Spock’s Beard found themselves tackling more line-up issues – including a regretted departure and a welcome return – as they made 2018 album Noise Floor. Members Dave Meros and Ted Leonard told Prog about the US proggers’ past and present, and speculated on their future in a challenging music market.
“That was the best show I’ve ever played,” bassist Dave Meros muses, somewhat ruefully, as Prog recalls a superb Spock’s Beard live performance at the long-defunct Astoria in London in June 2001, when the band were promoting fifth album V. “That whole tour was great, but that gig in particular was where everything came together exactly right,” he elaborates. “The energy was massive, the sound was great, the audience was awesome. It was a perfect gig – a once‑in-a-lifetime thing.”
