[BlueLancer]

You've got to add "Seventh Sojourn".

My first experience with the Moody Blues was on Youngster Cruise out of Annapolis in 1973. I was aboard the LPD Coronado and we were on the last leg of the Atlantic cruise. We were two days out of Norfolk, coming home, and the Captain allowed members of the crew to bring a stereo set and speakers out on the flight deck after dark. There was no moon, almost pitch black, and just millions of stars across the sky, the thick band of the Milky Way hanging above us. It started with Days of Future Past and Seventh Sojourn and all of the other Moody Blues albums playing while I laid out on the flight deck staring into space. I was hooked on the Moody Blues forever after that...

[jobim]

I have so jealously guarded these 4 albums since 1969 that I haven't really listened to
other Moody albums, except Question of Balance, which has moments but not in the
same league. But at your suggestion, and in light of that fabulous setting you describe
for your introduction concert, I will give that album a listen.