Time: 34 years old and trivia

[unomusette]

Aug 8, 2015 2:07:32 GMT Helmut83 said:

I guess I should invoke vlogdance (who is so good in English) whenever I need some babysitting in linguistic matters...

Definitely. Her word on all things English should be law. Even though she's Welsh wiggle

[Helmut83]

Hey Uno, talking about Welsh... the other day I noticed that Vlogdance and yourself said "bach" when talking to each other. I assume it's a Welsh word, isn't it? In such case, what does it mean?

[vlogdance]

Aug 8, 2015 19:50:58 GMT unomusette said:

Aug 8, 2015 2:07:32 GMT Helmut83 said:

I guess I should invoke vlogdance (who is so good in English) whenever I need some babysitting in linguistic matters...

Definitely. Her word on all things English should be law. Even though she's Welsh wiggle

Well, aye, mun. Somebody gotta teach these English speakers how to say stuff tidy, mun, b'yere look innit? 

[unomusette]

Fair do's, mun.

[unomusette]

Aug 8, 2015 20:12:34 GMT Helmut83 said:

Hey Uno, talking about Welsh... the other day I noticed that Vlogdance and yourself said "bach" when talking to each other. I assume it's a Welsh word, isn't it? In such case, what does it mean?

Well, it is an adjective meaning "small", but it's also a term of endearment (well, I hope it is) which you say to people when you know them. Can't think of an equivalent in English, it's not quite like "dear" or "mate" because you'd say it to your family or your friends, but it's somewhere in between I'd say. I bet vlogdance will explain it better.

[Helmut83]

Well, thanks for the explanation, Uno, but as soon as one doubt was nailed down, several others arose as both of you started speaking in Welsh.

B'yere look innit? Mun? Fair do's? My teacher didn't teach me that!

In any case, Vlogdance, after witnessing that mini conversation you had with Uno I think I'd rather stick to the British or American branches of the language, thanks anyways!

[unomusette]

To be fair, vlogdance and I tend to use the Cardiff and Valleys version of Welsh, it's not the pure form. The rest of Wales tends to look down upon us as not being properly Welsh. The actual language has hardly any vowels in it and some strange ideas about changing how words begin depending on what word comes before. I found French a whole lot more logical.

[Timeblue]

Glad to see that 'Time' is being celebrated as it's definitely my fave album.One little bit of trivia that I know of(and I posted it on here a while back) is that the opening chords of 'Here is the news' were actually used for a radio news programme in Malta when I was there in 1991.

[Deleted]

Aug 3, 2015 0:10:33 GMT joeyjoejoejr said:

Time has always been my top ELO album. Too bad that not much live stuff is available from this era.
Hopefully Time will be re-issued on vinyl.
Does anyone still have their concert T-shirts?

It's my favourite ELO album also. Discovery/Xanadu had some strengths but that period was "difficult" for this ELO Fanatic. So when I found Time on cassette in some convenience store at a summer camp in 1981 I brought it back to my room with nervous excitement, hit "play" and was f*****g blown away. YEEEESSSS!!!! The melodies, the new sound, the lyrics....this is ELO's Masterpiece as far as I am concerned. Frustratingly, His Jeffness Himself does not realize the greatness of Time.

I went to a Time concert in Buffalo NY. GODAMMIT many of the songs were truncated. Jeff decided, for some strange reason, that his fans wanted shortened versions of their beloved songs. Still pisses me off to this day. And I lost my Time shirt many years ago.

[BSJ]

@ole! you lost your Time t-shirt! unomusette, spanking slipper, shoe of shame, or the JLN special?

[unomusette]

*speechless with horror*

Oh dear, this is beyond careless....I'd say possibly all three corrective procedures might be necessary. Or do we let people off for a first offence?

[ShardEnder]

Why do I get the feeling Jeff's starting to realise just how good Time was, despite previously dismissing his output with ELO in the '80s as "push button music?" His recent promotional shot with Fred is at least acknowledgement of the band's companion on the tour in support of this album, even if he's not quite ready to revisit the world of 1981/2095 musically... We fans of that era can dream!

[soonerorlater]

34 years ago today, I finally fulfilled my adolescent dream (there were others!!) of seeing ELO live in concert. Tuesday, 1st December 1981 at Wembley Arena in London, for the princely sum of £8.50.

Having just turned 18 I had the reluctant blessing of my parents to travel there alone by train. Sadly none of my other friends wanted to go so it was quite an adventure for me in the big city. I remember it all so clearly but there are three points that I'd like to share and I'd be really interested to learn of any other memories from amongst you, obscure or otherwise:

1)    The support band, Voyager (Halfway Hotel anyone?) were fabulous, still the best support act I've ever seen in over 35 years of concert-going.

2)    There was a countdown clock above the stage (Time Tour you see!) and the build up in tension grew and grew as it headed towards zero. When it finally did, it flashed and nothing happened! The band came on a few minutes later behind Fred the robot when they were ready, not when a clock told them to!

3)    Here's the weird one and remember this was in an era when there was no internet and therefore no leaks of information about set lists etc, at all. On the train on the way down, I had the Chuck Berry song No Particular Place To Go stuck in my head constantly. I don't know why and I certainly can't remember hearing it on the radio earlier that day. I didn't own a copy of the record either. Anyway, I arrived in Wembley really early so I started walking up and down the street in front of the Arena looking for somewhere to eat when I suddenly heard the very loud sounds of the band running through a sound check. I stopped with some other curious passers by and listened to the whole thing. I know the band had a history of playing Chuck Berry in rehearsal and for band member auditions but I felt distinctly spooked when the first song they played was none other than No Particular Place To Go!!

Anyway, a truly memorable night and compensation indeed for having been deemed too young to go to the Out Of The Blue tour (in the same venue of course) three years  previously.

[Horacewimp]

Dec 1, 2015 14:42:28 GMT soonerorlater said:

The support band, Voyager (Halfway Hotel anyone?) were fabulous, still the best support act I've ever seen in over 35 years of concert-going.

After seeing them as a support I bought their album, It must be up in the loft collecting dust 

[LoserGoneWild]

I was at the NEC for that tour. It was the Sunday night and a mate and I had travelled over to my sisters place in Birmingham. At about 1pm it started to snow. And it snowed. And it snowed. And it snowed. My mate and I were panicking. Then came an announcement that the gig was still on. My dad drove us to New Street Station where we caught the train to Birmingham International Station next to the NEC.

By the time we arrived the snow was a foot deep. And still it snowed.

I missed most of Voyager as my mate and I had a beer in one of the bars. Then came the call that the main act was on. Amazingly, over 8,000 had managed to get to the gig. Other things I remember about that night. Roy Wood arriving in an ankle length fur coat. The clock counting down. Finally to zero and then the letters E-L-O flashed on the clock. The stage went dark and the cheer went up. Then Fred arrives to the first strains of the Prologue. The band appeared from the darkness. The first notes of Richards keyboards of Twilight strike up as the stage lights go on. And then it was 90 minutes of musical bliss that was electrifyingly good. We could care less about the weather.

Oh and it was the only gig I've ever attended in my wellies.

When we left the arena the snow was about 14 inches deep.

And still it snowed.