ProgDay 2026 (31st Edition)
Day 1, Band 4 - Consider the Source
Saturday, Sept 5, 2026 ~5:30pm - 7:15pm
Storybook Farm, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

John Ferrara - bass
Gabriel Marin - guitar
Jeff Mann - drums

1. soundcheck excerpts & intro (11:08)
2. Trial by Stone (14:39)
3. New World Cocek (10:35)
4. Many Words of Disapproval (5:57)
5. Unfulfilled and Alienated (4:18)
6. This is the Way (8:04)
7. song 6 (title?) (6:59)
8. Tihai For The Straight Guy (11:06)
9. what is this day called? (1:26)
10. Mouthbreather (11:06)
11. Enemies of Magick (12:17)
12. call for encore (1:08)
13. song 10 (title?) (4:05)
14. end of the first day (1:04)

Total Time: 103:50 (1 hr, 43 min, 50 sec)

Tascam DP-004 digital recorder connected to two Shure SM57 microphones
sitting about 15 feet back from center stage and about 2 feet apart ->
WAV -> Cool Edit '96 (volume & track split) -> FLAC Frontend -> flac files


Notes:

This was the second of three guitar/bass/drums trios of the weekend,
and as I noted in the write-up for Bruteus, the three couldn't have
sounded much more different. Consider the Source is pure virtuosity,
with rapid-fire funky bass and Middle-Eastern influenced guitar.

There was about a minute's worth of dead air while the band was tuning
(I think) following This is the Way - I edited most of that out.

If anyone can put a title to "song 6" and "song 10", please let me know.
I have seven of the band's CDs but couldn't match them up to anything
there, so I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and still couldn't put a
title to them. "Song 10" sounds close to a couple songs (There Was Time
Now, There Are Four Lights), but I can't say for sure it's either of those.

In the photos included in the torrent, #14 was an attempt to take a
picture of the guitarist using a water bottle as a slide. I took another
photo a couple seconds later but he had just dropped the bottle - if you
look closely at photo #15, you'll see that it hadn't quite hit the stage
yet.


Consider the Source on the web:

https://www.considerthesourcemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/p/Consider-the-Source-100044473387816/


About ProgDay:

ProgDay is an outdoor festival of progressive rock that has been held annually
since 1995. In 1996 it was expanded from one day to two and has been featuring
anywhere from eight to eleven progressive rock bands each year since, often with
related events nearby on Friday or Saturday nights. The event has been forced
indoors due to weather twice (1999 and 2002), and covid forced it to be held
online in 2020 and cancelled entirely in 2021, but every year apart from those
has seen some of the world's best progressive rock bands take the stage at
beautiful Storybook Farm. It's worth the trip if you enjoy outdoor prog music.

If you'd like to make a donation via PayPal to help keep the festival afloat,
please visit:

http://www.progday.net/ProgDay-Support.html

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