Another great musician and was still going out on tour, part of my younger days as a Moody Blues fan……we saw them at the Royal Albert. R.i.p
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My favourite❤️
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Very sad news.
Coincidentally, yesterday I noticed the Moodies 5 Classic Albums box for sale, on line, at an unbelievable price. For some time I’d told myself I needed to get to know the Moodies music better - I only own DOFP. So I ordered it and was really looking forward to receiving it. Will really resonate now when it arrives. A sad loss. Lodge was undoubtedly an excellent bass player. R.I.P
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Blue Guitar. RIP.
Dreadful news on the day I obtained a ticket to see Justin Hayward in Truro (for the 4th or 5th time) on the 20th of this month.
The classic Moodies albums from about 67 to 74 are still much loved by me & it’s very sad to think that Justin is now the sole surviving member.
Another reminder to those of us of a certain age of how the world we grew up with seems to shrink in front of us with increasingly alarming frequency.
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If you like DOFP then you are in for a treat.
It sounds as if your set ends with A Question Of Balance. You should also get Seventh Sojourn. In my opinion, this then completes the classic albums.
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Here’s the set so good news, Seventh is in. Presumably The Magnificent Moodies is album 1. DOFP album 2 then these 5 ‘classics’?
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John Lodge Bassist for The Moody Blues died yesterday (10th Oct) aged 82.
Another one (and Brummie) down…
“Isn’t life strange?
A turn of the page
Can read like before
Can we ask for more?”
I know what’s going on the TT today.
I’d have thought DOFP was 1, followed by In Search Of The Lost Chord - If we are talking classic albums.
The Magnificent Moodies isnt the classic lineup. It does include Denny Lane (of Paul McCartney and Wings fame) and Go Now.
All wonderful albums…. Seems like The Moodies are finally getting the appreciation they deserved, these days, given some of the articles I’ve seen in the press recently.
I have always rated them highly. Justin Hayward has written some beautiful songs.
I saw them at Wembley Arena in 78, during their “Octave” tour.
As @Robinho has mentioned, treat yourself to In Search of the Lost Chord, the album that followed DOFP & preceded On the Threshold of a Dream.
All outstanding in my opinion & I have never really had a favourite although To Our Children’s Children’s Children comes close simply because it was the friends album that introduced me to the Moody Blues.
The following albums never lived up to the classic ones because they couldn’t reproduce the studio sound (complex multi tracking, very advanced in the late 60’s) live at the time so started to record music that they could play live which, in my & many others opinion, could not match the majesty of the earlier material.
I assume that, with modern electronics, reproducing studio created sounds on stage doesn’t present the difficulties/impossibilities it did 50 years ago.
As already said, if you like DOFP, you’re in for a real treat.
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Two really good friends of mine thought very highly of the Moody Blues, one had seen them at Mothers in Erdington, Birmingham. Then I saw them live at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 and they were outstanding; together with Miles Davis and Leonard Cohen in my view. I think most fans have a favourite from the seven but mine and my wife’s is On The Threshold Of A Dream.
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RIP John Lodge. I loved Moody Blues in my youth
Married to the same Woman for 50 years must be a music biz record! seemed like a nice bloke too
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