Ah, Seattle (sigh) — even a “pick” in the Seattle Weekly calendar comes laced with backhanded sarcasm:
‘Prog rock’ can be a scary word, conjuring images of Geddy Lee’s terrifying soul patch and beady circular glasses staring you down. But ‘progressive music’ by nature isn’t just bound to one sound or one Canadian space-rock band—it’s an amorphous term that just means ‘music with roots in psych rock that tries something a little different.’ Seaprog—an artist-created festival featuring local proggers—ranges from Midday Veil’s Jungian synth-landscapes to Fang Chia’s jazz odysseys to Super Z Attack Team’s brave use of the Chapman Stick, a relative of the guitar that’s wider and designed for tapping. We promise Lee won’t be there to terrorize anybody.”-Kelton Sears
Now if all of us just grew stovepipe beards and pretended we were from 18th century Appalachia, they’d be eating out of our hands. 😉