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Post by elophile on Jan 30, 2018 1:41:30 GMT
I thought Roy sued Bev to make him stop touring as The Move, right? I think the absence of Bev could have had more to do with Roy than with Jeff - the wound being fresher between Roy and Bev.
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Post by Timeblue on Jan 30, 2018 9:44:59 GMT
That's what I found, but it's 11 years old so I thought chippa had found something new...
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Post by Timeblue on Jan 30, 2018 9:48:41 GMT
I thought Roy sued Bev to make him stop touring as The Move, right? I think the absence of Bev could have had more to do with Roy than with Jeff - the wound being fresher between Roy and Bev. When will this madness end,you are grown men for god's sake! Someone please get them all around a table and their heads together....
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Post by Chippa on Jan 30, 2018 18:14:06 GMT
That's what I was referring to. So, that beef goes back eleven years now. Maybe that's why Bev didn't show up, but who knows?
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Post by BSJ on Jan 30, 2018 19:36:03 GMT
Horacewimp sent me this. It's his ticket/flyer to a show that never happened. Was it ticket sales, Horacewimp ?
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Post by Horacewimp on Jan 30, 2018 20:00:41 GMT
I don’t think it was due to lack of ticket sales, but it was at the same time when Bev said he wasn’t touring as The Move anymore but as Bev Bevan’s Zing Band he didn’t give any reasons for the change. It was very odd at the time, I had a call at work from the venue saying it was cancelled and they hand delivered the refund to my house in cash. A few weeks later I had a call from Bev’s promoter asking if I wanted tickets for the Zing Band, I turned them down because I’d already purchased some for another venue. I was only going for the late bar and disco
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Post by unomusette on Jan 30, 2018 21:54:10 GMT
Looking at the flyer they did seem to be suggesting it was the original band reforming, I don't blame Roy for being cross. As elophile says, maybe this was a big factor in Bev not attending the RRHOF induction.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2018 15:54:19 GMT
Rolling Stone's Parke Puterbaugh wrote ELO's 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame program biography that had this to say about their only two most talked about lineups, so what's wrong with the Rock Hall band member selection committee, constant revolving door my ass... Lynne carried on as ELO's uncontested leader. The second album, ELO II, found Lynne and Bevan joined by bassist Michael De Albuquerque, violinist Wilf Gibson, and cellists Mike Edwards and Colin Walker, with Richard Tandy now handling keyboards. Tandy still serves alongside Lynne as a multi-instrumentalist, co-orchestrator, and valued musical partner....Two paragraphs later... The next four years saw a procession of albums that defined ELO's sound and cemented its legacy, Eldorado (1974), Face the Music (1975), A New World Record (1976), and their double-album zenith, Out of the Blue (1977). "I've always loved classic rock-pop with melodies that take you somewhere", Lynne explained of his magic formula. "I'm interested in harmonies and the tension you get from chord changes."
The definitive ELO lineup was forged during this remarkable run of albums: Lynne, Bevan, and Tandy were joined by bassist Kelly Groucutt, violinist Mik Kaminski, and cellists Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale.
...Three more paragraphs later... But as the ELO song without strings, "Don't Bring Me Down" heralded the end of an era. The times, and Lynne's mind, were changing: He was sick of touring and getting tired of strings. The band's frantic pace of releasing ten albums in ten years and constant road work was coming to an end. The band was shrinking as well, as Lynne whittled down his supporting cast to a core of Tandy, Bevan, and Groucutt. Only three-and-a-half ELO albums - Time, Secret Messages, and one side of the Xanadu film soundtrack - were released in the eighties. Each was worthy in its own way, generating a hit or two, but did not produce the sustained fire that had powered ELO through the previous decade.
...I'd argue that Time was at least equal to The 70's ELO output, then also Secret Messages as an originally intended double album, but I digress... By 1986, having met all contractual requirements for ELO, Lynne retired the band name for fifteen years.
...One paragraph later, two mistakes... Lynne returned to the ELO moniker for Zoom in 2001, although this was essentially a solo album. The same held true for Lost in the Universe in 2013 - credited to Jeff Lynne's ELO. Surprisingly, ELO proved to be a phoenix as a live act in September 2014, performing before fifty thousand enthusiastic fans in London's Hyde Park. The twenty-first-century iteration of ELO also features Richard Tandy, whom Lynne calls, "my lifetime mate in that band." Then absolutely not one single mention of Louis Clark along with his very important contributions from 1974-1986 to ELO either... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Clark"He was the conductor of the orchestra and choir hired to back Electric Light Orchestra's sound, introduced on their album Eldorado in 1974. He assisted Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy in writing string arrangements as well. He later played synthesizers for the band during their Time tour. In 1983 he returned to conduct the strings on the Secret Messages album. In 1986 he played keyboards with ELO on their small number of live dates." Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy both worked alongside Louis Clark, a classically trained musician, that's why they brought him aboard, because without Lou, there would be no classic ELO sound! PS-I'm glad I was Rock Hall Fan Voting in 2017 with my email or else they wouldn't have sent me their store link last call to order a 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Program last October.
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2018 18:01:52 GMT
Did anyone else catch the very brief (and previously unseen!) clip of Time-era Jeff from ELO's introduction reel? Thanks to Robert Porter, I've found out this comes from a news report filmed during rehearsals for the Time Tour at Jasper Carrott's Solihull-based folk club, The Boggery, in August 1981, which also included short interviews with Louis Clark and Dave Morgan. As the only footage known to exist of that period, I'd love to see the rest. Here's a link confirming its source: www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-12081981-electric-light-orchestra/MediaEntry/37236.htmlOne quibble, Louis Clark, who they spelled wrong, wasn't new to ELO, he was an arranger and conductor since Eldorado, A Symphony by The Electric Light Orchestra from 1974! PS-That Mace Archive link is now dead, so here's one copied by Jorge Devincenzi (elodevi)
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2018 19:34:34 GMT
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 9, 2018 21:05:29 GMT
Michael J. Fox was at the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, seriously, check out those YouTube links in my previous post herein this thread! 2017 Rock + Roll Hall of Lame #4 a & b 2017 Wacky Packages - Network Spews #48 2017 Battle of the Bands - Classic Rock #17 a & b
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Post by queenofthehours on Jun 12, 2018 16:35:35 GMT
I read an interview in Prog magazine given by Gary Brooker. On the subject of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -
There’s a Facebook campaign to get Procol Harum inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. How important is that to you?
I hadn’t really thought about it. If they said that Procol Harum are being inducted in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, I might say, “So what?” or, “It’s about time after 50-odd years.” I don’t know what you have to do to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. I would have thought that if you’re still doing it with class and integrity and quality, [you might qualify]. I can sing better today than I did 50 years ago, and 50 years later we have made an album that I stand by with great pride, so I’m doing my bit.
I like to imagine this would have been Jeff's thoughts on the matter before he was entered because everything that Gary says is true for Jeff and a lot of other bands too. If you're still working with class, integrity and quality then being inducted is probably not as important than it is to possess these qualities. But ELO has been inducted and I'm just grateful that Jeff and Roy and co. have another good mark against their name.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Jun 23, 2018 5:37:58 GMT
I don’t think it was due to lack of ticket sales, but it was at the same time when Bev said he wasn’t touring as The Move anymore but as Bev Bevan’s Zing Band he didn’t give any reasons for the change. It was very odd at the time, I had a call at work from the venue saying it was cancelled and they hand delivered the refund to my house in cash. A few weeks later I had a call from Bev’s promoter asking if I wanted tickets for the Zing Band, I turned them down because I’d already purchased some for another venue. I was only going for the late bar and disco I heard Bev abandoned the the reformed Move idea in 2014 because Trevor Burton pulled out and Bev couldn't justify it if he was the only original Move member in the group.
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Post by orioles70 on Oct 27, 2021 16:21:37 GMT
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 2, 2022 18:22:29 GMT
2022 Rock HOF Nominees include The New York Dolls, Beck, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush and Dolly Parton? plus about 10 others vote early and often if you're a fan vote.rockhall.com/en/results/
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