Friday, March 30, 2007

Rogues' Gallery Playlist March 29th, 2007 - Show #196 - Progressive Rock Podcast

Here's the long awaited debut of Knight Area's fantastic new CD "Under a New Sign". Find another sweet Easter egg hidden in the show somewhere!

Awakening, the amazing debut by The Reasoning is now available: http://tinyurl.com/249gcp

1. Frost* - No Me, No You (6:05)
2. Talk Talk - Tomorrow Started (7:51)
3. Porcupine Tree - Bornlivedieintro (Live) (1:25)
4. Porcupine Tree - Signify (Live) (5:28)
5. Porcupine Tree - Is...NOT (LIve) (6:09)
6. Porcupine Tree - Not Beautiful Anymore (Live) (9:39)
7. The Reasoning - Awakening (6:49)
8. The Reasoning - Chasing Rainbows (6:06)
9. Alistair Henry - Momentary Dementia News - Frans (4:38)
10. Gazpacho - Upside Down (9:41)
11. Gazpacho - Valerie's Friend (6:29)
12. Gazpacho - Massive Illusion (13:37)

13. Knight Area - Mastermind (6:16)
14. Knight Area - Courteous Love (7:07)
15. Knight Area - Dreamweaver (7:38)
16. Knight Area - A Different Man, Part II (12:57)
17. Knight Area - Under A New Sign (5:42)

18. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man (4:38)
19. Sylvan - Encounters Suite (40:05)
20. Marillion - Memory of Water (Live Smoke) (6:34)
21. Marillion - Slainte Mhath (Live Smoke) (5:43)
22. Marillion - Garden Party (Live Smoke) (7:51)
23. Alan Morse - Major Buzz (6:07)
24. Daryl Stuermer - Striker (4:52)
25. The Reasoning - Playing The Game (4:13)
26. The Reasoning - Shadows Of The Mind (7:18)
27. The Reasoning - Within Cold Glass (4:42)
28. Manning - Jack Roberts (1699-1734) (6:38)

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Friday, March 23, 2007

Rogues' Gallery Playlist March 22nd, 2007 - Show #195 - Progressive Rock Podcast

More new Amarok, PFM, Thought Chamber, and h natural live off the DVD. There's also a mega-cool Easter egg hidden in there for those intrepid enough to find it!

1. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Agua Azul (3:53)
2. Thought Chamber - Accidently on Purpose (4:52)
3. Donald Fagen - Springtime (5:06)

4. Porcupine Tree - Dark Origins [Demo Version] (6:54)
5. Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter (8:52)
6. Porcupine Tree - Even Less (14:08)
7. Porcupine Tree - Stars Die (5:01)

8. The Third Ending - Back Home (6:16)
9. The Third Ending - Tungsten Blues (4:52)

10. Amarok - Xiongmao I (1:13)
11. Amarok - Wendigo (7:11)
12. Amarok - Duet for Hang and Bass (2:09)
13. Amarok - Xiongmao II (0:41)

14. Alistair Henry - Momentary Dementia News (6:14)

15. Blackfield - My Gift of Silence (4:04)
16. Blackfield - Where is my Love? (2:59)
17. Blackfield - End of the World (5:13)

18. Gazpacho - Chequered Light Buildings (6:34)
19. Gazpacho - Massive Illusion (13:37)
20. Sylvan - So Easy (8:19)
21. Sylvan - Belated Gift (4:07)
22. Sylvan - Given - Used - Forgotten (12:55)
23. Sylvan - This World Is Not For Me (8:20)

24. The Road - The Gift (4:32)
25. Ghost Circus - Trick Of The Light (9:42)
26. Aaron English - Crossing the Desert, Crossing the Sea (4:01)
27. Aaron English - Message in a Bottle (4:25)
28. Chris Brown - Forward Movement (3:55)

29. Anathema - Shroud of Frost (7:31)
30. Pink Floyd - Terminal Frost (6:17)
31. Frost* - Hyperventilate (7:31)
32. Marillion - See It Like A Baby (4:32)
33. Laura Meade - Charming (2:49)
34. Ghost Circus - Send/Return (7:56)

35. h - Runaway (5:10)
36. h - It's Too Late (3:46)
37. h - The Whole of the Moon (3:22)
38. h - Afraid of Sunlight (7:01)

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Sunday, March 18th, 8 PM

Location: Woodland Way S., a residential street with a posted 30 Mph speed limit in Kent Washington.

The proud new owner of a 1994 Mazda RX-7 in his 20s came speeding down our street and failed to manage a slight curve while doing 80 Mph. Eye-witnesses described a red flash streaking by, accompanied by the sound of an accelerator being gunned.

He apparently works at a local GM dealership and lives with his mother.

This is definitely not one of those failure to launch situations. Look at this first picture where you can see how he swerved off the road, hit a ditch, launched himself "Dukes of Hazzard" style clear across that driveway and halfway up a tree. This guy got some serious hang-time

Here's the driveway the car flew across, not a scratch on it because he launched off the ditch on the left side and cleared the whole thing.

According to the police he must have been flying at speeds near 50 MPH, and that is after he hit the ditch which shot him upwards while certainly taking off a major chunk of his speed.


Here's a shot from the direction the car went, see that darker rectangular section in the middle? That's where he launched, and you can see the resulting tree-hugging affair just beyond it.

Anyone want to buy some slightly used chrome wheels?

His rear tires had virtually no tread, but he sure has stylin' super-wide chrome wheels yo!

The driver then had the temerity to argue with eyewitnesses about his speed. He swears he was only going 35 (in a 3o MPH zone). His actual speed was easily in excess of 70 MPH. He lost control of his vehicle when he clipped the soft shoulder on the right and over-corrected. As a result he managed to end up on the right side of the road, while negotiating a very slight turn to the right.

The faceplate of his in-dash stereo landed somewhere in the back seat! Parts of plastic were hurled 40 feet further into the yard.

Had it not been for this tree he would have landed in the house's living room. Yes, there were people at home!

The driver managed to scramble out of the car's side window with fairly minor scrapes despite that nothing is left straight anywhere near the car.

This car required two tow trucks, one with a flatbed and the other with a hoist load it onto the flatbed because it was so mangled and it kept getting hooked on the side and rear of the bed. It took them nearly 30 minutes to get it up there!

The impact scratches on that tree are 8-9 feet in the air!

The driver managed to walk away from this one, but only through sheer luck. Had he hit that ditch and flipped forward with his nose down he would have hit the tree with his roof and he would have gotten crushed.

Instead he got to argue with and intimidate bystanders with his version of just how fast he thought he should have been going. Later he got more creative and shared the revelation that his accelerator had gotten stuck. We all remember the Audi story from way back; but that case eventually turned out to be driver error, and had nothing to do with Audi, but the damage was done. I'm sure Mazda's lawyers will want to have a word with this guy.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Rogues' Gallery Playlist March 15th, 2007 - Show #194 - Progressive Rock Podcast

Debut of "Sol de Medianoche" by Amarok and the new Rush single. I honored multiple requests for more new Sun Caged, Redemption, Thought Chamber, and The Gourishankar whose album 2nd Hands is now officially for sale!
Happy birthday to Elias Kahila who stopped by to talk about his upcoming cello-rock gigs in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on the 22nd and 24th of March.

1. Aaron English - The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon (4:03)
2. Rush - Far Cry (5:18)
3. Redemption - Bleed Me Dry (6:55)
4. Redemption - The Death of Faith and Reason (4:51)
5. Thought Chamber - Balance of One (6:17)
6. Thought Chamber - Mr. Qwinkle's Therapy (5:32)

7. The Gourishankar - Syx (11:08)
8. The Gourishankar - Marvelous Choice (18:16)
9. The Gourishankar - Queer Forest (6:30)

10. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Il Mondo In Testa (3:58)
11. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Il Sogno Di Leonardo (6:44)
12. Fractal - Friptomoogosity Live (5:10)

13. Amarok - Sepiroth (4:17)
14. Amarok - Hermits (10:46)

15. Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul (7:14)
16. Golden Earring - When the Lady Smiles (5:16)
17. Duncan Browne - Wild Places (5:54)

18. Blackfield - Epidemic (4:59)
19. Blackfield - End of the World (5:13)

20. Sun Caged - Unborn (6:27)
21. Sun Caged - Engelbert the Inchworm (4:36)
22. Sun Caged - Dialogue (8:24)
23. Fractal - Continuum (6:30)
24. Thought Chamber - God of Oblique (5:09)

-- Elias Kahila Interview --
25. Elias Kahila - Break Point (3:37)
26. Elias Kahila - Calling (4:18)

27. Toto - Bottom Of Your Soul (6:58)
28. The Third Ending - Eleven (5:30)
29. Redemption - Man of Glass (5:05)
30. Redemption - Used to Be (6:08)
31. Frost* - Wedding Day (Outtake) (5:02)
32. Gazpacho - Dream Of Stone (17:00)
33. Marillion - Made Again (Live - Bootleg Butlins) (6:26)


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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Rogues' Gallery Playlist March 8th, 2007 - Show #193 - Progressive Rock Podcast

Debut of "Artemisia" by Sun Caged, "Go" Daryl Stuermer, "Secrets Within" by Francesco Fareri, Amit Erez, "Four o'Clock and Hysteria" by Alan Morse, "Alcoholocaust" by Invisigoth, and a world debut of Dial (Kristoffer Gildenlow's new band) with an album called "Synchronized". More The Reasoning and live material off Marillion's Bootleg Butlins DVD and Front Row Club 36. Also check out The Road, a band from Boston/NY, thank you to Greg and Aaron for gracing the chat room and answering questions about the band!

News Items:  

1) News about the new Frost* album: Declan Burke from Darwin's Radio will be on it, John Mitchell will be reprising his appearance along with Andy Edwards, and John Jowitt is checking his schedule to be involved again as well. 
The initially projected EP is now on track to becoming a full blown album. Tentative release date at the end of 2007, but this is naturally subject to change at this early stage! Exciting news from a band once feared dead! 

2) Porcupine Tree kicks off their West coast gigs in Seattle on May 8th at the Showbox! Guess where I am going to be? :-)

1. Marillion - Berlin (8:30)

2. The Road - Bipolar (5:59)
3. The Road - Drift (4:18)
4. The Road - The Gift (4:32)

5. Daryl Stuermer - Striker (4:52)
6. Daryl Stuermer - Dream in Blue (5:42)

7. Dial - Points Of View (5:37)
8. Dial - Wounded (3:12)
9. Dial - Childhood Dreams (8:05)
10. Dial - Beautiful (5:00)

11. Sun Caged - Afraid to Fly (7:09)
12. Sun Caged - Bloodline (9:30)
13. Sun Caged - Departing Words (8:05)

14. Invisigoth - The Everlasting (6:18)
15. Invisigoth - My Absinthe Lover (5:11)

16. Alan Morse - Cold Fusion (5:13)
17. Alan Morse - Dschungel Cruz (4:58)
18. Alan Morse - Spanish Steppes (5:45)

19. The Reasoning - Playing The Game (4:13)
20. The Reasoning - Aching Hunger (6:44)
21. The Reasoning - Chasing Rainbows (6:05)

22. Marillion - Memory of Water (6:23)
23. Marillion - Slainte Mhath (5:51)

24. Francesco Fareri - The Waves (6:42)
25. Francesco Fareri - Destiny (6:23)
26. Francesco Fareri - Secrets Within (7:41)
27. Francesco Fareri - Masquerade (3:35)
28. Francesco Fareri - Undefined (4:04)
29. Francesco Fareri - Seasons (2:34)
30. Francesco Fareri - Secret World (1:12)

31. Sun Caged - Doldrums (7:31)
32. Sun Caged - Lyre's Harmony (7:22)
33. Sun Caged - Painted Eyes (4:26)

34. Amit Erez - Endings Get an Early Start (4:13)

35. Dial - Sadness (4:33)
36. Dial - Jewel (4:30)
37. Dial - Points Of View (5:37)

38. The Aurora Project - System Log [9608,10987] (5:57)
39. The Aurora Project - The Gathering (7:36)

Friday, March 02, 2007

Rogues' Gallery Playlist March 1st, 2007 - Show #192 - Progressive Rock Podcast

You owe it to yourself to check out the magnificent debut release by The Reasoning called "Awakening", new music by Ixion, Mind's Eye, Aghora, Age of Nemesis, Yeti Rain, Sympozion, and more! Another show made up almost entirely of new material, so come check it out!

1. Threshold - This Is Your Life (3:43)
2. Threshold - Elusive (6:10)
3. Knight Area - Dreamweaver (7:40)

4. The Aurora Project - Unspoken Words 1 (2:25)
5. The Aurora Project - The Betrayal (4:45)
6. The Aurora Project - Unspoken Words II (3:42)
7. The Aurora Project - The Resurrection (8:42)

8. The Reasoning - Awakening (6:48)
9. The Reasoning - Sacred Shape (6:36)
10. The Reasoning - Fallen Angels (6:24)

11. Age Of Nemesis - Tree Of Life (6:42)
12. Age Of Nemesis - Inferno (4:07)
13. Age Of Nemesis - Someone Must Take The Blame (6:05)

14. Momentary Dementia News - Frans (5:03)

15. Ixion - Sea Of Cortez (10:07)
16. Ixion - Catherina (6:24)

17. Discipline - Crutches (13:11)
18. Discipline - Into the Dream (22:03)

19. The Reasoning - Shadows Of The Mind (7:17)
20. The Reasoning - Within Cold Glass (4:41)

21. Mind's Eye - Equally Immortal (5:27)
22. Mind's Eye - Mrs. Clair Voyance (5:55)
23. Mind's Eye - Umbrellas Under The Sun (6:00)

24. Aghora - Dime (7:00)
25. Aghora - Mahayana (7:16)
26. Aghora - Moksha (5:29)
27. Aghora - Skinned (6:41)

28. Khallice - The journey (4:44)
29. Khallice - Ive Lost My Faith (6:22)

30. Yeti Rain - The Prophet's Needle (4:39)
31. Sympozion - Bird (3:41)

32. Marillion - See It Like A Baby (4:32)
33. Porcupine Tree - Gravity Eyelids (7:56)
34. RPWL - Sleep (7:11)

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