{"id":1222,"date":"2014-07-11T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T01:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T01:47:10","slug":"music-friday-mellow-prog-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-mellow-prog-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Mellow Prog Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-mellow-prog-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Mellow Prog Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>My guests for this Mellow Prog Edition of Music Friday are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moody_Blues\" target=\"_blank\">The Moody Blues<\/a>, a band that was one of the early adopters of an electronic instrument call the Mellotron &#8211; I kid you not. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mellotron\" target=\"_blank\">Mellotron<\/a> was a predecessor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moog_synthesizer\" target=\"_blank\">Moog Synthesizer<\/a> popularized mainly by Emerson Lake and Palmer, but others too. \u00a0The Moody Blues were&#8230;oh come on. \u00a0You must know the Moody Blues? \u00a0Knights in White Satin, Ride My See-Saw? \u00a0I can understand if you&#8217;ve never heard of King Crimson, but everybody knows The Moody Blues. \u00a0They were possibly the most commercially successful of the prog rockers I think because many of their songs were short enough for radio airplay. \u00a0Just a guess -I mean the music was (is) good. \u00a0They are also one of the prog rock bands with almost no churn in the \u00a0lineup &#8211; it has remained nearly constant from their beginning, the only real turnover being at the keyboard postion. \u00a0Probably because of the Mellotron. \u00a0Just kidding!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen three songs for today. \u00a0The first one you may recognize since it reached #24 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1972. \u00a0Interestingly, it took four years to get there, since it was originally released in 1968! \u00a0Go Figure. \u00a0The song? \u00a0<em>Tuesday Afternoon<\/em>. \u00a0This a video of a live performance shot By the BBC in 1970. \u00a0Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPLWBhNW3FM\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next up is a beautiful song called <em>Eyes of a Child. <\/em>\u00a0It&#8217;s a\u00a0lovely song &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/moodyblues\/eyesofachildpart1.html\" target=\"_blank\">the lyrics are very touching<\/a><em>. \u00a0<\/em>See if you don&#8217;t tear up. \u00a0Guys too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVBfsJ7SoxI\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK, last one. \u00a0The Moodies were know for lyrics that were either about peace &amp; love or environmental themes. \u00a0A lot of guys couldn&#8217;t hang because it was considered too emotional. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t bother me, because I am secretly a heart ruled person. \u00a0Oops &#8211; guess the secret&#8217;s out. \u00a0No matter. \u00a0This song asks a question that we all ask ourselves at one time or another &#8211; <em>How is it We Are Here?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GyiZm-2THoI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How is it we are here indeed. \u00a0OK, that&#8217;s all the music for today. \u00a0I hope you enjoyed it! \u00a0Use the comments!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet My guests for this Mellow Prog Edition of Music Friday are The Moody Blues, a band that was one of the early adopters of an electronic instrument call the Mellotron &#8211; I kid you not. \u00a0The Mellotron was a predecessor to the Moog Synthesizer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}