SPOCK'S BEARD Drummer NICK D'VIRGILIO On Drum Clinic Tour In Europe, Offering Free Download Of Old GENESIS Classic
November 14, 2007, 16 years ago
SPOCK'S BEARD drummer/vocalist Nick D'Virgilio is currently doing a short drum clinic tour in Europe. Dates are as follows:
November
15 - The Groove Factory - Drachten, Holland16 - Rockland Music Shop - Witten, Germany
17 - Musik-Lokal Südbahnhof - Frankfurt, Germany
19 - Six & Four - Sulzbach, Germany
20 - Drumhouse - Waldkirch-Kollnau, Germany
21 - Double’s Rock’n Roll - Donauwörth, Germany
22 - Musik Hieber Lindberg - München, Germany
23 - Drumhouse - Gmunden, Austria
24 - Ludescher Music - Feldkirch-Altenstadt, Austria
In other news, D'Virgilio has teamed up with Nashville engineer/producer Mark Hornsby to record a truly unique version of a early GENESIS song 'The Colony Of Slippermen'. Recorded at Java Jive Studio in Nashville, TN, the song features some of Nashville's best musicians, taking the song in a whole new direction.
"We wanted to see what would happen if we exposed the song to a different climate of musicians," says D'Virgilio. "The early Genesis recordings are so musical and very bluesy when you get right down to it.. They really lend themselves to some different interpretations."Although all of the original elements of the song are still there (drums, bass, guitar, and piano), it now takes on a more "acoustic" vibe. This, coupled with accordion, electric sitar, and a fantastic horn arrangement, takes the song to an entirely different place.
"We had talked about doing something like this for awhile," says Hornsby, "With the recent success of the Genesis reunion tour and the re-release of the Genesis catalogue in 5.1, the time seemed right to see what we could come up with."'The Colony Of Slippermen' is part of a larger project that has yet to be announced. The song is currently available as a free download at D'Virgilio's myspace.com/ndvmusic MySpace page.
