Any Moody Blues Fans here?

[Thebobo]

This is them performing at probably their peak at the 1970 Isle of Wight concert. I missed this posting on Youtube a couple years back. If you're a fan especially of their early music this is well worth watching. Also the first part has a little history of the group. Enjoy.

Right to the first three songs.
Gypsy
Tuesday Afternoon
Never Comes The Day

The complete video

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[KeithTalent]

I know Thebobo is, but I can't really think of anyone else around here.

KT

Edit: :hmm:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm a fan. They're a totally unique band that have held up very well. I last saw them in concert in 2000 I think with the Chieftains. An awesome bunch of geezers rocking out.

 

[Fern]

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fan. Saw them around 1980.

Fern

 

[lxskllr]

I like the extremely early stuff, before they got into the art rock. I like the art rock too, but I especially like their early sound.

 

[BUTCH1]

Saw then live in 1994, they toured and hired local orchestra's wherever they played, gotta tell 'ya "Nights in white satin" with a full 100+ piece orchestra was just amazing, life-long fan here, (yea, I'm old )..

 

[MongGrel]

I used to listen to them a lot, but haven't much since early 80's really.

 

[BUTCH1]

I like the extremely early stuff, before they got into the art rock. I like the art rock too, but I especially like their early sound.

Here 'ya go!...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLWBhNW3FM&feature=kp

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I like the extremely early stuff, before they got into the art rock. I like the art rock too, but I especially like their early sound.

I've no idea what you consider "art rock " but, the Moody Blues have always been about the music and never commercial trends.

 

[lxskllr]

I've no idea what you consider "art rock " but, the Moody Blues have always been about the music and never commercial trends.

Art rock is rock that uses strings, is thematic, and/or doesn't follow a traditional blues progression. It also only refers to rock made before the 70s, after which the rock genre stretched out to encompass everything, and made the term "art rock" hopelessly vague.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Art rock is rock that uses strings, is thematic, and/or doesn't follow a traditional blues progression. It also only refers to rock made before the 70s, after which the rock genre stretched out to encompass everything, and made the term "art rock" hopelessly vague.

Thanks, I'd never heard the term before.

 

[Thebobo]

Here 'ya go!...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLWBhNW3FM&feature=kp

Very nice find, I didn't see any information at to where is was recorded and is there more?

 

[esquared]

I know Thebobo is, but I can't really think of anyone else around here.

KT

Edit: :hmm:

ahem.....

I recently bought a few to update my CD collection.

In Search of the Lost Chord
On the Threshold of a Dream
To Our Children's Children's Children
A Question of Balance

 

[dennilfloss]

I'm but an occasional fan, yet I do consider Justin Hayward a superlative rock singer. What a rich, mellotron-like voice.

 

[olds]

I was. In the 70s.
Still listen to them occasionally.

 

[UnklSnappy]

There used to be a radio station here that would play their entire catalog of albums back to back every christmas eve.

 

[Slacker]

I like the extremely early stuff, before they got into the art rock. I like the art rock too, but I especially like their early sound.

50 years ago early enough for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yepakHMv8
enjoy.

 

[mrjminer]

Yea, they rock.

 

[lxskllr]

50 years ago early enough for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yepakHMv8
enjoy.

That's the stuff :^)

There's really nothing spectacular about it, but I really like the sound. It's all very gritty, and "honest".

 

[mrjminer]

50 years ago early enough for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yepakHMv8
enjoy.

That's good, I didn't know this song had a rendition with The Moody Blues; sounds like the version I'd previously heard, so I probably just didn't know it was them since it is a bit different than their songs with which I am familiar. I am more of a fan of their songs a little later than that, though :O

 

[alzan]

They're one of the very few bands that I've maintained a liking for over the years; their work with harmonies, both vocal and instrumental, their use of stereo separation on songs such as Visions Of Paradise - In Search Of The Lost Chord and Procession - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and each members proficiency and/or excellence with various instruments give the band a span like few others.

 

[Fritzo]

I like them a lot. Very artistic and avant garde. You can tell when a group is groundbreaking when people are still reference the work decades later.

 

[zinfamous]

Wouldn't say I'm a fan, but they were on the radio a ton growing up, and parents liked them, so I heard them a lot. I liked them, not that I ever got into them or anything.

Seem too lean a bit too close to the "Adult contemporary" sphere, but that is an adult memory, primarily composed of that one album that was all over the place in the early 80s. I suspect they were a bit more original than that--if not those years, certainly earlier.

 

[BoomerD]

I've been an occasional fan since the mid-60's.

I've seen them twice in concert...in the late 60's and again in the mid-70's. Nice, mellow sound.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0 (Your Wildest Dreams)