No one can compare The Moody Blues of '65 with '67 when Justin & John joined the Band! They changed the style and everything, that made them one of the best group ever existed. Both of them are musical genious! Thanks for all your tracks and albums!
"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.)
I was at a Moody Blues concert at the Seattle Center in the 60's. When this song was played, the couple in front of me got up and walked out in reaction to the title.
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.
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.
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 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.
I might never have tried lysergic travels were it not for this song. LOL I met Timothy Leary a number of years ago, an old man promoting an Electronic Arts game called "Mind Mirror." He was brilliant, humble and good natured even years after the acid days. I think sometimes we overlook the greatness of certain people, because they flew a different flight path. Thanks Tim. And thanks Clotho for posting this...brought back a magic theatre of memories.
Leary was one of the people we listened to because he was brilliant and took you to a new understanding. The government hated Leary and even imprisoned him for a couple of joints. The Weather Underground broke him out of prison and got him to Algeria. Mountaingirl Garcia said she couldn't tell if he was a God or a used car salesman. He was a rebel .
One night many moons ago, i woke up. Radio was still playing low. Was in one if those half awake half asleep states. It was at the 2:50 mark. Always remembered that. Good song
Unbelievable! Over 10 years published to RUclips and only 114,119 views while the likes of Miley gets hundreds of millions in just a few weeks or months. Guess most people just don't know great music! This is for sure a classic!
Love this video, and the song itself sounds remarkably good 50+ years following its original creation and recording. But why don't the guys look like they're enjoying themselves as they perform ("perform") this piece? Hayward and Lodge, in particular, seem to have pained expressions on their faces through most of it.
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...
I took a three month trip with Timothy Leary from late May to August 25,1974, I woke up out of that trip at the Special Olympics after I won my third medal at the Sport's field at UB. I took 100 hits of 4way Windowpane the day after I heard "the Girl in Alaska had a Daughter and Named her Jewel" downed the whole sheet of acid in the back seat of My dad's car on the way to the hospital because I was trying to go to Alaska to See what my family called my imaginary wife and daughter Jewelry aka Jewel Kilcher these day's, see I'm the Stranger Blue from the East. Two Gold & One Silver medals over You (Nedra) & Jewel.
@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!
Moody Blues, one of the BEST bands ever, their music is loved for generations, they are superb musicians not poster boy faces, they pioneer the conbination of rock with classical music, along Jethro Tull.. let's faced, they ARE one of the Greatest musicians, period. So far is said, Lodge is Christian, and the others practice some sort of religion with some Christian ideas, whaatever is the case,faith es personal, Music is universal. May be tha's why Rollings Stone magazine don't like them, oy v
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!
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.
At That time...Moderate..buttheir song writing, producing, and taltent were Exceptional...their fame grew over the years.....and by 1980's were had sold over 50 million records...
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
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!)
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.
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.
Amazing that this band has been around for 47 YEARS...and their music has stood the test of time
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.
What a masterpiece and beautiful song. A timeless classic that gives you a natural high. No foreign substances required!
All their voices blend so well, real good harmony!!
RIP Ray and thank you for the music
Your music will be missed here on earth, greetz to Timothy.
R.I.P. Ray
Moody Blues!!!
Is so so God plyers And I realy wonder why they not come inside Off "Rock and hall Off fame???
I met Timothy Leary when I was a child in Zihuatanejo,he stayed on La Ropa beach at the hotel Catalina in 1970.
ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS OF ALL TIME...
No one can compare The Moody Blues of '65 with '67 when Justin & John joined the Band! They changed the style and everything, that made them one of the best group ever existed. Both of them are musical genious! Thanks for all your tracks and albums!
Great Song this...love the flute Solo...and that ‘Light’ drumming is pure magic.
some of the greatest harmonies in rock---and you have to love the outfits!
Greatest Moody Blues achievement. . .
"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.)
I love this song 43 years later its still greate I just pulled my flute out And I still remember the fingering gs
Mike Pinder's work on the Mellotron is what really makes this song sound so haunting. It's a masterpiece.
my hero along w/ abbie hoffman! what a great era i lived & grew uo in! what a TRIP!
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.
My best buddy loved this ...RIP..so did i.now my best friend is on the outside looking in..
Moody Blues-like something divine bolted down from the heavens and created this flash of creativity.
Ray Thomas is one gifted bastard!
Takes me back to another place and another time.....It's what the 60's were all about!!!
I was at a Moody Blues concert at the Seattle Center in the 60's.
When this song was played, the couple in front of me got up and walked out in reaction to the title.
What a bunch of squares
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..
my favorite song of the moody blues, and one of my favorite songs of all-time!
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.
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.
Yeah - this band is the trip, and their music the method of "getting there".
Dig it!
One of the first examples of 'looping' in music.....
GREAT!!!
Sublimes e eternos!!! Moody Blues forever and ever!!!
This video is a treasure...full stop.
Many thanks to you, clotho98
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 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.
I might never have tried lysergic travels were it not for this song. LOL I met Timothy Leary a number of years ago, an old man promoting an Electronic Arts game called "Mind Mirror." He was brilliant, humble and good natured even years after the acid days. I think sometimes we overlook the greatness of certain people, because they flew a different flight path. Thanks Tim. And thanks Clotho for posting this...brought back a magic theatre of memories.
Oh, I like the bass line and the Mellotron in that song... And the chorus in the end for emotional climax... Beautiful!
Leary was one of the people we listened to because he was brilliant and took you to a new understanding. The government hated Leary and even imprisoned him for a couple of joints. The Weather Underground broke him out of prison and got him to Algeria. Mountaingirl Garcia said she couldn't tell if he was a God or a used car salesman. He was a rebel .
They were before their time back int he 60's. Awesome!
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!"
kool tune....!!!!
One night many moons ago, i woke up. Radio was still playing low. Was in one if those half awake half asleep states. It was at the 2:50 mark. Always remembered that. Good song
Excellent song! Brings back some fun memories of us and a Triumph Herald!!
My 8 year old daughter loves and sings this song out loud all the time. xD
Amazing song! have listened more than 1000 times and every time I like it better !
It doesn't get any better than this!!
You are so right. They still sound great. I saw them several years ago at Red Rock. It was so great. Man how time has flown/
FOR A MAN WHO DESERVED SOO MUCH AND WAS SO MISUNDERSTOOD..
peace be with you tim..!? :-)
Unbelievable! Over 10 years published to RUclips and only 114,119 views while the likes of Miley gets hundreds of millions in just a few weeks or months. Guess most people just don't know great music! This is for sure a classic!
Loved the Moody Blues, all the way to "Go Now." Brings back memories Jimster.
I love this song 43 years later its still greate gs
Love this video, and the song itself sounds remarkably good 50+ years following its original creation and recording. But why don't the guys look like they're enjoying themselves as they perform ("perform") this piece? Hayward and Lodge, in particular, seem to have pained expressions on their faces through most of it.
Great, great song
I forgot how good this song was. thanks for uploading. times are a chaning, eventually.
Proof positive they had music video well before MTV. Amazing music.
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...
Lovely Englishmen with a brilliant sound ... as easy on the eyes as the ears!
Songs like this make it easy to forgive Ian's obsession with overproduction.
I took a three month trip with Timothy Leary from late May to August 25,1974, I woke up out of that trip at the Special Olympics after I won my third medal at the Sport's field at UB.
I took 100 hits of 4way Windowpane the day after I heard "the Girl in Alaska had a Daughter and Named her Jewel" downed the whole sheet of acid in the back seat of My dad's car on the way to the hospital because I was trying to go to Alaska to See what my family called my imaginary wife and daughter Jewelry aka Jewel Kilcher these day's, see I'm the Stranger Blue from the East. Two Gold & One Silver medals over You (Nedra) & Jewel.
@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!
I still have the album. Great art work. Lots of people dropped acid to this one.
so good…
Besides "Go Now", this is probably one of their best!!
📄 Music!
Moody Blues, one of the BEST bands ever, their music is loved for generations, they are superb musicians not poster boy faces, they pioneer the conbination of rock with classical music, along Jethro Tull.. let's faced, they ARE one of the Greatest musicians, period.
So far is said, Lodge is Christian, and the others practice some sort of religion with some Christian ideas, whaatever is the case,faith es personal, Music is universal. May be tha's why Rollings Stone magazine don't like them, oy v
Well said
Good video
very old and very great
this song is so amazing. :D
i listened to it while playing harvest moon.
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!
He's outside looking in
I really don't think the trip can be that predictable, or that he knows exactly which way he is going to go.
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.
This band its' a living legend.
well said!
Definitely has a Spinal Tap " Listen to What the Flower People Say" vibe to it
I have an actual "In Search of the Lost Chord" album (vinyl). By far their best stuff.
At That time...Moderate..buttheir song writing, producing, and taltent were Exceptional...their fame grew over the years.....and by 1980's were had sold over 50 million records...
love it, if only there was a better crystal blue persuasion video!
Timothy Leary!
In search of the lost chord has the double meaning of searching for the silver cord that binds us to earth while astral travelling.
my fave moodys song
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
Timothy Leary wrote the book: Varieties of Psychedelic Experience based upon the Tibetan Book of the Dead. (required reading for the enlightened.)
@trixred1 its called "The Morning " from the Days of Future Passed album, if thats the one your looking for...
Okey dokey, I'll add that to my tick list!
I love LSD inspired songs
A 6 1/2 minute video made in the 60s? Could be the longest music video ever made in the 60s!
Far out!
millbrook ...the house of fun!!!!
Seventh Sojourn track "When You're a Free Man" is also about Leary.
War solves all problems
Is that really Millbrook? It looks like a castle. They should open it to the public as a museum.
I have 19 years and obviously does not know much about this band. How much success was this band at that time?
That 1 dislike must surely be Dick Channey...G...
during this video, itink so not !! before or after i think so yes, and you, what do you think about it??
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!)
@benschuit Me too dude. Used to meditate to it.
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.
Wonderful song! Does anyone know where the video was filmed?
I believe this was filmed in Belgium at Groot-Bijgaarden Castle.
@PICKLETREE That is funny... your dad is cool!!
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.
If you're a boomer, only you could understand this tune...
How can there be colour formations in a black and white video?? Red, blue, purple, green.