If you go to my website www.ndvmusic.com you will see the fantastic drum and guitar gear I am selling. I am not selling just any gear either. These are some special pieces with some very special memories for me. Everything I am selling has been used to make some of the best music of my career. So get on over there while there is still time. You could make someone very happy this holiday season. Including me ! :)
November 14, 2009
SPOCK'S BEARD and a LIVE interview with Dave Meros will be featured on "The International Prog Rock Show with MontrealRick and Frank" on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15th at 3:00 PM EST (until 6:00 PM EST) . The show will run for three hours and will play lots of great SB music through the years and lots of in depth questions from the hosts and listeners who have e-mailed in their questions. You can tune in via internet at: Mohawk-Radio.com. Please join us and support Spock's Beard! THANX and PROG ON!
I writing to let you all know of a show I have coming up at Molly Malones in LA on November 27th at 9:00pm. The most wonderful and fabulous Doug Petty, my fellow Tears For Fears bandmate, will be playing the keys and my great friend and songwriting partner Stan Ausmus will be playing guitar, bass, singing...juggling, jumping through rings of fire...in tights! Yes he is wonderful and fabulous too. I'll be singing, playing guitar, bass, percussion, and whatever else I can think of.
I'll be performing some of my new songs which will be released on a new EP of mine in the very near future, some Spock's Beard songs to celebrate the making of our 10th record, and also to celebrate the release of the Kevin Gilbert DVD "Live At The Troubadour" we are also going to throw in some KG favorites. (click on the link to go and buy it - popplusone.com/gilbert.html
It should a really fun set. My good friend Lori Lynner (lorilynner.com) will be doing a set right before me at 8pm. She is a fantastic singer with a really great band so please come early so you don't miss her set.
Come on out for a night of great music and then we'll all head up to Genghis Cohen for Chinese! WHOO HOOO!!!!!
October 15, 2009
Hi Everybody,
Just finished a BUNCH of keyboard tracks for the new CD and it's all sounding quite groovy. We did B3 and synth tracks at Al's studio and the piano tracks at Clear Lake Audio.
As soon as we have something presentable we'll put a couple little 30 second sound clips up so you can hear what we're up to.
On another note, Mark Spritzler has just finished work on a cool new Spock's Beard app for iPhone, and it's FREE, so if you'd like to add that to your iPhone apps, click here to check it out and download.
September 17, 2009
Hello everyone,
I am writing to let you know that in between recording the new Spock's Beard CD and everything else going on I will be going on the road for a short tour with AGENTS OF MERCY andKARMAKANIC. These are 2 side projects from the fabulous Roine Stolt and Jonas Reingold of Flower Kings fame. Their music is great and challenging and they will be fun and entertaining nights. If you are in any of the towns below please come on out, say ,hello , and enjoy an evening of fantastic music. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! - NDV
10/10/2009
AGENTS OF MERCY & KARMAKANIC @ CALPROG
7630 S. Washington Ave., Whittier, California 90602 WWW.CALPROG.COM for tix and info
10/13/2009
AGENTS OF MERCY & KARMAKANIC @ City Theater
2301 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 www.olympiaentertainment.com for info and tix
10/14/2009
AGENTS OF MERCY & KARMAKANIC @ RPM’s
1020 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, 15017
3rp@3rprogfest.com for info and tix
10/15/2009
AGENTS OF MERCY & KARMAKANIC @ Orion Sound Studios
2903 Whittington Ave. Suite C, Baltimore, Maryland 21230 http://www.orionsound.com for tix and info
10/17/2009
AGENTS OF MERCY & KARMAKANIC @ The Magic Room and Sound Museum
155 N. Beacon St., Brighton, Massachusetts 02135
newears@comcast.net for tix and info
Also for those of you in Germany, I will be performing at Ludwigsburger Trommeltage drum festival on Saturday October 24th. Click on the link for tickets and info. Hopefully I will have some new Spock's material to perform! www.ludwigsburgertrommeltage.de
September 10, 2009
Live Chat Online With Spock's Beard
Saturday September 12 at 5pm EST (2pm PST) at MusicGame Authors.com. Click the link for more info
August 27, 2009
SBX Ultra Package Cutoff date
The last day to be able to place an order for the SBX Ultra Package will be September 19, 2009. (This cutoff date applies only to the Ultra Package. All other ordering options, i.e. CD, CD+shirt, autographed CD, etc have no cutoff date for orders.)
Spock's Beard on RockBand Network
Spock's Beard has just signed with MGA (Music Game Authors) to chart out our material for the new RockBand Network that is scheduled to go online at the end of the year.
We are starting out by submitting our last three CDs, mainly because the last three CDs were done on ProTools and the track data that they need is MUCH easier to export than any of the previous CDs. But eventually the entire catalog will be represented.
There is a lot of work involved in charting songs for RockBand, so they have chosen four songs to start off with and will add more later. So if you don't see the songs that you'd really like to play to on RockBand, don't worry, they will be there eventually. Here's what they posted on their website: www.musicgameauthors.com
Progress On The New CD
We're moving along nicely with demo recording and as we get demos complete we'll post little sound samples for everybody to check out.
It's kind of early to tell, but with the way things are going so far, this promises to be a very strong CD, and probably the most cohesive CD of our post-Neal offerings.
Cheers! Dave
BTW, don't forget the SB YouTube Channel. We'll eventually be adding videos of the SBX recording process.
July 23, 2009
SBX - NEW SPOCK'S BEARD CD PRE-ORDER
Yes, that's right a new CD! Most of the material has already been written and we're ready to go to the next phase of tightening up arrangements, making changes where needed and starting production.
We've decided to go commando on this one... lean, mean and without record label support.
We have been free agents since the release of our last CD and after lots of deliberation have decided to release our next CD independently rather than re-sign with InsideOut or shop other labels.
There have been a lot of great suggestions relating to this topic by the members of our forum, and the one that made a lot of sense to us was to take pre-orders for our not-yet-recorded CD similar to the approach that Marillion has taken in the past.
We will organize a retail store distribution deal at some point in the future, but the initial release will be an independent limited edition offering of only 5,000 CDs.
This pressing will be a one-time only release, with at least one bonus track that will not exist on any subsequent pressing. By pre-ordering, you will receive our next CD one full month before it exists in any other form or is (legally) available in any other way. In other words, it won't be in stores, it won't be on iTunes, it won't be available on Amazon or anywhere else on Earth except directly from us for at least one month after the release date, and the special version that you pre-order will never be reprinted again after those first 5,000 units are gone.
We will also not be sending pre-release copies to the media for CD reviews because frankly we're tired of seeing our new CD available as a "free" bittorent download weeks before release date. Not sending out pre-release copies will stop this leak and guarantee that the people who pre-order our CD will be the very first people to hear it besides the people directly involved in the recording and production process.
Release date depends on how quickly the CD is "financed" by pre-orders, but our initial goal is to have the CD finished and the pre-orders filled by the end of this year or early 2010.
During the pre-production and recording process, we'll keep you up-to-date with the progress here as well as with a video blog on YouTube (subscribe there if you haven't already).
So... to be the first one on your block to have the next Spock's Beard CD, click here to pre-order!
From Nick: Here is a quick update to let you all know what has been going on.
I started Tears For Fears rehearsals a few days ago to prepare for the short west coast tour coming up. If you are in any of those cities you should really try and make a show. We are playing all of the hits plus a bunch of other new things. The band is sounding really great and I am really looking forward to it all. I have posted a few pics of the rehearsals with more to come.
In other news I want to remind you all of the BIG/ SUPER GIANT/ REALLY SUPER HUGE show coming up on August 1st.. Me along with many fantastic musicians will be performing the Rewiring Genesis version of THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY @ The Center Theater in Whittier, California, and for the encore, Spock’s Beard is going to do a set that will rock the house. Come out for a night of great music and good times. Here is the link for tix and info: www.calprog.com/rewiring_genesis_live.htm
I look forward to seeing you there!
June 17, 2009
The "3RP Fest Live 2008" DVD will be released this Friday June19th, featuring Spock's Beard, Neal Morse, California Guitar Trio, Manifesto, The Flower Kings, Rocket Scientists, Gongzilla, Mandrake Project, Izz and Kalon.
This DVD also captures the Spock's Beard reunion with Neal Morse performing The Light and Neal's reunion with Transatlantic.
For more information, and to purchase, click here: www.3rprogfest.com
June 17, 2009
We've been dredging through the video vaults and have started uploading previously unseen SB video to the band's YouTube site. Interviews, rehearsals, recording sessions, etc. More will be added in the upcoming weeks. Also coming up will be a videolog as the band starts working on their 10th studio album. Stay tuned...
June 5, 2009
Hello!!!
Here’s an update for you:
On August 1ST 2009, I will be performing, along with a host of fabulous musicians and singers from Nashville, LA and Las Vegas, “Rewiring Genesis: A tribute to the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”. The show will be held in Whittier California at The Center Theater. Here is a link to Papa J’s Calprog website with more info and a link to buy tickets: www.calprog.com/rewiring_genesis_live.htm
This is going to be an incredibly fun evening. With a 14 piece band of bass, drums, guitar, keys, vocals, and a phat horn section that will rip your head off with proggy goodness. We did a show with some of these same players in Nashville not too long ago. That was a great night also but it was in a very small club and we couldn’t perform the material. However, on August 1st we will be performing the CD in its entirety!
The band will be:
Me, NDV on Lead Vocals
Dave Martin on Bass
Rick Musallam on Guitar
Jimmy Keegan on Drums
Kevin Krone on Keys (String Duty)
Ed Goldfarb on Piano
John Hinchey on Trombone
Mark Visher on Sax/Flute
Willie Murillo on Trumpet
Charlie Peterson on Baritone Sax
Leigh Levine on Clarinet
Randy Leago on Sax/Accordion
Kat Bowser and Carolyn Martin on BGVs
The night’s festivities will also be filmed and recorded, so come and be apart of the fun.
Speaking of fun, after all of The Lamb festivities are over, Spock’s Beard will be joining me on stage for some more proggy goodness! And, if all goes well, the phat horn section might show up for a Spock’s tune or two. Whoo-hooo! (I have no idea on what yet but we’ll think of something)
Hope to see you there!
NDV
April 10, 2009
NDV's site has just been updated and includes news about upcoming gigs with Frost and Tears For Fears, an appearance at the Drummer's Live Festival in the UK, a new project with drummer Thomas Lang, a few words about SB and more... www.NDVMusic.com
