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Amazing Moody Blues Live Recording from 1974


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For those who may not truly appreciate the musical genius of Mike Pinder,, listen to this.  

 

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The Moody Blues were my first 'rock' concert, way pre-Moraz. I had 8th row tickets and it was *SO* *DAMNED* *LOUD*, I think it lowered my sperm count for a while. My head rang for two days afterwards. I owe the Moodys a debt, because it set me on the path to always bringing ear plugs to concerts.

It was also my first experience with being soaked in glorious live Mellotron. Those massive strings blew my hair out of place. Having a 'tron in a desktop now is beyond surreal.   

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Saw the Moody Blues once, in November 1968 at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago.  Interesting concert.  Rotary Connection (featuring Minnie Ripperton) and Charles Lloyd (with Keith Jarrett on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums) opened for them.  The venue only held 500 or so in the audience.  First time hearing a Mellotron live.  I was playing a Gibson G101 organ back then.  At the time, I was on leave from USAF and shipped out overseas the following week.

 

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I saw The Moody Blues at The Forum in 1974. They did all the songs listed plus I'm sure they did "Isn't Life Strange". There was no current album that they were promoting with the most recent album of new material being Seventh Sojourn in 1972. They had said that the songs from To Our Children's Children's Children were difficult to reproduce live but at this show they heavily featured that album with "Higher and Higher", "Out and In", "Eternity Road", and "Watching and Waiting". They often opened shows with "Gypsy" but didn't play it this time. I had seen the band in 1971 in Portland, Oregon featuring the Every Good Boy Deserves Favour album and they were great but at this Forum show Mike's Mellotron sounded amazing. "Out and In" and "Watching and Waiting" were absolutely magnificent. Opening the show was Shawn Phillips who had played sitar on Donovan's Sunshine Superman album. Speaking of Donovan he had written a piece of prose in praise of the band that appeared on the back of The Moodies very first album and he lived next door to the band around 1967-1968.

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Shawn was brilliant, with a 3-octave singing voice. I got to see him live and he rebuked MIDI, but otherwise processed his guitars like mad. I also point to Peter Robinson's excellent piano accompaniment on this piece. 

 

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Weird Irony. I was gigging just last night and on break started talking to a dude and it turned out he's the touring guitar player for John Lodge right now.

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You want me to start this song too slow or too fast?

 

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15 hours ago, Iconoclast said:

Weird Irony. I was gigging just last night and on break started talking to a dude and it turned out he's the touring guitar player for John Lodge right now.

Was it this guy?  I totally love this song... always did... and it's even better with this reduced instrumentation. 

 

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No, it's the guy in this video playing the Strat type Suhr guitar. Last name escaping me but his first name is Duff.
 

 

You want me to start this song too slow or too fast?

 

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