I still hear Your Wildest Dreams while out and about at least twice a year.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 12 April 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
Four guys who look like West Bromwich Albion legend, Tony Brown
I had always assumed that the falsetto backing vocals in "Nights in White Satin" were provided by session singers, and was vaguely amused to eventually discover that they were performed by these stolid-looking blokes.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 12 April 2024 15:24 (one month ago) link
xpost - That's because it's a jam. It came on my all-time faves playlist this morning on my way into work.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:29 (one month ago) link
The long ass documentary is worth a watch. No great revelations but fun and I think it got me to buy their albums
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 13 April 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link
No, it was a newer documentary, but amazing that there's more than one of them so long
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:58 (one month ago) link
Shit, Mike Pinder died:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mike-pinder-the-moody-blues-keyboardist-founding-member-dead-obit-1235010490/
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:47 (two weeks ago) link
RIP
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:59 (two weeks ago) link
Also I somehow never knew that Patrick Moraz was in The Moody Blues as well.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:00 (two weeks ago) link
gotta be the guy who did the most to popularize the mellotron, for that alone he is a legend
his stuff was definitely the trippiest, always loved "The Sun is Still Shining"
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:01 (two weeks ago) link
His suite on side 2 of On the Threshold of a Dream is my pick for "most prog before prog" recording (even if it only predated King Crimson by six months).
It resulted in The Music Trial of the Century!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0DoBkUTXHU
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:15 (two weeks ago) link
yeah the word "in" is doing a lot of work there
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:16 (two weeks ago) link
That is weird. On a song like "The Voice," Moraz is supplying like 80% of the instrumentation.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 26 April 2024 19:31 (two weeks ago) link
i have all of their classic era albums on cd.however, this is the best option to listen to them imho ..
https://www.discogs.com/release/6173718-The-Moody-Blues-This-Is-The-Moody-Blues
― mark e, Friday, 26 April 2024 19:51 (two weeks ago) link
hard to argue, as good as those albums are they make for a hell of a greatest hits comp which is how I got into them from the start. can't remember which one I had (it was a single CD and it started with "Go Now") but it was really good start to finish. they do have some really great deep cuts though.
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:04 (two weeks ago) link