yes so timeless like so much of the music back then. most the music in 60s & 70s you could hear and understand the words. such a loving time then and the music that'll never die. I like watching vids of people hearing music of the time for the first time they're always blown away
Hit our airwaves (in the US) in Feb, 1973 and I knew it would be a big hit (reached #12) Classics like this make this old guy teary eyed. A great year for music. I hum this one frequently.
Sadly, Brian Wilson was just recently diagnosed with Dementia, truly one of the greatest voices and of composing some of rhe most beautiful melodies. Pray for him. My wife also suffers from Dementia, such an insidious disease. It literally takes everything a person has in the ways of just everyday living.
An incredibly talented band, playing a very complex piece of music, and playing it incredibly well - THAT was the Moody Blues!! One of my favourite bands of all time, and I've been listening to their music since the 70's!
Incredible. and for giggles, compare the drummer with Animal drumming in the Muppet band. Epic. Always make me happy, and not a lot does in these times!!
@@Sasfoot John is up tempo anyway. I've been to John's solo gig as well as Justin's (Justin's more so because I fell in love with that haunting voice in Nights in White Satin when I heard that song back in 1970.) Anyway, John's gigs are up tempo where Justin's is a little more mellow.
@@ladyhecate9450 I know. TMB were my parents' fave band and I practically got raised on them. They saw them multiple times and my mom has seen Justin a few since my dad died. It's ironic that you also mentioned Nights in White Satin since that was their wedding song.
@@Sasfoot Really.....Nights was their wedding song? But that is a song about a man whose love of his life broke up with him. It is a sad song. He was not really living until he met her and then saw things in a different light. Everything was brighter after he met her. Now that she broke up with him, It makes him sad to see other couples so in love, walking hand-in-hand, but he is hopelessly in love with the gal who broke up with him and cries out oh how he loves her. I have a DVD of one of Justin's releases and in that video, he said that when in love and a person breaks up with you, it is like a death. You mourn the loss and have to go throw the steps of grieving over the lost love and that is what the man in the song is going through. He said that he does not talk about that aspect because people see Nights as a romance song. For me, it is a sad song. He said he wrote that song after a gal broke up with him and then later met up with a gal who gave him while satin sheets. It is hard to believe, but he said several gals broke up with him. Poor guy. But that is the first song I heard and between his haunting voice, the music and the lyrics, I fell in love with that song. I think it is better than any Beatles' record regard they have ever made and I loved the Beatles. I even saw them the first time the came to America. It was awesome seeing them and all the screaming that went on. I just sat there and absorbed each moment. I was 12 years old.
I haven't heard this song for years and what a treat to hear it again! THIS, ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls, is ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL by one of the greatest rock bands in history!!! And what are we exposed to today? Tribal chants accompanied by primitive jungle beats, aka: (C)rap. And NONE of those pushing it could even carry any of these guys' instruments. You have to feel sorry for today's youth being exposed to such garbage today, especially when compared to such iconic songs/groups like The Moody Blues.
"Tribal chants accompanied by primitive jungle beats" - some people thought that of this when it was released! Just like most of rock and roll. We called them old people.
@@sslaytor Well, I was one of those (now old) "rock and roll musicians" back in that era and I, along with many of my fellow musicians LOVED music from the Big Band era...Miller, Dorsey, et. al and we always admired how "tight" those swing bands were, not to mention talented. Granted, some of them did frown on R&R but groups like The Moody Blues, Yes and others really knew what they were doing, not to mention The Beatles of course. Even though "Story In You Eyes" is one of their "rockers", songs like "Isn't Life Strange", "Nights In White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" have beautiful arrangements. Calling "(C)rap chants" music at all is an insult, even to us "classic rockers".
I am 66 and a bass player. Today's music is garbage with snippets from the past rock greats passing for creativity. Boston, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago, Moody Blues, The Who, Beatles, Tower of Power, Heart, Led Zepplin and many others created, sang, and played their music. Real rock.
Still listening to them, in 2023!!!! They are such great artist's!!!!! Justin, can sing!!!!! John can too!!!!!! So exhilarating, energy filled!!! Makes you want to get up and dance!!!!! 💃💃💃💃... 💙💙💙💙... 🌟🌟🌟🌟....
The Moody Blues = the all time greatest Rock and Roll band. Lyrics- vocals- harmonies- instruments- narration Rock/Love Ballads/Spiritual/Jazz/Orchestration/ even country licks. All 5 band members wrote, played, and sang. Timeless Music - - -
At 70 yrs old I never was a M.Blues fan though I did like their songs. BUT - Seeing their videos gives a new meaning to their music! As "As a below commenter said "This is one of the most kick-ass energy packed numbers" !
What makes me happy and content I guess is that I was alive and of an age when I could and did walk into a record shop and buy this piece of genius on vinyl and still have it in it's original sleeve on my shelf.
I have contended for fifty years that the Moody Blues are the greatest rock band in history. Their lyrics, orchestral compositions, and personas have never been matched. I have seen them several times, but the greatest was at The Gorge in Washington state. They had an eighty piece orchestra behind them on risers, and the crowd (26,000) watched the sun set over the Cascade Mts. as the Lads played Tuesday Afternoon. With the evening glow casting a hint of glory over the mountains they played Nights In White Satin. They rocked the darkness with such as I’m Just a Singer,... You get the picture. Thank you Ray, and farewell!
I am very sorry to have missed that -- with all the other great shows I've witnessed at The Gorge, and being from Wash. State I have no excuse. Saw Steely Dan, Yes, Rush, Sting, Supertramp, and Pearl Jam but would love to have seen the Moodies play there!
I am old and obsolete enough to remember a time when we were young and would drive down to the Bayfront Center in St. Pete to see shows like this for $5.
Unbelievable! We are privileged to hear this music. I say this in part because the quality of this music is testimony of the measured rise and decline of humanity. The irony is that many if not most who read this won’t understand what I am saying.
I'll be 70 in July and these were the days man!!!!!!!!!!! Drugs Sex and Rock and Roll!!!!!!! Also this is about the powerlessness we little people (average Joe's and Jane's) had/have in the scheme of things!
RIP the two members of The Moody Blues Graeme Edge (March 30, 1941 - November 11, 2021), aged 80 Ray Thomas (December 29, 1941 - January 4, 2018), aged 76 You both will always be remembered as legends.
I had the pleasure to see them play this live at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, 11/14/1978, it was a wall of sound that swallowed me up & I’ve been a fan ever since
I've been to many concerts in my day and the band that sticks out of just being out if sink or played like crap was Aerosmith in 1984 or 85 down in the Miami Baseball stadium if Florida.
This is SO LEGEND (from my teen years).. genius and brilliant.. one of the BEST rock and roll performances of ALL time in my opinion! I never get tired of this!
I was 19 and a wife and mother when this came out! I remember dancing with my son in my arms in my living room to this song! Love it today as a 63 year old Great Grandma! ♥♥♥
I saw Moody Blue twice (back then). What they did better than just about anyone is reproduce their studio sound immaculately, which considering the complexity of their sound, is quite a feat. Tempos, instrumentation and vocals were all spot on. Incredibly tight and talented performers. Hayward never gets credit for being one of the great guitarists of the age as he is often lost in the arrangements rather than the 'front'. Even so, his guitar work, timing and delivery, ranks with the best.
Spot on. It's a rare thing to see a band perform as well live as it does in studio. The Moody Blues was definitely one of the rare ones with that ability.
Oh I so agree! So many times you would go to a concert and the artists just didn't quite meet the mark of putting all of themselves in a performance. The music that came out of these guys is amazing. They are my fav band of all time. I have been a fan since the first time I heard them.
I am lucky enough to seen them about 4-5 times including 2 times in the 90s accompanied by a local orchestra. The tours with the full orchestras were different but it almost seems like they were born for that, too.
Absolutely brilliant song. Wish I can hear things like this on the radio again rather than the Top 40 tripe we currently have today. No "sexy" backup dancers, no mediocre lead singers being half-naked or posing nude every damn time, all I need is just the singer/s and their voice/s. Take me back.
For real. Example was half-time SB 54 - you could call it a celebration of the wagging tongue, the shaking booty and spread-eagle coochie in the face performance.
Although the song makes liberal use of the Chamberlin keyboard (precursor to the Mellotron and later, digital samplers) which some back then thought of as "cheating." From Wikipedia: "The Chamberlin has a piano-style keyboard. Underneath each key is a tape-playing mechanism. Each tape is prerecorded with various musical instruments or special effects. When the musician presses a key, a pressure pad pushes the tape against a tape head." All the sting and horn parts you hear in the song are played on the Chamberlin. I think it sounds great, but you know, there are always people out there that want to complain about something.
1975....and a Junior in High School.....my friend David would pick me up in the AM for school in his convertible Sunbeam Alpine.......2 huge bench speakers behind our seats and this song on an 8 track tape blasting all the way there!! Some things in the mind never fade........:-)
This song received most of its radio air play back in January thru March 1973. Remember it very well because I was a senior in high school back then. Memories...
I say that if I had a time machine I would travel back and attend a LOT of iconic concerts : Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues, the Supremes, Temptations, the Who, Doors, Zeppelin, CCR, CSN, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas & Papas, Cream, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel for a start. Then I'd come back and have a shitload of musical memories to carry me till the day I die with a smile on my face.
With media wizardry, augmented reality and A.I., many young people can get close to the experience. They too can not only have memories but will be able to relive things. Even great music from the past that has been recorded will become timeless.
Where were you in '72!!! AWESOME!! I LOVE THIS!!! C/O '72...and had this music on my turntable. STILL have the albums. Son wants them when I die...he will get them.
I just stumbled across this, guess it's been posted for 14 years. 😂 1972 and the Moodies had gone full on hippie. Ray Thomas (RIP) with a beard, I almost didn't recognize him. lol Great song off a great album! Seventh Sojourn is my 2nd favorite, with Days being my #1 favorite. 👍
RIP Mike Pinder. You were the best. The last of the original group.
You said it buddy. RIP. These guys were beyond phenomenal.
Sad.
as another band slips into history. I wept today, finally.
50 years later and it still sounds amazing!
yes so timeless like so much of the music back then. most the music in 60s & 70s you could hear and understand the words.
such a loving time then and the music that'll never die. I like watching vids of people hearing music of the time for the first time they're always blown away
Now Mike Pindet has left us.
You can put the sticks down now, Graeme. You've done your bit. Rest in peace!
EDGE IS NOW A LEGEND
Ray too!
What a band...take me back in time
Hit our airwaves (in the US) in Feb, 1973 and I knew it would be a big hit (reached #12) Classics like this make this old guy teary eyed. A great year for music. I hum this one frequently.
what a song that guitar is unreal
If this doesn't get you rocking your dead!
This song drives me so hard. I know exactly how you feel. They take me on a very fast ride on the Freeway!!!
Sadly, Brian Wilson was just recently diagnosed with Dementia, truly one of the greatest voices and of composing some of rhe most beautiful melodies. Pray for him. My wife also suffers from Dementia, such an insidious disease. It literally takes everything a person has in the ways of just everyday living.
One of the best pieces of art created ever.
1965 -1975 music years will never be bettered
An incredibly talented band, playing a very complex piece of music, and playing it incredibly well - THAT was the Moody Blues!! One of my favourite bands of all time, and I've been listening to their music since the 70's!
I was 16 years old working an all night gas station on the weekends when this song came out and help me get through the night.
Used to be a gas jockey in the '70s too. Spring of 1974, just after odd/even ended at an Esso station with 3 islands.
Graeme Edge's drumming, especially during the intro, is superb. RIP GRAEME EDGE
Yeah, that energetic intro draws me into this masterpiece & the song captivates the listener. His energy will live on forever
He died from metastatic cancer on November 11, 2021.
Now we know where the inspiration for Animal from the muppets came from.
Like a train coming up to speed
EXACTLY what I thought when I watched this for the first time (now MANY times as this is a damn addictive tune).
RIP Mike 🌹
Every member in this band is working every single second of this song. A masterpiece!
Well yeah except there’s no baritone sax on the song so Ray Thomas is just playing for the look.
Do do do agree , masterpiece like all music at their albums ! Why don’t excist no bands anymore like these ?
@@ayhaque Lip synching ???
Yes!!! Blows my mind! 🤯🤯🤯
I’m saddened by the fact that Ray Thomas was just mimicking playing the saxophone here.
This is one of the most kick-ass, energy packed numbers in all the rock genre. It is the audio equivalent of a supernova.
Incredible. and for giggles, compare the drummer with Animal drumming in the Muppet band. Epic. Always make me happy, and not a lot does in these times!!
John Lodge was/is known for writing the high energy, up tempo songs like this.
@@Sasfoot John is up tempo anyway. I've been to John's solo gig as well as Justin's (Justin's more so because I fell in love with that haunting voice in Nights in White Satin when I heard that song back in 1970.) Anyway, John's gigs are up tempo where Justin's is a little more mellow.
@@ladyhecate9450 I know. TMB were my parents' fave band and I practically got raised on them. They saw them multiple times and my mom has seen Justin a few since my dad died. It's ironic that you also mentioned Nights in White Satin since that was their wedding song.
@@Sasfoot Really.....Nights was their wedding song? But that is a song about a man whose love of his life broke up with him. It is a sad song. He was not really living until he met her and then saw things in a different light. Everything was brighter after he met her. Now that she broke up with him, It makes him sad to see other couples so in love, walking hand-in-hand, but he is hopelessly in love with the gal who broke up with him and cries out oh how he loves her. I have a DVD of one of Justin's releases and in that video, he said that when in love and a person breaks up with you, it is like a death. You mourn the loss and have to go throw the steps of grieving over the lost love and that is what the man in the song is going through. He said that he does not talk about that aspect because people see Nights as a romance song. For me, it is a sad song. He said he wrote that song after a gal broke up with him and then later met up with a gal who gave him while satin sheets. It is hard to believe, but he said several gals broke up with him. Poor guy. But that is the first song I heard and between his haunting voice, the music and the lyrics, I fell in love with that song. I think it is better than any Beatles' record regard they have ever made and I loved the Beatles. I even saw them the first time the came to America. It was awesome seeing them and all the screaming that went on. I just sat there and absorbed each moment. I was 12 years old.
One of my Dads favourite bands, truly amazing to listen to and watch, plus makes me think of Dad as well so a double whammy of joy❤
This is where I come for bearded drummer energy and saxophone fist raising
RIP to Mr. Edge. What a great drummer in such a great band.
My wife took care of him in the hospital before he passed. Said he was a super nice guy. Rip
@@darylfountain5198 Thank You to you're Wife. My Childhood Favorite Band ❤💜
Good people. That's all we need. Thank you.
@@user-otzlixr That is so beautiful...
When did he die?
Another baddass legendary drummer, GONE! But will not be forgotten, love you Graeme Charles Edge! Your drumming will last forever!
I haven't heard this song for years and what a treat to hear it again! THIS, ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls, is ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL by one of the greatest rock bands in history!!! And what are we exposed to today? Tribal chants accompanied by primitive jungle beats, aka: (C)rap. And NONE of those pushing it could even carry any of these guys' instruments. You have to feel sorry for today's youth being exposed to such garbage today, especially when compared to such iconic songs/groups like The Moody Blues.
No one today can touch the 70s bands!!
I understand exactly what you mean sir and thank you! Eugene Weaver sunstudiorocksnSamPhillipsis#1
"Tribal chants accompanied by primitive jungle beats" - some people thought that of this when it was released! Just like most of rock and roll. We called them old people.
@@sslaytor Well, I was one of those (now old) "rock and roll musicians" back in that era and I, along with many of my fellow musicians LOVED music from the Big Band era...Miller, Dorsey, et. al and we always admired how "tight" those swing bands were, not to mention talented. Granted, some of them did frown on R&R but groups like The Moody Blues, Yes and others really knew what they were doing, not to mention The Beatles of course.
Even though "Story In You Eyes" is one of their "rockers", songs like "Isn't Life Strange", "Nights In White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" have beautiful arrangements. Calling "(C)rap chants" music at all is an insult, even to us "classic rockers".
I am 66 and a bass player. Today's music is garbage with snippets from the past rock greats passing for creativity. Boston, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago, Moody Blues, The Who, Beatles, Tower of Power, Heart, Led Zepplin and many others created, sang, and played their music. Real rock.
God, I wish these kind of bands and music was back!!
Still listening to them, in 2023!!!! They are such great artist's!!!!! Justin, can sing!!!!! John can too!!!!!! So exhilarating, energy filled!!! Makes you want to get up and dance!!!!! 💃💃💃💃... 💙💙💙💙... 🌟🌟🌟🌟....
Oh this one gets me teary eyed. I was 18 in Feb, 1973 when this hit our top 40. So magnificent to say the least and lots of memories that year.
2024 😊❤
❤
RIP MIKE PINDER
My husband and I saw the Moody Blues in New Orleans at the Loyola Field House in the ‘70’s
The drummer is a super high-energy guy👍
Graeme Edge is his name and one of the leaders of this British band. Unfortunately, he died in 2020 of cancer and lived in Florida.
Justin Hayward is a very under-appreciated guitarist. He is Up There.
Don't come much better than this period.
The most excellent band, ever!!! 💙💙💙💙💙!!!!!
The Moody Blues = the all time greatest Rock and Roll band.
Lyrics- vocals- harmonies- instruments- narration
Rock/Love Ballads/Spiritual/Jazz/Orchestration/ even country licks.
All 5 band members wrote, played, and sang.
Timeless Music - - -
Fuck me there's a lot of song going on here. The most densely packed song in the history of songs. You could not squeeze any more song into this song.
This is exactly what I love about the Moodies: there is so much music in their music.
at 4 min 17 sec - head explodes 🤣
😆 Well said!
At 70 yrs old I never was a M.Blues fan though I did like their songs. BUT - Seeing their videos gives a new meaning to their music! As "As a below commenter said "This is one of the most kick-ass energy packed numbers" !
This fucking song was, is and will always be spot on
What makes me happy and content I guess is that I was alive and of an age when I could and did walk into a record shop and buy this piece of genius on vinyl and still have it in it's original sleeve on my shelf.
I have contended for fifty years that the Moody Blues are the greatest rock band in history. Their lyrics, orchestral compositions, and personas have never been matched.
I have seen them several times, but the greatest was at The Gorge in Washington state. They had an eighty piece orchestra behind them on risers, and the crowd (26,000) watched the sun set over the Cascade Mts. as the Lads played Tuesday Afternoon. With the evening glow casting a hint of glory over the mountains they played Nights In White Satin. They rocked the darkness with such as I’m Just a Singer,...
You get the picture. Thank you Ray, and farewell!
Wonderfully expressed,yes The matchless Moodies!
George at the Gorge is an amazing venue, bet that was a great show.
And you are 100% Correct!
AMEN !!
I am very sorry to have missed that -- with all the other great shows I've witnessed at The Gorge, and being from Wash. State I have no excuse. Saw Steely Dan, Yes, Rush, Sting, Supertramp, and Pearl Jam but would love to have seen the Moodies play there!
Omg. Somebody please invent a time machine
swirly synthy keyboards - yeah the Moody Blues were special
AWESOME BAND. GREAT GUITAR LICKS
Graham Edge. The first "Animal" to play drums. WOW
Maybe not as Animal as Keith Moon - about the same era?
Please do NOT ask ERIC BURDON or COOKIE MONSTER...
Seriously!
😂
How come their voices sound so surreal?
Because they are THE MOODY BLUES 💙
I am old and obsolete enough to remember a time when we were young and would drive down to the Bayfront Center in St. Pete to see shows like this for $5.
I got to see bands like The Moody Blues, Emerson Lake and Palmer and King Crimson I consider myself very fortunate and glad that I grew up when I did
This song is epic, M0:00dy Blues replay it please
Makes me wanna rewind time
That reminds me of my big tiddy goth ex boyfriend with a purple lipstick.
Yare..
@@edgyteenager8577 BITES ZA DUSTO
I'm here for the same reason
RIP, Graeme Edge
63 year old Grandpa Rockin' Out Here!!!
they just don't make bands like this anymore so sad
John Lodge wrote this and doesn't get enough credit for his MB's contributions. Met John twice after 2 solo shows. What a lovely, lovely man!
Moody Blues were amazing and made their place in music history. Year after year. Album after album. . So creative. Live long my friends and thank you.
1972 Very hard to believe! Those awesome 70's.Plz take us back!
Born in '64, this is the Kick Ass rock legend music that I still enjoy even today!
Unbelievable! We are privileged to hear this music. I say this in part because the quality of this music is testimony of the measured rise and decline of humanity. The irony is that many if not most who read this won’t understand what I am saying.
You got that right!!!
@@Russeaman I rest my case...
For the youngsters...check out these guys catalogue. You will not be disappointed.
Absolutely 💯 😊🎉
I'll be 70 in July and these were the days man!!!!!!!!!!! Drugs Sex and Rock and Roll!!!!!!!
Also this is about the powerlessness we little people (average Joe's and Jane's) had/have in the scheme of things!
Now there's a group of fine, clean-cut, upstanding boys right there.
WOW....Justin Hayard is drop dead good looking and so with John Lodge ...and they are the best EVER - unmatched!
One of the greatest rock songs of all time. The tempo and theme are the best.
Yes! Yea Indeed
...and in typical Moody fashion, the lyrics are brilliant.
#RIP Graeme Edge
Could always understand them when they sang. Still know all the words.
RIP the two members of The Moody Blues
Graeme Edge (March 30, 1941 - November 11, 2021), aged 80
Ray Thomas (December 29, 1941 - January 4, 2018), aged 76
You both will always be remembered as legends.
I had the pleasure to see them play this live at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, 11/14/1978, it was a wall of sound that swallowed me up & I’ve been a fan ever since
These guys are so sincere in their music. And they don't sound messed up playing live. Actually sounds like the record. Few rock bands can do that.
It is the recorded version,lol!
@@greghill1106, but hey, they lip sync so sincerely!
Beg to differ...
But the sound quality is TERRIBLE.
I've been to many concerts in my day and the band that sticks out of just being out if sink or played like crap was Aerosmith in 1984 or 85 down in the Miami Baseball stadium if Florida.
I can't believe they've come and gone. A long ways from Go Now
I'm 27 with 76 years of experience
This takes me back to my high school days..... graduated in 1974. Loved this song!!
This is SO LEGEND (from my teen years).. genius and brilliant.. one of the BEST rock and roll performances of ALL time in my opinion! I never get tired of this!
One of the great intro’s of any Rock song- drums, then bass lead into the song.
Very unique and clever.
RIP Graham Edge and Ray Thomas.
When Ray Thomas and Graham Edge were still with us
Met them in Manchester U.K. JUSTIN LEAD SINGER SIGNED MY CD..1998...
Producer: We got a 5 minute song to record but only 4 minutes left on the album.
Moody Blues: Hold my beer.
Classic lol
Most perfect comment ever posted.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hit it animal
so they speeded it up and this is IT::::::::::
I was 19 and a wife and mother when this came out! I remember dancing with my son in my arms in my living room to this song! Love it today as a 63 year old Great Grandma! ♥♥♥
the best music..brings out our youths.....I don't want to get old..ha....
here a 65 yr old grandma fan as well! ;))
msstevie1951 beautiful comment. Thank you. Their music just keeps sounding better all the time.
I'm a great uncle. They all tell me how great I am!
Love them..always did and always will
Really,. A singer in a rock and roll band…can do so much.
I miss you ART BELL and THE MOODY BLUES!!!!!
The music of our generation was the best music ever !!!
Amen!
@@lisamcbride8921 Amen also!!!
Shut up and listen to king gizzard
Right on man.
As a member of Gen Z, yeah, I can agree.
AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN!!!!! Oh my, Justin and that guitar at the end! Is it hot in here?
Yah, is that even allowed on YT? I had to get up and run around the house.
Edge is pounding them skins. Love it when the MBs rock out!
Animal on drums!
R.I.P. Graeme Edge. He played great, on this track, and many others. He will be missed!🎶
A time when Rock Band members actually played instruments and you could understand the lyrics....Rock on Moody Blues
understand the lyrics? actually play instrument?
Indeed
Today its all shit.
@@jeffevans3193 old man
@@lastnamefirst4035 JIJI!
I grew up in my dad's Porche 928 listening to this
The drummer reminds me of Animal beating on those drums like there's no tomorrow...What an awesome jam...
I saw Moody Blue twice (back then). What they did better than just about anyone is reproduce their studio sound immaculately, which considering the complexity of their sound, is quite a feat. Tempos, instrumentation and vocals were all spot on. Incredibly tight and talented performers. Hayward never gets credit for being one of the great guitarists of the age as he is often lost in the arrangements rather than the 'front'. Even so, his guitar work, timing and delivery, ranks with the best.
Spot on. It's a rare thing to see a band perform as well live as it does in studio. The Moody Blues was definitely one of the rare ones with that ability.
Oh I so agree! So many times you would go to a concert and the artists just didn't quite meet the mark of putting all of themselves in a performance. The music that came out of these guys is amazing. They are my fav band of all time. I have been a fan since the first time I heard them.
I am lucky enough to seen them about 4-5 times including 2 times in the 90s accompanied by a local orchestra. The tours with the full orchestras were different but it almost seems like they were born for that, too.
I love reading comments like yours here. Thanks for the first person accounting!
You blessed fo sho!!!
Absolutely brilliant song. Wish I can hear things like this on the radio again rather than the Top 40 tripe we currently have today. No "sexy" backup dancers, no mediocre lead singers being half-naked or posing nude every damn time, all I need is just the singer/s and their voice/s. Take me back.
For real. Example was half-time SB 54 - you could call it a celebration of the wagging tongue, the shaking booty and spread-eagle coochie in the face performance.
Reflections of my life.
Mamalades.
Rest in peace Graeme. x
RIP Graeme Edge.....there from the beginning.
No recording makeup no fake nothing!!! The real deal and real talented musicians!!! god we miss that!!
You gotta admit, that after a while they really do need the make-up!? Except Ray Thomas that is. REST IN PARADISE!
Although the song makes liberal use of the Chamberlin keyboard (precursor to the Mellotron and later, digital samplers) which some back then thought of as "cheating."
From Wikipedia: "The Chamberlin has a piano-style keyboard. Underneath each key is a tape-playing mechanism. Each tape is prerecorded with various musical instruments or special effects. When the musician presses a key, a pressure pad pushes the tape against a tape head."
All the sting and horn parts you hear in the song are played on the Chamberlin. I think it sounds great, but you know, there are always people out there that want to complain about something.
I understand that every group has recording makeup but the fact is these guys have the education and musical background to make great music!!!
No auto tune - yes they had the tech of the time but they could really play! Epic song!
Badass song. Way underrated band.
Always makes me feel Like the First Time I Heard it
1975....and a Junior in High School.....my friend David would pick me up in the AM for school in his convertible Sunbeam Alpine.......2 huge bench speakers behind our seats and this song on an 8 track tape blasting all the way there!! Some things in the mind never fade........:-)
Loved listening to this on 8 track tape deck in my Rambler. Seriously!
This song received most of its radio air play back in January thru March 1973. Remember it very well because I was a senior in high school back then. Memories...
Jesus. I had never seen this footage before. What a pack of long haired bad asses these guys were in their time. Wow, that was good.
Graham going nuts on the drums👍
Oh my God, just stunning💯💯💯🥀🥀🥀, 2022!!!!!
Thanks God for allowing me to be a teenager and in my 20s in the 60's and 70s.I actually feel sorry for the kids today. What they missed.
I say that if I had a time machine I would travel back and attend a LOT of iconic concerts : Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues, the Supremes, Temptations, the Who, Doors, Zeppelin, CCR, CSN, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas & Papas, Cream, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel for a start. Then I'd come back and have a shitload of musical memories to carry me till the day I die with a smile on my face.
With media wizardry, augmented reality and A.I., many young people can get close to the experience. They too can not only have memories but will be able to relive things. Even great music from the past that has been recorded will become timeless.
Yes, they are just singers in a rock and roll band, but
What great singers they were.
'How can we understand that lies by the people for the people that are destroying this earth" powerful lyrics
the whole song actually.
It’s “how can we understand riots by the people, for the people who are only destroying themselves…”
I bought this LP the day it came out. I was 15.
R.I.P Graeme, it's been a pleasure and a joy🥁🌹
This bass line absolutely kicks ass.
Where were you in '72!!! AWESOME!! I LOVE THIS!!! C/O '72...and had this music on my turntable. STILL have the albums. Son wants them when I die...he will get them.
Love the drummer in this video!
This song drives me so hard. At one point in the song , it makes me want to get up and Run!!!
Moody Blues. The soundtrack to my life.
That drummer dont get enough credit
John Lodge gets somewhat overlooked for the Excellent Bass player he is.
I just stumbled across this, guess it's been posted for 14 years. 😂 1972 and the Moodies had gone full on hippie. Ray Thomas (RIP) with a beard, I almost didn't recognize him. lol Great song off a great album! Seventh Sojourn is my 2nd favorite, with Days being my #1 favorite. 👍
Another great one from the Moody Blues