For this tour Morse is rather shabbily dressed and unshaven as he portrays the main character of the album, the eldest son Joseph (son of the main character from their previous album ‘The Similitude of a Dream’). There are a number of fan favorites early in the show that need mentioning, “Welcome to the World” and “Dark Melody,” the second of which was recently released as a music video. This allows the audience to actually see what they’re doing when they play, and gives us a front row seat the whole time. Unlike so many concerts I’ve seen in recent years, he knows that a cut every two seconds is incredibly annoying, and instead allows the camera to linger on the musicians, focusing on each, and staying on them depending on what is happening musically. Two things are immediately obvious, first the audio quality is excellent, and second bassist Randy George does a superb job with the editing. The band kicks off with the 10 minute “Overture” before continuing on through the rest of the album. Unlike some earlier DVDs, however, this performance is captured on a single disk, with a bonus disk of background material. Shot during the band’s first visit to the city of Brno in the Czech Republic, it captures the band at the height of their touring prowess performing the entirety of their last album ‘The Great Adventure’ and it is a release that any of us fortunate enough to have seen the tour, and those who were unable to, should be glad to have.Īs stated, the band performs all of the last album straight through, with an intermission in between the two disks of the album. I am perhaps making light of it, but the band is getting set to release ‘The Great Adventour – Live in Brno 2019’ in early March, and it is the sixth DVD that Morse and has released with this band since 2014. And it is something I most certainly am not complaining about.

This has been the pattern as of late for Neal Morse and The Neal Morse Band.

Release a new album, tour said album, film and release a new DVD of said tour.

Neal morse the great adventure