Moody Blues: How Is It (We Are Here)?

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  • @guesser7
    @guesser7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A song that actually means something, even 50+years later.

  • @TheFlyingBrain.
    @TheFlyingBrain. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    52 years later, it's unbelievable how appropos this song still is. And the irony of it is, it's exactly because we started singing songs like these in the 60's and 1970, and asking the very questions asked in this album, that the men in their mighty mine machines dug in and starting digging deeper, as fast as they could, and are still fighting tooth and nail to insure they can keep digging, until the whole world falls into the hole they have made. We have to stop them now, or we're falling down the hole with them, and I guarantee that won't be fun. Personally I'd rather hang out in Her love, wouldn't you?

  • @richardskelly4106
    @richardskelly4106 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A very effective TH-cam vid to complement this great A Question of Balance album track.
    Rest in peace Mike Pinder who wrote and sang How Is It We Are Here. The Moodies had some more hits after Mike left in 1978, but there music was never again quite so textured.

  • @guesser7
    @guesser7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listen to that guitar solo at 1:32 it is years ahead of it's time. Hayward was without doubt the best all round guitarist of that prog rock era especially his acoustic work.

  • @ericogletree7467
    @ericogletree7467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The guitar solo is glorious. Born on a vector from London to Tokyo.....

  • @NYCOPERAFAN
    @NYCOPERAFAN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The genius that is Mike Pinder.

    • @katblehm2119
      @katblehm2119 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rejoice in Paradise, Mike. You left us a month ago today. …perhaps you’ll want to play? Stay right back on earth, waiting for rebirth… 😍🙏🏼

    • @abyios
      @abyios 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      RIP Mike Pinder I loved your songs and always will remember you for them

  • @hippiegypsygirl
    @hippiegypsygirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This music is unbelievable. Can you get any trippier?! Such a pretty sound, the feeling I get is indescribable

    • @kimnelson9910
      @kimnelson9910 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im a hippy .....some people call me a reject of the 70s

  • @cweatherhill
    @cweatherhill 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "All of a sudden, I have my own orchestra.....and they do whatever I tell them!" (Mike Pinder, about the mellotron). I think this was the first time that he used the Mini-Moog, too.

    • @Mynamesalexa
      @Mynamesalexa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe he introduced the mellotron to Paul McCartney at a party in 1966.

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hé had a unique vision of thé mellotron ,many used them as noises box ,gimmicks gadget even thé virtuosos ,albeit 2 Banks& mc Donald ..hé did said " i do play others people recorded instruments" many never thought about it !

  • @englishsunset
    @englishsunset 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
    ~Oscar Wilde

  • @bugibbab0y
    @bugibbab0y 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brilliant as usual and the song asks the greatest question ever asked.

    • @bobb9319
      @bobb9319 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, we might have asked how is it we are here many times in our life, and like now, I have to say how the decades of what many of this new love and peace generation brothers and sisters would probably too be wondering why weren't taught more explicit about our Divine Creator God our Holy Father and of His Purpose He sent us His Beloved Son Jesus Christ who was and still is the One to teach us how to pray to stay obedient to doing the act of loving with all our heart the one other magnificent beautiful families our Loving Creator God put here on His only magnificent beautiful livable planet, and so this is what my pray today is to"Freely share"with all my brothers and sisters just how our Loving Good Shepherd and True Principle Teacher also taught all of us, about how we all can be Peacemakers, And that would be to;" first pray to give up the stubborn selfish prejudice pride and ego to learn and grow spiritually as our Lord Jesus instructed His first Apostles, you they did not have bible scriptures and so the real Blessing is given when one stays obeying and living in the full faith of serving our Divine Healing, Forgiving, and Loving God our Father, then receiving His Holy Spirit which can not be received from those bought and sold zillions of copies of rewritten, and wrongfully interpreted bible scriptures, that those paid Christian preachers preach for short time and maybe just on their sabbath, telling their listeners a whole lot of nice beautiful stories, using words, like Holy, Miraculous, Glorious, and of our Heavenly Fathers Beloved Son, The Sacred Heart, but to have never told any brother or sister of how we were to love all of what our Divine Creator God our Father perfectly created with the breath of life, and then why our Most Merciful, Forgiving, and Healing Father had sent here on earth for all of us, His Beloved Son, The Good Shepherd and Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, who fulfilled His Fathers Commandments , which the first one, you know is" Love God with all our heart and with all our mind and with all our soul",, and so what is so hard to make a sincere honest effort to simply stop buying any and all of the products of that bondage and the sick mass every day killing and butchering of those perfect created families that our Merciful and Loving Creator put here to be free, happy, unharmed and safe under God our Fathers' Wing, and not to have been sold with that paid miners dangerously mined metals from our Forgiving Holy Fathers earth, and now to say to all of my brothers and sisters, if you were to sincerely ask in prayer to do the devote act to no more buy or eat those perfectly living families created by our Forgiving and Healing God our Father and eat that what His Beloved Son Jesus, The Good Shepherd eat, every herb bearing seed and every tree yielding fruit which was given by our Divine Creator God for our food, the natural fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts and to give all those beautiful families their freedom, we don't eat their eggs, milk or honey. Believe me, our Holy Father will quickly begin to heal all your senses, which will open up your hearts to love spiritually and cleanse your old ways of how we were falsely taught, Then we have those swindling justice of the peace and religious church ministers also hurry-up to ask for that corrupt never-ending rising price to marry your sons and daughters and not thinking to inform or letting them all know of the thousands of those newborn deformities and diseases both physical and mental, some even fatal, and then how many millions of the foster children, orphans and the children here and so much more in those 3rd world countries, that being brought into to this so sinful and horrible disastrous suffering state of life, and so, for all these vitally important issues that just seem to not get taught or brought up to everyone's attention by those well paid religious and world educators. So I simply care to again say, if you go to typing in more Spiritual Wisdom of what Holy Father has for all those who have come to stay faithfully obedient to our Holy Fathers' Commandments to then receive the Greatest of our Holy Fathers Gift of the Holy Spirit to go forth and freely share in communion that what Christ Jesus had taught us, and know He will be with us always, and we continue giving all Praise our Holy Father ⚡️ Amen.

  • @pmls72
    @pmls72 14 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Marvellous mellotron!

  • @Oldlionel
    @Oldlionel ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This song has that classic and mysterious Moody Blues sound, thanks to Mike's Melotron. This is one of their best. And if you guys have never heard it, check out Mike Pinder's "Fantasy Flight". An incredibile song with chilling guitar work that send shivers!
    ".....The fair is free, and the ship is waiting....
    All aboard, the Silver Chord
    The tour's about to start
    See the famous asteroids,
    and a thousand million stars."

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But he did used a moog in this song too ...

  • @AbandonEarth911
    @AbandonEarth911 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The lyrics of this song, sum up the contradictions and insanity of the global capitalist system.

  • @ilovekansas
    @ilovekansas 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So true. Their combination of sounds is awesome. The riff from about 1:30 to 1:55 in this song is CLASSIC Moody Blues sounds

  • @jan51951
    @jan51951 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I adore this song.The question in the song is very deep.A very advence and futurist song for the year of 1969.

    • @AbandonEarth911
      @AbandonEarth911 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes indeed claudem. Still very relevant today. Let us all help to speed the day when this wonderful earth and its rich resources are held in common for the benefit of all humanity.

    • @fromtheend4253
      @fromtheend4253 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ..........👉1970;👈...........

    • @ffredgh
      @ffredgh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Moody Blues often went that way. They are far and away my leading favorite musical artists.

  • @timhollis3390
    @timhollis3390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! Gave me chills up my spine.

  • @EssentialDegnities
    @EssentialDegnities  14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks...it was really fun to make :-)

  • @Aldebaron9
    @Aldebaron9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The essential, Michael Pinder.

  • @tonykaluzny2216
    @tonykaluzny2216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how is it we are here???????

  • @chrissmith6827
    @chrissmith6827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Beatles
    Stones couldn't do this on their best day.

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great Chris! There was one Ono in thé stones able to do it ,Brian Jones ,able to pick up any instrument and enhanced any crappy Berry's copied riff ,hé did deserved many crédit for most of their hits ,but thé twins had ego prob !!!!thé moodies were Friends of thé Fab and played on some tracks !!!walrus ,fool on hill...

  • @Aldebaron9
    @Aldebaron9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How is it I am here.

  • @shawnroy8053
    @shawnroy8053 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool vid. Thanks.

  • @winnross
    @winnross 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    The master! You top my fav list.

  • @stewartteaze5796
    @stewartteaze5796 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The "starving/frightened world fills the sea with grain" is a Biblical reference... Something about people on a wayward ship at sea throwing the grain from the hold into the sea (to lighten the ship and enhance their chance for survival to make land), after these starving/frightened people have eaten their fill of the grain from the hold... we all are the starving/frightened people on "the wayward boat" (Earth).

    • @AbandonEarth911
      @AbandonEarth911 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Let us all help to speed the day when this wonderful earth and its rich resources are held in common for the benefit of all humanity.

    • @AbandonEarth911
      @AbandonEarth911 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The capitalist system stockpiles food and pays farmers set aside, while a starving frightened world watches children starve in the 21st century. Men work down dirty stinking mines, then watch as the minerals are locked away again in concrete caves with iron doors Bank Vaults to you and me. What madness, yet mike pinder could see through all the bullshit. 50 years ago.

    • @bobb9319
      @bobb9319 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, we might have asked how is it we are here many times in our life, and like now, I have to say how the decades of what many of this new love and peace generation brothers and sisters would probably too be wondering why weren't taught more explicit about our Divine Creator God our Holy Father and of His Purpose He sent us His Beloved Son Jesus Christ who was and still is the One to teach us how to pray to stay obedient to doing the act of loving with all our heart the one other magnificent beautiful families our Loving Creator God put here on His only magnificent beautiful livable planet, and so this is what my pray today is to"Freely share"with all my brothers and sisters just how our Loving Good Shepherd and True Principle Teacher also taught all of us, about how we all can be Peacemakers, And that would be to;" first pray to give up the stubborn selfish prejudice pride and ego to learn and grow spiritually as our Lord Jesus instructed His first Apostles, you they did not have bible scriptures and so the real Blessing is given when one stays obeying and living in the full faith of serving our Divine Healing, Forgiving, and Loving God our Father, then receiving His Holy Spirit which can not be received from those bought and sold zillions of copies of rewritten, and wrongfully interpreted bible scriptures, that those paid Christian preachers preach for short time and maybe just on their sabbath, telling their listeners a whole lot of nice beautiful stories, using words, like Holy, Miraculous, Glorious, and of our Heavenly Fathers Beloved Son, The Sacred Heart, but to have never told any brother or sister of how we were to love all of what our Divine Creator God our Father perfectly created with the breath of life, and then why our Most Merciful, Forgiving, and Healing Father had sent here on earth for all of us, His Beloved Son, The Good Shepherd and Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, who fulfilled His Fathers Commandments , which the first one, you know is" Love God with all our heart and with all our mind and with all our soul",, and so what is so hard to make a sincere honest effort to simply stop buying any and all of the products of that bondage and the sick mass every day killing and butchering of those perfect created families that our Merciful and Loving Creator put here to be free, happy, unharmed and safe under God our Fathers' Wing, and not to have been sold with that paid miners dangerously mined metals from our Forgiving Holy Fathers earth, and now to say to all of my brothers and sisters, if you were to sincerely ask in prayer to do the devote act to no more buy or eat those perfectly living families created by our Forgiving and Healing God our Father and eat that what His Beloved Son Jesus, The Good Shepherd eat, every herb bearing seed and every tree yielding fruit which was given by our Divine Creator God for our food, the natural fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts and to give all those beautiful families their freedom, we don't eat their eggs, milk or honey. Believe me, our Holy Father will quickly begin to heal all your senses, which will open up your hearts to love spiritually and cleanse your old ways of how we were falsely taught, Then we have those swindling justice of the peace and religious church ministers also hurry-up to ask for that corrupt never-ending rising price to marry your sons and daughters and not thinking to inform or letting them all know of the thousands of those newborn deformities and diseases both physical and mental, some even fatal, and then how many millions of the foster children, orphans and the children here and so much more in those 3rd world countries, that being brought into to this so sinful and horrible disastrous suffering state of life, and so, for all these vitally important issues that just seem to not get taught or brought up to everyone's attention by those well paid religious and world educators. So I simply care to again say, if you go to typing in more Spiritual Wisdom of what Holy Father has for all those who have come to stay faithfully obedient to our Holy Fathers' Commandments to then receive the Greatest of our Holy Fathers Gift of the Holy Spirit to go forth and freely share in communion that what Christ Jesus had taught us, and know He will be with us always, and we continue giving all Praise our Holy Father ⚡️ Amen.

    • @stewartteaze1728
      @stewartteaze1728 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AbandonEarth911 ... But you miss the point of the song... The answer to how is it we are here... THE SUN... She sends us her glory, it's always been there... Her love's all around us, it's there for you and me to share... THE SUN is how is it we are here.

    • @AbandonEarth911
      @AbandonEarth911 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stewartteaze1728 Sadly it's You who misses the point of the lyrics.

  • @kgjunior247
    @kgjunior247 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm not in agreement with the needless bashing of John Lodge. The Hayward/Lodge composition "When You Wake Up" from Bluejays was worth the price. Having said that, Hayward/Pinder could have been an exceptional project.

    • @Wambligleshga
      @Wambligleshga 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WAY back when I pleaded in a Moody Blues Fanzine that Justin & Mike might collaborate and cut an album "for us really old fans". You would have to scroll down to the shaded area of the page titled "Letters you've written" but here is the fabzine issue ~ moodybluesattitude.yuku.com/topic/1376#.WCKeatUrKVM

    • @cosmo1eleven855
      @cosmo1eleven855 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I got some flack from some people in another thread about just that: A Hayward-Pinder collaboration instead of Lodge for a Bluejays timeframe. Pinder was a great writer and decent singer. What could have been, we will never know. One thing is certain it would probably have been better than the weak "Bluejays" stuff of which I was not impressed.

    • @Mynamesalexa
      @Mynamesalexa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, Clint died and they needed a bass player.
      Why is John Lodge bashed?

  • @erikdelarosa1531
    @erikdelarosa1531 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why do I get you stoned? 😂

  • @roddi525
    @roddi525 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah your right. Pinder+Hayward were the Moody Blues, and evidently they actually helped the others with there ideas, writing and arranging most of the early tracks and then giving them to the others. I often wonder instead of Blue Jays, what a Pinder, Hayward solo would have been like, if only Lodge had not got in the way. I'm sure it would have been fab, but we can only imagine now.

    • @avatarfin
      @avatarfin ปีที่แล้ว

      Pinder was who brought into the band so he definitely knew what he was doing all around.

  • @brotherlonewolf4182
    @brotherlonewolf4182 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do I hear a reference to the Goddess in this song?

    • @avatarfin
      @avatarfin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She sends her glory is one of my all time fav lines.

  • @roddi525
    @roddi525 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeah but a Pinder, Hayward project was very likely as Hayward went over to Indigo Ranch to collaborate with mike on a solo venture in 1975. However, John Lodge and tony Clark turned up, but Pinder took Hayward aside and said "I only want to work with you on a project otherwise im out of it". So we got Blue Jays. The Lodge tracks are sugary rubbish. but can u imagine the Hayward tracks with a Pinder collaboration, it would have bee a super album.

    • @williamschramm2761
      @williamschramm2761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the info!! I never knew this!! What a tid-bit of info!!

    • @avatarfin
      @avatarfin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lodge was a decent bass player and wrote a few good songs but a weak singer.

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@avatarfintotally wrong ! Hé Can sung falsetto and was a unique bassist ,deeply honnest i do thinck you've thinck wrong things ....

  • @kimnelson9910
    @kimnelson9910 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    skies dont seem so sunny......jokes dont seem so funny.....does anyone remember laughter......

  • @BohemianConspiracy
    @BohemianConspiracy 13 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    i am always a Pinder fan... Pinder & Hayward songs are most of the time my fave of the band...

    • @avatarfin
      @avatarfin ปีที่แล้ว

      Hayward was the best, Pinder was great also and the others not too shabby either.

    • @John-ls2gp
      @John-ls2gp 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can pick out an all time masterpiece from each original member. Mike songs always seem relevant now as if time stood still.

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@avatarfindon't thinck so they were 5 and more Tony + Dereck to made this music ,everyone added his touch ,everyone was in charge of something ,press relations, tours organisations ,matériels PA instruments availabilities and so on ,other one Threshold label, Mike was in charge the moodies' sounds and " direction" ....Sure Mike & Justin help very much the 4 others to wrote stuffs without asking for copyrights ,this is pretty heardable ,all five brought something with their unique musicianship.

  • @BohemianConspiracy
    @BohemianConspiracy 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we only can imagine... there's tons of exemples ...how could have been the Hollies if graham nash did not quit the band in 1968 ?
    What could have been the next band formed by Brian Jones ?
    How could have been a mid 70s Jimi Hendrix or the Doors record with Jim Morrison alive ??? ...etc...
    ...sometimes we want to re-write musical history...

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice to read you ,Brian Jones one of my fave with Mike ,Nash had a rare black MK2 ....as Mike ,as ....Me!!!!