[Rick and Roll]

I just listened to the Neal Morse interview on the Gagliarchives show, followed by three killer cuts. I don't know if I can hang through 2 hours of it, but I liked what I heard!

As usual with his stuff though, I found the lyrics kind of run-of-the-mill (I thought that throughout Spock's Beard Neal would come up with two or three neat lines per song, and the rest would be fluffy generalization/cliche (I'm not talking about the message). Of course, lyrics count little either way in rating my personal enjoyment of a song.

However, he can still write a song, and there was some fun jamming in there.

Now with the Beard CD, I have to hear it. I have a weakness for straight ahead rock and roll (get ready to gag, bands like the Cult and Smithereens), but I get the feel from Jim's post that this is more slick, like Journey.