JORDAN RUDESS

PHILIP WILDING

Permission To Fly INSIDEOUTMUSIC Dream Theater man and former Enid singer bring the pomp and prog. It’s only fitting that a man who’ll utilise anything from a keytar, to a Steinway grand piano and the Moog Polyphonic Synth should enlist a singer just as willing to push the creative envelope in order to get the final performance he wants. By his own admission, Jordan Rudess knew nothing of Joe Payne – formerly frontman with The Enid, now operating under the name of That Joe Payne – when they first met on a prog cruise, only for the Dream Theater keyboard player to be hugely impressed by the British singer’s incredible voice and megawatt charisma. “It works despite the unlikely mix of people involved.” Payne is only the tip of the…

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