PROGRESSIVE NATION 2009 North American Tour Dates - NYC show added!!

Just listening to 2:37 of Bigelf's Blackball, I hear Paul McCartney/Wings, Genesis - Gabriel Era, Syd Barrett and Vander Graf Generator put through a metal meat grinder. 
 
Cool.

tombojombo


holy shit!

Scale The Summit?!

i was added by them when i was on myspace a couple of months before they started recording their first album
how times change
these guys are awesome.

+1
 
These guys are KILLER.
 
Check out "Bloom" and "Sargasso Sea":
http://www.youtube.com/user/scalethesummit

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

"Devastated" is too weak of a word to describe what I'm feeling right now.  My whole life for the past 3 months has been the excitement of being able to see PoS.  I know nothing could be done to prevent this, but fuck.  I'm unfortunately not a fan of Bigelf, but I'll check out Scale the Summit.
Seriously though, I'll have to get over the fact I won't be seeing my second favorite band from the third row.
FML

SCALE THE SUMMIT?! You got Scale The Summit?! I love them! They're close friends with my friend's bass teacher and they're just awesome!

This is great news for me. I LOVE Bigelf and was bummed that they were only playing on the European leg. Scale the Sounds like an interesting band and I will have to check them out. I feel bad for the POS & Beardfish fans, but like said this concert just got even better for me.

Sad to hear this for all the POS and Beardfish fans out there.
Was there ever a moment after hearing the sad news the tour was in danger?
Oh well... glad DT didn't cancel it.

Steve

AWESOME NEWS!!! I am not really into Beardfish or PoS. I do however, LOVE, Scale the Summit and Big Elf. I am very happy with this move.

FUCK MAN  

Wow this really blows I'm a huge PoS fan and I was really starting to like Beardfish.  Well I've heard a lot of good things about Big Elf so hopefully they will not disappoint. 

kinda sucks, but I am glad to see Bigelf being on the tour! Im actually excited! I would rather see them instead of PoS.

I'm probably one of the few going to a show who really doesn't care much about this change.  I have never heard Beardfish and only heard very little of PoS.  Although from their reputation on this forum, I kind of was looking forward to seeing PoS.  When I first started reading I was hoping for one of two things... either Neal Morse being one of the replacments or no replacements and DT just playing a longer set.  Never heard of the two new bands added on but I definitely will have to check them out before the show. 

I was really excited to see POS, but one of the things I like about concerts like Progressive Nation is checking out new bands. So, time for me to check out Bigelf and Scale the Summit.

I had been DEVASTATED that PN09 wasn't coming to Seattle, as it would've been my first opportunity to see PoS live.  

I'm still very disappointed that I am going to miss a DT tour for the first time since SFAM, but knowing that PoS won't be there takes away some of the sting.      I'm still a newcomer to Bigelf, but I'm really digging it, so I may end up eating these words later.

I am purdy well and disappointed with this.

I started listening to Beardfish at the beginning of this year and was completely absorbed.  Saddened at the same time, as I figured I'd never get to see them live; doubted they'd have the funds and the fanbase to ever tour the midwest.  I am lucky that I'd never needed to travel to see a performance I wanted to catch, but I definitely would've crossed a couple states for them.

So imagine me fudging my shorts when I saw the press release announcing that DT was bringing them from o'erseas.

If they and OFB were performing at different venues on the same night 'round here, I'd have gone to Beardfish and paid double.

But now, oh now, sad.  :\  Even if I end up getting into Bigelf and Scale the Summit now, I'll still be disheartened.

But things happen I s'pose.  That doesn't mean I can't BAWWW on the internet!

-Brenn

Grr!  Argh!  Shitfuckgoddammit!

Confirmation that QR are the guests at the Merriwether post just cuts me right to the quick.  Bad enough that I have to deploy to Iraq in September, but training I have to do in New Jersey before then will keep me from going to the 1 August show here in Maryland.

Somebody up there hates me.  That's gotta be it.  What did I do to deserve this?!?

that sucks man, sorry to hear about this. I'll still enjoy the show, no matter what, but I feel bad for all those I know were really looking forward to the other bands.

Fucking a. I am extremely bummed.

I got tickets for this tour mainly because of Beardfish. I've been into them since August of last year, and was so overjoyed when Mike picked them to come on PN09.
Before, I had doubted I would see them ever. Now, I probably won't.

Well, it's not their fault, nor is it MP's.
This whole recession thing is ridiculous.

I've never heard of Bigelf or Scale The Summit, but I'm sure I'll enjoy them a lot. Beardfish's presence on this tour will be sorely missed...

BIGELF!

This is such a huge upgrade in my book, and it may seal the deal on a possible 3-show road trip.

Can someone tell me some albums to check out for these bands? Haven't heard them before but I need to get into them now with only a couple months remaining. 

Shitty that this happened, PoS was gonna be sick and I was getting into beardfish. But if Mike chooses 'em, you know they're golden. 

Thanks!

SCALE THE SUMMIT MOTHER EFFERS!!! w00t!

Still too broke this summer though.  Oh well.

big bummer for the NA fans.
Anywho, hopefully PoS will come at another time :D

WOW. I can't believe I didn't see this earlier, but I am now officially attending PN'09. Scale the Summit are amazing and I can't wait to hear see them live.

This sucks...I really like Beardfish and POS...oh well.  I do like Bigelf, and Scale the Summit seems cool.

wanted to see Pain of Salvation..ugh... big dissapointment... why not Symphony X?

OMG, Scale the Summit freaking rocks!

Sorry for those who wanted Pain of Salvation and Beardfish. I honestly didn't care that much about them...

......

All the happy people in this thread make me die a little inside.

But seriously...

...........................................................................

Words can't descibe my sadness right now, not just for me missing one of my favorite bands, Pain of Salvation. I'm so sad that Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth was telling me the truth......Bankruptcy.


My heart goes out to everyone involved in SPV and Inside Out.

I'll be honest, I'm very heartbroken that I won't get to see Pain of Salvation. It looks like POS will be another band like Porcupine Tree and Devin Townsend that I will probably never get to see live. As sad as I am and I do understand the circumstances, it just saddens me to know I'll never see POS live.

At least on the plus side, I will get to see Scale The Summit, who is one of the best Instrumental Progressive Metal bands around, and Bigelf who I've been getting into a lot lately, and can't wait to check them out live.

A change for the better imo. Bigelf ZPZ DT, sounds like a hell of alot of fun!

Fuck. :'(

That is all. (PoS is my second favourite band.... :S)

Hopefully for a future tour the boys can take PoS and Beardfish to make up for it.

This does kinda suck mainly because I am a huge PoS fan and was looking forward to see them.  But considering they havent come to the states in years I wasnt really expecting that they would until I heard about this tour.  So at the end of the day its not too dissapointing. 

I've heard parts of Bigelf songs when they signed up for the Euro version and will check out Scale the Summit.  As long as DT is there I am happy, the rest is just added bonus whoever it is.

I'd like to officially thank life for getting PoS fans hopes up. It was better back in the blissful days where everyone from North America could just say "well, I'm never going to see this band". We had amazing, fantastical dreams of someday travelling to Europe for some crazy excuse, but really just going to finally see the band we all adored. Life was good back then, when even the thought of seeing PoS live was locked away far across the seas.

But then life decided to play a game with us. Dangle it in front of our noses. Take something which seemed to be a dream, which seemed so far away, and make it seem like a reality. It made us believe again. Believe that the impossible was possible. Believe that in such a twisted, loathsome world as our own, there was a faint glimmer of hope.

It was all a two faced lie, wasn't it, life? Build us up to knock us down. You're a tricky one, and you've one this battle. Now we lie dejected and thrown in the dirt. With soot and our face and our spirits crushed beneath us like the tiniest smothered ant. Well, you and all the rest may try to get us down, life. But we'll be back, once we've picked ourselves back up. It'll be hard for us to ever dare to dream again, but I still hold out hope that one day a dream can become a reality. I have to...it's all I have left.

Plus, Beardfish is a frekkin AWESOME band and not seeing them makes me a sad panda

 NO!  

I was so excited to see PoS..... 
Oh well, at least we know DT is going to be there no matter what...... 

NYCoolRunner


WOW that was unexpected... I didn't really care about PoS or Beardfish anyway, so now I have more bands to check out.

You should.

very disapointing, at leas they didn't put Unexpect instead, sorry for any fans but I can't deal with their sound.

Well, while this is sad news and PoS is one of my favorite bands, I'm actually really happy for Bigelf and Scale the Summit at the same time.  I've been listening to both of these bands for the last couple months and they are both really really awesome.  They deserve a lot more exposure and I hope this gains them lots of new fans.

I got turned on to some great bands during PN08. If only they could put off my orders to Afghanistan for two weeks so I could go to the show in Ashville. I'm sure I'll read all about it here.
Rock on!

Scherztastic


I'd like to officially thank life for getting PoS fans hopes up. It was better back in the blissful days where everyone from North America could just say "well, I'm never going to see this band". We had amazing, fantastical dreams of someday travelling to Europe for some crazy excuse, but really just going to finally see the band we all adored. Life was good back then, when even the thought of seeing PoS live was locked away far across the seas.

But then life decided to play a game with us. Dangle it in front of our noses. Take something which seemed to be a dream, which seemed so far away, and make it seem like a reality. It made us believe again. Believe that the impossible was possible. Believe that in such a twisted, loathsome world as our own, there was a faint glimmer of hope.

It was all a two faced lie, wasn't it, life? Build us up to knock us down. You're a tricky one, and you've one this battle. Now we lie dejected and thrown in the dirt. With soot and our face and our spirits crushed beneath us like the tiniest smothered ant. Well, you and all the rest may try to get us down, life. But we'll be back, once we've picked ourselves back up. It'll be hard for us to ever dare to dream again, but I still hold out hope that one day a dream can become a reality. I have to...it's all I have left.

Plus, Beardfish is a frekkin AWESOME band and not seeing them makes me a sad panda

When they unite.

Devastated doesn't even begin to sum up how I feel. I was BEYOND pumped to see PoS. But, Mike, you have always done everything you can for us fans. I have no doubt that you did everything in your power to avoid this. Your reputation of generosity makes it easier for me to forgive the situation. But MAN!!

I'll have to check out these 2 new bands...fortunately I have some time before the Toronto show. I trust your judgment, Mike, and I'm sure we're all still in for one hell of a show.

Dang! Very unfortunate....but it happens