ProgJect w/ Travis Larson
ALESSANDRO DEL VECCHIO (Hardline) – Lead Vocals
RYO OKUMOTO (Asia/John Payne, Spock’s Beard) Keyboards
MIKE KENEALLY (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani) – Guitar & Vocals
PETE GRIFFIN (Zappa Plays Zappa, Edgar Winter) – Bass, Pedals, Guitar, Keys & Vocals
JONATHAN MOVER (GTR, Marillion, Satriani, The Tubes) – Drums, Percussion, Samples & Vocals
Look for ProgJect to perform a two-plus hour show that includes: “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”, “Firth Of Fifth”, “The Cinema Show”, “One More Red Nightmare”, “21st Century Schizoid Man”, “Roundabout”, “Long Distance Runaround”, “Karn Evil 9: First Impression”, “Hoedown”, “Wish You Were Here”, “Money“, “Solsbury Hill”, “In The Dead Of Night”, “Alaska”, “Freewill”, “Red Barchetta”, “Aqualung”, “Carry On Wayward Son”, “Point of Know Return”, “Cogs In Cogs” and more…
ProgJect – The Ultimate Prog Rock Experience is the brainchild of drummer Jonathan Mover and came to fruition out of his childhood love of Prog. “Prog Rock is the reason I play drums,” Mover explains, “but by the time I turned pro, Prog in the classic sense was over. And, although I got to work with some Prog-associated artists–GTR (Steve Hackett and Steve Howe) and Marillion–my career took a decidedly different, though incredibly fortunate path, with artists such as Alice Cooper, Joe Satriani, Aretha Franklin, The Tubes, Fuel, Shakira, Julian Lennon and others. That being said, I never lost my desire to play the Prog I grew up listening to.” He adds: “The idea and inspiration came in 2019 from my getting a last-minute rescue call to play with the Genesis tribute band, The Musical Box. That not only relit my childhood fire and desire, but made me realize: in the tribute world, if there’s an audience for Genesis, and an audience for Pink Floyd, and YES, and Rush, there must be an audience for King Crimson, Gentle Giant, U.K., Bruford, and Jethro Tull, too. So, why not play them all, since I love them all, and assemble a team of extraordinary musicians that feel the same as I? So I did. And they, like me, wanted to play a wide variety of Prog from all our favorite bands, and therefore thought more of the concept of a legacy ‘homage band’, instead of a tribute band.” Mover says that “the chemistry and dynamics of ProgJect are amazing” and “we’re all very excited to hit the road again, especially now with Alessandro singing; with his four-and-a-half octave range, there are no limits to what we can cover. We love playing this music so much and know how much prog fans love it too, and now more than ever, since most of our prog heroes are either gone, or simply not touring anymore.”
Travis Larson Bio:
With eight studio albums and three full-length performance DVDs, Travis Larson is firmly rooted as one of instrumental music’s premiere acts, having worked on record with Steve Lukather (Toto), Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck), Dave LaRue (Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Dixie Dregs), Vinx (Sting, Herbie Hancock).
Years of ambitious touring and shared live billing with notables such as Zappa Band, UFO, Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse (Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs), The Aristocrats, has established Travis’s reputation for live performances that masterfully deliver full throttle prog-rock-fusion.
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You may also like the following events from Travis Larson Band:
- Next Sunday, 8th June, 03:00 pm, Travis Larson - San Luis Obispo, CA in San Luis Obispo
- Next month, 13th June, 07:00 pm, Travis Larson w/ Larry Mitchell - Hayward, CA in Hayward
- Next month, 14th June, 03:00 pm, Travis Larson w/ Larry Mitchell - Sacramento, CA in Rancho Cordova
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