Posted on 04/26/2024 6:52:25 AM PDT by mairdie
Mike Pinder, original keyboardist for The Moody Blues in both their original mid-1960s configuration as a pop/blues outfit and their better-known late-1960s/early-1970s gentle progressive rock quintet entity, died in his Northern California home on April 25, 2024, from an as-yet unstated cause. Pinder was 82.
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[RIP]
that band was amazing.
One of my favorite bands.
RIP Mike.
Timeless music
RIP
😥....................................
They did some great,great stuff!
One of my favorite bands of all time and Pinder as well as his melletron is what got me hooked early on.
I was lucky enough to have seen the Moody Blues in concert at least 25 times. BTW- Pinder had nothing to do with Your Wildest Dreams- long gone at that time. Patrick Moraz was playing keyboards.
Great Pinder/Moody Blues songs
When You’re a Freeman (about Timothy Leary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eThjzUiWHQ
Out and In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3ULFoy5UA
Lost in a lost world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnBHAac9VM
Mine too…..we have all their music
Funny story- I read a two volume work called “History of the Moody Blues,” each book being about 600 pages.
In the early 70’s Pinder really turned into a environmentalist type and you could hear it in his music (listen to How Is It We are Here from Question of Balance as just one example).
In volume one they write about Pinder’s never ending concern for the earth and environment and recount an interview he did talking about how, “If we don’t change our ways soon scientists are saying ALL sea life will be dead in 25 years!!!”
Of course the interview was from 1970!!!
Rest In Peace, Mike.
Mellotron Master
My parents owned a little hippie plant shop & played The Moody blues all the time. Memories....
RIP
My all-time favorite, best-ever music group. First introduced to The Moody Blues my freshman year of college (1974-1975). Have loved them the most ever since.
Best concert we saw them was with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Virginia Beach, 1998, lovely evening in June, under the stars, cool temps, so exquisitely beautiful.
RIP, keyboard colleague. Everything he and the band did, when I was a teen rock keyboard wannabe, makes the hits of today seem peurile.
Master of the Mellotron. RIP.
Having seen more legends in concert than I can remember, there has never been anything as magical as The Moody Blues at Red Rocks. Miss those days.
That guy was the gifted master of multiple keyboards at a time.
Should have been on a Tuesday Afternoon.
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