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World Tour (continued) |
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General Tour Notes: Final tour with Mike Pinder. Tour dates and venues reported in the Official Fan Club Newsletters of December 1973 and April 1974. Set list from an audio boot of the January 22 show in Osaka. The "Grande Tour" audio boot of the January 30 show at the LA Forum included "Higher and Higher", "Out and In", "Legend of a Mind", Are You Sitting Comfortably?", "Have You Heard" (Part 1), "The Voyage", "Have You Heard" (Part 2) and "I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock 'n' Roll Band)", as reported in "Higher and Higher" #34, Spring 1997, p. 29. "The Voyage" was erroneously listed as "The Dream" on this boot. |
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SET LIST |
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January 18, 1974 |
Budokan Dai-Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
Higher and Higher |
Tour dates and cities from tour book (in Japanese) reported in "Higher and Higher" #23, Fall 1994 p.31 and venues reported by Masahiro Ishibashi. |
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January 19, 1974 |
Nagoya-shi
Koukaido, Nagoya,
Japan |
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January 20, 1974 |
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January 21, 1974 |
Kyoto Kaikan
Daiichi Hall, Kyoto,
Japan |
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January 22, 1974 |
Kouseinenkin
Kaikan Dai-Hall, Osaka, Japan |
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January 23, 1974 |
Kouseinenkin
Kaikan Dai-Hall, Osaka, Japan |
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2 dates sold out in Hawaii, one in Honolulu, HI |
"The Moody Blues played Honolulu in 1974 and 1987." - answer to trivia question in Official Fan Club Newsletter, February, 1992 |
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3 dates sold out in California |
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January 30, 1974 |
Los Angles
Forum, Inglewood,
CA |
Tour date and venue reported by Robin Bean. Opening act Shawn Phillips, reported by Kathy Fortenberry. |
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February 1, 1974 |
Sports Arena, San Diego, CA |
Tour date and venue reported by Steve Leslie and at www.sandiegoconcertarchive.com/concertarchive/02-february.html |
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February 4, 1974 |
Cow Palace, Daly
City (San Francisco), CA |
"Mike Pinder last played with the Moody Blues at Cow Palace, Daly City (San Francisco) on February 4, 1974." - answer to trivia question in Official Fan Club Newsletter, February, 1992 |
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In March, 1974 the Moodies were invited to play China, but, although the tour was widely reported, it did not actually take place. However, thanks to the British table tennis team asking that it be played at a gathering in their honor, their album To Our Children's Children's Children was the first western rock music played in China, where the Communist government strictly forbade such music. This exposure to the music led to the invitation to tour. |
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July 17, 1974 |
Single We Like to Do It / Shotgun is released worldwide by the Graeme Edge Band |
Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985, p.10-13 |
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Updated December 27, 2006 |
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