Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues Passes Away

Red State ^ | April 26, 2024 | Jerry Wilson

[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.

[dfwgator]

No, no, no, no, he’s outside, looking in!

[DJ Frisat]

I was more of a fan of the early era lineup when Denny Laine - who passed away a couple of months ago - was the vocalist/guitarist and Mike Pinder played piano. (pre-Mellotron days) Mike inspired me to start fiddling with piano.

To this very day, whenever I find myself in a mostly-empty room where there’s a piano, my fingers instinctively contort into an inverted Ab chord shape, and I have to play those descending left hand notes that punctuate the intro to Go Now. I just can’t help myself. 😉

“I don’t want to see you go (Denny and Mike) but you had better Go Now”… 🫤

[dfwgator]

The Story In Your Eyes is my favorite.

Justin Hayward doesn’t get enough recognition as a guitar player.

[Guenevere]

I can picture it……the sound must have been all consuming…….wowser!
….the perfect venue

[shadowlands1960]

When You're a Free Man was also written about Timothy Leary... he appears to have known him personally.

[moovova]

RIP. Legendary music.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Ugh, got hooked on the Moody Blues via one of my best friends in college (1984-1988).

RIP

[mairdie]

I remember Timothy Leary giving a lecture at Mandel Hall at U of Chicago. He was actively around in the 1960s so wouldn’t have been difficult to find. Tom Lehrer was also from Harvard and was active in around the same timeframe.

[Robert DeLong]

Yes I saw that from God luvs America’s post. I will have to give it a listen, now that I know that. 🙂👍

[pa_dweller]

RIP Mike Pinder. Meaningful lyrics and moving keyboard. Only the Blue Jays remain.

[PLMerite]

“Your Wildest Dreams”

I know the feeling.

[ansel12]

I loved the Moody Blues in the 60s and have all their early CDs today.

What was funny was during the early 80s I was engaged to a 19 year old Welsh girl and during a phone call from Wales she asked me if I had ever heard the new song Tuesday Afternoon by The Moody blues, she thought it was fantastic and said everyone there was listening to it.

[Delphster]

My favorite band of all time. RIP Mike.

Sad to see so many rockers of my youth pass away.

[God luvs America]

“How are the children? And Rose Marie??”

One of my all time favorite Moody Blues songs...Seventh Sojourn is an incredible album and the second side of that LP stands up to anything ever produced...sadly it was the last really good LP with Pinder as he was not into Octave and left the band soon after...

[God luvs America]

In July i am actually going to see John Lodge in concert on a Saturday night then Justin Hayward the following day at a festival in Long Island, NY.....its too bad they don’t connect and sing some Moody Blues & Blue Jays songs!!! BTW- the Blue Jays was an incredible album- almost like Seventh Sojourn Pt II

[God luvs America]

Suggestion- listen to the entire Seventh Sojourn album- it is absolutely incredible!!!

[Jersey Jim]

"Master of the Mellotron" is correct.

You can really hear/feel the Mellotron on Melancholy Man. I heard Nights in White Satin on a "45" way long ago and I was hooked.

[dfwgator]

The best Mellotron is Tony Banks on the intro of “Watcher Of The Skies”.

[South Dakota]

The trees are calling me near, I’ve got to find out why

[dfwgator]

John Lodge is a devout Christian.