Hi Brian, nice to meet you. I'm on the "trailing edge of the Baby Boomers" and was a freshman in high school when Days of Future Passed came out. Moody fans are all ages. You have a lovely journey in front of you to find all the good Moodies music.... have a good trip!

LDV is one of my favorites. I was pregnant with my son (who is now in his mid 30s and has children of his own) when it came out.... I played it a lot too. Picked that vinyl up in San Diego. Different times...

Don't mind me and leslee, we just sorta come here and wander around saying weird things when it gets slow and lonely in our lives. Not unlike others

Just out of curiosity, where are you in the world? I live near Seattle now.

I'm very fond of MO what I've seen of it. My great grandfather was born in MO and had quite a colorful life, my genealogy leads back through there. I stopped in a place called Butler MO because I'm a Heinlein fan.... you're right, it's very rural, but nice that way. Visited KC last time Justin played there. Trying to track the Hawkins family.... that sort of thing. Anywhere near Rolla? My folks hailed from northern Oklahoma, and the two states I've found are very similar.

Hi All,
Longtime reader of the boards, but never felt compelled to comment before. Luna and Leslee, thank you for keeping this board alive. I do so wish others would rejoin this little community too, its a great place, and probably the first discussion group people see when looking for tickets for concerts through MBT. Luna, just wanted to say l read forums on Blue Heaven and really enjoy them. Rock on, everybody. Saying It with Love. ?

Thank you for the warm welcome Luna. Well, one can dream, can't one. It would be nice to get this little community going again, who knows? Maybe one day....

Rock on.

There are a LOT of Moody sources out there. Some gang up and have a little clatch of friends... all sorts of interesting social stuff in the fan base. I turned super fan in 1991, long story. I'm really careful with diet and walk a lot, two years older and seem pretty healthy (on some pills) yea the bod starts wearing out and you just have to endure it.

Are you an Outlander reader? I'm on the fourth book now, and read an episode last night about a 1) rattlesnake 2) a privy and 3) two red headed lads and about laughed myself sick. I really recommend it to all readers who just want to relax and escape in the evenings.

The concerts are a whole different level. I love to travel (semi retired) so I'm doing it while I still can... just me and it's great, not having to put up with a ditzy husband (I was married for five years, but he was very immature.) It's very nice to see the shows night after night and see how it progresses, develops, how the lighting changes, the tech, the other fans... it's all part of an extended show.

Yeah.... got a serious taste for the live show, for sure. Fan girl stuff is very very fun

Outlander (and the series.... some 15 books I can figure at this point) begins with a WWII nurse who falls through a time warp in a stone circle in Scotland and travels backward 200 years. Meets up with some very wild Scotsmen.... the story has some pretty gnarly and somewhat kinky moments in it (whipping, rape and such.) I don't normally go for raunch like this, but I enjoy the sheer soap opera quality, and the historical tidbits (which seem quite accurate) also she's just a good adventure writer, excellent command of the English language. Quite a bit of romance in it. The family has worked their way to the Carolinas in America now, and I'm intrigued as I have my own ancestry that comes from lower Scotland and traveled to Augusta, then to Alabama (married Indians.) There's a pirate or two tossed in for flavor.

I've lain awake a few nights reading it, just to find out what happens next. The main character is a nurse, then a doctor, and has a slight mystical edge "shaman" type of stuff. Four books down, a few more to go.

I guess there is a whole fan group of people (mostly women of course) out there who are totally obsessed with the series and the first two novels have been serialized on the telly. I haven't caught up with those yet.

It does not help that my Ex was exactly what the main male character is, a tall red headed mostly Scotsman.

It all started prior to the Scottish uprising with Bonnie Prince Charlie c. 1745 (when the clans and tartans were abolished by the English conquerors) and we are now working up to the American Revolution, and have already had a few interesting (and fairly authentic) brushes with the local natives.

When you stumble into Scottish genealogy, you're in for a wild ride. I've got a bit of a soap opera going in my own ancestry.... gotta iron that out, so far it's just a bunch of scribbled posted in my kitchen. They were really good at keeping it all recorded, really amazing. On the German side tho, very hard to sort out because it's all in German of course. And in northern Germany, whence THAT side of the family.... they went through wars too, but a lot of it was destroyed. So they are tough to track.

Medieval isn't so interesting to me.... but I may give it a try. I'm mad about the 18th century, I have no idea why, but I track down Darwin stories, and I love the tall ship movies. I'm still not through all the Jane Austin books! (ok well that's 19th century)

Shakespeare is awesome too, for historical stuff.

I accept full responsibility for all bullying in the Moodies world, and I'm signing out.

I feel absolutely no guilt for anything posted on this board, or anywhere else I've posted for that matter. And I accept no responsibility for those bent out of shape about it. Blue Jay and leslee of course you know where to find me.

I think the point being missed here is, you are either here to chat pleasantly or you are here to talk about the Moodies. People who can't stop the mean spirited behavior (over 10 years now) have issues. As I'm not being paid to troubleshoot their noggins, I'll leave it at that. They can go home (or elsewhere on the nets) and bully someone else if they need a fix... because I make a lousy target.... I'm just liable to bully back.

Stuff happens.

"Keep on thinking free"