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Spock's Beard - The Light (Live)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2006
- One of the best progressive bands performing an awesome song with Neal Morse (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Solo) on lead Vocals!!!
Nov 12 - Progfest '95 - Los Angeles, CA
Band:
Neal Morse (Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)
Alan Morse (Lead Guitar, Vocals)
Dave Meros (Bass, Vocals)
Ryo Okumoto (Keyboards)
Nick D'Virgillio (Drums, CoOL Vocals)
The more I listen to SB...the more I realize how great this band was, is, are. I only "discovered" them in the early 2000's. I am going back and watching a lot of the older videos and purchasing some of their older music as well as their current.
Ah, who can forget Neal with long hair? Historical!
Goodness gracious -- what a fantastic performance of one of the mightiest debut songs in Prog Rock history.
It's so awesome, that after all these years, we still see Al on the right, Ryo on the left and Dave in the back, with Neal and Nick occasionally do a track or even a whole show with the band and its only two "new members" in all those years, Ted and Jimmy.
My first album with the band infact was 'The Light", so I am a 'first-hour'-fan and proud of it. It's really cool to grow and develop not only with a bands music, but also with the band itself. They made and still make and write the 'soundtrack of my life'!
All the best for Neal, Al, Ryo, Dave, Nick, Ted, Jimmy and of course Stan & John!
Thanks guys, you wrote some of the best music ever! That goes for all of you... :)
One of the best performance ever, of one of the best song ever.
How can people criticize Neal for being a Christian? It's his belief, what is the point in criticizing another person's believe unless you are too insecure in your own beliefs ...
Wow.... I've never heard a song from this group before. Absolutely smashing. Bravo!
The best performance of the best song ever.
Flying Colors is legitimately the best record in the past few years. Never has such a task been tackled so effectively, of creating something new yet familiar, prog but also pop, country rock and even jazz. The lineup speaks for itself, but the record goes further than the sum of its parts. Truly astounding, I recommend it.
Color's was the first I'd heard Neil, been following Steve and Dave for 30 yrs. Wish they'd cut another album.
that rickenbacker sounds absolutely fantastic
Yep, glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. A lot of his lyrics in Spock's Beard were about God or looking for God. It just wasn't quite as obvious as in his more recent music. The Doorway, The Light, My Shoes, and plenty of others...
Not unlike Jon Anderson's
This is a truly beautiful song.
Dark room, full blast, this is maybe one of the best songs of all time!
*THE* mightiest debut song :)
In fact this is the 1st Official performance of Spock's Beard!!!
Ryo on 2 Mellotrons....This was a fantastic time, I will never forget it. Kevin Gilbert was running the soundboard that night. These guys are the best. I miss Neal in front.
I did the lighting 🙂
This is the first album of SB I bought, and still my favorite
If you sincerely enjoy Neal's (and SB's) music as much as I do, there's no reason to take offense to Neal's born again Christianity. First off, his solo stuff is incredible, lyrics aside (though I think they are very powerful and I'm by no means a die hard Christian). I respect everything about Neal Morse and his career. I don't understand how people have such issues with his personal choices. I met the man...he's still very real and very dedicated. He still makes incredible music.
I'm not going to lie: I'm an atheist, and I love ? and Sola Scriptura. They're just solid records. Good songwriting, good tunes, good lyrics.
I mean, I like Rush's late-70's stuff, and I'm about as far from an Objectivist as you can be, philosophically. Doesn't make it bad art.
Flower Kings lyrics in Rising Imperial, Love Supreme and Stardust We Are are as christian as you can be. The thing is Jesus, it doesnt matter If ge exists or not, laid the ground for Hippism. A 2000yo Hippie.
I take Peace and Love over Religion anytime.
My russian Father were in a Concert Spocks Beard The Light. We actually live from 2004 til today in Moscow. My Father knows Neal Morse with long hair in their early times. We knows that Spocks Beard is an Californian Progressive Rockband.
Greetings from Москва Русский👋😀
I still miss Neal in SB. I have mad props for the other guys pressing on, and NDV really stepped it up, without a doubt, but you're not going to get magic like The Light and V without Neal
I love this song so much. Just can't listen to it enough.
damn 10 yrs ago I used to come and watch this video alot, legendary
9:24 to 9:44 could be the best 20 seconds in Prog history.
One of my favorite bands!! Love, just love it!!
prog music is only for the chosen ones...us!! long live to Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Rush, Billy Sherwood, and 0Porcupine Tree!!!
wooooow sooooo awessooomme!!!
spock's beard... probably my favorite band of all time... after genesis.
Great video. Thanks for posting!
i think people criticize christianity because it is too REAL for them!
aside from that, music is music....if it is good music, i will listen to it, period! this is good music!
At this point in SB's career and for several albums afterward, l don't think you could call Neal's lyrics "Christian" any more than Kerry Livgren's lyrics on the first few Kansas albums. I would call them "spiritual" and "searching", perhaps.
And l must say that anyone out there who is put off by overtly Christian content is missing out on literally one of the top 10 guitarists who we have been fortunate enough to have with us for over 50 years--Phil Keaggy.
He is certainly not going to show up in some stupid Rolling Stone Best Of list. He was around the same time as Hendrix and Jimi publicly acknowledged him along with Rory Gallagher, Terry Kath, and Billy Gibbons.
If the religiosity turns you off Keaggy has put out several instrumental albums among the 50-ish albums he has released.
Do yourself a favor and check him out...you will be musically rewarded.
Briliant!!! Just brilliant....
Party Noise!.....heHE!!! hahahaha YES! One of my favorite beard songs. This live performance is fucking incredible.
I'm 3 and a half minutes in and I'm blown away already :O
Thank you for posting this!
Long live the beard!
Awesome, thanks!
I just found this awesome band! Bought X
I have this album and I love this song!
I really need to get some of their albums. I love this
Yeah. I've head good things about it.
They also have a new Transatlantic album in the works. Glad to see he's finally decided to do it again
Marvelous!! So odd to see Neal with long hair. Alan has one of the oddest ways of playing I've ever seen.
I believe it´s because inside prog there are about 16 different genres , and most of prog lovers is well supplied with all kind of music .
Great Jam very polished
gonna see them live this coming friday 25TH! can't wait!!!
Awesome prog!!!
it's the only spock's beard album i can really listen to.
I can dig this!
Awesome video!! I have this performance on the "The Beard Is Out There" CD, but it's really cool to actually be able to see it. Weird to see Neal with long hair, too. Thanks for posting it!!
I recall reading in the booklet that it was just distortion on the microphone as the vocals were lifted right from the demo. The laugh after the "Humanus Erectus" line was him laughing because of how silly the lyrics were, but they kept it in the actual release of The Light
really love this album, good debut album
uhm, you know theres a MESSAGING SYSTEM? ya know, for having conversations with people...so you don't have to hold them on the board of a video that the conversation doesnt pertain to at all.
Spock's beard is incredible, this video is a classic....I love when neil goes "party noises.....HE HEEE"
I agree, shame Neal left, but some of his solo stuff, like Sola Scriptura, is very good.
The amazing Spock's Beard !!!
A classic if I ever saw one. Spock's Beard still rule, but Neal Morse was the real genius. Being a prog-head is awesome, makes me feel good compared to those stupid commercial music fans.
26 September 2017 - Who's the ONE pinhead that "thumbs downed" every post?
but i'm glad that i can come on here and have a good discussion with you guys without being berated and insulted as youtube tradition would hold.
The great Kevin Gilbert did the sound at this show. Amazing performance by SB.
I did the lighting for this fest and had the honor of working with Kevin all weekend, not to mention Spock's Beard and all the other amazing bands. It is hard to explain but the bond guys behind the scenes working to make this kind of experience great for people is what l imagine is similar to the bond guys have that go through a war. That is also why l was stage crew or manager at Progday for 20 years. I am honored to have been a "war buddy" of Kevin Gilbert's. The hug and exaggerated "l love you man!" he gave me when he left l will treasure, and be haunted by, for the rest of my life.
For being a prog nerd i really have missed something, Go neal!!
Still the coolest
I am Fan of Spocks Beard too and have some Albums:
Day for Night (1999)
Snow (2002)
Without Neal:
Feel Euphoria (2003)
Octane (2005)
X (2010)
Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep (2013)*
The Oblivion Particle (2015)*
* = with Drummer Jimmy Keegan til 12 or 16th October 2016. Nick d'Virgillio on 25 Martch 2017 is back.
@KingCrimson776 Punk was the back lash against the great Prog bands of the early 70s - Yes, Genesis, Rush and ELP. Complex musical and vocal arrangements leave a lot of music listeners stranded. Their musical bones don't vibrate to it the way ours do. The standard response is often to ridicule it on grounds of musical snobbery or (as you say) to denigrate the value of technical musical ability. It has always been, and will always be so. Long live Prog.
This is way way before Transatlantic, this is one of the first live performances of Spock's Beard.
Check out The Flower Kings' Bablyon. There has to be 5 keyboard tracks on that song. It is a mystical adventure and it's beautiful. Also check out Theme For A Hero.
You nailed it!
Ahh...its like ive died and went to prog heaven:)
thank u for the upload=]
You are damn lucky. I would love to see them!
classic spocks beard
Of course, I could be wrong! This video is amazing by the way, I don't know which performance I like more, this one or the one on Don't Try This at Home!
I was there.
When I heard "The Light" cd I emailed Renfro at ProgDay and urged that he book them... he declined saying something like "their not big enough yet" ...
I had to wait till NearFest99 to see them, I got ticket number 13 (flew up from Miami). Great performance, great cd, oh and IQ was there too!!! Was worth the trip at least two times over :)
Check out the Pillbugs videos... they rock too :))
No, not true. They were not available due to a schedule conflict. In 1996 if l recall they were busy recording Beware Of Darkness, and were unavailable.
I am not disputing your account but l certainly know Peter was on top of it at the time (as an advice giver at the time) and he absolutely would have booked them if possible. They most certainly would have been less expensive than Deus Ex Machina....but we are lucky their legendary set happened instead.
@ZeroWhiteNothing I agree. I'm agnostic and even though I don't believe in the judeo-christian god I respect people's right to believe in one, as long as they don't want to push their religion down my throat. I love Neal's solo music... lyrics are just lyrics. If I want to listen to the lyrics that get through to me I listen to Pink Floyd
Very good! Interesting to watch the guitarist play with fingers and the bassist plays with a pick! ;)
The keyboard sounds really date the recording, too...
I like the song a lot, though.
Neal uses very dated keyboard sounds, I think to evoke the sounds of past eras.
another great prog band is Magg, you should check their myspace!
just put /maggband after typing the myspace dot com thing
kkkkkk o Neal cabeludo e de pijama, Banda épica!
Damn! TWO mellotrons!
And Marillion!
Great stuff! I´d like to see Time has come from this night, is it on video as well?
frankly i'm surprised that anyone who likes prog could like only prog, because prog is pretty much one of the broadest genres, and you can hear it in most other genres, so why not like them too?
LIKER.
@scalefish Sure and I guess there are intersections between acid jazz and neo-classical but that doesn't change the fact that punk was a response to the perceived middle-class public schoolboy image of prog.
Is it just me the one who hears that bass line (1:30 on) screaming "SQUIRE, SQUIRE"??
And that guitar parts remind me a little of Hackett, from Genesis (not to mention the vocal style ad performance...)
Sorry, I´m an old school progger, this is a very good band, indeed, but I can´t help comparing...
Neal's music is derivative at times, some of it I think intentional to pay tribute to his influences. Yes, in this song I heard Genesis and Yes in spots.
Now that you mention it. He kinda does
Muito foda!!!
@ZeroWhiteNothing (The Yes bootleg you refer to is just that, it isn't part of the official Yes catalog). Rick Wakeman is one of my heroes and so is Bach, who claimed to have been inspired by religion but then so did every other composer of his era - he simply followed the prevailing Zeitgeist of his times. Progressive *can* be like Death, have a listen to Opeth, probably the best Progressive Metal band of our times.
Neal with long hair lol
@GrindlayPro1 Tales from Topographic Oceans is the yes 6° album after close to the edge and before Relayer . And this song The Revealing Science of God ,is in it !! It is not "just that", friend .
Starts like Chick Corea and the Return To Forever!
I. Am. Humanus Erectus. Stand back!
Neal needs to grow his hair again - he's lost weight over the years, too! Would like to see more of these early videos!
Hey look its Jack Black!
just kidding.. love Neal Morse!
Another keyboard player shunted in the video. Ryo rules.
Ryo had JUST joined the band. Hadn't even released an album with them. For all they knew, he may have just been a touring keyboardist at this point.
you gotta love LSD
cuando van a venir a argentina ?!!!!!!!!!!!
yes, i have heard V, i bought a copy of it and i was very disappointed with it.
...jam
Glad to see punk didn't kill 'em all...
Not that punk's bad per se, but give me a good prog-out over the Pistols any day...
@ZeroWhiteNothing I don't criticise Neil Morse for being a Christian but I don't think his lyrics suit the prog style of SB and Transatlantic. Jon Anderson's lyrics weren't about anything in particular and complemented the music perfectly. Neil Morse's lyrical ideas can occasionally drag the music down to the level of happy clappy Sunday morning in the pews.
Great band. Saw this lineup around the year 2000 but Neal had short hair as did Ryo. Should be seeing them in late April 2007 without Neal, of course.
I am Mr. Velazco andI drink my milk with Tabasco ! LoL
At the time, my 12-year-old son thought Neal was singing, "I drink my milk with my asshole."
reiner Wahnsinn
lol I thought that too. maybe because this video is sort of blurry.
trkie01: most of those but you forgot genesis n00b