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7/18/01
I hope you go to the Official TransAtlantic website often. Mark Redesigned the whole thing and it looks great.
The best part of the new redesigned site it that if you scroll all the way down to where it says links you can see this very site in a captured image:
Well I guess thats my 15 minutes of fame.
7/4/01
Happy 4th of July everyone. The Official Site released the artwork and tracklisting for the new cd out this fall, "Bridge Across Forever". Mike Portnoy has all ready stated that the Title Track is one of his favorite songs to play. You can checkout the artwork here.
5/17/01
You can find a great interview with the entire band right here. Also there is some information about the Floyd cover that TA recorded in the studio in Jan. Click Here
4/15/01
Check out Nick D'Virgilio's new side project "Karma". Jim Harrel(aka PapaJimH) had an Interview with Nick.
4/07/01
Many of you may not know this but Spock's Beard has been working on a video for "All On A Sunday". The Official Site now has a few Photos from the video shoot. They look very good.
Added on 04-27-2001
As expected, the cover song that TransAtlantic recorded on January 15th, 2001 (see our exclusive
Studio Diary) is Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy
Diamond". The band didn't want to announce the name of the cover at the time, because they
wanted to keep it a surprise for their performance at NAMM
(a major dealer trade event) in Anaheim, CA, on January 20th, 2001.
According to Mike Portnoy it was specifically recorded as an extra track, which will most likely
not be on the regular release, but will instead be used for another limited edition 2CD set.
The original version by Pink Floyd consists of nine parts. Five of them are located at the beginning
of the "Wish You Were Here" album, and the remaining four parts are located at the end.
TransAtlantic has rearranged the song by combining all parts and reducing the total time from
25 minutes to approximately 15 minutes. They also tried to make it sound more like a TransAtlantic
song, with a lot of jamming in the instrumental sections. According to Mike Portnoy, it came out
awesome.
Source: Mike Portnoy
3/20/2001
I received the TA Live cd yesterday. It's awesome. This show was orignally recorded as a one shot video for a cybercast...which sucked. But the sound quality is pretty. Especially Roines guitar which was not hooked up to his own equipment. He used Mike's wife's 10" amp. Overall the show sounded better than the Video looked. The video was not in sync(no pun intended) with the music. Mike would hit his drums after you heard the sounds.
3/04/00
TransAtlantic's Live Album is due out March 12th. You can pre-order it from Raidiant Records.
I also now have a cdrw and will start to TRADE TA boots.
1/31/01
I got my TA video two days ago. Kinda early. Anyway I suggest that you get this asap. It's great. This should tide me over til the next album.
1/26/01
I hope you all bought the TA video from Radiant Records (I know I did!). Neal Morse posted a message on the Thoughts disscussion list that the TA vids had been sent out.
1/02/01
The full TA show at Middle East in Cambridge, MA on June 20 is now available at Lines In The Sand.
Also, I plan to have a new feature up in about two weeks.
12/23/00
The Prog Guild
Well another project that I've been working on has finally been fin....uhhh, well it's almost complete. But 1/2 of it works. It's a Progressive Community that indexes all the best fansites. There is also a message board for everyone and I plan to start a small 88x31 button exchange. Well, I know you're wondering about it, so click here.
11/29/00
Live Album and Video Part 2!!
The live CD will contain material recorded during the 9:30 Club in Washington DC on Saturday, June 24th, 2000. The band's performance at the TLA in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 21st will be used for the live video. Both the live CD and video will be released through Radiant Records.
11/28/00
There are plans to release a live album and video recorded during the summer US mini tour
The new album is due to be mainly recorded in Nashville USA during January 2001.
TFK Radio Show
The Flower Power and SMPte sites are sponsors of a special TFK special on Radio Carolines weekly prog show 'Dance On A Volcano Thursday 07/12/00.
The show will feature an interview with Roine Stolt talking about both The Flower Kings and TransAtlantic
For further details see the Flower Power site : www.flower-power.org.uk or go to http://www.caroline2000.freeserve.co.uk/
You can hear the show via the net or, in mainland Europe, glorious stereo on Satellite.
But please don't wait until then to listen to this excellent show. It's on every Thursday evening at 10pm GMT. You can pick it up via Satellite in mainland Europe or via the webcast worldwide. It's the first Prog 'radio' show we have had in Europe for years but it relies on and can't survive without your support!
Full and further details of both these items will be posted as soon as known
Source: Ian Oakley of SMPTe: http://www.smpte.org.uk/
Official TransAtlantic Fan Site
11/23/00
Mark Bredius has done it again. He re-designed the Radiant Records website. He;s done a great job on this site and many others. Also, Radiant Records is having a blowout sale on many items, and if you buy 3 items you get a signed Glossy Photo of Spock's Beard or TransAtlantic (depending on the items you order).
I purchased a TA shirt, mouse pad, Nick 'n Neal cd, and Don't Try This At Home cd. With it came the signed Glossy Photo of TransAtlantic with Neal's signature on it. I'd love to show it to you but my damn scanner is broken.
And Last but not least TranaAtlantic Winds has already generated over 2000 page views less than two months.
11/22/00
TransAtlantic will be performing with Mike's new signature snare drums at the NAMM on Sat, Jan. 20th 2001 in Anaheim, CA. If anyone is attending this show, and can record the show please contact me.
Source: Official Dream Theater Website
11/07/00
TransAtlantic January 2001 recording session.
TransAtlantic will regroup in January to record a second CD in
Nashville as well as to make a very special live appearance on
Saturday January 20th 2001 at the NAMM show in Anaheim, CA.
Mark Bredius from Official TransAtlantic Website
Updates
4/01/01
Well I redesigned the site to look more like the new Live In America cd. I like it, but it looks a little too plain to me. So please tell me what you think. I also updated the FAQ, discography, history, concert list, reviews, interviews and so much more. I hope you like it.
P.S - IT LOOKS GOOD IN NETSCAPE TOO!!!! Which is a first for me.
2/11/01
If you had some trouble connecting to the site, we were getting our servers changed. We've got more features and great service. Even faster connections. I've got a few things coming up so don't miss out.
1/29/01
Fixed some table attributes so that the site works correctly in larger resolutions.
1/15/01
Added a beta version of a FAQ for TransAtlantic.
1/06/01
Added review from ProgressiveWorld.net
12/13/2000
Won another award. This time its very important and for thowe under 18 only. It's not an easy award to win. Content and Graphics must be equal as well as load times under 15 sec.
11/23/00
Added Radiant Records link to the links page, and updated the tourography info.
11/10/00
I ordered Don't Try This At Home Either along with a poster from Radiant Records.com. Well, I recieved it today. While opening the package for the poster, I stumbled upon what I thought was a packing slip. But it was a fax that Neal Morse sent to Stephanie about information on changing the address for their domain raidantrecords.com. Along with it was Neal's signature. How awesome is that!
I also added some real media files in the sound clips section.
11/03/00
Added Back and Foward button for easier navigation.
10/14/00
Won an award from progmetal.net. Added a few links.
10/11/00
Added a lyrics section. Right now it only has the songs from the original version. Soon I plan to get lyrics from the bonus disc.
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Aaron Weiss