I remember that happening. The draft lives on in the AFL but died in the NRL. Both would claim to be better off.
Swans did much better getting the Whale, Francis Jackson and Graham Teasdale, together with his brown velvet suit.
RIP Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues on April 24.
The Heart and Soul of the Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, passed away today. He was probably the most widespread influence on Music that many people had never heard of. His Sound: The Mellotron: He was the undisputed Master of that Instrument, and did more with it than any other Band or Musician. Bands such as Yes, King Crimson, The Beatles and Stones all used the Mellotron (many with Mike’s instruction), but none produced the widespread Huge Spacy Orchestral Sound that he played. All Popular Music today that features spacy orchestral sounds are a direct influence of Mike Pinder. The Moody Blues produced Seven Masterpieces with Pinder, starting with Days Of Future Passed. It was released in 1967, the same year as Sgt. Pepper, and had a more expansive creative sound. Many of the sections that we thought were the Orchestra were actually played by Mike Pinder - For the most part, the Orchestral Sections were recorded separate from the Band tracks. But the Band tracks sounded huge and orchestral due to Pinder’s Mellotron. All of the Classic Seven Masterpieces have the words on the cover: “All Instruments Played By The Moody Blues.” Their range of sonic expression and creativity seemed to be without boundaries or limits. The test of a good stereo can be done using Moody Blues albums. Their songs, in great part due to Pinder, are Deep, Intelligent, Emotional and hair-raising, and they Rock. Pinder’s songs on the Moodies albums are most often the Most Experimental, Moody, Deep, and are often Amazing Sonic Journeys into the Mind as well as Outer Space. As he sang, “You Gotta Make the Journey Out and In.” Tunes such as “My Song” are not to be believed. You just need to sit and listen to that Journey - He takes you deep into your Soul and out into Space and back. The Sounds are unworldly.
Justin Hayward said “Nights In White Satin” was just another song until Mike Pinder told him to run through it one more time. Pinder added that 7 - note phrase that transported the song. Then the powerful orchestral Mellotron on the chorus lifted it into Heaven.
That same 7 - note phrase has been repeated countless times on other songs: Those notes are the intro to “Layla,” played by Duane Allman and the ABB used that phrase constantly in their improvisations. Pinder first recorded it on “Nights” from Days Of Future Passed.
The Sounds played and Pioneered by Mike Pinder resonate through all Music through the decades and still are heard today. When you hear a Band that sounds deep, spacy, orchestral, and powerful - that’s the Influence of the Moody Blues and their Black Light Soul: Michael Pinder. God Bless him on his continuing Spiritual Journey.
Millions of Moody Blues fans are mourning tonight. The greatest thing we can do is to play his Music - Loud - and feel that Power and Emotion. Rest In Peace.
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Huh! I’d never realised that. RIP Mike Pinder.
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I love it when someone who is passionate brings something new to the table about an artist or person you were not aware of. Its only in the last couple of days I have been reading up on Pinder, and realized just what an influence he has been to his contemporaries and those who followed.
Thx Captain Jack.
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Duane Eddy, the King of Twang, gone after 86 years of rebel rousing.
This clip is from 1958.
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A great clip of a great old track. One of the very best guitar & saxophone interplays ever. I do wonder why every sax player l have ever seen at some stage goes into that crouched stance in order to play.
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Man. Duane Eddy was the man who introduced me to the concept of The Riff
Dad used to play Stalkin a lot on 45 threw a big old late 70s green lit hifi. Loudly. I was kinda scared of the music, because it sounded so menacing. But it had something… it had A Riff.
I still love Stalkin to this day. And I still love The Riff…
Thanks Eddy. Heres to one of the greatest, meanest, most gnarled up Riffs of all time.
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40 miles of bad road
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And another couple of clips of Duanne Eddy. Unfortunately the sax is not given enough volume in the mix in the first track.
Greg Champion & The Fabulaires used to do a great version of this back in the Carnaby Inn days.
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So, what’s the problem? 
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The volume levels need to be about the same to get the proper sense of interplay.
I’ve just popped into this thread to find if there’s any news about X. Duursma.
Carry on.
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to go with the death of the great Mike Pinder … as deaths seem to happen in bunches Richard Tandy from ELO , keyboard genius has also passed away…. another of the great musos from the 1967 -1974 greatest ever era of Rock IMHO , gone to the great stage in the sky
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RIP…
Does that leave Lynne and Wood as the last men standing?
i think Kelly Groucott died so yes it would
Drummer Bev Bevan is still with us I believe. Original member of The Move and ELO.
Vale Richard Tandy. Played Mr Blue Sky a few times today. Enjoy the view up there Richard.
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your right forgot about him
Yep, Bev is alev.
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