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« Reply #4460 on: October 10, 2025, 01:31:14 PM » |
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John Lodge of the Moody Blues. Only saw them once 40+ years ago but they were bloody ace.
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« Reply #4461 on: October 10, 2025, 03:38:06 PM » |
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One of my favourite bands, only Justin Hayward left now. John had been ill recently, but had recovered and was back touring. R.I.P.
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« Reply #4462 on: October 10, 2025, 04:57:08 PM » |
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John Lodge was bringing his tour to Austin in December, with his son in law John Davison doing the Justin Hayward bits. I was planning to attend.
I did manage to see the Moodies thrice, in 1983, 1986, and 2018. Mrs. J From A saw them in Dallas in 1970. R.I.P. and thanks for the music.
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« Reply #4463 on: October 10, 2025, 05:22:41 PM » |
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John Lodge was bringing his tour to Austin in December, with his son in law John Davison doing the Justin Hayward bits. I was planning to attend.
I did manage to see the Moodies thrice, in 1983, 1985, and 2017. Mrs. J From A saw them in Dallas in 1970. R.I.P. and thanks for the music.
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« Reply #4464 on: October 10, 2025, 05:26:02 PM » |
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Indeed the same. Jon D. married into the Lodge family a few years ago and has been touring with JL.
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« Reply #4465 on: October 10, 2025, 06:25:10 PM » |
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I did see on the socials that he was recovering. Sorry to hear this. People focused on the songs and his voice (for good reasons) but I also really loved his bass playing, particularly on Nights, I’m Just A Singer, and that great counterpoint on Question. RIP John
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« Reply #4466 on: October 10, 2025, 06:38:36 PM » |
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Indeed, an inventive and melodic bass player. RIP
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« Reply #4467 on: October 10, 2025, 08:02:40 PM » |
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John Lodge of the Moody Blues. Only saw them once 40+ years ago but they were bloody ace.
One of my favourite ever bands loses another RIP John, one of rock's true gentlemen. |
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« Reply #4468 on: October 11, 2025, 12:00:41 AM » |
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Sorry to hear of the passing of John Lodge , I was never a Moodies fan , but Blue Jays was my first ever gig , and I remember "Blue Guitar" playing on the radio in my Dad's car on the way to Hull ABC that night in 1975
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« Reply #4469 on: October 11, 2025, 02:08:02 AM » |
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Drummer Thommy Price. Impressive CV with a lot of artists. News shared via Joan Jett’s IG
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« Reply #4470 on: October 11, 2025, 08:07:52 PM » |
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Never saw the Moodies, despite babysitting / childminding for Justin Hayward a loooomg time ago.
Liked most of their middle-era stuff. The compilation "This Is The Moody Blues" is my go-to album of theirs although I have others.
RIP John Lodge, a fine musician and singer in a rock'n'roll band.
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« Reply #4471 on: October 11, 2025, 09:36:09 PM » |
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Never saw the Moodies, despite babysitting / childminding for Justin Hayward a loooomg time ago.
Liked most of their middle-era stuff. The compilation "This Is The Moody Blues" is my go-to album of theirs although I have others.
RIP John Lodge, a fine musician and singer in a rock'n'roll band.
TIMB is one of the best compilations of its kind, from the overlapping fade out/fade ins (mimicking the FM radio listening experience) to the remixed tunes (listen to the intricate guitar picking and crashing drums on NIWS, which are not audible on DOFP). Great stuff. |
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« Reply #4472 on: October 17, 2025, 08:07:49 AM » |
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Ace Frehley. Kiss founding guitarist.
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« Reply #4473 on: October 17, 2025, 09:54:43 AM » |
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Ace Frehley. Kiss founding guitarist.
An incendiary guitarist in his time. RIP. |
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« Reply #4474 on: October 17, 2025, 10:37:07 AM » |
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Ace Frehley. Kiss founding guitarist.
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« Reply #4475 on: October 17, 2025, 01:11:32 PM » |
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Vaya con dios, Ace Frehley!
KISS were never my cup of tea, but they were the Beatles of my sixth-grade classroom. I have been reading the admiring obituaries, which are particularly complimentary of his leads. It confuses me because, for years, people have credited at least some of the lead guitar on KISS albums to Steve Hunter (an undeniable genius). Nevertheless, an army of accomplished guitarists has come out of the woodwork to credit Ace Frehley with inspiring them to pick up the instrument. That says a lot right there.
I missed an opportunity to hear and even to meet Ace when he performed on the Congress Avenue Bridge here in Austin a few years back. As usual, I did not appreciate the fact that it might be my last opportunity.
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« Reply #4476 on: October 17, 2025, 02:51:55 PM » |
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I only saw Kiss the once back in the 80s when they had something of a revolving door of lead guitarists with, I think, Mark St John being in the band for their Animalize tour. Support was a little known band called Bon Jovi who had just released their debut album.
But sad to hear of Ace's demise. It's been a good few years since Eric Carr passed away. His death was overshadowed by that of Freddie Mercury as they both died on the same day.
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have come in for some stick over the years for not being very sympathetic to Eric's illness and I found a fairly recent interview where they admit they got things wrong - they assumed that Eric would recover and rejoin the band. A very fine drummer he was too.
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« Reply #4477 on: Today at 03:07:31 PM » |
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Dave Ball of Soft Cell, age 66.
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« Reply #4478 on: Today at 03:19:33 PM » |
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Dave Ball of Soft Cell, age 66.
Oh no, a big loss. Just literally finished a new album with Marc, apparently. The Grid were great too.... |
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