Neal Morse (born August 2, 1960) is an American singer, musician and composer based in
Nashville, Tennessee
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. In 1992, he formed the
progressive rock
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band
Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.
The band was formed in 1992 by brothers Neal (lead vocals, keyboards) and Alan Morse (vocals, guitars), John Ballard (bass) and Nick D'Virgilio (drums). Ballard was r ...
with his brother
Alan
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and released an album which was moderately successful. In 1999, he joined
Dream Theater
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's co-founder and then drummer
Mike Portnoy
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, together with
Flower Kings
The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt. The group began as Stolt's touring band to support his third solo album ''The Flower King''. They continued performing after the ...
'
Roine Stolt
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and
Marillion's
Pete Trewavas
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Trewavas was born in Middlesbroug ...
they formed the super-group
Transatlantic
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.
In 2002, Neal Morse became a
born again Christian, left Spock's Beard and began a
Christian rock
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solo career, releasing many progressive rock
concept album
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s about his new religious faith. In the meantime, he continued to play with Transatlantic and formed three new bands with Portnoy,
Yellow Matter Custard,
Flying Colors and The Neal Morse Band.
Biography
Band career
Morse grew up in the
San Fernando Valley
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of Los Angeles as one of four children. His father was a choral director. Morse started to play the piano at the age of five and started to learn to play the guitar at the age of nine.
During his twenties he wrote two musicals (''Hit Man'' and ''
Homeland
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''), did some session jobs, tried to get a deal as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, and recorded a few
country and western demos with his brother Richard.
After about ten years, having played in small Californian clubs with various groups including Burlesque, Morse founded
Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.
The band was formed in 1992 by brothers Neal (lead vocals, keyboards) and Alan Morse (vocals, guitars), John Ballard (bass) and Nick D'Virgilio (drums). Ballard was r ...
together with his brother
Alan
Alan may refer to:
People
*Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
* Alan (given name), an English given name
**List of people with given name Alan
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*A ...
, to give voice to his great passion for Progressive Rock.
Their first album, ''
The Light'' (1995), was moderately successful. Despite having released the first two Spock's Beard albums to good critical acclaim, Morse found himself struggling economically. His brother Richard advised him to go to Germany to play hit songs as a one-man band in pubs, accompanying himself with piano or guitar, to generate income.
Morse then began periodic travel between California and Germany, where from time to time he remained for several weeks to work as a pub musician. During his periods in California, Morse continued to alternate work on new compositions for Spock's Beard, and live performance with them. At that time Morse was also part of the Eric Burdon band, touring with them, too.
The popularity of Spock's Beard's continued to grow and they would soon become one of a number of successful
progressive rock
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bands during the late nineties (along with
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of the ...
,
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987. During an initial career spanning more than twenty years, they earned critical acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, developed a cult following, and became ...
, and
The Flower Kings
The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt. The group began as Stolt's touring band to support his third solo album ''The Flower King''. They continued performing after the ...
).
While with Spock's Beard, Morse released two solo albums of more conventional straightforward rock music. In 1999, he joined former
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of the ...
co-founder
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. In September 2010, Portnoy announced his departur ...
,
Flower Kings
The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt. The group began as Stolt's touring band to support his third solo album ''The Flower King''. They continued performing after the ...
'
Roine Stolt
Roine Stolt (born 5 September 1956) is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 19 ...
and
Marillion's
Pete Trewavas
Peter Trewavas (born 15 January 1959) is an English musician, known as the bassist of Marillion. He joined in 1982, replacing Diz Minnitt, while acting occasionally as a backing vocalist and acoustic guitarist.
Trewavas was born in Middlesbroug ...
to form the supergroup
Transatlantic
Transatlantic, Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic may refer to:
Film
* Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950
* Transatlantic Enterprises, an American production company in the late 1970s
* ''Transatlantic'' (1931 film) ...
.
The band has released five studio albums (''
SMPT:e'', ''
Bridge Across Forever
''Bridge Across Forever'' is the second studio album of progressive rock supergroup Transatlantic, released in 2001. For this album, the band attempted to balance each member's contributions more equally, because of criticisms that their first ...
'', ''
The Whirlwind
''The Whirlwind'' is the third studio album by the band Transatlantic, released on October 23, 2009. It is available in three formats: a standard edition, a double disc special edition and a deluxe edition with a 105-minute making-of DVD.
The m ...
'', ''
Kaleidoscope
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'' and ''
The Absolute Universe
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'') plus live albums from the tours behind each studio disc: ''
Live in America'', ''
Live in Europe'', ''
Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London'', ''
More Never Is Enough'' and ''
KaLIVEoscope''. In concert, the group has included
Daniel Gildenlöw
Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band led by Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the band's main songwriter, lyricist, guitarist, and vocalist. Pain of Salvation's sound is characterised by riff-oriented guitar work, a broad vocal range, o ...
of
Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band led by Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the band's main songwriter, lyricist, guitarist, and vocalist. Pain of Salvation's sound is characterised by riff-oriented guitar work, a broad vocal range, o ...
, and occasionally Ted Leonard, Morse's eventual replacement in Spock's Beard.
![Neal-2006 ede](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Neal-2006_ede.JPG)
In 2003, Morse, Mike Portnoy, Paul Gilbert and Matt Bissonette formed
Yellow Matter Custard as a Beatles tribute supergroup. They took the name from a lyric in The Beatles song "I Am the Walrus": 'Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye...' On March 26, 2012, Morse released
the first album of the newly formed band
Flying Colors (
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. In September 2010, Portnoy announced his departur ...
on drums and vocals,
Dave LaRue
Dave LaRue is an American bassist who has performed with the Dixie Dregs since 1988 and with the Steve Morse Band since 1989. He also has worked with Dream Theater's John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess. He plays Music ...
on bass, Neal Morse on keyboards and vocals,
Casey McPherson
Casey McPherson (born September 15, 1978) is a singer and songwriter based in Austin, Texas where he lives with his two daughters. He is currently the frontman of the bands Alpha Rev and Flying Colors, as well as his own Casey McPherson. He has ...
on lead vocals, and guitar, and
Steve Morse
Steve J. Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the lead guitarist of Deep Purple from 1994 to 2022. Morse has also enjoyed a successful solo career and was briefly a member of ...
on lead guitar). In 2014, he gave life to another group, The Neal Morse Band (with Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Eric Gillette and Bill Hubauer), that released its first studio album ''
The Grand Experiment'' in 2015. The group's second outing, ''
The Similitude of a Dream'', was released on November 11, 2016, and the sequel to that album, ''
The Great Adventure'', was released on January 25, 2019. Their fourth release, ''
Innocence & Danger'' was released on August 27, 2021.
Solo career
Morse became a
born again Christian in 2002. He left both Spock's Beard and Transatlantic immediately following the release of the Spock's Beard album
''Snow'', in response to a calling to make his personal faith more prominent in his recorded output. He felt this would not be possible or appropriate in a band context. The period leading to this decision is described on the solo album ''
Testimony
In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.
Etymology
The words "testimony" and "testify" both derive from the Latin word ''testis'', referring to the notion of a disinterested third-party witness.
...
'' (2003), an epic, introspective composition which features
Kerry Livgren
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Biography
Livgren was raised in Topeka, Kansas, by his father Allen ...
of
Kansas
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and
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. In September 2010, Portnoy announced his departur ...
. One part of his conversion to Christianity, omitted from ''Testimony'' but described in full on ''Testimony Live'' and later in the song ''Jayda'' on ''
Testimony 2'', was that his daughter Jayda had been diagnosed as having a hole in her heart that required open-heart surgery. However, before Jayda received surgery, the hole disappeared following a church service in which Morse's wife and others prayed for God's healing.
In 2004, Morse wrote and recorded a new concept album featuring Portnoy and Randy George (on bass guitar). Guitar virtuoso
Phil Keaggy made a guest appearance on guitar and vocals. The album, titled ''
One'', is about man's relationship with God from his Christian perspective and was released on November 2, 2004. In 2005, Morse released two non-prog Christian albums. In January, Morse recorded Lead Me Lord with the Christian Gospel Temple Choir, his children, and his friends. Morse wrote about half of the tracks. This was released in February and is available for a donation. In July, Morse released ''
God Won't Give Up'', which was written around the
''Snow'' period. This is a pop album similar to ''
It's Not Too Late'', but with Christian lyrics.
upMorse in 2007
In the summer of 2005, a member of his church approached Morse to tell him that he should make an album based on the
tabernacle
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and that he should keep it a secret. Morse nonetheless mentioned that he was working on a secret project before he had written a note or even committed himself to do the project. Mentioning it during a radio interview created enough buzz to convince him to make the album. There was a contest on his message board to guess the participants, theme, and meaning of the album based on a series of clues. The secret project was finally revealed to be ''
?'' (also known as The Question Mark album, rumored to be influenced in title by
The White Album
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) and is about the tabernacle in the wilderness and the tabernacle of the heart. The studio band is Neal, Mike Portnoy, and Randy George with guests Mark Leniger,
Alan Morse
Alan Morse (born August 22, 1958) is an American guitarist of the progressive rock band Spock's Beard. He is the brother of co-founder Neal Morse, who left the band in 2002. Morse is married to Kathryn Morse and has two children, Julia and John. ...
,
Roine Stolt
Roine Stolt (born 5 September 1956) is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 19 ...
,
Steve Hackett
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, and
Jordan Rudess
Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes; November 4, 1956) is an American musician, software developer and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experi ...
.
In 2006, Morse issued ''
Cover to Cover'', a collection of cover versions by Mike Portnoy, Randy George and him, recorded during the production of ''?'', ''One'' and ''Testimony'', proving that despite the new focus of his solo career Morse wasn't averse to tackling songs with non-religious themes. In early 2007, Morse released ''
Sola Scriptura
, meaning by scripture alone, is a Christian theological doctrine held by most Protestant Christian denominations, in particular the Lutheran and Reformed traditions of Protestantism, that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of au ...
'', a concept album detailing the life and struggles of the German theologian
Martin Luther
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, and corruption within the medieval Church. Portnoy and George once again teamed with Morse and were joined by Paul Gilbert (of
Racer X and
Mr. Big) who contributed a few solo parts.
Immediately following ''Sola Scriptura'', Morse released the acoustic folk album ''Songs from the Highway''. The studio album ''
Lifeline'' was released on September 30, 2008. Morse was once again joined by Portnoy and George, just four months after the release of the ''Sola Scriptura'' live DVD. A live album, ''
So Many Roads'', recorded with his European band, was released on June 30, 2009.
''
Testimony 2'', a sequel and expansion of the autobiographical story from the first Testimony album, was released May 23, 2011. As had become Morse's pattern, he followed that album with a tour and live DVD. Also in 2011, he released a book, ''Testimony'', a continued autobiographical look at his life story and spiritual journey explored in more detail than in the associated Testimony albums.
Momentum
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was released on September 11, 2012, an album that, in structure, featured several shorter songs and one epic.
In recent years, Morse has recorded two more cover albums with George and Portnoy (''Cover 2 Cover'' in 2012 and ''Cov3r to Cov3r'' in 2020), a guest-heavy prog rock musical retelling the life and Passion of Christ (''Jesus Christ the Exorcist'', released in 2019), and a biographical album in the vein of ''Sola Scriptura'' based on the conversion and writings of
Paul the Apostle
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
(''Sola Gratia'', released in 2020).
During his early solo years, Morse focused most of his touring in Europe and had a band made largely of European musicians. The incarnation that toured in Europe for Sola Scriptura, for example, included Collin Leijenaar (drums, music director), Paul Bielatowicz (guitars), Elisa Krijgsman (guitars), Wilco van Esschoten (bass guitar), Jessica Koomen (vocals, keyboards, percussion) and Henk Doest (keyboards). For Testimony 2, Morse reunited members from the band that toured the initial Testimony album, including Portnoy, George, Rick Altizer and others. He then held a contest to assemble a full-time band, which eventually toured behind Momentum. This new band consisted of Mike Portnoy (drums), Randy George (bass), Eric Gillette (guitars, keyboards) and Bill Hubauer (keyboards). Guitarist Adson Sodré was in the band until visa issues forced his departure.
Guest appearances
![Neal Morse1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Neal_Morse1.jpg)
In 1997 he became a member of
Eric Burdon
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's I band. They also released the concert film ''Live at the Coachhouse''. In 2000, Morse provided vocals for the song "The First Man on Earth" on ''
The Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer'', one of
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/ rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as t ...
's
Ayreon
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albums. Neal Morse tracks have also appeared on the ''CPR Volume 1'' (2004), ''CPR Volume 2'', and
The Tsunami Projekt anthologies. Morse also participated in recording the ProgAID single "All Around the World". The profits for both The Tsunami Projekt and the ProgAID single were donated for victims' relief from the
2004 Asian tsunami.
Morse has been a guest musician on several 2005 albums, including Ajalon's ''Threshold of Eternity'',
Roine Stolt
Roine Stolt (born 5 September 1956) is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 19 ...
's ''
Wallstreet Voodoo'',
Salem Hill's ''Mimi's Magic Moment'', and Mark Leniger's ''Walk on Water''. Morse was one of several musical guests to appear on
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of the ...
's 2007 album ''
Systematic Chaos
''Systematic Chaos'' is the ninth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater. Released on June 4, 2007 in the United Kingdom and June 5, 2007 in the United States, ''Systematic Chaos'' was the band's first release through Road ...
'', on the song "
Repentance". These guests were recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings committed in the past. Morse provided vocals for the first track on
Jordan Rudess
Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes; November 4, 1956) is an American musician, software developer and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experi ...
'
tribute album
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''
The Road Home''.
In 2020, he joined Matt Smith of
Theocracy
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Etymology
The word theocracy origina ...
in releasing "And the Rest Is Mystery" under the Project Aegis moniker.
Radiant Records and Waterfall
In 1998, Morse founded his own independent record label, Radiant Records. The label serves as an outlet for his work in a variety of capacities—including development, licensing, promotion and distribution.
In 2005, Morse created his fan club, the Inner Circle. The monthly membership provides an email newsletter and special releases to members every other month. Over the years, he has released many behind the scenes features, demo sessions, and bootlegs to the Inner Circle. See
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Studio albums 1970s-1980s
1990s-present
Regional studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Singles 1970s-1980s
1990s–present
References
External links
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In 2019, at the dissatisfaction of current streaming services and their treatment of artists, Morse created his own streaming service, Waterfall. Most of Morse's and his collaborator's discographies can be found exclusively on the platform.
Morsefest
In 2014, Morse created ''Morsefest'', a weekend concert festival held at his local church, New Life Fellowship, in
Cross Plains, TN. The name of the event was chosen by
Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. In September 2010, Portnoy announced his departur ...
against Morse's wishes, however the name stuck. The inaugural Morsefest occurred on November 14–15, 2014 and featured the ''
Testimony
In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.
Etymology
The words "testimony" and "testify" both derive from the Latin word ''testis'', referring to the notion of a disinterested third-party witness.
...
'' and ''
One'' albums played in their entirety with string, horn, percussion, and choir sections as well as a morning Inner Circle acoustic show. This two-day format with a large array of added musicians has continued annually featuring albums and musicians from all of Morse's projects, The Neal Morse Band,
Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.
The band was formed in 1992 by brothers Neal (lead vocals, keyboards) and Alan Morse (vocals, guitars), John Ballard (bass) and Nick D'Virgilio (drums). Ballard was r ...
,
Flying Colors, and most recently in 2022,
Transatlantic
Transatlantic, Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic may refer to:
Film
* Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950
* Transatlantic Enterprises, an American production company in the late 1970s
* ''Transatlantic'' (1931 film) ...
.
In 2020 and 2021, Morsefest went on with "Lockdown" editions due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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with a limited live audience, and for the first time, a virtual streaming option.
Discography
References
Christianity Today Interview
External links
*
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Allmusic.com: Artist biography
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