The Mellotron Group

The very last of your sentences has us in total agreement. I may have  
improperly used the word "rediscovered" whereas I meant, "discovered" New  
listeners discover his music, thereby making him a rediscovered talent. 
 
I still maintain that you take particular glee in dumping on anything,  
"Moody Blues." That's fine with me. I once loved their music though now it's  
subject matter is less relevant to me. I'm no longer, "...watching and 
waiting,  for a friend to play with." and I realize that I am never going to get 
an answer  "about hate and death and war." I also do not write letters "never 
meaning to  send." If I write them, I send them. But back in the early 70s 
I wrote hundreds  of love letters that I never sent.
 
Regardless, Hayward is relevant to those fans that feel he is. Relevance is 
 purely subjective. 
 
As for who brought him up, you did. Martin mentioned Justin Haystacks, whom 
 everyone knows is dead.
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/26/2011 5:09:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
On 26/07/2011 21:17, _lsf5275@aol.com_ (mailto:lsf5275@aol.com)   wrote:  
 
No, your point was about Justin  Hayward. He was just part of his 
generation.  



Actually my point wasn't specifically  about him at all.  Someone else 
brought him up.



 
 
Much of his music is/was timeless  and will be relevant long after we are 
gone. People will rediscover Tuesday  Afternoon,and Nights in White Satin 
over and over again. His relevance might  be to a narrower audience, but no 
musician is relevant unless someone thinks  they are... ever. All it takes is 
one. More is better,  though.





That's just simply  not true.  The difficult thing is that I think you know 
 it.   If something is an entity that 'people will rediscover'  then it is 
an apparent truth that it has to be undiscovered first,and that  process is 
well underway.  They may well be your personal favourites, but  ask your 
average 20 or 25 or 30 year old what they know about The Moody Blues  (to name 
your specific) and the overwhelming likely answer will be a blank  stare 
back at you. No one know. No one remembers. Far fewer ever care. Music  is an 
evanescent thing, so get used to it and enjoy what you have. At best  they 
might name NiWS.  But that's all, and that is by an Herculean  effort. 

His audience is narrower is because his audience is dying  slowly.  That is 
how stuff works.  And I have no issue with  that at all. 

Mike