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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beccg1gEmHM OK everyone, have a really cool meeting set up for later today will give you all some detail later today!! Help us out go pledge on our kickstarter at http://alturl.com/nft63 pick up the cd atwww.phoenixdown2112.bandcamp.com Help us make 2013 into the year of the Phoenix!! Follow us for all sorts of news and details. www.facebook.com/phoenixdown2112 www.reverbnation.com/phoenixdown2112 www.twitter.com/pberger2112 Thanks Phil

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles As was reported via Press Release Phoenix Down is going to be working with Producer/Extraordinaire Steve Thompson(who's resume is a literal who's who list of some of the BIGGEST bands of all time Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slash, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones and so many more..It's a 9 page resume(Seriously) ha,ha As you can imagine having someone like that show even a little interest in the band is a HUGE thing one that we hope we are worthy of...more news on this to follow...might be going to Toronto to record...depends on how things play out over the next months. Our relationship with Sam Taylor(King's X/ZZ Top/Galactic Cowboys) is still intact and the two of them will be working side by side to create the best career path for the band. And the most artisticly viable new CD...Presently the new CD is entitled The Dawn Of Oblivion and will be a concept album with two parts tying into The Cycle Of Strife Saga. On February 5, 2013 Phoenix Down re-released digitally The Cycle of Strife available for download at Phoenix Down. The band is also in talks with an award winning animator about doing an animation style video for The Cycle Of Strife epic and hope to have details tied down on that in the next few weeks. For right now the band did release a lyric video via their Youtube channel at Phoenix Down it's for the song Truth. http://youtu.be/6hyLyr3JpYk If you actually went to youtube to check out the lyric video for Truth you saw the video for our Kickstarter program which will be live in the next few days you can see the which you can see a preview for HERE. The band is in hopes that as many people can help them achieve their dream through this program...there are a ton more REALLY cool items to announce that I will be announcing in the next several weeks...if we reach our goal in Kickstarter there will be another REALLY BADASS incentive. I will have more details on that as we get closer to that!! The band will also have a new official website launching in the upcoming weeks!!! Thank you for your help Phoenix Down Follow the band at: www.facebook.com/phoenixdown2112 www.reverbnation.com/phoenixdown2112 www.twitter.com/pberger2112

Tough!! RUSH ​Hemispheres Permanent Waves A Farewell To Kings Counterparts Moving Pictures 2112 Grace Under Pressure Hold Your Fire Caress Of Steel Presto Clockwork Angels Power Windows Test For Echo Snakes And Arrows Signals Fly By NIght Roll The Bones(Although It contains one of my favorite RUSH songs) Vapor Trails Feedback RUSH YES Close To The Edge The Yes Album Fragile Tales From Topographic Oceans Going For The One Relayer Drama The Ladder Fly From Here 90125 Tormato Big Generator Time And A Word Open Your Eyes Keys To Ascension 1 Keys To Ascension 2 Talk Magnification Union Yes Dream Theater Awake Falling into Infinity Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory Images And Words Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence A Change Of Seasons Octavarium Train Of Thoughts Black Clouds And Silver Linings A Dramatic Turn Of Events Systematic Chaos When Dream And Day Unite King's X Gretchen Goes To Nebraska Faith Hope Love Dogman King's X Out Of The Silent Planet Ogre Tones Please Come Home Mr. Bulbous Ear Candy Manic Moonlight Black Like Sunday Tape Head XV Coheed And Cambria In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth 3 Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness Afterman Descension Second Stage Turbine Blade Afterman Ascension Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow Year Of The Black Rainbow 3 The End Is Begun Joey Eppard's Been To The Future The Ghost You Gave To Me Wake Pig Revisions Paint By Number Summercamp Nightmare Marillion Misplaced Childhood Season's End Clutching At Straws Brave Marbles Script For A Jester's Tear Fugazi Anoraknophobia Marillion.com Holidays In Eden Sounds That Can't Be Made Less Is More This Strange Engine Radiation Afraid Of Sunlight Somewhere Else

Hang on big brother blew me away...Im a huge fan of DUg's and have always loved Eric Gales guitar playing and Thomas Pridgen as a drummer is bad ass but in the chaos of The Mars Volta it was hard to hear how much the guy grooves and really makes the song..can't wait for the full cd!!! That scream DUg does near the end of the song...simply awesome!!! ***We're not worth...We're Not Worthy***

Hey all Ytserob2112(another forum member) hosts a radio show @ http://shmusicmedia.com/index.html he's going to be playing a bunch of Phoenix Down stuff this Friday(as he said a Phoenix Down spotlight show...I'll post more details as We get closer to Friday!!! Go to his page at Via Mental Go follow him and tune in Friday!!! You can go to our page at www.facebook.com/phoenixdown2112 for more info Phil

Hmmmm Besides my bands new music...There's 3 I'm willing to admit to right now...the fourth one I'll post even though I have no idea why it's stuck in my head as often as it is!! Stone Sour Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero Technically 2 songs but meant to be taken as one!!! Great heavy riff and love Corey Taylor's voice especially on the choruses of Absolute Zero Aviatic: Goodbye Beautiful Day Great band out of LA who only released this album as far as I know...can't find a whole ton of info on them...I love them for a bunch of reasons great "Prog" Influenced material, the Piano/vocalist is pretty killer and unique in modern music, and even though I'm a guitar player what blows me away about them the most is their drummer...very unique has a lot of influence from Neil Peart and Stewart Copeland from what I can hear...Love the Hi-Hat work that comes in at 1:12 very cool!! Saw this on the preview for Zero Dark Thirty and took me a few minutes to realize what it was...but once it did I was hooked...came home from the theater and my fiancee and I were both looking up who did this version at the same time...so definitely made an impact....Great Piano and Female Choir version of the Metallica classic...Chilling especially when you put it in the context of the movie!!! There are so many more I could list...from Tremonti's solo album, to Alter Bridge, Soilwork, Flying Colors, Transatlantic, Tori Amos's pure gold has been a cool discovery, always loved Tori but hearing some of her music presented differently definitely created a new interest for me...and I could go on and on and on... I will include this last one because it started as a joke with a couple of the guys were in the studio with now...trying to find music that the other person would hate...and they guaranteed me I wouldn't be able to make it through this song...Not only did I make it through it but listen to it incessantly for weeks after...to the pain of most people around me...don't know why it's stuck in my head...it's nothing like anything I would listen to on a regular basis but it's totally burrowed into my subconscious!! ha,ha My apologies in advance if it gets stuck in your head;-)

A Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...ok so it’s not THAT saga…but 11 years and the many miles, both figuratively and literally we all have travelled seems like galaxies and anyone who has been to Las Vegas knows it’s a million light years from the winter snow of Pennsylvania. Let’s back step a little to explain to anyone (and probably a lot at this point in time) that don’t know who we are…The band’s name is Phoenix Down(yes there have been tons of others through the years…actually a bass player I worked with for a short period of time on another project was in a band called Phoenix Down as well before we met…) I don’t claim that we were first but we chose this name in 1996 and used it non-stop till 2006…although we did receive a few letters from Kane Roberts(Alice Cooper’s former guitar player who had a release affiliated with the Phoenix Down name at some point) releasing 2 cd’s. The first one was totally self financed released in 2001…the second we were lucky enough to have worked a “developmental” type deal with Inside/Out Records we released this CD in 2004…during the time we were working on these cd’s we were extremely fortunate to get to tour with some amazing bands…King’s X, Godsmack, Symphony X, Collective Soul, Goo Goo Dolls, Zakk Wylde(Book of Shadows tour), Bang Tango, Pat Travers, we even played NEARfest four(4) separate times!! Unfortunately in 2006 due to some issues in the band(part of which was my need to sober up after being on the road non-stop) we needed to step away and take an indefinite hiatus. In 2009 as I had been working on a project(that would later become Silvercloud) We began working with Sam Taylor(Manager/Producer for King’s X, ZZ Top, and Galactic Cowboys) As this band began making touring in support of our Sam Taylor/Wilde Silas produced EP, Sam approached me about the possibility of revisiting Phoenix Down…I hadn’t spoken to the other guys in almost 4 years…but this was my baby I formed this band while I was still in college (2 days before my 21st birthday to be exact) and was willing to see what would happen if we did something with it…fast forward to May of 2012 after a 4 hour drive to meet up with Milo Phillips(Stewart Copeland’s engineer at his home studio) and Sam at a small studio in Burbank, CA it was time to meet up with the rest of Phoenix Down and see how it was going to go…nerve racking…YES…strange…HELL YEAH…Exciting…more than I could ever tell you…after a few awkward moments of not quite knowing what to say or how to act…we settled back into our old relationships and that spark and magic was back…playing through a few of our songs and a few covers it was like no time had passed…granted we sounded like a sloppy version of what we normally do…but it was on it’s way back…we spent two weeks working in Burbank writing new material and discussing the plans for the future… Fast forward to October of 2012 and we are in the studio here in Vegas doing pre-production and starting to buckle down on arrangements and even laying down tracks for the new CD, which will be called The Dawn of Oblivion(We plan on releasing this on or around May 21, 2013) and will continue The Cycle Of Strife Saga, we decided we were going to re-release the original The Cycle Of Strife CD remastered plus some bonus tracks. The remastered version of The Cycle of Strife we are planning to have available in all markets as of February 5, 2013. There will also be a special bonus version of this CD that will include an entire CD’s worth of Demo’s from the first 2 Phoenix Down CD’s as well as a whole CD of Cover songs(I am so excited to bring these covers to you with a bunch of Special Guests who I will announce as soon as I possibly can;-) Check us out on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/phoenixdown2112 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/phoenix-down-1 There will be more added to this as time goes on…most are still very much a work in progress!! You can hear some samples here: The Cycle Of Strife: https://soundcloud.c....-strife-sample Nightfall: https://soundcloud.c...ightfall-sample Truth: https://soundcloud.c...-1/truth-sample Client: https://soundcloud.c...1/client-sample For You: https://soundcloud.c.../for-you-sample This Is Me: https://soundcloud.c...is-is-me-sample As we get closer to the official release we will stream a few of the songs...the first is the first section of The Cycle of Strife Thank you all for your time hope you enjoy what you hear!! Drop me a line!!! Talk soon!! Sorry about the sloppiness of the previous post!!