Taking On The World
Tucked away in an inconspicuous industrial park in the centre of Long Island, New York, is Dream Theater’s newly renovated bolthole. In the space of a mere 18 months, this studio/rehearsal space has been the setting for the recording of Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci’s solo album, the third Liquid Tension Experiment album, and, in October 2020, where Dream Theater reunited to record their latest album, A View From The Top Of The World.
“My solo album, , was the first thing that I actually did in there,” recalls Petrucci. “It proved we could make a record here and for me, at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, it kept my sanity because it’s only about 20 minutes from my house. So, it became my office and I’d go there every day to work on the record and do the thing that I love, which is to play the guitar and be creative. We knew that we could record there and that it would sound awesome. It’s nice being in a space where you’re not worried about hourly overheads, which
