{"id":860,"date":"2009-09-14T22:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-09-14T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T03:29:07","slug":"october-is-shaping-up-to-be-a-big-month-for-prog-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"October is shaping up to be a big month for prog heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-861\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-861\" title=\"Marillion634_MainPicture\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marillion634_MainPicture.jpg\" alt=\"Marillion634_MainPicture\" width=\"302\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marillion634_MainPicture.jpg 302w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marillion634_MainPicture-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marillion (pictured above) is betting that their fans will still shell out the bucks even though the &#8216;new&#8217; record doesn&#8217;t have any new music.  &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marillion.com\/music\/albums\/less.htm\">Less Is More<\/a>&#8216; (October 2) contains acoustic arrangements for older tracks &#8211; some favorites and some obscure.  They&#8217;re emphasize that they really worked hard on doing something new with these songs.  I&#8217;ve already placed my order.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-862\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-862\" title=\"cover\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cover-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cover-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cover.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Hackett looks to get up off the mat after his ex wife Kim Poor metaphorically shattered his jaw with a lawsuit that could cost him his Genesis royalties.  As a result of the hard times, this electric rock album, featuring hall-of-famer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Squire\">Chris Squire<\/a>, had to be <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/?p=829\">completed in Hackett&#8217;s apartment<\/a>.  &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackettsongs.com\/news\/newsAlbum2.html\">Out of the Tunnel&#8217;s Mouth<\/a>&#8216; is available on October 5.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-863\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-863\" title=\"transatlantic2009\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/transatlantic2009-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"transatlantic2009\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/transatlantic2009-266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/transatlantic2009.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 27 we&#8217;re all going to be crushed by Transatlantic&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transatlanticweb.com\/news.php\">Whirlwind<\/a>.&#8217;  No word about touring yet, as bass player Pete Trewavas will be busy promoting Less is More with Marillion (see above).  And you can decide for yourself whether it&#8217;s genius or a dick move to have the record as one track.  this pretty much forces us all to buy the &#8216;bonus disc&#8217;, which has the rest of the songs and some covers.  Of course, that bonus disc will, no doubt come at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice that only the Transatlantic title is slated for a Tuesday release.  Hackett&#8217;s record is due on a Monday, which is, I think, normal for UK releases.  But the Marillion release on a Friday is just more proof that, no matter how many years you have in this business, traditional distribution rules don&#8217;t hold up for prog records &#8211; unless you&#8217;re Dream Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marillion (pictured above) is betting that their fans will still shell out the bucks even though the &#8216;new&#8217; record doesn&#8217;t have any new music. &#8216;Less Is More&#8216; (October 2) contains acoustic arrangements for older tracks &#8211; some favorites and some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,401],"tags":[808,798,809,24,220,291,807,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}