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Now that the great turkey cooking and eating and leftovering has
taken place, I am back in the office and it's time to reveal the
facts about those recordings.  They were both recorded by the same
fellow, a 25-year-old kid who has lived his whole life in Texas!
Yes, it's truly amazing how well he was able to imitate the early '68
sound of the Moody Blues.  He performed all the parts himself on
the "London Is Behind Me" track including the John Lodge falsetto and
the Justin Hayward double-tracked vocals.  Though he owns an
M400 and plays it in his 'regular' band (thats the other link), he
used an Akai Z4 sampler and Roland midi controller keyboard with
samples from the Mike Pinder Mellotron CD-Rom.  He even sampled the
drum intro to Departure (from This Is The Moody Blues) to
create a rhythm track that sounds correct for the era.  The end
result was very convincing...and very enjoyable.

Hope everyone had a good weekend...

Wow!  I've been out of town with a slow dial up connection and have just downloaded and listened to "London Is Behind Me".  If this is true, it's amazing.  It's one thing to get the instruments right, but he also nailed Justin Hayward's voice and John Lodge's falsetto.  I wonder what else he can do.  Is this his song also, or is it an old Moodies track?  Not a complicated song, but very well done, true to the original style. I'm still not believing this.  I wonder if he can do Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder too ;-).

Ken M.