The Moody Blues At The Hollywood Bowl (50th Anniversary of Days of Future Passed)

Silver Fanfare - Peter Boyer (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)

Festive Overture - Shostakovich (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra with Members of Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles)

Set 1: Moody Blues

I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)
The Voice
Steppin' in a Slide Zone
Say It With Love (from Keys to the Kingdom)
Nervous (from Long Distance Voyager)
Your Wildest Dreams
Isn't Life Strange
I Know You're Out There Somewhere
The Story in Your Eyes

Set 2 (Days of Future Passed with Moody Blues and The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)

The Day Begins (with Jeremy Irons)
Dawn Is a Feeling
Another Morning
Peak Hour
Tuesday Afternoon (listed as Forever Afternoon)
(Evening) Time to Get Away
The Sunset
Twilight Time
Late Lament (with Jeremy Irons)
Nights in White Satin

Question (With Fireworks)

Ride My See Saw

It was another night of The Angel Family does things on the cheap. :-)

The Hollywood Bowl ticket prices vary from very expensive to the cheap seats, up at the top.

Minus the time it takes to ride all those escalators, the view is excellent up there.

Hubby and I were trying to connect with a girl I grew up with. Unfortunately she was much lower down and I despaired of finding her during the Intermission.

Amazingly, I managed to do my business and then run down to section G2 and there she was, with relatives and friends.

We had something like 5 minutes to hug and talk, but we did promise to get together sometime (like this summer)

On to the concert itself.

I haven't seen the Moody Blues since we saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in like 1994. If I remember right, the tickets were $50 for box seats. We went with my Sister and a friend and I decided that the set list was always the same and I did not want to spend any more money to see the same show. I held my promise over these decades, but something about it being 50 years since Days of Future Passed was released, made me come this evening. Maybe it was the fact that my Son is named for the lead singer. Ha!

Opening night at the Bowl is always special and this one was no exception. The money goes to help the next generation of children, afford a music education and I am so behind that. So they start with a piece played by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and then they brought in 25 youngsters from the YOLA (Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles). They played well and set us up for the concert.

I knew The Moody Blues would go with most of what they normally play on tour and it was heavy with 80's tunes. Having not heard them in years, it was good to hear them played once again. There was a tune I never heard called "Nervous" and I am sure they played it, because it was written by John Lodge.

Since we had the entire Days of Future Passed album played in the second set, we finally got a song written by Mike Pinder and the crowd knew what an exception this was. They were quite vocal about singing and some were dancing during the performance by John Lodge. Let me state for the record that some of my favorite Moody blues songs are indeed written by Mike Pinder and IMHO he is sorely missed by this fan.

When I was in college I used to go to the Library and put on Seventh Soujourn and my absolute favorite songs from that record were Mike's. Lost in a Lost World and Free Man. I real shame that they lost him to his demons, because he was so much a part of the Moody sound in the first round...but I digress.

All in all, for men in their 70's, they put on a great show.

Glad I went.