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Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:29 PM

Do you recognize this?

"Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bed sitter people look back and lament
Another days useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion"

That's the last spoken portion of "Nights in White Satin".

Somehow, it still impresses me.

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Atticus Dec 2022 OP
paleotn Dec 2022 #1
nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #2
Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #3
Karadeniz Dec 2022 #4
bahboo Dec 2022 #5
mgardener Dec 2022 #6
JohnnyRingo Dec 2022 #7
Mr.Bill Dec 2022 #8
Codifer Dec 2022 #9
CaptainTruth Dec 2022 #10
Glorfindel Dec 2022 #11
patphil Dec 2022 #12
BComplex Dec 2022 #19
Archae Dec 2022 #13
Martin Eden Dec 2022 #14
GreenWave Dec 2022 #15
edhopper Dec 2022 #16
Phoenix61 Dec 2022 #17
aeromanKC Dec 2022 #18
Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #20

Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:34 PM

1. You bet I do.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:38 PM

2. The Moody Blues were among the best!

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:42 PM

3. I used to listen to that song a lot.

Got me through some hard times.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:48 PM

4. It's lovely!!

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:26 PM

5. well...this has inspired me to queue up Moody Blues next...

on my Saturday morning playlist....

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:32 PM

6. I recognized it right away

Love the Moody Blues.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:39 PM

7. I saw a top tier MB tribute band last month

Time Traveler had an excellent spot lighted orator deliver it from stage center.

I'm shy of tribute bands, but Time Traveler is outstanding. And my friend plays lead.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:39 PM

8. I only had to read the first line.

A signature verse from those times.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:46 PM

9. I remember.

Best music ever... what a time.

I heard, for the first time, "White Rabbit" in the em club on my last night in SE Asia. I figured that that the world was going to be much more interesting... and it was.

And so beautiful too.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:50 PM

10. Yes! They were the first major concert I ever saw.

My older sister & her husband were fans & they took me along because I was just getting into music, playing trumpet & guitar.

I must have been about 13.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:57 PM

11. I love the song. Alas, I had an unfortunate first impression of it.

The first time I heard the song was on an AM car radio. I instantly formed the mental image of "knights in white satin," and to this day I visualize eight or ten mounted knights, their banners flying, all dressed in white satin, traveling to some unknown destination. Nothing will dislodge the image from my mind, even though I realize the lyrics mean something quite different.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:35 PM

12. It's off their "Days of Future Past" album from 1967

Their second album, but their first with the members we most associate with their music.
I had that album, and the next 6, up to "Seventh Sojourn".
Their music and lyrics are captivating, and unique. One of my favorite groups.
I love all their albums, but this one...

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Response to patphil (Reply #12)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 04:34 PM

19. That is my all time favorite album.

Wow. I love this thread.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:40 PM

13. I always wondered what the poet was smoking...



Does look and sound a little silly, but it's all right.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:45 PM

14. Tuesday Afternoon was on the same album

Both songs with their melody and music seemed transcendant at the time, and they have remained timeless.

The Moody Blues recorded many classics. Another one that sticks with me is Legend of a Mind.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:52 PM

15. If only they had made the Beatles come to London

instead of catering to their crying to have the battle of the bands in Birmingham,
the Moody Blues might have soared higher, plus the winning prize was generous!

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 04:04 PM

16. I filmed this at Westbury NY

2014

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 04:07 PM

17. Saw them in concert three times.

The first two with a full orchestra. Amazing!

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 04:10 PM

18. I can name that tune in one word!!

If I heard it.

Saw the 50th anniversary concert of that album in Vegas. Twice.

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Response to Atticus (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2022, 10:03 PM

20. Just beat me to it. Mine however was going to be 2 words.

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