Prog Fetish

At the time of this post (Sunday noon), Geoff’s website has apparently been hijacked. His homepage reads “Your system owned by Scream”, and then something about Turkish hackers. Apparently Geoff’s not alone. If you google “hacked by scream”, you’ll learn this is a pretty common hacker exploit targeting the Joomla CMS.

Iconoclastic fusion visionary and master violinist, Jean-Luc Ponty turns 65 years young today
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Yes, you read right, Ambrosia will headline the Rights of Spring Festival Friday, May 2nd. How cool is that? Also scheduled to appear are Blind Ego, Ritual, Circa, Credo and Black Bonzo. More bands will be announced soon.
But let’s get back to Ambrosia… If your only impression of them is the 80’s soft-rock version (”How [...]

Riverside have announced tour dates for the first leg of their European tour supporting their new CD Rapid Eye Movement. The release schedule is as follows: Europe on September 28th, and the USA on October 9th. Order your copy from InsideOut Music.
And now about those dates…
0.10 - Hayal Kahvesi Beyoglu - Istambul (TUR)
31.10 - Hayal [...]

It’s been out for just a few days and he’s surely sold through those first 1000 autographed copies. Autographed or not, the CD will surely be Chapman Stick heaven. Get yours here.
This CD, quite unlike others of Tony’s, features the Chapman Stick in both instrumental and [...]

From the Topix.net Prog-Rock forum comes a request from a member of Diagonal:
Forgive the shameless ’self-promotion’, but I’d like to get people’s opinions if they feel like it on this band. I am in said band, we’re big prog fans & it’d be cool if other “Proggers” :) would like to take a listen. We’re [...]

There’s new merchandise from Peter Gabriel’s “Warm Up” tour at the Womad online shop.
Also, Peter has just posted an “update” video for September, view it here. And, what the hell, here’s a little video goodness from 1977…
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