OK, I’m back from my much-needed break, and I’ll probably rev this thing up again for real starting early next week. Until I do, though, I have to address some unfinished business, you might say.
While I was on my unplanned absence at the beginning of the month (slightly before that to be exact), we lost the last surviving member of the original lineup of The Moody Blues, and I’m referring to Mike Pinder (pictured). It should be noted that Justin Hayward and John Lodge stepped into the lineup to replace Denny Laine and Clint Warwick, and from that point, the group reconstituted themselves from a combo performing what you would call pop hits into the prog rock-based fivesome that went off in a wholly other direction starting with “Days of Future Passed.”
With that in mind, I’d like to present the following tunes either written or heavily influenced by Pinder as a tribute...
...including this one, which may be the most recognizable from the band’s entire catalog (Pinder voiced the “Late Lament” at the end).
