|  By
Cornbread
The
Moody Blues: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival
Eagle Rock, May 2009
Live at the Isle of Wight
Festival features 79-minutes of The Moody Blues
at the height of their popularity in 1970. The Moody
Blues are Justin Hayward (guitar/vocals), John Lodge
(bass/vocals), Ray Thomas (vocals/flute), Graeme
Edge (drummer) and Mike Pinder (keyboard/vocals).
At this time they were touring in support of the
album A Question Of Balance and had four albums
in the Top 5 U.K. (two of which were #1’s).
It was held on August 26-31,
1970 at Afton Down an area on the Western side of
the Isle of Wight. Some of the others who shared
the stage at this festival were Chicago, Miles Davis,
The Doors, The Who, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jimi
Hendrix and Joan Baez. This made the second time
Moody Blues played The Isle of Wight Fest, the first
a year earlier in 1969.
The Moody Blues formed in
1964 in Erdington, Birmingham, England are still
playing some 45-years later. Three of these early
songs; Nights In White Satin, Question and Tuesday
Afternoon are still popular today and considered
some of the Moody Blues greatest hits.
The DVD features 11-songs
and a 20-minute documentary keying in on the behind-the-scenes
around this event.
1. Gypsy
2. Tuesday Afternoon
3. Never Comes The Day
4. Tortoise And The Hare
5. Question
6. Sunset
7. Melancholy Man
8. Nights In White Satin
9. Legend Of A Man
10. Ride My See Saw
11. Conclusion
Classic
Rock wasn’t classic yet, it is now, and these
guys with this performance are among the great Classic
Rock bands. They melodically infused flute based folk
rock with an R&B flare. Some of the songs had
remnants of a twelve bar blues groove to it. The DVD
starts with the guys going from today, to then, to
today, etc… It’s amazing how songs that
were done 39-years ago are still played today. The
current versions lack the rawness and folky flair
that the earlier versions had. In all it was a great
way to sit relax, take in great music and kind of
get absorbed into it all on a hot summery St. Louis
night. This gets a 4.0 on the STLBluesometer.
Peace and Love
Peter 'Cornbread' Cohen,
CBP
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Cornbread@STLBlues.net
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