You are all correct. I was a teenager when the Moodies were a hip, psychedelic (even undergound) band. In the late 60s, if you were smoking good hash or dropping acid you listened to some mix of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd (pre-Dark Side of the Moon) AND THE MOODY BLUES!! The Moodies, and Mike Pinder in particular, were "inner-nauts" who experimented with Eastern religion, meditation and (IMO) LSD. BTW, not that many people know this but the Moodies (Mike Pinder, actually) wrote another song about Tim Leary: "When You're a Free Man" on Seventh Sojourn.
@imagodoc Ah! A great Pinder fan! I absolutely agree with you on this magnificent musician. The Mellotron was a game changer. It mimicked the slide into a "trip" and I know that from personal experience. I was a more than moderate user of the "best way to travel" and it did change my life. I felt like I knew secrets of the universe. You and I might be about the same age so you know what I'm talking about. I stayed a big fan until Pinder left, then it just struck me a so so.. The messages seemed to not...
@imagodoc Ah! A great Pinder fan! I absolutely agree with you on this magnificent musician. The Mellotron was a game changer. It mimicked the slide into a "trip" and I know that from personal experience. I was a more than moderate user of the "best way to travel" and it did change my life. I felt like I knew secrets of the universe. You and I might be about the same age so you know what I'm talking about. I stayed a big fan until Pinder left, then it just struck me a so so.. The messages seemed to not carry the power they did before. Their sound completely changed. But I have all the vinyl from the early days and CD backups. They aren't a band. They are a secret religion. :)
You are all correct. I was a teenager when the Moodies were a hip, psychedelic (even undergound) band. In the late 60s, if you were smoking good hash or dropping acid you listened to some mix of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd (pre-Dark Side of the Moon) AND THE MOODY BLUES!! The Moodies, and Mike Pinder in particular, were "inner-nauts" who experimented with Eastern religion, meditation and (IMO) LSD. BTW, not that many people know this but the Moodies (Mike Pinder, actually) wrote another song about Tim Leary: "When You're a Free Man" on Seventh Sojourn.
@imagodoc Ah! A great Pinder fan! I absolutely agree with you on this magnificent musician. The Mellotron was a game changer. It mimicked the slide into a "trip" and I know that from personal experience. I was a more than moderate user of the "best way to travel" and it did change my life. I felt like I knew secrets of the universe. You and I might be about the same age so you know what I'm talking about. I stayed a big fan until Pinder left, then it just struck me a so so.. The messages seemed to not...
@imagodoc Ah! A great Pinder fan! I absolutely agree with you on this magnificent musician. The Mellotron was a game changer. It mimicked the slide into a "trip" and I know that from personal experience. I was a more than moderate user of the "best way to travel" and it did change my life. I felt like I knew secrets of the universe. You and I might be about the same age so you know what I'm talking about. I stayed a big fan until Pinder left, then it just struck me a so so.. The messages seemed to not carry the power they did before. Their sound completely changed. But I have all the vinyl from the early days and CD backups. They aren't a band. They are a secret religion. :)