Help is needed friends

This old drummer friend I have is playing a circuit with an Irish folk band. There cd sells at gigs and through their website. He performs on a circuit with folk bands, Blues bands, and sometimes Progresssive rock bands out of Europe. Since he has been playing the circuit, he was asked to join some of the prog bands. They do mostly festivals. If you go the distance, travel to a different area, discover where creative bands perform and get yourself onto that circuit,......someone will eventually back you. I know that Michael Piper RIP...was supportive of White Willow...as such there are guys out there to this day who will back original prog bands....I had the chance to play my film score style music  to a worthy connection in California during the early 90's but, I wouldn't get on a plane.       You are young so you should get into the thicket. I don't deal with My Space. But I've been approached many times by talent scouts just because they stopped in for a drink during my band's performance. The only way to meet business scouts that are interested in promoting or signing neo prog bands is to get yourself on to the right circuit and stay there for an extended time. You can interest managers that either live in the city or show to the club where an act is performing. Hand him a demo tape and tell him you are playing on the next strip. If he doesn't show, you try again with a different backer. It's tough with prog. Many British prog musicans from the 70's moved to the U.S. because of the taxes in Britian and lack of overhead for the band When Gong played Philadelphia in 2000, Davied Allen needed a ride home and was basically broke that night. Gilli Smyth was holding a bucket where one could donate change. So my friend gave Davied Allen a ride back to N.Y.....He gave him a ride because he had no money and he had just given a performance with Gong. ..Think about it. Think real hard. You can also investigate Norway or France.

Christian DeCamps from Ange said in 2002 that they were once playing 10,000 seaters and now they were confronted with 500 seaters. But, still you might have more of a chance to persue prog rock in Europe where people in the business have a different mind set..