# Breathe deep the gathering gloom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [April 26, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792 "2024-04-26T13:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/1 "2024-04-26T13:06:27Z")
Watch lights fade from every room. RIP [Mike Pinder](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/music/mike-pinder-moody-blues-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.4Ti3.vBNNgA2Ruj3w&smid=url-share) of the Moody Blues ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/2 "2024-04-26T14:03:15Z")
My brother was a big Moodies fan growing up (his level of fandom was very curious to me, as he was a suburban midwestern American teen in the 1990s). He sent me a link to the announcement as soon as it came out. He also posted on Facebook about how he got to spend some time with Pinder at some lecture tour in the 90s, and “realized he was a Jedi.” Also found him to be just a really nice guy. I of course had to comment that I wanted to make a “Go Now” joke but it was too soon. He appreciated it nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/3 "2024-04-26T14:03:31Z")
All I can feel is how it affects me. We need more mellotron! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/4 "2024-04-26T14:18:59Z")
_ **Days of Future Passed** _ is one of the greatest albums ever. RIP, Mike. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/5 "2024-04-26T14:54:07Z")
[Life Is Just A Simple Game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Ngeqzr98) ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/6 "2024-04-26T17:14:58Z")
I wore the grooves off “This Is The Moody Blues” a compilation album released after the Mike Pinder era closed. His songs “Simple Game”, “Melancholy Man”, and "Have You Heard? (Part 1) / “The Voyage” / Have You Heard? (Part 2) were highlights, On vinyl, the four sides had a real epic flow with, for example, Side 2 opening with “In The Beginning”/“Lovely To See You” and ending with HYH1 / Voyage / HYH2 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/7 "2024-04-26T20:40:53Z")
I saw this news yesterday and was tempted to post about it. > **[Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues Keyboardist and Founding Member, Dead at 82](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mike-pinder-the-moody-blues-keyboardist-founding-member-dead-obit-1235010490/)** > > Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues keyboardist and the last surviving founding member of the Rock Hall-inducted band, has died at the age of 82. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/8 "2024-04-27T19:15:25Z")
I’ve looked at this thread a few times, I just now noticed it should be “breathe.” ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/9 "2024-04-27T19:49:31Z")
How embarrassing! ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/10 "2024-04-27T21:30:51Z")
I’ve seen the Moodies perform many times over the years, but only once with Pinder (March, 1972, in Boston). Hearing “Isn’t Life Strange” always made my late wife cry. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/11 "2024-04-28T02:47:42Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > suburban midwestern American teen in the 1990s I was unwittingly thrust into fandom when my dad caught a strong Moody Blues phase around then. > [@saucywench](#): > > I just now noticed it should be “breathe.” But we decide which is right. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/12 "2024-04-28T02:52:23Z")
Looks like the title has been fixed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/13 "2024-04-29T16:58:41Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Looks like the title has been fixed. which is an illusion. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/14 "2024-04-29T17:34:56Z")
RIP 😔 I’m a big fan of the Moodies, especially the 7 “core” albums that he was an irreplaceable part of. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/15 "2024-04-29T17:40:55Z")
No. There was no ending “e” in breathe in the original title. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/16 "2024-04-29T17:44:35Z")
Saw the Moodies around ~1990 and was impressed at how energetic those old guys were on stage. The contrast between them and the opening band - Chicago - was stark. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/17 "2024-04-30T03:32:03Z")
Isn’t the original title “Late Lament?” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/18 "2024-04-30T10:11:26Z")
One of the few times my Dad said of a rock song “He has a good voice”. Jim Morrison doing “Touch me” on Sullivan was the only other time I recall. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > We need more mellotron! Love the Mellotron yet they rely on magnetic tape, are rather delicate and hard to move. The Moog took their place quite easily and if you hear a Mellotron part live (Moodies, Yes, Genesis…) it is most certainly an electronic synth. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/19 "2024-04-30T10:33:46Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > One of the few times my Dad said of a rock song “He has a good voice” Which song? (For those unfamiliar with the Moodies, four of them sang: Pinder, Ray Thomas, John Lodge, and Justin Hayward, who sang their biggest hits.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/20 "2024-04-30T10:49:09Z")
I got to perform with them once (zero interaction — they’d rent a local orchestra at tour stops.) I forgot my socks, and hopefully didn’t blind anyone with my glaring white ankles. I was and still am musically underexposed. This was my first exposure to their work, and an enjoyable one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792.md?page=2)