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Post by Timeblue on Feb 12, 2024 21:37:44 GMT
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Post by Timeblue on Feb 12, 2024 21:45:53 GMT
Just found this snippet from ShardEnder on the Steve Hoffman forum... 'I want to say that's the so-called "Second Sacred Mushroom Edition" for Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome, which is synced to all of Eldorado except for Illusions In G Major, supposedly because Kenneth Anger felt it was too upbeat for the overall vibe. To my knowledge, the only films Jeff approved before Xanadu were the scrapped 1972 ELO vehicle Freedom City (which was intended more as an extended music video for tracks from the band's first two albums with loose connecting narrative segments, almost like Magical Mystery Tour) and a similarly ill-fated project announced in 1977 print ads under the working title of Devil's Riff. From what I can tell, that last one would have been a mix of live action footage with animated effects or even completely hand-drawn sequences set in the underworld, production of those sequences to be handled by some of the team behind Yellow Submarine. Images of a script even found their way onto Facebook a while back, though I don't believe it's ever leaked in full, and I'm no wiser to figuring out its plot, except to say that Surrender was apparently intended for this.'
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Post by ShardEnder on Feb 12, 2024 21:46:51 GMT
From what I can tell, Devil's Riff was going to be a musical combining live action and animation for scenes set in the underworld, with this possibly being the scrapped film that Jeff alluded to in 2006 as the intended home for Surrender, though the released version of that song doesn't seem like it used much from the original recording.
(Imagine being beaten to the punch by one of my old quotes. Couldn't be me!)
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Post by jackpunch on Feb 12, 2024 21:56:15 GMT
Coincidentally, Seiji Ozawa died last week.
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