Spock's Beard - only 2010 US appearance

I had the fortune of seeing Spock's Beard last night.

Allegedly, Nick D'Virgilio only has the month of September off from his day job as a drummer for Cirque du Soleil; just enough time for a brief tour of Europe (which is probably more fruitful for a progressive rock band than slogging around the massive United States where prog fans are scattered, too few and far in between).

Luckily Jim Harrel was able to get them to do one show in their approximate home-central area.

I didn't bring my camera because they were banned at the last show I attended at this venue. This time, it turned out photography was discouraged, but allowed (sans flash, of course). So what you see here are some mediocre cell phone shots from my excellent, 2nd row, center seat.

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BlowUpBlow videos

Paul Zanzler has assembled 2 videos of our band BlowUpBlow* (2003-2008) compiled from photographs, video and artwork.

One is for It's Time; a song that was often a live show closer/favorite. We did a great recording of at The Compound studio in Long Beach, CA. Unfortunately it was never finally mixed, mastered nor released...



The 2nd video features an audio track that for a song we were laboring over off and on for a long time during the twilight of the band's run. It may sound trebly, but, hey, it was just a practice recording, quite possibly on cassette...Visually, this is a pretty good nostalgic overview slide show. Personally, I felt that we were creating music better than that of each our previous bands.




*If you're new, I was the drummer in this band, and did the artwork for the releases, merch, flyers, etc.

Prime-Time

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Photo by Bob, Torrance, CA, 2010

¡Megamullet!

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Photo by Bob, Torrance, CA, 2010

Pics from Peter Gabriel show

Well, just a couple pics of some female fans...

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I didn't bring a good camera for taking long distance photos, because I didn't want to be turned away at security. I'm not going to write a review here. But I will say, the pieces I was most impressed by would be Rhythm of the Heat and Red Rain.

Some random pics

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