. I will definitely purchase this album
I am so glad I got to hear my first tune off this album with you.
Love your enthusiasm and your introduction really made this worth while.
Been too long since liquid tension experiment got an airing.
I miss hearing portnoy and petrucci together.
Wonderful video.
Thank you for brightening up my evening here in Dublin.
Ps.
LOVE THE MAIDEN VIDEOS.
UP THE IRONS!
Great insight and background info!
Love your attitude and insight.
Yeah! Finally LTE! I Knew you’d like them! Great reaction video 🤘
Great review. This must be one of your best, illustrating the history and recognizing accomplished rock musicians. Fabulous and lovely reinterpretation. Classics should be played and enjoyed by every generation. If one covers a great piece of music it is nice to respect it, ala Disturb's treatment of 'Sound of Silence'. But this goes to another level!
I don’t have to be a trained musician or composer to love Mike. John, Jordan and Tony. Loved their music as a plebeian for many years.
Amazing video. This was my fav piece off the new album, and I didn't know anything about the original.
This is pretty sweet! I grew up playing Gershwin's preludes on the piano. Melding of classical jazz, progressive, and classical music. Nice!
That intro wasn’t a guitar. That’s the Chapman Stick on the melody side. The guitar joins a few bars in with the wah pedal 😊
Fiirst! Loved LTE3, waited soooo long for it 😊
Thanks for this, I like all the info before the pieces play, very interesting 😎🤟
Im so glad you got to Liquid Tension
Doug, you are just terrific company on this reaction, just an absolute joy to rock out and share the music in your presence!
LTE stayed true to the spirit of the original while also taking some creative and improvisational liberties. Nothing short of a masterpiece rendition of a classic.
I can see Doug's enthusiasm just with the long explanation at the beggining! A classic and modern prog collision
Beautiful! Gershwin, would be pleased!!
Great background information. When the Water Breaks and Biaxident are two songs that I'd really like that you look into.
Have you waited long enough! You were digging the history lesson so much that I didn't see the time pass!
Something from genesis would be incredible, of course Supper's Ready would be the bomb!
Yeah, man, I totally subscribe to this. Or Watcher of the Skies with the intro, the fountain of salmacis, the epic parts in The lamb, a big etcetera :-). I just joined the channel and was about to make this suggestion, glad I went through the comments first!
I second Supper's Ready.
Live from 1975 i think. Best version i ever saw on youtube may be bataclan
Agreed. I cant stop listening to lamb lies down. Past 2 weeks. I carry my speaker and blast in public too. Lmao
Absolutely agreed. Doug, Genesis time!
Do "When the Water Breaks"!!!! :) (LTE 2)
Especially the live in LA video. Unreal live performance
Great reaction and lecture, great track !!
Great channel. You're also the person with the best English pronunciation I've ever heard. I'm Spanish (from Spain, the other side of the world...). Congratulations.
I had no idea of the origin of this one. thanks for the background
Do the illumination theory with DT live from boston operahouse🤟
^^^ THIS!
YES!!!!!
This makes sense as the next one ..yess
Great suggestion
Totally agreed, though octavarium should go first
Hi Doug, as a huge Rush and Dream Theater fan... and a former member of marching bands and orchestras.. I am DIGGING your channel! Thank you!
that "Cool" at the end XDD 25:06
very funny and yet really interesting reactions, really love this :D Gonna definetely watch the other vids
Makes me so happy to hear Tony Levin, can’t believe he is 74!
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Levin, he was a guest at my hotel, such a lovely and humble person.
I met Tony once (circa 2000/2001) when he was touring with the California Guitar Trio... nice guy! I've since seen him perform with King Crimson & Peter Gabriel... awesome bassist!!
Absolutely brilliant!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻❤️
Really enjoying all these videos. Hearing the impressions of a professional in fields so distant from his own is quite intriguing.
You could also check Stickmen, Tony Levin's band, a three man piece with Pat Mastelotto on drums, Markus Reuter on guitar and Tony Levin on the bass. They made a pretty creative cover of Firebird Suite on their Soup album.
How did I never know about Liquid Tension Experiment's Rhapsody in Blue? Back when I played a ton of clarinet that was always my favorite iconic solo to play, it was one of my favorite concert experiences when I got to play lead clarinet with the solos and one of my friends played the intensely difficult piano part, and I never knew that one of my favorite prog groups covered it. Why can't that appear in my recommendations? I'm really glad that I discovered this piece through your video Doug because I don't think TH-cam would have put it in front of me otherwise.
Great video! Thanks!
This reaction put me in tears. I love these guys, and George Gershwin was one of the first composers I ever was exposed to.
My God that was unbelievably good.
Rubina's Blue Sky happiness would be Satriani circles as well would be great
I couldn't agree more!! ...And "Time" ...And "Crying"
love that song
Echo
I love your channel. Keep it up
21:40 That drums though！
Lord, have I been waiting for this!!!!
WOW! Absolutely outstanding! I was cheering towards the end! Rick Wakeman also does a version of this on his album “Rhapsodies” from 1980
I'm so glad you said that about Count of Tuscany. Was the first thing I thought of when this part came around. it's almost the same guitar melody at the beginning of the phrase.
i love you man. you are my new favorite youtube person :)
Hey Doug, I think it's time you listened to "When The Water Breaks" (studio, if possible).
This is the grand daddy of anything LTE has ever recorded (in my opinion, and most). This is their magnum opus. We do hope you take a listen real soon!
Exactly .. the best song LTE ever wrote
I’m a DT fan but also a big fan of Gershwin stuff. I’ve heard a lot of versions from different eras of this piece. I never thought I’d like a rock version of RIB, but this is fantastic. Gotta check out the new LTE album.
Thanks for the lesson!
Dude! Jjust last week I was recommending a particular performance of Rhapsody in Blue to a friend who was gushing over The Four Seasons by Vivaldi! I actually had to go check because I made a request on your last Devin Townsend video and it was a toss up between that or Snarky Puppy - Lingus, apparently I flipped a coin and settled on Lingus! But anyway, I'm super excited to check this out. Thanks for sharing with us!
Lingus is perfect for reacting. Cory's solo is the defining keyboard solo of the last 10yrs imo
I'd love to see him react to Lingus. Even ignoring that solo, there's a lot of great stuff going on. But that solo definitely elevates it to something way more.
I didn't know this was a cover. Thanks!
Well, it's 11.20pm here in the UK, I was about to go to bed...a 29 minute Daily Doug? Why the hell not!
Edit: Man, I wish I had this level of internet when I did my History of Music degree back in '95
The quick availability of music recordings these days is a true game changer. Thanks for making my vid your nightcap!
Hi Doug, thanks for the videos!! Enjoy them thoroughly, despite some difficulty with the more technical comments, but see that as a chance to learn.
LTE use to play RiB in their live concerts back in 99, I think. There is a box set that contains some of these lives performances (in video).
Thanks again.
Liquid Tension Experiment use to play Rhapsody in Blue in their live concerts back in 2008.
Appreciated the comparison with The Count Of Tuscany on the interlude! Apparently, that section was first composed for this arrangement for the 2008 LTE tour. It then inspired the similar section in TCoT that next year.
Jordan , Mike , Tony all monsters and in charge of their instruments .... a master class in music
15:39: "I'm trying not to stop the piece and let the whole thing just sort of flow..." [ad pops up] :-D