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.
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Chill, dude, he was just a singer in a rock and roll band ...
Also one of the first bands to issue records on their own label, “Threshold”.
i was actually thinking about this...i think he started off with “9-11 has come and gone.” not “2001 has come and gone”
What a bunch of “Sentimental Oldsters”.
Hey. I could just put my posts to music and over half of you Freepers would love it.
Rock along!
The grandfather was said to have toured “almost in the stagecoach days.” If the grandfather was born in 1891, even at fifteen that puts him in 1906. A quick web search finds motor omnibuses on the streets of London in 1902. I'm afraid I'll have to give you the benefit of the doubt.
But with your poor taste in music though; you are still a piece of work.
You don’t get it. The article said they played the place when the drummer was 80. Poor writing.
I liked the 7th Sojourn LP, but was competing with some strong contenders. I saw them at Red Rocks 20 + years later, it was a chilly night and the band hadn’t dressed for the chill so everything suffered as a result.
Hands down one of the best albums ever recorded. The second side of that album stands up to any album
Most of those British bands of that era are still my favorites. One of the most creative times in music history. A lot of creative artists came together to make arguably the best music of many generations. A time that only comes around every couple hundred years. Contrast and compare to what passes for popular “music” today.
Lots of British music from that era is an acquired taste. That’s what makes it so great, like fine wine.
Here’s one of my favorite, a relatively new song: “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjImFYf2Vzc
Too many going and not many coming. Rip Edge.
I read Chaucer, Shakespeare, and James Fenimore Cooper and it is easy to see that our English language is continuously evolving. But I understand your point. It makes me cringe when I read or hear that a person pleaded guilty instead of pled guilty.
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At least he was able to manage his wealth where many don't.
May HE rest in peace.
Saw them in the early 1980s. A few songs into the show, the flute player got sick, and had to be taken (we later learned) to the emergency room. During what was usually the flute solo in Nights in White Satin, another band member played it on a kind of accordion, and the band and crowd were both psyched.
Moody Blues were one of my all-time favorite groups, RIP Graeme.
Remember seeing the group just a few years ago. Eighty? OMG!
Actually, it must have been 25-30 years ago. Using the government’s time clock it would equal just yesterday.
Agree with favorites, one of mine as well. Difficult to find a tune on MB album one thinks best. They made terrific music. This one is right up there with yours.
“Blue Guitar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oNXdv8S4QY
RIP and thanks for your melodious music, Graeme.
**One reason bands like The Moody Blues are so detestable is there are so many examples of what can be done that is not empty dross.**
...or even stupid lyrics, like much of the Beatles music.
While not a born again Christian, my late teens and early 20s were often accompanied by popular music of the time. But going to a concert didn’t appeal enough to me. I also thought that if a girl was so enthralled by long-haired drug influenced singers and musicians, then she probably wasn’t going to have the personality that I was looking for.
My wife has always liked a man to sound and behave like a man, a REAL, woman respecting man. And a guy like Robert Plant wouldn’t have caught her eye for a second. The fact that her dad could have passed for John Wayne’s younger brother may have had something to do with her opinions about men. (He even sounded like Wayne)
Blue Guitar was the Blue Jays (Hayward/Lodge) not the Moodies
LOL- you’ve been hear all day arguing the Moody Blues stink and you post a link to this crap??
Freeper Revel had you pegged- 8 hours ago- your record collection is garbage.
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