David Minasian (Camel, Alan Parsons, Justin Hayward). Part I - Don't forget to subscribe.

This is my conversation with David Minasian. It took place on 8/11/2022 from his home in Los Angeles.
Minasian began classical piano training at the age of five and by the age of fifteen was asked to turn professional. However, he chose instead to pursue a career in film production. After graduating with honors with a degree in film and television from California State University, Northridge, Minasian began working freelance for various production companies in the Los Angeles area as a producer, director, writer, editor, cinematographer and composer. In between his work on various documentaries.
In 1996, Minasian recorded a second symphonic rock album titled It's Not Too Late with singer William Drews. And in 1997, Minasian began an association with Camel Productions, the production company owned by English progressive rock band Camel. Over the next few years, Minasian would produce and direct a total of nine concert and documentary DVDs for the band's company including Coming of Age, Curriculum Vitae, the Opening Farewell and In from the Cold. In 1998, while working as a second unit director on the motion picture The Joyriders (1999) starring Academy Award© winner Martin Landau and Kris Kristofferson, Minasian composed the film's main theme titled "So Far from Home". The song was released as the single from the soundtrack album by EMI the following year.
In 2009, Minasian began recording a new symphonic rock album with the encouragement and participation of Camel's Andrew Latimer. Random Acts of Beauty was released on October 5, 2010 by ProgRock Records and features David on piano, keyboards, bass and lead vocals together with his son Justin Minasian on guitars. Six of the album's seven tracks are composed solely by David while the seventh, a 14 minute instrumental titled "Frozen in Time", is a joint composition between David and Justin. Appearing on the track "Masquerade" is guest Andrew Latimer on guitar and vocals.
In 2013, Minasian began recording the follow-up to Random Acts of Beauty. The recording process however was interrupted when he was contracted to produce and direct a solo concert DVD for Moody Blues vocalist/guitarist/composer Justin Hayward. Recorded at Atlanta's Buckhead Theatre on August 17, the resulting DVD, Spirits… Live (2014), features the full concert along with a one-hour behind-the-scenes documentary of Hayward's 2013 American tour, also directed by Minasian. Following its release by Eagle Rock/Universal in the Fall of 2014, the DVD immediately rose to the #2 position on the Billboard Music Video charts and would soon be broadcast by the PBS network. Two additional Hayward/Minasian collaborations quickly followed:
The Spring of 2016 saw another Hayward release from producer/director David Minasian.Titled Live in Concert at The Capitol Theatre, the DVD contained a few surprises including the first live performance of "You Can Never Go Home" from the 1971 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour LP. Also featured was a bonus studio recording of a new song titled "The Wind of Heaven", a joint composition between Minasian and Hayward. Intended as the main theme for a forthcoming motion picture, the song, with an elaborate music video directed by Minasian, was released ahead of schedule on the DVD to coincide with Hayward's 2016 US solo tour.
2019 saw Minasian complete his followup album to Random Acts of Beauty called The Sound of Dreams which contained composition and performance contributions from a host of progressive rock icons including Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues), Steve Hackett (Genesis), Annie Haslam (Renaissance), Billy Sherwood (Yes) and PJ Olsson (The Alan Parsons Live Project). That same year he signed to Golden Robot Records (headed up by Mark Alexander-Erber and Derek Shulman, former lead singer with Gentle Giant and Polygram Records executive) which released the album along with a remastered version of Random Acts of Beauty.
Also that same year, Minasian travelled to Europe and the Middle East to capture The Alan Parsons Live Project in concert. More than twenty cameras were used at each of the venues and two shows were released the following year on Blu-Ray and DVD titled The NeverEnding Show: Live In The Netherlands and One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv. A music video for a new studio recording, also titled The NeverEnding Show was produced by Minasian together with Trinity Houston for IM3 Global Entertainment and Frontiers Records.
In 2021, a ‘greatest hits’ album titled Random Dreams: The Very Best of David Minasian was released on vinyl. And in the summer of 2022, a song titled "I Won’t Be Led Astray," written by Minasian together with Alan Parsons and Kim Bullard of the Elton John Band and featuring David Pack and Joe Bonamassa, was released as a single off Parsons’ latest album From The New World along with a music video produced and directed by Minasian and Houston.