Spock's Beard - The Light  CD (album) cover   Spock's Beard
Symphonic Prog  3.85 | 460 ratings  From Progarchives.com, the
ultimate progressive rock music website  Prog Reviewer 4 stars
After being duly impressed with both "The Kindness of Strangers"
and "V" I decided to venture back to the beginning of Spock's
Beard's career. Sometimes backtracking to a band's starting
point can be risky because more often than not you hear an
understandably amateurish, embryonic version of what they would
become years down the road. However, with "The Light" I found a
group of musicians who were not only talented but studio savvy,
stepping confidently into Progland with an album that suffers
little from their lack of experience. In the liner notes of the
2004 reissue Neal Morse relates that, despite their high level
of ability, they still had lousy luck in securing a recording
contract. (Ya think?) I can just imagine a scene set in the
early 90s in the Hollywood office of a major label. A know-it-
all executive has just sa