Bolder Backstage with Patrick Moraz
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- He’s one of the greatest keyboard players in rock, yet few know his name. Patrick Moraz, who played for Yes and the Moody Blues, was never in it for fame. For him, success is measured in spontaneity, experimentation and improvisation. See why he believes the same three ingredients are key to living a full and adventurous life in this Bolder Backstage story, part of our series of ongoing conversations with some of the greatest musicians in rock history.
Patrick's contribution to Yes for me still counts as one of the pinnacles of Yes Music. His keyboards on Relayer are mind-blowing. I wish he had stayed with the band for at least another album or two.
Indeed, Relayer is amazing and was ground-breaking -- taking Yes to a beautiful place. Wished Patrick would have stayed longer. Would have loved to have heard what he would have done on Going for the One!!!
I totally agree. Relayer is my favorite Yes album. Love PM's contributions.
Relayer was great and Moraz was a big part of that.
Seems like a positive happy man.
Gates of Delirium : the best music of YES
Close to the Edge
SORRY.
Patrick is timeless. He may be 74 at the time of this interview, but I don't care. I hope he is around many more years to teach us what he is saying. I had one lesson with him and I am still catching up to what he told me.
His contributions to Chris Squire's 'Fish Out Of Water' were tasty, sheer prog perfection.
Yup. Great album!
I love his Mellotron strings in Steve Howe's Will O The Wisp also.
@@johnmeowzer8333 Absolutely that's my favorite track on that album.
Moraz’ “Story of i” is also amazing.
Story of 'I' blew me away as did Relayer
"Music is music, and conversely, music is music."
My favourite kind of quote. The kind that's clever and silly at the same time.
I spent 5 years playing music, performing live, writing together and recording. Thank you Patrick for your friendship & inspiration 🎶
Wonderful guy. Love you Moraz!
I still remember the jam we had in 1975ish in St. Pete.
Such a pleasant guy and very creative. I did not see him with Yes but, was fortunate to have seen him with The Moody Blues twice, he was a joy to watch Live on stage.
Luckily, I got to see Patrick Moraz perform with Bill Bruford the Summer of 1985 at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia for the 'Flags' duo album. Great show!
His albums Resonance and ESP(Etudes, Sonatas, Preludes), both for solo piano are fantastic.
I played some Yes, never buying an album, until I heard "Gates of Delirium".
The drummer in our band wanted to see Yes when they played the Buffalo arena,
after Rick Wakeman came back. I thought they wouldn't play Gates of Delirium,
but they did. I was totally surprised when Steve Howe played it on steel guitar.
They played the Soon section with Wakeman but never the entire piece.
Rick never played anything but " Soon" from Relayer... Patrick 's jazzy style is too far from his mood...
This interview was astonishingly good. Thank you for this!! Needless to say, I immediately subscribed.
His two collaborations with Bill Bruford are fantastic. There is a video of them playing live on CZcams.
My favourite Yes album by far is Relayer. Much more technical but less recognisable than Wakeman. You can tell Wakeman a mile off and I think that sometimes narrows his range. Moraz's range seems to be boundless.
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He was treated appallingly by moodie blues they tried to say he was just a session player to cut him out of royalties ..on CZcams there is footage of the court case and they were a damn arrogant lot. They left him broke
Absolutely ! Moraz was and is a lovely bloke. The least they could have done was give him the 4 million dollars they originally offered him prior to the court case. He ended up with 750,000 dollars I believe less court costs. Moraz rescued the Moodies after Mike Pinder left and gave them a fresh sound that took them all through the 80’s and 90’s. They even airbrushed him out of all the photos on subsequent releases. How mean is that? I met Patrick in 1974 at a Refugee gig. He actually bought my brother and me a drink at the bar in Birmingham (U.K.) Town Hall. Completely down to Earth good guy. Just wish he’d scored a gig with another world class band.
@@yesman2755 I also find it very sad (if I can judge that anywhere near right) how the Moody Blues seem to have dealt with Patrick Moraz. How can you treat a person like that? I've been a Moody Blues fan from the very beginning and I've also heard that he used his keyboard parts to create great keyboard melodies on all the Moody Blues albums he was a part of. The sounds were superb and his melodies phenomenal. I think the Moody Blues made a big mistake back then. It's over with the moody blues these days. Justin is touring with his small group and John Lodge has been trying to do something lately. But I didn't think much of his lead vocals for many years. It sounds awful. I find the timbre of his voice to be completely irrelevant and colorless. She has nothing distinctive. Greetings from 🇩🇪
he slated the band in a magazine, moved to hollywood to work on film scores and was then surprised when the Moodies didnt call him to work on a new album.
@@jdekong3945 during the court case he was sacked by phone call
@@WELLBRAN I believe the manager in the US was instructed to have a meeting with Patrick to say the MBs were going to use other players, which was done and hence the lawsuit. If I was the Moody Blues and saw what had been put into print by Patrick I also would have fired him. I have nothing against Patrick but he really didnt help himself, & when you hear how the judge in the case had to admonish him for his bad behaviour in court you realise that he did not have much of a case
I discovered the Moody Blues in the 80s and absolutely loved what he brought to their music. I was lucky enough to see them twice with him in the band. I discovered Yes about the same time, but wasn't a fan of Relayer. I love Yes, and have seen them about 20 times in concert since the 80s. Relayer is towards the bottom of my list of Yes albums.
When Patrick left the Moody Blues, my interest in them was about half that when he was in the band. Incredible stuff he did with them. It's his work in that band that was his true genius. The Moody Blues really lost a great band member when they parted ways with him.
They sacked him then said he was a hired session player to cut him out of royalties watch the court case on CZcams
@@WELLBRAN If I remember right, I think he was unavailable/unreachable when they were recording the Keys of the kingdom album/tour. Or he was bored with the few songs he did or something. I think that was when the relationship soured.
He is great
I think Patrick took YES to places they wanted to go and it scared them. That’s why they let him go. He was too good for them.
master of the keys and life ...............
There are always haters...
Moraz was terrific on Relayer (and should have continued on Going For The One) ... he got a lot of grief for "replacing" Wakeman
Rabin was terrific on his Yes contributions (Talk is brilliant) ... he still gets a lot of grief
Here's my bit'o'hate: I never cared for for Trevor Horn ... and what he did to Benoit David's vocals on Fly From Here by replacing them with his own and releasing it as Fly From Here - The Return, what a hubristic douchebag move...
you're a nut! I love you. I think that you always had a strong presence in all the bands you were in, a dynamic force musically and probably off stage also. you are a magical person conjuring from the depth of you soul. Translate to French..... Let's drink some wine and make mad passionate love. Have fun and enjoy my friend to the last drop.
he has more hair than some 30 year olds.
Patrick Moraz is definitely an intellectual...he had such a strong influence on Yes that their style and music was completely different for the Relayer album....he added a strong jazz fusion sound with new style keyboards..
Many Yes fans say that Relayer is their favorite album.
Patrick Moraz comes across like a true artist who works harder than most and it shows.
Also, he seems like a real cool person.
There was a court case Patrick Moraz vs The Moody Blues.
There is footage of an arrogant lawyer talking down to Patrick in a very disrespectful way.
As you can tell, Patrick is not fluent in English....so he was not responding to the idiot lawyer fast enough.
I admit that I wanted to grab the idiot lawyer by the collar ....shake him around and say....how dare you talk this way to this great man!!!
Apologize immediately or I wil inflictl allot of pain on you...
I can't watch that footage anymore because it will make me angry again.
Of course Patrick has brought much happiness to millions of people however, the idiot lawyer will never be more than a mediocre and miserable human being who doesn't deserve to shine Patrick's shoes.
Maybe Patrick Moraz supporters would have felt like I did.
We want to see our heros respected...they are a cut above the rest.
I wish that Patrick and the Moody Blues would have never had a fallout and that they would have continued together and avoided that circus of a court.
In my opinion, Patrick gave the Moody Blues a special influence that sounded extremely good....his keyboard solo in the song Sitting at the wheel is priceless.
That's my opinion and I welcome yours.
"...Apologize immediately or I wil inflictl allot of pain on you..." (sic) lol
If only!!! I feel it, brother!
@@rockdrumr2772
Brilliant, you are quite right.....rock is about not apologizing and pain thanks for corresponding !!!!
Great post ! Patrick was disrespected by a lot of people who should know better. Graeme Edge called him “just a sideman”. Bloody cheek. Edge was “just the drummer” according to Mike Pinder, guess he never got over it. Moraz saved the Moody Blues in the 80’s. The first Moodies album he was on “Long Disrance Voyager” was one of their biggest selling records, went straight to No.1 in USA thanks to him. Patrick’s intro to The Voice was the best thing of all. Apparently they wouldn’t let him contribute to the albums after that and he got frustrated and let rip in some magazine so I heard so they sacked him and tried to deny he was ever a full time member of the band. Pretty sad really. Patrick is a legend and it’s a tragedy he never achieved the same level of fame as Emerson, Wakeman, Lord etc. He’s as good or better than any of them.
Long time Yes fan and my favorite album is indeed Relayer.
Patrick was born in 1948. He's 73 as of December 2021 and his birthday is in June. So how can he be 74?
Marick Patraz. “Você já ouviu falar dele? Nem eu”
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Poor Patrick moraz I mean who knows some keyboard lessons maybe a few days watching Keith Emerson and he could have learn to play. Oh well that's life😅
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