Acting
In mid-July, Mike, Bill, Eric and I played a set of songs at a friend’s 40th birthday party in Cancun. Now as you know, we don’t normally do party gigs but… for one night only, we played some stuff we’ve never done before. In addition to songs by Spock’s Beard, Flying Colors, and NMB, we did a bunch of covers and jam material, and we were joined by Melody Portnoy and Julie Harrison. We didn’t plan to release this, but when I realized it was recorded on audio and video, I thought this would be a great thing to share with the Inner Circle – a true one-off performance that you’ll not get anywhere else! Tracklist: 01. Intro #1 02. Wild World 03. On Broadway 04. Intro #2 05. What You Leave Behind 06. Meine Kleiner Grüner Kaktus 07. Your Place In The Sun 08. Intro #3 09. Back In The USSR 10. Intro #4 11. It Don’t Come Easy 12. Oh Darling 13. Kayla 14. Cesar Mendiburu/ Happy Birthday 15. Wind At My Back
For this show, we kicked off with some Late Bloomer songs, as well as the rarely played song The Kind Of Heart, which is probably one that’s less well known as it’s from the Send The Fire album – I dropped this on Wil pretty last minute and he did a great job! Then I’m joined by the guys from The Resonance, and we have some intros to them before we talk through a playback of the title track from the album that was released that day: No Hill For A Climber. So you get to hear about all the various elements that went into that song. 1. Already There 2. To Love You And Be Alive 3. The Kind of Heart 4. The Resonance – introductions 5. No Hill For A Climber playback with commentary
Long-time collaborators Mike Portnoy and Randy George as well as Neal Morse Band anchors, Bill Hubauer and Eric Gillette, join Neal as this group of master musicians perform Neal's world renowned classic album "One" filmed LIVE in Nashville!
This time around we have the video and audio of Inner Circle show from Morsefest in London (well Brentwood!) in 2024! At Brentwood, we already had Ross Jennings along to do support on Friday evening and he also sang Supernatural during Testimony 2. So it seemed like a cool opportunity to have a 2/3 of D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings set – we did two songs for the first time before a live audience, Julia and The Weary One! Of course I had my faithful friends Randy George, Bill Hubauer, Philip Martin, Julie Harrison and Amy Pippin join me – plus Francis Norman who played violin during the main shows came to join us to add a different element to the sounds. Setlist: 1. Open Wide the Flood Gates 2. To Love You and Be Alive 3. Already There 4. More Than I Am (with Talon David) 5. Julia (with Ross Jennings) 6. The Weary One (with Ross Jennings) 7. Canice Cathedral 8. Wind at My Back 9. Stranger in Your Soul
Long-time collaborators Mike Portnoy and Randy George as well as Neal Morse Band anchors, Bill Hubauer and Eric Gillette, join Neal as this group of master musicians perform Neal's world renowned classic album "Testimony" filmed LIVE in Nashville!
