THE MOODY BLUES-PEAK HOUR+2-GALA DU MIDEM-1968 FULL VIDEO CLIP. 

I completely agree with you! I'm from Argentina, and I became a big fan of The Moody Blues when I first heard "Nights in white satin", i'm october, 1967. Greetings to you all❤!

The MOODY BLUES ARE MY FAVORITE BAND...EVEN WITH THE CHANGES AND THE LOSSES...THOSE WHO HAVE GONE TO THE LORD. I WISH I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THEM IN PERSON. NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN-"DAYS OF FUTURE PAST" ALBUM WAS FEOM MY FIRST BEAU. HE RECENTLY PASSED AWAY. I CANNOT FORGET THE BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS WE SHARED MANY MOONS 😢AGO. THANK YOU JUSTIN AND YOUR BAND MEMBERS 🙏 ❤️

THISISSO ''These One's Who'll Continue'' There's artists who'll wrest us up & place us into themselves & their works. These are ''The One's Who'll Continue'' wresting us up... far & beyond their appointed rests in peace. Seek out ''These One's Who'll Continue''. But seek out even more; the very Author✝of them all !!! ~U.S. Paratrooper Sgt. William 'Rock' Gilpin 82nd Abn. Div.1/504. Half a century ago back in 1974. Currently: Just another one of those many one's of... ''We His Believer's'' Who's patiently waiting & watching for '.' His✝Just⚖Return🪃'.'

Same here. I've been listening to them for 55 years.

John also had the amazing ability to sing those very high notes, which was a great asset to their vocals on many songs.

I love the Moody Blues, but like any group, they fit perfectly in their time slot. Justin Hayward wasn't ahead of his time. He arrived just in time on the music scene to help combine rock and orchestra during the 1960's, which Jon Lord had done with Deep Purple. And that time period was experimental for all forms of music from The Turtles to Gary Puckett and The Union Gap to The Beatles and The Nice to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Every band and person fit neatly into their time slot. Even groups like The Bubble Puppy and The Electric Prunes appeared on the music scene at the right time. Nobody were ahead of their time.

@@Trux004 Who did symphonic concept albums before these guys? Led by Hayward, they broke barriers and were indeed ahead of the pack. They predated Yes. They released Days of Future Past BEFORE Shades of Deep Purple was released. With the lone exception of A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum, Hayward and the Moodies are the banner carrier of Symphonic Rock as well as the concept album. And Hayward is one of the greatest songwriters in Rock history. He didn't need to use covers of Joe South and Neil Diamond to make his initial splash.

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Keep rockin Lil!!

I was born in 1955 and love this glance into history good for you !! Amazing love y all !!`~\••\|♡☆▪︎♡

The first time I noticed these guys I was sitting in my first car, '59 Ford galaxy 500. About 1971. I was 17 years old, and knives in white satin came on the radio. I'm still hooked.

​Knives in White Satin. Is that the X-rated version?@@ronammologist16

Funny that I've never seen them LIVE IN CONCERT....cause they are one of my favorites!!! The lyrics are out if this world.

No doubt about it.

Amen

I TOTALLY agree with you Christopher Conlogue !!!

I saw them in concert in San Diego, CA in 1972 and they were AWESOME!!!

I've seen them several times live. Including the Concert at Red Rocks with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. These guys are truly the real deal. Professional through and through. Amazing band!!! RIP RAY. You are missed...

HE WILL BE MISSED!😪

It’s impossible to imagine Nights in White Satin without Ray’s flute.

@@luisdiaz3887 Norda Mullen does a great job, but she's not Ray.

Graeme Edge is gone now too....sad day

Ray also did some very fine singing

I've got Pinder (mellotron), Hayward (vocals), Lodge (bass) and Thomas (flute) among the best ev-er. #Legends

I suggested Justin as a top guitarist on the ten top guitarists video, at least honorable mention.

@@kentclark6420 J-Hay deserves legend status beyond a doubt -- nobody wrote better love songs -- but top 10 guitarist is a yuge stretch.

@@kentclark6420 Easily.. Very underrated player.

@Pam M John is absolutely amazing! The bass line for I’m Just a Singer surprised me with how good it was when I first heard it

The whole band is a gift to mankind!

Again, the word "underrated"..... they sold 70 million albums! how could that be "underated"??!!! explain!

@@sheryldeblinger1863 Yes!!! The whole band, not just Justin!

Their singles and LPs were top of the charts and here you are.

@@MsMojoworks James, not underrated by the fans. Underrated by the critics. For the most part the critics hated them, and it took them forever to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I was 16 and fell in puppy love with a beautiful girl. We had a date on a Tuesday afternoon and I swear I listened to this song for the next 3 weeks straight that summer. Those memories are good ones!! (She found another beaux and I found another girl. Life goes on!)

Awesome “expansive,” thought in that vein of pre-existing reality & reaction. 👍👀👉🏼

....@ Stuart McAlpine ...My thoughts as well, the first time I heard The Moody Blues, ..I was in High School. 1968. The Songs were not geared towards what some considered " Mainstream pop music "... ;Rather it was to look into oneself,..as you stated, The Emotional and Mentsl Consciousness. I was absolutely Mesmerized the first time I heard them, and it's a " love affair " that continued from that moment on....

Born in 1968, I was listening to 60's music as a kid, I couldn't see the fuss over the overrated Beatles, for me The Moody Blues is "Where it's AT ! "

I just lost my lovely little 8 year old pup named Chica too a broken heart .... my investments are in tatters .... simple food is getting to expensive .... my country falls to Islam and the derision of an Evil Group that are seemingly Hell Bent on Killing us All ...... and im here mourning my loss of this sad and brokenworld by listening to the Moodies that showed a way too Pure, Simple and Beautiful for people to hear, see or follow !

@@brianjones4026just lost our 8 yr old Basset Hound 3 days ago. I feel as you did months ago. Sorry for your loss of your loving dog. 😪

who...lolz

@UCpnMdroxjzkUvnm5pqKtFmw he's a fucking idiot who is choking on the word underrated. To say that Justin Hayward is an underrated guitarist is like saying Elvis was never a "hipster."

No, Justin Hayward was never "underrated."

What makes you believe he's underrated?

Songwriter too. He wrote 95% of the music the Moody Blues sing and record.

So true. So happy at what they where doing. Blessings. Thanks for all who share Moody Blues Pictures & Concerts. 🎶❤️😇👍

It's incredible to see how polished the Moodies were at this early stage. Their musicianship was impeccable. They obviously put great effort into this performance, exhibiting a professionalism that could not be denied.

I am.too 65now.

Yeah, the real Edge

RIP Graeme

He was a beast on the drums.

Yeah, those aren’t songs you can do playing to a click track… LOVE Graeme Edge’s drumming! RIP 🥁💔

he could of easily been a model, tall, long blonde hair, Bambi eyes, what's not to love!!

There’s a RU-vid clip with Justin and his beautiful daughter strolling about Stanford’s campus. Didn’t cause a stir. A lovely father/daughter occasion. Sorry, Doreme attended UCLA.

Tuesday afternoon is beautiful song, brings me back to my youth!

The first of The Magnificent Seven. This live performance is outstanding. I just wonder if they realised what a classic album this would become. Their songwriting and live performances make The Moodies the best band of all time. I’ve been a fan since I hear On the Threshold in 1972, aged 15.

Still holds up 50 years later, took that album from my Uncle's record collection back in the mid seventies, and wore that copy out. Changed the course of my musical taste.

Great comment!

I hear you Gwen..I feel exactly the same....a beautiful and very uplifting group...I'm seeing John Lodge this March...can't wait! Peace,,,,and LOVE to all..... Namaste.

@@mustangmikep51 that’s wonderful! How exciting. And now I’m watching this again. Tears for Graeme. Peace and love.

Hé was the master of thé mk2 none played it live!!!without Mike s tron coûnterpart and Ray flûte solo didn t rise hit!

Nicely said!

@@edhartman5466 The only other person that understood the possibilities of the Mellotron was Wakeman. He did some monumental orchstrating live.

@@Magnetron33 was Wakeman able to fix à mk2 , hé did only back ground never fetched Pinder s solo like this one on peak hour .you re jokking!!!Moraz was incrédibly crap only doing circus music à la yes that why hé been fired.never able to write à pop song

Totally agree Ken, have just discovered this amazing vintage video - WOW.

Right on, brother! Great band!

I've never seen this footage either. They were a really good live band even back then. Amazing video 😀

Certainly a gem...but( oh dear there's that word) The camera crew should have been more familiar with these songs perhaps from a proper listening to the album or from a pre performance rehearsal to highlight some the members solo embellishment i.e. Rays flute solo on Nights..and Justin's lead Vocals. Im just saying..but hey..This is History and No Complaints and it's Dec 10 , 2021 ..and I'm trolling the internet and should be sleeping and gotta work this morning and its 2:20 am and ...well...Yada yadda yadda. LOVE THESE GUYS! R.I.P. Ray and dearly departed Graham ( nice drumming). Wishing ,Hoping and Praying this will be out on some sort of commercial release! Amen 🙏

@@michaeljasinski1906 totally get it!

Robert Walters actually he wrote it in 1967, he turned 21 on Oct 14, 1967.

Krischedler, actually Justin wrote Nights in White Satin in 1966, just a few weeks after he met his wife, which was only a few weeks after he joined the Moodies.

So sad Justin lost the copyright to Lonnie Donegan, if only it could be overturned!

Justin says he wrote it when he was 19.

@@TallyRocky ... I have heard Justin go back and forth on how old he was, I think he forgets in his older age.. I would go with 20 years of age, since he joined the band in, I believe November of 1966 when he was already 20, and they started recording the album in the autumn of 1967 when he was 20, the album was released just over a month after his 21st birthday. In those days, the album was released almost immediately after recording... I know that both Pinder and Hayward speak about their interplay during the composing of the songs, so you know it has to be sometime Autumn of 1967. That would make Hayward almost certainly 20 years old when he wrote it... I suppose he could have had the song in his bag even earlier than 1967, so 19 could be correct.

Definitely one of the unsung bass heroes. He and Justin have worked very well together.

Pinder was one of the few that actually played the Mellotron as intended.

Wow... that was fully live and a near flawless performance!

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@@kevinpatrickmacnutt I thinck he made the légend of the mellotrons sounds like no one else....

Very well said

totally agreed !!!

Nobody came close to what Mike Pinder could do with the mellotron.

FYI, Patrick Moran's real last name is Moraz. I saw them on tour of "The Present" in 1984, and Mr. Moraz was playing 4, yes, FOUR, instruments at one time! Unfortunately for me, I never got the chance to see Mike Pinder in concert with the Moody Blues, as he'd left the group :-(( They ARE the best band in the world, ALWAYS have been!!

I was fortunate enough to see the Moodies at Cleveland Public Hall in 1973. It was one of Pinder's last go round as a member of the band, and they were everything I had hoped they would be.

Pinder is RIP? I think you mean Ray Thomas. The master flautist and badassest dancer in the band!

Mike Pinder is alive!

Gabriele -- John is a very good bass player, yes. Excellent singer?--- no. Passable at best. His vibrato is bad, his pitch is off at times, and he doesn't keep a good tone when going to the high register.

His lead vocal in Peak Hour from this video is one of his best I'd say, especially in the middle section, when he sings "I found ooouuut". Pretty great for learning how to sing while playing the bass...

You gotta admit, though, that Lodge's falsetto backing vocals really add something to some of the band's songs. His regular singing voice is weak: you'll notice they double his vocals with someone else a lot.

I d read hé d once said hé had an Electric bass before Jack Bruce (late 50 early 60s ???))

@@lesizmor9079 totally wrong ! Since 1967 im listening to music hé is one who can climb really high better were Beach boys can of singers ....wrong

To be fair, they all (apart from Lodge) dropped acid around that time. Pinder's songwriting totally changed as a result.

That took them in a different direction, that otherwise may not have happened? Like “Alice in Wonderland,” adventurous & daring. Think The Beatles.

At that time ..no pa system.. every instrument of voice..it's own amp!

My husband and I agree. Sad how things changes & not always for the better.

@@brendasmith1740 Hi Brenda, thanks again for the comment. I have always been a huge fan of the Moody Blues. If you have time, I would welcome any feedback on my cover version of "Voices in the Sky" .

The Magic of the Moodies is captured here

SINCE "JOAN OF ARC" WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE I DARE SAY....ME TOO SWEETIE....YOU MUST BE A VERY SPIRITUAL BEING......🙏😇🤗👽🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💞💋🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Yeah, right John, it's all about Peak Hour & the sun being high in the sky! I went with my adult daughter 2 years ago for their 50th tour and heard them do the day "trip" theme for the whole show , along with Richard Burton videos narrating from "War of the Worlds" Started with Morning is the Day & ending " with Nights" What is really good about this is that it was very early & they weren't even into their "2nd" fame yet so had a gentle kind of home grown mannerism.

Same here I was five when it came out I didn't get into the group until I was fifteen

Miss you, Ray !

I saw them in Sheffield in the early 70s and they were a great act then-afraid that the current line up is a bit of a parody.....

It's commercialized, mass media, greatest obligatory hits. Now it's the moody grays!

+Larry Fulmer How dare you insult The Moody Cruise, they are a great act!!

+StartabandRoxy Hey, sorry guys, but this is coming from Moody blues fan from 1968, when I first heard Tuesday afternoon and nights in White satin played in the album truck from beginning to end with no DJs talking to the song was completely over. That's when WMMR defined the word progressive rock. And I've seen them live at least 4 times, two when Mike Pinder was there, and the one in 1973 or 74 was when the opener was higher and higher blending right into Out and in .there were no follies from gray edge or anybody on the stage. We're halfway back from the stage on the floor and at the end of the concert my friends and I were mesmerized it was like they had to of had an orchestra that mellotron just no way could've sounded that good. With the technology they have now but they were performing when they were performing when things were more progressive the music would've been even more earth shattering. . .

+StartabandRoxy so to summarize there's no question there still great, you could still feel Justin Hayward's music. But as a whole the orchestral feeling that they achieved live as well as of course on record and the significance of their music during those days just is not as matched on their current shows. I'm just going by what I see on RU-vid. But if I had the $200 or so to see one of their concerts today I might have a different opinion. So I'm just saying when I see a performance like this RU-vid video here this is when they were at their best. And I don't even mind that the video is in shades of gold and sepia, in fact it seems kind a neat. Then the Moody blues are one of my favorite bands, I think it's totally ridiculous they're not in the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. But it's soul commercial and who cares there in my top rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame to me. As far as the original five reuniting for 50th anniversary of days of future past