Posted on 11/11/2021 10:46:39 AM PST by God luvs America
Graeme Edge, drummer and co-founding member of the Moody Blues has died, his family confirmed to NewsNation. He was 80.
The English musician was a member of the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame for his 50 years of work with the rock band, providing their imaginative rhythms and memorable spoken word.
Edge retired from touring in 2018 and was the only founding member continuously in the band since the mid-1960s. 2018 was also the year the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In an interview on the red carpet at the induction ceremony, Edge said that the Moody Blues had “the most loyal and the best fans on earth. I’d probably be pushing up daisies without them.”
And now, three years after the retired from the tours and the arenas full of fans, he has left us.
Asked about his major influences for getting into rock and roll, Edge credited his grandfather, a singer who toured “almost in the stagecoach days” with encouraging him to give the music world a try. He said his grandfather always wanted to see him play at London’s Palladium Theatre, and four months before he died he did just that.
The orchestral backdrop which was the core of the band’s sound cast a wide net of influence in the ’70s and ’80s, fueling the bands Yes, Genesis during the Peter Gabriel years and Electric Light Orchestra. Listen to Yes’ “Owner of a Lonely Heart” and you could be forgiven for mistaking it for a Moody Blues tune.
There are ongoing debates between Pink Floyd and Moody Blues fans as to who influenced whom, but it’s likely they were simply drinking from the same creative spring.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs17.com ...
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
‘Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
My all-time, forever favorite - The Moody Blues - since I first heard their music when I started college in 1974. Saw them in concert several times, the best being at the Virginia Beach Ampitheatre with the Virgnia Symphony Orchestra. It was an incredibly beautiful, magical night....or was it Tuesday Afternoon? Ha! Spent many a day and night drifting off to neverland listening to the beautiful Moody Blues.
“I sure wouldn’t want to hear your record collection.”
Why not?
Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send
Blah blah blah
Mediocrity mediocrity
You think I don’t know this garbage in and out?
O.M.G. You cannot be serious! SMH.
Do you live in Florida? He lived in SW Florida for years
I wish you could have seen them at Red Rocks Amphitheater here in Colorado. As you said, incredibly beautiful and magical. I've seen many legend play there and nothing compares.
Reading her posts are bad enough
No accounting for taste.....I loved the Moody Blues but hated Procol Harum. Wasn’t even particularly fond of their one big hit “Whiter Shade of Pale. Go figure.
One of my top five bands.
Godspeed Graeme...
Interesting! I had no idea he lived there!
I live in Colorado and she met Graeme at a hotel as a concierge. She then joined him on tour. I wonder if he was actually married at the time...
I’ve heard them live on a couple of occasions. They did put on a great show.
I saw them multiple times with the orchestra- hands down the best was Radio City Music Hall in 1993. Absolutely incredible:
https://archive.org/details/19930617MoodyBluesLiveAtRadioCityMusicHallNYC
Wow. I had all of their albums, even the Blue Jays album Hayward and Lodge recorded in the mid 70s.
Saw them in concert twice, the last time being in the late 90s. Great shows, both.
R.I.P., Graeme. Thanks for the memories.
The bass player John Lodge also live in SW Florida.
“Edge once admitted on Rockline that his second wife Susan would not marry him because she did not want to be named ‘Sue Edge’ (sewage). “
Oh my goodness. Why were the Moody Blues “harmful to the world”?
The Blue Jays is an incredible album. Almost like Seventh Sojourn Pt II
or which is an illusion.
he's outside, looking in.
**Mediocrity mediocrity
You think I don’t know this garbage in and out?**
The entertainment business is largely escapism from reality.
Which is effective at dumbing down the consumer.
That said, I do like a good clean song that respects true love between a man and woman, that lasts until death do us part.
Love the band. When Graeme Edge was asked what kind of music they play, he said “moody blues.”
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