Chords for THE MOODY BLUES - John Lodge tells storys about MB, 2006
Tempo:
89.25 bpm
Chords used:
Gb
F
Ab
Eb
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
The [Eb] Fillmore East.
We get to the Fillmore East [Gb] and David Crosby came to see us.
The
Fillmore East was all, I mean, hippyland galore.
I mean, space cadets, everything.
It was unbelievable.
I couldn't believe it.
It really was a whole different, something totally different for
me.
I couldn't.
But I remember we'd been, we were all shopping at [F] those days on the
King's [N] Road in England.
Of course, so we'd got all our suits and clothes from Dandy's
and we'd go to New York and everybody's in tie-dyes and cut-off jeans and sandals and
there's us in our Dandy clothes from the King's Road and the Mellotron.
And we were top of
the bill at Fillmore East and they announced us.
Curtains open, we start playing, and we
get to the first chord on the Mellotron and all the tapes come out the back of the Mellotron.
It was like spaghetti junction, all these spaghetti tapes all over the place.
And it
was like, we've come all this way for this.
And so we look at the stage manager and he
says, don't worry boys.
And they put Bugs Bunny movies on.
So we're at the Fillmore
East and we're playing the second bill to Bugs Bunny.
But, fantastic for the audience.
What happened was, the audience just sat there for about an hour and a half waiting for us
to get it together, which I'd never seen that before either.
And then I suddenly realised,
just a minute, people haven't come to see a concert, they've come to listen to [Abm] some
music.
[F] And we eventually got on stage and we did, you know, probably an hour concert.
And the reviews next to it, I remember the reviews saying, they looked like models from
London's Carnaby Street, not the Moody Blues, not Poolet.
But the concert was a success.
And we made friends with Billy Graham then and we work, well we still do, and we still
do a lot of [Gb] concerts [Ab] with the Billy Graham organisation.
Birmingham, they had a thing called Rock and Roll in the Park.
And they used to have
a competition all through the summer where all the bands would perform and the best band
from each [N] park would go forward to what was called the Tulip Festival.
And then they had
this big finale of all the bands.
And there's hundreds of bands in Birmingham taking part.
[G]
And [Ab] we got through to the final of this competition.
And there it was at the Tulip Festival in
Birmingham, huge, I mean thousands of people there, big tent, stage, [N] fabulous event.
And
there was another band that used to follow us and copy everything we did, always copied
everything we did.
And their name was called, I think, I think they were called the Sombreros.
I mean that's pretty close to how wise they were.
But Ray and I said we've got to do something
because they'd got to the final as well.
So we thought we've got to do something really
different to anyone else.
And Ray said, I know what we're going to do.
Why don't we
all start with our backs, with the curtains are closed, backs to the audience.
We start
with a whole lot of shaking.
So we've got the doon-a-doon.
And then I'll just jump through
the curtains and we'll all turn round.
We'll all turn round and look at the audience and
start playing.
We said it'd be fantastic.
So on the afternoon we rehearsed all this.
Ray diving through the curtains.
We thought this is it, we have got this.
We're going
to win this tournament, competition, just from this one appearance only.
So on the night
that we came to do the concert, the competition, curtains are closed and we've got our backs
to the audience and they announce us from Erdington, Birmingham, Al Riott and [Ab] the Rebels.
And we started playing all with our backs to the audience, doon-a-doon.
[D] Ray dives through
the curtains and we hear [Eb] clatter, clatter, bang, smash, [N] crunch.
And we turn round and
Ray had gone through the curtains and they hadn't told us because it's the Tulip Festival.
They had put like 200 vases of tulips on the front of the stage.
And there was Ray amongst
all these tulips and vases making our grand entrance of rock and roll.
It was wonderful.
Did you win?
Oh, we collapsed.
But we actually did win.
It was the funniest thing to see
Al Riott with sombrero around his neck.
And what was the other story?
Rock and roll.
Well, the other one, we used to play at a place called Bromsgrove and the great criteria
being top of the bill at Bromsgrove is at Bromsgrove at the Baths, sorry, at Kidderminster
Baths.
And you got the booking providing you could do the Hokey-Cokey because at the end
of the night, 2000 people wanted to sing Hokey-Cokey and have a punch up.
And you didn't
know what show you did, you had to do the Hokey-Cokey and then we had a fight.
But Ray
said he wanted to make, because we were actually playing with [Gb] Nero and the gladiators this
night.
And Ray said, I really need to do something really good.
He said, I'm going to come [F] running
through the doors on the stage and dive on my knees and go [N] sliding across the stage.
I thought, fantastic, because Ray could do that.
So we started off with the doors open,
Ray come flying in on his knees, he's going across and his face, he was like, ah, ah,
ah.
There's like splinters going in his knees off the wooden stage and his knees had locked.
So he had to be carried off the other side of the stage.
Rock and roll, great.
At the end of the night, Ray always [Ab] used to throw the tambourine into the audience.
And
[F]
he [Gb] threw the tambourine into the audience one night during the encore.
And we were backstage
afterwards and Gerry Weintraub, our manager, came running in and Gerry said, Ray, what
have you done?
Look, [F] your tambourine's gone and hit this guy and it's cut his [N] face and
we've got stitches.
He said, we're going to get sued for millions.
He said, but [G] I've managed
to calm him down and [Gb] as long as we give him a programme and signed T-shirts, it's going
to be okay.
Can I bring him back?
And Ray said, yeah, why not?
So Gerry brought this
guy back and there's blood everywhere, everywhere.
And Ray signs everything and Ray turned around
to this guy and says, pay attention next time.
We get to the Fillmore East [Gb] and David Crosby came to see us.
The
Fillmore East was all, I mean, hippyland galore.
I mean, space cadets, everything.
It was unbelievable.
I couldn't believe it.
It really was a whole different, something totally different for
me.
I couldn't.
But I remember we'd been, we were all shopping at [F] those days on the
King's [N] Road in England.
Of course, so we'd got all our suits and clothes from Dandy's
and we'd go to New York and everybody's in tie-dyes and cut-off jeans and sandals and
there's us in our Dandy clothes from the King's Road and the Mellotron.
And we were top of
the bill at Fillmore East and they announced us.
Curtains open, we start playing, and we
get to the first chord on the Mellotron and all the tapes come out the back of the Mellotron.
It was like spaghetti junction, all these spaghetti tapes all over the place.
And it
was like, we've come all this way for this.
And so we look at the stage manager and he
says, don't worry boys.
And they put Bugs Bunny movies on.
So we're at the Fillmore
East and we're playing the second bill to Bugs Bunny.
But, fantastic for the audience.
What happened was, the audience just sat there for about an hour and a half waiting for us
to get it together, which I'd never seen that before either.
And then I suddenly realised,
just a minute, people haven't come to see a concert, they've come to listen to [Abm] some
music.
[F] And we eventually got on stage and we did, you know, probably an hour concert.
And the reviews next to it, I remember the reviews saying, they looked like models from
London's Carnaby Street, not the Moody Blues, not Poolet.
But the concert was a success.
And we made friends with Billy Graham then and we work, well we still do, and we still
do a lot of [Gb] concerts [Ab] with the Billy Graham organisation.
Birmingham, they had a thing called Rock and Roll in the Park.
And they used to have
a competition all through the summer where all the bands would perform and the best band
from each [N] park would go forward to what was called the Tulip Festival.
And then they had
this big finale of all the bands.
And there's hundreds of bands in Birmingham taking part.
[G]
And [Ab] we got through to the final of this competition.
And there it was at the Tulip Festival in
Birmingham, huge, I mean thousands of people there, big tent, stage, [N] fabulous event.
And
there was another band that used to follow us and copy everything we did, always copied
everything we did.
And their name was called, I think, I think they were called the Sombreros.
I mean that's pretty close to how wise they were.
But Ray and I said we've got to do something
because they'd got to the final as well.
So we thought we've got to do something really
different to anyone else.
And Ray said, I know what we're going to do.
Why don't we
all start with our backs, with the curtains are closed, backs to the audience.
We start
with a whole lot of shaking.
So we've got the doon-a-doon.
And then I'll just jump through
the curtains and we'll all turn round.
We'll all turn round and look at the audience and
start playing.
We said it'd be fantastic.
So on the afternoon we rehearsed all this.
Ray diving through the curtains.
We thought this is it, we have got this.
We're going
to win this tournament, competition, just from this one appearance only.
So on the night
that we came to do the concert, the competition, curtains are closed and we've got our backs
to the audience and they announce us from Erdington, Birmingham, Al Riott and [Ab] the Rebels.
And we started playing all with our backs to the audience, doon-a-doon.
[D] Ray dives through
the curtains and we hear [Eb] clatter, clatter, bang, smash, [N] crunch.
And we turn round and
Ray had gone through the curtains and they hadn't told us because it's the Tulip Festival.
They had put like 200 vases of tulips on the front of the stage.
And there was Ray amongst
all these tulips and vases making our grand entrance of rock and roll.
It was wonderful.
Did you win?
Oh, we collapsed.
But we actually did win.
It was the funniest thing to see
Al Riott with sombrero around his neck.
And what was the other story?
Rock and roll.
Well, the other one, we used to play at a place called Bromsgrove and the great criteria
being top of the bill at Bromsgrove is at Bromsgrove at the Baths, sorry, at Kidderminster
Baths.
And you got the booking providing you could do the Hokey-Cokey because at the end
of the night, 2000 people wanted to sing Hokey-Cokey and have a punch up.
And you didn't
know what show you did, you had to do the Hokey-Cokey and then we had a fight.
But Ray
said he wanted to make, because we were actually playing with [Gb] Nero and the gladiators this
night.
And Ray said, I really need to do something really good.
He said, I'm going to come [F] running
through the doors on the stage and dive on my knees and go [N] sliding across the stage.
I thought, fantastic, because Ray could do that.
So we started off with the doors open,
Ray come flying in on his knees, he's going across and his face, he was like, ah, ah,
ah.
There's like splinters going in his knees off the wooden stage and his knees had locked.
So he had to be carried off the other side of the stage.
Rock and roll, great.
At the end of the night, Ray always [Ab] used to throw the tambourine into the audience.
And
[F]
he [Gb] threw the tambourine into the audience one night during the encore.
And we were backstage
afterwards and Gerry Weintraub, our manager, came running in and Gerry said, Ray, what
have you done?
Look, [F] your tambourine's gone and hit this guy and it's cut his [N] face and
we've got stitches.
He said, we're going to get sued for millions.
He said, but [G] I've managed
to calm him down and [Gb] as long as we give him a programme and signed T-shirts, it's going
to be okay.
Can I bring him back?
And Ray said, yeah, why not?
So Gerry brought this
guy back and there's blood everywhere, everywhere.
And Ray signs everything and Ray turned around
to this guy and says, pay attention next time.
Key:
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F
Ab
Eb
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Gb
F
Ab
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The [Eb] Fillmore East.
We get to the Fillmore East [Gb] and _ David Crosby came to see us.
The
Fillmore East was all, I mean, hippyland galore.
I mean, space cadets, everything.
It was unbelievable.
I couldn't believe it.
It really was a whole different, _ _ something totally different for
me.
I couldn't.
But I remember we'd been, we were all shopping at [F] those days on the
King's [N] Road in England.
Of course, so we'd got all our suits and clothes from Dandy's
and we'd go to New York and everybody's in tie-dyes and cut-off jeans and sandals and
there's us in our Dandy clothes from the King's Road and the Mellotron.
And we were top of
the bill at Fillmore East and they announced us.
Curtains open, we start playing, and we
get to the first chord on the Mellotron and all the tapes come out the back of the Mellotron.
It was like spaghetti junction, all these spaghetti tapes all over the place. _
And it
was like, we've come all this way for this.
And so we look at the stage manager and he
says, don't worry boys.
And they put Bugs Bunny movies on.
So we're at the Fillmore
East and we're playing the second bill to Bugs Bunny.
But, fantastic for the audience.
What happened was, the audience just sat there for about an hour and a half waiting for us
to get it together, which I'd never seen that before either.
And then I suddenly realised,
just a minute, people haven't come to see a concert, they've come to listen to [Abm] some
music. _
[F] And we eventually got on stage and we did, you know, probably an hour concert. _
And the reviews next to it, I remember the reviews saying, they looked like models from
London's Carnaby Street, not the Moody Blues, not Poolet.
But the concert was a success.
And we made friends with Billy Graham then and we work, well we still do, and we still
do a lot of [Gb] concerts _ [Ab] with the Billy Graham organisation.
_ _ Birmingham, they had a thing called Rock and Roll in the Park.
And they used to have
a competition all through the summer where all the bands would perform and the best band
from each [N] park would go forward to what was called the Tulip Festival.
And then they had
this big finale of all the bands.
And there's hundreds of bands in Birmingham taking part.
[G]
And [Ab] we got through to the final of this _ competition.
And there it was at the Tulip Festival in
Birmingham, huge, I mean thousands of people there, big tent, stage, [N] fabulous event.
And
there was another band that used to follow us and copy everything we did, always copied
everything we did.
And their name was called, I think, I think they were called the Sombreros.
I mean that's pretty close to how wise they were.
_ But Ray and I said we've got to do something
because they'd got to the final as well.
So we thought we've got to do something really
different to anyone else.
And Ray said, I know what we're going to do.
Why don't we
all start with our backs, with the curtains are closed, backs to the audience.
We start
with a whole lot of shaking.
So we've got the doon-a-doon.
And then I'll just jump through
the curtains and we'll all turn round.
We'll all turn round and look at the audience and
start playing.
We said it'd be fantastic.
So on the afternoon we rehearsed all this.
Ray diving through the curtains.
We thought this is it, we have got this.
We're going
to win this tournament, competition, just from this one appearance only. _
So on the night
that we came to do the concert, the competition, curtains are closed _ and we've got our backs
to the audience _ and they announce us from Erdington, Birmingham, Al Riott and [Ab] the Rebels.
And we started playing all with our backs to the audience, doon-a-doon. _
[D] Ray dives through
the curtains and we hear [Eb] clatter, clatter, bang, smash, [N] crunch.
And we turn round and
Ray had gone through the curtains and they hadn't told us because it's the Tulip Festival.
They had put like 200 vases of tulips on the front of the stage.
_ And there was Ray amongst
all these tulips and vases _ making our grand entrance of rock and roll.
It was wonderful.
Did you win?
Oh, we collapsed.
But we actually did win.
It was the funniest thing to see
Al Riott with sombrero around his neck.
And _ what was the other story?
Rock and roll.
Well, the other one, we used to play at a place called Bromsgrove and the great criteria
being top of the bill at Bromsgrove is at Bromsgrove at the Baths, sorry, at Kidderminster
Baths.
And you got the booking providing you could do the Hokey-Cokey because at the end
of the night, 2000 people wanted to sing Hokey-Cokey and have a punch up.
_ And you didn't
know what show you did, you had to do the Hokey-Cokey and then we had a fight.
But Ray
said he wanted to make, because we were actually playing with [Gb] Nero and the gladiators this
night.
And Ray said, I really need to do something really good.
He said, I'm going to come [F] running
through the doors on the stage and dive on my knees and go [N] sliding across the stage.
I thought, fantastic, because Ray could do that.
So we started off with the doors open,
Ray come flying in on his knees, he's going across and his face, he was like, ah, ah,
ah.
There's like splinters going in his knees off the wooden stage and his knees had locked.
_ _ _ So he had to be carried off the other side of the stage.
_ Rock and roll, great.
At the end of the night, Ray always [Ab] used to throw the tambourine into the audience.
And
[F]
he [Gb] threw the tambourine into the audience one night during the encore.
And we were backstage
afterwards and Gerry Weintraub, our manager, came running in and Gerry said, Ray, what
have you done?
Look, [F] your tambourine's gone and hit this guy and it's cut his [N] face and
we've got stitches.
He said, we're going to get sued for millions.
He said, but [G] I've managed
to calm him down and [Gb] as long as we give him a programme and signed T-shirts, it's going
to be okay.
Can I bring him back?
And Ray said, yeah, why not?
So Gerry brought this
guy back and there's blood everywhere, everywhere.
And Ray signs everything and Ray turned around
to this guy and says, pay attention next time.
The [Eb] Fillmore East.
We get to the Fillmore East [Gb] and _ David Crosby came to see us.
The
Fillmore East was all, I mean, hippyland galore.
I mean, space cadets, everything.
It was unbelievable.
I couldn't believe it.
It really was a whole different, _ _ something totally different for
me.
I couldn't.
But I remember we'd been, we were all shopping at [F] those days on the
King's [N] Road in England.
Of course, so we'd got all our suits and clothes from Dandy's
and we'd go to New York and everybody's in tie-dyes and cut-off jeans and sandals and
there's us in our Dandy clothes from the King's Road and the Mellotron.
And we were top of
the bill at Fillmore East and they announced us.
Curtains open, we start playing, and we
get to the first chord on the Mellotron and all the tapes come out the back of the Mellotron.
It was like spaghetti junction, all these spaghetti tapes all over the place. _
And it
was like, we've come all this way for this.
And so we look at the stage manager and he
says, don't worry boys.
And they put Bugs Bunny movies on.
So we're at the Fillmore
East and we're playing the second bill to Bugs Bunny.
But, fantastic for the audience.
What happened was, the audience just sat there for about an hour and a half waiting for us
to get it together, which I'd never seen that before either.
And then I suddenly realised,
just a minute, people haven't come to see a concert, they've come to listen to [Abm] some
music. _
[F] And we eventually got on stage and we did, you know, probably an hour concert. _
And the reviews next to it, I remember the reviews saying, they looked like models from
London's Carnaby Street, not the Moody Blues, not Poolet.
But the concert was a success.
And we made friends with Billy Graham then and we work, well we still do, and we still
do a lot of [Gb] concerts _ [Ab] with the Billy Graham organisation.
_ _ Birmingham, they had a thing called Rock and Roll in the Park.
And they used to have
a competition all through the summer where all the bands would perform and the best band
from each [N] park would go forward to what was called the Tulip Festival.
And then they had
this big finale of all the bands.
And there's hundreds of bands in Birmingham taking part.
[G]
And [Ab] we got through to the final of this _ competition.
And there it was at the Tulip Festival in
Birmingham, huge, I mean thousands of people there, big tent, stage, [N] fabulous event.
And
there was another band that used to follow us and copy everything we did, always copied
everything we did.
And their name was called, I think, I think they were called the Sombreros.
I mean that's pretty close to how wise they were.
_ But Ray and I said we've got to do something
because they'd got to the final as well.
So we thought we've got to do something really
different to anyone else.
And Ray said, I know what we're going to do.
Why don't we
all start with our backs, with the curtains are closed, backs to the audience.
We start
with a whole lot of shaking.
So we've got the doon-a-doon.
And then I'll just jump through
the curtains and we'll all turn round.
We'll all turn round and look at the audience and
start playing.
We said it'd be fantastic.
So on the afternoon we rehearsed all this.
Ray diving through the curtains.
We thought this is it, we have got this.
We're going
to win this tournament, competition, just from this one appearance only. _
So on the night
that we came to do the concert, the competition, curtains are closed _ and we've got our backs
to the audience _ and they announce us from Erdington, Birmingham, Al Riott and [Ab] the Rebels.
And we started playing all with our backs to the audience, doon-a-doon. _
[D] Ray dives through
the curtains and we hear [Eb] clatter, clatter, bang, smash, [N] crunch.
And we turn round and
Ray had gone through the curtains and they hadn't told us because it's the Tulip Festival.
They had put like 200 vases of tulips on the front of the stage.
_ And there was Ray amongst
all these tulips and vases _ making our grand entrance of rock and roll.
It was wonderful.
Did you win?
Oh, we collapsed.
But we actually did win.
It was the funniest thing to see
Al Riott with sombrero around his neck.
And _ what was the other story?
Rock and roll.
Well, the other one, we used to play at a place called Bromsgrove and the great criteria
being top of the bill at Bromsgrove is at Bromsgrove at the Baths, sorry, at Kidderminster
Baths.
And you got the booking providing you could do the Hokey-Cokey because at the end
of the night, 2000 people wanted to sing Hokey-Cokey and have a punch up.
_ And you didn't
know what show you did, you had to do the Hokey-Cokey and then we had a fight.
But Ray
said he wanted to make, because we were actually playing with [Gb] Nero and the gladiators this
night.
And Ray said, I really need to do something really good.
He said, I'm going to come [F] running
through the doors on the stage and dive on my knees and go [N] sliding across the stage.
I thought, fantastic, because Ray could do that.
So we started off with the doors open,
Ray come flying in on his knees, he's going across and his face, he was like, ah, ah,
ah.
There's like splinters going in his knees off the wooden stage and his knees had locked.
_ _ _ So he had to be carried off the other side of the stage.
_ Rock and roll, great.
At the end of the night, Ray always [Ab] used to throw the tambourine into the audience.
And
[F]
he [Gb] threw the tambourine into the audience one night during the encore.
And we were backstage
afterwards and Gerry Weintraub, our manager, came running in and Gerry said, Ray, what
have you done?
Look, [F] your tambourine's gone and hit this guy and it's cut his [N] face and
we've got stitches.
He said, we're going to get sued for millions.
He said, but [G] I've managed
to calm him down and [Gb] as long as we give him a programme and signed T-shirts, it's going
to be okay.
Can I bring him back?
And Ray said, yeah, why not?
So Gerry brought this
guy back and there's blood everywhere, everywhere.
And Ray signs everything and Ray turned around
to this guy and says, pay attention next time.