A truly amazing man responsible (with others) for the most amazing music of our time. Perhaps any time. Judging by the tons of comments, this feeling is universal amongst those who of what I speak.
that's great! pinder is an amazing musician. i love the songs he did with the moodies and the mellotron has to be the coolest instrument made. so perfect for the psychedlic scene. it's saddening to think that he and edge don't talk. a lot shit goes down in life and to forgive is all you can do. i hope greame can find it in his heart.
Seems like a genuinely nice guy. The chemistry of all five members created some of the greatest music of pop/rock. If you take one member out, something does get lost. I love the music that the band has created since Mike left, but like a lot of fans I do so long to see them all be creative again together. Shame that they do not talk to each other. I would have thought the friendship bonds would have been really strong after growing up together the way they did.
I agree completely. In my opinion, Mike was the heart and social conscience of the band and the his mellotron was what really created the Moody Blues' sound.
Oh man.. was glad to see this! And everyone is right about Mike. A reunion tour would be something I would die to see, but I would be happy with them doing just one SHOW for old times sake. Like others have said... before its too late!
I totally agree--Mike's mastery of the Mellotron, vocals and writing make the "Classic Seven" Moodys records immortal. Justin Hayward is fine musician, but the Moody Blues lost a lot of their heart and soul when Mike left.
It appears the years have been kind to Mike. This is an incredible interview. Mike is candid, just as honest as his music ever was, a person who obviously knows and appreciates beauty. And no wonder of the imagination he is the genius of many of the beautiful Moodies songs we still love through the years.
I remember noticing on the credits, back when I was 14? 15? on my brother's copy of the Imagine album, Mike Pinder being listed. It was kind of surprising. :-) The incident with Justin reminds me of the famous one between Paul and Ringo during the White Album, when Paul said something derogatory about Ringo's drumming, and Ringo left for what, a week? In any case, they say when Ringo finally returned, his drum set was bedecked with roses all over it. It is very moving. Bless u,Mr. Pinder!
This appears to be grabbed from the DVD Classic Artists series: "the Moody Blues". Lots of Pinder reflecting on the band, as well as the other guys too. 3 discs...but only the first one has the interviews - but its great...worth the price in itself. I love it when Justin tells the story about the guy hanging out at a gig for 59 days with the signs telling how the world is going to change when the moodies play ...and when it doesn't he yells at them leaving the hotel for the airport..
Oh my G-d, to solve it all here... the holy grail of music...the only clip ever seen where we see the speaker of "cold hearted orb...gong...("that's for you, Graeme." Graeme loves you Mike. You're awarded in heaven everlasting peace...after you left with Octave, the mood has never been recaptured. You recaptured it in this video.and the Hopi Indians...I never had an out of body experience. Your after war party was straight out of Fellini's Amarcord. Any comment, Mike? Gigantic fan. Frank
I believe Mike Pinder was the pivotal influence of The Moody Blues new direction and sound in the late sixties. His mysticism, Mellatron, creativity, and talent, resolutely influenced and inspired the others to write some great and classic tracks.
@stratmandoug1974 belated kudos for this comment - says it all. I always wondered why the Moodies never mentioned his name after he split or performed any of his signature material, like he never existed. How ironic that it was Mike's voice that brought out the best in Graeme Edge's poetry. His recitals remain highlights of their recordings. And to me, everything they've achieved since has a hollow ring to it, like there's some magic missing
The Moody Blues still play great live, but I always wanted to see mr. Pinder with the Mellotron on stage; it's something my dad was able to do, which makes me feel like I missed out lots. Oh well. Maybe one day...
i've always preferred the eerie sound of the mellotron over the spaced-out sound of the moog synthesizer (with maybe the exception of manfred mann's minimoog). i can't remember the excitement of listening to strawberry fields one day with a set of headphones and suddenly realizing the flutes were actually a mellotron! i'm glad to see many newer artists bringing back the mellotron in their music. it's a great sounding instrument. thanks mike, for your contribution to rock!
Mike Pinder was the soul sound, John Lodge is the social consciousness and Justin Hayward the heartfelt romantic, Ray was the mystic, and that was the magic of the Moody Blues. I miss all of them playing together. After Mike left, nearly half of the magic went with him.IMHO
Last February, Asia reunited and went on tour together after 23 years. I figure if John Wetton and Steve Howe can bury the hatchet, surely Mike Pinder and Graeme Edge can.
@@victorcrocco701 He added the sound of the mellotron, not wrote the melody. Justin stated so many times before that he wrote the lyrics and composed the melody, but the band approved as Mike completed it all with the mellotron.
Ah, those famous last words: ".......but we decide which is right and which is an illusion". How many times did I play the opening tune of the album just to hear that bariton-ish voice say these words. It send shivers down my spine.. And I was lucky to hear his voice at the other side of the vinyl as well !
Nice to see this...a big Mike Pinder fan here, and when he left...then Ray...it was never the same. I'm old school (means I was around at the beginning)...and I watch all the old Moody Blues videos, not so much the newer ones. Not without Mike and Ray.
That's sad that we say things that we can't really take back. Pinder was so sincere in his apology. I hope Graham heard this. I'm fine with Pinder not being in MB, but it would be nice if they all could be chums again.
Yes, Mike really gave them much of that early sound...the string sound with a lot of reverb which gave them that really big spacey sound on all of those first albums was basically his signature contribution to the bands sound..not to mention his songwriting.
The great Mike Pinder! Ahh, to hear the mellotron with the Moodies!! One can hope: as Justin Hayward, in a recent interview, put in a teaser that they might have mellotron in upcoming tour/s. It's at the "Moody Blues Today" official MB's web site. They were 'on fire' last tour and would be even more amazing should the mellotron once again generate its magic.
I have a dvd with this same interview and much more. His son is active in the hollywood scene doing musical scores. The mellotron led to music via computers, and you see one behind him in this piece. He's very active is the business.
Note Mike Pinder's response to the question of seeing is former band mates in concert, like "seeing someone making love to your ex-wife". Time heals. And there you can see in the past few weeks, Mike Pinder and his family along with his good friend Al Jardine at a Moodies concert in LA, and evidentially they gave a Mike a shoutout in the audience to a well deserved standing ovation, and back stage pictures with Mike, his sons, Al and John Lodge and Graeme Edge. But I particularly like the one with Justin and Al, just a few inches taller than Al. Curious to see any pictures of Justin and Mike backstage. Of course it's no surprise to see Mike pictured with John Lodge. He's on one of the tunes in John's new record.
In London at Carnaby street between 1966 and 1969 will never be there again. The melideos from Days of Future Past can never be topped. Mike already did it and if you want to get the wisdom listen to Days Future Passed, In Search of Last chord. the wisdom is there for us to take! The most powerful melodies from Moodies were from Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon and the most powerful musical performance that put 800,000 fans at the Isle of wight Sunset. I was waiting to hear that power again but alass Mike left
This is great. He may very well be my new fav person. Should he want to come to Hawaii and surf, free dive and see the Island I welcome him with aloha. The war story and father stories are fantastic.
I always wish that Mike Pinder and the Moody Bkues would preform together for at least one tour or a partial tour. Produce a new album too. I miss Mike's mystical songs and hope that he would produce a new or some more new songs.
Graeme may still be angry and hurt but he, Justin, John and Ray still consider Mike a Moody Blue and if someone would only make the first move they might be re-united. Someone has to swallow their pride. It,s such a shame. Without Mike,s songs and the Mellotron, and that voice, they haven,t been the same. I,ve been lucky enough to see them twice but never with Mike Pinder and that is a huge piece missing. There writing is so different from each other but there is such an amazing balance
Grame and Michael were buddfies who were the driving forces to the founding of the original Moodies. Denny Laine was the original lead singer who left just after recording and just before their first hit (Go Now) was released. After Denny and others left, they were replaced by Justin & John which led to their massive fame. Denny later was a member of Paul McCartney's Wings in the 70's. (The Beatles original drummer was Pete Best before Ringo.)
Hay Graeme, listen to Mike he says he is sorry, so what more do you want. The next time I see the Moodys, I know Mike will be their it's up to you Justin. Now go for it. One More Time To Live
Mike Pinder and Justin Hayward were the Moody Blues. I think If Mike had collaborated with Justin on the Blue jays album, it would have been a more complete record. I think Graeme Edge was jealous of Mike Pinder's artistic collaboration with Justin Hayward.
I never knew this...I went to the Moodies xmas party in 84 on a boat on the Thames and Graeme said if Mike showed up they would just set him up at the side of the stage... I can't believe Graeme would still hold a grudge. We all move on...
Get this.. I heard that the new large MkII Mellotron from Streetly Electronics was delivered to the soundstage where the Moodies rehearse. And the words and sheet music to "When You're a Freeman" and "Sun is Still Shining" were seen at Justin's and John's..... ***********Ring******************** Darn..time to wake up.
So we finally see what some of the riff is about eh. Would be nice if some of the Moodys would put the past tensions behind them and get together one more time, cause soon they won't be able to do it again.
Then how do they start? I have seen it in MANY trivia questions regarding Mr. Pinder's uncertain fatality. It should be a story written like Jim Morrison, is he or is he not alive? While dyiing in a pickle vat is indeed tragic, one cannot throw the "rumour" off the table because his alleged death is not what you want to believe. I believe redwinglr has heard the same rumours.
@nootaramus I concur.... mike was the spiritual one and gave the moodies their mystic quality...ray was almost a show tune guy, justin and john were rockers and balladeers. they lost alot when pinder left.
I 'm not sure that Greame would have been jealous of the Hayward/Pinder collaboration either...that said, I do think (as many pre '74 MB fans did), that there was a magic to the Pinder/Hayward collaboration.Mcartney and Lennon were never as good solo IMHO...same deal here.
@cheifguggletram Not so strange after all: I had many out of body experiences I remember while still in my crib!!! There have been Mystics and those with "second sight" in our Welsh, Scotch and Irish-as well as English-family! I am 51 now and I have still had "dreams" so vivid that I knew they had to be real! And Deja 'Vu? OMG!! I have been many places and had clear memories of being there in a dream!! We use 1/10th of our brains...waddya think the other 9/10ths are doing????
Ah, the benefit of 30 years maturity and 20/20 hindsight. There's a lot of stuff I did in '78 I'd sure like to forget! Like Mike, I had a girlfriend, but I let my work overshadow us, and she was gone two years later. Hopefully Graeme will understand. After "Octave", where both Mike and Tony Clarke left the band, I didn't know if they would continue, but they did and Patrick Moraz, Pip Williams and others added a different dimension to their 80's work. It's been 15 years since "Strange Times"; don't know if Justin, John and Graeme have anything left to say, or if they might try to coax Ray and Mike back to the studio one more time.
That's not entirely true. Mike didn't leave, he was kind of forced out. It was true that he didn't want to tour with them anymore, so in a way he did leave. But he still wanted to be on the recordings and contribute as a writer. The other members resented this though (with good reason obviously). But they refused to let him contribute to Long Distance Voyager and after a series of lawsuits he was officially removed from the band.
@inmylife10465 i quite agree with you , greatest hits that's all that seems to be available now.come on moodies get back to your roots and record them great tracks like i know you can do
I say we throw a big party in Vegas and invite them to have drinks and settle this once and all... imagine just even one tour with all of them. Feel free to email me with real ideas...
I always thought that Justin was the heart of The Moodies and Mike was the soul. Pat Moraz never had the same feel for the band's music. What's left of the band now? Mike's mellotron is gone, Justin threw the great guitar sound he used to have out the window and Tomo has hung up his flute. As for the rumours claiming that grudges between members is preventing a reunion, maybe they should go back and listen to The Balance. They wrote that, so maybe they should practice what they once preached.
@Aldebaron9 Well, I suppose it's not a COMPLETE impossibility, but it's the fact that he's talking about it as if it's something that's actually been proven, not something that can be explained much more simply by other scientific reasons.
Did someone say this guy was a Beatle? Was he the original drummer before Ginger Baker? I simply dont recognize him. What song did her write. I heard that "I wanna hold your hand" was written by a different guy. Could this be him?
Oh, I hate to rub it in, but I met the guys several times. I'm also in the Wildest Dreams Video. If you give me an email address, I can send you a couple of pics..Thanks for the reply.
They were my favorite band forever but maybe with age, they're newer stuff is pretty boring. What could be better than a reunion with Mike Pinder. It seems he wants to do it so Grahme, get over yourself. Do it for the music. Moody fans would be coming out of the woodwork for this reunion!
Michael is alive and well and living in California. He DID NOT die in a tragic pickle vat accident. These false rumors must stop. I can't believe the sick people who start this kind of stuff.
when the hell are the moody blues gonna make a new album? 42 years as a band with 12 albums is NO excuse(unless you include"greatest hit albums;i think that would add up to a total of 30 albums)
It's true. I wasn't sure if I believed it either until I started experiencing it in 2014. I eventually wrote a book about it called "Journey into the Unknown". I still find it the strangest and most fascinating thing I've ever experienced in my life.
The Moody Blues was never the same when he left the sound totally changed!
Love this. Mike Pinder is a musical genius. My favourite member of the Moody Blues.
the more interviews i watch with Pinder the more i love him.
A mainstay of the Moody's sound...what a cosmic down to Earth, magical person! He admits a sad separation that happened in the past...takes courage!
A truly amazing man responsible (with others) for the most amazing music of our time. Perhaps any time. Judging by the tons of comments, this feeling is universal amongst those who of what I speak.
that's great! pinder is an amazing musician. i love the songs he did with the moodies and the mellotron has to be the coolest instrument made. so perfect for the psychedlic scene. it's saddening to think that he and edge don't talk. a lot shit goes down in life and to forgive is all you can do. i hope greame can find it in his heart.
Seems like a genuinely nice guy. The chemistry of all five members created some of the greatest music of pop/rock. If you take one member out, something does get lost. I love the music that the band has created since Mike left, but like a lot of fans I do so long to see them all be creative again together. Shame that they do not talk to each other. I would have thought the friendship bonds would have been really strong after growing up together the way they did.
This could be the Give Peace a Chance of these Troubled times. Mike is a very beautiful man. I do love him I have always loved in thru all the changes
Oh, Michael, I love you, bro! Thank you for all the many hours of music you have sent my way. It helped me through many a "troubled time."
ALWAYS A PLEASURE LISTENING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUL....🙏🙏🙏😇🤗💖
Privelaged to have seen the band a number of times here in Toronto and great memories of growing up in Glasgow and buying their albums.
I agree completely. In my opinion, Mike was the heart and social conscience of the band and the his mellotron was what really created the Moody Blues' sound.
I have memories of my childhood and I was able to fly. Really couldn’t explain it and surprised that you would talk about it
The music of the Moodies has had a powerful impact on my life, going back to 1969/'70, and I'll always be grateful for that.
Oh man.. was glad to see this! And everyone is right about Mike. A reunion tour would be something I would die to see, but I would be happy with them doing just one SHOW for old times sake. Like others have said... before its too late!
I totally agree--Mike's mastery of the Mellotron, vocals and writing make the "Classic Seven" Moodys records immortal. Justin Hayward is fine musician, but the Moody Blues lost a lot of their heart and soul when Mike left.
It appears the years have been kind to Mike. This is an incredible interview. Mike is candid, just as honest as his music ever was, a person who obviously knows and appreciates beauty. And no wonder of the imagination he is the genius of many of the beautiful Moodies songs we still love through the years.
I remember noticing on the credits, back when I was 14? 15? on my brother's copy of the Imagine album, Mike Pinder being listed. It was kind of surprising. :-)
The incident with Justin reminds me of the famous one between Paul and Ringo during the White Album, when Paul said something derogatory about Ringo's drumming, and Ringo left for what, a week? In any case, they say when Ringo finally returned, his drum set was bedecked with roses all over it. It is very moving.
Bless u,Mr. Pinder!
This appears to be grabbed from the DVD Classic Artists series: "the Moody Blues".
Lots of Pinder reflecting on the band, as well as the other guys too.
3 discs...but only the first one has the interviews - but its great...worth the price in itself. I love it when Justin tells the story about the guy hanging out at a gig for 59 days with the signs telling how the world is going to change when the moodies play ...and when it doesn't he yells at them leaving the hotel for the airport..
Oh my G-d, to solve it all here... the holy grail of music...the only clip ever seen where we see the speaker of "cold hearted orb...gong...("that's for you, Graeme." Graeme loves you Mike. You're awarded in heaven everlasting peace...after you left with Octave, the mood has never been recaptured. You recaptured it in this video.and the Hopi Indians...I never had an out of body experience. Your after war party was straight out of Fellini's Amarcord. Any comment, Mike? Gigantic fan. Frank
I believe Mike Pinder was the pivotal influence of The Moody Blues new direction and sound in the late sixties. His mysticism, Mellatron, creativity, and talent, resolutely influenced and inspired the others to write some great and classic tracks.
@stratmandoug1974 belated kudos for this comment - says it all. I always wondered why the Moodies never mentioned his name after he split or performed any of his signature material, like he never existed. How ironic that it was Mike's voice that brought out the best in Graeme Edge's poetry. His recitals remain highlights of their recordings. And to me, everything they've achieved since has a hollow ring to it, like there's some magic missing
The Moody Blues still play great live, but I always wanted to see mr. Pinder with the Mellotron on stage; it's something my dad was able to do, which makes me feel like I missed out lots. Oh well.
Maybe one day...
Mike thank you so very much for sharing your young experience. My experience was lovely.
i've always preferred the eerie sound of the mellotron over the spaced-out sound of the moog synthesizer (with maybe the exception of manfred mann's minimoog).
i can't remember the excitement of listening to strawberry fields one day with a set of headphones and suddenly realizing the flutes were actually a mellotron!
i'm glad to see many newer artists bringing back the mellotron in their music. it's a great sounding instrument.
thanks mike, for your contribution to rock!
Mike Pinder was the soul sound, John Lodge is the social consciousness and Justin Hayward the heartfelt romantic, Ray was the mystic, and that was the magic of the Moody Blues. I miss all of them playing together. After Mike left, nearly half of the magic went with him.IMHO
MIKE WAS THE MAGIC OF THE MOODY BLUE'S......
Last February, Asia reunited and went on tour together after 23 years. I figure if John Wetton and Steve Howe can bury the hatchet, surely Mike Pinder and Graeme Edge can.
This man was the soul of the group and they were never the same after he left
IMHO; at least as far as all the background music is concerned, Mike Pinder was the Moody Blues...
Mike wrote the melody for nights in white satin.
@@victorcrocco701 YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT MY DARLING 💖
@@victorcrocco701 He added the sound of the mellotron, not wrote the melody. Justin stated so many times before that he wrote the lyrics and composed the melody, but the band approved as Mike completed it all with the mellotron.
undoubtably one of the better rock interviews i've ever heard...
man... the last two minutes of this are so moving. Great stuff, thanks for posting.
Ah, those famous last words: ".......but we decide which is right and which is an illusion". How many times did I play the opening tune of the album just to hear that bariton-ish voice say these words. It send shivers down my spine.. And I was lucky to hear his voice at the other side of the vinyl as well !
Nice to see this...a big Mike Pinder fan here, and when he left...then Ray...it was never the same. I'm old school (means I was around at the beginning)...and I watch all the old Moody Blues videos, not so much the newer ones. Not without Mike and Ray.
Make it so Number One!
That's sad that we say things that we can't really take back. Pinder was so sincere in his apology. I hope Graham heard this. I'm fine with Pinder not being in MB, but it would be nice if they all could be chums again.
It did look very sincere. I agree.
Yes, Mike really gave them much of that early sound...the string sound with a lot of reverb which gave them that really big spacey sound on all of those first albums was basically his signature contribution to the bands sound..not to mention his songwriting.
The great Mike Pinder!
Ahh, to hear the mellotron with the Moodies!!
One can hope: as Justin Hayward, in a recent interview, put in a teaser that they might have mellotron in upcoming tour/s.
It's at the "Moody Blues Today" official MB's web site.
They were 'on fire' last tour and would be even more amazing should the mellotron once again generate its magic.
moodylicious One can only hope so, with Mike at the helm preferably.
I have a dvd with this same interview and much more. His son is active in the hollywood scene doing musical scores. The mellotron led to music via computers, and you see one behind him in this piece. He's very active is the business.
Thinking IS the best way to travel !!
Note Mike Pinder's response to the question of seeing is former band mates in concert, like "seeing someone making love to your
ex-wife".
Time heals. And there you can see in the past few weeks, Mike Pinder and his family along with his good friend Al Jardine at a Moodies concert in LA, and evidentially they gave a Mike a shoutout in the audience to a well deserved standing ovation, and back stage pictures with Mike, his sons, Al and John Lodge and Graeme Edge. But I particularly like the one with Justin and Al, just a few inches taller than Al.
Curious to see any pictures of Justin and Mike backstage.
Of course it's no surprise to see Mike pictured with John Lodge.
He's on one of the tunes in John's new record.
In London at Carnaby street between 1966 and 1969 will never be there again. The melideos from Days of Future Past can never be topped. Mike already did it and if you want to get the wisdom listen to Days Future Passed, In Search of Last chord. the wisdom is there for us to take! The most powerful melodies from Moodies were from Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon and the most powerful musical performance that put 800,000 fans at the Isle of wight Sunset. I was waiting to hear that power again but alass Mike left
Out and In......
love this man-love this man-love this man
gret interview...... 14 years ago+
This is great. He may very well be my new fav person. Should he want to come to Hawaii and surf, free dive and see the Island I welcome him with aloha.
The war story and father stories are fantastic.
I always wish that Mike Pinder and the Moody Bkues would preform together for at least one tour or a partial tour. Produce a new album too. I miss Mike's mystical songs and hope that he would produce a new or some more new songs.
so true..i met the guy about 15 yrs ago..but i was a babbling fool--he was kind..LOL.The guy has depth.
Mike Pinder was born in Britian, but called California home since the early 70's. So his last 30+ years are American
Yeah Man This is true. However this does not diminish all my beloved Moody Blues!
Graeme may still be angry and hurt but he, Justin, John and Ray still consider Mike a Moody Blue and if someone would only make the first move they might be re-united. Someone has to swallow their pride. It,s such a shame. Without Mike,s songs and the Mellotron, and that voice, they haven,t been the same. I,ve been lucky enough to see them twice but never with Mike Pinder and that is a huge piece missing. There writing is so different from each other but there is such an amazing balance
Grame and Michael were buddfies who were the driving forces to the founding of the original Moodies. Denny Laine was the original lead singer who left just after recording and just before their first hit (Go Now) was released. After Denny and others left, they were replaced by Justin & John which led to their massive fame. Denny later was a member of Paul McCartney's Wings in the 70's. (The Beatles original drummer was Pete Best before Ringo.)
Hay Graeme, listen to Mike he says he is sorry, so what more do you want. The next time I see the Moodys, I know Mike will be their it's up to you Justin. Now go for it. One More Time To Live
Mike Pinder ... a wonderful musically...
Thanks for posting this. haven't seen before
We all leap out of our bodies as children, then why is Mike practically the only one who seems to remember this and no one i know does?
Wow! Thanks for posting this. I miss Mike's songs.
//dan
Mike Pinder and Justin Hayward were the Moody Blues. I think If Mike had collaborated with Justin on the Blue jays album, it would have been a more complete record. I think Graeme Edge was jealous of Mike Pinder's artistic collaboration with Justin Hayward.
I never knew this...I went to the Moodies xmas party in 84 on a boat on the Thames and Graeme said if Mike showed up they would just set him up at the side of the stage... I can't believe Graeme would still hold a grudge. We all move on...
Yeah the Moody Blues were not copying the Beatles when they did 'Best Way to Travel', because they already were into the Mellotron before the Beatles.
Get this..
I heard that the new large MkII Mellotron from Streetly Electronics was delivered to the soundstage where the Moodies rehearse.
And the words and sheet music to "When You're a Freeman" and "Sun is Still Shining" were seen at Justin's and John's.....
***********Ring********************
Darn..time to wake up.
Mike sounds more American than he used to. I guess from living in California so long.
So we finally see what some of the riff is about eh. Would be nice if some of the Moodys would put the past tensions behind them and get together one more time, cause soon they won't be able to do it again.
I Long for some new music from Michael Pindet
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU MY DARLING..🙏💖😇
Then how do they start? I have seen it in MANY trivia questions regarding Mr. Pinder's uncertain fatality. It should be a story written like Jim Morrison, is he or is he not alive? While dyiing in a pickle vat is indeed tragic, one cannot throw the "rumour" off the table because his alleged death is not what you want to believe. I believe redwinglr has heard the same rumours.
Be sure to check out Mike's album 'Among The Stars'. It is in my opinion the most beautiful album that has yet been made.
@nootaramus I concur.... mike was the spiritual one and gave the moodies their mystic quality...ray was almost a show tune guy, justin and john were rockers and balladeers. they lost alot when pinder left.
I 'm not sure that Greame would have been jealous of the Hayward/Pinder collaboration either...that said, I do think (as many pre '74 MB fans did), that there was a magic to the Pinder/Hayward collaboration.Mcartney and Lennon were never as good solo IMHO...same deal here.
We should send this clip to the Emailadress of Graeme.
Do anybody know his adress?
@cheifguggletram Not so strange after all: I had many out of body experiences I remember while still in my crib!!! There have been Mystics and those with "second sight" in our Welsh, Scotch and Irish-as well as English-family! I am 51 now and I have still had "dreams" so vivid that I knew they had to be real! And Deja 'Vu? OMG!! I have been many places and had clear memories of being there in a dream!! We use 1/10th of our brains...waddya think the other 9/10ths are doing????
Ah, the benefit of 30 years maturity and 20/20 hindsight. There's a lot of stuff I did in '78 I'd sure like to forget! Like Mike, I had a girlfriend, but I let my work overshadow us, and she was gone two years later. Hopefully Graeme will understand.
After "Octave", where both Mike and Tony Clarke left the band, I didn't know if they would continue, but they did and Patrick Moraz, Pip Williams and others added a different dimension to their 80's work. It's been 15 years since "Strange Times"; don't know if Justin, John and Graeme have anything left to say, or if they might try to coax Ray and Mike back to the studio one more time.
That's not entirely true. Mike didn't leave, he was kind of forced out. It was true that he didn't want to tour with them anymore, so in a way he did leave. But he still wanted to be on the recordings and contribute as a writer. The other members resented this though (with good reason obviously). But they refused to let him contribute to Long Distance Voyager and after a series of lawsuits he was officially removed from the band.
Look at his Webside. A new double DVD about the Moodies.
amazing guy
@inmylife10465 i quite agree with you , greatest hits that's all that seems to be available now.come on moodies get back to your roots and record them great tracks like i know you can do
I say we throw a big party in Vegas and invite them to have drinks and settle this once and all... imagine just even one tour with all of them. Feel free to email me with real ideas...
I read that he lives in Florida
The real acid freak of the Moody Blues was Michael Pinder.... not Justin Heyward.
I always thought that Justin was the heart of The Moodies and Mike was the soul. Pat Moraz never had the same feel for the band's music.
What's left of the band now? Mike's mellotron is gone, Justin threw the great guitar sound he used to have out the window and Tomo has hung up his flute.
As for the rumours claiming that grudges between members is preventing a reunion, maybe they should go back and listen to The Balance. They wrote that, so maybe they should practice what they once preached.
@Aldebaron9
Well, I suppose it's not a COMPLETE impossibility, but it's the fact that he's talking about it as if it's something that's actually been proven, not something that can be explained much more simply by other scientific reasons.
Did someone say this guy was a Beatle? Was he the original drummer before Ginger Baker? I simply dont recognize him. What song did her write. I heard that "I wanna hold your hand" was written by a different guy. Could this be him?
dont forget Patric Moraz,he filled in quite well i would say.dont know what happened to him?
Patrick Moraz is a waste of my thoughts and energy...an egomaniac to the core!
Oh, I hate to rub it in, but I met the guys several times. I'm also in the Wildest Dreams Video. If you give me an email address, I can send you a couple of pics..Thanks for the reply.
I too have heard that Mr. Pinder met his fate in a tragic pickle vat accident. Could this be an imposter?
50% profundity and 50% BS. Wise is the man who keeps the two in tension.
They were my favorite band forever but maybe with age, they're newer stuff is pretty boring. What could be better than a reunion with Mike Pinder. It seems he wants to do it so Grahme, get over yourself. Do it for the music. Moody fans would be coming out of the woodwork for this reunion!
Is it reasonable to assume that Mike and Graeme must have fallen out at the time of the making of Octave?
Seems strange that on a mike pinder video you should quote a Graeme Edge/ Ray Thomas poem
If you know the E-mail adress of Graeme, please send this clip to it, thanks!
Michael is alive and well and living in California. He DID NOT die in a tragic pickle vat accident. These false rumors must stop. I can't believe the sick people who start this kind of stuff.
Grahame had a tough time keeping his mouth shut.
When was this?
Sounds like a shroom trip.
when the hell are the moody blues gonna make a new album?
42 years as a band with 12 albums is NO excuse(unless you include"greatest hit albums;i think that would add up to a total of 30 albums)
@Mordain607 how would you know.........?
star trek's captain pickard
Sounds like he dropped his fair share of acid lol
I once heard Michael Pinder died in a pickle vat. How is it he appears to allegedly be alive??
Mike Pinder is one of my favorite musicians, but going out of his body at childhood? That's a little bit nutty. I don't believe in that kind of stuff.
It's true. I wasn't sure if I believed it either until I started experiencing it in 2014. I eventually wrote a book about it called "Journey into the Unknown". I still find it the strangest and most fascinating thing I've ever experienced in my life.
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