Opening Drum Ceremony 2025

With the start of the new year, we wanted to harness some shamanic energy for the voyage forward. That's why we open the year with a 3 hour long drum ceremony. Drummers are the powerful backbone and structure for the music we enjoy. They can provide the subtle shifts needed to move us forward, or the power needed to get us through those challenging moments. The collection provided here is so far from exhaustive. We missed so many great drummers, and some we doubled up on just due to the amazing work that they have done in prog. Still a fine collection of musicians is presented here and we hope that you will enjoy what they have given to us.

Next time around, we time travel to 1974.

Artist Title Duration Album Year Mickey Hart, Airto, Flora Purim The Gates Of Däfos 3:50 Däfos 1989 Greenslade Drum Folk 8:45 Bedside Manners Are Extra 1973 Rusted Root Drum Trip 3:45 When I Woke 1994 Santana Soul Sacrifice 8:51 Soul Sacrifice 1968 Led Zeppelin When The Levee Breaks 7:05 Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Steve Hackett Ace of Wands 5:14 Voyage of the Acolyte (Remastered) 1971 Porcupine Tree What Happens Now? 8:15 Nil Recurring EP 2007 The Bad Plus Big Eater 3:47 These Are The Vistas 2003 Moraz & Bruford Blue Brains 4:46 Music for Piano and Drums 1983 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tank 6:43 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1970 Big Big Train Drums & Brass 2023 5:29 A Flare on the Lens (Live in London) 2024 Genesis Dance on a Volcano 8:26 Seconds Out (2) 1977 Quatermass Laughin' Tackle 10:35 Quatermass 1970 Quatermass Entropy 0:13 Quatermass 1970 Grateful Dead Parallelogram 5:06 Infrared Roses [Live] 1991 Yes Perpetual Change 14:13 Yessongs (1) 1973 Colosseum The Time Machine (Live) 8:03 Daughter Of Time 1970 Atomic Rooster Decline And Fall 5:44 Atomic Ro-o-oster 1970 Kansas The Spider (Live) 7:35 Two For The Show 1977 Gong Esnuria 7:57 Gazeuse! 1976 Frank Zappa The Black Page (1984) 5:15 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (Live) (Remastered 1995) 1988 Deep Purple The Mule 9:29 Made in Japan (Remastered Edit 1972 King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man 13:51 Live in Chicago 2017 (2) 2017 Rush Drum Solo (Live At Pinkpop Festival: June 4, 1979) 7:31 Hemispheres (40Th Anniversary) 2018 Rush Something For Nothing (Live At Pinkpop Festival: June 4, 1979) 4:12 Hemispheres (40Th Anniversary) 2018 Dream Theater The Dance of Eternity 6:14 Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A 1999