by drandrewcolyer | Feb 13, 2014 | Videos
While most tribute bands pay homage to one specific band, supergroup Downing Grey pays tribute to the entire genre of progressive rock – covering nine different bands. This Genesis song “Firth of Fifth” is from the 1973 album Selling England by the Pound. This video...
by drandrewcolyer | Feb 6, 2014 | NAMM
Sunday, January 26th – last day at NAMM 2014! Starting at 9:30 am with a ridiculously amazing one hour demonstration of PG Music’s Band-In-A-Box, the day continued with talking to the Directors of Digital Strategy and Artist Relations from JAMMIT...
by drandrewcolyer | Feb 3, 2014 | NAMM
NAMM 2014 – Day Three – it’s half over already!! Saw an awesome demonstration of one of the coolest keyboards in history – the PianoArc (look for videos coming soon), and got to hang out with the only artist in the world performing on it at...
by drandrewcolyer | Feb 3, 2014 | NAMM
Day Two of NAMM was spent renewing my relationships with Yamaha Musical Instruments, Tony Antoniou of Psicraft Software Designs, Vyzor Software, Vycro MX Software, Brook Hansen of the Prog Rock Orchestra, Bobby Kimball (Toto), Arturia and the KeyLab 61,...
by drandrewcolyer | Feb 1, 2014 | NAMM
NAMM 2014 started off with a bang! I attended workshops by singer-songwriter Ben Folds (stay tuned for video of that presentation), composer and music producer Jerry Gerber, musician/teacher/producer Keith Hatschek, digital sheet music on your iPad from Airturn, and...