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It's possible this is the performance that catapulted the band into fame in France.... as I recall, Diana Ross and the Supremes hadn't gotten their backing tape, and the Moodies had all their gear, so they stepped up to the plate.... the rest is history. I love the sets, background and staging all of that. Very candid.
[It's early yet (my brain isn't quite in focus), but I think that's the story, corrections welcome]
Peter Gray just posted it to the Moodyverse on FB: Taran has had it for a while!
What? Other people saw glimpses of IYWD in that French vid? Maybe I'm not so crazy. Anyhoo, I'm with you on the manifestations, the stalker experience; which seems to be controlled thanks to the great guys at church, has me professing "Keep your manifestations off my soul," or is that too imposing for today's doublespeak?
That is very very good!!! "Keep your manifestations off my soul,"......................
I'm sorta deeply in this process of sorting out.... what happens to the mind when affected by music like this? Long term? To what altered reality do we all proceed???
"Shadows in the darkness just passing through............"
Can we glimpse one another through the dark wings and shades of astral projection? "Misty scene of what might have been" etc.
Are we all going the same direction with the same motivation? I have no idea if this makes sense, but I'm definitely chasing something strange, I've only caught glimpses and I'm not sure what it is. I hope it doesn't turn and bite me, like a cornered wolf. Is it wounded? Is it faking it and leading me away from it's nest? I don't know why I'm chasing it. Or if I should be. Or if those shadows are just shadows, or real helpers and companions. It's like following an exotic bird through the jungle, and it's very difficult on the ground, yet easy for the bird in the canopy. Sometimes you call to the bird, and it will answer and come back to look at YOU.... you ever go birding?
later edit: how funny, I just walked into the yard, there's this huge maple right outside.... there were all these little birds, like the size of *mice* all through it, tweeting and hopping. I think they were babies... like a bunch about 10 of them! It was very delightful! And I had just written the above..... all gone now, flew away.
Funny. Walking the Evo this morning, a gray jay grazed close, and then zigzagged tree to tree along our path, kinda in my personal space, but I liked it. I hadn't been that close to a flying bird for about ten years.
Much of the above is too poetic for me to ment even in imagery. The words to the "Western Sky" are an amazing fit to part of my life, much as the bulk of Sur la Mer was. Mr. Hayward's ability to connect people with the spiritual realm makes him an artist of the best kind, in my opinion. He's so groooovy.
I suppose this fits in with the subject: Lookie! Justin's right up there with the Magic Roundabout. Whatever.
LOL Swindon is just far enough from London to make it interesting, and just short of the lovely land of Wales. It's like John Lennon characterized Los Angeles "It's just a place to stop and get a hamburger"................
No one likes living in Swindon or Los Angeles. There are much nicer places to live and not all that far of a drive away. I loved the country to the south of Swindon.... I bet it nice to the north of Swindon too.
I must admit, I did to Swindon what Justin did to Lubbock. I found it lovely for that reason. It was spring. I recall an idyllic green hill with a cemetery. I was running late, and a guy on a bicycle followed me repeating, "You're not going to make it!" The Magic Roundabout was a let-down after all I'd heard about it. I thought the Engine House was some kind of monastery. That was before I ever heard of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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