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Re: Baja Prog (2008)
Last day - Entrance from Chile. Pretty nice guitar/keys/bass/drums with two vocalists. The only "problem" with Bajaprog, is with close to 20 bands, sometimes it's hard to really remember each band. I do know all 4 of us enjoyed them, and it was cool that I ran into Warren Dale (ex-keyboardist from French TV) again, and talked about his new prog projects (which will hopefully be on the Moon soon). Second band, Alex Carpani band, with Tony Spada on guitar - very nice stuff, lots of nice keys, and Tony Spada is a great guitarist with a Steve Morse kind of vibe. Even with good vocals, the music was still the focus as instrumentally they were really good.
Day 4, Saturday, evening.
Le Orme - classic keyboard based italian prog. EXCELLENT! If you don't know them, check them out on the Moon. Very solid stuff. Last up - Circa. Yes-lite. Asia on a good day. I don't know, they were really professional sounding, but I was disappointed. The worst of all the Yes keyboardists, the 2nd best (of 2) Yes drummers, a bass player who seems to bring a pop influence to the band and is no Chris Squire, and no Steve Howe or Jon Anderson. Can you say 90125 and Big Generator? They were also the only band that never hung out in the crowd, and their apparent elitism was a turn off. That and $25 t-shirts, when all other t-shirts were $10 or $15.
All in all, this was the weakest lineup of Bajaprog I've been to, but the company was great and I still have no problem recommending Bajaprog as the best prog festival on the planet...
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