This week’s Prog-Watch is a special focused on keyboardist extraordinaire Erik Norlander! Tony and Erik chat about his solo career, the Rocket Scientists, and his work with his wife, Lana Lane, and play a lot of great music along the way!

 

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Erik Norlander is the keyboardist for the Rocket Scientist and also for his wife Lana Lane’s band. He has also worked as a session musician for Mark Boals, Ayreon, Star One and many others. He has released five solo albums and a live album in between working with his two bands. On his solo albums, he has worked with such well-known artists as Glenn Hughes, Edward Reekers, Arjen Lucassen, Robert Soeterbek and Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, as well as his wife and his bandmates from the Rocket Scientists.

Music with some meat to it!

Prog-Watch is a weekly podcast and internet radio program dedicated to bringing the listener contemporary Progressive Rock music from around the world. Your big, hairy host, the “Prog-Squatch” wanders the woods of the world, beats the bushes, and digs in the dirt to bring the best Prog back for YOU! Sometimes solo and sometimes with a guest host, the Prog-Squatch will bring you new and interesting artists in each episode, and give you some background info and a taste of their music.

Want More Squatch? Check him out howling into the wild with his own Progressive Rock Band, Novus. Jam some Squatch in those ears! http://novus3.bandcamp.com/releases