I'm sorry to hear that.....
They are a band that I still listen to frequently. In the last weeks it's been 'A Question of Balance' and 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour'. In fact, my son was just talking about what they now call 'Woke', a modern term for spiritual awareness. I told him that when I was coming up, the Moodies were heavy into spiritual journeys and that he should listen to 'The Guessing Game' and 'The Balance'. I also told him about Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' which was an important part of my 'path'.
The Moodies were so 'cosmic' that one fan convinced himself that when they came to town for a concert that the were going to do 'something' great. Nobody knew what he was talking about but he kept insisting that the sky was going to open up or something. When they just gave a 'great' concert he was highly incensed and angry that they had 'disappointed' him. It kind of reminds me of the stuff that John Lennon believed that 'Magic Alex' told him he could do. Like let him an Yoko float to an appearance in a transparent bubble aircraft of some sort. That guy was some con artist and Lennon believed everything he told him.
I've seen the Moodies in concert and introduced my musically gifted and talented wife, who knew nothing of great rock music to her, along with others.
Some years back, she asked me, "Is that the 'Who'?" I said, "No, that's the 'Guess Who'." She said, "Who?" I said, "THE GUESS WHO". This exchange went on for a few minutes and got quite heated.
Anyway, the Moodies were/are a great band and one of the more unique of any of them. I still love those swirling Mellotrons and other tape-driven instruments they used to great effect.
UPDATE: I just read up some on Ray Thomas. An broad instrumentalist and songwriter. He contributed many of my favorites in the bands history. I can see him doing 'For My Lady' in concert like it was yesterday.
R.I.P. Ray Thomas
