Neal Morse Band - The Grand Experiment

Looking forward to this one, reminds me of early Styx and Yes. I visited the website and they have some great combos to order but they are expensive when you put shipping in with it. When I look for it on iTunes it is only there as an expensive CD and it is not a digital download on Amazon or iTunes. While I would love the have the vinyl package listed here it would make more sense to use the iTunes gift card I got for Christmas. Anyone know if this is going to be on iTunes? Preorders are going on now.

Everything Neal does is excellent and worth listening to.

Yeah, but is this going to have a mass release? So far it only looks like it is available from the record label and the prices are not cheap. When I looked it over shipping was around $12. So the wise thing for me to do would be to wait until this is on iTunes and use the gift card I got for Christmas to pay for it. Just wondering if this is going to show up on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play or anywhere else.

Maybe they're holding out on the digital release for a while to encourage sales of the hard copies?

topshot rhit wrote:

Maybe they're holding out on the digital release for a while to encourage sales of the hard copies?

And I would even do that if it didn't cost so much.

That is the special 3-disc digipak. You want this one

I emailed the record company and they said there would be a digital release in the coming days so that is probably what I will do. I did find the vinyl version with free shipping here:

http://www.grooves-inc.com/the-neal-morse-band-the-grand-experiment-vinyl-2cd-insideoutm-vinyl-album-pZZa1-1899387583.html

It also comes with 2 cd's so that is not bad at all for the vinyl version plus 2 CD's. I almost ordered, however I had never heard of that company (grooves-inc.com) and when I searched the net for reviews on the site a lot of people said they were pretty shady and not based in the US and offer items for sale that they do not have.

So as much as I would like it on "record" I'll wait til it hits iTunes and use my free gift card from Christmas.

Ordered the "deluxe" version on iTunes last night. Listening to it now and I am on track one (out of 10 tracks, some as long as 18 minutes). So far I am hearing a lot of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, Styx and many other 70's influences. Lots of organs, keyboards and guitar solos. Vocals are along the lines of Styx with the harmonies. The deluxe version was 19.99 and the "regular" was 12.99 so I went ahead and got the deluxe version since I had an iTunes card anyway. Was a lot to pay for a digitial release but so far so good.