BayProg.org

Welcome to BayProg, a web site of resources for San Francisco Bay Area progressive rock musicians and fans.

News

Update April 16 — Events (Jack O' The Clock, Tempest, House of Floyd, Manring/Kassin/Darter, California Guitar Trio, Solo Bass Night, Moetar, Cash Pony, Synthesizer Meetup, Ian Anderson)

Also, the upcoming CCRMA Summer Workshops at Stanford look mighty interesting.

Aaaand, BayProg is on Facebook.

New Albums

Bay Area prog bands releasing new albums in the last six months or so.

Jack O' the Clock
All My Friends

Spirits Burning / Healthy Music in Large Doses

Spirits Burning & Clearlight
Healthy Music in Large Doses

Manring / Kassin / Darter
Riverrun

New Sun
Damage Done

Carl Weingarten
Panomorphia

Madame Blavatsky Overdrive
Winston King

Sit Kitty Sit
Beautiful Terrible

Cash Pony
Carpal Tunnel Vision Quest

The BayProg CD

The BayProg compilation CD can be found in the Spring 2002 issue of Exposé Magazine. It's called BayProg -- Progressive Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area, and features contributions from Michael P. Dawson, Gravity Tree, Metaphor, Mind Furniture, Monocaine, Amy X Neuburg & Men, New Sun, Puppet Show, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spirits Burning, Tesseract and Trap.

What is this BayProg?

BayProg is the original regional progressive rock web site, first appearing in early 1999.

The goals of BayProg are, roughly:

To serve the needs of musicians who play in local progressive rock bands. As a musician I want to know what other bands are doing, maybe pair up with another band for a gig, find musicians for my band, keep track of venues, and keep track of places to advertise gigs.
To serve the community of local progressive rock music fans by promoting concerts, finding record stores that carry prog titles, reporting local happenings, etc.
Provide an email list as a forum for announcements and discussions.
Provide helpful information for touring bands interested in coming to the area.
Provide an alternative to the standard forms of musical promotion (FM radio, for instance) which appear to be increasingly uninterested in any type of serious music.
To support side projects. One example, Malcolm Smith (of Metaphor) has put together the BayProg sampler CD featuring 12 San Francisco Bay area bands.
Local pride; the San Francisco Bay area is large and culturally rich, and we love living here. It's the fifth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and includes three major cities and over 7 million people. (See Table 3 of US Census 2000: Ranking tables for Metropolitan Areas for some fascinating details.)
Also, there are a number of progressive rock fans who are pessimistic, or even downright gloomy, about the future of the genre and I want to prove them wrong (you know who you are).

The BayProg web site has evolved to a pretty hefty size; it's now about 25 pages worth of good stuff. And the BayProg email list has a little over 150 members.

I want to make BayProg as good as it can be, so please send me any news, updates, additions, ideas or corrections.

This site is now written using XHTML1.0 Strict to be compatible with mobile wireless browsing devices and the newer browser standards. As a side effect, the display will be readable but less charming in ancient browsers (like Netscape Navigator 4.0 for instance). Such is life. As always, please tell me if anything comes out badly.

-- Don, don@till.com