JON OLIVA'S PAIN Issue ProgPower USA Songwriting Workshop Recap: "Informative, Educational, Funny, And Often Emotional As Well"

September 20, 2012, 12 years ago

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JON OLIVA'S PAIN have checked in with the following update:

"Thank you to all in attendance at our first sold out songwriting workshop this week at the world famous ProgPower Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. We packed up our studio from here in sunny Florida and drove it to Atlanta for this special two hour show. We discussed the process of turning Oliva's endless musical ideas into working demos. We created and recorded a new song live, recording all the instruments and vocals (audience participation included) in real time. Jon played some classics and some previously unheard material as well. It was informative-educational-funny and often emotional as well. It was a great chance for those lucky fans to crawl around the mind of one of the worlds greatest and most gifted singer/songwriters.

Video of this event will be posted soon.

Special thanks to Glenn and Jennifer Harveston... great promoters and even better friends. It was a night we will never forget and we are hoping to take this unique experience on the road for more to enjoy.

Cheers....new record details coming soon!"

Jon Oliva recently discussed the band's forthcoming album with MetalBlast.net. An excerpt is available below:

Oliva: "I’ve got some weird ideas that I wanna try and I’ve got some time to do it. I don’t wanna do just 'another' JOP record, I’ve done four of those already. I wanna do something different. I have some material that I’ve wanted to put out for a while, that I’ll talk with the record company about, maybe putting something out quickly, like in the next four or five months, to give me more time to do this JOP record, because I want that to be special, and I’ve got some friends from other bands that are going to come and play. We’re going to do a regular JOP record and then a bonus disc with guest stars, kind of like the AVANTASIA thing but not a whole story. Tobias Sammet does a magnificent job with it, but I don’t have that much fucking time to write a whole story, so I’ll just have some friends from various bands come in."

Click here for the complete interview.


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