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     Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3845 Registered: 03-2005 |
There was a period, especially in junior high but also my early high school years when I thought the Moody Blues were the greatest band in the world. I have a rather different view of them now but I still think they made some marvelous records on occasion, as far back as their days with Denny Laine when they did unique-sounding numbers like "Everyday": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVv_7-LG ZSw Ignore the lyrics; they're pretty laughable. The screechy falsetto is Ray Thomas. And then there's "Boulevard de la Madeleine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLueWO4f 4b4 Ray Thomas contributed the badly-recorded french horn. Then Denny Laine and bassist Clint Warwick split and Justin Hayward and John Lodge joined to create the well-known band. They did a transitional number like "Cities": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEYo-_R 7Hs At least the lyrics weren't as silly. As a writer, Ray Thomas contributed one of my favorite of their psychedelic-era numbers, "The Legend of a Mind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSFuEOA 9wc He also wrote "Dear Diary," another good artifact of its era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOQlE221 pmY Ray's flute on both of these latter tunes. Even as a teenager I started to get bored with them by the time they produced their 1972 album "Seventh Sojourn." I think they deserve real credit for announcing after that album that they were breaking up because everything they were doing sounded the same. It was true. They were very commercially successful at the time. Think about all the other groups who should have done the same for the same reason. I never bothered with them after they reunited. I was an acolyte of punk by then. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8432 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice tribute, Randy. |