Neal Morse
Birthday: 1960-08-02
Place of Birth: Van Nuys, California, USA
Biography: As a young musician, Neal’s dream was like many others – to find success in the pop music world. But after years of struggling in the Los Angeles singer-songwriter scene, he realized that this dream would not materialize. Rejecting conventional wisdom, Morse took a courageous step: He about-faced and devoted himself to progressive rock, the music truly in his heart. The obscure and fiercely competitive genre held little chance of commercial success. Undaunted, he formed the quirkily-named Spock’s Beard with his brother, Alan. They recorded The Light with what money they could scrape together. Against all odds, it was a breakout success, sending shockwaves through the small genre’s community. Over the next 10 years, Spock’s Beard released 10 critically acclaimed CDs and 2 DVDs, ascending to the top of the prog world. Neal also released 6 CDs and 3 DVDs with Transatlantic, the heralded prog supergroup comprised of the genre’s best musicians. The proverbial wayward son, Neal had finally found the success he sought. On the outside he seemed to have it all. On the inside, however, something was missing. Morse came to realize that for him, embracing the Christian faith was the fulfillment of his spiritual quest. His walk was at once gradual and sudden – and as with so many, completely unexpected. As he continued, his path increasingly revealed more of what his heart had sought all along. Yet he also began to find his career growing at odds with his faith. The rising spiritual tension and increasing commercial success finally came to a head with the release of Snow (2002), the group’s magnum opus... and swan song with Morse. The extraordinary 2-CD rock opera, composed by Morse, was widely acclaimed as the group’s finest. But it was the end of the era. Neal felt God calling him out of his former musical life and into the unknown. He made the agonizing decision to leave both Spock’s Beard and Transatlantic. Despite having finally achieved the success he had long sought, Morse had to begin all over again; musically, emotionally and spiritually.
Movies
Transatlantic: The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia
Following the release of 2021’s ambitious studio album ‘The Absolute Universe’, progressive[1]rock s...
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Eric Burdon & The New Animals: Live at the Coach House
Eric Burdon sings classic Animals songs....
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Spock's Beard: Don't Try This at Home
Spock's Beard, filmed live in Holland in 1999, on their Day for Night tour....
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Transatlantic: More Never Is Enough
More Never Is Enough contains, as the title suggests, more live footage of the Whirld Tour 2010 for ...
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Neal Morse: Testimony Live
Morse's "Testimony," the musical sequel to Spock's Beard's epic concept album "Snow," was brought to...
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Spock's Beard: The Making of Snow
"The Making Of Snow" is fully dedicated to Neal's last studio work with Spock's Beard. The viewer is...
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Spock's Beard: The Making of V
A real look inside the recording process of Spock's classic V CD. iIncludes the band recording at Ke...
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Neal Morse: The Making of Momentum
Go behind the scenes with Neal, Randy and Mike to explore the making of the momentous 2012 release, ...
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Neal Morse: The Making of Sola Gratia
Originating from a seed planted in his mind about writing a record based on the apostle Paul, Sola G...
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Neal Morse: The Making of Testimony Two
An in-depth look behind the scenes of the creative process involved in making this record....
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Yellow Matter Custard: One More Night in New York City
One More Night in New York City from drummer Mike Portnoy's amazing Beatles tribute band Yellow Matt...
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Neal Morse: Live Momentum
When progressive rock icon Neal Morse was preparing to tour his highly acclaimed 2012 studio release...
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Neal Morse: Sola Scriptura and Beyond
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura & Beyond movie was released Jun 24, 2008 by the Metal Blade Records ...
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The Neal Morse Band – Live In Limbourg
Experience The Neal Morse Band’s epic performance of their triumphant double-album, The Similitude o...
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Transatlantic: The Making of Breath of Life (Abridged Version)
“As you probably know, for Transatlantic’s The Absolute Universe, I took the lead role in putting to...
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The Neal Morse Band: A U.S. Tour Of Innocence And Danger
Watch NMB as they embark on their first post-lockdown tour supporting the Innocence & Danger album. ...
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Spock's Beard: Live in Bochum 1998
It was a multi-camera shoot, but back in relatively lo-res days. I have no idea where the masters ar...
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Neal Morse: The Making of Lifeline
At last, see the behind-the-scenes progression of this album from the demo stage to recording with M...
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Neal Morse: Live at Tower Records 2003
A video recorded in-store at Tower Records in Nashville just following the launch of the Testimony a...
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Spock's Beard: The Early Years Part One
“I have been diving deep into old videotapes of all kinds,” says Neal Morse. “Found some killer old ...
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Transatlantic: The Making of Kaleidoscope
Making of Kaleidoscope DVD – Full length DVD behind the scenes of the writing and recording of this ...
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Spock's Beard: Progfest '97 Raw & Uncut
This is some really vintage video that Neal found of Spock’s Beard at Progfest in 1997. Some of the ...
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Transatlantic: The Official Bootleg DVD
Includes two hours of "never before seen" backstage & live home-made movies, shot during the "Bridge...
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The Neal Morse Band - Live In India
Recorded Live at the Mood Indigo Festival – ITT Bombay 2013...
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Modern Drummer Festival Weekend 2003
A two-disc set with almost SIX HOURS of footage and special features. Featured artists and groups i...
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Spock’s Beard – Morsefest 2016 Inner Cicle Jam
Neal and all members of SB horsing around and jamming on a bunch of classic and sometimes bizarre tu...
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Neal Morse: Morsefest 2016 Storytellers
Professionally filmed, mixed, and mastered from Morsefest 2016, Neal Morse and friends take you insi...
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Neal Morse and Friends: Live and Acoustic at Morsefest 2015
An up close and very intimate concert just for the Inner Circle only! Joined by members of the Neal ...
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Neal Morse and Friends: Voices of the Beard Storytellers
The second in the “Storytellers” series, Neal Morse and Friends showcase unique versions of Spock’s ...
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Neal Morse and Friends: A Year in Neal's Life at Morsefest 2019
This month’s Inner Circle is audio and video footage from the 2019 Morsefest Inner Circle Concert. ...
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Neal Morse and Friends: Songs From God’s Smuggler at Morsefest 2022
Really excited to share this month’s Inner Circle release which is the video of the Morsefest 2022 I...
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Flying Colors: Second Nature Video Anthology
Each pre-order will include a free bonus DVD, Flying Colors - Second Nature - Video Anthology with b...
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Morse Portnoy George: The Making of Cover 2 Cover
Originally available as part of a sold out deluxe CD/DVD set, here is an opportunity to see behind t...
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Neal Morse: One Under Construction
An in depth look inside the making of the “One” album....
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Neal Morse: The Making of Testimony
This two hour long video is a rough cut of the footage taken during the writing and recording sessio...
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The Neal Morse Band: The Making of a Dream
Bonus DVD with "The Making Of A Dream" documentary going behind the scenes of the landmark album, Th...
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Neal Morse: The Dreamer Joseph Part One Commentary
Join Neal in his studio as he does a full playback of The Dreamer, and talks through how the album c...
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Transatlantic: The Making of SMPTe
Transatlantic recording their first album, June-July 1999. This video appeared as a bonus on the Eur...
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Neal Morse: Live at 3RP
From the Inner Circle series this DVD is filmed with camcorder. Recording the concert of Neal Morse,...
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Neal Morse: ? and Beyond Tour
This is a video of the summer Question Mark tour edited by Neal’s son Chad. A behind the scenes loo...
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The Neal Morse Band: Live in Athens
"What do you get when you take five nutty musicians and one crazy soundman to Israel and Greece? You...
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The Neal Morse Band: The Making of The Grand Experiment
Bonus DVD from 2015 SE: 1. The Making of "The Grand Experiment" (45:40) - Music Videos : 2. Agend...
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The Neal Morse Band: The Making of Innocence & Danger
The Making of Innocence & Danger Documentary Bill Hubauer Studio Tour Randy George Studio Tour Er...
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Neal Morse: Lifeline Tour
The IC release for this month is a video tape shot by John Vis of our concert last October in Zeche,...
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The Neal Morse Band: The Great Adventure Commentary
On this fabulous DVD, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Bill Hubauer, Eric Gillette and Randy George discuss...
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The Neal Morse Band: The Adventure Begins (The Making Of The Great Adventure)
2CD/DVD Special Edition featuring behind-the-scenes video clips of the making of the album. DVD-1.1...
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Neal Morse: Commentary on a Dream
Join Neal as he listens through the CD and shares his insight of the writing and recording process o...
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Neal Morse: The Sola Scriptura Sessions
Taking a look back into the making of the “Sola Scriptura” album. This video includes the exclusive ...
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Neal Morse: From the Video Vault
Rare collection of Neal Morse videos. Testimony Live In NJ 2003 is a stage camera recording of a 20...
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Neal Morse: Live in Seattle with Ajalon
This is a very nicely shot DVD at a solo-acoustic gig that Neal did in Seattle. Randy George’s group...
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The Neal Morse Band: Cruise to the Edge
Here is the live performance from the Neal Morse Band, aboard the Cruise to the Edge cruise in Novem...
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Neal Morse: A Whole Nother Trip - Neal's RV Adventure
Movie documentary about Neal's summer camping trip, including various jams and ideas for new songs. ...
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Morsefest 2020: Cover2Cover
Friday Night – COVER TO COVER NIGHT! Debut of new C2C3 material as well as classics from our cover c...
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The Neal Morse Band/The Flower Kings: 19 Days in Europe
Featuring great never before seen footage – both bands jamming together in the dressing room – the o...
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Morsefest 2020: Sola Gratia
Saturday Night – PREMIERE OF Neal’s SOLA GRATIA plus other great progressive rock from his catalog p...
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Transatlantic: Live At Sweden Rock 2014
Transatlantic Sweden Rocks Festival June, 5 2014 DVD 1. Into The Blue 2. Whirlwind Medley: Intr...
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Transatlantic: Whirld Tour 2010: Live from Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London is the third live album by the progressive rock supergroup Transatl...
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The Making of Flying Colors
Go behind the scenes and watch the band’s songs come to life through the extraordinary collaborative...
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Neal Morse: A Day in the Life
Filmed in Germany at "Night of the Prog" Festival. Spock’s Beard was joined by Neal Morse and Nick D...
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Transatlantic: The Making of the Whirlwind
Behind the scenes documentary of Transatlantic's 2009 album, The Whirlwind....
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Spock's Beard: In The Year 2000
This release is a combination of on and off-stage footage from the Spock’s Beard V Tour in the year ...
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Transatlantic - Building the Bridge / Live in America
"Building the Brige" is a two hour documentary that takes you through every part of the making of th...
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The Neal Morse Band: Morsefest 2021
This 5 CD/2 Blu-ray set captures An Evening of Innocence and An Evening of Danger shows which premie...
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Morsefest 2019
The 4 CD/2 Blu-ray also features a host of bonus features including two of the VIP Q&A sessions from...
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Transatlantic - Live in Europe
Released in 2003, it documents the November 12, 2001 show by the band at the 013 Club, Tilburg, Neth...
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Spock's Beard Live At Sea
The Progressive Nation at Sea cruise, upon the beautiful Norwegian Pearl, was an event that will be ...
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Flying Colors: Live in Europe
2013 live release from this supergroup consisting of Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Dave LaRue (Joe S...
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Neal Morse: Testimony Two - Live in Los Angeles
With 2DVDs and 3CDs, Testimony 2 - Live in Los Angeles is Neal's most opulent live release as a solo...
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Transatlantic: KaLIVEoscope
"The Kaleidoscope tour was indeed a landmark for Transatlantic. It was our first time in many parts ...
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Morsefest USA 2023: Inner Circle Concert
The MF USA 2023 concert include the live debuts of 5 songs from The Dreamer: Joseph – Part 1 which h...
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Morsefest 2014: Testimony
Long-time collaborators Mike Portnoy and Randy George as well as Neal Morse Band anchors, Bill Hubau...
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Morsefest 2014: One
Long-time collaborators Mike Portnoy and Randy George as well as Neal Morse Band anchors, Bill Hubau...
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Neal Morse: Morsefest - Testimony & One feat. Mike Portnoy Live
Over 5 hours of great performances including the entire Testimony and One albums plus special encore...
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Neal Morse & Friends: Morsefest Inner Circle Show – De Boerderij, Holland 2023
This is the audio and video of the Inner Circle show from Morsefest in Europe in 2023. In Holland, ...
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Transatlantic: Morsefest 2022 - The Absolute Whirlwind
This mammoth Limited 5CD + 2 Blu-ray Artbook set features both sets from Morsefest in their entirety...
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Flying Colors : Second Flight - Live at The Z7
Virtuoso prog/pop/rock band with (former) members of Deep Purple, Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs, Av...
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Neal Morse - Cruise to the Edge: Awakening - The Movie
Join Neal behind the scenes at Cruise To The Edge 2024. Neal was invited to Cruise to the Edge 2024 ...
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The Neal Morse Band: Alive Again
Riding on the tremendous success of their breakthrough album, The Grand Experiment, The Neal Morse B...
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Morsefest 2015: Question Mark
THE NEAL MORSE BAND, featuring MIKE PORTNOY, the 38 musicians on stage create a prog orchestra. Frid...
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Morsefest 2015: Sola Scriptura
THE NEAL MORSE BAND, featuring MIKE PORTNOY, the 38 musicians on stage create a prog orchestra. Satu...
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Yellow Matter Custard: One Night in New York City
The entire legendary Beatles tribute show featuring Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Paul Gilbert and Matt ...
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Spock's Beard: Snow Live
Spock’s beard featuring Neal Morse and all members past and present perform ‘Snow’ for the first tim...
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The Neal Morse Band : The Similitude of A Dream - Live in Tilburg 2017
The Neal Morse Band's triumphant double-album, The Similitude of a Dream, is the most acclaimed rele...
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Neal Morse - Life and Times Live
Neal Morse’s triumphant live, acoustic intimate solo tour captured here and available for the first ...
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Morsefest 2017 - Testimony of a Dream
The Neal Morse Band, the progressive rock collective comprised by singer/guitarist/keyboardist Neal ...
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Spock's Beard: Live At The Whisky
Live at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles, California on May 11, 1999....
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Spock's Beard - Don't Try This Anywhere!
Bonus DVD from the best-of 2015 Spock's Beard compilation containing live footage, interviews and ba...
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The Neal Morse Band : The Great Adventour - Live in BRNO 2019
When The Neal Morse Band released their acclaimed The Similitude Of A Dream album - a progressive ro...
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Flying Colors : Third Stage - Live in London
Continuing their pattern of making a studio album, followed by a live album, "Third Stage: Live In L...
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The Making of the Absolute Universe by Transatlantic
A documentary detailing the composition of Transatlantic’s latest album The Absolute Universe...
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Neal Morse: Jesus Christ the Exorcist - Live at Morsefest 2018
Acclaimed prog rocker Neal Morse returns with a new live set, Jesus Christ The Exorcist: Live At Mor...
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Neal Morse & Friends: Morsefest Inner Circle Show – Brentwood, 2024
This time around we have the video and audio of Inner Circle show from Morsefest in London (well Bre...
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Morsefest 2023: Testimony feat. NMB
Our usual video and audio team captured every moment of the event, and we are thrilled to announce t...
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Neal Morse & Friends: Morsefest USA 2024 – Inner Circle Show
For this show, we kicked off with some Late Bloomer songs, as well as the rarely played song The Kin...
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Neal Morse & Friends: Morsefest Inner Circle Show – London 2025
Neal Morse & Friends – Inner Circle Show – London January 18th, 2025 (Video & Audio) Track list: A...
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Spock's Beard: Acoustic SNOW
FROM NEAL MORSE: This video includes the two final shows I played as a member of Spock’s Beard. Th...
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Neal Morse: Testimony 2...For You.
This is a behind the scenes DVD of the Testimony 2 tour in both the United States and Europe. It was...
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Neal Morse: Iso Soitto Festival, Finland 2012
Recorded live at the Iso Soitto Festival in Keuruu, Finland, July 2012, and featuring Eric Gillette,...
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Neal Morse: Xnoizz Flevo Fest 2009
The Inner Circle DVD of November 2009 is the raw and uncut playback of the concert we did during the...
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Neal Morse: Acoustic – Live In Mexico City
Experience a magical night with Neal and his new band in an intimate atmosphere. “We were exhausted ...
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Neal Morse: Live and Acoustic 2010
Track List: Wind At My Back Open Wide The Flood Gates Oh, To Feel Him I Sing My Love Sing It Hi...
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Neal Morse & The Resonance – First Expedition
The first full Neal Morse & The Resonance gig took place on March 27th, 2025 in New Life Church, Whi...
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Eric Burdon & The New Animals: Live at the Coach House
This concert was recorded live at the Coach House on 17th October 1998. The picture quality and soun...
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Neal Morse - Live at the Cavern Club
Neal Morse performs Beatles covers at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England on June 2, 2025....
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Morsefest 2024: The Joseph Epics/Jesus Christ: The Exorcist/D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings
The 4 CD/ 2 Blu-ray set captures the full London show, filmed at Trinity Church in Brentwood in Janu...
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Neal Morse: Inner Circle DVD #1 – Jul 2005
The video is divided into four parts, each offering a unique glimpse into Neal Morse’s world: Part ...
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