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Andrew Colyer with Matt Dorsey Band at ProgStock 2023
Andrew Colyer will be performing with the Matt Dorsey Band for the 2023 international ProgStock Festival! Sharing the Rivoli Theater stage at the Williams Center in Rutherford, New Jersey, are Chris Dorsey (drums, vocals), Randy McStine (Porcupine Tree, Lo-Fi Resistance, The Fringe), and bandleader Matt Dorsey (Beth Hart, Sound of Contact, In Continuum, Dave Kerzner Band). We’ll be performing Matt’s new solo album, Let Go, as well as some special cover songs by Peter Gabriel and others!
Here’s some more information about ProgStock this year:
Current Festival Schedule (subject to change):
• 11:30am (and all day) – Music Jam with Robeone
• 1:30pm – An Unbelievable Experience with Patrick Moraz
• 5:00pm – AD ASTRA, followed by Travis Larson Band
• 9:00pm – The Mahavishnu Project
• Meet & Greet with the artists
• 10:00am – New Album Party with Mile Marker Zero
• 11:30am (and all day) – Music Jam with Robeone
• 12:30pm – Aziola Cry
• 4:00pm – Randy McStine followed by Matt Dorsey Band
• 8:00pm – Rachel Flowers followed by Dave Kerzner Band, including a 10th Anniversary celebration of Sound of Contact’s Dimensionaut
• Meet & Greet with the artists
• 10:00am – Listening Party and Meet & Greet with Space Junk Is Forever
• 11:30am (and all day) – Music Jam with Robeone
• 12:30pm – Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear
• 4:00pm – Mystery
• 8:00pm – Patrick Moraz followed by Unitopia
• Meet & Greet with the artists
My Relationship with Keith Emerson
I have had a different relationship with Keith Emerson from anyone else who ever knew him. That is because I didn’t know him, yet I got to know him intimately through performing his works. Robert Berry was the last person to work directly with Keith before he died, and was working on what was to be two posthumous Billboard-charting albums of their collaborative work. Following Keith’s passing, it took two years of grief and legal handling to get the first of those two albums released to the public. When it came time to tour the albums, of all the people he could have called, Robert Berry drafted me to cover or fill in for Keith since he was not available.
I immediately read Keith’s autobiography, “Pictures of an Exhibitionist”, and began consuming every piece of Keith Emerson, ELP, and “3” content I could find. I felt like I really needed to “get in character” to do the job justice.
Being asked to cover Keith Emerson? The King of the Keyboards? The guy voted by nearly every magazine readers and editors poll to be the greatest player in the history of Rock Keyboards? Sure, no pressure there. This one definitely takes the cake in terms of musical life challenges.
I cannot begin to describe the complicated feelings of excitement, anxiety, and pressure that I felt before and during the first tour.
Between the reading, watching, listening, transcribing, practicing, performing live, and speaking to so many of you in person about your personal experiences with Keith and the profound effects that he had on you and the rest of the musical world, I definitely had a “total immersion experience” into Keith’s life and work, and I was incredibly humbled by it. I feel like I came to know a person I never met. Especially through the stories that Robert and Paul Keller shared, from working directly with Keith.
It is still weird and surreal for me to look at the Pete Frame Rock Family Tree and see Keith Emerson and Robert Berry (who is also shown replacing Steve Hackett in GTR), and know that due to tragedy and some bizarre luck, I am now connected here. Sad for the world, and life-changing for me. I’ve done my best to honor the great man who came before me, and oddly felt like I’ve been walking on the same beach where the ocean has washed away a pair of shoes that are impossible to fill.
Loretta Lynn said that you have to be first, you have to be different, or you have to be great. Keith Emerson was all three. Which is why he will always be remembered as the King.
“Alive at ProgStock” is #1 Live Release on 2022 Kiss That Prog Listeners Poll
THANK YOU SO MUCH to all of the Friends, Fans, and Listeners who voted Robert Berry’s 3.2 Band – Alive at ProgStock CD/DVD/Blu-ray the #1 Live Release of 2022! Thank you also to Eddie McFadden for playing one of those live tracks on your radio show! 🎵🎹😀
Andrew Colyer on 2022 Spotify Christmas Music Playlist
WOW – Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, and ME! I never thought that would happen! Thank you so much, Sona Lelakova, for including me on your Spotify Christmas Music Playlist! 
“Alive at ProgStock” is Top 5 on Musoscribe’s Best of 2022
Thank you so much, Bill Kopp, for including Robert Berry’s 3.2 band CD/DVD/Blu-ray “Alive at ProgStock” on Musoscribe’s Top 5 “Best of 2022 New Releases” list!
Andrew Colyer on 2022 Spotify Christmas Songs Playlist
Robert Berry’s 3.2 Band “Alive at ProgStock” on Top 5 Year-End Listeners Poll
Andrew Colyer on 2022 Christmas Compilation
Andrew Colyer Performing with The Tubes on the 2022 Outside Inside Tour
After filling in on keys/vocals with The Tubes earlier this year, the band had Andrew Colyer back to sub for Dave Medd, who was out sick with COVID.
Andrew got the call on Friday morning at 6:30 am, and Saturday night he was in North Tonawanda (Buffalo), New York, doing the concert! Again, with NO REHEARSAL. Sunday night’s show was in Beverly (Boston), Massachusetts.
Subbing was so thrilling, just walking on stage in front of thousands of people and performing these great songs and classic hits with this AWESOME band!! 😀
These concert performances on the 2022 Outside Inside Tour featured original Tubes members Fee Waybill (lead vocals), Roger Steen (guitars, vocals), and Prairie Prince (drums, vocals). Subbing on bass for Rick Anderson was Atom Ellis.
The Tubes – “She’s a Beauty” – Released in 1983 on The Tubes’ album Outside Inside (Capitol Records). Co-written by Fee Waybill, producer David Foster and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather. “She’s a Beauty” became the band’s biggest chart hit. It went to number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
I Made Robert Fripp Cry
I made Robert Fripp cry last night.
In answering my question(s) – “How were you able to think at such a deep level at such an early age? How were you able to translate that into the world of music? What made you start keeping a diary of your experiences, and then publish them on the internet?” – Robert’s reply included his experience of the awareness of being in a body somewhere between three and nine months old.
Fripp started a diary at 11 years old. He started writing down his dreams in 1972, and kept a diary on the road with King Crimson, starting in 1974. He was reporting to himself and to the audience. He talked about the relationship between “who I am” and “what I am”. And the question of “why am I here”?
Ask a question, then listen. The Impossible is trying to find a way into the world.
Where does the music come from? The Music comes from Love.
It is impossible to put into words how much the music wants to come through.
It felt like these tearful words were coming straight from his Spirit, all while he was staring deeply into my eyes, and I received a Transmission. I don’t think I was the only person in the room other than him who had tears in my eyes from this intense, thoughtful, and beautiful response.
Thank you, Robert.
[As audience members, we agreed to have an Intention to be present and Live in the Moment during the event, with no photography, recording, or filming. We were allowed to take pictures at the end of the evening.]
