re: #265 steve_davis

there’s actually a kind of easter egg in that album. “The Afternoon” has the mega-hit at the front, but it’s paired up with a really cool prelude to “Evening” that is just absolutely mellow and haunting as hell. And of course, then there’s Nights in White Satin, which was so good, it didn’t even become a massive hit until sometime in 1972 when it got re-released as a single for some reason. I guess it was just one of those songs that needed time for people to appreciate it.

My strongest memory of ‘Nights In White Satin’ is from a prom in NW MN (I think it was Crookston) that my band played in 1977 or so. They used Nights In White Satin as the processional march and they just kept going on and on and on for about 50 minutes before they were done and we could stop playing the song.

‘Never reaching the end’ indeed.