And now, Lullaby for the Common Man is available for download from Soundcloud. You will find it on the left in the sidebar. You can listen to it straight from there, or go directly to the site to download it for yourself and leave comments. Enjoy.
Our new single/video is finally completed. With Christopher Lee playing the role of The High Priest, George Montgomery as The Uncommon Man and a cameo from Rock Hudson as The Scientist.
Please enjoy Lullaby for the Common Man.
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It seems I have lost our bass player’s questionnaire answers. Oops. I will be back to continue this as soon as I get them.
Next up in the band member introduction stakes is our drummer Paul.
In an earlier post on spam I mentioned how so much of it tries to flatter you into approving a comment. Well, it seems the spammers now have a new angle: insults. Fifteen or so spam comments have come in during the last 24 hours saying that I’m obviously dumb for not making money off of this site.
Yeah. Because that was the goal all along.
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While that next single, Lullaby for the Common Man, is being finalized, we’ll take the time to present the members of the band, one by one. We’ll do this from youngest to oldest, from not yet twenty to almost fifty. First up, the guy that made the band complete, our keyboard player Jacob.
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Thank you for all the kind comments already received on Progmas 2011. Also, thanks to all who’ve bought the iProg t-shirt. It really has taken off in a big way and is our fastest seller, with orders already going out to the US, UK and Germany.
We’re still hard at work mixing the audio and editing the video for Lullaby for the Common Man (which will actually star Christopher Lee).
Here’s a pic I made and didn’t use in the new video, since I didn’t want to repeat occurrences of Pink Floyd, who are only tangentially a prog band anyway.
The rest of the reworked covers and background images can be found at the Progmas 2011 gallery. Hit the thumbnail to come to the image page, and then from there click the image again to get it full-size. Tarkus and both Fragile Christmas Tree Decorations are of suitable size for desktop wallpaper (the old one is 4:3, the new one widescreen).
Happy proglidays!
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At the risk of becoming a one-trick pony, Somewhere decided to retackle The 12 Days of Christmas in a prog style because there were some ideas we didn’t have time to incorporate last time around. This time, the music directly references some of our heroes and the video is more consistently designed.
We’ll follow it up with our second single, Lullaby for the Common Man, in a few weeks. Things are definitely brewing in the Somewhere camp.
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A prog-themed Advice Animal (if you don’t know that meme, google it).
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I’ve retired the old Death to False Prog t-shirts, since the style I did them in creates very sharp points on the print, and that tends to lift in the wash. So far, I haven’t had any complaints, but my sincere apologies to all of you who bought one. Send me an email and I’ll put you up for a complimentary copy of the album once it’s released.
So, here’s the new Death to False Prog design. It’s smaller, to be readable even when you’re wearing a jacket. It’s also obviously inspired by the Keep Calm posters, which may be cheesy by now, but I think it looks good.
While I was fiddling in the store, I removed the ”What Would Wakeman Do” t-shirt, which hasn’t proved nearly as popular as I was expecting, so I’m trying a Gentle Giant variant – we’ll see how that does. Another new t-shirt is the one inspired by Mike Myers’ Barbara Streisand-loving character Linda Richman from Saturday Night Live. Even so, I stand by the sentiment that prog has been saddled with a slightly misleading name (like many other genres – I mean, how new is new wave?)
It’s off to the Uppsala prog festival tomorrow. I’ll be wearing one of my now-vintage Death to False Prog t-shirts and handing out stickers, CDs and other swag, especially to anyone who comes up to me and says ”magnetic tape”.
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