----- Original Message -----From: peteSent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:01 PMSubject: Re: [Mellotronists] Moodies on the Dime....Bruce,
Thanks again for the link-been listening to it today.If anyone's interested I'll be glad to start a vine for this show.If interested e-mail me privately with address and promise to re-vine.
Pete
Below are the comments from the dime web site.I will add that on disc 1 Justin's vocals are low in the mix and there's seems to be a skip(lp type?)during the Voyage along with a few performance cliches on that track.But yes the Mellotron is out there!
Pete
The Moody Blues
Japan
January 1974
Disc 1
1.Higher And Higher
2.Out And In
3.The Story In Your Eyes
4.One More Time To Live
5.Tuesday Afternoon
6.Legend Of A Mind
7.Watching And Waiting
8.Eternity Road
9.Melancholy Man
Disc 2
1.Are You Sitting Comfortably
2.The Dream
3.Have You Heard (Part 1)
4.The Voyage
5.Have You Heard (Part 2)
6.Nights In White Satin
7.I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock and Roll Band)
8.Question
9.Ride My See-Saw
Justin Hayward guitar vocals
Mike Pinder keyboards vocals
Ray Thomas flute sax vocals
John Lodge bass vocals
Graeme Edge drums
I don't recall ever seeing any Moody Blues shows on Dime from the 1973/74
"farewell" tour, so here is one:
This is a very good audience recording of one of the last performances with
Mike Pinder. His mellotron is very prominent throughout the show. The
performance is excellent, with tracks from each of the "classic seven" albums.
I don't know the exact date and venue, but based on the band's comments, they
are in Japan. They played several dates in Japan in January 1974.
Bruce Harvie wrote:Here ya go....
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=104039
It's an audience recording, but seeing that "his mellotron is very prominent
throughout the show", I figured I'd pass this on....
Bruce
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Pinder = Mellotron Pilot Re: [Mellotronists] Moodies on the Dime....
2006-07-25 by Jim & Janet Strauss
Wow,...that's a show that I would have loved to have seen, ...
(although
the show I saw in Baltimore Maryland in 72 was
pretty good).
Lots of selections from TOCCC - my favorite Moodies album, (and drat...I only got one tune from that...they ;opened with Gypsy).
I wrote the playlist down and stuck it in my
recently released (back then) EGBDF vinyl.
Yep...still in there...let's
see...........................................:
1.Gypsy
2.Tortoise & the Hare
3.Tuesday Afternoon
4. After you Came
5.One More time To Live
6.Our Guessing game
7. Are You Sitting Comfortably?
8.The
Dream
9.Have You Heard? (The Voyage)
10.The Story in Your Eyes
11.Nights In White Satin
12.Melancholy Man
13.Legend of a Mind
14.Question
15. Ride My See Saw
What I remember most
was :
a.)Mike Pinders
performance on E. guitar - jamming with Justin for that rousing end to "After You Came".
Don't know what he used
but he had a white solid body on his lap
while sitting behind the
mellotron...
b.) landing that droning astral Plane in the Civic
Center at the end of Legend of a Mind....just knocked me out!
He could really handle that pitch control
live.
Jim