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FULL ALBUM: The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (Patreon)

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2024-02-23 18:38:41
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This was an absolute blast and SO happy we were able to finally listen to this; better late than never!

Happy day to all and THANK YOU for voting for this masterpiece! Cannot believe it took us this long to listen to this, but it is something that will stay with us forever.

We are SO grateful for you and wish you all the best in the World!

Love always,Nick, Lex & Marley

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Gary Lewis

AUTHOR'S ADVISORY: This is gonna be a long one, but it is must reading for anyone (Alexia? Nick?) who wants to know what it was like hearing it for the first time when Prog was young and enhanced with the intended psychedelics (or fellow travelers who want to remember in color). It was the end of my Junior year of high school in the Spring of 1973, and my parents were away so I knew I'd have the house to myself. My best friend since 1967 (and still to this day) was going to take his first acid trip. I'd tripped a couple of times over the previous year and was looking forward to sharing the experience. He had been listening to the Moody Blues for years while I'd never heard them before, and "In Search of the Lost Chord" was his selection. Apart from ELP's first album when it first came out and whatever limited Prog made it onto FM radio, this would be my first real foray into a full prog album. We dropped our hits of acid and occupied ourselves with other entertainment for a few hours until we were peaking, and then settled in to hear the LP. We were in my room, which had an upright piano on one wall and the stereo on the opposite wall (in those days we spent any money we had on records and the best stereo components we could afford, so the audio was stellar...and each of us had his own set of headphones patched with a "Y" cord---Thank you, Radio Shack!). The bed was on the wall between with the windows. My friend, Andrew, was on the bed, and after I lovingly placed the needle on the vinyl I laid down under the piano bench on the carpet (shag, orange/brown/white and oh so 70's). First the welcoming warm crackle of needle on vinyl and...DEPARTURE! I'd heard "Ride My See-Saw" on the radio before, but it was now all brand new and a religious experience, "Be it sight, sound, smell, or touch" having a very different meaning with the synesthesia of LSD and sounds being colors and touches tastes. The rushing kaleidoscopic eyelid movies were beyond beautiful, and it only got better from there. Fortunately, Andrew was doing just fine, because the only guidance I could muster in my condition was during the beat in the middle of "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" just before the line "Columbus where are you bound?" was "Andrew, how do you feel?" (I know this, because we recorded this as with so many other of our major experiences and conversations from 1967 through about 1980 on cassette tapes...gotta listen to those again someday...) Then, "House of Four Doors"...I'd really only heard a mellotron once before at my first Yes show August '72 (a top lifetime concert and totally amazing, but I was also totally straight so a different category of experience altogether) and never quite heard it again as I did then. The song was a little eerie, a little scary under the circumstances, but never unpleasantly so...more like the best amusement park ride in the universe. And within, was "Legend of a Mind", which was the peak of the peak. Already basically a commercial for tripping, it was too perfect, and the building to the climax finale "He'll take you up, he'll bring you down" with visions and colors and body rushes you thought couldn't possibly be any more intense somehow intensifying exponentially with each beat. And then, exactly as it was meant to be, it eased into the closing of "House of Four Doors" and the end of Side One. Yes, I had to stand up, check on Andrew in the swirling, breathing primordial ooze that my bedroom had become, flip over the record and play Side Two. To be mercifully brief, as naive and cliche and dimestore spiritual as their take on eastern philosophy may be in retrospect and to true students and adherents, it was well-meaning, and under the circumstances took me precisely where it intended. "Visions of Paradise" indeed, thinking was most assuredly the best way to travel, and every time I hear this album i go back there. Not with anything approaching the majestic ride through the wormhole of the original, but a most pleasant afterglow like the echoes of the Big Bang still captured today.

Doug Fenske

In '68 I think Pink Floyd was the epitome of psychedelic rock. Not really prog yet. I feel this album, ISOTLC, is a little more proggy than Floyd.

Doug Fenske

I just heard a few days ago that when the reel to reel tape technology came into existence then engineers had the ability to slow down the playback and that helped them cut and splice tapes better.

Doug Fenske

You ought to look closely at some of your vinyls. You'll see variations in the grooves when the light reflects off of them. So, one would learn where the individual songs are on the album side, and you could pick up the needle (tone arm) and skip songs by dropping it where you wanted to.

Doug Fenske

This album will get even better on subsequent listenings! If you're like me... well, 2 masterpieces down, 5 more masterpieces to go! Their next 5 albums are pretty much just as good as this. There's a little variation so you might find some a little better or less good, but I'll bet you'll enjoy them all. They're very similar.

Michael Gray

The Moody Blues are one of my favorite bands. Takes me back to my college days when my roommate would put on a Moody Blues album and we would just sit and listen while doing our class assignments or just chilling with a drink. I have nearly all of their studio albums. So glad this won the Monthly album.

Rod

Glad you guys got to listen to this album, it's one of my favorites from the Moody Blues. I had a chance to see them live way back in 1978, and I passed it up. Big mistake! Back then I thought they wouldn't be able to play their music very well live and be faithful to the studio recordings, which were so complex. As a side note, I passed on seeing some other great bands in the 70's for various reasons. The list kills me now! Here's just a few: Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Wishbone Ash, Robin Trower, Man, Manfred Man's Earth Band, Heart. Of course, I did get to see so many others, but I wish I could go back in time to catch those I missed!

Richard Dobson

I am so pleased you loved this album. As a fifteen year old in 1968, hearing this changed my musical direction into music that was not the traditional guitar, bass, drums and vocals. A classmate at high school brought the album to our music class and we played it on the school's record player. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! 'Legend Of A Mind' blew me away. Ray Thomas's flute solo over Mike Pinder's Mellotron remains a special musical moment for me. Every band member was a writer and sang their own songs Nick, so you actually didn't hear Justin Hayward on lead vocals until 'Voices In The Sky'. Drummer Graeme Edge wrote and spoke the poetic pieces 'Departure' and 'The Word'. Your memories of Nick's Mom sharing this album with Nick took me back to my father. To say he was interested in my record collection would be wrong, he really didn't show a blind piece of interest, except for this album! He loved it and when I lived at home he always wanted to play it. Back around 2013, when the remastered CD was released, I bought him a copy and he played it most evenings in the kitchen while he made dinner for Mom and himself. I asked him early on, 'Why this album Dad?' 'It's the flute, Rich' was his instant reply. I know every sound, every note from this album, and it's probably the most important album to me in my collection. Thank you for loving it Nick and Alexia.

Mark Alexander

Well, you've gone and done it. You have stepped deeper into your Moody Blues albums journey together in order. Please everyone… support Nick and Lex in this journey by supporting full album reactions. The next is OnThe Threshold of a Dream. We discovered The Moody Blues album after album. How great that they can experience the same journey. For me, singer/songwriter/guitarist Justin Hayward is the best. John Lodge is one of the great bass players. Ray Thomas on woodwinds gives the Moodies an essential texture that can only be cherished. Mike Pinder on keyboards is the core psychedelic contributor, and Graeme Edge…where would they be without his drums and the intros he wrote for each album (and least those early ones.) Great reaction and may both of you experience the heaven of these albums. 💛💜💙💚❤️

Stephen Caruso

trippy stuff from my elementary school days - Seesaw and timothy Leary were the ones I recall - thanks for the reaction to a favorite band!

KevB(rewski)

MELLOTRON, MELLOTRON, MELLOTRON. Imo, one of the most important things to understand about the Moody Blues is how important the sound of the MELLOTRON was to their music. Obviously, in addition to their signature vocals and harmonies, the signature sound of the Classic 7 Moodies albums was keyboardist Micheal Pinder's ethereal majestic spacey Mellotron. If you don't understand the Mellotron, you won't fully appreciate the Moodies. Its worth reading about how it worked. Especially since the MB were really the first band to extensively use the Mellotron. Then King Crimson, Yes, Genesis etc. It was a hallmark instrument of 70s Progressive Rock, especially Symphonic Prog, because you could duplicate a choir, you could duplicate the sound of classical instruments, especially ORCHESTRAL STRINGS. The other thing about the MB was that they had 4 lead vocalists. Hayward and Lodge sang the majority of lead vox, but flute player Ray Thomas also sang lead, as did keyboardist Pinder, usually on songs they wrote. And drummer Graeme Edge usually did the spoken word intros and narration. The Moody Blues were really my first Prog band I did a deep dive on....at the ages of 13>15. From my Beatles obsession I dove headfirst into the Moody Blues when I heard Nights in White Satin over and over on the radio, as well as Ride My See Saw, and their other early radio hits. Before I got into Genesis, before Yes, before, Pink Floyd, it was the Moodies and ELP. Their foldout albums were really cool to buy and then pore over. All of them had a lot of info and stories and psychedelic illustrations. That brings me to Lost Chord. The track that blew me away was LEGEND OF A MIND. So trippy, so ethereal, so cool sounding with Pinder's Mellotron all over it. Its worth understanding who Timothy Leary was. He was a real person who conducted studies using LSD on college students, and promoted LSD as the drug of realization. He of course was a very controversial figure and came to be known as the guru of the drug culture. Best Way to Travel was another catchy trippy song I always loved. So what you think of as "orchestration" on Lost Chord is not an orchestra, its the MELLOTRON. The classic 7 Moodies albums were the early Psychedelic Progressive groundwork being laid for the 70s. I never get tired of listening to the Moody Blues. Btw, not sure why you keep separating "psychedelic rock" from "Progressive Rock". Psychedelic rock was the first type of Progressive Rock. Psychedelic is now considered a subset of the bigger tent of Progressive Rock. Its not mutually exclusive. The Moody Blues were an early Progressive Rock band. Those classic 7 albums are the very defintion of Progressive. Add>ahh, another purposeful "no like". The streak continues.

Scott Anderson

Loads of fun watching you guys react to this classic. Had not listened to it in forever. This was a blast. 💥

Gary Arnett

Quite a history, very good. Other than their hits and a bit of Threshold, I didn't really discover them until Question, then quickly did a deep dive. Was familiar with all their albums by the time EGBDF came out.

Gary Arnett

NICK :Very little of Our cut and paste back then was literally cutting and taping. Usually 3 tape decks , 2 with the recorded music and one to mix on. Start recording, play one playback until time for the other part, pause recording, stop playback one and start 2 and resume recording. Time consuming but not hard to do.

KevB(rewski)

How does one listen to Ride My See Saw at 14 and then not listen to it again for 15>20 years?

Kristine Doggett

Nice reaction guys. Looking forward to the next MB album, On The Threshold of A Dream. So good.

Patrick Nicolucci

Guys ahat a great album i love the moody Blues saw them live on the Octave tour in 78 at MSG you must listen to Seventh Sojourn in my opinion there best album.