FIRST TIME HEARING Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin Reaction 

I grew up listening to this group & they are one of my favorites from the 60's-80's. Love their mix of rock with classical music. They have a sound like no other band. Their most famous song is "Nights In White Satin". But they have so many great songs such as "Go Now", "Tuesday Afternoon", "The Story In Your Eyes", "Question", "Ride My See-Saw", "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)", "Gemini Dream", "The Voice", "Your Wildest Dreams" etc. All of their music is great! Many of their records are concept albums & meant to be listened to all at once. Sadly Ray Thomas their flute player & singer passed away in 2018 & their drummer Graeme Edge passed away in 2021.

The most beautiful song ever 😘😎✌️

This concert is in 2008( i think) but they first recorded this song in 1967

1970❤ still sound great all these years later in their 70s😂

This is when it was all talent. No vocal inhancement, no floldback, just talent. 😊

Justin, lead singer, wrote this when he was 19. The Album “Nights in White Satin, Days of Future Pass” was recorded in 1967 with London Symphony Orchestra with Peter Knight Directing. It was one of the First Stereophonic Records released. This concept album was extensively used by Stereo stores selling new solid-state music systems and speakers (wide frequency coverage/orchestra). Before this sound was monophonic (AM radio, records) and film became stereo in mid-1970s after “Star is Born” (Streisand paid for production costs). Just in time for 1977 Star Wars.

No offense, but this shows how the education system has grown inept these days- when young people have never even seen someone play a flute! It's only one of the most common orchestral instruments. If you liked Ray Thomas, (RIP) and his flute, check out Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson playing the flute like nobody else can!

That is a flute👍

The fathers of progressive rock. The conductor sets the pace of the orchestra.

Another band with a flute is Jethro Tull. They have many good songs, try Thick as a brick or Locomotive breath you wont regret it.

Regarding the conductor and the players...this is what I think... A musician looks at his/her papers to get their own part correct...and they also look to the conductor, who guides the group to create a unified whole

studio version has the spoken word in it! 200 plus songs in their catalogue and their music definitely takes your heart mind and soul on many different journey's

flute is sideways ..recorder is up and down

Sorry but the lady reactor can't shed a single expression and quite honestly, that's a no go for me.

That is a definitely a flute. Check out Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull which features a flute as a central piece of their rock music. The performers are watching the maestro lead and likely have memorized their parts already. The maestro has to be able to know what each instrument is supposed to be doing at all times during the performance and to be able to get them back to how they are supposed to sound. Hopefully everyone knows their part and is performing it correctly before concert time.

The flute is right. The sopranos sax is the other instrument she was thinking of . That Kenny G was famous for in the 80s . I see the Clarinet also played out front

Yes they can see the conductor and read the notes on their sheet music. Plus they have rehearsed each of their parts individually at home and many rehearsals together with everyone else in the orchestra/symphony. I know this because I was in the school orchestra and band, and my Father was also a musician playing violin, flute, clarinet and saxophone. He was in many bands, and orchestras through his life. He would practice his own instruments part at home, and then their were weekly practices with the entire band or orchestra that took place months before the band/orchestra's performance for the public. They know their parts very well by then. Here's something you can try. One of you sit down at a table and hold a piece of paper upright on the table and look at it, focusing on the paper. At the same time one of you stand a ways from the table but also in the field of vision of the person seated at the table and looking at the paper. The person standing, wave your arms, like the conductor does here, and the person seated looking at the paper, SHOULD also see the person waving their arms as well, WITHOUT actually LOOKING UP at that person waving. Looking at my laptop screen, I can still see in my field of vision, my microwave to the right of me on the counter, the window on my left, and I can also see the dining room in front of me which is about 8 feet away. TRY it.

Thats a flute other bands who come to mind who also used this beautiful instrument in their performances are Kansas, The Marshall Tucker Band and Jethro Tull

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What does ‘checking out’ mean?

It's a flute, I play one to. Clarinet is holding straight down.❤😊

Yes that was a flute

The conductor is like a coach on a football team, he keeps everything together.

This song was released in the US the day I was born.....when I was very young I remember it coming on the radio and my mom would just grab me up and dance around with me to it.....one of my happiest memories

One of the best bands of the 1960s. And there where so many good bands, that's really saying something. That's a flute. The" up and down one" you referred to is a recorder.

That instrument is a flute and is called a transverse flute.

Yes its s flute

Watch the movie "Shattered" with Tom Berenger great love scene with this song

I am subscribing so I can watch your journey into music of yesteryear. 😊

If u want to c flute playing-Jethro Tull

It was a flute. He passed away a few years ago

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Musicians watch the conductor and the music on paper. The dynamics and the tempo comes from the conductor. I saw The Moody Blues live for my first big date 1967, Fillmore East, Greenwich Village, NYC.

It was a flute 🪈 the Sax goes up and down

FRENCH HORNS. !!!

It's a flute

You two are great 😊 Greetings from Manchester, England ❤️

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Do Jethro Tull My God Live

Brave , good tune ty.

DOUBLE HELL YEAH...

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The up and down instrument you are referring to is a clarinet, or an oboe, or an English horn (all played "up and down), You may also be thinking of a recorder which is often used by children in school and does make a flute like sound. But yes, Ray is playing a flute. I played a flute from the time I was 10 years old through my sophomore year in high school.

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I would love to see you react to Debra by Beck, please and thank you.

I was in band(s) all through school and I can absolutely say that you watch the conductor as well as read your music at the same time!

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Interesting reaction

Timothy-the buoys

This was at Albert hall in London. With the London symphony