Transatlanic at 3 Rivers ProgFest,Pittsburgh, USA

From the promoter of 3rp:

Mike Portnoy can't sit still, I hope he won't be too tired when DT starts writing in September 

Do you know just how hard it is to type with crossed fingers? 

E

^ Not sure that is true.  Neal is playing California a week or after this festival and not sure MP is in the band.

SWEET, now how about another album?

Wait what about Pete Trevawas??? Who will play bass???

Is there any chance that this show will get recorded so it will be available for those of us that would love to be there but are unable to make it? 

OK, Here's my brief post from the Progfest, more later:

Day 1, The Beard was fantastic.  They did about a two hour set with a triple drum solo, a Ryo solo, Japanese Karaoke (with all of the limitations that a broken jaw imply).  Musical highlights included 'She is Everything', 'Cakewalk on Easy Street' and a huge finale with 'The Great Nothing'.  Then they did an encore. 
Neal Morse played 'The Light' with the boys from the Beard.  It was amazing to watch, I of course had goosebumps when Neal screamed out the catfish line.

Met a great guy named Bob, between sets, swapped Prius stories.

Neal did a great set, though unfortunately, some of the energy was diminished due to the hour of the night.  He played the two epics from Sola Scriptura in an unfortunately abbreviated set.

I had the opportunity to shake the hand of Dave Meros on the way out.  Exciting stuff.

We're headed back over now for day two.

Tom

*sigh*

To further the notion, I unfortunately did not fight the urge to leave.  Neal kept talking about cutting his set short, and the guys behind me kept mentioning how there was an ordinance that the show was going to have to shut down at midnight.  When he got to 'a couple of songs from the Testimony album' I saved my wife who was literally falling asleep and we left to beat the traffic. 

Let's face it, had we left with everybody else...there wasn't going to be a lot of traffic.

and I knew that there was going to be a Transatlantic reunion as well, I figured they'd do it on Sunday.

I found out Sunday that we had missed an hour and a half of music and I'm still kicking myself.

Gah...

It was my own dumb fault.

Moving on...

Sunday was great.

We got there in time for 'The Rocket Scientists' missing IZZ, much to my chagrin.  The Rocket Scientists were fantastic, I absolutely loved the keyboard player's rig.  The sounds were fantastic.

The California Guitar Trio was musically fantastic, though I'm not sure that I would have put them in that slot, once again, a lot of the energy seemed to be lost as the trio played.  They were wonderful to listen to, though possibly more appropriate for a dinner setting.

Finally, The Flower Kings closed out the festival in amazing fashion.  The stuff from the new album really grew on me and of course the old stuff was great as well.

I'm still kicking myself,

Tom