We are doing a live radio interview on the morning of Friday, August 22 on WDVE in Pittsburgh. It will be during their morning "Coffee House" show and we'll be on the air at approximately 8:30a Eastern time. It will also be streaming live on their website www.dve.com. (Go to their website and click on "Listen Live").
We will all be there being as entertaining as we can possibly be considering it will be way too early for our Pacific Time bodies. In addition to our witty banter they will be spinning some of our music as well.
August 8, 2008
RYO IS BACK ON THE TEAM ROSTER!
Hi everybody, sorry for all the excitement, but Ryo is going to be recovered enough to play the Three Rivers Prog Festival on August 23.
His doctors are un-wiring his jaw on Aug 19 and they gave him the go-ahead to travel and play the gig. Hey, nothing like a little drama to spice things up, eh? It's been a few pretty wild days . . .
He'll still be pretty sore and the pins will still be in his jawbone for six months but he will be able to resume most normal daily activities on the 19th.
So. .. good news!
August 6, 2008
RYO ON THE INJURED LIST
Ryo suffered some sort of mishap in Japan a couple days ago and wound up with his jaw broken in two places. It's a pretty gnarly injury (I've seen the CT Scan) and he will be laid up for close to a month with his jaw wired shut.
Needless to say, he will have to miss the Three Rivers Prog Festival on August 23. The show will still go on as planned, and we have already found a very competent substitute for the keyboard position. He is already working on the songs and programming sounds like a maniac, and we are sure that he'll do a killer job.
Don't worry about the show, it's full speed ahead and I'm confident that the only thing that will be noticeably missing from our sound will be the occasional profanity laced joke between songs. ;-)
If you'd like to send Ryo some nice thoughts I'm sure he'd love to hear from you. You can post a message on our forum of course, and you can also send emails and get-well cards to Ryo via Sonya (Spock's Babe). She has posted all the pertinent information on the Forum topic "Ryo In The Hospital"
We are also planning to set up something to help him out financially since he won't be able to work at all for the next month or so. We'll keep you posted on that.
Thanks for your support and positive thoughts!
May 25, 2008
FROST* will be opening for Spock's Beard on six of the ten dates of their upcoming tour: June 29 (Zoetermeer, Netherlands), July 2 (Cardiff Bay, UK), July 3 (Islington, UK), July 4 (Manchester, UK), July 5 (Leeds, UK) and July 6 (Glasgow, UK). Complete schedule is here.
May 15, 2008
NEW!!! Spock's Beard Live DVD & CD
The long-awaited Spock's Beard live DVD and 2 CD set are now available for preorder on the Buy Stuff page. Release dates are Germany, Austria & Switzerland on June 13, the remainder of Europe on June 16 and North America on June 24, 2008.
Recorded live in Holland in 2007, it Includes: On A Perfect Day, Mouth of Madness, Crack the Big Sky, The Slow Crash Landing Man, Return to Whatever, Surfing Down the Avalanche, Thoughts (Part 2), Drum solo, Skeletons At The Feast, Walking On The Wind, Hereafter (Ryo solo), As Far As The Mind Can See (Dreaming In The Age Of Answers, Here's A Man,They Know We Know, Stream Of Unconsciousness) Rearranged and The Water / Go The Way You Go medley. The DVD and CD set contain the same songs. Check out the trailer::
March 30, 2008
SB wil be playing in Pittsburgh, PA at The Three Rivers Prog Festival on Saturday, August 23. More info here: www.3rprogfest.com
