[Rick and Roll]

airing Sunday, August 10 from 8-11 PM EST and Monday, August 11, from 1-4 PM EST.

This week is music fron the artists who will grace the stage at the Pepsi Roadhouse in Pittsburgh, PA on August 23/24. This is the first 3 Rivers Progressive Rock Festival. Big thanks to Howard Levy, whose tireless work has brought some fantastic music under one roof.

And to think he almost got King's X.

Izz - The Mists of Dalriada
Izz - Assurance (Live at Nearfest June 23, 2007)
Neal Morse - The Conflict
California Guitar Trio -Ciaccona
California Guitar Trio - Classical Gas
Manifesto - Floydian Slipp
The Mandrake Project - I'm (overneath) Myself
Rocket Scientists - Epitaph
Rocket Scientists - Escape
Lana Lane - Frankenstein Unbound
Spock's Beard - Skeletons At The Feast
Kalon - Twilight Pathways of Memory
Kalon - Sandstorm
Kalon - Cellist Takes A Smoke Break
The Flower Kings - Serious Dreamers

and,

Gongzilla - Gongzilla Live (2001)

Mr. Sinister Minister
Bad Habits
Gongzilla's Dilemma
Hip-Hopnosis
Image
Gongzilla
Soli

Looking forward very much to seeing them again - it's been too long - saw them in the friendly confines of Orion and even at Of Sound Mind when it was a terrestrial record store in the mid-90's. Hansford Rowe, Bon Lozaga, Benoit Moerlen, and Vic Stevens play on this record, with a big assist from guest, David Fiucynski, the awesome guitarist currently performing with Hiromi Uehara.

The Kalon I just received yesterday, courtesy of Howard.

The other selections are some of my favorites by the artists.