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Question - The Moody Blues, Live At Red Rocks

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Why do we never get an answer when we're knocking at the door With a thousand million questions about hate and death and war?

'Cause when we stop and look around us, there is nothing that we need In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed

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Moody Blues - Question (1970)

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non-orchestrated version, one of the first times it was performed

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-13 08:13 PM | Reply

A fav tune of mine.

thx for posting it.

I remember seeing them perform in Madison Square Garden one night, then driving to Philadelphia with others the next night to see them perform again at the, then called, Philadelphia Spectrum.

Fortunately, there was an alumni of the Frat in Philadelphia who offered his living room floor for an after-concert sleeping bag overnight stay. We bought him a ticket to attend with us. :)

This was in the mid-1970's.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 08:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2

Are you saying you were a Frat Boy? ;-)

I was a hippy at the time, but we had Frats on campus... also the Air Force ROTC recruiting station, where one of our tripping friends who, after mistakenly taking 4 hits of acid that had frozen together in his fridge, went and signed up while he was high the whole week!

;;

Per the lyric above, it's too bad things haven't changed much since then... other than getting worse as far as Oligarch control I mean.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-13 08:44 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Are you saying you were a Frat Boy? ;-) ...

I've said it in the past that I was a member of a Fraternity.

Indeed, I remember the miranda7 alias stating to me that I do not seem like a Frat boy, when I last mentioned it, oh, a year or two ago.

I learned a lot from my Fraternity experience. Besides the enduring friendships, while i was in college I was managing the budget for the Frat house when I was the Treasurer. With mortgage and utility payments and all. I remember having to walk to the bank each month to pay the mortgage and to deposit the checks for room rents because, back then, there did not exist automatic fund transfers.

:)


But, there it is....



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 09:02 PM | Reply

imo, one of the best songs of the Moody Blues ...

Moody Blues - Dream Sequence (1969) (it's a 12 minute tune)
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Back in the progressive music days when multiple songs were continuum of music.

OK, here's the first song of that musical amalgam ...

genius.com

...
Spoken:

When the white eagle of the North is flying overhead
The browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the gutter, dead
Remember then, that summer birds with wings of fire flaying
Come to witness spring's new hope, born of leaves decaying

As new life will come from death, love will come at leisure
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wondrous yearn of a promise almost seen
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream
...


Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore. :)


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 09:13 PM | Reply

@#5 ... OK, here's the first song of that musical amalgam ...

Oops, it is the second song, not the first.

The first is Are You Sitting Comfortably.

Apologies.


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 09:35 PM | Reply

Graham Edge had an amazing way with words. His spoken words (soliloquys?) combined with Ray Thomas' flute really set the Moody Blues apart from other bands. Where are such artists these days?

#7 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-02-13 11:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#7 ... Graham Edge had an amazing way with words. ...

imo, an understatement.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 11:52 PM | Reply

Where are such artists these days?

In a world where thinking is discouraged, no one wants music that makes you think.

"Breathe deep the gathering gloom"

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-14 08:41 AM | Reply

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion

Songwriters: Graham Edge

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-14 09:46 AM | Reply

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