Musicians Having Coffee & Talking About Stuff Podcast

Join Neal as he talks to Nick D'Virgilio of Big Big Train on the podcast! They share stories about their early days in Spock's Beard days, plus the new D'Virgilio Morse Jennings album, Troika!    

Join Neal as he speaks with Michael Omartian, an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, including for Keyboardist of the Year and Producer of the Year. As a session musician he has played on albums by Steely Dan, The Four Tops, Loggins & Messina and played accordion on Billy Joel's Piano Man.  He produced Christopher Cross' debut album, was arranger and keyboard player on “We Are The World”   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

The latest episode of Musicians Having Coffee & Talking About Stuff features the amazing Paul Gilbert! We talk about musical influences, life on the road and those moments in music where something that's not quite "right" is just perfect!   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

Dave Bainbridge from Iona, Lifesigns & The Strawbs chats to Neal about his musical history and his spiritual influences, along with how his lockdown situation inspired his new album, To The Far Away. Order Dave Bainbridge's music from www.musicglue.com/iona   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

NMB band mate Eric Gillette talks with Neal about making NMB's Innocence & Danger, recording TV soundtracks and his experience appearing on The Voice   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...  

We Came From Space-man and NMB band member, Bill Hubauer talks with Neal about how they came to work together, chin vibrato and… coffee!!!   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...  

Spock's Beard, Enchant and Pattern Seeking Animals front man, Ted Leonard chats with Neal and they share their funny stories from Prog Cruises, compare distortion pedals and dissect Hallmark movies! Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...  

Neal is joined by guitarist extraordinaire Paul Bielatowicz, who plays in Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy and has toured with Neal, as well playing on several tracks on Neal's solo albums. Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

Gentle Giant front man and music industry legend , Derek Shulman joins Neal on the Musicians Having Coffee & Talking About Stuff podcast, and they talk about how Derek starting in the business, his career in Gentle Giant, and his subsequent career launching many household name bands and artists. Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...  

Guitar legend and Flying Colors band mate, Steve Morse joins Neal on the Musicians Having Coffee & Talking About Stuff podcast, and they talk about how they first connected, creating music together and Steve's incredible MacGyver skills! Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

Joining Neal in this episode is Randy George, long time musical collaborator and bass player in NMB.  Neal and Randy talk about how their musical collaboration began, life on the road and the new NMB album, Innocence and Danger. Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

Joining Neal in this episode is Thomas Waber, head of Inside Out Music.  Neal and Thomas talk about the music business during lockdown and also share tales of the early days of Spock's Beard and Neal's departure from the band.   Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_offic...

In this episode, Neal talks to Matt Smith of the band Theocracy about start off as a musician/ writer, performing at Morsefest and... sweet tea! Audio version available on iTunes, Spotify and all major podcast networks. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6ryx4-fddef9 Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_official​  

In this episode, Neal talks to Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment keyboard wizard, Jordan Rudess about the new LTE album, how Jordan learned to play keyboards and Tarkus! Audio version available on iTunes, Spotify and all major podcast networks. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6ryx4-fddef9 Follow Neal: http://NealMorse.com​ http://Facebook.com/NealMorse​ http://Twitter.com/nealmorse​ http://instagram.com/neal_morse_official​  

In this episode, Neal Morse talks to prog legend Steve Hackett about life as a gigging musician, Prog Cruises and London in the 1960s! Audio version available on iTunes, Spotify and all major podcast networks. www.radiantrecords.com

In Episode 7 of the podcast, Neal is joined by Spock's Beard's Dave Meros and they talk about their early days with Eric Burdon, forming Spock's Beard and Dave's best ever gig!

In Episode 6 of the podcast, Neal has coffee with, Flying Colors bandmate, Casey McPherson and they talk about songwriting, the formation and evolution of Flying Colors and parenting!

In Episode 5 of the podcast, Neal chats with his brother Alan Morse, guitarist with Spock's Beard about favourite movies and music from their childhood, the worst gigs they have played, and the formation of the band/ recording with Spock's Beard. 

In the 4th podcast, Neal is joined by his long standing mix engineer and collaborator, Rich Mouser as they discuss old gear, making albums and cassette labels!

In our 3rd episode I am delighted to be joined by a man whose music had a major impact on my life: Jon Anderson. Jon joins me to discuss life on the road, the process of writing epics and Spinal Tap!

In the second episode, I am joined by guitarist extraordinaire, Phil Keaggy,  and you can hear us talk about a whole range of things including looping, playing live, some of his session work and his movie star sister!

In the first episode, I am joined by my dear friend Mike Portnoy and you can hear us talk about weird things like junior high school, McRib and Spotify!