Attention Southeast US! See Speechless Live Jan 11th

[ProgressiveEars]

Hi all, Sean the guitarist here....

Just a quick note here to let you all know that our first gig since Oct will be January 11th (Friday) @ The Eyedrum, a unique gallery and music venue. http://www.eyedrum.org Located in Atlanta.

http://www.pd.org/~eyedrum/calendar/...th=1&year=2008

Local soundsmith Hart Deer will be opening, doing his brand of soundscapes. It will be a fun night of local prog!

Come hang with fellow AM folk and meet other local prog fans from other well known prog sites like PE as well.

We will be debuting a couple tunes from our NEXT CD live too! Be the first to get a glimpse of our new material.

Happy New Year!

http://www.myspace.com/speechlesstheband

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Count Me In!!!!!!

I would love to see all you N.C., S.C., Alabama, and Tenn. folk come join us too!

Let's have a party!

[roger]

> http://www.myspace.com/speechlesstheband

just sent you a Friend request, Sean!

good stuff! come to Vermont!

[NorCalKurt]

Sean, You are always welcome here in Northern California!

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Bringing this back to the forefront for all the returnees from holiday.

Come join us to watch Speechless in Atlanta's Grant park neighborhood!

http://www.pd.org/~eyedrum/calendar/...th=1&year=2008

[ProgressiveEars]

Thanks all for the good word! We have put together a really cool set that I think you all are going to enjoy a lot. It's going to be a pleasure to share it with you all. Fun starts about 9pm.

-S

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Holy Mother of Perl! More Prog for this prog-deficient region.

I'll be there. Don't know how I'm gonna git there, but I'll be there.

Roger -Dot- Lee goody-goody-goody

[cribguy]

It looks like I'll be there. Looking forward to it!

[ProgressiveEars]

Hey all! We are about ready to roll. We have worked up a full, 90 min set. Bascially it's the entire debut cd, a couple NEW tunes from the second cd and our mix of covers done Speechless style. I am real excited to get to meet you folks! Opening act starts around 9 or so, we should go on around 10ish....

[ProgressiveEars]

Tonight's the night! From the first strains of Vader's Boogie to the big E chord at the end of the Classic Rock/Prog Medley it's gonna be a fun one! Looking forward to seeing you AM folks! Show up a little early so we can BS some before we go on!

[roger]

break a leg!

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Great show last night for our own ProgressiveEars (Sean) and SPEECHLESS.

I am very impressed with the group and their performance. Very tight. Very talented. On par with all the groups we listen on the Moon. Hey wait.... We listen to them on the moon!!!!

I've attached a couple of pics of three of the guys. Lighting conditions rendered my pics of Robbie Hamil, the incredible keyboardist, unusable. So that is heavily doctored - please forgive the quality. But the others came out okay. Sean will probably post the rest on his myspace along, possible, with a couple short vids.

These guys deserver your every consideration, especially any of you who can influence performance houses. They need to hit the road to let you see them play.

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Here's a Video I captured from the show last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA86XQWa-PA

Not the best quality - had to shrink it to fit on YouTube. But it will give you a taste.

Enjoy

[roger]

great t-shirt on Derek!

[cribguy]

It was a really good show. Dale's right, they need to be seen!

[NorCalKurt]

So.. get out here to the west coast. I'll go.

[ProgressiveEars]

Hi all!

We are looking forward to the show next Saturday and excited to see some of our AM friends! Here is an update on the show, fresh from the band blog over at MySpace......

Hope you are all well and allergy season isn't making your lives miserable. Here in Atlanta the whole town is awash in a thick layer of yellow/green pollen. Everything is coated with it- the cars, the streets, anything left outside! Yuck.

It's been kinda odd to only play two shows in 6 months after doing so many in '06 and '07. We miss it a lot, it's probably the funnest part of being in a group. But with only one CD of music it was high time to write more. Can't go around playing the same nine songs forver, perish the thought!

So this new writing phase has been welcome on a few levels. I think we all were curious just what the next album would sound like. Now that a good 1/3rd has been written and arranged a picture is emerging. Similar to the debut, yet more energetic. Some of the energy of our live shows has worked it's way into the new compositions. Two will debut Sat, along with two that have only been played live once before. No doubt refined a tad between then and now.

So please join us NEXT Saturday night at one of our fave original music haunts, Sweetwater in Duluth! We go on around 10:30, sandwiched between two other groups- The Gilrays and The Sane. We are going to play about 20 minutes of NEW music along with some faves from Time Out Of Mind. A great time is guaranteed for all!

Looking forward to seeing some of you there! Then, back to the "writing mode" to whip the remains of the new CD into shape. So far we have written fairly short, compact, tunes. Part of what's on the agenda next will be working up a few more of those and then a couple bigger pieces! Parts of which are already kicking around, but arranging pieces that large takes awhile, as you can imagine. Good news is the bits and pieces for them so far are all really melodic and memorable. Some are pretty aggressive and wild too!

Regards,

Sean

[ProgressiveEars]