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"Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door..."


How did that heading end up "Blue" vs. "Blues?" Don't ask me. :p
 

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First band I ever really got into. They had a tune out in the early 1980s that I liked, and my Aunt turned me on to their original stuff. Still enjoy a good listen through those first 7 albums.
 

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And going back even further:

 

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I love MB. When I bought my first "new" car right after Tech Training, it was a 1974 Mercury (Ford) Capri with a 8-Track player. The MB was one of the first 8-Track tapes I bought and I remember listening to it constantly on long trips.
 
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They were such a different band back in the "Go Now" days. An amazing transformation really.

Here's a recent version of "Question:"
 
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An amusing story. Justin Hayward was interviewed a number of years ago now (maybe in 2005) and the interviewer asked him something like "how did you write those amazingly poetic lyrics" to which he said something like "hey, we were just writing stuff that we thought sounded cool."
Kinda like asking the guru on the mountaintop about the meaning of life... and after he gives you the answer and you say "really?" he replies, "well I think so."
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I nearly wore out about 3 of their LPs from the early 1970s (A Question of Balance, To our Children's Children's Children, Days of Future Past and Threshold of a Dream).
 
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Days of Future Passed was the first album I bought with my own money. My Dad was totally amazed, he expected rock n roll, not an orchestra

 
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And I'll bet it cost about $3.50!
 

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Closer to $5 IIRC. Seems like it was more expensive than most; but I don't recall why. Maybe because it was imported? Anyway, it seemed expensive, considering gas was around $.30/gallon, and hamburger around $.50/lb.
Totally worth it though
 
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When I first got into buying LPs, they sure seemed expensive at $3.33... but you could also take one into a listening booth to pre-view it!
 
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'Nother...
doesn't get going until maybe 1:35...
 

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They were such a different band back in the "Go Now" days. An amazing transformation really.

Here's a recent version of "Question:"

Nice! The first time I heard TMB was at a fellow Airman's home in Great Falls, Montana! He had one of those fancy 40-channel systems and the sound just blew me away!

Coincidentally, my friend's name was Ray Thomas.
 
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Definitely early stuff!!!
 

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I love MB. When I bought my first "new" car right after Tech Training, it was a 1974 Mercury (Ford) Capri with a 8-Track player. ...

Like this with extended bumpers?
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