THE MOODY BLUES
Threshold Of A Dream: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival
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Music chronicler Murray Lerner patches together the August 1970 concert of The Moody Blues with the band’s latter day recollections. If the talk of “archaic amplification”, “the huge audience” and “the mellotron” of the first section add little, the concert itself (which fills the second half in its entirety, bar the odd missing song) is essential viewing. If in doubt of their 1970 majesty watch this concert and forget the bloated rich Las Vegas showmen who have been churning out ‘Nights In White Satin’ for what seems like an eternity. Justin Hayward, slight of frame, high of cheekbones and attired in slender white trousers, ribbed t-shirt and Timotei hair strikes an elfin presence while the remaining group having moved on from looking like Brummy hairdressers and appear relaxed in their less flamboyant hippy influenced gear of ’70, but it’s the music that speaks loudest. From the perfect rendition of ‘Gypsy’ through the wildness of ‘Tortoise And The Hair’ and ‘Question’ The Moody Blues show themselves as a force of psychedelic rock that few could reckon with. Ray Thomas can be forgiven.
Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills
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