Haiti Projekt - Progressive Rock For Charity

The Haiti Projekt is officially available. Pindral has donated a track from our upcoming album. This is an effort to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster that occurred this January 2010. With a death toll estimated to be more than 200,000 with over 300,000 injured and millions without homes, food or water, the need for humanitarian help is immense. The Haiti Projekt is a compilation of 40 songs donated by famous and not-so-famous prog bands from around the globe. Please consider donating and getting some great music as an added bonus! Thanks. Click on the banner below to go to the official Haiti Projekt website.

Still Recording!

We've been making some good progress on recording. Lately we've been trying to do some rehearsing on the next tunes we want to record drums. Looks like next week we're ready to lay down the drum parts for the fifth of seven track we plan for the CD.

Back To Recording

This past week has ushered in a return to recording our first CD. A loose plan has been put in place. Avalanche has been nominated as the first tune we want to try completing. Since it's an instrumental and one of our oldest songs, that we know well, the thought is that it'd be good one help us get the smooth out any issues with the recording/overdubbing process. So far so good! Drums and bass tracks are down. Acoustic guitar and keys have been worked on too.

-Steve

Videos from our opening set for Fish

Here's a couple songs we performed at The Fox Theatre on June 12, 2008. Avalanche and Dark One:


Avalanche Live @ The Fox Theatre 6-12-08 from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.


Dark One Live @ The Fox Theatre 6-12-08 from Steve Navarre on Vimeo.

Pindral Pics from The Fox Theatre

We now have a couple cool collections of pics from our set taken by friends Dave Chambers and Kurt Brown. There's an album by each on my Photo Site.

Fish w/ C.A.R.S. T-shirt

During our sound check Jamie gave Fish the Colorado Art Rock Society T-shirt he's wearing at the meet and greet in Milwaukee. Cool!

FISH Show was fantastic!

Was a LONG day. Things went well though. Amazingly enough the Fox's stage was able to accommodate both band's gear. The folks at The Fox are an amazing bunch to work with...very professional and generous. We didn't get to really hang with Fish or many of the band members, but did get to watch their sound check and some brief exchanges with those guys. Favorite Fish moment was when we were doing sound check he came across the stage on the way to the greenroom and exclaimed sarcastically, "Jesus f*cking Christ, do you need all those f*cking drums!" (we had Jamie's drum kit, their drum kit and Scott's percussion rig up on stage) and gave us one of those classic big Fish grins. Jamie presented him with a Colorado Art Rock Society t-shirt...he thought it was cool.

Larry battled his way through his cold/lung infection (I think he drank about 6 gallons of various juices in the days before the show along with other remedies) enough to be able to perform his singing duties on Court of The Crimson Schizoid Man (which he did wonderfully) and Gretchen managed to make it to the theater just as we were to start doing song run throughs during sound check. (She was in Detroit on business earlier in the day).


Fish's set was fantastic! He really is quite the performer still and the band was very solid. His set blended selections mostly from Clutching at Straws and The 13th Star.

I'm guessing there was over 200 people there...not bad for a show like this on a Thursday night.

Our set seemed to be well received and we gave away over 50 free Pindral live CD samplers. Jamie looked stunning decked out in his kilt too!


I have a bunch more pics on my photo website.