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Yeah my little sister is in mourning. I think the Partridge Family was her first album.
The day the music died.
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Here we are barely into the new year and another great musician has passed. Ray Thomas, one of the founding members of The Moody Blues has passed at the age of 76. One of my all time favorite groups!
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They were unique. I remember the day when my best friend played his older brother's Moody Blue album. Never heard of them and didn't know just what to think. I think I was 15.
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Long overdue. Nights in White Satin may be their most well known album and the one that got the most play but there are so many more. Days of Future Past was perhaps my favorite.
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Mike Pinder is still living about an hour from Sacramento in the foothills I believe. He did all the early "symphony" on a Mellotron organ. He was using that setup to write childrens music and audio books.
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It's interesting; the "Classic" Moody Blues are to be inducted. That is the band after Hayward and Lodge joined, thru the late 1970's. So they're skipping the band-members from ~1978 to current. Kind of interesting they include the first 13 years, and skip the following 40 years. They will be including Mike Pinder, the original keyboard/Mellotron player.
FWIW, the 50th anniversary Days of Future Past show in Murphy's Ca was awesome...
FWIW, the 50th anniversary Days of Future Past show in Murphy's Ca was awesome...
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My wife came down the aisle to "Say it with Love" from Keys to the Kingdom, for our wedding. She is a big time Moody's fan.
That was a good album.
That was a good album.
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That was a very good album!!:thumbsup:
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It's interesting; the "Classic" Moody Blues are to be inducted. That is the band after Hayward and Lodge joined, thru the late 1970's. So they're skipping the band-members from ~1978 to current. Kind of interesting they include the first 13 years, and skip the following 40 years. They will be including Mike Pinder, the original keyboard/Mellotron player.
FWIW, the 50th anniversary Days of Future Past show in Murphy's Ca was awesome...
That's Classic Rock in a nutshell: anything that happened from 1963 to 1978 is more important than everything that happened any other time. And the HOF is all about Classic Rock.
Those years happen to coincide with when the baby boomers were teenagers.