[God luvs America]

Sad, sad day for many of us....i've seen the Moody Blues in concert probably 25 times since 1978 and saw John solo each of the past two years.

Two years ago I saw John in July after his concert had been pushed back 4 months due to a "medical emergency"....he came shuffling out on the stage like joe biden and i was like "uh-oh"...he did the first song, Stepping in a Slide Zone, then announced, "Last Christmas Eve i got a visit from an unwanted guest- i had a stroke. Its been an uphill climb but i've been rehabbing hard."

He got a standing ovation then rocked the house the next 90 minutes.

[xp38]

Sorry to hear you lost your music hero. I lost mine a few years ago. Life and music goes on though.

[laconic]

John Lodge became a very devout Christian; so sorry I never saw him perform as I know he was still going around the country on his own for the past few years performing in a number of US cities. Now we are left with Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues; I think he is still performing. We will always have the Live at Red Rocks show with the Denver Symphony.

[ComputerGuy]

What a band! I never got to see them, but had all of their albums.
They sounded great at max volume.

[Dr. Franklin]

I’ve seen the Moody Blues perform in concert several times. I’ve always loved their music. It’s sad to see him pass. May he rest in peace. We are rapidly losing the generation of musicians who gave us the best of classic rock.

[MtnClimber]

I saw the Moody Blues years ago at an open seating venue. Got there early and sat right up front.

[FlingWingFlyer]

RIP John. You guys did good.

[bray]

Great band.

[Ge0ffrey]

Imagine how much money you’d have if you’d put the money spent on 25 Moody Blues concerts into a broad index find in the American stock market.

[Tax-chick]

No immediate cause of death was reported. He was 82.

Well, there's a clue. I'm very sorry for the loss to his family, friends, and fans.

[Red Badger]

My heroes are all dying.......................

[old school]

Okay, I’ll be the bearer of bad news.

No one, seventy or older dies “unexpectedly!”

Suddenly perhaps, but not unexpectedly.

“The length of our days is seventy years-

or eighty if we are strong-

yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

The Moody Blues were the band that led me to an interest in prog rock. They had such a unique sound at the time.

[Vermont Lt]

At 82 you might die without a lot of notice...so it might be unexpected. But also at 82, lots of people will say...”Yeah, that’s a goo run.”

I like the Moody Blues. I am saddened to see people from my youth dying. It reminds me that the sand in my hour glass is running through the hole.

[rlmorel]

I have always enjoyed the Moody Blues, but the funny thing was, I went to a moody blues tribute band concert, and I was astonished to hear so many songs that I had never attributed to the Moody Blues. It was like listening to a sound track of my teen years..:)

My wife and I had an interesting evening many years ago that ties into the Moody Blues that makes me smile to remember it.

We were in Provincetown, MA about thirty years ago, and we went to the Governor Bradford Restaurant for dinner and drinks. It is a pub style place, occasionally with live entertainment and such.

We were sitting at a high table, and there was an older couple milling about because there were no seats, and I think we asked them if they wanted to sit down with us and share our table (I don’t remember exactly how, but I suspect this is how we came to be sitting at the table with them)

Anyway, they sat down, and somehow we started playing Trivial Pursuit, and we were having a lot of fun. He had a heavy British accent, and she was animated, and we were feeling the socially lubricating effects of our drinks.

At some point, we began just chit-chatting, and he said he was a musician, and played the drums.

We were with them for an hour or so, and had not even introduced ourselves to each other. As we got up to leave, I offered my hand and told him my name, and he said “Graeme Edge”. The name stuck in both of our brains, not because we thought he was a musician, but because he had bushy white unruly hair, a very animated face with that heavy British accent, and wide eyes with humor when he was amazed or trying to be funny, and we laughed a lot with them. Americans are often suckers for British accents!

Anyway, his name didn’t register with me at all even though we remembered it for years and would occasionally talk about how much fun we had at that table in the Governor Bradford with a couple of strangers that night.

Like many people, though I enjoyed the music of The Moody Blues, I couldn’t have named a member of the band. It was only until some time a few years later when we were talking about that night, that I looked up the guy’s name and saw a picture of him, realized he was the drummer for The Moody Blues.

I think this is kind of the age I saw him at, but I recall his hair was far bushier and more unruly, and his beard was fuller and more...unruly!

He came across as a brilliantly nice and normal guy. I heard he passed away in 2021.

[dinodino]

I had the pleasure of seeing the Moody Blues maybe a dozen times...fantastic performers.

[Afterguard]

RIP John. Next to Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues were my fave progrock band. Fortunately we still have his/their music to listen to...

[mairdie]

Impressive comeback. So sad he didn’t make it longer. Way too many losses in the music of our youth.

NCIS - Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3CjQSqY9e4

[PGalt]

Condolences to family and friends of John Lodge. RIP, sir.

[lone star annie]

Saw him in March of this year. He still rocked! I am so sad to see him go but I know he is in Heaven.

[Bon of Babble]

Moody Blues songs are not played often on the “Classic” Rock stations, a lot of which are terrible, playing far too much Kiss and ac/dc.

Listened frequently to “Days of Future Past” and to our “Children’s Children’s Children.”

A lot of their music is classic, timeless and still fresh.