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  • Ahead of their time, they were!!

  • the actual lsd studies were finally declassed. You can go to rand dot org and do search for rand memorandum lsd studies. names, doses, the detail is astounding... this was pre word processor. u can also go to my fake church (church of lsd, rifles, jesus, and rammstein, etc) on 3w , JesusOSunrise , com click the blue link on top or in the green area...YOU go RIGHT INTO RAND... RIGHT IN BABY AND I GOT THE LINKS THAT WILL MAKE U BLINKS. MEANWHLE CHECK BELOW BRAND NEW MOVING FRACTAL MOODY B !

  • not one of the best bands ever, but definitely one of the best songs of the sixties

  • @thepinkpopcornqueen Timothy Leary dead? Never dude. He lives on....

  • I met Timothy Leary when I was a child in Zihuatanejo,he stayed on La Ropa beach at the hotel Catalina in 1970.

  • @ibarriver1 Did he give you any mind altering acid dude??

  • Has anyone noticed a similarity between this and Pink Floyd of the same era? 'See Emily Play' and 'Arnold Layne' sound pretty similar.

  • 1 of the greatest but under rated bands of all time. Love this album. Listening 2 this song brings back memories of many "trips" of which I returned the same day....or nite.

  • How can there be colour formations in a black and white video?? Red, blue, purple, green.

  • Amazing that this band has been around for 47 YEARS...and their music has stood the test of time

  • @siobob1

    Lets see if Justin Bieber and his Ilk are round in 10yrs let alone 47!

  • @siobob1 Why is that amazing re: their music? We still listen 2 Bach, Brahms, I'd say more but I can't spell them, y not them? Perfectly made music is continuously shared over the span of time & never 4gotten. Neither will their music. My children & grankids know the Moody Blues' music.

  • @mrt57rn T H E M  ok??

  • I'm not looking to see from a freed spirit point of veiw though my heart still beats down there for me to return! I could "dig" on a power that might suggest the ability to levitate a subject..no Abduct!..Fox! Rock's Czar! The Moody Blues R Greater than a need to be in some Hall of Fame as though dead..no..Deceased! Rock n Roll!..Me too dude..Me Too!.."I" Want. To See True Glimpses of REALITY/in our Future! (en not it's excuses of nearly 15 trillion in DEBT and 'Still In Aurthority over me!)

  • In search of the lost chord has the double meaning of searching for the silver cord that binds us to earth while astral travelling.

  • I still have the album. Great art work. Lots of people dropped acid to this one. 

  • @Richard2003 We sure did.

  • Love the old Moodies! But these guys today are artistically bankrupt!!! They are as bad as what Rush became. RAY AND MIKE.....PLEASE COME BACK! {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{PLEASE}}}­}}}}}}}}}}}}} (by the way ray...you hit a grand slam with this song. The best song the band ever did and the best one you ever wrote. Great job!)

  • Besides "Go Now", this is probably one of their best!!

  • Is that really Millbrook? It looks like a castle. They should open it to the public as a museum.

  • @repoman256 They filmed it in Belgium at Groot-Bijgaarden Castle near Brussels.

  • "In Search of the Lost Chord" = simply one of THE best albums of all time! The Moody Blues = simply one of THE best bands of all time! Period. ("F" the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.)

  • Mike Pinder's work on the Mellotron is what really makes this song sound so haunting. It's a masterpiece.

  • All-Time Classic ......I could kiss you for this upload....lol...Thanks

  • millbrook ...the house of fun!!!!

  • saw them live 2 years ago, they are as dynamic now as then. it was a little strange sitting there with several thousand 60+ yr odls, feeling buzzed on diet coke!!

  • I love this song 43 years later its still greate I just pulled my flute out And I still remember the fingering gs

  • I love this song 43 years later its still greate gs

  • When their songs clicked: Harmonies, dynamics. musicianship, no one could touch the Moodys--and everyone who was into music back then knew it.

    One of the very few bands whose music could become transcendental.

  • man i smoked tons of weed and hash in the 60ths and 70ths with this song playing..

    O yeah

  • @benschuit Me too dude.

  • @benschuit  Me too dude. Used to meditate to it.

  • i remember my brother showed me this song for the first time when i was 9 and od'd on my anti-seizure meds and started hallucinating in the middle of the night. the intense bridge part with the flute is still as crazy hearing it now as it as the first time.

  • A masterpiece!!! They just dont make great music like this anymore.

  • i think the rock and roll hall of fame is a joke period

  • Can you imagine that these dudes are still not in the rock and roll hall of fame, that is a shame.

  • This song/video gives me a bit of an acid flashback! I wish I could be at that castle..

    I hope one day to play one of those old original mellotrons before I die.

    PS There goes Dr. Leary in his astral plane 6:29

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  • LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE THEM IN MUNICH IN 72 WITH PINDER

    ORIGINAL LINEUP 2 FEET FROM THE STAGE

  • That 1 dislike must surely be Dick Channey...G...

  • @TheGmcFilms LMFAO. Who else could it be? Thanks I needed that. :)

  • great song. horrible video. the director should be taken out and shot.

  • Lovely Englishmen with a brilliant sound ... as easy on the eyes as the ears!

  • so i will give Slayer a miss today and listen to the Moody Blues love this track and I quite like old Tim

  • @MoodyGirl67 ...I just saw the Moodies tonight in Vegas. Well, it was Justin, John, and Graeme, with some extra musicians. But still, what an incredible show it was. If you get a chance to see this tour, you won't regret it. Of course, it's different without Ray Thomas and Michael Pinder...but nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the concert. Peace, MoodyGirl67.

  • @MoodyGirl67 ...ps...and he's the group's flautist? Yes, I do believe the show will be extremely lacking without Ray. It'll be interesting to see how the guys make up for his absence.

  • Love the puffy cuffs, almost like out of the original Scarlet Pimpernel movie from 1934. Between the Moodies and Pink Floyd, I really love both....

  • @MoodyGirl67 ...Granted. But, unfortunately my dear, Ray's retired. Some websites claim he's dead. I will get to see the Moodies in present day form play at the Hard Rock Hotel this Friday, May 13, 2011. Yes, I wish Ray Thomas was with them, as he certainly was/is an important founding member. I'll post a sort of "review" of the live show in less than a week. But seriously, I can't wait til this Friday!!!!

  • Back when I was growing up, I was a strange kid, Id listen to Green Day and all that, but equally, I loved the Moodies, Yes, etc. One day I was hanging around with a few friends who were into modern rock, very narrow minded, and I sang this. I was suprised to find that, later that night they all asked me for the song title, they all then downloaded the song and LOVED it. They all sang the lyrics for months.

  • ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS OF ALL TIME...

  • Damn. I miss LSD.

  • Leary was an agent of the Tavistock institute. MK-ULTRA. CIA shipped LSD onto the streets of youth. promoted bands like beatles and moody blues. Hippie movement created by Tavistock mind control agency, through funding of criminal banks. they wanted that generation blown away (internally scrambled). MK-ULTRA/CIA/TAVISTOCK.

  • I have an actual "In Search of the Lost Chord" album (vinyl). By far their best stuff.

  • pretty well thought out song .... don'tcha think? ......... i got high listening to it ..... without drugs .,.... cause ......... i didn't take them ... cigarettes were bad enough .... smokeless for 11 years now ...... 3rd. time quit ...... and am 58 as of 4-18-11 .... so, no excuse that you can't quit ...... CAUSE YA CAN, IF YA WANT TO!

  • Dr. Leary was a hero. Love this song and I still don't understand why the Blues are NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  • I had my dad rewind this song over and over (other than Pink Floyd's Another Brink In The Wall Part 2 and The Beatles Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) in the car when ever we went out!!! I was 5 years old by the way (1986). :P

  • yeah sgold, but drop some acid and this song will give you full body orgasms.

    Before anyone says acid destroys your life pause for a moment and remember who the song is about. Go read Dr. Leary's bio and then come back and post it, if you still can.

  • I love this song and your video. Thank you for posting it.  Love and peace to you all

  • Oh, I like the bass line and the Mellotron in that song... And the chorus in the end for emotional climax... Beautiful!

  • Songs like this make it easy to forgive Ian's obsession with overproduction.

  • isnt that frodo and samwise?

    

  • help! i'm trying to find a song that ray thomas sings- it's soft and pretty about butterlfies and springtime or something. i saw it first on you tube, but can't find it now. it had a pretty video of outside springtime things. anyone know???

  • @trixred1 its called "The Morning " from the Days of Future Passed album, if thats the one your looking for...

  • We can all be outside ~ Looking In, unfortunately most of us occasionally get outside, but few take the tie or expend the effort to look within and therefore seldom understand what is to be learned from that view point or perspective. The trip(s) do not require LSD or any other artificial assistance, they only require that one step outside and then look inside the shell of our physical existence to see what is there. Thinking is after all "The Best Way to Travel" along that route.

  • All their voices blend so well, real good harmony!!

  • this song is so amazing. :D

    i listened to it while playing harvest moon.

  • War solves all problems

  • The Moody Blues were as they stated, "Just a Singer(s) in a Rock and Roll Band". They did for some however provide a map of at least one method to begin to understand who we were and how we could pass through the human journey from Birth through Growth to Self Realization to Death and then Transfiguration. They were helpful in the early 70's and 80's as the world came crashing down for those if us who believed we could actually avoid war, hunger and mans inhumanity to man. Peace...

  • @sliderhd82803  Very good. You understand the essence of a 'world burning in it's greed.'

  • @TheHawkeyemark Hey Slider. See you are really a fan. The 'House of 4 Doors' is before this. One thing acid showed me was once you open that door you can never get the sense of wonder you did on the original opening. My problem was trying to find that sense of wonder again. I wondered why but now I know. Like God, once you discover the Divine you can't get the wonder of the first time back- like love, can be matched but never bettered.

  • The boundaries have disappeared. Who are you? Who am I? ... You may have three or four references, but ... What saves you from yourself?

  • what a great song that takes me back,.... my sister and i got to meet them all about 15 years ago while they were in cincinnati..

  • Will anyone do an "Elvis is Dead" song? I think.... not...

  • Thinking is the best way to travel.... We ride the waves.....

  • A 6 1/2 minute video made in the 60s? Could be the longest music video ever made in the 60s!

  • @Tommygun1028 They had to film this in Belgium just like Pink Floyd's See Emily Play because it was much cheaper.

  • I forgot how good this song was. thanks for uploading. times are a chaning, eventually.

  • To think they were making music videos wayyyyy back then.........

    Amazing!

  • kool tune....!!!!

  • Very interesting film clip from early '68 although not a very exciting or imaginative one from the director for this particular track, which is brilliant and from a brilliant album released in July of that year

  • Thanks for posting this great song!

  • The power of the human mind and potential has been limited by the society it creates. We are mired in war, inequity, and the constant threat of breakdown. Cooperation is the key. Now compromise on the drug policy when it comes to LSD may never see such a level of cooperation, but maybe one day when bigger problems are solved it might be possible. Create peaceful societies, and self exploration through hallucinogens, and cannabis would seem highly probable.

  • .....Legends ....From The Beginning.....

  • We Just all keep our mouth shut when we know what this means. Think about it!! AND THEN THINK AGAIN. HE HE HE HE EH

  • Proof positive they had music video well before MTV. Amazing music.

  • One of the first examples of 'looping' in music.....

    GREAT!!!

  • Okay Timothy Leary was getting **** from the military as they wanted to find out what they did from adventurous Hippies etc...

    They found that giving them to soldiers without their consent just freaked them out..

    I had a taste of some very wonderful variants when I befriended A Mister Owsley at the Boots and Saddles in LaHonda. We went across the creek to Keasys' house. Little ole me in Merry Pranksters Land

    I would assume that the Shulgins of Berkeley were involved.

  • FOR A MAN WHO DESERVED SOO MUCH AND WAS SO MISUNDERSTOOD..

    peace be with you tim..!? :-)

  • Close your eyes. Look at the speckles of light and colour on the outside, or is it inside of your mind, or is it your soul? This is what it's all about....never mind the imagination..........

  • I really don't think the trip can be that predictable, or that he knows exactly which way he is going to go.

  • "Nicholai Volkoff"....LMFAO!!!!

  • This video is a treasure...full stop.

    Many thanks to you, clotho98

  • Naturally high rules, right Timothy?

  • Excellent song! Brings back some fun memories of us and a Triumph Herald!!

  • timothy leary's dead he did that book politics of extacy i could not make head or tail of it. now the moody blues among some of the time had a bad reputation as just a pop band then they went on and did all this amazing music and blew a lot of minds too me i was triping and having a groove far out moodys for ever.

  • Thimothy Leary is not a guru of LSd..... He only try to open our mind in un using LSD !! I tried it many years ago, and i think so, everything change around me and nothing wil be same before !!!

  • Definitely has a Spinal Tap " Listen to What the Flower People Say" vibe to it

  • Certainly on par with Strawberry Fields!

  • What the? A freaking prophesy!

  • One question! Were they tripping during this video?

  • Who knows? Everyone was pretty much tripping in those days and it's not much different today....except the drugs of today are totally deadly and the sense of things is different...and so the music is different. Personally I think todays music is mostly shit. I'm glad I was there back then. I think it was a far better day ...even though there were all kinds of problems of course. Thank god for the invention of film and sound...this stuff will still be good 2000 years from now if man survives.

  • during this video, itink so not !! before or after i think so yes, and you, what do you think about it??

  • unreal

  • This video looks like it was filmed at 'Millbrook', a Victorian mansion about 80 miles North of NYC where Dr. Leary lived & worked with a number of his students in the mid. 1960's.

  • are you sure is the the famous of timothy leary???

  • Not sure, no.

    However, it looks like the same place from pictures I have seen.

  • What a masterpiece and beautiful song. A timeless classic that gives you a natural high. No foreign substances required!

  • Eccentric. wonderful music...i love the Flutesolo...:-)...

  • Timothy Leary wrote the book: Varieties of Psychedelic Experience based upon the Tibetan Book of the Dead. (required reading for the enlightened.)

  • Great Song! I had the chance to meet Tim Leary in the early '90s... What a mind! I can tell you that he really is "Outside looking in!"

  • dude, u are freddy mercury in the 60s...love it, playing the flute....

  • some of the greatest harmonies in rock---and you have to love the outfits!

  • timothy. LSD. flashback time. moody blues so relaxing. listen to gypsy. a great song of theirs.

  • Not exactly a Mellotron Michael was playing...

  • Leary was broken out of prison by the Weather Underground and rescued to Algeria. Really pissed the FBI off.

  • To this day, my dad will randomly walk into a room and announce "Timothy Leary's dead...no, no, no, no He's outside...looking in."

    Love it.

  • OMG!  That's too funny. I never thought of it that way. And now I'm never going to be able to listen to this song again without thinking of Timothy Leary as a stalker peeking in my window.

  • @clotho98 No no no no.. this was not the stalker generation. Nobody's dad who grew up with this stuff is thinking other than cosmic thoughts when they proclaim that "Timothy Leary is outside looking in."

  • @PICKLETREE that's awesome.

  • @PICKLETREE That is funny... your dad is cool!!

  • @PICKLETREE I do wonder. That track takes me back with all its Who like changes of pace. I didn't understand it at all when first heard on the Dansette record player but knew that there were inner landscapes to explore. Such were the late 60s for me.I too still quote the line, Timothy Leary's Dead....Thanks for that. ps I made good friends recently with Nick Turner (Hawkwind) xxx audleynick@tiscali.co.uk

  • @mYpAsSwOrD0192837465 It took me a while to understand this song, too, and my dad never really told me what it was about, so I had to look it up. I missed the 60s (I'm only 21), but I love this bit of that generation (the Moody Blues, that is, not the drugs and whatnot). My dad lived through this time, and because he loves these guys so much, I grew up listening to them and loving them, too.

    I'm not familiar with Hawkwind, but that's still pretty cool!

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  • @PICKLETREE

    Awesome!  Wish my Dad was so hip as yours!

  • Well said

  • excellent song! gotta love mellotrons

  • my favorite song of the moody blues, and one of my favorite songs of all-time!

  • "The lyrics refer to when Leary left the U.S. for Switzerland for his outspoken views concerning altering ones conciousness with drugs."

    this is not true. leary fled to switzerland in 1971. he left the united states after escaping from prison where he was in year one of a ten year sentence he received in 1970.

  • I stand corrected.  I was going by information found elsewhere.

  • Excellent!!

  • Takes me back to another place and another time.....It's what the 60's were all about!!!

  • my fave moodys song

  • The Moody Blues!

    They were like the Camp Councilors of the Psychedelic set. Always there with a good word and some lushly sensual sounds to soothe a troubled mind.

    And then we'd listen to....UMMAGUMMA!

  • well said!

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