The Passing of John Lodge

[IamScotticus]

If Rock N Roll had a back bone, I think John Lodge would be one.

Unwavering devotee of Buddy Holly and the Fender Precision bass that he never put down for another guitar, left us Oct 10, 2025 unceremoniously but peacefully In Naples Florida. 

 

Comming off of 20 dates in late 2024, straight into 33 dates in 2025 ending on Aug 7, you would think John, at 82, was just taking a rest.  

 

Never mind the raucous hits, Lodge penned and cut the best melodies of those Moody tunes.  Hayward made great contributions, but Lodge, Pinder and Thomas brought on the Astral plains and psychedelics like nobody else but the Beatles and Hawkwind.  A hard sell after the early 70s, all that hippie acid trip pixie dust would die off eventually.  But it would be John's writing that would keep the Moodys on the radio into the 80s.

 

A true 60s rock troubadour to the end.  That's what I think anyway.

 

A veteran cosmic rocker 

 

 

Edited January 3 by IamScotticus