Moody Blues - Never Comes the Day...

Anticipation. I have tickets for my wife and I and our friends from across the street to do an overnight trip to Atlantic City to see the Moody Blues at Caesars Palace at the end of November. Having been to a concert last Friday (Rush), and another on tap for tomorrow night (Asia), I am very much in a live music frame of mind.

The Moody Blues have been my favorite band since high school, and I have seen them live at least a dozen times, dating as far back as 1982/1983 when they toured for The Present, and the opening act was Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble. It has been a few years since I last saw them (at the Tower Theater I believe), and I am anxious to see them while they are still touring.

A few recent YouTube clips of concert footage from this year:

• The Story in Your Eyes. The perfect song. Great lyrics, great melody, great little guitar solo.
• You and Me. A song I have never seen live. Apparently I will soon...
• Peak Hour. A lesser known cut from their very first album, Days of Future Passed, from 1967.
• Say It With Love, from Keys of the Kingdom.
• Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band. Classic.
• And thrown in for a chuckle, Gypsy, and Tuesday Afternoon from the Isle of Wight festival in 1970... Note that Justin is playing the exact same Gibson cherry red ES-335 in all these clips...

It is odd to see my musical idols in their twilight years, a little saggy and with a pot-belly here or there, but that they can still do this in the vicinity of their 70th birthdays is amazing to me (Justin is 66, John 67 and Graeme 71). They might not be what they were, but when I close my eyes it is still Justin Hayward and the Moody Blues. It works for me...