{"id":8808,"date":"2009-07-30T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-07-30T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:50:24","slug":"progressive-nation-act-i-scale-the-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/progressive-nation-act-i-scale-the-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Nation Act I: Scale the Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First up was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalethesummit.com\/\" title=\"Scale the Summit\">Scale the <st1:city><st1:place>Summit<\/st1:place><\/st1:city><\/a><\/strong>. This four-piece (two guitars trading leads, plus bass and drums) trades in the modern instro-metal-prog genre. A really young lot (not <strong>Hanson <\/strong>\u201cMm-bop\u201d young, not \u201c<strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> when he was human\u201d young, but young nonetheless) turned out a bruising set. For me, the songs ran together and didn\u2019t offer much in the way of variety or distinctiveness. This wasn\u2019t helped by the horrible room mix: while the audience could clearly <em>see <\/em>two fleet-fingered guitarists turning out 64th-notes, all we could <em>hear <\/em>was the loudest, most indistinct bass imaginable. Try as I might, I couldn\u2019t pick out any actual bass notes; it was all a dull subsonic roar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/blogimages\/scale_the_summit.jpg\" alt=\"Scale the Summit\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All I could think was that the onstage monitor mix must have been better, because the guys in the band didn\u2019t act as if anything was wrong. That, or maybe the bass player\u2019s dad is the band manager or sound engineer. Anyway, I\u2019ll cut \u2018em a break because they were obviously trying pretty hard, and as I said, they\u2019re way-young. Still, their music is more of the see-what-we-each-can-do variety than the we\u2019re-a-band-that-plays-together variety. But there\u2019s a market for what they do, and they got a standing O. Best of luck to &#8217;em; this tour is, I should think, a pretty big break for the band.<\/p>\n<p>Gratuitous parting shot: For those who like this style, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/reviews\/russian_circles.shtml\" title=\"Bill Kopp reviews Enter by Russian Circles \">this group<\/a> runs circles (ha!) around Scale the Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First up was Scale the Summit. This four-piece (two guitars trading leads, plus bass and drums) trades in the modern instro-metal-prog genre. A really young lot (not Hanson \u201cMm-bop\u201d young, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-review","cat-44-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}