1997-05-25 Spock's Beard @ Progfest '97, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 01 Beware of Darkness (George Harrison cover ) 0:00:00 02 Happy Birthday to You (... Ryo) (Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill) 0:05:27 03 Walking on the Wind 0:06:38 04 Go the Way You Go 0:16:34 05 Thoughts 0:28:35 06 June 0:37:32 07 In the Mouth of Madness 0:44:10 08 The Doorway 0:49:28 09 The Light 1:03:26 (+ drum solo 1:15:56) Encore: 10 Fire (Jimi Hendrix cover) 1:25:23 11 Waste Away 1:27:10 ● Neal Morse - lead vocals, keyboards, guitar ● Alan Morse - lead guitar, backing vocals ● Ryo Okumoto - keyboards ● Dave Meros - bass, backing vocals ● Nick D'Virgillio - drums, lead & backing vocals Setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/spocks-beard/1997/variety-arts-center-los-angeles-ca-23d23817.html ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AllMusic: www.allmusic.com/artist/spocks-beard-mn0000790513/biography Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/277060-Spocks-Beard ProgArchives: www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=320#discography Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1HN6EhIK1fRYk5gtXHclZv Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock%27s_Beard UA-cam Studio Albums Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLoRNXsrOuZ-XH8AWslxb5KfdUOdTCkp3C.html UA-cam Live Albums & Concerts Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLoRNXsrOuZ-XFduRgr7Pt_-mBIm77SeJh.html UA-cam Topic: ua-cam.com/users/SpocksBeard ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
you probably dont care at all but does anyone know a method to get back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
@Dean Roy i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im trying it out now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
I attended this great gig! L'Orme, FLOWERKINGS, Arena, Sinkadus, Big Elf, John Wetton, and... Spock's Beard! The Variety Arts theater was excellent, in the Civic center area of Los Angeles !!
Great post, time stamp forgiven. Great to see Neal with long hair! ah...early live stuff is always appreciated, kinda sorry Neal left...haven't really followed them since then.
You've been missing out. He has made some timeless stuff in recent years. Don't be off put by his conversion to Christianity. I consider myself undeclared in the religion department and I get so much out of his music. One of his best efforts recently is the double album Similitude of a Dream. Its based on the book Pilgrims Progress and is absolutely a tour de force of progressive rock.
@@zachsmith1443 Yeah Zach, I bought his first 2 "religious" albums, and you're right about the quality. I think "Testify" has some really good stuff on it. I guess I've just lost interest in being preached at. Being raised Catholic, I've got some issues with religion in general, as I grow older, I alternate between believing and being agnostic...I guess we'll never really know if there's a God or not, but I'm still willing to give "him" the benefit of the doubt.
2 real Mellotrons, a Hammond, Leslie, Tightness galore, harmonies, great songwriting, Nick D, Ryo, Neal, Alan, Dave... the original Spocks. And we have about 10% thumbs down? How can it be? Some jealousy? Some people searching for Star Trek and stumbled on this? lol
Great one! At the beginning of The Doorway I thought to myself "Did Neal really tune is guitar back up again after June?" And nope, clearly he forgot (or didn't have time). :D You can see him trying to tune it up fast somewhere in the beginning of the song but later on has to stop and do it properly. I love it when these kinds of things happen, it's show being raw and imperfect in all it's musical magic. No instrument tech assistants that early on in their career I guess, no computers, only hardware synths, mellotron, hammond and quite simple technical setup over all. And it sounds effin great!
53:33 "ladies and gentlemen I forgot to tune my guitar up... Hold on a second..." That was priceless but the best part "Can't wait to read about that on the internet" That was in 1997 and Neal was already here in the comment section!!! Holy cooowww!!! 😱😱😱
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1997-05-25 Spock's Beard @ Progfest '97, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
01 Beware of Darkness (George Harrison cover ) 0:00:00
02 Happy Birthday to You (... Ryo) (Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill) 0:05:27
03 Walking on the Wind 0:06:38
04 Go the Way You Go 0:16:34
05 Thoughts 0:28:35
06 June 0:37:32
07 In the Mouth of Madness 0:44:10
08 The Doorway 0:49:28
09 The Light 1:03:26 (+ drum solo 1:15:56)
Encore:
10 Fire (Jimi Hendrix cover) 1:25:23
11 Waste Away 1:27:10
● Neal Morse - lead vocals, keyboards, guitar
● Alan Morse - lead guitar, backing vocals
● Ryo Okumoto - keyboards
● Dave Meros - bass, backing vocals
● Nick D'Virgillio - drums, lead & backing vocals
Setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/spocks-beard/1997/variety-arts-center-los-angeles-ca-23d23817.html
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AllMusic: www.allmusic.com/artist/spocks-beard-mn0000790513/biography
Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/277060-Spocks-Beard
ProgArchives: www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=320#discography
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1HN6EhIK1fRYk5gtXHclZv
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock%27s_Beard
UA-cam Studio Albums Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLoRNXsrOuZ-XH8AWslxb5KfdUOdTCkp3C.html
UA-cam Live Albums & Concerts Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLoRNXsrOuZ-XFduRgr7Pt_-mBIm77SeJh.html
UA-cam Topic: ua-cam.com/users/SpocksBeard
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Thank you, sir.
Thanks!!!
you probably dont care at all but does anyone know a method to get back into an instagram account??
I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
@Calvin Tristen Instablaster =)
@Dean Roy i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im trying it out now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
This is a true gem maybe the only video footage from this time period of the band! Thank you!!
The audio quality is actually way better than I expected based on the quality of the video. What a amazing show, thanks for uploading this treasure!
I attended this great gig!
L'Orme, FLOWERKINGS, Arena, Sinkadus, Big Elf, John Wetton, and...
Spock's Beard!
The Variety Arts theater was excellent, in the Civic center area of Los Angeles !!
Great post, time stamp forgiven. Great to see Neal with long hair! ah...early live stuff is always appreciated, kinda sorry Neal left...haven't really followed them since then.
You've been missing out. He has made some timeless stuff in recent years. Don't be off put by his conversion to Christianity. I consider myself undeclared in the religion department and I get so much out of his music. One of his best efforts recently is the double album Similitude of a Dream. Its based on the book Pilgrims Progress and is absolutely a tour de force of progressive rock.
@@zachsmith1443 Yeah Zach, I bought his first 2 "religious" albums, and you're right about the quality. I think "Testify" has some really good stuff on it. I guess I've just lost interest in being preached at. Being raised Catholic, I've got some issues with religion in general, as I grow older, I alternate between believing and being agnostic...I guess we'll never really know if there's a God or not, but I'm still willing to give "him" the benefit of the doubt.
@@zachsmith1443 The Great Adventure is more memorable for me. My wife seems to prefer Similitude
Sooooo gooooood
Yoooooo Dubstep King is here
2 real Mellotrons, a Hammond, Leslie, Tightness galore, harmonies, great songwriting, Nick D, Ryo, Neal, Alan, Dave... the original Spocks. And we have about 10% thumbs down? How can it be? Some jealousy? Some people searching for Star Trek and stumbled on this? lol
Great one! At the beginning of The Doorway I thought to myself "Did Neal really tune is guitar back up again after June?" And nope, clearly he forgot (or didn't have time). :D You can see him trying to tune it up fast somewhere in the beginning of the song but later on has to stop and do it properly. I love it when these kinds of things happen, it's show being raw and imperfect in all it's musical magic. No instrument tech assistants that early on in their career I guess, no computers, only hardware synths, mellotron, hammond and quite simple technical setup over all. And it sounds effin great!
Wow ... what a treat! I was surprised by the quality of the audio.
Magical band and a magical time. Got to hang with these guys back in the day. Great people, fantastic band!
53:33 "ladies and gentlemen I forgot to tune my guitar up... Hold on a second..."
That was priceless but the best part
"Can't wait to read about that on the internet"
That was in 1997 and Neal was already here in the comment section!!! Holy cooowww!!! 😱😱😱
XD
I LOVED Dave Meros’s Rick tone back then!!!
Most Awesome!
Nice⭐️
Alan Morse was hotter than a freshly baked pizza roll.
Over the years, Neal has improved his voice and haircut 😂
bless you
Who is on vocals here? My first time seeing anything of this band. Wow.
Neal Morse
Yes?
How long has this been online. OMG.
APPARENTLY SINCE Mar 26, 2019.
Yeah someone messaged me a while ago I was the person who released the footage of this :)
That hair tho
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