PipemanRadio Interviews John Lodge About DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED – MY SOJOURN

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the pipe Man. Will see it
is the pipe Man here on the Adventures

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pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm extremely excited about our next

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guest because listening to his music goes
back to when I'm so little. I

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probably wouldn't have known about music if
it weren't for older brothers as it was

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back then. So let's welcome to
the show, John Lodge, how are

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you very good? Thank you nice. Yeah. So, the first time

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I heard the Moody Blues was stealing
one of my older brother's albums. He's

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like eleven years older than me,
so I was rifling as a little kid

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through his albums. I'm like,
oh, this one looks cool. Let

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me listen to. This's grateful for
everyone with an older brother, right,

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because it was like that back then, right, you know that's how you

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got into it. Yeah. My
sister, who was four years older than

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me when I was sort of ten
years old, she walked out of the

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house with a new boyfriend and said
see you later, alligator. What on

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earth is she on the bed?
And that was my first sort of introduction

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to rock and roll in a way, I have no idea what you've been.

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I found out three years later.
Wow, see, and it's pretty

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cool. And man, where does
it feel like to be making music all

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these years? I'm sure when you
first started you could never imagine, you

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know, talking about your music this
many decades later. No, you know,

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when rock and roll really hit me, hit me like a sledgeowman when

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I was thirteen. Before then,
I had no music all. But when

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I first heard rock and roll rhythm, it took over and that it was

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really like a sledge dammer, and
I had to be part of it,

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you know. I bought a guitar
or my mumble me and the guitar for

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about five dollars, segad and German
guitar acoustic. But I learned by going

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into my bedroom playing these guitar hour
after hour. I found out how it

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worked. There was no one at
that time in the UK there was teaching

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rock and roll. It didn't exist. You could not find anyone to teach

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you, so you had to learn
yourself. And I remember you used to

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sit watching like the Perry Como Show, because on the the every Brothers or

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Ry Orbison and I used to watch
what they were doing with their guitar,

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how they're playing it and trying to
copy it like that is interesting times.

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Yeah, you know, it is
interesting to hear that, and even I

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think to this day the whole thing
of rock and roll is experimenting with your

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musicianship. And I think that's what
you did way back then because there was

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nobody to really teach, so you
had to experiment and figure out your own

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sound. Yeah, I remember playing
I like the cello, I love the

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cello. The sound of a cello. I've got a cello in my band

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now is fantastic. But I remember
playing the cello on two songs for the

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Moody Blues right by Cecil and the
Balance, and I didn't realize until four

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years later when I actually hired a
cellists. I've been hunting the cillo wrong

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all those but it didn't mutter.
You know, we were experimenting. It's

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it's like, yeah, playing the
six st guitar upside down and right.

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You know, it's experimenting, finding
what works for you and what what sound

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you can get out of your instruments
that no one else can really. I

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love it. I love it.
Yeah, And I find people from your

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era that are musicians, they did
develop new sounds, like even you know,

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you take several bands from that era
and they just created sounds you never

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heard before. You know. Well, we grew up, of course with

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people who make it. Amplifiers.
Jim Marshall started a Marshall and that was

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the sound of English rock really and
I was I've bought one of the first

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amplifiers if it built, And it
was amazing because we talked to these guys

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and said, we want something that
we could play four hundred watts through and

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the speakers will make the bass sound
fantastic. And it came up with these

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four speakers enclosures with celestium speakers twelve
age speakers, and it was brilliant time,

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you know, finding new sounds that
you could take into the studio and

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record. Yeah, And I find
so no matter what genre of rock and

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roll somebody is in today, whether
they're a musician or just a listener,

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I don't care if it's the most
extreme heavy metal or the softest rock.

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Everybody the common denominator with even the
gatekeepers is to love bands from your area

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and to love like the Moody Blues. Like we can all agree on that.

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We may not agree on certain bands
nowadays, like oh they're not this

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or that, but we all believe
that bands like yours was the core of

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all rock music today. I think
it didn't exist between us before then.

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You know, in England in the
late fifties and early sixties, it was

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all American iconic artists like Little Richard
Jolie Leo's first dominant geene Vincent Eddie Cochran.

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We couldn't emulate those people, they're
icons and English people couldn't do that,

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and we had to find our way
of portraying our music, and that's

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what it becomes. We realized it
was the music that was important, not

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the iconic person. And you know, on the Moody Blues, we never

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ever put a photograph of the band
on the front cover of any other albums

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because it was the music we want
to get over to an audience, not

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us individually. I love hearing that. And speaking of albums, Okay,

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you just released Days of Futures,
Pasted My Sojourn, and man, there's

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it blow your mind that it is
so popular that, you know, first

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release in the UK, but then
there is such a demand in the US

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that now we have it here in
the US. It's fantastic, unbelievable,

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and you know, I want once. I was going to go on the

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road a couple of years ago,
and I thought, how can I do

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something which continues the music of the
Moody Blues. And I called my musical

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director, Alan Hewitt, who was
my keyboard player, and said, Alan,

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could we do Days of Future Past
live on stage? And he said

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why not? Just like that?
Why not? And I thought, how

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do I do? I thought,
I know what I should do. I

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should call Graham Edge, go see
Graham Edge. And I went to see

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Graham and said, Graham, I
want to do Days of Future Pass live

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on stage. Would you re record
your poetry for me and I'll film you.

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He said, John, I'd love
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I'd love to be a part of
the album. So I filmed him

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and I thought that was a blessing
I had. And when we were rehearsing

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the concert, I suddenly thought,
ah, just a moment, this is

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like a history of my life.
Here from sixty eight when we released Days

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of Future past sixty seven and till
today, and I thought, yeah,

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I'm going to record this not a
live album. I thought we've made too

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much effort to make it a live
album. I wanted to go in the

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studio, So I went to do
the studio, and I asked John Davison

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from Yes to join me singing a
couple of the songs, and we recorded

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Days of Future pass my sodiern and
that's your fact. My daughter all took

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the photograph on the front of the
album as well. It seemed to sum

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up the whole album for me.
That photograph right there, that's the one.

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It is cool. I'm somebody,
you know, I'm old school,

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so I love album covers. I
think it's part of the whole experience.

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You know. That's how I bought
albums when I was a kid. You

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couldn't hear them like we can now. It's like, oh that album looks

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cool, let me buy that.
You didn't even know if it was going

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to be good or not. Absolutely
yeah, so that. I love the

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artwork on this album, So it
is something that I would look at that

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if I never even knew who the
movie Blues were, which would be virtually

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impossible. I would still want to
buy that album and listen to it,

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thank you very much. It's strange
because when I was I didn't realize it

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at the time, but when I
was like eight or nine years old,

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there's a really old lady used to
live next door to me, and she

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was on her own all the while, and I used to go around there

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and talk to her as eight and
on the wall there was a picture almost

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the same as my album sleeve,
without my wife and myself being on it.

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It looked almost the same, and
when I saw the picture, it

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just gave me an enormous flashback to
that time. I thought, oh,

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the circle is complete. Yes,
yes, I love it. And what

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makes it even more complete is that
we have some rescheduled dates that you're going

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to be doing here during the summer, especially I'm in South Florida, so

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I'm pretty excited. You're going to
be in Fort Lauridel on August third,

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and you'll also be in even me
in Florida. I'm not sure if I

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pronounce it right, but Emma Cole, yeah, yeah, it's a strange

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wood, is it, ye?
Yeah? Yeah? But and man,

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it's so cool too. I love
seeing artists that have been like great musicians

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still touring to this day. You
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difference between your generation and these newer
generations of bands is that I think if

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you weren't on stage doing it live, you wouldn't like you might not be

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here, like I take a lot
of people like I look at so many

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artists that people are like, well, how they keep doing it? And

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my answer is because they can't afford
to not keep doing it. It's just

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such a passion. Absolutely. I
play every day, even today, I

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played this morning. I play every
day of being in the studio during the

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last year, and I've recorded four
new songs which will be released later this

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year. I love rock and roll. As I say, the fire Ignite

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You when I was thirteen. The
pression has been with me ever since.

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I just love music. See that
just proves your true musician because there are

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two types, as you know,
there's the people that are in music for

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the passion the music, and then
there's others like they get into it for

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other reasons like they want to be
a rock star. And going back to

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what you're saying before, they're the
ones that put their face on them and

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on the album. You know.
So I love what you said. And

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you can always tell, I know
I can. If I go to a

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show, you can tell if the
musician is up there because they just love

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playing music, or if they're doing
it for another reason. And yeah,

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there is no other reason but passion
for music, to be honest. Yeah,

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I love picking my bass up and
playing and finding something. Always something

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new. You could find always there's
not many notes, but you could always

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find something new, and it just
turns you on it. It bridgs a

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wave of joy to you. You
know, Oh, listen to this.

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Yeah, and you know, I
find musicians of your age. They played

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all different types of instruments. That's
why there were true musicians. And then

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it's also interesting I found a lot
like even as an example, I didn't

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even know and I was a huge
Beatles fan. I didn't know that Paul

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was originally a guitarist and he basically
drew the short straw to be the Bassis.

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It's really interesting because when I grew
up where I was at school,

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there was a cafe called Eddie's Cafe
and like a soldier shop, and every

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lunchtime when I was I used to
go in there because he had a rock

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called the juke box, and I
used to drop my money in the slot,

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which my mom had given me for
lunch. I used to play records

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and I used to listen to fat
stummin Lem a little Richard Gerealy loose,

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and I could hear that left hand
boogie playing on the piano, and that's

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what turned me on. I didn't
hear the rest of the songs, really,

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I just heard this throbbing left down
boogie piano. And I learned on

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the guitar all those riffs. And
when I learned it, because there's no

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electric bassis in England, it'sar so
I learned everything on the bottom four streams

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of regular guitar. And when basical
guitar turn up in England and I bought

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one, it was I was suddenly
playing all these riffs on the bass,

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and he turned me on. I
thought, that's what I want to do

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forever. And I was in my
music shop one day on the Sunday morning

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where all musicians go over Saturday with
all the other musicians, and there in

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the window he said, direct from
the USA Precision Sunburst base. And I

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was fifteen and I remember dashing home
to my dad and said, Dad,

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you've got to help me. I've
got to buy this base. And he

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did. He helped me, and
I bought that bass and I've recorded nearly

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every Moody Blue song on that base
and I still use it today for recording.

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Wow. Well did dad know?
I'm sure that now today you would

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be considered one of the ten most
influential bass players on the planet. So

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lood fantastic. Yeah, love it. Well, everybody should go to your

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website, John Lodge dot com and
I believe there as connects to everything for

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you and tour dates, music merge, all that good stuff. I look

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forward to you being here in Fort
Laurerdale on August third. And hey,

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thanks for giving us such great music
and musical therapy for all these years that

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we desperately need and to keep it
alive. And thanks for being on the

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Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you
for pint Man and good luck. And

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thank you to all your listeners for
keeping the faith. Thank you, oh

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yes, absolutely, thank you for
listening to the Adventures of plate Man.

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