After Led Zeppelin, my favorite band. I've seen the Moody Blues live in concert almost three dozen times since 1978. If you got to see them pre-covid there were usually three generations of families on hand for their concerts. I saw them live with my mom when she was in her 70's and my daughter when she was just 7.
Terrific, terrific band.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night...
Sumpin like that.
Not much of a rock-n-roll-phile but I did like the Moody Blues. One of the very few bands I would actually make an effort to go and see.
Another icon of ones youth gone !
“He said his grandfather always wanted to see him play at London’s Palladium Theatre, and four months before he died he did just that.”
His grandfather must have been 130 or so.
Loved the Moody Blues.............
May ten billion butterflies sneeze in his honor................
Horrible band. Horrible music. Harmful to the nation and world.
We’ve already said ‘Goodbye’.
Since you’ve got to go
Oh you had better go now.
Go now. Go now. Go now
For those who follow Joe Bastardi on Weatherbell, they were his favorite group and he uses their music as his lead in to his Saturday summary.
RIP
They really put on a great show. Very sorry to hear of Mr. Edge’s demise.
Tuesday Afternoon has always been one of my favorites from the Moody Blues.
That bit of organ music following the sung title is both sweet and haunting.
I think their first hit in this country
Was “Go Now”. It’s a great recording and a classic, but doesn’t sound like any other work by Moody Blues at all.
At first I thought “Go Now” was done by
The Association.
I have a surround sound version of Days of Future Passed. I’ll give it a spin tonight in honor of the late Mr. Edge. Great album.
They’re just a-wandering on the face of this earth
Meeting so many people
Who are trying to be free
And while they’re travelling they hear so many words...
In about 1990, my best girl-friend dated him. At the time, I was hoping they’d gotten married so that I could party with one of my second favorite band. Unfortunately, he was just using her, 22 years his junior.
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
‘Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
My all-time, forever favorite - The Moody Blues - since I first heard their music when I started college in 1974. Saw them in concert several times, the best being at the Virginia Beach Ampitheatre with the Virgnia Symphony Orchestra. It was an incredibly beautiful, magical night....or was it Tuesday Afternoon? Ha! Spent many a day and night drifting off to neverland listening to the beautiful Moody Blues.
One of my top five bands.
Godspeed Graeme...
Wow. I had all of their albums, even the Blue Jays album Hayward and Lodge recorded in the mid 70s.
Saw them in concert twice, the last time being in the late 90s. Great shows, both.
R.I.P., Graeme. Thanks for the memories.