Ray
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Posted: Feb. 28 2008, 17:15 |
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Quote (Scatterplot @ Feb. 28 2008, 21:41) | Folks, this is not meant to put down MO in any way at all, but the dude's getting old. But not too old to do a "legacy album". Forgetting that the Moody Blues are still touring on canes and walkers, the 1999 album "Strange Times" is how I will remember them. They are coming to my town in March but I will not go. I do not wish to remember them as the band who gave a copy of the video "live at red rocks" to every player and say to all players, "Do This!!"....year after year. The point being, they were about 54 when they did what I consider their "legacy album". I think it was their best album, or at least in their top 3. The tie-in with MO is that I think...I think, he will do another "hand crafted" album. He has a new kid and other things, but wait 2 years then write me back. MO was blessed by when he was born. He got to experiment, manipulate and watch the synthesizer's evolution, as well as shape it. Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Emu, maybe even Kawai. Guitars, forget it. I'm sure he custumized guitars in ways Jimmy Page never thought of. But as computers evolved he got sucked into it. I remember in the late '80s I played Islands for a good freind who was a fair producer/synthaholic/engineer/guitar player/masters degree in computer information systems. He said, "It's too written out, like every event was written on a computer". I agreed. But "Northpoint" is one of my fav. songs still in 2008. Technology got the worst of him for a while. But I tell you, TB 3 has parts that go back to Ommadawn. MO bounced back in 1999. 2/3 of the way into the album, a woman singing like she's crying, so much so I want to cry. The "top of the morning" piano piece.....so cool, so fine, so EMOTIONAL. Mike did some great stuff on TB3, don't think he faded yet. But the 21st century has been boring at least for me. Light+Shade was a very boring effort. Cute in places, but thats about all. Loop-based software, hmm. Music of the Spheres is quite a bit better, much better than Light+Shade. I'm not a classical music fan but I like it. He does too much of the 35 year old Tubular Bells "piano hammering" but it is good. Don't think for a moment that only 4 or 5 early albums were good. And I still think he's got something like The Moody Blues "Strange Times" waiting. I think he kept back some fine material to save for that "legacy album". I may be full of crap but time will tell......... Jim |
you mean "only time will tell"
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