@andrewbarrett42 Every person I know had the "This is the Moody Blues" best of album. It's hard to get a copy now (I found one in Toronto). Each song blends into the next and it's hard to imagine someone not loving it. But maybe you are a headbanger, which would explain your comment.
@andrewbarrett42 ...and what does that have to do with the Moody Blues? I very much like America. Anti-American Canadians are stupid. Moody Blues are a great British band, if you like progressive rock.
@andrewbarrett42 I sure as hell like the Brits. We fought with them against Germany in WWII and against Sadam Hussein & the Taliban & al Qaida. Plus you gave us the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Supertramp, etc. etc. etc. God Save the Queen!
First take the adds away spoils the mood ,,then ,,great song which would last for years ..some artists should never grow old nor die if there is a GOD
Ya know, when you mature and have maybe caught a brief glimpse of expanded consciousness, largely due to Moodies music, you can't imagine how they could re-create this music live right in front of you. I consider myself fortunate for a couple of things-one is that I have actually been able to see them a few times and also that nice people have been posting obscure stuff like on Youtube.
The moody blues.the band that made me aware of music.Listening to john peel play this track on a tranny radio about midnight when i was 13 or 14,It changed my life.
We crashed almost every nite listenin to MBs. We worshiped them. They were one of a kind---I dont even recall where the stereo was but they filled the house
@tuqsan Alexandre Dumas pere wrote over 400 historical novels exposing world tyranny(Roman Catholic Empire). Alexandre Dumas pere was born near Paris in 1802 and 'coincidentally' in 1902 The Society of Gesu(Jesuits) were expelled from France for the 3rd and last time. The Society of Jesu(Jesuits) have been expelled from 83 countries and their pope is ARAMIS AND HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO(GENERAL OF THE JESUITS).
@tuqsan 'I do not like the reappearance of The Jesuits ... If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religous toleration to offer them an asylum.' John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.A
@tuqsan MICHAEL TSARION IS THE WORLDS PREMIER CONSPIRACY RESEARCHER/LECTURER/AUTHOR. DR. BILL DEAGLE, LEO ZAGAMI, JORDAN MAXWELL AND ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE ARE HIGHLY INFORMATIVE AS WELL.
Great stuff to be sure! However, I've never seen Sam HoustonColiseum, but if that's it, it's got to be the largest stadium in the world. Looks more like the Isle of Wight.
Speaking personally, when the Moody Blues lost interest in Mike Pinder, I lost interest in the Moody Blues. Though a limited vocalist as is evident here, he had a depth and insistency to his voice which was the perfect foil for the user-friendly pop sensibilities of the others. Not to mention that sixties mellotron. His spoken contributions reciting Graeme Edge's poetry and songs such as 'How it we are here' and 'The tide rushes in' are quintessential MB to me. I remember Mike!
normally rock audience demands energy and jumping and blah blah. there`s thousands of audience over there silently listens and adores this dolorous song. that`s a success in itself...
its sorry that so few bands today stretch as far to express real musical balance. its less a hippie thing then exploring classical blends with contemporary rock .... i'm melancholy for that
@atlanteanlost Yes, Melancholy Man is from A Question of Balance, but I think the name of the DVD that this performance is from is entitled Threshold Of A Dream.
"All the world astounds me, and I think"...I'll never understand how 8 people could click on the Moody Blues intentionally, and dislike this! Fabulous!
Moraz was very good. But it wasn't the same Moodies after that. I really liked Long Distance Voyager and I even like The Present. They're coming to Fargo for the third time this June. They've played within 50 miles of here two other times. In the old days I had to drive 250 miles to Minneaplois to see them. I hate to say it, but they're more of a Las Vegas lounge act now. They're still excellent. But the Moodies of the 70s were...let's just say the concerts smelled way different.
@zxer91 I agree. I saw them February 4, 1974 at the Oakland Coliseum after the release of Seventh Sojurn. They broke up shortly after that. (thank God for BlueJays) The next time I saw them was in Minneapolis for the Octave tour. It broke my heart when we took our seats and Pinder's familiar mellotron wasn't there. I saw them the first time at midnight on Octber 9, 1970 in Minneapolis. I've seen them 8 times. Without Pinder it's just not the same.
@rstenerson Wow, I would have loved to have seen them back then. The first time I saw them was in 1979 in Portland Oregon for the Octave tour. Pat Moraz had already replaced Mike, he was great, but it just wasn't the same.
For Pete's sake You Tube, why is there a promo for Mormons at the beginning of this video? You should be ashamed of yourselves, pushing religion here.....stop it!
In this time of turmoil (sic) you'd think the Moody's would suck it up and do one for us and what they have learned in the intervening time. They know that we know that they know. Singers in a rock and roll band- yes. Poets and philosophers not only for our generation but that which comes after. Their music will be quoted years from now- the Divine willing- will anyone else be as much?
Nice to be able to watch an entire Moody Blues video with the 2 sexiest and most talented members dominating the screen. A pleasure for the ears and eyes.
@crobarus Yea,but this is the DVD.it's live with many songs from days of to threshold.They decided to call the "DVD" threshold of a dream.Meloncholy man is on Q.O.B,but not this live version.....
This is the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight Festival, in August 1970.
Precursing Woodstock, the Isle of Wight hosted outdoors music festivals since 1968. The 1970's event, where an estimated 600,000 attendance watched The Who, The Doors, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and many others, is also remembered as Jimi Hendrix's last apperance.
Great song! I'm going to their concert in April and I just bought their new calendar! Any fans should check it out at their website called moodybluestoday!
Not kicked out. Never!! I used the Moodies as a kind of "religion" in the mid to late 70's. I still love them for the peace, love, and more intelligence they gave me. I believe Pinder did not really enjoy the pressures of touring, especially during the huge move the Moodies made making it "higher and higher" from an opening band to the Main gig. Also he had difficulty with people using them for religious means.
I think their words are worth using as a supplement to good living.
@EWashburn3 he left in the middle of recording the album octave which was a kind of reunion after the group separated for a while to do solo albums because he thought the record wasnt strong enough to tour with and or didnt want to go on the road anymore the group made up a story that he left because he couldnt take fans climbing through windows to ask him the meaning of the cosmos but he said he always socialized with fans .
Just so I understand correctly, this was recorded in 1970 and it has nearly 200 comments and 175,000 people watched it. Howcum? Just joshing-as a kid I had the 45 rpm with Tuesday Afternoon on it-this was on the flip side. Loved them ever since. More and more.
@alittlepale IF You tube was there back in 70s this would have had about few millions of hits within few weeks.Its nice to see more and more youth turning to music of 60, 70 ,80. hope the world get true music again.LISTEN TO ASA SHES A VERY GOOD SINGER
I never saw this Video and I think it is amazing. Just consider live sound back then. What you hear is what was played. I have been a Moody's fan all my life. Johnny G
This is an astounding vid of what music, lyrics and life/ feelings really where before the world of poular music took over. God Bless Original videos such as this...there are more out the, ....Keep Looking!
Too amazing ... A crowd of 500,000 .. and great quality video, 40 years old . . . Lots of angry voices in the winds these days. . & how much carbon have we released into the atmosphere since 1970 . . . How many more injustices served . . And we all shine on . . .
this is just so friggen awesome! it looks like they recorded it yesterday! and the sound ... it's like they were in a studio jamming amongst themselves! just a great friggen post!
Just to note that Mike Pinder is one of the most intelligent men in my experience, musically, lyrically and just the fact that he had so much to do with musical instrument development is incredible. This man deserves so much more credit for what he's accomplished.
I'm a melancholy man, too. I can listen to this song over and over, again and again, and I'll never be bored. Thanks for sharing and heartilly greetings from Poland.
simply astounding - Mike Pinder proves he was truly the heart of the Moodies core sound. When he left, the band managed to continue but his 7-album influence continued to provide the remaining members with a foundation that continues today.
The is the best of the songs written by Mike Pinder. While the Moodys is my favorite group, and I think all the members of the band pen terrific songs, Mike is the most sensitive and cerebral of the guys. Listening to the lyrics of Melancholy Man gives me an insight as to why he could not travel with the band after the entire band almost reunited after "Seventh Sojourn". The road was too lonely and hard for him.
Hot Damn !! Justin looks so gorgeous here!! He just oozes sex appeal for days!! I have always loved The Moody Blues!! Their music has never ceased to amaze me with their ever so beautiful and magical melodies and songs!! What an amazingly talented band in every aspect!! I grew up on their music and it touched my soul and shaped my life. Their music still touches souls today as it did back then. Their music is just timeless!! The Moody Blues are just purely phenomenal!! <3
@dalarrikin, yeah it is from that album, but this clip, as titled, is a performance from the dvd "threshold of a dream, live at the isle of white festival"
Thank goodness they recovered and saved these videos. Apparently they were in some guys attic for years. Initially the bands could buy them at the time, but most couldn't afford it. Now we get a great treasure.
I love seeing this old footage of one of my absolute favourite bands. Each Moody brought something to the table, and Mike Pinder's music just resonates within me.
Does anyone else find it 'bewildering' that all this stuff was videoed way back then but, in general, we didn't get to see thiese videos THEN,,, but kinda just now?
Where was this outdoor concert? A bit of mystical, prophetic content about awakening to ones own inner understanding and to realizing the bleakness of relative consciousness as compared with our more supernal, holistic identity or fuller, truer nature and then to being stuck here to endure... all of this.. is all.
@tuberousness This performance of "Melancholy Man" was at the Isle of Wight concert in the UK in 1970. Much of their set is on a really good DVD called "Threshold of a Dream."
"Melancholy" sums up the basic tenor or the Moody Blues' music. There is something "moody" about their sound alright. As in Blues, it wallows in self. After a while, it starts to smell like an old dusty attic of bygone dreams.
The Moody Blues tapped into the 60s generation of angst and despair which permeated that generation for decades. Gone is the era of upbeat big band music and classic popular jazz, and now the world is still "In Search of The Lost Chord."
Asparrow better known as Moron, doesn't understand that Ray Thomas is one of the best musicians in this world. Theatrical he is and that's the way we all love Thomas.
@conmaesta No definitely some serious retardation gnawing at his brain box. Sad to hear that you are suffering from a similar investiture of terminal duh. If you what to make those claims and be considered serious, make them about Ian Anderson. See ya!
@asparrow nothing wrong with Ray Thomas, i met him several years ago in Phoenix, Az, really great guy and is a talented songwriter and musician, just not a good dancer!!!!
Melotron!
corporatemystic 1 week ago
How can this band not be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? They actually refuse to consider them,
55k3v1n 1 week ago
@55k3v1n becasue they were shite
andrewbarrett42 1 week ago
@andrewbarrett42 Every person I know had the "This is the Moody Blues" best of album. It's hard to get a copy now (I found one in Toronto). Each song blends into the next and it's hard to imagine someone not loving it. But maybe you are a headbanger, which would explain your comment.
55k3v1n 1 week ago
@55k3v1n Canadians are just American wanabee,s.
andrewbarrett42 1 week ago
@andrewbarrett42 ...and what does that have to do with the Moody Blues? I very much like America. Anti-American Canadians are stupid. Moody Blues are a great British band, if you like progressive rock.
55k3v1n 1 week ago
@55k3v1n Yes I love the 60s but moody blues are not one of my favourates.i,m a Beatles fan.
Canadians love Americans,but I do know that they both do not like us Brits as I have been to both countries.
andrewbarrett42 1 week ago
@andrewbarrett42 I sure as hell like the Brits. We fought with them against Germany in WWII and against Sadam Hussein & the Taliban & al Qaida. Plus you gave us the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Supertramp, etc. etc. etc. God Save the Queen!
55k3v1n 6 days ago
fuck yeah 6 stars! Moodies
freebob3 3 weeks ago
Esta es una cancion de las clasicas!!!!!
raulgamboa2009 1 month ago
@raulgamboa2009 perfecto! si?
satanskull 1 week ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE PINDER!!!
pauloalves81 1 month ago
Carajo que cancion se me hace tan triste que el llorar no importa por que salen mis recuerdos ANIMO AMIGOS.
MrGato532 1 month ago
ohhhh emmmm geeeee youtube i can hear adverts in the background such a sad sad shame
misslollypopper 2 months ago
his granny knitted for him. cute.
kloudzjia 2 months ago
I miss Mike Pinder, his Mellotron, and his Sweater Vest!
TheGodod 2 months ago
I voted Yes on 1183
Redmoom 2 months ago
First take the adds away spoils the mood ,,then ,,great song which would last for years ..some artists should never grow old nor die if there is a GOD
deansusky 3 months ago
Ya know, when you mature and have maybe caught a brief glimpse of expanded consciousness, largely due to Moodies music, you can't imagine how they could re-create this music live right in front of you. I consider myself fortunate for a couple of things-one is that I have actually been able to see them a few times and also that nice people have been posting obscure stuff like on Youtube.
alittlepale 3 months ago
The moody blues.the band that made me aware of music.Listening to john peel play this track on a tranny radio about midnight when i was 13 or 14,It changed my life.
STEVE24BUS 3 months ago 2
takav mi treba kad zajašim skutera....
ThePavelinjo 3 months ago
Vokal ima prelijep prsluk, štrikanac...gdje se to može kupiti?
ThePavelinjo 3 months ago
best band to listen to while tripin lol
you will awake.
zdragonforce 3 months ago
We crashed almost every nite listenin to MBs. We worshiped them. They were one of a kind---I dont even recall where the stereo was but they filled the house
fritzr128 4 months ago
This is deep down Moody Blues in their prime. Vote for them for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Zippertheslipper 5 months ago
One of the most incredible live music clips I have ever seen.
kiwipreacher 5 months ago
What can I say I love them that They're not popular. It feels like Its a secret in a little group and a way to find someone like you. I love you all.
tuqsan 5 months ago
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@tuqsan Alexandre Dumas pere wrote over 400 historical novels exposing world tyranny(Roman Catholic Empire). Alexandre Dumas pere was born near Paris in 1802 and 'coincidentally' in 1902 The Society of Gesu(Jesuits) were expelled from France for the 3rd and last time. The Society of Jesu(Jesuits) have been expelled from 83 countries and their pope is ARAMIS AND HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO(GENERAL OF THE JESUITS).
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@tuqsan 'I do not like the reappearance of The Jesuits ... If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religous toleration to offer them an asylum.' John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.A
uriahheep108 5 months ago
@tuqsan MICHAEL TSARION IS THE WORLDS PREMIER CONSPIRACY RESEARCHER/LECTURER/AUTHOR. DR. BILL DEAGLE, LEO ZAGAMI, JORDAN MAXWELL AND ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE ARE HIGHLY INFORMATIVE AS WELL.
uriahheep108 5 months ago
This is one of the best Moody clips I have seen on here!!
mooneytigg1 5 months ago
fuck you 7 people!
ErenEmrah 5 months ago 3
Stare ale jare .
lobosbogdan 5 months ago
Great stuff to be sure! However, I've never seen Sam HoustonColiseum, but if that's it, it's got to be the largest stadium in the world. Looks more like the Isle of Wight.
spikeit51 6 months ago
Mike Pinder on keyboards was the signature sound of the Moodies...1974 concert, Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston TX.
ctmjd11 6 months ago 2
This was filmed at the Isle of Wight festival in 1969.
RM45Cdo82 6 months ago
haven't ever seen this video before
anjilyn2 6 months ago
haven't ever seen this video before
anjilyn2 6 months ago
They all have amazing heads of hair!
Were there no bald people in the 60's/70's?
HuckMeHard 6 months ago
@HuckMeHard : Mike Pinder became real bald shortly thereafter.
Rosemar357 3 months ago
Great sound love it!!!!!
Hushaby11 7 months ago
Looks like Mike's granny knitted him a sweater vest for the show! Love it!!
silverbirdsong 7 months ago
Cool, this is real live original Pinder with the Moodies and not a studio sing over.
brunowarp 7 months ago
These ads destroy the mood fpr the song
deansusky 7 months ago
COCKSUCKIN ADS
crazysteve62 7 months ago
@crazysteve62
Cocksuckin ads ...lots of pleasure!
QueenReigns1 6 months ago
Thanks for this rare jewel
deansusky 7 months ago
Speaking personally, when the Moody Blues lost interest in Mike Pinder, I lost interest in the Moody Blues. Though a limited vocalist as is evident here, he had a depth and insistency to his voice which was the perfect foil for the user-friendly pop sensibilities of the others. Not to mention that sixties mellotron. His spoken contributions reciting Graeme Edge's poetry and songs such as 'How it we are here' and 'The tide rushes in' are quintessential MB to me. I remember Mike!
EwolDJ 7 months ago
fantastic song thnx to all these souvenirs !!!
alstrada 7 months ago
normally rock audience demands energy and jumping and blah blah. there`s thousands of audience over there silently listens and adores this dolorous song. that`s a success in itself...
aporia82 7 months ago
Annesi de yelek örmüş.. ne güzel! :-)
ahaltan 7 months ago
♪♫♥ !
GoodVibesOfficial 7 months ago
So, Why have MB not been inducted into the R/R hall of fame?
kcid56 7 months ago
Amazing so glad I found out about this band
JuggleMyBreasticles 8 months ago
Best Moody Blues song ever.
kiwipreacher 8 months ago 6
its sorry that so few bands today stretch as far to express real musical balance. its less a hippie thing then exploring classical blends with contemporary rock .... i'm melancholy for that
scotty1tube 8 months ago
ﾏｲｸ･ﾋﾟﾝﾀﾞｰの傑作(´∇｀)､ﾗｲヴで観れるとは!?～ライヴでは再現むつかしい曲だけど､まずまずいい!ﾒﾗﾝｺﾘｰ･ﾏﾝbyムーディーズ
blackandtanful 8 months ago
Moody Blues lost a big part of their heart and soul when Mike left the band--IMHO
Sutterjack 8 months ago 2
Good god, LOOK at that crowd! No wonder 70s rock stars lost their minds.
TrippingOverGod 8 months ago
Brilliant! But a small point....Melancholy Man is from the A Question of Balance album
atlanteanlost 9 months ago
@atlanteanlost Yes, Melancholy Man is from A Question of Balance, but I think the name of the DVD that this performance is from is entitled Threshold Of A Dream.
doug16823 8 months ago
@atlanteanlost I think the title of the video refers to the DVD in which this performance is from....not the album the song was originally on.
doug16823 8 months ago
Mike Pinder didn't play the mellotron, he WAS/ IS the mellotron!!
He's completely in a league of his own!!
Adfumbler 9 months ago 3
Mike Pinder...one of a kind!
OB1974 9 months ago
"All the world astounds me, and I think"...I'll never understand how 8 people could click on the Moody Blues intentionally, and dislike this! Fabulous!
musicaldun1 9 months ago 4
@musicaldun1 Maybe they just did not like the sound quality of the record.
ansiyete 1 week ago
vay arkadaş ya
c9a1g 9 months ago
Moraz was very good. But it wasn't the same Moodies after that. I really liked Long Distance Voyager and I even like The Present. They're coming to Fargo for the third time this June. They've played within 50 miles of here two other times. In the old days I had to drive 250 miles to Minneaplois to see them. I hate to say it, but they're more of a Las Vegas lounge act now. They're still excellent. But the Moodies of the 70s were...let's just say the concerts smelled way different.
rstenerson 9 months ago
The Moodies, just are not the Moodies without Mike. I love them, but they were never the same after he left.
One of those artists that will go to his grave without receiving all the credit he deserves.
Mike, you're a musical treasure.
zxer91 9 months ago
@zxer91 I agree. I saw them February 4, 1974 at the Oakland Coliseum after the release of Seventh Sojurn. They broke up shortly after that. (thank God for BlueJays) The next time I saw them was in Minneapolis for the Octave tour. It broke my heart when we took our seats and Pinder's familiar mellotron wasn't there. I saw them the first time at midnight on Octber 9, 1970 in Minneapolis. I've seen them 8 times. Without Pinder it's just not the same.
rstenerson 9 months ago
@rstenerson Wow, I would have loved to have seen them back then. The first time I saw them was in 1979 in Portland Oregon for the Octave tour. Pat Moraz had already replaced Mike, he was great, but it just wasn't the same.
zxer91 9 months ago
Awesome!
TheVovinia 10 months ago
I think its from Isle of Wight 1970
progrocketeer 10 months ago
@progrocketeer ............ wow, how many people are at that concert? ..... as far as the eye can see, and on a hillside at that!
frizzlefrap 9 months ago
What concert is this. There is no infor and everyone knows which album the song is from.
mrAdalkall 10 months ago
Damn this video is great! Classic Mike Pinder. As good as the Moodies are, they were better with Mike.
Tuddyboy11 10 months ago 2
@Poopaloo55 I never saw the Mormon ad and I'm not a Mormon. But why not push religion? YouTube push everything else and nobody minds.
Voefie 10 months ago
I never get tired of this song.. love the Moodies
snarfieable 10 months ago
i love them!
MyEricha 11 months ago
As I have said on other videos, I miss Mike Pinder, and his mellotron.
icaredamnit 11 months ago 16
Never saw the Mormon ad but if true I'm a 110% with you!
TheHawkeyemark 11 months ago
For Pete's sake You Tube, why is there a promo for Mormons at the beginning of this video? You should be ashamed of yourselves, pushing religion here.....stop it!
Poopaloo55 11 months ago 6
A great and very powerful song can listen to this on repeat for hours !!!
e28stevo 11 months ago
Damn, that's good.
Poopaloo55 11 months ago
Brilliant composition and band. Although I prefer studio album.
papasmerf011 11 months ago
beautiful
sueyahoo 11 months ago
In this time of turmoil (sic) you'd think the Moody's would suck it up and do one for us and what they have learned in the intervening time. They know that we know that they know. Singers in a rock and roll band- yes. Poets and philosophers not only for our generation but that which comes after. Their music will be quoted years from now- the Divine willing- will anyone else be as much?
TheHawkeyemark 1 year ago 2
once in a generation somebody will write a song like this!!!
jacobjonathansimi 1 year ago 4
Nice to be able to watch an entire Moody Blues video with the 2 sexiest and most talented members dominating the screen. A pleasure for the ears and eyes.
afgreyparrot 1 year ago 16
i just wish Ray Thomas would have started playing football or running or something about this time...he'd still be playing with the guys if so
rosskstar 1 year ago
none of the MB songs after Mike Pinder can hold a candle to those he helped write
rosskstar 1 year ago
Meloncholy man is from "Question of Balance". Not Threshhold
crobarus 1 year ago
@crobarus Yea,but this is the DVD.it's live with many songs from days of to threshold.They decided to call the "DVD" threshold of a dream.Meloncholy man is on Q.O.B,but not this live version.....
hereinthebronx 1 year ago
@crobarus .... absolutely correct
frizzlefrap 9 months ago
Ray looks stoned!
also,looks like wood stock....Great crowd!
hereinthebronx 1 year ago 2
@hereinthebronx
This is the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight Festival, in August 1970.
Precursing Woodstock, the Isle of Wight hosted outdoors music festivals since 1968. The 1970's event, where an estimated 600,000 attendance watched The Who, The Doors, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and many others, is also remembered as Jimi Hendrix's last apperance.
john1000003 1 year ago
@hereinthebronx "Ray looks stoned!" Uhhh...ya think so? LOL!
Hell yeah!
afgreyparrot 1 year ago 5
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Great song! I'm going to their concert in April and I just bought their new calendar! Any fans should check it out at their website called moodybluestoday!
appleblozzms 1 year ago
Not kicked out. Never!! I used the Moodies as a kind of "religion" in the mid to late 70's. I still love them for the peace, love, and more intelligence they gave me. I believe Pinder did not really enjoy the pressures of touring, especially during the huge move the Moodies made making it "higher and higher" from an opening band to the Main gig. Also he had difficulty with people using them for religious means.
I think their words are worth using as a supplement to good living.
Joe D.
SoCALLLL 1 year ago
@SoCALLLL ........ mike said in a conversation that he wanted to raise a family so that's why he didn't want to tour anymore.
frizzlefrap 9 months ago
bravísimo mike pinder!!
vangelisideras 1 year ago
I agree with conmaesta on Mike Pinder, he's amazing!
rickritis 1 year ago
That was great!
thanx!!
hereinthebronx 1 year ago
Can someone tell me why Mike Pindar left, or was kicked out, of the band?
EWashburn3 1 year ago
@EWashburn3 he left in the middle of recording the album octave which was a kind of reunion after the group separated for a while to do solo albums because he thought the record wasnt strong enough to tour with and or didnt want to go on the road anymore the group made up a story that he left because he couldnt take fans climbing through windows to ask him the meaning of the cosmos but he said he always socialized with fans .
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
So young back then.
ugslamma 1 year ago
Mikes Mellotron is long gone but Justin still plays his Gibson335 on tour but I guess Mike has his amazing machine somewhere close by him.
bugibbab0y 1 year ago
this is from the isle of wight
tomandwat 1 year ago
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I never saw this before. I have been a fan for decades. Mike Pinder sure did a good job singing this live
Rob
adadof 1 year ago
I never saw this before. I have been a fan for decades. Mike Pinder sure did a good job singing this live
adadof 1 year ago
First it looks that its small concert inside somewhere but it is not definitely a small concert :D
JJVSolo 1 year ago
Awesome video. Anyone know why, when you add a thumbs up, it doesn't register on the count anymore?
london2z 1 year ago
Just so I understand correctly, this was recorded in 1970 and it has nearly 200 comments and 175,000 people watched it. Howcum? Just joshing-as a kid I had the 45 rpm with Tuesday Afternoon on it-this was on the flip side. Loved them ever since. More and more.
alittlepale 1 year ago
@alittlepale Wow, this was the flip side of Tuesday Afternoon? It wasn't released on an album until at least 1970.
49kasey 1 year ago
@alittlepale IF You tube was there back in 70s this would have had about few millions of hits within few weeks.Its nice to see more and more youth turning to music of 60, 70 ,80. hope the world get true music again.LISTEN TO ASA SHES A VERY GOOD SINGER
TIMECRISTAL 1 year ago
I never saw this Video and I think it is amazing. Just consider live sound back then. What you hear is what was played. I have been a Moody's fan all my life. Johnny G
johnagiambalvo 1 year ago
great band when your tripping
byrdland5d 1 year ago
This is an astounding vid of what music, lyrics and life/ feelings really where before the world of poular music took over. God Bless Original videos such as this...there are more out the, ....Keep Looking!
trevisanabc 1 year ago
What a beautiful ERA that was!!
lala5732 1 year ago
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forgotten about how great they were
briansnail1 1 year ago
Too amazing ... A crowd of 500,000 .. and great quality video, 40 years old . . . Lots of angry voices in the winds these days. . & how much carbon have we released into the atmosphere since 1970 . . . How many more injustices served . . And we all shine on . . .
jimbowie09 1 year ago 2
so amazing
TheDeiliciousVenyl 1 year ago
159,726 views....does that tell you something, ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME??
bogiemooki 1 year ago
this is just so friggen awesome! it looks like they recorded it yesterday! and the sound ... it's like they were in a studio jamming amongst themselves! just a great friggen post!
kevinmichaelwilliams 1 year ago
The Best
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tompaspa 1 year ago
Hayward's guitar in this is awesome.......
conmaesta 1 year ago
Just to note that Mike Pinder is one of the most intelligent men in my experience, musically, lyrically and just the fact that he had so much to do with musical instrument development is incredible. This man deserves so much more credit for what he's accomplished.
conmaesta 1 year ago 42
@conmaesta......... has written some good music, but he's a nutjob otherwise
baysideinpc 10 months ago
Looks like a Gibson 335 that Justin is playing.....Pretty sure. Nice Mellotron on Pinder.
conmaesta 1 year ago
Really wonderful recording.. A part of music history for sure. Danke !
jimbowie09 1 year ago
Melancholy man was not released on the album 'on the theshold of a dream' it was on ' a question of balance' side 2 track 4.
thanks
MrMoodyblu 1 year ago
good but not as i heard it on vynil so good but it is in my memory that counts
ricglos 1 year ago
Mike Pinder was a phenomenal songwriter!
DieselProductions11 1 year ago 18
@DieselProductions11
'Could not agree more.
Geistesmensch 9 months ago
I'm a melancholy man, too. I can listen to this song over and over, again and again, and I'll never be bored. Thanks for sharing and heartilly greetings from Poland.
krissie660 1 year ago
What an AMAZING live version!!! The passion! The strength! Thank you so much for uploading it. The video quality is perfect, too!
bimtav 1 year ago
GREAT SOUND!
krissie660 1 year ago
simply astounding - Mike Pinder proves he was truly the heart of the Moodies core sound. When he left, the band managed to continue but his 7-album influence continued to provide the remaining members with a foundation that continues today.
northropx 1 year ago 2
Pinder was amazing. Is this the Isle of Wight?
Adominae 1 year ago
The is the best of the songs written by Mike Pinder. While the Moodys is my favorite group, and I think all the members of the band pen terrific songs, Mike is the most sensitive and cerebral of the guys. Listening to the lyrics of Melancholy Man gives me an insight as to why he could not travel with the band after the entire band almost reunited after "Seventh Sojourn". The road was too lonely and hard for him.
wildmanbigfoot1 1 year ago
what a gift; to hear it live
chocolatcats 1 year ago
Hot Damn !! Justin looks so gorgeous here!! He just oozes sex appeal for days!! I have always loved The Moody Blues!! Their music has never ceased to amaze me with their ever so beautiful and magical melodies and songs!! What an amazingly talented band in every aspect!! I grew up on their music and it touched my soul and shaped my life. Their music still touches souls today as it did back then. Their music is just timeless!! The Moody Blues are just purely phenomenal!! <3
twinklebear22 1 year ago 3
what was the track they did with richard Burton to the War of the Worlds? is it available? the dvd?
KCompany535 1 year ago
@KCompany535 It was Forever Autumn. They are gigging it at the moment and Justin is singing the song live! Truelly an amazing experience!
jeflynnenut 1 year ago
YES!! Love this band!!
5winston 1 year ago
The Moody Blues remind me like a Psychedelic Pink Floyd!!!!!
txussoldier 1 year ago
♪♫♥ !
GoodVibesOfficial 1 year ago
Moodies
We are ready for the man that looks like you and looks like me to come.....
edjcox 1 year ago
This song is from "A Question of Balance" not "Theshold"
It is track 9
dalarrikin 1 year ago
@dalarrikin, yeah it is from that album, but this clip, as titled, is a performance from the dvd "threshold of a dream, live at the isle of white festival"
mrselfdestruct76 1 year ago
Thank goodness they recovered and saved these videos. Apparently they were in some guys attic for years. Initially the bands could buy them at the time, but most couldn't afford it. Now we get a great treasure.
soalflat 1 year ago
I love seeing this old footage of one of my absolute favourite bands. Each Moody brought something to the table, and Mike Pinder's music just resonates within me.
2faatcaats 1 year ago
♪♪♫♥ !
GoodVibesOfficial 1 year ago
Legends in their own time
mick50651 1 year ago
Mike Pinder is dressed like a 55 year old unmarried school teacher.
Tondars 1 year ago 2
@Tondars lol
pmls72 1 year ago
@Tondars I woukldn't go that far.
DieselProductions11 1 year ago
whoopee
irokeshmen66fin 1 year ago
Does anyone else find it 'bewildering' that all this stuff was videoed way back then but, in general, we didn't get to see thiese videos THEN,,, but kinda just now?
Trubisha 1 year ago 3
I think this song is saying that you need to experience the depths of despair in order to become truly enlightened. Remember Scrooge?
london2z 1 year ago
Unter himmel-under heaven. Uber mich-over me
HonoluluBeachSlugs 1 year ago
@HonoluluBeachSlugs
thanks. any idea of the name of the German singer (she) or the name of the song in German?
hamzawsky 1 year ago
I am looking for the name of this song in German. I remember it starts with the words: unter himmel uber mich, ....
can anyone help at least with a hint?
hamzawsky 1 year ago
Where was this outdoor concert? A bit of mystical, prophetic content about awakening to ones own inner understanding and to realizing the bleakness of relative consciousness as compared with our more supernal, holistic identity or fuller, truer nature and then to being stuck here to endure... all of this.. is all.
tuberousness 1 year ago
@tuberousness This performance of "Melancholy Man" was at the Isle of Wight concert in the UK in 1970. Much of their set is on a really good DVD called "Threshold of a Dream."
violetjm 1 year ago
@violetjm Oh. Thanks for the info. Threshold is a very good album.
tuberousness 1 year ago
@tuberousness Isles Of Wright Festival 1970.
ctnvca 1 year ago
@tuberousness It's the Isle of Wight Music Festival.
DieselProductions11 1 year ago
Always wondered what mike pinder looked like, never really cared for this song...a bit depressing.
MissyD97 1 year ago
I was there, it was great. This had to be the high point in their career and there were all those great songs to come later. Thanks
hunchback20 1 year ago
"Melancholy" sums up the basic tenor or the Moody Blues' music. There is something "moody" about their sound alright. As in Blues, it wallows in self. After a while, it starts to smell like an old dusty attic of bygone dreams.
The Moody Blues tapped into the 60s generation of angst and despair which permeated that generation for decades. Gone is the era of upbeat big band music and classic popular jazz, and now the world is still "In Search of The Lost Chord."
Entropy56 1 year ago
used to get high to this in 1971
mute1mom 1 year ago 2
@mute1mom go for it
bcgdog 1 year ago
The keybord player has a nice speaking voice....otherwise.... : (
Snotra 1 year ago
did you ever notice that big oil spilled in 2010 a spill so deadly on the mexican gulf that we the people blamed our nigger president
ePhilosopher9 1 year ago
Asparrow better known as Moron, doesn't understand that Ray Thomas is one of the best musicians in this world. Theatrical he is and that's the way we all love Thomas.
conmaesta 1 year ago 3
@conmaesta No definitely some serious retardation gnawing at his brain box. Sad to hear that you are suffering from a similar investiture of terminal duh. If you what to make those claims and be considered serious, make them about Ian Anderson. See ya!
asparrow 1 year ago
The flute player seems like he might have some mild retardation but I like the flute colored the way it is. I wonder what brand it is.
asparrow 1 year ago
@asparrow nothing wrong with Ray Thomas, i met him several years ago in Phoenix, Az, really great guy and is a talented songwriter and musician, just not a good dancer!!!!
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 1 year ago 3