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The second incarnation of Liquid Trio Experiment happened unexpectedly while playing a concert in Chicago, IL on June 25, 2008.

In the beginning of their set, Jordan Rudess ' keyboard started playing half steps every fourth key.

At the end of playing Universal Mind, he went off stage to talk to the tech crew to see if it could be fixed.

In the meantime, the other three musicians on stage continued to play, improvising for what turned out to be the rest of the concert.

Rudess was on the phone with Roland for most of the time, and finally realized the keyboard was unfixable in that time, so he came onstage and took Petrucci's guitar to jam with the band.

Petrucci took Levin's bass, and Levin joined in on Chapman Stick.

Toward the end of the show, Charlie Benante from the band Anthrax came and played drums while Portnoy played bass.

This entire improvised concert was released in 2009 as When the Keyboard Breaks: Live in Chicago.