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stories from Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues.
Now he left the world of music and now is
doing stories for children and I think that we should be quite interested in hearing what he
has to say.
And Jan Wall of course will be here and she'll be talking about the movie that is called
[D] [Bm]
1960 and this is what the media called the British Invasion.
Where are they now?
[B] Well
one is right here right now unmistakable poetic voice Mike [F#] Pinder.
Mike it's a pleasure to meet
you [N] and also a pleasure to know you're living in northern California for the last 15 years which
I didn't realize that just a moment ago.
That's right nice to see you.
I'm going to read one
little thing here I just read it was your quote.
Stories and music heard as a child set me on a
path to follow.
A path of peace a path of truth [E] away from tears and sorrow fear [D] and sorrow.
Now
my turn has come in to scatter good seeds in the meadow.
How [C#] poetic that is that truly is poetic.
Thank you it's very typical to follow since that is a little poem I wrote for the first children's
album and I've already got the second one outside I come up with another little poem.
Actually keep
making new ones.
There is a certain poeticness about it to your music in the 60s but also to
what you've been writing about so forth.
When you did Nights in White Satin which of course I guess
is your most your biggest and most well-known.
It became the signature tune even though we had a
[G] big one with Go Now originally in 64.
Yeah what about that first line?
Can you do that first line?
Breathe [D] deep to gathering gloom.
Watch [C] lights fade from every [C#m] room.
Exit the people that never
[D] meant another [N] day was useless energy spent and so on and so on and so on.
You know what strikes me
not only reading that and hearing you say that but the the quality of music today.
There's not
not much poetry in music today.
This is true but everything seems to be cyclic and I'm thinking
that you know it's I was born in World War II.
I've seen the best and the worst that humanity has
to offer.
Yeah and and [F] I think you know when there's nowhere else to [E] go it's always up.
Yeah
it's going to make it the cycles will change.
Now when did you first get started and when did
you first come to America?
I got started with the band.
I started the band with Ray Thomas in 1964.
First hit record was six months later which was Go Now.
I came to America in 1974
[D#] [F] and I've been here ever since.
Yeah where did the name come from?
It came from the fact that
we had a local brewery called M&B and they owned all of the big pubs and the dance halls and we
were trying to get in with them and get a few hundred pounds from them.
So we thought what
about if we name this [D#] new band we're putting together something to do with their initials.
So we were playing a lot of blues so that was easy.
We got the blues for the bin and I was affected by
a Jude Tellington piece of music when I was a kid called Mood Indigo.
Oh sure.
And so and I
was interested in the mood changing effects of music too so since early childhood so that really
is how it came.
Moody blues.
Were a lot of the musicians from England influenced by Americans?
Very much so.
Early American music.
Yes very much so.
Black musicians in particular.
Exactly.
I have a theory of my own
to answer this question.
I think that what happened to us in World War II in England
for instance we were eating you know dry bread and anything we could find to put on it
or catch to put on and you know use clothes, use shoes, rationing all those kind of hardships.
I used to sleep next door with the people next door and they would sleep with us the night
to cut down the chance of being bombed by 50%.
There was hardships there very compressed and I
related that to the kind of hardships that Black Americans and Native Americans also
[Em] have experienced over [F] the last couple of years and I saw the affinity that English musicians
were feeling out of that era.
Were [C#] feeling for you know Black American music.
How did you take
that kind of influence into storytelling?
What was the transition from that music and writing music
into storytelling?
It wasn't so much a transition from the music but more of what had
happened in my life.
I realized that what happened to me as a child what I was exposed to was Danny
Kaye, Burl Ives, [E] Jimmy Durante and when I was four or five years old I heard a song on the BBC by Jimmy
Durante called The Lost Chord written by Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
That stuck with me like
a sticker on the wall at SAC as did [D] the Indigo [N] name.
And so 22 years later I coerced my bandmates
to make an album called In Search of the Lost Chord.
You know the transition from Moody Blues
to Jimmy Durante is a real stretch.
I mean the fact that there is a connection between that is
absolutely amazing to me.
Is it because he had heart?
Is it because the music had heart and soul?
Exactly.
I really feel that people like those guys were passing little nuggets of wisdom from
their generations to mine and I'm trying to do the same thing now.
Okay now Old Turtle.
Tell me a
little bit about that.
We're going to listen to a piece of that.
Old Turtle, Douglas Wood Story,
all of these stories are picture books that you can go out and buy in a bookstore.
My wife and I
discovered while we went on the trip that one of the books and it seemed like a great idea.
Okay
let's listen to a little piece of it right now.
[E]
Once long long ago [B] yet somehow not so very [E] long
when all the animals and rocks and winds and waters [F] and trees and birds and fish
and all the beings of [E] the world understand one [N] another.
You must get a great satisfaction out of this.
Yes I do.
More than the music?
More now than before?
No I really had a sense of doing something
when I had the band.
It's a great band by the way.
I don't know if we said that yet this morning but
that's a great band.
We had a wonderful time.
I'm very proud of what I did with the band and I'm
very proud of what I'm doing now.
I felt we were fulfilling a need in the 60s and 70s and I feel
that I'm trying to do the same thing now for our children.
Yeah it sounds absolutely beautiful.
Here's where you can meet Mike.
It's at Borders I believe at Borders Books and Music in Milpitas
tomorrow at 2 p.m. there it is right there at Milpitas.
That's a huge mall over there and area
code 408-934 -1180 if you're interested and Sunday at 1 p.m. in Emeryville area code 510-654-1633
and that's where you can meet Mike Pender and hear more of his stories.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
It's also nice to know you're living in Northern California.
Yes it's a wonderful place to be.
Okay great.
Thank you for having me.
We'll be back in just a couple minutes and you like movies?
Yes.
Jan Wall, our expert will be back here
Now he left the world of music and now is
doing stories for children and I think that we should be quite interested in hearing what he
has to say.
And Jan Wall of course will be here and she'll be talking about the movie that is called
[D] [Bm]
1960 and this is what the media called the British Invasion.
Where are they now?
[B] Well
one is right here right now unmistakable poetic voice Mike [F#] Pinder.
Mike it's a pleasure to meet
you [N] and also a pleasure to know you're living in northern California for the last 15 years which
I didn't realize that just a moment ago.
That's right nice to see you.
I'm going to read one
little thing here I just read it was your quote.
Stories and music heard as a child set me on a
path to follow.
A path of peace a path of truth [E] away from tears and sorrow fear [D] and sorrow.
Now
my turn has come in to scatter good seeds in the meadow.
How [C#] poetic that is that truly is poetic.
Thank you it's very typical to follow since that is a little poem I wrote for the first children's
album and I've already got the second one outside I come up with another little poem.
Actually keep
making new ones.
There is a certain poeticness about it to your music in the 60s but also to
what you've been writing about so forth.
When you did Nights in White Satin which of course I guess
is your most your biggest and most well-known.
It became the signature tune even though we had a
[G] big one with Go Now originally in 64.
Yeah what about that first line?
Can you do that first line?
Breathe [D] deep to gathering gloom.
Watch [C] lights fade from every [C#m] room.
Exit the people that never
[D] meant another [N] day was useless energy spent and so on and so on and so on.
You know what strikes me
not only reading that and hearing you say that but the the quality of music today.
There's not
not much poetry in music today.
This is true but everything seems to be cyclic and I'm thinking
that you know it's I was born in World War II.
I've seen the best and the worst that humanity has
to offer.
Yeah and and [F] I think you know when there's nowhere else to [E] go it's always up.
Yeah
it's going to make it the cycles will change.
Now when did you first get started and when did
you first come to America?
I got started with the band.
I started the band with Ray Thomas in 1964.
First hit record was six months later which was Go Now.
I came to America in 1974
[D#] [F] and I've been here ever since.
Yeah where did the name come from?
It came from the fact that
we had a local brewery called M&B and they owned all of the big pubs and the dance halls and we
were trying to get in with them and get a few hundred pounds from them.
So we thought what
about if we name this [D#] new band we're putting together something to do with their initials.
So we were playing a lot of blues so that was easy.
We got the blues for the bin and I was affected by
a Jude Tellington piece of music when I was a kid called Mood Indigo.
Oh sure.
And so and I
was interested in the mood changing effects of music too so since early childhood so that really
is how it came.
Moody blues.
Were a lot of the musicians from England influenced by Americans?
Very much so.
Early American music.
Yes very much so.
Black musicians in particular.
Exactly.
I have a theory of my own
to answer this question.
I think that what happened to us in World War II in England
for instance we were eating you know dry bread and anything we could find to put on it
or catch to put on and you know use clothes, use shoes, rationing all those kind of hardships.
I used to sleep next door with the people next door and they would sleep with us the night
to cut down the chance of being bombed by 50%.
There was hardships there very compressed and I
related that to the kind of hardships that Black Americans and Native Americans also
[Em] have experienced over [F] the last couple of years and I saw the affinity that English musicians
were feeling out of that era.
Were [C#] feeling for you know Black American music.
How did you take
that kind of influence into storytelling?
What was the transition from that music and writing music
into storytelling?
It wasn't so much a transition from the music but more of what had
happened in my life.
I realized that what happened to me as a child what I was exposed to was Danny
Kaye, Burl Ives, [E] Jimmy Durante and when I was four or five years old I heard a song on the BBC by Jimmy
Durante called The Lost Chord written by Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
That stuck with me like
a sticker on the wall at SAC as did [D] the Indigo [N] name.
And so 22 years later I coerced my bandmates
to make an album called In Search of the Lost Chord.
You know the transition from Moody Blues
to Jimmy Durante is a real stretch.
I mean the fact that there is a connection between that is
absolutely amazing to me.
Is it because he had heart?
Is it because the music had heart and soul?
Exactly.
I really feel that people like those guys were passing little nuggets of wisdom from
their generations to mine and I'm trying to do the same thing now.
Okay now Old Turtle.
Tell me a
little bit about that.
We're going to listen to a piece of that.
Old Turtle, Douglas Wood Story,
all of these stories are picture books that you can go out and buy in a bookstore.
My wife and I
discovered while we went on the trip that one of the books and it seemed like a great idea.
Okay
let's listen to a little piece of it right now.
[E]
Once long long ago [B] yet somehow not so very [E] long
when all the animals and rocks and winds and waters [F] and trees and birds and fish
and all the beings of [E] the world understand one [N] another.
You must get a great satisfaction out of this.
Yes I do.
More than the music?
More now than before?
No I really had a sense of doing something
when I had the band.
It's a great band by the way.
I don't know if we said that yet this morning but
that's a great band.
We had a wonderful time.
I'm very proud of what I did with the band and I'm
very proud of what I'm doing now.
I felt we were fulfilling a need in the 60s and 70s and I feel
that I'm trying to do the same thing now for our children.
Yeah it sounds absolutely beautiful.
Here's where you can meet Mike.
It's at Borders I believe at Borders Books and Music in Milpitas
tomorrow at 2 p.m. there it is right there at Milpitas.
That's a huge mall over there and area
code 408-934 -1180 if you're interested and Sunday at 1 p.m. in Emeryville area code 510-654-1633
and that's where you can meet Mike Pender and hear more of his stories.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
It's also nice to know you're living in Northern California.
Yes it's a wonderful place to be.
Okay great.
Thank you for having me.
We'll be back in just a couple minutes and you like movies?
Yes.
Jan Wall, our expert will be back here
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stories from Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues.
Now he left the world of music and now is
doing stories for children and I think that we should be quite interested in hearing what he
has to say.
And Jan Wall of course will be here and she'll be talking about the movie that is called _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ 1960 and this is what the media called the British Invasion.
Where are they now?
[B] Well
one is right here right now unmistakable poetic voice Mike [F#] Pinder.
Mike it's a pleasure to meet
you [N] and also a pleasure to know you're living in northern California for the last 15 years which
I didn't realize that just a moment ago.
That's right nice to see you.
I'm going to read one
little thing here I just read it was your quote.
Stories and music heard as a child set me on a
path to follow.
A path of peace a path of truth [E] away from tears and sorrow fear [D] and sorrow.
Now
my turn has come in to scatter good seeds in the meadow.
How [C#] poetic that is that truly is poetic.
Thank you it's very typical to follow _ since that is a little poem I wrote for the first children's
album and I've already got the second one outside I come up with another little poem.
Actually keep
making new ones.
There is a certain poeticness about it to your music in the 60s but also to
what you've been writing about so forth.
When you did Nights in White Satin which of course I guess
is your most your biggest and most well-known.
It became the signature tune even though we had a
[G] big one with Go Now originally in 64.
Yeah what about that first line?
Can you do that first line?
Breathe [D] deep to gathering gloom.
Watch [C] lights fade from every [C#m] room.
Exit the people that never
[D] meant another [N] day was useless energy spent and so on and so on and so on.
You know what strikes me
not only reading that and hearing you say that but the the quality of music today.
_ There's not
not much poetry in music today.
This is true but everything seems to be cyclic and I'm thinking
that you know it's I was born in World War II.
I've seen the best and the worst that humanity has
to offer.
Yeah and and [F] I think you know when there's nowhere else to [E] go it's always up.
Yeah
it's going to make it the cycles will change.
Now when did you first get started and when did
you first come to America?
_ I got started with the band.
I started the band with Ray Thomas in 1964.
_ First hit record was six months later which was Go Now.
I came to America in 1974
[D#] _ [F] and I've been here ever since.
Yeah where did the name come from?
It came from the fact that
we had a local brewery called M&B and they owned all of the big pubs and the dance halls and we
were trying to get in with them and get a few hundred pounds from them.
So we thought what
about if we name this [D#] new band we're putting together something to do with their initials.
So we were playing a lot of blues so that was easy.
We got the blues for the bin and I was affected by
_ a Jude Tellington piece of music when I was a kid called Mood Indigo.
Oh sure.
And so and I
was interested in the mood changing effects of music too so since early childhood so that really
is how it came.
Moody blues.
Were a lot of the musicians from England influenced by Americans?
Very much so.
Early American music.
Yes very much so.
Black musicians in particular.
Exactly.
I _ have a theory of my own
to answer this question.
I think that what happened to us in World War II in England
for instance we were eating you know dry bread and anything we could find to put on it
or catch to put on and you know use clothes, use shoes, rationing all those kind of hardships.
I used to sleep next door with the people next door and they would sleep with us the night
to cut down the chance of being bombed by 50%.
There was hardships there very compressed and I
related that to the kind of hardships that _ Black Americans and Native Americans also
[Em] have experienced over [F] the last couple of years and I saw the affinity that English musicians
were feeling out of that era.
Were [C#] feeling for you know Black American music.
How did you take
that kind of influence into storytelling?
What was the transition from that music and writing music
into storytelling?
It wasn't so much a transition from _ the music but more of what had
happened in my life.
I realized that what happened to me as a child what I was exposed to was Danny
Kaye, Burl Ives, [E] Jimmy Durante and when I was four or five years old I heard a song on the BBC by Jimmy
Durante called The Lost Chord written by Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
That stuck with me like
a sticker on the wall at SAC as did [D] the Indigo [N] name.
And so 22 years later I coerced my bandmates
to make an album called In Search of the Lost Chord.
You know the transition from Moody Blues
to Jimmy Durante is a real stretch.
I mean the fact that there is a connection between that is
absolutely amazing to me.
Is it because he had heart?
Is it because the music had heart and soul?
Exactly.
I really feel that people like those guys were passing little nuggets of wisdom from
their generations to mine and I'm trying to do the same thing now.
Okay now Old Turtle.
Tell me a
little bit about that.
We're going to listen to a piece of that.
Old Turtle, Douglas Wood Story,
all of these stories are picture books that you can go out and buy in a bookstore.
My wife and I
discovered while we went on the trip that one of the books and it seemed like a great idea.
Okay
let's listen to a little piece of it right now.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
Once _ long long ago [B] _ yet somehow not so very [E] long
_ when all the animals and rocks and winds and waters [F] and trees and birds and fish
_ and all the beings of [E] the world _ _ understand one _ _ [N] another.
You must get a great satisfaction out of this.
Yes I do.
More than the music?
More now than before?
No I really had a sense of doing something
when I had the band.
It's a great band by the way.
I don't know if we said that yet this morning but
that's a great band.
We had a wonderful time.
I'm very proud of what I did with the band and I'm
very proud of what I'm doing now.
_ I felt we were fulfilling a need in the 60s and 70s and I feel
that I'm trying to do the same thing now for our children.
Yeah it sounds absolutely beautiful.
Here's where you can meet Mike.
It's at Borders I believe at Borders Books and Music in Milpitas
tomorrow at 2 p.m. there it is right there at Milpitas.
That's a huge mall over there and area
code 408-934 _ -1180 if you're interested and Sunday at 1 p.m. in Emeryville area code 510-654-1633
_ and that's where you can meet Mike Pender and hear more of his stories.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
It's also nice to know you're living in Northern California.
Yes it's a wonderful place to be.
Okay great.
Thank you for having me.
We'll be back in just a couple minutes and you like movies?
Yes.
Jan Wall, our expert will be back here
Now he left the world of music and now is
doing stories for children and I think that we should be quite interested in hearing what he
has to say.
And Jan Wall of course will be here and she'll be talking about the movie that is called _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ 1960 and this is what the media called the British Invasion.
Where are they now?
[B] Well
one is right here right now unmistakable poetic voice Mike [F#] Pinder.
Mike it's a pleasure to meet
you [N] and also a pleasure to know you're living in northern California for the last 15 years which
I didn't realize that just a moment ago.
That's right nice to see you.
I'm going to read one
little thing here I just read it was your quote.
Stories and music heard as a child set me on a
path to follow.
A path of peace a path of truth [E] away from tears and sorrow fear [D] and sorrow.
Now
my turn has come in to scatter good seeds in the meadow.
How [C#] poetic that is that truly is poetic.
Thank you it's very typical to follow _ since that is a little poem I wrote for the first children's
album and I've already got the second one outside I come up with another little poem.
Actually keep
making new ones.
There is a certain poeticness about it to your music in the 60s but also to
what you've been writing about so forth.
When you did Nights in White Satin which of course I guess
is your most your biggest and most well-known.
It became the signature tune even though we had a
[G] big one with Go Now originally in 64.
Yeah what about that first line?
Can you do that first line?
Breathe [D] deep to gathering gloom.
Watch [C] lights fade from every [C#m] room.
Exit the people that never
[D] meant another [N] day was useless energy spent and so on and so on and so on.
You know what strikes me
not only reading that and hearing you say that but the the quality of music today.
_ There's not
not much poetry in music today.
This is true but everything seems to be cyclic and I'm thinking
that you know it's I was born in World War II.
I've seen the best and the worst that humanity has
to offer.
Yeah and and [F] I think you know when there's nowhere else to [E] go it's always up.
Yeah
it's going to make it the cycles will change.
Now when did you first get started and when did
you first come to America?
_ I got started with the band.
I started the band with Ray Thomas in 1964.
_ First hit record was six months later which was Go Now.
I came to America in 1974
[D#] _ [F] and I've been here ever since.
Yeah where did the name come from?
It came from the fact that
we had a local brewery called M&B and they owned all of the big pubs and the dance halls and we
were trying to get in with them and get a few hundred pounds from them.
So we thought what
about if we name this [D#] new band we're putting together something to do with their initials.
So we were playing a lot of blues so that was easy.
We got the blues for the bin and I was affected by
_ a Jude Tellington piece of music when I was a kid called Mood Indigo.
Oh sure.
And so and I
was interested in the mood changing effects of music too so since early childhood so that really
is how it came.
Moody blues.
Were a lot of the musicians from England influenced by Americans?
Very much so.
Early American music.
Yes very much so.
Black musicians in particular.
Exactly.
I _ have a theory of my own
to answer this question.
I think that what happened to us in World War II in England
for instance we were eating you know dry bread and anything we could find to put on it
or catch to put on and you know use clothes, use shoes, rationing all those kind of hardships.
I used to sleep next door with the people next door and they would sleep with us the night
to cut down the chance of being bombed by 50%.
There was hardships there very compressed and I
related that to the kind of hardships that _ Black Americans and Native Americans also
[Em] have experienced over [F] the last couple of years and I saw the affinity that English musicians
were feeling out of that era.
Were [C#] feeling for you know Black American music.
How did you take
that kind of influence into storytelling?
What was the transition from that music and writing music
into storytelling?
It wasn't so much a transition from _ the music but more of what had
happened in my life.
I realized that what happened to me as a child what I was exposed to was Danny
Kaye, Burl Ives, [E] Jimmy Durante and when I was four or five years old I heard a song on the BBC by Jimmy
Durante called The Lost Chord written by Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
That stuck with me like
a sticker on the wall at SAC as did [D] the Indigo [N] name.
And so 22 years later I coerced my bandmates
to make an album called In Search of the Lost Chord.
You know the transition from Moody Blues
to Jimmy Durante is a real stretch.
I mean the fact that there is a connection between that is
absolutely amazing to me.
Is it because he had heart?
Is it because the music had heart and soul?
Exactly.
I really feel that people like those guys were passing little nuggets of wisdom from
their generations to mine and I'm trying to do the same thing now.
Okay now Old Turtle.
Tell me a
little bit about that.
We're going to listen to a piece of that.
Old Turtle, Douglas Wood Story,
all of these stories are picture books that you can go out and buy in a bookstore.
My wife and I
discovered while we went on the trip that one of the books and it seemed like a great idea.
Okay
let's listen to a little piece of it right now.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
Once _ long long ago [B] _ yet somehow not so very [E] long
_ when all the animals and rocks and winds and waters [F] and trees and birds and fish
_ and all the beings of [E] the world _ _ understand one _ _ [N] another.
You must get a great satisfaction out of this.
Yes I do.
More than the music?
More now than before?
No I really had a sense of doing something
when I had the band.
It's a great band by the way.
I don't know if we said that yet this morning but
that's a great band.
We had a wonderful time.
I'm very proud of what I did with the band and I'm
very proud of what I'm doing now.
_ I felt we were fulfilling a need in the 60s and 70s and I feel
that I'm trying to do the same thing now for our children.
Yeah it sounds absolutely beautiful.
Here's where you can meet Mike.
It's at Borders I believe at Borders Books and Music in Milpitas
tomorrow at 2 p.m. there it is right there at Milpitas.
That's a huge mall over there and area
code 408-934 _ -1180 if you're interested and Sunday at 1 p.m. in Emeryville area code 510-654-1633
_ and that's where you can meet Mike Pender and hear more of his stories.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
It's also nice to know you're living in Northern California.
Yes it's a wonderful place to be.
Okay great.
Thank you for having me.
We'll be back in just a couple minutes and you like movies?
Yes.
Jan Wall, our expert will be back here