The Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 - 30 years on...

[orioles70]

performingsongwriter.com/tom-petty-songs/

Tom Petty talking about the songs he's most proud of - couple of Jeff mentions and a Wilbury one, too.

[BSJ]

It's great reading an artists experience with Jeff.

[StrangeMagic]

Jan 27, 2019 20:11:51 GMT BSJ said:

It's great reading an artists experience with Jeff.

The Wilburys coffee table book from Genesis had a wealth of information about how the Wilburys wrote together, including many rough drafts of lyrics. This book was the inspiration for writing Five Legends, Five Guitars. My book includes many scenes of the five writing together that I "invented" from the information in the book and from interviews like this one with Tom. The book also includes interviews between the narrator "Mavis Wilbury," and each band member that were adapted from real interviews, describing how each Wilbury met the other ones and how their relationships developed. Read my book and a person doesn't have to spend $365 on the Genesis book. Or do the extensive research I did.

This band really was all about friendship and love. Jeff was at the center of the group and the project, except he didn't have a relationship with Bob Dylan. There is an interesting story, told by Lucky, about how they met in Japan in the 1970s in a autograph line.

[orioles70]

Jan 27, 2019 19:18:04 GMT orioles70 said:

performingsongwriter.com/tom-petty-songs/

Tom Petty talking about the songs he's most proud of - couple of Jeff mentions and a Wilbury one, too.

this video makes a nice companion piece - get to hear Tom talking about writing free falling "just to make Jeff laugh" and then he does the song

[BSJ]

Well! Not happy with the audience for not cheering when hearing Jeff's name!

[orioles70]

here's a new song that I absolutely love - just can't figure out who they sound like - it's old school, perhaps the Wilbury's, perhaps Del Shannon, it just seems like a song that Jeff would have really liked as a boy

I got a time machine

Bought it off the TV

Was a commercial break

On Jeopardy

Everything's a gamble

Nothing is free

An answer is a question

Don't ask me

[Chippa]

Here's a pretty informative piece on the writing and recording of Handle With Care. There's some new info in here that I've never read before, especially the fact that Jeff and Bob Dylan recorded a little acoustic demo of the classic pop song I'm In The Mood For Love, right before the Wilburys started. 



www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-traveling-wilburys-handle-care-365910

[orioles70]

so many little obstacles, but they obviously wanted it to work out
both "studios" needed to be "handled with care"

first, Bob's garage

“George told me the way he hooked Bob into the idea was to ask if they could use Bob's studio,” Dodd recalls. “Bob was saying, ‘Well, I don't know if it works,’ and George told him, ‘Well, we'll get someone to make it work.’”

Dylan's studio was indeed hardly in “record-ready” mode. “He had a pile of equipment Dave Stewart had sold him, and it looked to me like it hadn't really ever been used,” Bottrell says. “It was semi-connected, but it wasn't working very well so I had to sort of make it work.” As for a “studio,” he says, “There was a booth of some sort. But the garage door was still just the garage door.”

then Dave's guest house

The band again retreated to the home of a friend to record; in this case that of Dave Stewart. “Dave kind of moved through everybody's life in one way or another,” says Petty. “He was out of town, so that became the clubhouse.” The “studio” was a guest house on the property. “It was not a studio — nothing worked,” Smith says. “It was a kitchen and a room with a console in it. There was a little vocal booth, but there were no acoustics. I was like, ‘Why do you want to record here? Are you guys out of your minds?’” Smith had two days to build a studio. “We got phones, had people come in, and we rented carpets and stuck them on the walls. And not one patch cable on the console would work. We had to go and have all that done.” “We” included Alan “Bugs” Weidel — a cohort of Petty's since his Mudcrutch days — who handled everything from instruments to recording equipment. “Whatever needed to be done on the Wilburys, he was ‘the guy,’” says Smith.

[tightrope]

Jeff was never given the credit he deserved for his contribution to that first song and the Wilbury's in general. That account clarifies things a bit.

[sundown]

Aug 6, 2019 16:51:14 GMT Chippa said:

Here's a pretty informative piece on the writing and recording of Handle With Care. There's some new info in here that I've never read before, especially the fact that Jeff and Bob Dylan recorded a little acoustic demo of the classic pop song I'm In The Mood For Love, right before the Wilburys started. 



www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-traveling-wilburys-handle-care-365910

Wow, that’s real news to me. I always felt Jeff and Bob were a bit awkward together, like their personalities just didn’t click or something. To find out that they’ve both worked together before the Wilburys in interesting. A quick google and I see Bob has done a live version of this song, I can only imagine how good it is with Jeff’s involvement. Thanks for sharing this little nugget.

[StrangeMagic]

Aug 6, 2019 16:51:14 GMT Chippa said:

Here's a pretty informative piece on the writing and recording of Handle With Care. There's some new info in here that I've never read before, especially the fact that Jeff and Bob Dylan recorded a little acoustic demo of the classic pop song I'm In The Mood For Love, right before the Wilburys started. 



www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-traveling-wilburys-handle-care-365910

I missed that article when I did my research for Five Legends, Five Guitars. The only detail I got wrong was where Jim Keltner set up his drums. I had them in the tiny living area of the guest house recording studio. Film of the studio in the The True History of the Traveling Wilburys makes it appear the guesthouse is larger than the article suggests, with rooms upstairs. I speculated no lead was run to the main house, which was quite far from the recording studio, until the refrigerator was used for percussion in "Rattled." I wonder if they moved the tape recorder to the big house instead and didn't record the drums through the board?

Looks like an amendment is in order, but it is fiction.

Thanks for posting.