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Post by BSJ on Sept 30, 2014 0:21:03 GMT
This is fact - ELO and Jeff Lynne Home Page has not been updated since February. Why not?
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 30, 2014 2:19:16 GMT
This one is serious. Argentinean football legend Alberto Tarantini now plays music thanks to having been friends with Jeff Lynne when playing for Birmingham City FC in the late '70s.
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Post by Rob 2095 on Sept 30, 2014 2:43:05 GMT
Jeff nearly got killed over in Ireland in many moons ago....seemingly he was electrocuted when he earthed off a microphone stand. He wrote a couple of songs about it later in his career...thunder and lightning! ..blown away!....ah only messing about the end! But fact! Spose Jeff has always been the "light" in electric" light "orchestra! Hey, man! "Thunder and lightning"? What are you talking about? It's my favourite ELO song and you don't even know it's name correctly! Oh no... well, look at the bright side: "Jungle" is a hard song title to mangle. Bevan wrote about the incident jefflynnenut is referring to in The Electric Light Orchestra Story. If memory serves, Jeff tested the mic by holding the neck of his guitar to it. Had he not done that and instead touched it with his lips, we wouldn't be here typing.
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Post by 88keys on Sept 30, 2014 6:49:02 GMT
Steve Woolam once killed a feller just for snorin' too loud.
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Post by jefflynnenut on Sept 30, 2014 8:20:08 GMT
Jeff nearly got killed over in Ireland in many moons ago....seemingly he was electrcuted when he earthed off a microphone stand. He wrote a couple of songs about it later in his career...thunder and lightning! ..blown away!....ah only messing about the end! But fact! Spose Jeff has always been the "light" in electric" light "orchestra! Hey, man! "Thunder and lightning"? What are you talking about? It's my favourite ELO song and you don't even know it's name correctly! JEEZE LOUISE! ye know I did get that wrong! Bloody purist! It will never happen again....Ill buy the beer next time i see ye!
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 30, 2014 8:34:18 GMT
JEEZE LOUISE! ye know I did get that wrong! Bloody purist! It will never happen again....Ill buy the beer next time i see ye! Now, that's the way a man of honor makes up for his mistakes! (I would make you recite the whole ELO catalogue to see if you make another mistake if each one of them means a beer )
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 30, 2014 15:27:59 GMT
While on tour Yorkshire man Mik Kaminski would have flown in his favourite Black Pudding, this was not to eat it was so he could ecky thump the other band members, his record of eight band members in 5 minutes still stands to this day.
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 30, 2014 16:06:55 GMT
Always found on the hospitality rider list for Kelly Groucutt RIP were six bags of Black Country Pork Scratchings, this led to uncontrolled flatulence and the nickname of Windy, during his later career due to contractual reasons he had to be addressed as Windy Part 2.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 30, 2014 16:22:26 GMT
That's most disgusting!
For the "Wild West Hero" clip they hired a real cowboy. He was from a sheep-raising ranch in Wyoming and it is known that he had bad eyesight. The story goes that when he spotted Jeff's fro from over his horse he thought it was just another sheep proceded to laso it like he always did. Then the editors forgot to cut off that scene and it is on the actual clip now.
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Post by Horacewimp on Sept 30, 2014 16:31:58 GMT
This is fact - ELO and Jeff Lynne Home Page has not been updated since February. Why not? It seems typical of Jeff's management, they never seem to strike while the irons hot. We have had the Hyde Park Concert and a Greatest Hits CD in the charts and what follow up do we get, nothing, not even a web site update.
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Post by Horacewimp on Oct 1, 2014 14:31:28 GMT
Bev Bevan is the world Whac-a-mole champion.
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Post by BSJ on Oct 1, 2014 15:35:44 GMT
Bev Bevan is the world Whac-a-mole champion. What's a Whac-a-mole?
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Post by Horacewimp on Oct 1, 2014 15:40:53 GMT
Bev Bevan is the world Whac-a-mole champion. What's a Whac-a-mole? It's a kids game where moles pop their heads out of holes and you have to hit them with a mallet, as he is a drummer Bev is expert at this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole
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Post by Helmut83 on Oct 1, 2014 17:00:46 GMT
It's a kids game where moles pop their heads out of holes and you have to hit them with a mallet, as he is a drummer Bev is expert at this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-MoleHow strange. I would have swore it was a Mexican spicy dressing consisting mainly on smashed mole.
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Post by unomusette on Oct 1, 2014 19:49:41 GMT
What was all that about Eric Troyer being experimented on by the US Air Force? I can definitely remember reading about it when ELO Part 2 were around, didn't sound like a whole lot of fun but then why do it? Was it a punishment of some sort?
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