Another one gone

[cozmik_cowboy]

Moody Blues bassist & singer John Lodge passed away today, "suddenly and unexpectedly" at age 82.
Before my big brother discovered that he loved both kinds of music, country and western, he had all  (at that time) 8 MB albums - some on vinyl, all on 8-track.
While I lost interest in them when I discovered Yes, and in prog altogether when I discovered Janis & the Doors (and the Doors when I discovered hippie country and then the Dead), I will always cherish the time my early-teen self spent lying on the floor, one speaker from the portable 8-track player on each side of my head, cranking the Moodys.


Peter

[David Houck]

One of my best memories is several of us riding around on weekend nights in a friend's car listening to Moody Blues on 8-track.

[cozmik_cowboy]

One of my best memories is several of us riding around on weekend nights in a friend's car listening to Moody Blues on 8-track.

With a folded stick of gum between the player & the dashboard to keep it from rattling?  I don't recall ever seeing an 8-track in a car without that fix. 


Peter

[DistillaMatto]

RIP. "The Question" bass line is one of my favorites.

[Quasar1]

Rest easy now John  You will be missed 


The only photo I was ever able to find of John using the Series-Satinwood-Maple Fretboard!

[edwardofhuncote]

A friend of mine sent me the newsreel thing yesterday, but I was way out of cell service range. I got it when I got back to town. I was never an avid fan of Moody Blues, but I do quite fondly remember a resurgence of interest in them from my time in the 80's. And of course from hanging around here, I knew about his storied Satinwood Series bass with maple fingerboard, 80-1575. There are a couple threads about it. So I was surprised when I saw the picture my pal sent of John playing a clearly different Series I.
*better look at it in a Talkbass thread...

I wonder if like a few of us, he simply had a spare or two, or if this was a 'loaner' while his bass was back at the Mothership for some modifications? https://club.alembicguitars.com/index.php?topic=6341.msg67623#msg67623

I'll have to put some of their music on today. Good times in the mid/late-1980's.