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January 1 - 5, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's Pete Brady |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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January 8 - 12, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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January 24, 1968 |
Cannes "Midem
'68" Festival |
Nights in White Satin |
Show date and
venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20 and February 3,
1968, reported by Val Weston.
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February 3, 1968 |
Imperial
Ballroom, Nelson TV appearance on (UK) ABC's "Doddy's Music Box" |
Show date and
venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by
Val Weston. Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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February 4, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on
BBC radio's "Top Gear" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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| February 8, 1968 | Liberal Hall, Yeovil |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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| February 9, 1968 | Portalnd Buildings, Nottingham |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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| February 10, 1968 | Lees
(also Leas) Cliff Hall, Folkestone The Moody Blues are featured on BBC radio's "Pete's People" |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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February 16, 1968 |
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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February 17, 1968 |
Grays Technical College, Grays |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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February 24, 1968 |
Civic Hall, Nantwich |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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February 25, 1968 |
Country Club, Kirklevington |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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February 26, 1968 |
Olympia, Paris |
Fly Me High |
Show date, venue and set list noted in a review of the show in "Billboard", March 16, 1968. |
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February 27, 1968 |
Manchester University, Manchester |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk With Manfred Mann. |
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February 28, 1968 |
Mayfair, Newcastle |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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February 29, 1968 |
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March 1, 1968 |
Headington Tech College, Oxford |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk With The Move. |
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March 2, 1968 |
Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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March 5, 1968 |
Shenley Green Youth Club, Birmingham |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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March 6, 1968 |
Technical College, Portsmouth |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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March 7, 1968 |
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| March 8, 1968 | Sorby Hall, Sheffield |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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March 9, 1968 |
Sloopy's,
Manchester
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Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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March 10, 1968 |
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March 11 - 15, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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March 12, 1968 |
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March 13, 1968 |
Town Hall, Birmingham |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk With Manfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group and Picadilly Line. |
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March 15, 1968 |
Reading University, Reading |
Show date and venue noted in "New Musical Express" of January 20, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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March 22, 1968 |
Middle Earth (a
club in Covent Garden), London |
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Show date and venue from an advertisement in "Melody Maker", March 16, 1968 reported by Val Weston. With Doc K's Blues Band Clouds. |
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March 30, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on BBC radio's "Follow the Stars" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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May 13 - 17, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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May 25, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on
BBC radio's "Pete's People" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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May 27 - 31, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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June, 1968 |
Single Tuesday Afternoon / Another Morning is released in U.S. |
Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3-5.
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June 28, 1968 |
Single Voices in the Sky / Dr. Livingston, I Presume is released in U.K. |
Single release noted at www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/60brchro/60brch68.html Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3 as being in June for France and July for the UK and other countries in Europe. |
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June 29, 1968 |
Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London
The Moody Blues are featured
on BBC radio's "Saturday Club" |
Thinking is the
Best Way to Travel |
Show date and
venue noted in "Disc", July 6, 1968 and partial set list reported in
"New Music Express", July 6, 1968, both reported by Val Weston. The
Moody Blues shared the bill with The Settlers. Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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July 7, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's Stuart Henry |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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July 13, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on
BBC radio's "Saturday Club" episode 510 |
Voices in the Sky |
Media appearance noted in "New Musical Express" of July 6, 1968, reported by Val Weston. Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk Media appearance noted at epguides.com/SaturdayClub/, reported by Joyce Kelley. |
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July 15 - 19, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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July 21, 1968 |
Appearance on BBC radio's "Top
Gear" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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July ??, 1968 |
venue unknown,
Grenoble, France |
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Show noted in "Melody Maker", July 27, 1968 reported by Val Weston, "The Moodies are currently on a Continental tour which takes them to France, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Portugal and Germany. Over 4,000 fans were at their opening in Grenoble last week." |
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July 29 - August 2, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's David Symonds |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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July 30, 1968 |
TV appearance on "Jazz Bilzen" |
Tuesday
Afternoon Legend of a Mind |
Both media appearance dates, TV show names, and songs played from DVD Nights in White Satin |
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July 31, 1968 |
John Lodge weds Kirsten. |
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August 12 - 16, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's Jimmy Young |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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August 24, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by
BBC radio's Tony Brandon |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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August 25, 1968 |
Appearance on BBC radio's "Top Gear" |
Upcoming appearance noted in "New Musical Express" of July 27, 1968, reported by Val Weston. |
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September, 1968 |
Album In Search of the Lost Chord is released in U.K. |
Album release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3-5. Although www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/60brchro/60brch68.html shows a release date of July 26, this seems unlikely, given the chart debut date of September 14 noted in "Higher and Higher" #25, Spring 1995 p. 39. |
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September 6, 1968 |
TV appearance on BBC's "How It Is" |
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Appearance noted in "Disc Weekly"
of September 14, 1968, reported by Val Weston.
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September 7, 1968 |
Festival de l'Humanite, Paris |
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Show date noted
in "Melody Maker", September 14, 1968 - "Dozens of people were taken to
hospital at a French festival in Paris where the Moody Blues were
playing last Saturday. They were overcome by heat. A crowd estimated at
over 250,000 attended the festival called the Festival de l’Humanite." |
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September 8, 1968 |
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September 9 - 13, 1968 |
TV appearance on BBC's "How It Is" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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September 10, 1968 |
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September 11, 1968 |
Eel Pie Island,
Twickenham |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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September 12, 1968 |
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September 13, 1968 |
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September 14, 1968 |
TV appearance on "Colour Me Pop" |
Voices
in the Sky Ride My See-Saw Dr. Livingstone, I Presume |
Appearance date, TV show name, and songs played from DVD Nights in White Satin.
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September 15, 1968 |
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September 16, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on
BBC radio's "Radio One O'Clock" |
Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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September 20, 1968 |
Bridge Country
Club, Nr Canterbury |
Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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September 27, 1968 |
Hillside,
Hereford |
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Show date and venue noted in "New Music Express", September 28, 1968 reported by Val Weston.
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October 4, 1968 |
Youth Centre,
Braintree |
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Show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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October 5, 1968 |
Seagull, Ryde |
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Show date and venue noted in "New Music Express", September 28, 1968 reported by Val Weston.
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October 8, 1968 |
Marquee Club,
Wardour St., London |
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Show date and
venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
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October 19, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured on
BBC radio's "Pete's Saturday People" |
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Media appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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October 20, 1968 |
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General Tour
Notes: In the radio interview "A Moody Blues Special - On the Threshold of a Dream" which aired sometime in 1973, Justin Hayward relates, "That tour was ridiculous! We'd never been to America before, and it was a two-and-a-half month tour, getting off three months by the time we got there and got back. We didn't realize that, of course, when you're in America, you really should be flying if you want to go somewhere, you know, from one state to another. We even ended up at Greyhound bus stations and things - it was ridiculous! But it turned us all on. I know it did. It was frightening. The first American tour we did was frightening, it really was. As if you really were in danger, you know a couple of us were ill. But we played a lot of good gigs. We got to see all the California scene. We played Filmore West while it was still going, in San Francisco. And I'm glad we were there." Ray Thomas continues, "It went quite disastrously, actually. We had equipment failures. At that stage, the mellotron, they don't travel very well, and you have to know how to move them around, and at that stage, we just didn't. I mean the thing was put it in a box and thrown around in an aircraft, and came out more or less in pieces." Band members
often tell in interviews about how they began the tour with dates at
the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, driving cross-country and doing
shows in between wherever they could. However, The October 21-22 dates
in Chicago, which are well documented, occurred before the Fillmore
East shows, conflicting with this story. Also, in the DVD An
Audience with Justin Hayward at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
Justin Hayward describes their first U.S. tour as taking place over 10
weeks, yet there are only 4 weeks between the well-documented Fillmore
dates. A possible explanation is that the Fillmore East-to-West dates
were the first offered on the tour, and then their itinerary filled in
afterward, for a total of more like six weeks. Many band interviews
also contain stories of all the tapes falling out of the mellotron
during a show, with the audience watching cartoons while Mike Pinder
re-assembled it. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. This opening show of the tour was canceled because the band's equipment only made it as far as Boston. |
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October 21-25, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's Dave Cash |
Media appearance reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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October 21, 1968 |
Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL |
Ride My See-Saw
(opener?) |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city for these shows noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 (reported by Val Weston) and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Glenn Christensen reports the set list (although perhaps not in order) and opening act of Rotary Connection, a Chicago band with Minnie Ripperton. Glenn is not sure which of the Kinetic Playground dates (October 21-22 or November 12-14) he saw. Glenn also reports that the usual setup at the Kinetic Playground was that each band played two sets per night, with set up and tear down of equipment between acts. |
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October 22, 1968 |
Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL |
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October 23, 1968 |
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October 24, 1968 |
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October 25, 1968 |
Single Ride My See-Saw / A Simple Game released in U.K. (October in U.S.) | Single release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3-5. | |
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October 25, 1968 |
Fillmore East, New York, NY |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city for these shows (with John Mayall and Rhinoceros) noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Tour date and venue noted in "A Tribute to the Fillmore" magazine, December 1971, and reported by Doug Hinman of www.rocknrollresearchpress.com. |
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October 26, 1968 |
Fillmore East, New York, NY |
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October 27, 1968 |
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October 28, 1968 |
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October 29, 1968 |
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October 30, 1968 |
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October 31, 1968 |
Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, CA (doubtful) |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Tour date and venue noted on poster reported in "Higher and Higher" #13, Winter 1989, p. 9. I have listed this date as "doubtful" since the surrounding shows are all on the east coast. |
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November 1, 1968 |
Psychedelic
Supermarket, Boston |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Dates (although not the year) and venue from a poster. The year is corroborated by a review in the MIT tech journal of November 5, 1968, shown at www.tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_088/TECH_V088_S0435_P009.pdf Both poster and journal reported by Joyce Kelley. |
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November 2, 1968 |
Psychedelic
Supermarket, Boston |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Date (although not the year) and venue from a poster. The year is corroborated by a review in the MIT tech journal of November 5, 1968, shown at www.tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_088/TECH_V088_S0435_P009.pdf Both poster and journal reported by Joyce Kelley. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. |
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November 3, 1968 |
Baltimore Civic
Center, Baltimore |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city for this show noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. The Moody Blues and the Terry Reid Group opened for Cream, who were on their farewell tour. Reported by Doug Hinman of www.rocknrollresearchpress.com |
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November 4-7, 1968 |
Writing Coca-Cola jingles in New York |
November 4-7 were spent in New York writing the Coca Cola songs, which were recorded a few days later at Chess Records studios in Chicago just before the Moodies' return to the Kinetic Playground. Noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. |
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November 8, 1968 |
Electric
Factory,
Philadelphia, PA |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city
for this show (with Ars Nova) noted in
"Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating
with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows.
Reported by Val Weston. |
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November 9, 1968 |
Electric
Factory,
Philadelphia, PA |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city
for this show (with Ars Nova) noted in
"Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating
with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows.
Reported by Val Weston. Show date and venue confirmed by a ticket stub reported by Donna Whiting. However the ticket stub shows that this show was a double-bill between the Moodies and Pink Floyd. |
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November 10, 1968 |
WHK-Radio
Theater, Cleveland, OH |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Venue reported by Mary Turner-Wieland |
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November 11-15,
1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's Dave Cash recording Coca-Cola jingles in Chicago |
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Media appearance reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk November 4-7 were spent in New York writing the Coca Cola songs, which were recorded a few days later at Chess Records studios in Chicago just before the Moodies' return to the Kinetic Playground. Noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. |
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November 12, 1968 |
Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL |
Ride My See-Saw
(opener?) |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and and city for these shows noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Glenn Christensen reports the set list (although perhaps not in order) and opening act of Rotary Connection, a Chicago band with Minnie Ripperton. Glenn is not sure which of the Kinetic Playground dates (October 21-22 or November 12-14) he saw. Glenn also reports that the usual setup at the Kinetic Playground was that each band played two sets per night, with set up and tear down of equipment between acts. |
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November 13, 1968 |
Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL |
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November 14, 1968 |
Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL |
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November 15, 1968 |
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November 16, 1968 |
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November 17, 1968 |
Grande Ballroom,
Detroit, MI |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city for this show noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Tour date and venue noted on a handbill, reported by Robin Bean. The Moodies shared the bill with The Move. Tour date and venue also noted on a postcard reported by Bob Hardy, although the neither the handbill nor postcard give the year of the show. |
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November 18-22, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's Jimmy Young |
Media appearance reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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date unknown |
Cheetah, Los
Angeles, CA |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Reported by Robin Bean. |
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date unknown |
Psychedelic
Supermarkets, Berkeley, CA |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Reported by Robin Bean. |
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November 21, 1968 |
Fillmore West,
San Francisco, CA |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Venue and city for these shows noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. With Chicago Transit Authority and Frumious Bandersnach according to flyers, concert poster and booklet with Last Days of Fillmore 3-LP box set. Reported by Robin Bean and Vicki Kelly. Shows noted in "Amusement Business", November 27, 1968, reported by Doug Hinman of www.rocknrollresearchpress.com |
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November 22, 1968 |
Fillmore West,
San Francisco, CA |
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November 23, 1968 |
Fillmore West,
San Francisco, CA |
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November 24, 1968 |
Fillmore West,
San Francisco, CA |
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November ??, 1968 |
venue unknown,
Pocatella, ID |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. |
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November 27, 1968 |
Grossmont
College Gym,
La Mesa (San Diego), CA |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Shows noted in "Amusement Business", November 27, 1968, reported by Doug Hinman of www.rocknrollresearchpress.com Corrected from "venue unknown" according to www.sandiegoconcertarchive.com/concertarchive/11-november.html, reported by Claudia Bobrow. |
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November 28, 1968 |
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November 29, 1968 |
Shrine
Exhibition Hall,
Los Angeles, CA |
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See General Tour Notes for October 20. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Reported by Robin Bean. Show date and venue according to a poster at www.wolfgangsvault.com, reported by Vicki Kelly. The poster gives Jeff Beck top billing, with the Moody Blues, Ten Years After and Mint Tatoo supporting. |
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November 30, 1968 |
Shrine
Exhibition Hall,
Los Angeles, CA |
See General Tour Notes for October 20. Show city noted in "Record Mirror", December 14, 1968 and dates inferred from correlating with other reports of the Fillmore, Cleveland and San Diego shows. Reported by Val Weston. Reported by Robin Bean. Show date and venue according to a poster at www.wolfgangsvault.com, reported by Vicki Kelly. The poster gives Jeff Beck top billing, with the Moody Blues, Ten Years After and Mint Tatoo supporting. Show date and venue noted on a photo by Norwood Price at www.angelfire.com/rock3/vintage/rock/vintagep.html and reported by Phil Ohmer. |
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December 16-20, 1968 |
The Moody Blues are featured by BBC radio's Jimmy Young |
Media appearance reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk |
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Updated October 19, 2006 |
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