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Wilbury 09:50 am UTC 06/16/07 |
| In reply to: | re: ELO part 2 + Jim... - rockfenris2005 09:36 am UTC 06/16/07 |
| The way it went down is basically thus: ELO is for all intents and purposes Jeff Lynne with Richard Tandy by his side, when he sees fit. (The fact that the name and original concept weas invented by ROY WOOD aside, since Roy Wood's departure fromthe group VERY early on, it's been the Jeff Lynne show ever since). The line up fluctuated in the early years but by the mid 70s settled at who is basically known as ELO today: Bev Bevan on drums, Kelly groucutt on Bass, Mik Kaminski on Violin, Hugh McDowell and some other guy who's name I always forget on Cello. (in addition to Richard tandy on keys and Jeff on guitar, and anything else). However, by the 80s Jeff started having less and less need for, well, anyone else. To cut a long story short each subsequent album had fewer personnel than the one before it, and by their last album in the 80s BALANCE OF POWER in 1986 it was just Jeff Lynne, Richard tandy and Bev Bevan. I don't think jeff Lynne ever officially pulled the plug on ELO in the 80s, but he started working with George Harrison and Tom Petty and Roy Orbison and Del Shannon etc and by the 90s the Wilburys were happening. SO. The "reunion" is actually nothing more than the leftover members of ELO getting their backs up at being left by the wayside and trying to use the ELO name. Jeff Lynne threatened to get letigious, so they ended up performing Jeff Lynne's hits as "ELO PART 2" with Eric Troyer on vocals, and a few other ring ins. The theory emerging is that ELO part 2 is the result of Bev Bevan and Kelly groucutt meeting up with Eric troyer VIA JIM STEINMAN, thru some project that the leftover members of ELO may have attempted with Jim in the late 80s. It's plausable I guess? Perhaps the ASIA connection was them in search of a vocalist, and when that didn't work out they went with Eric Troyer? > > I don't know a lot about Electric Light Orchestra but, > they actually reunited post-1990? Do tell. > > > > Oh yeah, I remember reading about the ELO part 2 + Asia > > thing as well. > > > > To be honest I never really cared that much because a) ELO > > part 2 are a bunch of boring wankers and b) I never > > thought there was any real significance or truth to it. > > > > But I see what you're saying, perhaps ELO part 2 is the > > result of the peripheral ELO band members (ie ELO minus > > Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy, who in a round about way are > > the only two ingredients needed for most of what the later > > ELO did) meeting with Jim, and hitting it off with Eric > > Troyer and doing their own thing after that. > > > > Of course, that leaves pretty much all of the late 80s > > unaccounted for as far as the ELO band members are > > concerned. So the chronology still doesn't sit well with > > me. But it's sounding like a plausable theory? > > > | |
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