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Post by janne on Aug 19, 2017 7:24:48 GMT
So the AITU 2017 tour has wrapped up and no new dates are on the horizon.
What happens next? Anyone in the know? New album? If so, is it an ELO album or a Jeff Lynne "solo" album (as if there's a difference)?
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Post by sundown on Aug 19, 2017 10:20:50 GMT
Next up for Jeff is his daughter Stephanie's wedding followed by a picture vinyl OOTB followed by a Wembley DVD/Blu-ray.
He's also due to do an interview for his other daughter Laura's new radio show. He's working away on his next album according to Laura and has said himself that "Richard will be back for the next leg of the tour".
Its all speculation at the moment as to when the tour and album will happen.
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Post by babyzoomer on Aug 19, 2017 11:52:43 GMT
Next up for Jeff is his daughter Stephanie's wedding followed by a picture vinyl OOTB followed by a Wembley DVD/Blu-ray. He's also due to do an interview for his other daughter Laura's new radio show. He's working away on his next album according to Laura and has said himself that "Richard will be back for the next leg of the tour". Its all speculation at the moment as to when the tour and album will happen.
Sources! Links! References!
Spill it please.....
Pu leeeeeez
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Post by janne on Aug 19, 2017 12:34:05 GMT
Is the Wembley DVD confirmed?
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Post by pikerman on Aug 19, 2017 12:40:00 GMT
I hope so!my seats at wembley were changed at the last minute to accomidate the cameras.
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Post by sundown on Aug 19, 2017 14:33:06 GMT
Is the Wembley DVD confirmed? It will be confirmed with a big announcement I'm sure. We'll all know very very quickly when it happens.
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Post by bluey on Aug 19, 2017 15:44:56 GMT
ELO album or Jeff solo album, there's no difference.
Alone in the Universe was a Jeff Lynne solo album which was badged as "Jeff Lynne's ELO", it can hardly be described as an ELO album. ELO ceased to be as a band after the "Discovery" album and the culling of the string section.
For part of the "Time" album they were a four-piece band, during the recording Lynne fired Kelly Groucutt over his royalties dispute. Lynne told Kelly he was just an employee like the rest of the band, Kelly's input to ELO helped to give the band it's classic sound, his vocals perfectly complemented Lynne's. As we all know Kelly sued Lynne, it was settled out of court for a reported £300K compensation going to Kelly. The rest of the "Time" album was completed as a trio of Lynne, Bevan and Tandy.
This trio now condensed to ELO made the 1986 "Balance of Power" album, the touring lineup for that album was filled with temporary employees, Mik Kaminski, Louis Clark, Dave Morgan and Martin Smith.
Leap forward to 2001, the "Zoom" album was made as a Jeff Lynne and friends project posing as Electric Light Orchestra, Lynne planned a worldwide tour to promote "Zoom", the tour was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. This was a shadow of the Electric Light Orchestra of 1978 which was the biggest grossing band in the world that year. The public realised that the 2001 version of ELO was little more than Lynne, Tandy and a host of session musicians, not the classic Electric Light Orchestra they wanted to see live.
Lynne's ex-employees fared better in the form of ELO Part 2 and The Orchestra, they toured around the globe for many years selling out in stadiums and concert halls to millions of ELO fans. Lynne tried unsuccessfully to stop them from using his songs and "Orchestra" name. ELO part 2's "Moment of Truth" is one of my favourite albums in my collection, a great collection of well written and well performed songs.
Fast forward another fourteen years to 2015, Jeff Lynne's ELO as it's now known release the album "Alone in the Universe". I can understand why Lynne used the word alone as this wasn't an ELO album at all, it's a Jeff Lynne solo album. I bought this cd when it was released, I wish I hadn't, I don't see the point of it and I've never played it all the way through. It's a collection of self indulgent songs hailing back to Lynne's dim and distant past.
Getting back to the subject matter, whatever Jeff Lynne releases, it will be a Jeff Lynne not an Electric Light Orchestra album. Lynne's so called ex-employees made the Electric Light Orchestra what it was in the 1970's, yes Lynne wrote the songs, but without the rest of the bands input it wouldn't have been as successful as it was.
This is my opinion, I know many of you won't agree with my comments, but we do live in a democracy, don't we?
Jeff Lynne will be 70 on 30th of December, shouldn't he be taking it easy and thinking about retirement?
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Post by pelo on Aug 19, 2017 16:14:54 GMT
Except for the first album (which wasn't a band album either, and even Roy and Jeff didn't really work that much together)it has always been Jeff Lynne's ELO in the studio. ELO was a great live band, but it's wrong to believe that studio albums such as A New World Record or Out Of The Blue were band efforts.
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Post by Chippa on Aug 19, 2017 17:24:59 GMT
He's also due to do an interview for his other daughter Laura's new radio show. Does she have a radio show or a podcast? Where is your info coming from?
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 19, 2017 18:28:40 GMT
Alone in the Universe was a Jeff Lynne solo album which was badged as "Jeff Lynne's ELO", it can hardly be described as an ELO album. ELO ceased to be as a band after the "Discovery" album and the culling of the string section.
Was it ever a band? I wouldn't say so. If those musicians (Bev, Kelly, Richard, Mik, etc...) wouldn't have been there for live performances Jeff would have just hired others and everything would have been pretty much the same, except for different voices doing the backing vocals. We wouldn't have missed a single song, as Jeff wrote them all. For me all of the albums could have been badged as Jeff Lynne solo albums, "Electric Light Orchestra", "Jeff Lynne's ELO"... it wouldn't have made much difference regarding the practical aspects. The public realised that the 2001 version of ELO was little more than Lynne, Tandy and a host of session musicians, not the classic Electric Light Orchestra they wanted to see live.
As I see it, ELO was always Lynne and a host of session/hired musicians (Tandy included here). The only difference is the public got used to some of those musicians (employees really) and would be happy with their presence onstage and unhappy when one or more of them were missing.
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Post by sundown on Aug 19, 2017 18:39:39 GMT
He's also due to do an interview for his other daughter Laura's new radio show. Does she have a radio show or a podcast? Where is your info coming from? It begins on the 19th September and is called Rockward Live. She has promised that she'll have her dad on. She hints at it here in this video but has since said Jeff will be on the show.
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Post by Timeblue on Aug 19, 2017 21:04:43 GMT
ELO album or Jeff solo album, there's no difference.
Alone in the Universe was a Jeff Lynne solo album which was badged as "Jeff Lynne's ELO", it can hardly be described as an ELO album. ELO ceased to be as a band after the "Discovery" album and the culling of the string section.
For part of the "Time" album they were a four-piece band, during the recording Lynne fired Kelly Groucutt over his royalties dispute. Lynne told Kelly he was just an employee like the rest of the band, Kelly's input to ELO helped to give the band it's classic sound, his vocals perfectly complemented Lynne's. As we all know Kelly sued Lynne, it was settled out of court for a reported £300K compensation going to Kelly. The rest of the "Time" album was completed as a trio of Lynne, Bevan and Tandy.
This trio now condensed to ELO made the 1986 "Balance of Power" album, the touring lineup for that album was filled with temporary employees, Mik Kaminski, Louis Clark, Dave Morgan and Martin Smith.
Leap forward to 2001, the "Zoom" album was made as a Jeff Lynne and friends project posing as Electric Light Orchestra, Lynne planned a worldwide tour to promote "Zoom", the tour was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. This was a shadow of the Electric Light Orchestra of 1978 which was the biggest grossing band in the world that year. The public realised that the 2001 version of ELO was little more than Lynne, Tandy and a host of session musicians, not the classic Electric Light Orchestra they wanted to see live.
Lynne's ex-employees fared better in the form of ELO Part 2 and The Orchestra, they toured around the globe for many years selling out in stadiums and concert halls to millions of ELO fans. Lynne tried unsuccessfully to stop them from using his songs and "Orchestra" name. ELO part 2's "Moment of Truth" is one of my favourite albums in my collection, a great collection of well written and well performed songs.
Fast forward another fourteen years to 2015, Jeff Lynne's ELO as it's now known release the album "Alone in the Universe". I can understand why Lynne used the word alone as this wasn't an ELO album at all, it's a Jeff Lynne solo album. I bought this cd when it was released, I wish I hadn't, I don't see the point of it and I've never played it all the way through. It's a collection of self indulgent songs hailing back to Lynne's dim and distant past.
Getting back to the subject matter, whatever Jeff Lynne releases, it will be a Jeff Lynne not an Electric Light Orchestra album. Lynne's so called ex-employees made the Electric Light Orchestra what it was in the 1970's, yes Lynne wrote the songs, but without the rest of the bands input it wouldn't have been as successful as it was.
This is my opinion, I know many of you won't agree with my comments, but we do live in a democracy, don't we?
Jeff Lynne will be 70 on 30th of December, shouldn't he be taking it easy and thinking about retirement? All the relevant points regarding is it ELO or just a solo effort have been covered many times on here.
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Post by babyzoomer on Aug 19, 2017 21:54:43 GMT
Does she have a radio show or a podcast? Where is your info coming from? It begins on the 19th September and is called Rockward Live. She has promised that she'll have her dad on. She hints at it here in this video but has since said Jeff will be on the show.
Link has expired.
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Post by babyzoomer on Aug 19, 2017 22:10:08 GMT
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Post by eloneen on Aug 19, 2017 22:10:17 GMT
babyzoomer Wow. I was able to click on the link and see the video on Facebook. It was slow and choppy, so I did not watch all of it, but it went straight to it. I wonder what's going on?
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