{"id":884,"date":"2015-04-09T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-04-09T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:36:19","slug":"abc-radio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"ABC RADIO NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pinder Brothers New CD with Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnewsradioonline.com\/music-news\/2015\/4\/8\/ex-moody-blues-mike-pinder-and-ray-thomas-featured-on-new-so.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/abcnewsradioonline.com\/music-news\/2015\/4\/8\/ex-moody-blues-mike-pinder-and-ray-thomas-featured-on-new-so.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two founding <b>Moody Blues<\/b> members, singer\/keyboardist <b>Mike Pinder<\/b> and singer\/flutist <b>Ray Thomas<\/b>, are reunited on a new song by <b>The Pinder Brothers<\/b>, a duo made up of Mike&#8217;s sons <b>Matt<\/b> and <b>Michael Lee<\/b>.\u00a0 The elder Pinder and Thomas lend their talents to &#8220;Summer Moon,&#8221; the final track on the siblings&#8217; recently released album <i>Melancholy Sea<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, which is The Pinder Brothers&#8217; third studio effort, can be ordered now at CDBaby.com.\u00a0 You also can check out samples of the songs at the website and at <a href=\"http:\/\/pinderbros.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">PinderBros.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Interestingly, Pinder and Thomas also are featured on a new song titled &#8220;Simply Magic&#8221; from Moody Blues singer\/bassist <b>John Lodge<\/b>&#8216;s upcoming solo album, <i>10,000 Light Years Ago<\/i>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipsterpr.com\/2015\/john-lodge-of-the-moody-blues-to-release-new-solo-album-titled-10000-light-years-ago-on-may-5\/\"><span class=\"s2\">will be released on May 5<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pinder and Thomas were part of original lineup of The Moody Blues, which formed in 1964.\u00a0 Mike left the band in 1978, while Thomas retired from the group in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melancholy_sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melancholy_sea.jpg\" alt=\"melancholy_sea\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/abcnewsradioonline.com\/music-news\/2015\/4\/8\/ex-moody-blues-mike-pinder-and-ray-thomas-featured-on-new-so.html Two founding Moody Blues members, singer\/keyboardist Mike Pinder and singer\/flutist Ray Thomas, are reunited on a new song by The Pinder Brothers, a duo made up of Mike&#8217;s sons Matt and Michael Lee.\u00a0 The elder Pinder and Thomas lend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[21,14,16,15,12,11,20,19,13,18],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-reviews-articles-etc","category-whats_new","tag-abc-news-radio","tag-john-lodge","tag-matt-pinder","tag-michael-lee-pinder","tag-mike-pinder","tag-moody-blues","tag-pinder-bros","tag-pinder-brothers","tag-ray-thomas","tag-summer-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}