The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

And on the plus side the new flight is a twin engined biplane!

That would be exciting. 😎

 

[PaulSB]

Mrs P found a recording of the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I've only heard their albums, never seem the band "live." WOW! They were very good. I'd always imagined the music benefitted hugely from studio production.

That event couldn't possibly happen today. The authorities would close the island first.

It's on Sky Arts.

 

[Paulus]

Mrs P found a recording of the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I've only heard their albums, never seem the band "live." WOW! They were very good. I'd always imagined the music benefitted hugely from studio production.

That event couldn't possibly happen today. The authorities would close the island first.

It's on Sky Arts.

I really liked the Moodies. I saw them several times at the Royal Albert over the years. A great band in my opinion.

 

[mikeIow]

Mrs P found a recording of the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I've only heard their albums, never seem the band "live." WOW! They were very good. I'd always imagined the music benefitted hugely from studio production.

That event couldn't possibly happen today. The authorities would close the island first.

It's on Sky Arts.

That was the third festival: at the time the IOW had around 60k people living on it, & estimates where that the 1970 festival had perhaps 600,000 people attend - no wonder the Government passed a law to ban such gatherings!
I was born there, & lived a mile or so from the 1969 Woodside one: I was only 5, but remember hippies hiking down our (unmade-up) road…& hearing music. Ahh, happy days!!

We’ve gone to the festival for a few years now - retirement made things easier, & the kids being older 🤣

I’ve lots of memorabilia about the original big one, & a book of amazing photos taken by the last Chris Weston.

Crazy!!

 

[Drago]

I got a calendar in my music room and the Moody Blues are March!

 

[Gunk]

145 miles today, fabulous weather, however we stopped for lunch and it was so bad we got our money back!

 

[Dave7]

Mrs P found a recording of the Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I've only heard their albums, never seem the band "live." WOW! They were very good. I'd always imagined the music benefitted hugely from studio production.

That event couldn't possibly happen today. The authorities would close the island first.

It's on Sky Arts.

Did they ever find out what the nights in white sat in ?