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Show Review - check out our first review from the road - here
Heads up to all the folks heading out to see the shows this Summer - John's CD single of Sunny Sunshine Faces will be available to buy at the venues. The one available to download on iTunes did not have John doing the vocals (only backing) but this version will be all John!!!
Before John gets back on the road, there was a little time for a Golf Competition
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Just so you know..on www.brooklandsfm.co.uk they are repeating our Musical Memories Show next Monday...here's part of press release......it was THE most popular programme...
9-11pm Another chance to hear Moody Blues bassist and singer John Lodge talking on Brooklands FM about his musical memories and life with the legendary band in an interview with presenter Mike Smith (repeat).
There was Tony the producer……. we made beautiful music together, Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, the first “Seven Albums”, Blue Jays and Natural Avenue…… His energy and enthusiasm for “Moody Blues Music” kept us focused on our creativity day and night, in the studio or not! Memories, so many but I remember when we had finished recording Days of Future Passed sitting in the studio listening to the first “playback” of the Album, the joy, and pride, on Tony’s face was infectious. As a songwriter and musician it was a privilege and honour that Tony came into my life and that we shared for that moment in time our musical dreams together….music that will always be………
There was Tony the man……….Growing up together, holidaying together as families, waiting at the school gates for our children to come out of school, the birthday parties our children shared together. Christmases and Christmas presents….The first “real” car that Tony bought, a blue Bentley S2, driving the Four Tops from London to Cobham and Levi asking “Are we Boulevarding yet?” There wasTony’s taste for adventure, buying a Grand Banks Alaskan boat and sailing it from England to Spain, never having sailed on the sea before and spending the summer sailing the islands of the Mediterranean. Sitting in his observatory, which was located through a secret door in his sitting room, looking through his telescope and Tony showing me the craters on the moon..was that so long ago, another era…….
Perhaps that was the secret of our success, for that part of my life we shared together, we were one….Peace
Sunny Sunshine faces
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Natural Avenue is on iTunes - the first album of many hopefully!!!!
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We have a new blog where John has made a few interesting posts and will continue to participate if you do.
Concert review: Moody Blues prove they've still got it
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, September 4, 2009
By MARIO TARRADELL Music Critic mtarradell@dallasnews.com
The synchronicity between the Moody Blues and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra truly manifested itself in the second half of the English band's concert Wednesday, the first of two sold-out nights at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
KYE R. LEE/DMN
The band showed in its DSO performance why it has endured almost half a century.
Gorgeous strings from the orchestra and beautiful flute playing from Norda Mullen embellished the already ethereal quality of "Isn't Life Strange" from 1972. John Lodge was on lead vocals, but the harmonies between him and band frontman Justin Hayward created soaring drama punctuated by the interplay between smoke and light rays.
Then, of course, there's "Nights in White Satin," the Moodies' signature ballad. It began with the recitation from drummer Graeme Edge and quickly took flight in Hayward's hands. The flute solo, the symphonic finale and the engulfing chorus made for quite a wow moment.
Yet the biggest stunner is the longevity of this group that began 45 years ago. Yes, the core is down to a trio after the 2002 retirement of flutist Ray Thomas. Onstage the group employs four other musicians to help create the wall of sound. But, if anything, the Moody Blues are in the midst of a third, or maybe fourth, wind.
"Nights in White Satin" is in Rob Zombie's Halloween II movie, which opened last week. The melodic "Tuesday Afternoon," which arrived early in the first half of the two-hour set, is prominent in a Visa commercial. The band regularly tours and always draws an enthusiastic crowd.
The songs are the reason. We're talking about "The Voice," the concert opener, as well as "Your Wildest Dreams," "The Other Side of Life" and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere," all staples from the '80s.
We can even mention "I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock 'n' Roll Band)" and "Ride My See-Saw," the encore number. Those and many more keep the Moody Blues alive and viable.
