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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“Let me guess. You think Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen are great.”
Bon Jovi and Springsteen are orders of magnitude worse than Moody Blues.
FYI I’ve been listening to Theme Time Radio of late.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwWueYczWM
Wow. Thanks for this info! That album gets way too little notice. And this song is a perfect end for the last album of this wonderful band. (The 2003 Christmas album is great too, but I don’t quite count it as a regular album).
“The Moody Blues played London’s Palladium Theatre on August 1st, 1965. So, it’s not very far fetched that his grandfather was a great deal younger than 130.”
My comment was tongue in cheek, obviously, in response to the poorly written sentence.
Put out your problems with the cat
“The Lords of Polka, volumns I, II, III, IV, V and X”
No.
But that might actually be pretty good.
I’m listening now to Theme Time Radio.
Eg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Htvzpucl1A
That was Denny Laine who sang lead on it, he later went on to be in Wings, with Paul McCartney.
Yes.
I like a lot of songs.
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.
Justin Hayward is an incredibly underrated guitar player.
His solo on “The Story in Your Eyes” is smokin’.
John Lodge has been a devout Christian for years.
You're from Holowfornia & you have the gall to say, " Harmful to the nation and world," about a great band!
you're from gavin, peelosi hell and don't know anything!
Thank you for that! It gave me chills and brings back some long lost memories. What a fantastic experience that must have been.
Also, I had just literally read that about Sue on IMDB! Ha!
lol, love it !
Then your failure was in arbitrarily grabbing the number 130 out of thin air.
The Captain gave permission for the crew (and us Middies) to use the helicopter flight deck as a relaxation area and allowed use of the ship's stereo system from the wardroom to play music. Either the ship or the crew had a very good selection of Moody Blues albums .. Days of Future Past, In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream, A Question of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and Seventh Sojourn .. and they played every single one of them that night.
All of the ship's external lights .. except for those required for navigation .. were turned off. Blackness except for the wake and the clear sky just overwhelmed with stars. General silence except for the music. All of the music was just so right for that situation that it gave me goosebumps. "For My Lady" from Seventh Sojourn, was appropriate .. "My boat sails lonely seas, battles oceans filled with tears ..". The guitar and bass intro to "The Story in Your Eyes" just blew me away. And "Nights in White Satin" almost brought me to tears.
Laying flat on my back on the flight deck, gazing up at the Milky Way, listening to The Moody Blues ... it was an experience that I will never forget.
Thanks for answering my question. I see it differently and that’s why I love FR- we have varying perspectives.
“Then your failure was in arbitrarily grabbing the number 130 out of thin air.”
No. It made it seem like this drummer played that place shortly before he died, not slightly before the grandfather died.
130 was based on the drummer dying at about 80 and estimating the grandfather was about 50 when his grandson was born.
Moody Blues are not that bad. Go now is a nice pop song. Tuesday Afternoon is ok.
:)
Left without a hope of coming home....
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