Monday, November 15, 2021

Graeme Edge 1941 - 2021

The drummer of The Moody Blues -- in all their incarnations -- has passed.

It's no secret I was not a fan of the post Denny Laine cosmic version of the Moodies, but Edge did yeoman work for all those years, and if he had played on nothing more than this 1965 Brit Invasion r&b classic...

...he would deserve respect from all who walk upright.

I should add that a year later he also played on the Laine/Moodies most sad and beautiful single "Boulevard de La Madeleine"...

...and that one of the great thrills of my adult life, during my first trip to Paris in 2015, was being able to hang out on the street immortalized in the song.

RIP Graeme. You did good.

5 comments:

Jai Guru Dave said...

Cold-hearted orb!

Alzo said...

Baroque Brum Baguette. 'Produced by Denny Cordell'... what didn't this guy have a hand in? He was like the English Jack Nitzsche. Worthy of a post of his own, dontcha think?

Billy B said...

Crap. Another 80 year old drummer...

8^(

Phil Cheese said...

I met Graeme in a St. Paul, MN hotel lobby during the Moody Blues 1981 tour. He stopped to talk to me for a few minutes, and before leaving, graciously autographed my Moody Blues tour book, my songbook, and posed for a photo. He finished up by shaking my hand and saying: "Good luck, lad!" Very lovely man and easy to see why he was a fan favorite his entire career.

John Werner said...

Power pop wouldn't be the simple to the brain and heart thing it is if it was not for the more "pompous" articulations of the great prog artists. The Moodies were kind of singular in that they were a mash-up of folk, cosmic prog, rock, and pop. I think I really liked many of their musical excursions. It also made me need the respite of power pop to make my musical life more complete. Personal fave is Every Good Boy Deserves Favour as it appeared in a formative time in my youth.