ANESTHETIZE

One of the best live rock concerts in the last decade. This captured the band during their "Fear of a Blank Planet" tour in 2010 and was the last great PT album from the creative mind of Steven Wilson. After this album they released "The Incident" which was not well received by the public and Steven broke up the band. I think he felt the band had run its course and he wanted to work with other musicians. He has now had a 10 year career as a solo artist, and I don't think Porcupine Tree will ever reunite. He wants players that like jazz and PT was a rock outfit. His solo albums are good but there is something special in the porcupine tree catalog that he has not been a able to replicate with his current bands. PT produced an anesthetic which was melancholy yet blissful. The band had a message and it resonated with people from the 90's to the 2000's. I saw them in concert several times in NYC at the theater in Times Square and it was phenomenal music. They actually sounded better live than on record (or the studio). I never heard a band so tight and well equipped to deliver. One of the best concerts they gave was in the late 2000's which they had Kings X open for them. Mind blowing. If you remember the glory days, you are blessed.