RIP Graeme Edge

[George K]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/graeme-edge-moody-blues-drummer-dead-obit-1256700/?fbclid=IwAR1B7fAWfis55ryGJtTylzr1C4zE6JgykTQ8C7QJuD3Vh7McUk8D1iertuA

Graeme Edge, drummer and co-founding member of the Moody Blues, has died at the age of 80. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted British prog band announced Edge’s death Thursday. No cause of death was revealed.
“It’s a very sad day. Graeme’s sound and personality is present in everything we did together and thankfully that will live on,” Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward wrote on Facebook. “When Graeme told me he was retiring, I knew that without him it couldn’t be the Moody Blues anymore. And that’s what happened. It’s true to say that he kept the group together throughout all the years, because he loved it.”

Edge was a member of the Moody Blues from their formation in 1964 — when they briefly featured future Wings member Denny Laine, who features on their first hit “Go Now” — through his death; as Lodge and Hayward joined following Laine’s departure in 1966, Edge was the only Moody Blue to be a member of the band’s entire existence, although the drummer retired from touring in 2019.

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RIP

[Optimistic]

They were actually my first concert (in Atlantic City).

[George K]

I remember seeing a live performance broadcast on PBS. They were at Red Rock. Must've been in the late 1980s.

What struck me was how absolutely bored they all looked, LOL. Like "We're playing this shit again??"

[Optimistic]

@george-k I remember seeing them advertised for playing the casinos well into the 2000s.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in RIP Graeme Edge:

What struck me was how absolutely bored they all looked, LOL. Like "We're playing this shit again??"

That was Steve Miller Band for me. I can honestly say seeing them live was a waste of time.