The Best Way to Travel

Infobox Song
Name = The Best Way to Travel


Artist = The Moody Blues
Album = In Search of the Lost Chord
Released = July 1968
B-side =
Recorded = January-June 1968
Length = 3:14
Label = Deram Records
Writer = Mike Pinder
Producer = Tony Clarke
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = In Search of the Lost Chord
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
#"Departure"
#"Ride My See-Saw"
#"Dr. Livingstone, I Presume"
#"House of Four Doors"
#"Legend of a Mind"
#"House of Four Doors (Part 2)";Side two
#

"Voices in the Sky"
#"The Best Way to Travel"
#"Visions of Paradise"
#"The Actor"
#"The Word"
#"Om"

"The Best Way to Travel" is a 1968 song by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues. Written by keyboardist Mike Pinder, it was released on the album "In Search of the Lost Chord". The song's lyrics throughout the song explain in different ways how "Thinking is the best way to travel."

"The Best Way to Travel" is also unusual for the Moody Blues, due to the fact that the lead acoustic guitar is played by Mike Pinder, rather than Justin Hayward, the Moody Blues' principal guitarist. In turn, the mellotron, which is normally played by Pinder, is played by Hayward.

Personnel

* Justin Hayward: mellotron
* John Lodge: bass guitar
* Mike Pinder: vocals, acoustic guitar
* Ray Thomas: flute
* Graeme Edge: drums, percussion

External Links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lJMpzbOA4&feature=related "The Best Way to Travel" being performed on "Colour Me Pop" in 1968 (YouTube)]