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Post by dillwyn on Oct 19, 2018 17:25:53 GMT
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Post by BSJ on Oct 19, 2018 21:53:49 GMT
someday maybe we could drop in to a virtual rock concert - maybe experience the time Marc Bolan played double lead guitar with Jeff on stage in Birmingham during ELO's early days Now, I like that idea!
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 19, 2018 22:00:04 GMT
Maybe they could do a 1970's ELO hologram show with THE line up!
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Post by dillwyn on Oct 19, 2018 22:28:53 GMT
Maybe they could do a 1970's ELO hologram show with THE line up! why bother this version is better
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 19, 2018 23:18:39 GMT
Each to their own but the current line up who are audibly better (due to superior technology) are not a patch on the mid -late 70's line up for visual entertainment. If I was watching todays band for the first time ever not knowing who they were,I would find them dull! there's no interaction, no personalities and as been said before,Jeff is SO static and uncommunitive. I would have loved to have seen Hughie running around like a madman possessed,Mik on his solos and Kelly singing alternatively with Jeff. That's the band who got me into ELO and the band that I'll always love. The Wembley 78 show sounds good but that's because it's been re mastered and tweaked etc etc, and the less said about 'Heartbeat' the better in terms of sound reproduction, but the visual side to it and the thing that got me into ELO leaves me with one conclusion- Jeff,Bev,Richard,Kelly,Mik,Mel and Hughie are the best.
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Post by eloneen on Oct 19, 2018 23:30:13 GMT
Timeblue I agree with you, for the most part. I love the new band because they helped Jeff revive the ELO sound, but I still have the nostalgia for the classic lineup, too. I doubt we'll ever see a reunion, though.
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Post by Timeblue on Oct 19, 2018 23:33:05 GMT
We all have an opinion and that's good, it would be a very dull place if everyone liked the same thing...
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Post by orioles70 on Nov 7, 2018 2:59:31 GMT
new band from my area, hope they stick together and write more songs like this! pretty much unknown outside the Baltimore area
album version
live version
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Post by BSJ on Nov 8, 2018 0:39:33 GMT
Yes, I do like this song.
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Post by orioles70 on Dec 23, 2018 22:26:03 GMT
has anyone seen the Bob Dylan musical? the current run has come to an end, but perhaps it will open again elsewhere
or perhaps, a Wilbury's musical?
the critic in the Washington Post had this to say
NEW YORK — The first time I heard about “Girl From the North Country,” my thoughts pretty much coincided with those of Conor McPherson, the dramatist and director who would eventually bring it to exhilarating life.
“I initially thought, ‘Well, you know, it just felt like a bad thing to do,’ ” McPherson said by phone from Dublin recently. “Bob Dylan and a musical? Er, no.”
We would both end up being surprised — his change of mind, of course, being far more significant. For “Girl From the North Country,” closing Sunday after a highly successful 3½ -month run at the Public Theater, is in my estimation the best musical of 2018, on or off Broadway, and beyond. What happens to it next is still apparently up in the air, as it is not, despite a remarkable Dylan songbook spanning more than 40 years, one of those easy-to-transfer projects.
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Post by orioles70 on Dec 26, 2018 17:17:58 GMT
our son gave us a blue vinyl copy of Alt J's album with "left hand free" as a Christmas present I hadn't realized it before, but they are yet another band from the North of England (Leeds).
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Post by dillwyn on Dec 30, 2018 19:02:05 GMT
Sent this by a former band mate as he knows i'm a sucker for a brilliant melody... lovely voice, lovely song, smashing performance...
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Post by orioles70 on Dec 30, 2018 20:12:03 GMT
LP is kind of a weird little lady, but OMG what a voice - warbles like a bird, then roars. This is my favorite of hers.
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Post by orioles70 on Dec 30, 2018 22:45:44 GMT
I can imagine some Forum members getting into an ELO argument like this pretend Weezer dispute. Any real ELO fan knows the best albums were all before ...
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Post by orioles70 on Dec 31, 2018 15:45:43 GMT
Greta Van Fleet's first hit single has 32 million views on YouTube. Not bad for a band dismissed as just another Led Zepellin copy cat band. They must have listened to a LOT of their parents vinyl albums.
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