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Post by raybram on Jun 21, 2021 9:12:53 GMT
There has been much speculation on these pages into the fact that Jeff hasn't been heard of during the Covid crisis and various lockdowns. Perhaps it's time for us to give our thoughts on how he may have been occupying himself. What would your wish be to come out of Jeff's Covid isolation? I think he has been collaborating with a scriptwriter to create a stage musical featuring his songs (in the way that musicals have been created using other artists songs eg. Queen, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner etc). The JL musical will be ready to go into production when theatres reopen properly.
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wilburysteve64
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Post by wilburysteve64 on Jun 21, 2021 11:14:46 GMT
Working on more than a musical. Writing new songs and getting all those tunes he never released into the public.
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Post by Timeblue on Jun 21, 2021 11:15:15 GMT
There has been much speculation on these pages into the fact that Jeff hasn't been heard of during the Covid crisis and various lockdowns. Perhaps it's time for us to give our thoughts on how he may have been occupying himself. What would your wish be to come out of Jeff's Covid isolation? I think he has been collaborating with a scriptwriter to create a stage musical featuring his songs (in the way that musicals have been created using other artists songs eg. Queen, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner etc). The JL musical will be ready to go into production when theatres reopen properly. A stage show is a good idea and maybe a film (a la Rocket Man, Bohemian Rhapsody etc) but I think he may have squirrelled himself away re recording all the old ELO albums...
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Post by Horacewimp on Jun 21, 2021 11:49:19 GMT
He has been reading through all the forum posts and is wondering why there is an obsession with Llamas, Gibraltar, Vaccination stickers and the album Time.
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Post by Timeblue on Jun 21, 2021 13:07:10 GMT
He has been reading through all the forum posts and is wondering why there is an obsession with Llamas, Gibraltar, Vaccination stickers and the album Time. Quite possibly very true....
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Post by lasttrain929 on Jun 21, 2021 14:01:05 GMT
There has been much speculation on these pages into the fact that Jeff hasn't been heard of during the Covid crisis and various lockdowns. Perhaps it's time for us to give our thoughts on how he may have been occupying himself. What would your wish be to come out of Jeff's Covid isolation? I think he has been collaborating with a scriptwriter to create a stage musical featuring his songs (in the way that musicals have been created using other artists songs eg. Queen, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner etc). The JL musical will be ready to go into production when theatres reopen properly. A stage show is a good idea and maybe a film (a la Rocket Man, Bohemian Rhapsody etc) but I think he may have squirrelled himself away re recording all the old ELO albums... I really hope your wrong about re recording of all the old ELO albums, I thought they were perfect at the time and they still are to me. I’m hoping he has been relaxing maybe penning a few new tunes and thinking about a few songs he could add to the next tour schedule.
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Post by BIuebird on Jun 21, 2021 14:51:55 GMT
My only wish for Jeff's covid isolation is that he comes out of it alive and well. Any musical efforts on top of that would be a bonus!
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Post by Timeblue on Jun 21, 2021 15:40:37 GMT
A stage show is a good idea and maybe a film (a la Rocket Man, Bohemian Rhapsody etc) but I think he may have squirrelled himself away re recording all the old ELO albums... I really hope your wrong about re recording of all the old ELO albums, I thought they were perfect at the time and they still are to me. I’m hoping he has been relaxing maybe penning a few new tunes and thinking about a few songs he could add to the next tour schedule. I'm only speculating but I wouldn't be surprised....
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Post by eloneen on Jun 21, 2021 15:51:02 GMT
My guess is that he's been working on new songs/ a new album, and rerecording old songs, with a new album coming out next year. Just a guess. So good to see you back on the forum, BIuebird !
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Post by BSJ on Jun 21, 2021 17:10:34 GMT
Damey has been missing his Ninja Twins
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Post by ShardEnder on Jun 21, 2021 17:17:09 GMT
A few years before jukebox musicals became the next big thing in Hollywood with Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, Jeff was apparently approached with a similar idea, but he made it clear that the Mr. Blue Sky documentary from 2012 was his final say on ELO, and that anything taking more creative liberties wasn't fitting with his overall vision for that campaign (which included the album of the same name).
As for whether Jeff could have spent the last few months remaking his entire back catalogue, that's extremely unlikely when you consider that the aforementioned MBS project dates back to at least 2001. We know that a follow-up to that was completed, but there's a world of difference between another dozen or so tracks and several albums of material. However, I'll say this much for now: Jeff has definitely been busy, but more with going through his archive...
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Post by Timeblue on Jun 21, 2021 19:11:37 GMT
A few years before jukebox musicals became the next big thing in Hollywood with Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, Jeff was apparently approached with a similar idea, but he made it clear that the Mr. Blue Sky documentary from 2012 was his final say on ELO, and that anything taking more creative liberties wasn't fitting with his overall vision for that campaign (which included the album of the same name). As for whether Jeff could have spent the last few months remaking his entire back catalogue, that's extremely unlikely when you consider that the aforementioned MBS project dates back to at least 2001. We know that a follow-up to that was completed, but there's a world of difference between another dozen or so tracks and several albums of material. However, I'll say this much for now: Jeff has definitely been busy, but more with going through his archive... That would have been some film! like the other two films, I'm guessing that it would only have covered the beginning of Jeff's career up until say, the end of the 70s when the band was at its peak. Who would have played the band do you think?
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Post by StrangeMagic on Jun 21, 2021 23:46:04 GMT
Even before I read ShardEnder's entry, I figured Jeff has been going through his "box of tapes," selecting the snippets that are salvageable, and turning them into new songs. Perhaps other finds are going into a pile destined for an Anthology-type boxed set.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2021 23:51:24 GMT
Well, hopefully we see some new songs in this special year.
(One thing he has NOT been doing is compiling a 2LP version of Time.)
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Post by ShardEnder on Jun 22, 2021 19:24:48 GMT
Jeff may not have been doing anything to compile a 2LP version of Time, but I know someone who has. I just wish there was a way to look through social media posts that have since been deleted, because there was a full conversation about this, only now it's been pruned down to avoid spoiling any potential activity behind the scenes.
Speaking of what may or may not be coming soon, if you're curious to see just how many tracks Jeff found in that box of tapes under his bed (which is really a climate-controlled room containing four whole shelves of audio reels, videotapes and visual material, to be more specific), a list can be easily put together if you know where to look.
Without giving too much away for those who prefer surprises, let's just say that his next career-spanning retrospective promises to be exactly that - a celebration spanning his entire catalogue, with some newly polished ideas dating all the way back to a series of recently surfaced demo acetates from when he was still in The Idle Race!
Of course, it's always possible Jeff simply had these titles registered in case the original versions ever leaked so he could have these pulled from circulation, but if that was the case, wouldn't Beatles Forever also be part of this same list? As happened with From Out Of Nowhere, many newly added songs are future release contenders.
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