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June 25, 2003 Open Letter to all Saga Fans from Steve Negus: I think it is appropriate at this time, to let you know that these shows in July, up to the Hamilton show, (July 12th) will be my last with Saga. It is after careful consideration that I have decided to leave the band. I feel that I can no longer function within the present framework, so, it is time for me to take my leave and move on to new and different pursuits. It's not an easy move to make after twenty six years of playing together, but one, obviously, that I have to make. This is not the result of some blowout, or fight with any member of the band, but rather has to do with external circumstances that seem to be beyond my control. So, I wish the other members, Jim, Mike, Ian and Daryl, all the best, and I know that we will remain friends regardless of the state of Saga. I would also like to thank all the fans that have been so supportive over the years. Without you, none of us could have accomplished the great body of work that Saga has recorded to date.
Best wishes,
http://www.stevenegus.com/news.html
The new Ian Anderson solo album will be released in August/September
Expect a bit more on the album very soon (waiting for some artwork)
Tracklist:
Next projects will be a Christmas album, the “Rubbing Elbows” tour (Ian will drew on his experiences of radio and television appearances across the USA to bring together a unique live performance, music and talk show format.) and a tour with a symphonic orchestra. But more about that later.
EN·CORE SERIES
Longtime Real World engineer,
Ben Findlay,
is recording every show on the tour, utilizing a set-up that takes the
direct soundboard mix and also includes ambient microphones set up at
each venue to more closely recreate the sound as heard by
concertgoers.
Silent Agreement is a progressive rockband from the heart of Holland. The band officially started on March 7, 2002, when 4 members of former rockband Corinthians joined forces and began playing progressive rock, a genre that suits them better. Inspired by old bands like Pink Floyd, Rush, Marillion and also present-day bands like Dream Theater, Spock’s Beard and Pendragon, they began writing a concept story. During the writing and rehearsing it became clear that the band required a good singer to meet the needs of the music that was created.
All through the summer of 2002 several people
auditioned for this position. However nobody met the requirements. The
band decided to finish the writing process and let it flow for some
time. In October 2002 the band was offered a chance to record a demo
version of two songs at he Audio Visual Academy in Hilversum.
Fortunately they could depend on
Jai Leasa,
our keyboardplayer’s cousin to sing the male vocal lines. Jai has a
great voice and had enough experience with his former band Slammer to
do this. The song is called Burning the Revolution and gives a fair impression of the album. For people who would like to burn their own CD they also have designed a special cover that can be printed.
Look for it at http://www.silentagreement.nl FARO is a new musical project that takes shape from a collaboration of seasoned musicians. They integrate various influences and an exotic bouquet of styles and braid them all into the never-aging grand sound of Melodic Hard Rock/Metal. FARO's main-man is the charismatic lead singer Chitral "Chity" Somapala. Born in Sri Lanka to a famous musical family, his parents were well respected artists. He now lives in Germany. Chity met guitarist Frank Rohles of INNUENDO (Queen Tribute Band) during several local gigs. The styles of both musicians combined to form FARO! After several song writing sessions and jams, FARO was born. Frank plays with a unique sound, a quite distinguishable style. His musical career spans over quite a few years. He is best known as a session musician and songwriter/composer.
After recording a 6 track
demo in 2002 at Frank's Millsway Studio, FARO landed a deal with MAJOR
MTM MUSIC in Jan 2003, which is Europe's leading melodic hard rock
label. Chity contacted Bassist Peter Hahn who had been gigging with
his cover band and the theater musical "WASH." Peter brings liveliness
and pizzazz to the overall sound of FARO. His bass playing is
extraordinarily groovy, which helps to create a catchy backdrop for
the music. Listening to many diverse drummers, it struck Chity to
think of a friend he knew from his prog days. So, he contacted Daniel
Flores! Daniel is known for his tremendous and excellent drumming with
the Swedish progressive metal band MINDS EYE! He has studied sound
engineering at Stockholm music conservatory and also plays in various
musical projects.
On June 7th 2003, there was a release party at
Ducsaal Freudenburg in Germany where these pictures were shot: Transience is Lands End keyboard player Fred Hunter’s side project. On te new album, Primordial, the Lands End influence is even more pronounced as many of the tracks were recorded at the studio sessions for their new album, which is due later this year. All the other Lands End members play significant parts on this recording with Jeff McFarland contributing three compositions and co-writing two others. Guitarist Francisco Neto supplies some of his most melodic work to date, while Jeff McFarland’s vocal delivery is the perfect vehicle for his lyrics. Mark Lavallee’s easily recognised drum work compliments Fred’s great keyboard textures and bass work. Long expansive tracks with lots of instrumental work give the guys time to work their own special brand of Symphonic progressive. Not only is there over an hours worth of Transience music here there is also over 70 minutes of MP3 material of live, alternate versions and tracks initially intended for this album but replaced at a later stage in the production process. A must for all Lands End fans.
Track Listing:
1.
Heaven & Earth 2. Mind 3. Riding The Iron Rooster 4. A Stones Throw
From Nowhere 5. Hollow Gardens 6. How Lucky They Are 7. Blurring The
Margins 8. For Will Alone 9. Blurred Beyond Recognition
Fred Hunter - keyboards, bass, guitar and programming http://www.transendland.net/transience/transience.html
As
most Savatage fans know, in the early morning hours of October 17,
1993 Criss Oliva and his wife Dawn were enroute to the Livestock
Festival in Zephyrhills, Florida when tragedy struck. They were hit
head on by a drunk driver. Criss was killed and his wife Dawn suffered
severe injuries. Fans mourned the loss of one of music’s most gifted
guitar players. http://www.crissoliva.com/memorialconcert.html
Twist Of Fate (2003)
Mike Portnoy is one of the guest musicians on the EP Twist Of Fate of
John Arch
Fans of early Fates Warning, rejoice! John Arch teamed back up with Jim Matheos once again and the result, albeit short, is stellar! A Twist Of Fate employs the assistance of Joey Vera and Mike Portnoy and produces an EP of material worthy of praise from Classic Fates Warning fans and current Prog Metal fans alike. www.dreamtheater.net/disarch.htm June 15, 2003
David Paich to
miss summer tour As most of the fans have realised immediately, the last band statement regarding David Paich’s absence of the summer tour was a joke and just partially true. It is correct that David won´t be able to do the summer shows, however the band wanted to bring a lighter and more funny note to this sad news! There are already much too little laughter in the world… The band never expected that this joke would be taken so seriously, especially by the media, as it was so obvious with the used wording that it was a joke. None of the press coverage of this "story" was prefaced by any type of confirmation from any of the agencies who publicized the story. Had they called management to verify the story's validity, they would have been informed that the story was a fake. The real reason for David’s absence isn´t funny. David has to stay at home over the summer due to a serious illnes of a close family member. David will certainly be back with the band in fall for the Night of the Proms tour and the preparations for a new Toto album. As mentioned, the eminent Greg Phillinganes will replace David during the summer tour. The band apologizes if this joke has offended any one. And, a quote from Luke: "We love everyone and we are sorry it got out of control. One look at Dave and you would see it's an impossible story."
TOTO to play
Night Of The Proms
TOTO to write new
album during NOTP
TOTO DVD finished mixing On September 1st QuiXote-Music will release the new POOR GENETIC MATERIAL album "Winter's Edge". The album will contain 7 tracks with a total playing time of 52 minutes and will come with a full colour booklet created by the renowned German artist Oliver Schollenberger. The new album was written and recorded by the same line-up that already produced the very successful predecessor "Leap into Fall" featuring Alias Eye singer Philip Griffiths on vocals.
Tracklist:
Line Up: More information:
www.poorgeneticmaterial.de Generation Records/Al!ve had to delay the release date of the upcoming Progressive-concept-album „Hubi Meisel - EmOcean“ to July! But he’s allowed to offer you a little “appetizer”: The whole opener „Lost in the Waters of Sargasso“ of his new album is now available as FREE ONLINE-SINGLE on his homepage www.HubiMeisel.com
The Gathering on
Popkomm 2003
Take this opportunity!!!
The Gathering and amongst others Anouk, BLOF,
INXS, HIM, Ilse de Lange and Simple Minds on Bospop 2003
www.psychonautrecords.com
Marriage between Cirrha Niva & Pain of Salvation
Soon some of the wedding photos of this beautiful couple will be
updated at
www.cirrhaniva.nl
Cirrha Niva again goes on HALLOWEEN
tour!!!
Rock Opera show on JAMROCK Festival 2003 Keep an eye on www.cirrhaniva.nl for news and tourdates
www.Prog4you.com
is
to release its first compilation album in June 2003. This
compilation album features previously unreleased and rare tracks by
Sonus Umbra and IZZ and features a track that was written for
Prog4you.com by the progressive metal band Prymary. The sampler also
features brand new music from today's up and coming new bands like
Little Atlas and Agent Cooper as well as familiar icons like Acumen
and Persephone's Dream. This album is a good survey from today's
progressive rock scene in the USA as well as being a great collector’s
piece for the true progressive fan. 21, June, 2003 – Russian band Romislokus will be interviewed live on air by Spaceman Stan the host 'Adventures In Plasticland' radiostation FM 98.5 CKWR Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA. The best way to check the time difference from your place to Waterloo is to visit World Time Server For the latest time Romislokus were interviewed in open air of many radio specials. In Russia they haven't got such radio stations and radio shows. They decided to change some of their pseudonyms Smolnikov, Voronov, Gorelov and others to the translations of their real surnames to English language which is most wide spread and understandable around the world.
ROMISLOKUS: New song of Romislokus "Being In The Plastic Box" is available for free downloading from their site. You can find a lot of songs from Romislokus on their site. So try them out.
DVD
Tracklisting:
Canterbury Fayre 2003 (August 22-24)
Ticket prices:
June 09, 2003 Due to an increasing demand, IQ are to begin issuing a series of 'official bootlegs' comprising some of the best archive recordings from the band's personal collections. The Archive Collection will be an ongoing project, the intention being to cover the entire history of IQ, good quality recordings permitting. The money generated from this project is likely to be used for a considerably enhanced future stage show. The first release from The Archive Collection will be a soundboard recording of the concert at Colos-Saal in Aschaffenburg, Germany, on 16th February 2002. Housed in a gatefold card sleeve featuring full colour artwork, this very collectable 2-CD set will be a strictly limited edition of 2,000 copies.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Disc 2 The release date for AC 001 is planned for late June and they are now taking advance orders. The price (including postage and packing) will be: £15.00 for orders in the UK, £16.00 for Europe, £17.50 for the rest of the world. Info and order form at www.gep.co.uk/iq
Finally! After years of talking about it,
The Dream
Theater Official Bootlegs
are now available to the public! We have dug into our extensive
archives to offer you, the devoted DT fan, a chance to share with us
so many of the great memories that have helped form this band's almost
20-year career. Mike Portnoy
News from Enchant:
http://www.insideoutmusic.com/i Songs For Luca is a very special new album from Iona guitarist Dave Bainbridge and his wife Debbie. All proceeds from this album will go towards helping Dave and Debbie's autistic son Luca overcome the challenges that autism bring to his life using the Son-Rise Programme, (Autism Treatment Centre of America). A home-based, parent-led programme in a special playroom where Luca is loved and respected in a non-judgemental environment. This double CD features 26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of 'Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001' and 'Beijing - widescreen remix' from IONA and other unreleased tracks from Dave Bainbridge, Bainbridge & Fitzgerald ('live' in Norwich Cathedral - 1998), The Flower Kings, Frank van Essen, Nick Beggs and Debbie Bainbridge - some of these especially written for Luca).
Also features tracks by Rick Wakeman, Maire Brennan, Karnataka, Eden's
Bridge, Joanne Hogg, Troy Donockley, Peter Fairclough Group, Mae
McKenna, Terl Bryant, Jeff Johnson, Gentle Giant, Adrian Snell and
Julie Tippetts. The double CD will be priced at UK £15.99 inc P+P and
is available from the Iona website at
www.iona.uk.com
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