RIP Graeme Edge, Moody Blues drummer

[LVSteve]

Another sad day in the music business. He was 80. Thanks for the tunes, Sir.

Graeme Edge, Moody Blues' Drummer and Co-Founder, Dead at 80 - Rolling Stone

 

[RobertJ.]

Sad news. May he rest in peace.

"Seventh Sojourn" was the first album I ever bought.

 

[Beemerguy53]

As much as I love the Moodies, I saw them live only twice over years. The first time was in 2011, in Portland, Maine. I had a middle seat only four rows back from the stage, and Graeme Edge was just great. I still laugh thinking about him telling the audience that a particular song "goes back to the day when me hair was brown, and me teeth were white!"

 

[Rustyt1953]

Sad to hear that. They were another timeless band that forever shaped the musical landscape we enjoy today.

The first song of theirs that I learned was "Go Now" in '65.

I can't pick a favorite song.

 

[Rudi]

RIP. One of the best bands from "back then". Sad news.

 

[wood714]

I had a media pass when they played in St. Augustine in March 2010.

Was a killer show.

All the best pic's I took that night.

The Moody Blues - Kevin-Fair

 

[Stevens]

That is sad to hear, "Your Wildest Dreams" and "Nights in White Satin" are a couple of my very favorite songs.
Steve W

 

[MG34/bar]

They were a good group; also had a good grasp on reality. Who else would have recorded one of their signature songs "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band". Rest In Peace.

 

[Kevin G]

I was at that 2011 Portland Maine concert, good time.

 

[Aircrewman]

Oh my..... this saddens me greatly..... The Moody Blues has been one of my favorite top 5 groups. Saw them several times in Oregon. At the Marion County Fairgrounds, and the Rose Garden in Portland and the Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene. Always a superb performance and terrific show. He would always open the show with his famous poem from Nights in White Satin. I am heartbroken now to hear of his passing after Ray Thomas. I have no more words.....

 

[S&W Fan]

In 1975, high school senior, I went to see the Grand Canyon for the first time with 3 of my buddies. We wanted to be there for the sunrise. On the drive from Tucson in a Chevy Blazer belonging to one of the guys and the only music he had was Moody Blues cassettes lol. Pretty fun drive and the sunrise was quite spectacular…..for all but the driver.

He's standing there and turns to rest of us and says "It's just a big f-ing hole in the ground!"

Couldn't listen to the Moody Blues again for awhile after that LOL!!

 

[sheepdawg]

Another great one gone. Saw him dance a birthday jig in 2016 announcing he just turned 75. Lucky me saw them with a 100 piece orchestra in St. Louis back in the 90s and Ray Thomas was still alive. The engine to an absolutely superb band.

R.I.P.

 

[Greyman50]

Sad news, another great one gone. RIP and condolences to the family.

 

[Imissedagain]

The Mellotron.
Late one night in the early '70s a man walks out of the elevator and onto the second floor of Sam Ash, Brooklyn.
Rockin away are the salesman on guitars, basses and the Mellotron.

The gent was a music store owner in Australia and his pipe fell out of his mouth as he entered the showroom.
He said he never saw so many guitars, amps, speaker boxes and keyboards in one place, possibly in all of his country.
The Mellotron got his attention.

We advised him to visit Nashville as well.

Stage right box seats when they played at Carnegie as my Manhattan buddies always came thru with great seats at Carnegie etc etc.

Great Band.

 

[mark brewer]

RIP. when i was a teenager, everybody i knew had at least one of their albums. Knights in White Satin helped me get through my freshman year.

 

[Beemerguy53]

They were a good group; also had a good grasp on reality. Who else would have recorded one of their signature songs "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band". Rest In Peace.

I remember reading that they wrote that song in response to the people who were basically worshipping them, trying to attach some deep spiritual meaning to every song they sang.

One of the things I've always liked about the Moody Blues is that there has never been a hint of scandal about them...no trashed hotel rooms, no arrests, no assaults on the press, etc. They're just regular guys, doing what they love to do...

 

[CH4]

Saw them once in South Lake Tahoe around 2000:
Question
Nights in White Satin
My See Saw
Your Wildest Dreams
I am just Singer in a Rock & Roll Band

They're all timeless

RIP Graeme

 

[Donn]

R.I.P. "In Search of the Lost Chord" takes me back to my "experimental" days.

 

[pawncop]

Very sad. My all time favorite band.