moody blues vs rock hall of fame

The 70s without the Moody Blues? I can’t even imagine that. Hell, it wouldn’t have been the 70s without them.

I remember an watching an interview with Graham Edge (drummer). He said a middle aged woman told him about the time she and her teenage daughter were not doing too well relationship wise (ah, teenagers). One day when she was downstairs, she heard her daughter playing some music up in her room. It sounded good. She went up and asked her what she was playing. She said "It's a Moody Blues album". The mother went up into the attic, dusted off some of "her" old MB's and brought them down to show her. They played them and formed a connection that stayed.

There's a DVD called "Legend of a Band". It's all about them and their history. Check it out if you haven't already.

Surprise for me was after years of hearing "Go Now" on various oldies stations, I did not know it was them singing it.

Justin Hayward and John Lodge were not members for the first album "The Magnificent Moodies" which contained Go Now.

The album is basically a collection of cover songs and bears no resemblance to the music that followed after Hayward and Lodge arrived.

I'm not sure any band released 7 better consecutive albums than Days to Sojourn.

In a 5 year span BTW.

The Moody Blues were a phenomenon unto themselves. Absolutely no group ever had that "sound"...almost an aura around their music. The songs flowed one into the other giving their albums a thematic thread that pulled you into the album. Each album was an "experience". A Question of Balance is a desert island album for me. You don't listen to that album, you experience it...you let it wash over you.

Anyone that appreciates the Moodies, should seek out John/Justin’s “Blue Jays” (mid 70’s), Mike Pinder’s “The Promise” (mid 70’s) or anyone of Justin Hayward'S solo albums, especially “View from the Hill” (mid 90’s). Even Ray Thomas, who is now retired from the band came out with two solo albums back in the 70’s that are a bit hard to find but equally phenomenal in both sound and quality of music. “From Mighty Oaks” (1975) and “Hopes Wishes and Dreams” (1976). Good listening.