The New Neal Morse Appreciation Thread

Aside from the hair, his appearance looks the same as he does now. His singing voice has aged, obviously, but in a good way IMO. He still sounds the same when he talks though, lol.

He discusses that too in his Testimony book. He did do many gigs just to make ends meet. He even wrote some country songs.

i would love to see Transatlantic tour and record.  hope roine is up for it.  i know he says it's a tiring gig.  

Yeah, Roine has said something to the effect that touring the Whirlwind made him more money than all the Flower Kings tours combined.  Of course, since just about all those tours lost money, that's not surprising.

The album sales for TA have helped fund Flower Kings albums in the past, and probably have something to do with why a new one is being recorded now.  Roine funds all the Flower Kings activities and pays the other band members a salary for their time spent recording and touring.  Obviously Mike made more money with DT, and Pete with Marillion.  Not sure about Neal, though he doesn't have as many people involved with his solo albums, so that may help him make a bit more on those than Roine does on FK albums.

Class. Enough said!

zumacraig wrote: i would love to see Transatlantic tour and record.  hope roine is up for it.  i know he says it's a tiring gig.

I don't know too much about it, but it seemed to me that in most interviews that I saw with Neal and Roine, there was a certain... "coldness"? between the two of them. Does anybody know what I mean? Maybe I'm seeing it completely wrong, but I was actually rather surprised that they continued to make albums and tour together, because in the interviews that I've seen, they didn't seem like two people who would like to work together too much.

Also I think with Neal it's always a risky thing to look into the future and predict what he's going to do. I've followed his activities for some time now, weren't we all surprised (himself included, according to his book) when he left both spocks and transatlantic? Surprised to see him return with a prog album only little time later? Rejoined Transatlantic?
He writes in his book that he never knows what he's going to do next, and asks God for counsel. He said he has nothing planned out, and is completely open for everything, even if it means to stop playing prog at all, or open a school for blind children, or writing a book (which he claims was a big surprise for him). I really hope that they're going to do another album together, and that I'll be finally able to see them live this time, but with Neal involved I wouldn't count on it ;)

 I really hope that they're going to do another album together, and that I'll be finally able to see them live this time, but with Neal involved I wouldn't count on it ;)
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Yeah also from watching the whirld tour documentary it's very hard to deny the strong chemistry between all the members.

Replace Roine with Trevor Rabin, and you'll have the best prog band ever!!  and he is already rich, so he won't have to do it for the money!!