My guest this week is multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist Nick D'Virgilio, who is perhaps best known as the drummer for progressive rock greats Spock's Beard and Big Big Train. Nick joined me to talk about the upcoming release of Sophomore, the appropriately titled second album by D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, a trio of talented vocalists who build accessible songs based on glorious three-part harmonies. Nick also spoke about his musical background, how he met Neal and Alan Morse and joined Spock's Beard, meeting Kevin Gilbert, finishing up Kevin's posthumous release The Shaming of the True, how he became one of the drummers on Genesis' final studio album Calling All Stations, working with Tears for Fears, and much more.
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