Sitting at home watching the Moody Blues at the Royal Albert Hall in 2000. I reaffirmed an existing opinion....
John Lodge is an absolute master as a bass player. In the pocket, driving the music, always in place and on time. In the last few numbers he has played otherwise identical sunburst Fender Jazz basses, one fretless and one fretted. There was also what looked like a black Tacoma acoustic on one number. His stuff is deceptively difficult, and always tasteful.
He is probably one of the most underrated bass players of the past 50 years. No one has written music quite like the Moody Blues, and at their concerts I see fans from 12 to 70.
In fact, I learned they will be in Denver June 20, and I'm in the process of buying tickets right now. I think it will be the sixth time I've seen them, dating back to about 1968.
