George Moody was born in Belfast, Maine.
One of the finest guitar players I have ever seen.
For many years he played the Bangor area, mostly the club scene on Exchange Street. He also was one of the original members of the “Top Hands”, Curly O’Brien’s Band, with Brother Bob O’Brien, Tim Farrell, and Lefty Dean.
There was even a time when Bob Elston filled in at the Victoria Hotel with him as a duo in 1959. After a few years, Bob left Bangor, and he guess’s, George did too.
Bob remembers well the first benefit that he was part of for Curly O’Brien, after Curly’s first stroke, it was held at the 10-4 Diner in Montville, and just about everyone was there, including Dick Curless.
Bob was sitting in the restaurant having coffee and talking with Gene Hooper and Slim Clark, when over came Harold Carter and joined the conversation. Harold said “you’ll never guess who I got a phone call from yesterday”… well, they all agreed they couldn’t and Harold said George Moody. We all looked at each other in disbelief, that couldn’t possibly be we said, George was killed in a fight in Georgia about 5 years ago. Harold said that he tried to tell him that, but he was very much alive, he argued. It was even announced on Television that he had died.
George Moody was indeed very much alive and working in Canadian Clubs in the Western Provinces of Canada for several years. It was in the early 1990’s that he succumbed to cancer.
Bob can truly say that he never played with anyone better!
George Moody was inducted into the Maine Academy of Country Music's Hillbilly Heaven on September 24, 2005
