This week, Hoggy and Dave discuss the most polarizing Dream Theater album to date - 2016's The Astonishing

Dream Theater's new album cover/New York magazine cover: http://loudwire.com/did-new-york-times-magazine-rip-off-dream-theater-new-album-cover/?fbclid=IwAR3FJyRLdPfxTTPXDRdsmprJ5ki1wypN_-BsamA44uxIhZhmjcx013kPPcc

Dream Theater Interview at the Studio, Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplgAEuVN6g

Dream Theater Interview at the Studio, Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nSJ5KRBkFg

Dream Theater Interview at the Studio, Part 3 (at the time of recording, this was unreleased): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woFKpaZCnBQ

The Astonishing by Dream Theater, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6SRlWxC7lMPu2qlwOMslrk

Dave's original review for The Astonishing from January, 2016: http://binaryblatherings.tumblr.com/post/138231649050/dream-theaters-the-astonishing-strike-two-for?fbclid=IwAR2iyavRKPFx7dlToQrjEqNkWWrfEa_5XkH23IPTaAoQcQmFRW6XqSKpmRk

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this week: Polaris' The Mortal Coil: https://open.spotify.com/album/6jhjtf53IXjEMMolFVZfH7

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this week: The Physics House Band's Mercury Fountain: https://open.spotify.com/album/3HYb9C7ZODFw74BSsMhNCy

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On this episode of The Nine Eight Podcast, we interview Jordan Rudess about his upcoming tour to Australia and the new Dream Theater album. And we chat about our usual topics - negative gig etiquette and new albums from Haken, Coheed and Cambria and Dream Cities.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

NZ Health Department Drug Policy: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/mental-health-and-addictions/alcohol-and-other-drug-policy

Episode 14: Podcast in 21/16 - https://thenineeightpodcast.fireside.fm/14

Dream Theater US Tour in 2019: http://dreamtheater.net/tour/

Tour of Rick Allen's Drum Kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS53IJAqquw

Threatin NME article: https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/fake-band-threatin-just-played-sold-uk-tour-absolutely-no-one-2400572

Veritasium - Facebook Fraud: This is an excellent YouTube video about the concept of paying for Facebook likes, why it is a completely broken process and possible solutions.

Devin Townsend European Acoustic Tour: https://www.hevydevy.com/tourdates/

Devin Townsend YouTube video announcing the tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNC4BaGr_JE

Coheed and Cambria's The Unheavenely Creatures on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/42S0lDJT9wHKCVaMGgqKdm

Haken's Vector on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/114114892/playlist/5NSk0BVCPd1nPOIbaeGrnn

Cog 2019 Australian Tour: https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/cog-announce-2019-aussie-tour-new-music-coming-soon/

Dream Cities on Bandcamp: https://dreamcities.bandcamp.com/

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy from last time: Alice by Tom Waits: https://open.spotify.com/album/7aVyZ39LnEhV21Z0XqLkaY

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave from last time: Al Di Meola's Opus: https://open.spotify.com/album/1p6nqxRgbOvQWCR3lfRota

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this week: Polaris' The Mortal Coil: https://open.spotify.com/album/6jhjtf53IXjEMMolFVZfH7

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this week: The Physics House Band's Mercury Fountain: https://open.spotify.com/album/3HYb9C7ZODFw74BSsMhNCy

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This week, with Hoggy away, Dave chats to Scott from Perth-based super prog band Voyager.

Voyager on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voyageraustralia/

Voyager's Bandcamp website: https://voyager.bandcamp.com/

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On this week's episode, Dave and Hoggy take a break from the world of prog to discuss the recent decisions by the NSW government to ban a music festival.

Kurzgesagt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUXLqNHCaI&feature=share=

Adam Ruins Everything podcast - War on Drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6kRh9xD-Q

NSW Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Troy Grant, on drug reform in NSW

The Nine Eight Podcast Episode 6: Nightlife, or rather, the lackthereof: https://thenineeightpodcast.fireside.fm/6

Sniffer Dogs Don't Work: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/drugs-found-on-15-per-cent-of-south-australians-searched/9890614

Copwatchers, Four Corners: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/copwatchers:-four-corners/7950144

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect: On a fall afternoon in 1984, Dethorne Graham ran into a convenience store for a bottle of orange juice. Minutes later he was unconscious, injured, and in police handcuffs. In this episode, we explore a case that sent two Charlotte lawyers on a quest for true objectivity, and changed the face of policing in the US.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-mr-graham-reasonable-man

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This week on the 9/8, Hoggy and Dave talk about all the big upcoming progressive rock tours, Led Zeppelin being sued and then become the oldest men in the world while discussing Polyphia. Then Hoggy talks about his new album of the year and Dave finds the worst music he's ever listened to.

Show Notes:

Jordan Rudess in Australia: http://davidroywilliams.com/tours/jordanrudess

Arjun Lucassen, Ayreon Live in 2019: https://www.arjenlucassen.com/live/?cookie-state-change=1538357529931

TicketMaster Lawsuit: https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/09/22/ticketmaster-facing-class-action-lawsuits-over-ticket-resales.html

Led Zeppelin Retrial: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/29/led-zeppelin-face-retrial-in-stairway-to-heaven-copyright-lawsuit.amp.html

Intervals: https://intervalsmusic.bandcamp.com/

Polyphia: https://polyphia.bandcamp.com/

Riverside - Wasteland on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2x2TYXmboFBDvZnSPK15B2

Toby Driver, They Are The Shield: https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/they-are-the-shield

Dave's recommendation from Hoggy from last episode: Lux Terminus - The Courage to Be: https://luxterminus.bandcamp.com/album/the-courage-to-be

Hoggy's recommendation from Dave from last episode: Scott Walker's The Drift: https://open.spotify.com/album/3A7Gfj808zT13fi4M4OrwT

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this week: Alice by Tom Waits: https://open.spotify.com/album/7aVyZ39LnEhV21Z0XqLkaY

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this week: Al Di Meola's Opus: https://open.spotify.com/album/1p6nqxRgbOvQWCR3lfRota

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Dream Cities: https://dreamcities.bandcamp.com/

Everybody's Nobody by Dream Cities: https://open.spotify.com/album/7Kg5G7kcl47PbX57swtqIq

Dream Theater Fan Club of Australia and New Zealand: https://www.facebook.com/DTFCANZ/

Our Facebook Page for the podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenineeightpodcast/

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On this episode, Dave and Hoggy discuss the Sons of Apollo show in Plovdiv, a new album from Dead Letter Circus, Fish and some upcoming releases from the big names in progressive rock.

New Roger Waters album due out soon: http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/new-roger-waters-album-stravinkskys-the-soldiers-tale-out-next.html

Sons of Apollo, live in Plovdiv: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/sons-of-apollo/2018/roman-amphitheatre-plovdiv-bulgaria-be9d926.html

Orsome Welles: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4p8ees11hYGIyuSxWTMc2a?autoplay=true&v=A

2018 Progressive Music Awards: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/steven-wilson-progressive-music-awards/

James Norbert Ivanyi: https://jamesnorbertivanyi.bandcamp.com/

Christine and the Queens:

New Joe Bonamassa song Redemption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe-dI3c5d0

Welcome to Nerdville - Inside Joe Bonamassa's Museum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctx86V-GI8A

Dead Letter Circus new album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2bLNPVqg1QWS4SWrsyiHmF

Fish EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CTNYUi078G4Y51PlAlI88

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave from last week: Rick Wakeman's The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: https://open.spotify.com/album/2jremX8fgcEfOd5Ee9sKXw

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy from last week: The Night Flight Orchestra, Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough: https://open.spotify.com/album/7oAXsero9b9l4xS7RNcXPA-

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this week: Lux Terminus - The Courage to Be: https://luxterminus.bandcamp.com/album/the-courage-to-be

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this week: Scott Walker's The Drift: https://open.spotify.com/album/3A7Gfj808zT13fi4M4OrwT

Toby Driver's They Are The Shield: https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/they-are-the-shield

Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye: https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/album/choirs-of-the-eye

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Dream Theater Fan Club of Australia and New Zealand: https://www.facebook.com/DTFCANZ/

Our Facebook Page for the podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenineeightpodcast/

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On this episode, Hoggy and Dave discuss ageism in music, Devin Townsend, the new Pineapple Thief record and we complete our trip around the world of progressive music with a visit to South America

SHOW NOTES:

Steve Hogarth on the Shure Signal Path podcast, talking about the tour fund to the USA:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/shure-signal-path-podcast/e/56001471?autoplay=true

Anekdoten - Swedish progressive rock: https://youtu.be/I48vldXdYkw

Fresh Violet: https://soundcloud.com/freshviolet

Peter Frampton's tweet about Spotify royalties: https://twitter.com/peterframpton/status/1025584924609400832?lang=en

Devin Townsend eBook: https://pages.convertkit.com/b59723ec00/6f0aca0d56

Devin Townsend's monthly income: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/today_in_metal_salaries_devin_townsend_makes_5000_a_month.html

Thriller no longer the best selling album of all time: https://www.nme.com/news/music/michael-jackson-thriller-best-selling-album-2368877

Toto at Falls Festival: https://fallsfestival.com/lorne/?artist=toto

Toto's Africa as a meme: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a37pq5/africa-toto-song-internet-meme

Australian Musicians Replacing YouTube Ads with Emerging Artists: http://www.mixdownmag.com.au/aussie-musicians-replace-youtube-ads-videos-emerging-artists

Pineapple Thief's Dissolution: https://open.spotify.com/album/5mKAoSFsmgLBjBZofrqkd3

Gavin Harrison's Drum Track for White Mist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7scYYsLdcM

The Pineapple Thief on KScope Music: http://www.kscopemusic.com/artists/thepineapplethief/

Sepultura: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6JW8wliOEwaDZ231ZY7cf4?autoplay=true&v=A

Les Claypool on his audition for Metallica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6gwp6SeXM

Bad Salad: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AJAobrDWIfHnxRkhtr7qG?autoplay=true&v=A

Thiago Campos YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThiagoCamposOfficial

Angra: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IAXZaLTb6nkJr8RmVPn5y?autoplay=true&v=A

Aquilas Priester: http://www.aquilespriester.com/

The Rich History - and Present - of Latin American Prog: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/08/10/latin-american-prog-list/

Rodrigo y Gabriela: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vX3cMVyW8gtDA4y855ynF?autoplay=true&v=A

Rodrigo y Gabriela's Tamacun live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qgum7hFXk

Mindflow: https://www.facebook.com/mindflowband/

Osaka Punch: www.osakapunch.bandcamp.com

Osaka Punch on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7uN1JherFrGagVWKACv1m7

Osaka Punch's How We Operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckU2OdE1-Y

Chaos in the Capital: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/chaos-in-the-capital-3-the-basement-canberra-tickets-37316246899

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy from last time: Adventure by the Lydian Collective: https://lydiancollective.bandcamp.com

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave last time: From the Law Offices of Levin Minnemann Rudess - https://itunes.apple.com/album/from-law-offices-levin-minnemann/id1139734874?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Lazy Bones Recordings: http://lazybones.com/artists/levin-minnemann-rudess

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this time: The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: https://open.spotify.com/album/2jremX8fgcEfOd5Ee9sKXw\

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this time: The Night Flight Orchestra: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xPOeIDWmM9ooOw7SBknMl?autoplay=true&v=A

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On this show, we discuss the new Dream Theater record, Ticketmaster, some big tours coming to Australia...and we continue on our trip around the world of progressive music by discussing some progressive music out of India, Japan and Iran.

SHOWNOTES:

Smoke Alarm Batteries: https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/safetyinformation/fire/fireinthehome/Pages/changeyoursmokealarmbatteries.aspx

Ticketmaster shutting down sites: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8469785/ticketmaster-shutting-get-me-in-seatwave-secondary-ticketing

Finnish prog-psych band Superfjord

https://www.svartrecords.com/artist/superfjord/

Dream Theater video update - https://www.facebook.com/dreamtheater/videos/532840363804427/

Polyphia touring:

Phil Collins Tour Dates:

Setlist from the show Hoggy saw in Paris:

Roger Hodgson Tour Dates

New Opeth Live Record

Yatin Srivastava Project: https://open.spotify.com/album/52nVBoliOky2PLqa3YBi9F

Bloodywood: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4HFpzehKjow2WqU4EJ6Wy9

Babymetal (Playing at Good Things Festival)

Crossfaith - new record out at the start of this month: https://open.spotify.com/album/3PlEjm7XRVPIEU85pcImv2

X Japan: https://open.spotify.com/album/3QNWqHNcaQMHt3PlpEZnHF

Boris - good old fashioned doom metal: https://open.spotify.com/album/3DCuSislw0Fstw3mb6VvbD

https://acrossthewavesband.bandcamp.com/

Salim Ghazi Saeedi: https://soundcloud.com/salimgs/drenched-by-desire-of-you-demo?in=salimgs/sets/united-ubiquity-of-flesh

Mavara: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5kjwBAvSFl8P8QaWcvsLLU

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave from last time:

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy from last time: Reawakenings by Hidden Citizens: https://open.spotify.com/album/1CUCeOtiH3pknijQK7zduV

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this time: From the Law Offices of Levin Minnemann Rudess (for the second time in a row, I have recommended an album not on any streaming service, so here's a link to buy it on iTunes:) https://itunes.apple.com/album/from-law-offices-levin-minnemann/id1139734874?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy this time: Adventure by the Lydian Collective: https://lydiancollective.bandcamp.com

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Hoggy and Dave discuss how the Beatles can be prognosticated over even further, progressive music from Eastern and Central Europe, some new album releases and a very special, exclusive interview with one of the rising stars in Australian progressive music.

Unify Gathering 2019 - https://unifygathering.com/

King Crimson to Release New Live Album - https://progreport.com/king-crimson-to-release-meltdown-in-mexico-live-in-mexico-city-2017/

Haken's New Album Due Out Soon: https://www.hakenmusic.com/blog/latest

Who Wrote What? Computer Model to Determine If Its Lennon or McCartney - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/who-wrote-beatles-songs-lennon-mccartney-2018-7

Pub Sign - https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwii3u7t7u7cAhWEwI8KHYn8CSsQjhx6BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Flife-style%2Flife%2F704085%2Fpub-landlord-noise-complaints-neighbours-viral-image-reddit-imgur&psig=AOvVaw3aGtypE_3QjkKAqBOYMmeW&ust=1534415907092098

The history of FSB: http://fsb.bg/en/fsb.php

FSB: https://music.fsb.bg/

FSB - Visoko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0yuxnwKJl8

Smallman - https://smallman.bandcamp.com/

Khara - https://khara.bandcamp.com/releases

Riverside - Vale of Tears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001IMO53JwY

Robots Against Entropy on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/69mEuKrsku1lMibe5xiQAv

Paranoid Mind - Ascendance on Bandcamp: https://paranoidmindmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ascendence

Paranoid Mind's song Weakness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGyEFF6H_ok

Stara Rzeka on Bandcamp: https://stararzeka.bandcamp.com/

Dave's recommendations for Hoggy from last episode:

Pendulum - Crush (Devin Townsend Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMkxR1e5yg

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave from last episode:

Tori Amos - Small Earthquakes: https://open.spotify.com/album/1pFUGy3ABpLRRE3oNMPbDb

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave this week:

Dave's recommendation for Hoggy: Reawakenings by Hidden Citizens: https://open.spotify.com/album/1CUCeOtiH3pknijQK7zduV

Southern Empire's Civilisation on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0pAL8vc6E8NpJo6ACQeRa1

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In this episode, Dave and Hoggy talk about Hoggy's amazing summer of prog, and touch on some sensitive topics around gig etiquette.

SHOW NOTES:

Coheed and Cambria - The Dark Sentencer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02KCUWZ6Q

Dream Theater ARG on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/8ya9sp/dt14argmegathread/

Midsummer Prog Festival

Lesoir: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SUyYu1BJ7TGGjWUtKbqKx

Lazuli (Hoggy said these guys were Dutch, but correctly, they're actually French): https://open.spotify.com/artist/3DotjoAot6GRjyCTZShcXN?autoplay=true&v=A

Amplifier: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1lCspmd05bYpPS814xw5nl?autoplay=true&v=A

The Gathering: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2kO6zjt4a1OIqxOERhliEX?autoplay=true&v=A

Riverside: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5yjbUO1Jocui7RKE30zfLT?autoplay=true&v=A

Be Prog My Friend: http://www.beprogmyfriend.com/18/en/home/

Plini: https://plini.bandcamp.com/

Progressive rock streaming - www.progstreaming.nl

Guns N Roses, Barcelona setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2018/estadi-olimpic-lluis-companys-barcelona-spain-2bea0456.html

Official press release from Mad Cool Festival about the cancelled Massive Attack show: https://madcoolfestival.es/en/news/mad-cool-massive-attack

Drake calls out fan groping women in the audience: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/drake-groping-woman-man-video-concert-audience-im-going-to-f-you-up-a8057481.html

Shannon Noll's outburst on stage: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/shannon-noll-lets-rip-at-concertgoer-in-foulmouthed-tirade/news-story/01e947fbe9450156f8edee77585a590f

Hoggy's recommendation for Dave:

Dave's recommendations for Hoggy:

Pendulum - Crush (Devin Townsend Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMkxR1e5yg

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