{"id":14,"date":"2008-05-21T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T02:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-05-21T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T02:28:46","slug":"mastermind-newsletter-may-21st-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/mastermind-newsletter-may-21st-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastermind Newsletter &#8211; May 21st, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hola! Bonjour! Konnichiwa! Ciao! Hallo! Goddag! Ahoj! Hej! Shalom! Geia!  Privet! Salut!<\/p>\n<p>Hello everybody! After some time of inactivity Mastermind  is rumbling to life again. If you&#8217;ve been by the web site and read the blog you  have an idea of what is going on. We&#8217;ll shed more light on why we took a break  in the coming weeks, but it feels like the time is right to get going again. So  what&#8217;s up you ask?<\/p>\n<p>First off, we will be on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagliarchives.com\/\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">The Gagliarchives<\/a>  progressive rock radio show this Saturday, May 24, 10pm EDT [*] discussing the  past, present &amp; future of Mastermind and spinning some new material for your  listening pleasure! The show is broadcast in southern NJ on 88.9FM and is  available streaming off the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagliarchives.com\/\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">www.gagliarchives.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a new unreleased album  that *will* be available later this year one way or another! We&#8217;re creating new  music again and plan to record brand new music over the coming months. No, we  don&#8217;t have a bass player currently, so no live shows in the foreseeable future.  However, if a great opportunity comes up there are people we can call on if need  be.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made our entire catalog available for digital download on  <a href=\"http:\/\/mindawn.com\/artists\/mastermind\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mindawn.com<\/a>. Mindawn is the only music service that offers FLAC audio for full  CD quality downloads, and we want you to have full quality! To entice you to  visit Mindawn, we&#8217;ve released two live archive recordings in digital format  only&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/archive-live95.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">MASTERMIND LIVE 1995<\/a>&#8221; which is quite a good recording of the  original trio line up and what should have been our official live album of the  period that has sat on the shelf for over ten years. This includes the only live  recording of Tragic Symphony that we&#8217;re aware of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/archive-AC&amp;RN.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">Another Cold &amp;  Rainy Night<\/a>&#8221; (Conduit Club Live 2002) features the quartet line up with Tracy  McShane performing classic Mastermind material at full throttle. Visit the  website for a track listings and visit mindawn.com to hear both albums. Cover  artwork for both albums is also available to download.<\/p>\n<p>We have tons of  stuff in the archives from live shows, demos, alternate recordings, unreleased  material and video which we plan to offer in the coming weeks &amp; months. It&#8217;s  a mind boggling amount of stuff to sift through, but we&#8217;re hoping this will  rekindle interest in the band and set the stage for a NEW album release, so  please help spread the word. Over the years we&#8217;ve developed quite a loyal  fanbase, we just need to remind some of you we are still here! We appreciate the  great support we&#8217;ve received over the years from the prog rock community and  hope to please you again in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Also as some may know, the  brothers Berends have been performing locally as &#8220;The Berends Bros Band&#8221;  revisiting our roots and keeping our chops sharp. We have some material written  and recorded for this band and hope to get to that in the near future. For  people in the Philly \/ New York area we have a few live dates coming up over the  summer. Check our live shows page for details.<\/p>\n<p>For the loyal subscribers  to this Newsletter list we shall try and reward you with secret links to  unreleased tracks and cool things like that. Feel free to visit the &#8220;Sound Off&#8221;  page on the website and leave some feedback. Spread the word wherever you can  and visit our website often to see what&#8217;s up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/\/\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK  that&#8217;s enough for now. Thanks for your interest in Mastermind!<\/p>\n<p>Related links:<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nLatest News &#8212;  <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/\/?cat=12\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/blog\/?cat=12<\/a><br \/>\nSound Off &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=4\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/blog\/?page_id=4<\/a><br \/>\nLive shows &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/announce.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/announce.html<\/a><br \/>\nPress info &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/press.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/press.html<\/a><br \/>\nMindawn &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mindawn.com\/artists\/mastermind\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mindawn.com\/artists\/mastermind<\/a><br \/>\nGagliarchives &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagliarchives.com\/\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">www.gagliarchives.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mastermind Live 1995 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/archive-live95.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/archive-live95.html<\/a><br \/>\nAnother Cold &amp;  Rainy Night &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/archive-AC&amp;RN.html\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">mastermindband.com\/archive-AC&amp;RN.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[*] Eastern  Daylight Time is -4GMT for global listeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola! 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