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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #525 on: May 30, 2011, 03:05:03 PM »
If it's good, it isn't filler.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #526 on: May 30, 2011, 03:09:39 PM »
And that's where you and I disagree. :)
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #527 on: May 30, 2011, 03:40:02 PM »
I totally get into Spock's Beard today.... til today I heard about The Band but haven't heard it. Now I know how much time I've lost...

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #528 on: May 30, 2011, 10:33:53 PM »
If it's good, it isn't filler.

But if it isn't good, it isn't automatically filler. 

I totally get into Spock's Beard today.... til today I heard about The Band but haven't heard it. Now I know how much time I've lost...

Wait, what? ???

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #529 on: May 31, 2011, 08:57:21 AM »
I'll just leave this right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KGDzNKWMg


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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #530 on: May 31, 2011, 09:06:08 AM »
I'll just leave this right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KGDzNKWMg


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So Neal did cut his hair by 1998. I thought it was later. There are barely any pics or vids online of Neal before 2000

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #531 on: May 31, 2011, 09:11:00 AM »
I'll just leave this right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KGDzNKWMg


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So Neal did cut his hair by 1998. I thought it was later. There are barely any pics or vids online of Neal before 2000

Great vid BTW, Ansley Dunbar on drums  :metal

Oh, they're out there if you look.  For example, The Light, 1995.  Walking On The Wind, 1997.  Seek and you will find.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #532 on: May 31, 2011, 09:18:00 AM »
Whoa, long hair.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #533 on: May 31, 2011, 09:20:20 AM »
Wow, Walking On The Wind is really good.  (obviously, I hadn't heard it before)
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #534 on: May 31, 2011, 09:36:36 AM »
"Walking on the Wind" has one of those classic Neal Morse awesome vocal melodies. :hefdaddy

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #535 on: May 31, 2011, 09:50:20 AM »
"Walking on the Wind" has one of those classic Neal Morse awesome vocal melodies. :hefdaddy
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #536 on: May 31, 2011, 09:55:55 AM »
I'm really going to have to pick up some Spock's Beard now.  I think I'll start with Snow and work backward through the Neal era first and then possibly look into the "second half" of their stuff.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #537 on: May 31, 2011, 10:05:21 AM »
I have to do the same thing, the only SB album I have is Kindness, and it's great, but I want to hear more!
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #538 on: May 31, 2011, 10:59:44 AM »
My first SB album was V, and Im glad it was that one. It's their best so far, though Kindness of Strangers is more consistently good.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #539 on: May 31, 2011, 11:17:39 AM »
I have Snow and V. I got V recently and have only listened through it once. Mainly because to me it sounded a lot like Neal's solo stuff and didn't catch me right away. I need to go back and listen to it some more. Snow just hit me right away as being different sounding than other Neal Morse stuff I've heard.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #540 on: May 31, 2011, 12:01:53 PM »
I'm really going to have to pick up some Spock's Beard now.  I think I'll start with Snow and work backward through the Neal era first and then possibly look into the "second half" of their stuff.

I think you should do it from the beginning so you can here the evolution.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #541 on: May 31, 2011, 12:03:26 PM »
Bosk, I finally have art for my show so I will put it on DIME tonight and on my server tomorrow night.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #542 on: May 31, 2011, 12:03:43 PM »
He'll hear the de-evolution the other way though!
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« Reply #543 on: May 31, 2011, 12:06:39 PM »
He'll hear the de-evolution the other way though!

True.  Either way I think he'll love it.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #544 on: May 31, 2011, 12:14:29 PM »
I understand starting from the beginning.  But there are two reasons I don't want to do that.

1.  After reading through the book, I am really interested in hearing the music that came out of Neal's head space at the end of his time with Spock's more than I am interested in the early stuff. 

2.  Often, when I discover a band after the fact, their earlier sound doesn't capture where my current tastes are, so the older stuff often sounds better when I can put it in context of their overall sound and evolution than if I heard the older stuff first.  Take Nightwish as an example.  I got into them during the Once era.  I had heard a song or two of their older stuff, and it didn't click.  But I got the two most recent albums at that time, and loved them both.  Then after immersing myself in those, I was able to go back to the older stuff and appreciate it.  I've gotten into a lot of older bands that way.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #545 on: May 31, 2011, 12:24:27 PM »
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #546 on: May 31, 2011, 12:29:04 PM »
Especially Seeds!
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #547 on: May 31, 2011, 12:33:45 PM »
I have been on the craziest Neal Morse kick lately. Testimony 2 got me back in a giant NM mood and in the last week Ive listened to The Light, Testimony 2 (about 6-7 times), The Kindness of Strangers, Testimony 1 (2nd disc), One; now I'm on ? and I'm thinking of listening to more soon  :metal :metal :metal

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #548 on: May 31, 2011, 12:43:11 PM »
I understand starting from the beginning.  But there are two reasons I don't want to do that.

1.  After reading through the book, I am really interested in hearing the music that came out of Neal's head space at the end of his time with Spock's more than I am interested in the early stuff. 

2.  Often, when I discover a band after the fact, their earlier sound doesn't capture where my current tastes are, so the older stuff often sounds better when I can put it in context of their overall sound and evolution than if I heard the older stuff first.  Take Nightwish as an example.  I got into them during the Once era.  I had heard a song or two of their older stuff, and it didn't click.  But I got the two most recent albums at that time, and loved them both.  Then after immersing myself in those, I was able to go back to the older stuff and appreciate it.  I've gotten into a lot of older bands that way.

Interesting idea.  I'd hope you'd post album to album.  I'd like to see your take.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #549 on: May 31, 2011, 12:44:29 PM »
I might work backwards too, I'm really interested in hearing Snow.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #550 on: May 31, 2011, 12:46:18 PM »
I might work backwards too, I'm really interested in hearing Snow.

I'm thinking of getting that today at my local record store. I have 12 other NM-related albums, but not that.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #551 on: May 31, 2011, 06:35:50 PM »
To those of you who have not heard SB's V yet, feel free to come back and drool in this thread as soon as you hear "At the End of the Day."

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« Reply #552 on: May 31, 2011, 06:41:54 PM »
To those of you who have not heard SB's V yet, feel free to come back and drool in this thread as soon as you hear "At the End of the Day."

And if you aren't blown away by its greatness, please pick up your FAIL card at the door. :biggrin:

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #553 on: May 31, 2011, 06:44:56 PM »
Well at least you're doing it and not just talking about it, because it's all about what you do and not what you say.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #554 on: May 31, 2011, 06:48:46 PM »
"At The End Of The Day" is my favorite track from V, and probably in my Top 5 SB tracks of all time. It just has so many memoriable moments, and I love the bass guitar in it - Dave just SMOKES in this tune, especially near the end.

I'd dare say that "At The End Of The Day" is one of the greatest songs that Neal Morse has EVER written.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #555 on: May 31, 2011, 08:15:00 PM »
I like At the End of The Day, but after a while it just feels like it keeps going, and going, and going. . .  Not that I'm against long songs.  The Great Nothing never feels like it drags on and it's much longer.  Anyway, that's just my opinion.  All on a Sunday is another of my favorites from V.

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« Reply #556 on: May 31, 2011, 10:22:19 PM »
ATEOTD is great. The Great Nothing is not great.

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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
« Reply #557 on: May 31, 2011, 11:43:28 PM »
on my 3rd spin of T2, and I continue to appreciate Neal's ability to make his music so emotionally dramatic

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« Reply #558 on: June 01, 2011, 10:30:24 AM »
ATEOTD is great. The Great Nothing is not great.
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Re: Official Neal Morse Appreciation Thread
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