The Moody Blues

But they like Golden Earring.

They start in the glam era and like Moody Blues, frankly.

Those are three that I can think of right off the bat that start.

Did I say glam? Psych era.

And Denny Lane.

And Denny did Go Now, which was the old Moody Blues hit that he had sung.

That he sang, yeah.

And they gave me a guitar solo to play, and he liked what I did.

But meanwhile, hey, just play Firing Rain again one more time.

I remember in the 80s getting front row seats to the Moody Blues and being stunned when they came out on stage.

Hey, those aren't the guys from the album cover.

They've been replaced by a bunch of my old uncles.

Because their hits are more pop stuff, whereas the real story is their more extended progressive rock side.

And that's what just glancing down at that note reminded me of another one that maybe falls into that category is that I don't think you can really tell the story of Moody Blues with a hits compilation, even though they've tried to do it.

True.

But there's others, so I'd be curious to see if we get some answers on what that would be.

Martin Briley, friend of the show.

Peter Gabriel, the Moody Blues.

He signed both of them on the same day.

In fact, this story kicks off, or this episode kicks off with a really long John Hyatt story that is fascinating.

It's coming down the track like a locomotive.

Howard Bloom never, well, not never, but at this point in the development of his company, he didn't have the top-line superstar acts, but he had... you know, some subset of the Superstar Act.

For example, he didn't have the Moody Blues, but he had Patrick Mraz, the journeyman keyboard player from the Moody Blues.

He didn't have Peter Gabriel, but he had the synthesizer wizard Larry Fast from Peter Gabriel.

So I'm just going to say both.

One is the Moody Blues.

I don't get them.

And the other is the Grateful Dead.

nothing for me.

I get it.

Are the Moody Blues rated?

Are the Moody Blues rated highly that we have to trash