Anyone here has questions for Neal? I will be interviewing him next June 19th.
Please ask them if there any plans to re-release any of his solo albums on vinyl. Feel free to get specific and ask him about One, ? and T2 (the ones I want 
).
Question for ya, regarding vinyl versions of his earlier solo albums - Would you want the normal One on vinyl, or the expanded 11-song version with all the B-Side songs put back in place? While I'm not big on vinyl owning/collecting, I wouldn't mind getting a One Special Edition vinyl, printed on some blue-and-white marble vinyl!
Of course, it would have to be a triple vinyl, and I'd make it like this:
Side 1 - 18:22 (The Creation)
Side 2 - 20:19 (Back To The Garden, The Man's Gone, Nothing To Believe, Author Of Confusion)
Side 3 - 17:58 (The Separated Man)
Side 4 - 20:58 (Cradle To The Grave, Help Me | The Spirit And The Flesh, King Jesus)
Side 5 - 14:58 (Father Of Forgiveness, Reunion)
Side 6 - 21:22 (What Is Life?, Where The Streets Have No Name, Day After Day, Chris Carmichael's Aria, I'm Free/Sparks)
It'd be a HEFTY set, but I'm sure it would be gorgeous.
Conversely, making the Question Mark album into a vinyl might be tight, as splitting the album in two gives you 27:18 and 29:05, which runs a bit long per side of vinyl. I suppose they could make it a double record and fill the fourth side with the Question Mark sessions' covers (originally released on Cover To Cover), though those add up to 29:30. So with a total of 85:53, I suppose it could make a double album, though splitting it would difficult...would split Side 1 at the end of Sweet Elation and start Side 2 with In The Fire?
And as for Testimony 2, it would definitely have to be a triple vinyl, no two ways around it. Part 6 would be Side 1, Part 7 Side 2, and Part 8 would have to be split between Sides 3 and 4 (between Road Dog Blues and It's For You), with the other three songs making up Sides 5 (Absolute Beginner and Supernatural) and 6 (Seeds Of Gold).
The *real* tricky one might be Testimony, given how long it is.
Side 1 - The Land Of Beginning Again > Colder In The Sun
Side 2 - Sleeping Jesus > Wasted Life
Side 3 - Overture No. 2 > Somber Days
Side 4 - Long Story > Sing It High
Side 5 - Moving In My Heart > The Storm Before The Calm
Side 6 - Oh, To Feel Him > The Land Of Beginning Again
It messes up some of the "Part" splits, but it's the best way to squeeze all the music into vinyl and make it six sides instead of 7 or 8, and each side doesn't go past 25 minutes (the longest being Side 4 at 24:05).
...Yeah, I spent way too much time thinking about how hypothetical vinyls could be printed for someone who doesn't even collect a lot of vinyl, or even own a record player, but I like thinking about these things. It's like a game or puzzle to me.
Now, as for his other albums, Sola Scriptura would be an easy double album (Sides 1 and 2 being The Door, Side 3 being The Conflict, and Side 4 with Heaven In My Heart and The Conclusion), and Lifeline could be a triple vinyl (if you include the special edition bonus disc cover songs and B-Sides). That leaves Momentum, which would have to have it's epic split across two sides (why does Neal keep making these impossible-to-fit-on-one-side-of-vinyl length songs?!?).
Either way, a lot of the music for any of these albums would have to be re-worked a bit for where things segue and split and crossfade (like on Question Mark, Sola, Testimony 1 and 2, and the epics on Lifeline and Momentum). The question is - would Neal (or Rich) want to bother with such a task for the possibility of selling enough vinyls to off-set the cost of producing them?
-Marc.
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