In 2005 Mike Portnoy and Neal Morse were working on Neal\'s \"Question Mark\" album.

During that process Mike asked Neal if he had any extra Transatlantic footage to use for bonus material for a DVD. The drummer seemed to think it was a good idea to release the two Transatlantic videos (\"Building the Bridge\" and \"Live in America\") on one DVD with some bonus footage.

Neal agreed and went into his secret vault (his garage) and produced a few amusing outtakes from the recording sessions.

The release was only supposed to take a few months to put together. However, things went different. The musicians of Transatlantic comment on their web site:

\"Ha! After several months it was ready to be released when \"stop the presses\" we discovered the audio was wrong for the \"Live in America\" section! No one could figure out what happened or why it was wrong so Neal contacted Mr. Stolt who said \"Oh, the audio was never right in the first place, I\'d really like to re-do it!\" So, Roine found the original audio and fixed it up nice and now we have a brand new Transatlantic DVD.\"

For those who don\'t know, Transatlantic is Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater on drums, Neal Morse (ex-Spock\'s Beard) on keys and vocals, Roine Stolt of the Flower Kings on guitar and Pete Trewavas of Marillion on bass.

\"Building the Bridge\" is a two hour documentary that takes you through every part of the making of the classic prog album \"Bridge Across Forever\". From the writing process at Neal Morse\'s house to Mike Portnoy\'s amazing drum cam footage, to Roine Stolt\'s stunning guitar work and Pete Trewavas\' spot on bass playing, you\'ll get to see and hear the music that made it onto this amazing album, and some that was left behind.

\"Live in America\" was recorded in Philadelphia in June of 2000. This two hour concert captures the emotion that is Transatlantic. This is a full documentation of the band in their first year featuring performances from their first album, plus jams and classic covers. The DVD is NTSC region free.

With a bit of bonus stuff this DVD clocks in at approximately 4 hours!

The \"Building The Bridge\" and \"Live In America\" 2DVD is available on Radiant Records.