YouTubers 2014-2024

 Here's Just a bunch of collages I made. I wanted to find a Free Collage site that allows you to include 100's of images, but the 1 I found only allows 25 at a time, so it ended up with 5 separate collages.

Um, I made these in the process of the 10 year thing on YouTube. Admittedly, a lot of these channels are nostalgic, many gone or inactive for years. Some, I do not watch or subscribe to anymore, but I did include per I did.

There's obviously some stuff  I didn't include, but whatever.

Unsure how I want to do this. Part of me would go for talking about these channels in Videos, and that's just it, it would take several videos or a long epic Podcast like video to cover them.

The compromise may be read them all off, and make comments about some. There's over 100.

That's the thing, I have 342 (or 330-ish?) Subscribers and 608 videos. And I subscribed to probably twice as many channels as I have subscribed to me if not more, lol.

Ridiculous and pretty pathetic. But, that's why I'm looking to make changes soon (in the coming weeks/months).

1 should not have almost double the amount of Videos to Subscribers. Most people would have probably quit a long time ago with that being the case.

And 330 subscribers? and how many Views? I looked it up, about 71,000 Views. Yeah, no, I'm talking to 10 people every video, or maybe I'm just talking to myself. I guess if that is a low-bar goal for YouTube, and it's more like a Video Journal, it's not a big deal per I would be making videos 1st and foremost for myself.

But YouTube seems to be about status and reaching people. And I have really not done that much. Not even as much as I did with this Blog. I'm just not that good at it really. Not at this point.

Why I'm thinking: finish up the Projects I'm working on (Thud Songs Videos, Albums of the Year), and it may be on an indefinite Hiatus.

2024 Rock Hall Nominations - Take/Rant

Given my lacking the ability to film videos for YouTube right now per the C-word in my house, impacting that.

I guess I'll offer up some rants about the 2024 Rock Hall Nominations:

2024 Rock Hall Nominations:

billboard.com/music…A Tribe Called Quest Jane's Addiction Ozzy Osbourne Cher Lenny Kravitz Sade Mary J. Blije Eric B. & Rakim Kool & the Gang Sinead O'Connor Peter Frampton Dave Mathews Band Foreigner Oasis Mariah CareyJan Wenner is gone, yet still no Monkees.WTF."Murphy Level Bullshit"

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1704892123479449994

No Monkees..broken record of course. Wenner's supposed absence didn't seem to mean 

much if anything at this point.

Jane's Addiction I like. Three Days is prog for what it's worth. They were nominated a few years ago but didn't get in. I will be pretty surprised if they do get in, but if they do, I would happy.

Mariah, Sade, Lenny and even Kool & the Gang are all names my wife appreciates to different degrees.
Mary J Blije as well per she did a duet with George Michael among other things.

If any of them get in, I  will be happy to see it. Mariah I kind of think is the most likely. Kool & the Gang has been eligible for decades..pretty egregious..but there's many terrible cases of that like every year and there's a massive list of names who still haven't been nominated either as well (besides of course The Monkees).

Cher, Dave Mathews,..Frampton..Ozzy.

If Ozzy gets in, it is nice, but it is delaying other Metal bands from getting in. Maiden of course. Megadeth, Scorpions, Motorhead among some others. Even extend it out to Hard Rock.

Oasis I honestly couldn't care less about. I don't loathe them as much as some of the other 90's bands, but the 2 brothers have very unlike-able reputations.

Foreigner?..eh, Styx, Boston, or TOTO even ...or even say SUPERTRAMP would mean a ton more to people. I don't maybe mind them. And REO Speedwagon or someone like Loverboy (or Air Supply?) in the sort of Corporate Pop/Rock.

My wife would be all for REO or Air Supply, and by comparison to Styx and Boston, she actually kind of like Foreigner. No care for the fact Ian McDonald of King Crimson was a founding member, lol.

But I guess Foreigner was blackballed by Wenner and maybe others years back, But the same has been said about both The Guess Who and Toto. So, why were Foreigner chosen instead of The Guess Who or Toto? Wenner hated all of them (Toto due Toto refused to be on the Rolling Stone cover I guess).

Cher?..she has said she would refuse induction. Dolly Parton said the same thing, but changed her mind, lol. Cher's been eligible since 1990, lol. I can take or leave her music. It's fine I guess if she gets in. I suppose someone like Barbara Streisand or Olivia Newton-John needs to be considered if Cher gets in. 

But what about Phil Collins?..when they started putting pop acts in about 12 years ago with Madonna..Whitney Janet and George Michael..Phil Collins has the resume to belong in just like those others. I know he's already in with Genesis, but they've had several other 2+ inductions before.

Once filming again on YouTube is possible again, I'll try and follow-up/rehash some of this on camera.

Food For Thought: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element II with an ORCHESTRA?

New video..likely the last for awhile for obvious reasons. 

Book: Vision Statement

Interesting find..I could just have kept this as just a draft, but I don't follow any huge motivation to have this for safe-keeping if my intetrest to write a book does come back. I can always republish/rewrite it in said (fictional) book.

composed 7/2/2019 12:29AM

I came to love music as a kid, but when I was in High School I developed a larger passion for it that matched and then soon after passed my level of Passion for things like Sports.

I have a lot of words to add about the music I love, which the Internet became an obvious platform to use. At first it was just using email lists/groups and Forums/Message Boards.

Not long after, I started a LiveJournal account which I would often talk about in cryptic or poorly scripted ways, the music I was getting into and enjoying.

But from a literary standpoint, it wasn't an incredibly tangible, useful resource other than giving names and albums/songs, etc.

So in late 2006 I found someone who was looking to keep a Media Blog with other writers. I knew this person through a largely music-based forum, and so naturally it was music I was going to write a lot about.

That blog is the blog I still actively maintain today some 12+ years and 1.1 million hits later:
http;//allmediareviews.blogspot.com

But after keeping it for so long and seeing modest levels of traffic, I concluded I would like to try something else. So I set 2 milestones, 1 being a 10-year anniversary which I reached in December 2016. I then went on to post an extensive personal Questions and Answers to myself or also what could be considered Frequently Asked Questions.

The 2nd Goal to was to reach 1 million page views/hits, which finally occurred in March of 2019.

So, now that those 2 goals were met, the next thing to strive for was something more. And that being, to try and Write a Book. Why? I think partly due to my frequent question about after seeing some others do it, why can't I? And so if/when this ever does become a reality and is in physical three-dimensional form on paper of some kind, than that question will be answered.

What is the Book about? After thinking about it off and on literally for months or even more than a year, I guess maybe one-of if not my biggest passions is for what I refer to as "progressive college rock" (also "progressive alternative rock" or "progressive indie rock").

It seems within the rock and progressive rock/metal/jazz etc styles, there are not many if any works that solely has focused on this relatively new hybrid genre of progressive rock. Especially in English, however the fellow who keeps the blog, http://altprogcore.blogspot.com has published some books about this kind of progressive rock, but in Italian-only. But I certainly am using inspiration from those books, to write this book.

The C word

 Yeah, after almost 4 years..it likely found my household.

What impact it has still remains to be seen.

I do find it almost ironic or telling it happens with everything going on for me on an emotional level..on Marillion's Brave's 30th anniversary no less.

Some recent videos on YouTube I made

 

"Top 10 (11) #dreamtheater SONGS @TheProgCorner's Sunday Prog Stream (2/4/24) #top10list #progmetal"

 

I'm not sure why my list wasn't mentioned or included with the Dream Theater Top 10 Songs here:
Did they or Scot not see my video? Forget? Forget the fact I wasn't able to make the stream per as I mentioned in the chat last weekend during the Kansas Stream (or maybe during the Vander Graaf Generator Stream the week before when Scot announced that and when the Dream Theater stream was happening).

I even replied both on twitter and facebook a few hours before the stream yesterday.

I've been a fan since 1995 and consumed Dream Theater's music religiously for well over 2 decades. I still do. I know their history extremely well.

Anyway, I guess I'm surprised they didn't mention (or play it on the Live Stream actually, it was only 11 minutes).  or my list video. I uploaded it 24 hours ahead of time. But I guess what can you do?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comments on YouTube Videos

 

I've received this message twice in the past few weeks and had my ability to comment apparently on videos other than my own disabled for a day.

I 

a) have no idea what comments I left that led to this simply per there is no actual link, video or comment referenced or quoted that this caused. 

b) I read through the "Community Guidelines" and can only guess it may be from alluding to videos I made on my channel. Which I've done that for YEARS, countless times, and never had any report or have someone make issue with it. 

I may have linked rateyourmusic once or twice on some comments.

But even if that was the case, I find it incredibly unfair and feeble for YouTube to just do this without any actual specific basis or example where this happened. If for no other reason, to understand what not to do in the future.

Someone just reported it on there, which whoever did it, fine, being anonymous I don't have a huge issue with. Is it cowardly? sure. If they have a problem, they could just contact me instead. But at least I would think they would include the comment or video for me to understand. Rather than just leave me in the dark to guess.

I did leave a note in the Feedback saying they could email me, etc. But I did that the last time this happened and have yet to hear back from them still (unless the email is in my Spam folder).

I suspect if it was alluding to a Video I made, it wasn't actually the Video's Creator, but someone else who read my comment, or even reply to their or another comment who reported it. But I can't be sure.

However, I am starting to wonder if leaving comments on so many videos is a good idea now with this happening now twice recently.

The thing is, I have struggled mightily to gain attention to my channel, so much that leaving comments I find is the only way to try and get my channel's name out there. I mean, nearly 10 years and well over 500 videos later, and 279 Subscribers?..those numbers kind of feel like it's JUST NOT MEANT TO BE.

I am going to have to seriously think about things come next March when I hit 10 years. I just don't know if it's worth it anymore. I may just come back here and do this stuff again. While it doesn't get the interaction or visual satisfaction of YouTube, I never feel like I need to be seen or  read here,

I dunno. 

I'm just not that good at making videos I guess, or at least with the alloted time that I have to. I never have been an amazing writer, but I guess between the 2, I think I probably did better for myself just writing and editing over and over in here, than what seems like an endless lack of success on YouTube.

TikTok?..blech..right.

or maybe Podcasting?..i dunno.

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My Concert Attendance History: An Incomplete List

So I'm bumping this to update it I suppose, but also what I just posted on the Social Medias

why have I never heard of this site until now? http://www.concertarchives.org/

I guess I'll have to start transcribing the list below into there, time permitting.

I suppose though, given the extensive yet somewhat organized list below, I have already done some of the work compared to many others who would be starting from scratch or using their last.fm or rateyourmusic.com pages.


11/6/15 2:08PM
So it came to me like a month ago while stumbling upon setlist.fm for something that I should try and compile and update all the concerts/live shows I've been to. And by date, month, year and venue and including every act on the bill.

Now this is far from complete, and I have some of the local concerts I've seen here, but am missing dozens if not 100's, which given some time, I'll try and edit-in I suppose.

1988 (1)

4/15/88 Canadian Brass - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN

1992 (2)

2/29/92 Maynard Ferguson - Mounds View High School Mounds View, MN

8/28/92 Steve Miller Band - Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Falcon Heights, MN

1993 (1)
6/22/93 Sting - Target Center Minneapolis, MN

1994 (1)
4/8/94 Rush/Primus - Target Center Minneapolis, MN

1995 (3)
4/17/95 Wynton Marsalis - Ted Mann Concert Hall Minneapolis, MN
5/23/95 Boston - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
7/30/95 Van Halen/Our Lady Peace - Target Center Minneapolis, MN

1996 (3)
5/30/96 Styx/Kansas - St.Paul Civic Center St.Paul, MN
8/26/96 King's X/Galactic Cowboys - The Mirage Minneapolis, MN
10/29/96 Rush - Target Center Minneapolis, MN

1997 (5)
7/9/97 Queensryche/Malicious Mischief - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
7/22/97  The Who - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
11/01/97 Kansas - Treasure Island Casino Red Wing, MN
11/2/97  Dream Theater/Big Wreck - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
11/18/97 Yes - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN

1998 (2)
8/23/98 Deep Purple/Emerson Lake and Palmer/Dream Theater - Grand Casino Hinckley, MN
10/19/98 King's X/Galactic Cowboys - Ground Zero Minneapolis, MN

1999 (1)
2/2/99 King's X/Galactic Cowboys - Medina Ballroom Minneapolis, MN

2000 (6)
2/11/00 Dream Theater/The Dixie Dregs/The Star People - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
6/16/00 North East Art Rock Festival
Happy the Man/Anekdoten/Iluvatar/DFA/North Star - Zoellner Arts Center Bethlehem, PA
6/17/00 North East Art Rock Festival
Transatlantic/Par Lindh Project/Il Balletto Di Bronzo/Thinking Plague/Nexus - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA
8/13/00 Dream Theater - The Quest Minneapolis, MN
8/15/00 King's X/Podunk - The Quest Minneapolis, MN
12/ /00 Chick Corea - The Dakota Jazz Club St.Paul, MN

2001 (14)
2/23/01 Prog Power USA
Symphony X/Jag Panzer/Reading Zero/Onward/Etheria/ - JJ Kelley's Lansing, IL
2/24/01 Prog Power USA
Pain of Salvation/Evergrey/Ion Vein/Power of Omens/Zero Hour JJ Kelley's Lansing, IL
5/5/01 Savatage/Fates Warning - The Lab St.Paul, MN
5/01 Bill Bruford's Earthworks - The Dakota Jazz Club St.Paul, MN
5/30/01 Yo-Yo Ma - The Ordway Theater St.Paul, MN
6/23/01 North East Art Rock Festival
Porcupine Tree/Deus Ex Machina/White Willow/Under the Sun/Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Zoellner Arts Center Bethlehem, PA
6/24/01 North East Art Rock Festival
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso/After Crying/California Guitar Trio/Djam Karet/The Underground Railroad - Zoellner Arts Center Bethlehem, PA
7/26/01 Spock's Beard/Event - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
8/23/01 East Meets Jazz - The Dakota Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN
9/14/01 The Flower Kings/ - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
10/26/01 Tim Reynolds/Greg Howard - The Women's Club Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/5/01 King's X/Moke - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
11/10/01 Prog Power USA
Kamelot/Evergrey/Steel Prophet/Spiral Architect/Superior - Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
11/21/01 King Crimson/John Paul Jones - Grand Ballroom in River Center St.Paul, MN


2002 (18)
3/13/02 Dream Theater - The Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
3/22/02 Collective Unconscious performs The Beatles Abbey Road - Bryant Lake Bowl Minneapolis, MN
5/30/02 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Bubblemath - The Lab St.Paul, MN
6/17/02 King's X/Tapping the Vein - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/29/02 North East Art Rock Festival
Nektar/Echolyn/Miriodor/Isildurs Bane/La Torre dell'alchimista/ - Patriots Theater Trenton, NJ
6/30/02 North East Art Rock Festival
Steve Hackett/Caravan/Enchant/Gerard/Spaced Out - Patriots Theater Trenton, NJ
7/19/02 Kansas - Hennepin Ave Block Party Minneapolis, MN
8/2/02 George Duke/Jeff Kashiwa/California Guitar Trio - Old Chicago Navarre Uptown Art Fair Minneapolis, MN
8/26/02 The Victor Wooten Band/ - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/6/02 Scott Henderson Trio/Dean Magraw and Jim Anton - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
10/9/02 Tried for Fine/Bubblemath - The Uptown Bar Minneapolis, MN
11/2/02 Rush - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
11/8/02 Herbie Hancock - Ted Mann Concert Hall Minneapolis, MN
11/15/02 Prog Power USA
Blind Guardian/Pain of Salvation/Edguy/Silent Force/Zero Hour - Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
11/16/02 Prog Power USA
Angra/Gamma Ray/The Devin Townsend Band/Threshold/Reading Zero - Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
11/18/02 Porcupine Tree/Greg Howard - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
11/23/02 Yes - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
12/ /02 State 4/Little Tin Box - 4th Street Station St.Paul, MN
2003 (27-29)
1/11/03 Dean Magraw with Randy Sabien and Jim Anton - Weisman Art Museum Minneapolis, MN
1/24/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
1/31/03 Vulvox/Trend 86 - The Uptown Bar Minneapolis, MN
2/4/03 Larry Coryell - The Dakota Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN
2/28/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
3/18/03 Bireli Lagrene - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
3/28/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
4/25/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
5/20/03 Opeth/Lacuna Coil - The Quest Club Minneapolis, MN
5/23/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
5/28/03 Iced Ink/Sacred Ground (Beef) - 4th Street Station St.Paul, MN
6/20/03 Courtney Yasmineh w/ Dean Magraw - The Bean and Wine Cafe Excelsior, MN
7/26/03 Porcupine Tree/Opeth - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
7/29/03 Roy Haynes - The Dakota Jazz Club - St.Paul, MN
7/31/03 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - The Weesner Amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo Apple Valley, MN
8/4/03 Peter Frampton - Mystic Lake Casino Prior Lake, MN
8/13/03 Steve Hackett - Borders Books Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN
9/11/03 California Guitar Trio - Sartell, MN

9/15/02 Oregon at The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
9/29/03 Remember Shakti - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN
9/ /03    Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer - St.Benedict College St.Joseph, MN
10/10/03 The Mars Volta/Saul Williams - The Quest Minneapolis, MN
10/25/03 King's X/Fishbone - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
10/30/03 Ian Anderson - The Fitzgerald Theater St.Paul, MN
10/ /03   Jean-Luc Ponty - Rossi's Blue Star Room Minneapolis, MN
11/5/03  Hammer of the Gods - BB Kings New York City, NY
11/23/03 Iced Ink/Sacred Ground (beef)/Lost Mind Found - 4th Street Station St.Paul, MN

Unclear:
Rachel Z - The Dakota Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN
Jean-Luc Ponty - The Fitzgerald Theater St.Paul,MN
2004 (16-17)
1/10/04 Jon Anderson - Keswick Theatre Glendale, PA
3/13/04 Dream Theater - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
3/24/04 The Musical Box - The Pabst Theatre Milwaukee, WI
4/14/04 California Guitar Trio - Paramount Theatre St.Cloud, MN
5/ /04    Iced Ink/Odds Vs./Lost Mind Found
5/16/04 King's X/Serotone - The Rock Maplewood, MN
*5/18/04 Opeth - The Quest Club Minneapolis, MN
7/18/04 Eric Clapton/Robert Randolph and the Family Band - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
7/27/04 Ozric Tentacles - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
8/24/04 Deep Purple/Joe Satriani/Thin Lizzy - XCel Energy Center St,Paul, MN
9/7/04  Yes/Dream Theater - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
9/17/04 Prog Power USA
Edguy/Pain of Salvation/Brainstorm/Wuthering Heights/Adagio- Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
9/18/04 Prog Power USA
Weapons of Mass Destruction (Savatage)/Kamelot/Tad Morose/Dreamscape/Into Eternity - Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
9/30/04 Brian Wilson - Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
10/2/04 Marillion/John Wesley Park West Chicago, IL
10/22/04 California Guitar Trio - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

Unclear: Likely November or maybe March as they toured the US during those times:
The Australian Pink Floyd - The State Theater Minneapolis, MN

2005 (17-18)
2/17/05 Umphrey's McGee - The Quest Club Minneapolis, MN
2/22/05 Pat Metheny Group - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN

05/06/05 dredg/Vedera - The Ascot Room Minneapolis, MN
5/19/05 The Mars Volta - Roy Wilkins Auditorium St.Paul, MN
5/29/05 Porcupine Tree/Salubrious Invertebrae - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
6/19/05 Marillion (Los Marillios Trios)/Jason Hart - The Double Door Chicago, IL
6/25/05 The Moody Blues - Northrop Auditorium Minneapolis, MN
7/3/05 Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Weesner Amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo Apple Valley, MN
7/24/05 Gigantour
Dream Theater - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irivine, CA
9/8/05 The Victor Wooten Band/MC Divinity - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
9/18/05 Cygnus and the Seamonsters/George Brooks Summit - The Vic Theater Chicago, IL
9/23/05 System of a Down/The Mars Volta - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
10/22/05 Steve Hackett - Rossi's Blue Star Room Minneapolis, MN
11/6/05   The Australian Pink Floyd - The Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
11/19/05 Jethro Tull - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
11/19/05 Wishbone Ash - Star Central Minneapolis, MN
11/20/05 King's X/Casanatra - Star Central Minneapolis, MN

Unclear:
Machinery Hill - The Riverview Cafe Minneapolis, MN
2006 (29)
2/10/06 Mutemath/Vedera - The Ascot Room Minneapolis, MN
2/25/06 California Guitar Trio - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
3/17/06 Dream Theater - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
4/17/06 Three - 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
4/18/06 dredg/Ours - The Metro Chicago, IL
5/18/06 Mutemath/Under the Influence of Giants - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
6/11/06 Bruce Springsteen performs Pete Seeger - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
7/2/06   Roger Hodgson - Harriest Island at the Taste of Minnesota St.Paul, MN
7/2/06   Davy Jones - Harriet Island at the Taste of Minnesota St.Paul, MN
7/26/06 Muse/The Cloud Room - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
8/10/06 Live - Myth Maplewood, MN
8/12/06 Kaddisfly - Profile Center Minneapolis, MN
8/23/06 Mae/The New Amsterdamns/Vedera - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
8/30/06 Umphrey's McGee - Minnesota State Fair Falcon Heights, MN
9/01/06 Head Automatica/Men Women and Children - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
9/14/06 dredg/Portugal the Man - The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA
9/15/06 dredg/Portugal the Man - The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA
10/05/06 Kasabian/Mew The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
10/06/06 Mutemath - The Loft at Barfly Minneapolis, MN
10/19/06 Opus Dai - The Toybox Minneapolis, MN
10/20/06 Zappa Plays Zappa - The Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
10/26/06 Kaddisfly/Cue the Doves - The Toybox Minneapolis, MN
10/26/06 Mew - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
10/29/06 Anathallo/Fitzgerald - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/6/06   King's X - The Rock Maplewood, MN
11/12/06 The Decemberists - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
11/13/06 Under the Influence of Giants - The Loft at Barfly Minneapolis, MN
11/20/06 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's/Elected - Modified Tempe, AZ
12/8/06   The Who - XCel Energy Center St.Paul,MN


2007 (32)
2/14/07 Dir En Grey/Fair to Midland - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
4/23/07 The Dear Hunter (Say Anything/Saves the Day/Meg and Dia) - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
4/05/07 Mutemath - The Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN
5/10/07 Andy McKee/Antoine Dufour - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
6/16/07 Fair to Midland/69 Eyes - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
7/3/07 The Police/Fiction Plane - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
7/5/07   Ours/April Bauer - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
7/24/07 St.Vincent - 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
8/9/07   Dream Theater/Redemption/Into Eternity - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
8/23/07 Fair to Midland/Far From Falling - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
9/6/07  The Receiving End of Sirens/Envy on the Coast/Emanuel/Middle Class Rut - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
9/9/07   Rush - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
9/12/07  Editors/Biffy Clyro - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
10/14/07 Pat Metheny Group/ Nachito Herrara - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN
10/16/07 The New Pornographers/Benjy Ferree/Emma Pollock - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/19/07 The Polyphonic Spree/Rooney/The Redwalls/Person to Person - The Pantages Theatre Minneapolis, MN
10/21/07 Between the Buried and Me/Horse the Band/Animosity/Giants - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
10/23/07 Figurines/The Appleseed Cast/Dappled Cities - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
10/23/07 Do Make Say Think/Apostle of Hustle - The Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN
10/26/07 Empires/Nomia - Memory Lanes Minneapolis, MN
10/27/07 Minus the Bear/The Helio Sequence/Grand Archives - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/31/07 Al Di Meola - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
11/6/07   Behemoth/Job for a Cowboy/Gojira/Beneath the Massacre - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
11/07/07 Annuals (soundcheck) - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/07/07 Dethklok - Coffman Memorial Union Minneapolis, MN
11/07/07 Battles/White Williams - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
11/14/07 Nonpoint/Skindred/Karnivool - The Rock Nightclub Maplewood, MN
11/16/07 Blues Traveler/Lisa Bouchelle - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
11/17/07 Enslaved/Arsis/The Faceless/The Agonist - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
11/18/07 RX Bandits/Men Women and Children/Nurses - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
12/1/07  Particle/House of Fools - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
12/16/07 Fair to Midland/Resident Hero - Station 4 St.Paul, MN

2008(36)
2/8/08 Marilyn Manson/Ours - Myth Maplewood, MN
2/22/08 St.Vincent/Foreign Born - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
2/13/08 uneXpect/Visideon/Echoes of Eternity - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
2/25/08 Nicole Atkins and the Sea - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
3/1/08 Russian Circles/Dalek/Young Widow - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
3/24/08 Black Mountain/Nordic Nomadic/Birds of Avalon - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis,MN
4/7/08 Dimmu Borgir/Behemoth/Keeper of Kalessin - Myth Maplewood, MN
4/8/08 Baroness/Genghis Tron/ - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
4/8/08 Between Two Skies
4/11/08 Kansas - Mystic Lake Casino Prior Lake, MN

4/20/08 - The Fall of Troy/Tera Melos/The Dear Hunter/Foxy Shazam The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
5/7/08 The Swell Season - The Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
5/12/08 Progressive Nation
Dream Theater/Opeth/Between the Buried and Me/3 Myth Maplewood, MN
5/12/08 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
5/22/08 Rush - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
5/29/08 Kaddisfly/Between Two Skies - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
6/12/08 Ours/Plain Jane Automobile/God or Julie - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
6/13/08 Annuals - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
6/19/08 Return to Forever - The Orpheum Theate Minneapolis, MN
6/25/08 Liquid Tension Experiment - Park West Chicago, IL
6/28/08 Fair to Midland/Far From Falling - The Rock - Maplewood, MN
7/6/08 Umphrey's McGee - Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre Apple Valley, MN
7/22/08 The Apples in Stereo/Poison Control Center/Big Fresh - The Turf Club St.Paul,MN
9/6/08 Jenny Dalton/Murzik/Lamb Lays with Lion - The Ritz Theater Minneapolis,MN
9/7/08 Eight-Head - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
9/22/08 Cavil at Rest - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
9/26/08 Nordic Roots Festival
Vasen - The Cedar Cultural Center
9/28/08 Nordic Roots Festival
Hoven Droven/Hurdy Gurdy - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/02/08 Three/Tub Ring - 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
10/10/08 Oceans - Ogara's Bar and Grill St.Paul, MN
10/15/08 Minus the Bear/Annuals - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/21/08 Ours - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/31/08 We Valedictorians - The Music Box Theatre Minneapolis, MN
10/31/08 Vulnerata - Big V's St.Paul, MN
11/17/08 dredg/Judgement Day - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
12/5/08 Amanda Palmer - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

2009 (41)
1/12/09 Jeremy Messersmith/Best Friends Forever/Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
1/22/09 Greg Herriges - Celtic Junction St.Paul, MN
2/01/09 Umphrey's McGee - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
2/13/09 Delta Spirit/Other Lives - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
3/1/09 Collective Unconscious performs The Beatles Abbey Road - St. Joan of Arch Church Minneapolis, MN
3/20/09 Collective Unconscious performs Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water - Little Falls High School Little Falls, MN
4/5/09 Fair to Midland/Far From Falling - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
4/9/09 Bloc Party - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
4/10/09 dredg/Torche/From Monuments to Masses - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
4/11/09 Paper Route/Brooke Waggoner - Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
4/19/09 Robyn Hitchcock/Adam Levy - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
5/2/09 Elvis Perkins/Other Lives/Dawes - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
5/9/09 Between Two Skies - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
5/15/09 Protest the Hero/Misery Signals/The Number Twelve Looks Like You/Fall From Grace - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
5/22/09 The Bewitched/Natalie Lovejoy - Bryant Lake Bowl Minneapolis, MN
5/28/09 Doves - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
6/04/09 St.Vincent - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/6/09 What's That? (Radiohead Tribute)/Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute) - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
6/10/09 Ozric Tentacles - The Loft at Barfly Minneapolis, MN
6/13/09 Within Reason/Janus/Pop Evil - The Rock Night Clun Maplewood, MN
6/17/09 Blind Pilot/Local Natives - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
6/20/09 Red Pens/Total Babe - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
6/21/09 Hiromi's Sonic Bloom - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
*6/23/09 King's X/B!Cold Colours - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
7/2/09 mewithoutYou/Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
7/24/09 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute) - The Lowry Theater St.Paul, MN
8/8/09 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute)/Animus (Dream Theater tribute) - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
8/9/09 dredg/RX Bandits/As Tall as Lions - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
8/21/09 Progressive Nation
Dream Theater/Zappa Plays Zappa/BigElf/Scale the Summit - Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
8/30/09  Do the Dean
Boiled In Lead /Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard/Greg Herriges Trio/Diane Jarvi/ AntonCafé Accordion Orchestra/Marc Anderson, JT Bates and Jim Anton/Laura Mackenzie and Dáithí Sproule/Marcus Wise and Mike Salovich/Nirmala Rajesakar and Marcus Wise/Elgin Foster/Tim Sparks/The Petesons/Axis Mundi/Eric Hohn and Blair Krivanek/ Lehto and Wright/Eastside/Dakota Dave Hull - Celtic Junction St.Paul, MN
9/9/09 Ramona Falls - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
9/11/09 Prog Power USA
Crimson Glory Tribute/Royal Hunt/Sabaton/Diablo Swing Orchestra/Mindflow/Cage - Center Stage Atlanta, GA
9/12/09 Prog Power USA
Fates Warning/Brainstorm/Pagan's Mind/Orphaned Land/Circus Maximus - Center Stage Atlanta, GA
9/30/09 The Dear Hunter/The Felix Culpa/Empires - The Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN
10/12/09 Fair to Midland/The House Harkonnen/Far From Falling - The Rock Maplewood, MN
10/13/09 School of Seven Bells/Warpaint/The Depreciation Guild - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
10/17/09 Mutemath/As Tall as Lions - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/29/09 The Bewitched - The Bryant Lake Bowl Minneapolis, MN
11/8/09 Steely Dan - Northrop Auditorium Minneapolis, MN
11/24/09 Soap performs Pink Floyd's Animals - Downtime Bar and Grill Minneapolis, MN
11/29/09 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros/Fool's Gold/Local Natives - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

2010 (33)
1/9/10 Lehto and Wright - Celtic Junction St.Paul, MN
3/2/10 Laura Veirs/The Old Believers/Cataldo - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
3/15/10 The Clientele/Field Music - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
3/17/10 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute)
3/25/10 Afton Showcase (We Valedictorians/Total Babe/Howler) - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
4/7/10  As Tall As Lions/Bad Veins - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
4/7/10  Judgement Day - The 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
4/10/10 Rocky Votolato/Brooke Waggoner - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
4/12/10 Fair to Midland/Karnivool/Something to Burn - The Rock Nightclub Maplewood, MN
4/20/10 The Antlers - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
5/1/10 The Apples in Stereo/Generationals/Laminated Cat - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
5/8/10  The Most Serene Republic/Annuals - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
5/14/10 Howler - The Beat Coffee House Minneapolis, MN
5/14/10 Greg Laswell/Jimmy Gnecco/Brian Wright - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
5/17/10 Local Natives - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
6/11/10 The New Pornographers/My Gold Mask - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/12/10 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute) - Tuttle's Hopkins, MN
6/29/10 Renaissance/Steve Hackett - Park West Chicago, IL
7/1/10 Styx/Kansas - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
7/18/10 Wolf Parade/The Mools - First Avenue Minneapolis,MN
7/30/10 Cynic/Intronaut/Dysrhythmia - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
8/16/10 Jon Anderson - The Guthrie Theater Minneapolis, MN
8/22/10 Do the Dean
Boiled in Lead/Kari Tauring with Drew Miller/Frank Boyle and His Eminent Acoustic Entourage/Dakota Dave Hull/Prudence Johnson/Anthony Cox/Hart Lieberman and Smith/Marcus Wise/Laura Mackenzie/Marc Anderson/Eric Hohn/Elgin Foster/Greg Herriges/Cory Wong/
Lehto and Wright - Celtic Junction St.Paul, MN
8/24/10 East of the Wall/Iron Thrones/name - Tarnish and Gold Minneapolis, MN
8/27/10 Rush - Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Falcon Heights, MN
9/3/10 Karnivool - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
9/19/10 School of Seven Bells/Active Child - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
9/18/10 Katatonia/Orphaned Land - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
9/23/10 Menomena/Tu Fawning The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/1/10 Local Natives - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
11/9/10 Dean Magraw and Marcus Wise - The Artists' Quarter St.Paul, MN
11/17/10 Circa Survive/dredg/Codeseven/Animals as Leaders - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
11/18/10 Cloud Cult - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

2011 (35)
1/24/11 School of Seven Bells/Mystery Palace - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
2/17/11 Deerhoof/Ben Butler and Mouse Pad/Heatdeath - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
3/1/11 Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea/Buffalo Moon/Cotton Jones - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
3/4/11 Menomena/Cloak Ox - The Whole Music Club Minneapolis, MN
3/19/11 The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
3/19/11 Brute Heart/The Great Confinement/The Funeral and the Twilight - The Kitty Cat Klub Minneapolis,MN
3/24/11 Fair to Midland/Periphery/Scale the Summit - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
3/26/11 Judgement Day/Metropolis/Ruth and Rosie/The Gatino Quartet - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
5/13/11 Dean Magraw's Red Planet - The Artists' Quarter St.Paul, MN
5/14/11 Brute Heart/Tender Meat/Lighted/Patches/Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
5/19/11 Progasm
Orphan Bloom/Watercolors/The Royal Veil/Brice Plays Drums - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
6/4/11 Raphael Saadiq - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
6/25/11 Zebulon Pike/The Book of Right On/Battlefields - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
6/29/11 Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
7/16/11 Fair to Midland/10 Years/Kyng - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
7/2/11 The Monkees - The Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater Apple Valley, MN
7/22/11 The Dear Hunter - The Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN
7/29/11 Cloud Cult/Caroline Smith - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN
8/13/11 Chris Isaak - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
8/24/11 Return to Forever/Zappa Plays Zappa - The Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN
9/7/11 Vasen - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/1/11 The Besnard Lakes/Malajube - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
10/2/11 St.Vincent/Cate Le Bon - McGuire Theater Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
10/2/11 St.Vincent/Cate Le Bon - McGuire Theater Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
10/6/11 Kaki King - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/7/11 Opeth/Katatonia - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/10/11 Minus the Bear/The Velvet Teen - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/30/11 East of the Wall/Iron Thrones/Witchden/Earthrise - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
11/4/11 Boogie Wonderland - Minnesota Music Cafe St.Paul, MN
11/5/11 Manchester Orchestra/The Dear Hunter/White Denim - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
11/11/11 The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra/Trent Romens/Karmic Sound System/Z-Puppets Rosenschnoz - The Ritz Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/13/11 Cynic/Three/Scale the Summit - Station 4 St.Paul, MN
11/25/11 Rush Heads/Quadrant 4 - The Red Parrot Eau Claire, WI
12/13/11 Fair to Midland/Dead Letter Circus/Aficionado/Throw the Fight - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
12/17/11 The Book of Right On/Kill the Vultures/Gay Witch Abortion - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

2012 (32)
2/18/12 Mutemath/Canon Blue - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
3/3/12 Memoryhouse - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
3/28/12 Timbre/Samuel Lockridge/Amy Courts - The Beat Coffee House Minneapolis, MN
4/4/12 Gotye/Kimbra - Epic Minneapolis, MN
4/28/12 Fountains of Wayne/Nicole Atkins - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
5/18/12 Mayer Hawthorne and the County/The Stepkids - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/1/12 Jon Anderson - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
6/5/12 Ramona Falls/The Darcy's - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
6/6/12 Soap performs Pink Floyd's Animals - The Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
6/22/12 Marillion - Park West Chicago, IL
6/23/12 Marillion - Park West Chicago, IL
6/27/12 Dream Theater - State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
7/10/12 Ours - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
8/16/12 Brice Plays Drums/Super Pilots/Peregrine Perspective/There Are No Words - The 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
8/18/12 Randy Brecker/Super Pilots - Nicollet Commons Park Burnsville, MN
8/21/12 Dean Magraw - Cafe Maude Minneapolis, MN
8/24/12 Media Addicts - The Artists' Quarter St.Paul, MN
8/27/12 The Turtles/Micky Dolenz/Gary Puckett - Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Falcon Heights, MN
9/4/12 Dean Magraw with Davu Seru - Black Dog Cafe St.Paul, MN
9/22/12 Kansas/King's X - Myth Maplewood, MN
9/24/12 Rush - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
10/3/12 Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra/The Ronald Reagans First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
10/6/12 Timbre - The Lion's Lair Northfield, MN
10/12/12 Debashish Bhattacharya/Steve Sklar/Johnna Morrow - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/16/12 Kimbra/The Stepkids - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/20/12 Menomena/PVT - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
10/26/12 Poncho Sanchez - The Ordway Theater St.Paul, MN
10/29/12 Brute Heart performs live score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/MAKR - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
11/8/12 Ramona Falls/The Helio Sequence - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
11/15/12 The Monkees - The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
11/27/12 The Who - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
12/19/12 Billy Graczyk - The Artists' Quarter St.Paul, MN
2013 (33)
1/19/13 The Champions of Nothing: Kevin Gilbert Tribute - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
1/23/13 Ramona Falls/Wolfhoppers/Prissy Clerks - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
2/10/13 Coheed and Cambria/Between the Buried and Me/Russian Circles - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
3/20/13 Bend Sinister - JBTV Studios Chicago, IL
3/20/13 Bend Sinister/Single Channel Stereo - Township Chicago, IL
3/23/13 Local Natives/Superhumanoids - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
4/5/13 Michael Nesmith - The Fitzgerald Theater St.Paul, MN
4/14/13 The Dear Hunter/Naive Thieves - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
4/25/13 Mindless Self Indulgence/The Red Paintings - Mill City Nights Minneapolis, MN
5/4/13 Steven Wilson - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
5/17/13 Laura Stevenson/Field Mouse - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
5/20/13 Foals/Surfer Blood/Blondfire - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/15/13 Josh Rouse/Field Report - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
6/15/13 Josh Rouse/Field Report - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
6/17/13 Fitz and the Tantrums/ Sons of Valory/Ivy Levan - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
6/28/13 The Polyphonic Spree - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
6/30/13 Wishbone Ash/Nektar - Famous Dave's Calhoun Square Minneapolis, MN
8/9/13   Yes - Mystic Lake Casino Prior Lake, MN
9/15/13 Debashish Bhattacharya's Modern India - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
9/17/13 The Dear Hunter/Rogue Valley - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
9/19/13 Typhoon/Radiation City - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
9/22/13 David Cassidy/Peter Noone/Micky Dolenz - Grand Casino Hinckley, MN
9/22/13 Anathema/Alcest - Mill City Nights Minneapolis, MN
10/1/13 Billy Cobham - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
10/11/13 Between the Buried and Me/The Faceless/The Contortionist/The Safety Fire - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/16/13 Radical Face/Jonny Rodgers - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/22/13 Janelle Monae/Strange Names - The Skyway Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/1/13  Living Colour - Mill City Nights Minneapolis, MN
11/16/13 Umami/Aaron and the Sea/Genders - Kitty Cat Klub Minneapolis, MN
11/20/13 Miracles of Modern Science/The Loose Cannons - The Lion's Pause Northfield, MN
11/21/13 Fitz and the Tantrums/Capital Cities/Beat Club - Myth Maplewood, MN
11/24/13 Michael Nesmith - Turner Hall Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
11/30/13 Goblin/Zombi - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
12/12/13 Boiled in Lead: Acoustic Yule- Celtic Junction St.Paul, MN
2014 (27)
2/13//14 Mayer Hawthorne - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
3/7/14  The Musical Box - The Skyway Theatre Minneapolis, MN
3/21/14 Led Zeppelin 2 - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
3/29/14 Warpaint//Cate Le Bon - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
3/30/14 Bend Sinister - The Turf Club - St.Paul, MN
4/8/14  Dream Theater - Performing Arts Center Burnsville, MN
4/23/14 XTC Tribute: Senses Working Overtime 2 - The Icehouse Minneapolis, MN
5/15/14 Cage the Elephant/Foals/J Roddy Watson and the Business - Myth Maplewood, MN
5/16/14 Chromeo/Oliver - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
6/2/14 The Monkees - The Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater Apple Valley, MN
6/6/14 Mother Falcon/The Family Crest - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
6/9/14  Elvis Costello - O'Shaughnessy Auditorium - St.Paul, MN
6/18/14 Agalloch/Blood and Sun/Obsidian Tongue - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
6/29/14 Michael McDonald - Mystic Lake Casino Prior Lake, MN
7/18/14 The Human Empire/Narrow Vines/RisingSide - Minnesota Music Cafe St.Paul, MN
7/25/14 Yes/Syd Arthur - Overture Hall Madison, WI
8/23/14 Nomia/Hardcore Crayons/Morality Crisis/More is More - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
9/7/14 Genders/Strange Relations - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
9/9/14 The Mercury Tree/Brice Plays Drums - Whiskey Junction Minneapolis, MN
9/27/14 A Progressive Soundscape Evening
Scotty Horey/Rising Side/Harakiri - Old Arizona Minneapolis, MN
10/8/14 Motopony/The Family Crest - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/10/14 Sloan - The Turf Club St.Paul, MN
10/17/14 Marketa Irglova/Rosi Golan - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
10/30/14 Kimbra/Empress Of - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
11/9/14 Captial Cities/Cherub/Night Terrors of 1927 - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

12/12/14 Greg Herriges at Dreamland Arts St.Paul, MN
12/13/14 The Birthday Massacre/The Red Paintings - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN


2015 (16)
2.20/15 Zoso: Led Zeppelin Tribute - Mill City Nights Minneapolis, MN
3/29/15 Stevie Wonder - Target Center Minneapolis, MN
5/5/15 XTC Tribute: Senses Working Overtime - The Icehouse Minneapolis, MN
5/12/15 Rush - XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN
6/5/15 Josh Rouse/Walter Martin - The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
6/7/15 Steven Wilson - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
7/6/15 The Family Crest/The Lonely Wild - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
7/24/15 This Will Destroy You/The Velvet Teen - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis,MN
8/26/15 Brice Plays Drums/The Mercury Tree/The Bob Pat Band - The Nomad World Pub Minneapolis, MN
9/13/15 The Dear Hunter/Chon - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
9/18/15 Micky Dolenz - St Croix Casino Turtle Lake, WI

9/22/15 Miracles of Modern Science at Honey Minneapolis, MN
10/5/15 Mew/The Dodos - The Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
11/2/15 The Bird and the Bee/Alex Lilly - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
11/23/15 Between the Buried and Me/Enslaved/Intronaut/Native Construct - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/30/15 Charlie Engen Recital/McNally Smith College Auditorium St.Paul, MN

2016 (13)

2/11/16 Godspeed You Black Emperor/Xylouris White - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

2/26/16 Voivod/Vektor/Eight Bells at the Amsterdam Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN

3/12/16 Cloud Cult at the State Theater Minneapolis, MN

4/3/16 Mutemath/Paper Route at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

4/5/16 The Joy Formidable/Everything Everything at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

5/10/16 Anderson/Ponty at the Ames Center in Burnsville, MN

6/2/16 Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists St. Louis Park, MN

7/23/16 Duran Duran/Nile Rodgers at the XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN

8/5/16 Bubblemath/Faun Fables/Paul Fonfara at the Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN

8/22/16 Periphery/SikTh at The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

8/25/16 King's X/OvrFwrd/Meridian Incident at The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN

10/24/16 Mayer Hawthorne at the Skyway Theater Minneapolis, MN

10/28/16 Marillion/John Wesley at the Vic Theatre Chicago, IL

2017 (15)

4/4/17 Biffy Clyro/O'Brother at the Turf Club St.Paul, MN

4/29/17 XTC An All Star Tribute - Senses Working Overtime 5 at the Turf Club St.Paul, MN

5/11/17 Hall and Oates/Tears for Fears at the XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN

5/13/17 Coheed and Cambria/Between the Buried and Me/The Dear Hunter at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

5/20/17 The Family Crest/Trevor Sensor at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

6/12/17 Tuxedo at The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN

6/26/17 King Crimson at the State Theater Minneapolis, MN

7/24/17 Bent Knee/Airlands/Oklahoma at the 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN

8/13/17 Mew at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

8/17/17 Neal Morse Band Amsterdam Bar and Hall St.Paul, MN

8/24/17 The Pointer Sisters at Leinie Lodge at the Minnesota State Fair Falcon Heights, MN

8/27/17 Jason Richardson/The Reign of Kindo/Umi/Stolas at The Amsterdam Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN

9/16/17 Snarky Puppy/Michelle Willis at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

11/14/17 Ne Obliviscaris/Allegaeon at The Amsterdam Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN

12/1/17 Greg Herriges at Dreamland Arts St.Paul, MN

2018 (17)

1/12/18 Deng Ol' Tri'ole at Hook and Ladder Minneapolis, MN

1/17/18 Typhoon/Sunbathe at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

1/28/18 Michael Nesmith and the First National Band at the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA

2/5/18 Kimbra at The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

3/3/18 Between the Buried and Me/The Dear Hunter/Leprous at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

3/25/18 Protest the Hero/Thank You Scientist/Closure in Moscow at The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

4/7/18 Cloud Cult at Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN

4/29/18 Jessie Ware/Albin Lee Meldau - The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

5/19/18 Josh Rouse at the Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

6/14/18 The Mike and Micky Show at the Copernicus Center Chicago, IL

7/10/18 Bent Knee/Gatherers/Bubblemath at the 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN

7/20/18 Raphael Saadiq/Ali Shaheed Muhammad at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

8/8/18 The Family Crest/Wilkinson James at the Turf Club St.Paul, MN

10/20/18 Josh Rouse/Grant Lee Phillips at The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

10/21/18 Phil Collins at Target Center Minneapolis, MN

10/23/18 Soft Machine/Beledo at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

12/21/18 Stella Roma (Greg Herriges) at Dreamland Arts St.Paul, MN

2019 (14)

3/7/19 Jimmy Gnecco/Royston Langdon at the 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN

3/14/19 The Mike and Micky Show at Mystic Lake Casino Prior Lake, MN

3/16/19 Queensryche/Fates Warning at Medina Entertainment Center Medina, MN

4/3/19 Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets at the Orpheum Theater Minneapolis, MN

4/20/19 Jon Anderson at The Fitzgerald Theater St.Paul, MN

4/25/19 Thank You Scientist/Kindo/In the Presence of Wolves at The Amsterdam Bar and Grille

4/30/19 Foals/Preoccupations/Omni at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

5/31/19 PG13 (Peter Gabriel Tribute) at Patrick's Cabaret Minneapolis, MN

8/9/19 Kindo/Sirintip/Rocco of the Snow/Adrian Bellue at the Skyway Theater Minneapolis, MN

8/11/19 The Bird and the Bee/Samantha Sidley/Alex Lilly at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

8/14/19 Tuxedo at The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

10/1/19 Billy Cobham Crosswinds Project feat. Randy Brecker at the Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

10/7/19 Steve Hackett at The Pantages Theater Minneapolis, MN

10/9/19 Big Wreck at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

2020 (2)

2/13/20 The Family Crest/Brian Just at the 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN

2/16/20 Lehto and Wright at Hook and Ladder Minneapolis, MN

2021 (4)

10/20/21 Josh Rouse at The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

11/6/21 The Monkees Present the Mike and Micky Show at The Riverside Theatre Milwaukee, WI

11/7/21 The Monkees Present the Mike and Micky Show at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN

11/19/21 Mayer Hawthorne at The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN

2022 (9)

4/8/22 Whose Live Anyway? at The Fitzgerald Theater St.Paul, MN

4/12/22 Ours at Amsterdam Bar and Hall St.Paul, MN

4/16/22 Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees at Overture Center Madison, WI 4/21/22 Alan Parsons Project at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN 4/27/22 The Warning at The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN 7/13/22 Adrian Belew at the Turf Club St.Paul, MN 9/9/22 Josh Rouse at The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN 10/4/22 Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN 10/25/22 EXTC: XTC's Terry Chambers at The Parkway Theater Minneapolis, MN

2023 (13)

2/21/23 Kimbra/Tei Shei at The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN

3/22/23 Toto at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN

4/7/23 Black Belt Eagle Scout The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

4/23/23 Micky Dolenz at The Pabst Theater Milwaukee, WI

4/29/23 Micky Dolenz at The Pantages Theater Minneapolis, MN

5/30/23 Janet Jackson at XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN

7/7/23 Ours at The Amsterdam Bar and Hall St.Paul, MN

7/12/23 The Family Crest/Scalise at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

8/18/23 Local Natives at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

9/16/23 The Mavericks/McKinley James at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN

10/3/23 Peter Gabriel at XCel Energy Center St.Paul, MN

10/13/23 Everything Everything at The Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

10/25/23 The Dear Hunter/Delta Sleep at The Amsterdam Bar and Hall St.Paul, MN

2024 (12)

2/4/24 Mayer Hawthorne/Chulita Vinyl Club at The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
2/19/24 Squid/Water From Your Eyes at The Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN

3/8/24 Ronny Chieng at The State Theatrer Minneapolis, MN
4/8/24 Raul Malo The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

5/10/24 Whose Live Anyway at the State Theatre Minneapolis, MN
7/7/24 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis at the Taste of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
7/9/24 The Family Crest/Ben Noble at the Turf Club St.Paul, MN
7/18/24 America at the State Theater Minneapolis, MN

10/4/24 David Cross and Lark's Tongue band The Granada Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/10/24 Josh Rouse at The Parkway Theater Minneapolis, MN
10/14/24 Chromeo/The Midnight at The Palace Theater St.Paul, MN
11/4/24 BEAT (Discipiline King Crimson without Fripp) at The State Theatre Minneapolis, MN

2025 (9)

3/8/25 Kumail Nanjiani The Pantages Theater Minneapolis, MN

4/5/25 Whose Live is it Anyway The Orpheum Theater Mnneapolis, MN

5/9/25 Squid at The Turf Club St.Paul, MN

6/18/25 The Family Crest at The Turf Club St. Paul, MN

9/7/25 Fluffy Treasure island Casino Red Wing, MN 9/9/25 Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - The White Squirrel Bar St.Paul, MN

10/26/26 The Life and Music of George Michael The Pantages Theatre Minneapolis, MN

10/30/25 Lehto & Wright Lakeshore Players Theatre White Bear Lake, MN

11/2/26 Purple Rain the musical The State Theater Minneapolis, MN

2026 (23)

1/15/26 Those Medley Kids  (Fragile)- The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

2/14/26 The Curse of the Vampire Orchestra performs a new score to Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" - The Capri Theater Mnneapolis, MN

2/21/26 Esperanza Spalding - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

3/21/26 Boiled in Lead/Pop Wagner/Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band - The Parkway Theater Minneapolis, MN 

4/5/26 Jane Siberry - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
4/18/26 The Dang Ol Triole - Hell's Kitchen Minneapolis, MN

5/23/26 Joe Jackson - The Pantages Theater Minneapolis, MN
5/31/26 Violins of Hope - Sundin Hall at Hamline University Saint Paul, MN
6/10/26 Inara George (of The Bird and the Bee) -  The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

6/15/26 Kinga Glyk - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

6/25/26 Those Medley Kids (Selling England by the Pound) Crooners Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
7/9/26 BZ3 Organ Trio - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN

7/12/26 Second Hand Dan - Aster Cafe Minneapolis, MN
7/18/26 After Ten - Max's Social House Hudson, WI
7/22/26 The Family Crest - The 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN

8/11/26 Stanley Clarke - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
8/15/26 Mohini Dey - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
8/21/26 In Your Eyes: Peter Gabriel tribute - Crooners Jazz Clubs Minneapolis, MN

8/29/26 Musiq Soulchild - The Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
9/10/26 Jeff Buckley Tribute - The Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN

9/15/26 Altin Guin - The Fine Line Minneapolis, MN

9/17/26 Crimson Glory - 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
10/24/26 BEAT - King Crimson music - Mystic Lake Showroom Prior Lake, MN 

2023 Albums Preview/Anticipaton

 January

12: The Features - The Mahaffey Sessions 1999

13: Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers

20: Riverside - ID.Entity

27: Kimbra - A Reckoning

27: eMolecule - The Architect

February

1: N.R.G. - No Reasons Given [1st pressing Vinyl]

3: The Winery Dogs - III

10: Black Belt Eagle Scout - The Land, The Water, The Sky

March

3: Genesis - BBC Broadcasts

23: U2 - Songs of Surrender

24: Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions [EP]

24: Ne Obliviscaris - EXUL

31: City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

31: Deerhoof - Miracle-Level

31: The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest

April

14: Metallica - 72 Seasons

21: Jethro Tull - RökFlöte

May

26: Sparks - The Girl is Crying in Her Latte

December

29: Peter Gabriel - i/o

Confirmed Titles

Jon Anderson - The Songs of Zamran: Son of Olias

Daniel Cavanagh - Cellar Door

The Dear Hunter - Sunya (might be Spring 2024 due to Vinyl production issues, although a live Act I and Act II Vinyl could be coming sooner)

DK the Drummer - Lockers Volume 1

Kaviar - The Kaviar Sessions (Vinyl+CD)

Kevin Gilbert - KMG Archive Services Volume 3 and 4

Klimt 1918 - Amor

Paul Meany - Motivational Speaker

Moron Police - Pachinko (double album)

Phideaux - Automoto Animus (Fall)

The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise

Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex

Likely

Agent Fresco

Avenged Sevenfold

Bend Sinister

Bryan Scary

Canvas Soiaris

Capital Cities

Childish Japes - Double Album featuring Joanna Peters

Dirty Loops

Dream Theater

Dream the Electric Sleep

A Formal Horse

Giant Sky

Hotel of the Laughing Tree (Winter)

In the Presence of Wolves

In Vain

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (1 of how many?, lol)

Local Natives

Mayer Hawthorne

Neverending White Lights - Act IV

Pepe Deluxe

The Protomen

Radical Face

Ray Alder

Run Rivers

sElf

Small Leaks Sink Ships

Squid

The Bird & the Bee

The Ocean

The Reign of Kindo - Wither & Bloom (possible title)

Jessie Ware

Weather Systems

Yes

?

Burst

Dirt Poor Robins (per a FB chat 11/22/22, a new film+soundtrack is in the works)

Eldren

Enchant

Honorary Astronaut

Imogen Heap

Pain of Salvation - "The Deep End" ?

The Red Paintings - Anthems for Unwanted Wars

I'll Believe it when I Hold it in my hand

dredg

Karnivool

Prog and Extreme Metal Album LISTS coming: Part 1-Bands who (at this time) will not be on the Lists

 

Some of these bands I like but are not exactly Prog Metal or even Metal in some cases

Bent Knee

Cairo

Circle Takes Square

Coheed and Cambria

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Enchant

Estradasphere

Exotic Animal Petting Zoo

Fair to Midland

Gatherer

Gospel

Incubus

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Kaddisfly

King's X

Long Distance Calling

Magellan

Megadeth

Metallica

Mr. Bungle

Oceansize/Vennart

Platypus/The Jelly Jam

Porcupine Tree

Secret Chiefs 3

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Spock's Beard

Thank You Scientist

The Gathering

Three

Tiles

Time of Orchids

Ulver

Loosely if not overtly "Prog Metal" that I have known but in most cases, I dismissed or, I haven't found the time to check out. Or when I did check them out, I didn't hear the best song to get into them.

A.C.T.

Adagio

Aeon Zen

After Forever

Aghora

Arkhe

Amaran's Plight

Andromeda

Animals as Leaders

Anubis Gate

Ark

Astronoid

Ayreon

Aztec Jade

Balance of Power

Barren Earth

Being

Beyond Twilight

Blotted Science

Brainstorm

Caligula's Horse

Cea Searin

Chrome Shift

Circus Maximus

Cloudkicker

Cloudscape

Communic

Conditioned Response/Pavlov's Dog

Cryptic Vision

Cynthesis

David Maxim Micic

Dark Suns

Dead Soul Tribe

Digital Ruin

Divine Regale

Dominici

Dreamscape

Dysrhythmia

Eidola

Elder

Eldritch

Elegy

Empty Tremor

Esucarys

Event

Evil Wings

Exivious

Explorer's Club

Galexia

Haken

Ice Age

Indukti

Into Eternity

Intronaut

Ion Vein

Ivanhoe

Jag Panzer

Katatonia

Kayo Dot

Kingcrow

Klone

James LaBrie (solo)

Labyrinth

Leviathan

Madsword

Mastermind

Mayadome

Mind's Eye

Mind Key

Nevermore

Nightingale

Nightwish

Nova Collective

Novembre

Oceans of Sadness

Oceans of Slumber

Odd Logic

Odin's Court

Pagan's Mind

Payne's Gray

Periphery

Planet Sarcasm

Polyphia

Prymary

Pyramaze

Pyramid Theorem

Reading Zero

Redemption

Rishloo

Sabaton

Sanctuary

San Voisen

Scar Symmetry

Seventh Wonder

Silent Force

Marco Sfogli

Sleep Parade

Soen

Sons of Apollo

Spectre

Star One

Stramonio

Stride

Subsignal

Sun Caged

Suspyre

Symphorce

Tad Morose

Tetrafusion

Trioscapes

Vox Tempus

Tesseract

The Mayan Factor

The Ocean

Therion

Thought Chamber

Threshold

Time Machine

To-Mera

Tourniquet

Under the Sun

Vangough

Venturia

VOLA

Voyager

Wastefall

Wilderun

Witherfall

Witherscape

Wolverine

Z-Lot-Z

Not enough time to consider (but might like to)

Atheist

Circle II Circle

Dominion (Lou Caldarola)

Freak Kitchen

Gordian Knot

Hammers of Misfortune

Lexeme (Lou Caldarola)

Magnitude 9

Mekong Delta

Slough Feg

Spastic Ink

Toxik (Lou Caldarola)

Wintersong (Lou Caldarola)

Power Metal

Avantasia

Edguy

Helloween

Gamma Ray

Nightwish

Rhapsody

Sonata Arctica

Stratovarius

Symphony X