RIP Ray Thomas
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Re: RIP Ray Thomas
RIP Ray. A big part of the reason the Moodies lift off.
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kewl klive wrote:RIP Ray. A big part of the reason the Moodies lift off.
His "Legend of a Mind" may be the greatest thing they ever put to tape.
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It’s wonderful.
The Moodies were yer proper three pints of Bitter psychedelicists.
The Moodies were yer proper three pints of Bitter psychedelicists.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
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Always liked Ray. No great shakes as a flautist and the majority of his songs were pretty dreadful, but he always looked dapper and didn't seem to take the po faced music too seriously . RIP, Ray, you seemed to be a very down to earth and likeable chap
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Days of Future Past is grossly under appreciated here.
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Sad to hear. Just before their HoF-induction too.
Jon K just posted on Facebook about it, he had just finished a cruise-tour with the other Moody Blues-members.
Jon K just posted on Facebook about it, he had just finished a cruise-tour with the other Moody Blues-members.
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Re: RIP Ray Thomas
I loved Ray's singing, his songs, his flute playing, even. I know that he had retired touring with the Moodies some time ago, and though I am still excited to see them on their 50th anniversary 'Days of Future Passed' tour in a couple of weeks, I knew it wasn't going to be the same without him.
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He's outside looking in.
I always liked the music hall goofiness he brought to them. A much-needed antidote to the seriousness elsewhere.
I always liked the music hall goofiness he brought to them. A much-needed antidote to the seriousness elsewhere.
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Massive fan of the Moodies over here. His weren't the easiest to love because they weren't sexy, but his influence gave them a dorky, down-to-earth quality which, as others have said, was a good antidote to the seriousness of Pinder and Edge especially -- even though Thomas himself was serious in his way -- and to the almost too good hair of Hayward. I guess he's like the odd uncle who told funny stories that family gatherings just aren't the same without.
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Quaco wrote:Massive fan of the Moodies over here.
I had an anxiety dream last night about frantically trying to text you from Staples Center because I was supposed to play the Moodies' RRHOF induction ceremony and it was all deep cuts from the early 70s (handpicked by Arthur Lee, no less) that I didn't really know and wasn't going to have time to learn in a matter of minutes.
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I only opened this thread because I didn't know who he was (a common occurrence in obit threads). Once I found out he was a flautist from a band I, ahem, haven't cared for for a half-century or more, I was going to leave, because, well, don't speak ill of the dead and all that, but then I read the rest of the tributes, so I'll just say,
RIP Ray
RIP Ray
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toomanyhatz wrote:He's outside looking in.
I always liked the music hall goofiness he brought to them. A much-needed antidote to the seriousness elsewhere.
bingo.
I was sadder to hear than I might have expected. I guess I liked him a lot.
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Bent Fabric wrote:Quaco wrote:Massive fan of the Moodies over here.
I had an anxiety dream last night about frantically trying to text you from Staples Center because I was supposed to play the Moodies' RRHOF induction ceremony and it was all deep cuts from the early 70s (handpicked by Arthur Lee, no less) that I didn't really know and wasn't going to have time to learn in a matter of minutes.
Call Mills! Was I going to stand in for you, or text you the chords?
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Re: RIP Ray Thomas
Quaco wrote:Bent Fabric wrote:Quaco wrote:Massive fan of the Moodies over here.
I had an anxiety dream last night about frantically trying to text you from Staples Center because I was supposed to play the Moodies' RRHOF induction ceremony and it was all deep cuts from the early 70s (handpicked by Arthur Lee, no less) that I didn't really know and wasn't going to have time to learn in a matter of minutes.
Call Mills! Was I going to stand in for you, or text you the chords?
Oh, I expected you to play.
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RIP Ray.
Always loved his voice, and he was a very good flute player - sometimes double-tracking bass flute and soloing over himself.
Always loved his voice, and he was a very good flute player - sometimes double-tracking bass flute and soloing over himself.
Pontificating incorrigibly since birth.
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I watched The Moodies at Isle of Wight 1970 last night- robust stuff.
Not quite an Ian Anderson but a good flautist and a great voice in a corker of a band
RIP Ray
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Not quite an Ian Anderson but a good flautist and a great voice in a corker of a band
RIP Ray
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another massive fan of the moodies here, and of ray's contributions.
r.i.p. ray.
sniff. i imagine i'll get more words out at the listen.
r.i.p. ray.
sniff. i imagine i'll get more words out at the listen.