A note from Bobby Ferkovich
by Presto Ballet on Aug.24, 2011, under General
Hi Presto fans,
Greetings from USA’s Pacific Northwest, where we’re FINALLY getting some sun- maybe Mother Nature is trying to compensate for not giving us a summer this year. Nice try mom, but too little too late.
I wanted to take a minute today and apologize to anyone who has recently purchased an Invisible Places CD on this site for the extended delay. The CDs we expected a month ago from our distributor in Germany are still not here. We don’t know if there are customs issues or what, but we’re trying hard to find out what happened and get that shipment delivered. Thank you all so much for your patience!
On a brighter note, some truly outstanding drummers have responded to our search, and we expect to be making that choice in the next couple of weeks. It will be nice to have a full lineup again!
Thanks everyone! And don’t forget to visit us on Facebook!
Bobby
On moving to the UK
by Presto Ballet on Aug.03, 2011, under General
Howdy folks!
I feel I should address something. In the issue of “Classic Rock Presents Prog” they so kindly gave Presto three pages!! In this article I was talking about my plans to move to the UK and setting up “camp” Presto. That ended up not happening, and here’s why.
I got my house shut down and made arrangements to start making the move, and headed across the pond. After being there for about three days it became painfully obvious that there was NO WAY that I was going to be able to afford to relocate there. Due to the fact the the U.S. dollar is next to worthless at this time, my money was only going half as far as I needed it to. I ended up staying for the length of time my room was booked, drank a lot of great beer, and then came back stateside. I will just have to get Presto “launched” from here. So there you have it, just in case anybody was wondering what was up with us moving to the UK.
It’s something I would still very much love to do one day. I really dig the UK and the music scene for prog is very healthy there at the moment. But until things change with the global economy, we will have to settle for playing there as soon as we can, and as often as we can. Hell, I’d settle for just being able to find a drummer and playing a show anywhere!
I’ll rant about that later.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Kurdt
The new EP is here!
by Presto Ballet on Jul.03, 2011, under General, Music
Greetings!
Well, here we are at the release of the new EP “Love What You’ve Done With The Place“!
This is pretty exciting for me, in more ways than one. First it would be the fact that I’m trying to do this record company thing all on my own, and as I said earlier, its quite an experiment. However, after the past few weeks of really embracing the “new music biz”, it’s not nearly as overwhelming as I thought it would be. I’m very happy about that!
The other reason would have to be that we have tried a few new things on this record, which I hope opens even more doors for us creatively. The first couple of tracks are standard Presto Ballet fare, as “pompous” as possible. Then we have a couple of excursions down a few new musical paths, and then into what I like to call a straight forward rock song, but I think we retain that Presto bombast that we love so much. “The Faith Healer” cover was just something that I have wanted to do for many many years. I have always loved The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, and I thought it would be a good tribute to a great band. I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.
One last thing… as I’m sure most of you have figured out, the title and cover art of the record are basically a comment on the current ecological condition of the world.
Cheers!
Kurdt V.
“Big Day In Presto Land”
by Presto Ballet on Jun.21, 2011, under Music
Wow, what a day! Our new drummer quits, and the new record release is announced!
Also,there will be an exclusive premiere of the new EP on June 27th at 8pm Eastern on Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio, so you can hear it before you buy it.
If you are THE drummer or if you know anyone who might be please drop me a line at kurdt@prestoballet.com
See you all soon!
Cheers,
Kurdt
Welcome to the Presto Blog!
by Presto Ballet on Jun.19, 2011, under General, Music
Greetings to all and welcome to the new Presto blog!
This is a whole new thing for me, I have never written a blog in my life, and it’s only been the past few months that I even became aware of what one is. I guess I have finally decided to fully embrace the internet!
It has become painfully obvious that the old ways of getting your music out to the masses have truly died. That saddens me greatly, but as long as people are still listening and enjoying music everything should be okay, right? Right?
Having said that, this is why the new Presto Ballet EP will only be available from the website (for actual CDs) and on iTunes, as well as all the other digital websites. It’s going to be an experiment of sorts, at least for me, to see if does actually work! I’m actually quite excited about the prospect, because if this works, we will able to be very productive musically and have complete control over EVERY aspect of our work. That is very exciting indeed.
So check back in from time to time and watch me learn how to write a blog!
I’m sure as soon as I get more comfortable with the whole idea of it, it will become quite fun. The rest of the band will be posting as well, so be sure to check it out.
We have some shows coming up and we are trying very hard to get over to the UK and Europe as soon as possible. We’ll update the website, this blog and our Facebook pages as soon as dates become available.
Thanks for reading, and welcome to the “Ballet”!
Cheers,
Kurdt Vanderhoof
