Moody Blues Are Done, Why Hayward & Lodge Continue to Work?

Рет қаралды 3,165

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер: 43

@Roadie-1963 2 ай бұрын

Love The Moodies and Justin, without a doubt, is one of my favorite songwriters. I'm grateful he and John are still getting it done with the same level of passion they had while in The Moody Blues. Just so sad that Ray, Graeme, and now Mike are gone. It's like losing close friends I've known for forty years.

@AJMjazz 2 ай бұрын

The Moody Blues provided most of us with the soundtrack of our lives. Glad to see Justin and John are touring, albeit separately.

@JK-yu7hj 2 ай бұрын

Certainly one of the greatest Rock bands of all time. I can’t explain why music is so important to people, but we don’t need an explanation , most of us connect with it our entire lives. Great interview as always John! Justin and John, please keep on rocking for us fans!

@sweetmarie72ply 2 ай бұрын

Love Moody Blues!

@roserandle6392 Ай бұрын

Love the Moody Blues. Greatest band ever hands down. Am glad Messers Hayward and Lodge are still touring, going their own thing.

@clevebaker8399 2 ай бұрын

John lodge is an awesome musician!! Underrated artist and songwriter!! Remember the blue jays?! Killer album!! We saw the moodies in the 80s when sur la mer came out! We missed the 7th sojourn tour ( honeymoon) so it took a while for us to get to see them!! Hey are both gentlemen!! Great job 👏

@thomaskowalcky4553 Ай бұрын

I had the privilege and pleasure to meet John at a photo op session in Hartford CT back in 2020 and, yes, he is quite a gentleman. He seemed to be pleased and enjoying the opportunity to chat with the fans assembled before the show.

@bgm1236 Ай бұрын

He is definitely an underrated bass player!

@antrygis1 Ай бұрын

Tony Clarke! Yes. They're gifted! I was 17, dropped out of H.S. with 1/2 a credit to go. I had my 1st major heartache 3 weeks before the end of the semester or else I would've been able to graduate early. The Blue Jays album got me through that in the first weeks of 76. Listen to the purity and innocence of Justin and John on that album. It's their soul, their essence. And that is the answer as to why they are still doing it. They're gifted!

@angelomisterioso Ай бұрын

I'm sometimes tempted to say that the Blue Jays album is just as good as any of the Classic 7 Moody albums. I don't know anything about sound effects, but I LOVE Justin's electric guitar sound in this album. Nobody else had that sound! Can't understand why he ditched it afterwards. Blue Jays even has a cosmic vibe in ''When You Wake Up'' to finish off the album. Hats off to Tony Clarke once again. He did a phenomenal job! A shame that that album flew under the radar for most people. One of my all-time favorite albums, end of story. P.S. I even have the Blue Jays music book they were selling at that time.

@AJ-tp9bk Ай бұрын

The Moody Blues were a brotherhood of 5 different styles blending together to make one beautiful harmonious sound.

@jacwar55 2 ай бұрын

Perfect time for Hayward & Lodge to tour together as Blue Jays, would be a 50th anniversary tour, let’s see it happen 😀

@lovly2cu725 2 ай бұрын

Justin said he prefers to be solo at this point

@maximusindicusoblivious180 2 ай бұрын

Yes I was thinking the same thing. But "When You Wake Up," you will find, that these guys are thinking about their legacies. That's why the are called legacy bands. The Moody's was one legacy that has come and gone only to be sorted out by companies, lawyers and family estates. The Blue Jays is another, even though short lived. So Hayward and Lodge are carrying on separately to fulfill their own separate legacies as musicians to maintain their standing in the music world, keeping crews employed as Justin said and to fund their separate family estates. Please let us not forget the word business in the phrase "the music business."

@MACTRUQUE Ай бұрын

It never will

@squatch545 2 ай бұрын

Trivia: Mike Pinder introduced the Beatles to the Mellotron. There are only two Moodies left (Justin and John) and two Beatles left (Paul and Ringo).

@seamusin1697 2 ай бұрын

@@squatch545Iff they ever decided to tour together they could be known as the Moody Beatles or Beatles' Blues!😉

@lovly2cu725 2 ай бұрын

The Beatles visited the Hoodies at their house in Surrey. A woman tried to come in the bathroom window. Hence the song. Mike told a few of us that sorry in 1995 while we were in Santa Monica

@maximusindicusoblivious180 2 ай бұрын

You forgot Yoko! 👩‍❤‍💋‍👨

@clevebaker8399 2 ай бұрын

How about the blue jays and the two Beatles form the blue Beatles 🎉😂❤🥳🥳😘✌️🕊️

@petercena9497 Ай бұрын

Clint Warwick deserved a mention.

@alternatemoodies5007 Ай бұрын

@@petercena9497 Absolutely!

@michaelgalea5148 2 ай бұрын

Hello

@angelomisterioso Ай бұрын

Another interesting fact : The Moody Blues were sued by their keyboard player and then sued again by the one who replaced him.

@KarenGerstman 2 ай бұрын

They seem to have different performance visions. Even so, would love to see them collaborate once more with Moodies and Bluejays material. We can hope....

@michaelmamp9096 2 ай бұрын

I wish Justin & John would do a second Blue Jays album.

@lefantomer Ай бұрын

Yes! Would love to see them together again! Such great memories from the 1990s tours.

@ronfowlermusic 2 ай бұрын

It's silly; both guys are out there playing Moody Blues songs on their solo tours, so why not do them together? it's not like either one of them has a lot of solo material to draw from.

@senamartinec7328 2 ай бұрын

You make a good point. I’ve read many comments where people have hoped that Justin and John would reunite as the Blue Jays which I think would be great. But regarding their solo albums, I did a very quick count of my Justin CD’s. I have about 10 solo CD’s and about 20 CD’s that Justin performed one or more songs on. That’s fairly extensive. I don’t have any of John’s solo albums but I know he’s made at least a few and people have high praise for them. I’m just happy that they’re still performing and I wish them both the best.

@moonshinefiftyseven6063 2 ай бұрын

They just want to do their own thing. Once Graeme passed away back in 2021, the band ceased to be.

@pkoven Ай бұрын

strange question because there are 2 obvious answers: Justin has written almost all the songs, so he lacks nothing for solo work. just not true. secondly, his current iteration is with totally different arrangements, softer and different, a reflection solely of his vision, not that of anyone else.

@thomaskowalcky4553 Ай бұрын

Au Contraire, Justin has a fine catalog of his solo work and his live shows are a nice mix of that and favorites from the full band. John is not too shabby either.

@JoanVioletStretch Ай бұрын

Sorry you’re wrong Ron Fowler music Justin has an enormous back catalogue of songs and most of them are Moodies songs from their singles and album tracks and he sings them all great and has to decide which ones to use and which to leave out on each new tour but always keeps Nights Question and Tuesday and his big solo Forever Autumn he has so many songs he can’t fit them all in on one tour some are put into melodies in one song your remark was a complete understatement I’ve been to a number of his tours and been blown away by them each time and due for another one in October 💙

@alternatemoodies5007 2 ай бұрын

Why completely ignore original bassist Clint Warwick? Lodge was actually the band's third bassist. Rod Clark played during the summer of '66. Poor Warwick, snubbed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and now ignored again. I can let Clark's time in your highly condensed standard biography due to his short tenure only. His playing and singing was certainly Moodie quality. Warwick was there first. Played with the band from 1964 to 1966. His high falsetto was a part of their sound- a sound continued by Clark and then Lodge. Warwick deserves at the very least, to be acknowledged. Shame!

@pkoven Ай бұрын

you could ask the same question of many other bassists of many other bands, and the answer would be the same: Warwick was not part of the Moody's music which came after him.

@thomaskowalcky4553 Ай бұрын

Not to degrade Denny Laine, Clint Warwick, or Rod Clark, I am of the opinion that had Denny and Clint not left the band and make room for Justin and John, the Moodies would have likely disbanded and never heard been from again.

@alternatemoodies5007 Ай бұрын

@@thomaskowalcky4553 I think that's a common misconception and one that's easily claimed in hindsight. I believe most if not all that was written by Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge after 1966 would've been written still albeit with a somewhat different feel as you would have the influence of Laine and Clark. If you listen to the sessions for the unreleased second LP you would find a band already in transition with no blues songs anywhere and all original except for one Tim Hardin song. Further if you listen to Denny Laine's Electric String Band you'll find Laine ahead of his former band in the meshing of rock and symphony. The difference being while the Moodies music was enhanced by Pinder's Mellotron, Laine went the more expensive and logistically challenging route of hiring actual symphonic musicians. This is not a knock against Hayward and Lodge. Both I believe would have achieved success without the Moodies.

@seamusin1697 2 ай бұрын

Is there any particular reason why Lodge and Hayward aren't touring together anymore ?

@lovly2cu725 2 ай бұрын

Justin prefers to be solo

@lovly2cu725 2 ай бұрын

People were hoping for Mike to join back up but he said he offered. There were issues with Graeme and possibly Ray

@davidwalters3309 Ай бұрын

You're right. Would be a nice idea. Fed up with each other?

@thomaskowalcky4553 Ай бұрын

Have heard that John would be willing but Justin, not so much. Just be thankful for the opportunity to see either when they are near you. And after John suffered a stroke in December 2023, perhaps even he needs to ease up a bit. Did see him July 27th in Hartford CT as well as Justin in Great Barrington MA a week earlier.

@AJ-tp9bk Ай бұрын

Just bored with each other.