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Just in case anyone is interested, there was a line-up change on the Progressive Nation (Dream Theater) tour ... :(

For Immediate Release
June 22nd, 2009

It is with the utmost disappointment that I am forced to share the unfortunate news of both Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish having to pull out of this summer's Progressive Nation tour....

Their label Inside Out just recently lost the financial funding for the tour as a result of their distributor SPV recently claiming bankruptcy...which effectively meant that both Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish lost the tour support that was essential to their ability to come to North America for Progressive Nation.

All parties involved (myself, both bands, Inside Out, etc) are beyond devastated at this turn of events and are truly sorry to all of the fans that were looking forward to this lineup. We tried everything we could do to salvage the situation, but in the end it was not possible...

Well as the album title says, every Black Cloud does indeed have a Silver Lining....so with this unfortunate news, I bring to you the good news of 2 incredible bands that will be jumping on board Progressive Nation to join Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa this summer: Bigelf and Scale The Summit.

Los Angeles' Bigelf are my personal favorite new band to come along in many years...their latest CD "Cheat The Gallows" is my favorite album of the year and I already had positioned them onto the European run of Progressive Nation in the Fall....with them now joining us on PN09 in North America as well, it looks like world domination is now not that far out of reach for them!
Pretty soon, everyone will hopefully be falling for their retro, psychedelic, progressive, hard rock, doom metal as hard as I have!

Houston instrumental band Scale The Summit are a recent discovery for me and their top notch musicianship will be a perfect fit to this Progressive Nation lineup stylistically falling very nicely between the musicality of Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa. They bring the instrumental elements of prog rock and fusion into today's contemporary hard rock/metal sounds and are one of the most talented group of young musicians I've seen assembled in many years.

Once again, apologies to anybody disappointed in this unexpected and unavoidable lineup change...but the circumstances were beyond our control...
In any event, PN09 will carry on and still deliver the most musical bang for its buck this summer throughout North America and we look forward to sharing the evening with you!

Sincerely,
Your Progressive Rock Ambassador,
Mike Portnoy
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LATruth said:
TOOL is definitely "progressive rock", one of their main influences being "The Mars Volta", which hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet.
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Wait, did you mean Tool is an influence on The Mars Volta?? The Mars Volta started in 2001, but some of the members came from At the Drive-in... The Mars Volta is actually one of my favorite bands, At the Drive-in is really amazing as well. My roommate in college was the drummer for a band that was very heavily influenced by these two bands.. I'm gonna need to upload my friend's stuff to youtube some day cause you can't really find it around anymore.



YouTube - The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (the haunt of)


YouTube - At The Drive-In - Quarantined
 
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teacherone said:
saw porcupine tree last night in frankfurt. le. seen them twice now and they are fucking unbelievable live--far better than on record. recommend them to all.

http://www.porcupinetree.com/
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I saw them live once. Must have been the In Absentia tour. Pretty good, but I was not familiar enough with the songs yet. Was hoping for more from Signify. They have changed a bit since then, better than ever!

Time for some vids:

Newer stuff:

YouTube - PORCUPINE TREE (Live/HQ) - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Older stuff:

YouTube - Porcupine Tree: Every Home Is Wired
 
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