Electric Light Orchestra - "Tightrope" (1976)

Youtube ^ | 6/6/2013 | ELO

[Cecily]

When Jeff Lynne was dating supermodel Rosie Vela, she sang with him. I liked her album “Zazu.”

Mr. Blue Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flR_v0XOC_U

[maggief]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBOZCrJsAI&list=RDlvBOZCrJsAI&index=1

Electric Light Orchestra - Livin’ Thing (Official Video)

So under rated.

[Celtic Conservative]

Fair enough.

CC

[Arcadian Empire]

Jeff Lynne was the third-most-talented member of the Traveling Wilburys, after Tom Petty and Roy Orbison.

Bob Dylan has zero talent.

[Arcadian Empire]

That is the first time I have heard that explanation of how ELO got their name, thank you.

[monkeyshine]

More talented than George Harrison? Well it’s just opinion given in jest and fun. George had basically been pushed aside by the massive Lennon-McCartney ego monster. Hard to recover from a decade of that oppression.

[Roccus]

My screen gets blurry at these kinds of videos.

[Arcadian Empire]

I would put Harrison fourth, after Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, but that isn’t a knock on Harrison, because he absolutely was talented and I understand why a lot of people like his songs.

I wouldn’t characterize Harrison’s time in the Beatles as oppression, but rather a blessing, since he got to work with the greatest songwriter of all time, Paul McCartney.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Or rather, Paul McCartney’s replacement, AKA Billy shears.

</sarc>

[CrimsonTidegirl]

That’s also my favorite ELO song.

I’ve read that it was also John Lennon’s favorite ELO tune, but who knows.

I love the intro to “Fire On High”

https://youtu.be/22Ndi2HUheg

[dfwgator]

Face the Music is my favorite ELO album.

I love this song that closes the album.

One Summer Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9MFxWpHgQ

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I enjoyed that.

Thanks for posting.

[dfwgator]

Another great one from Face The Music

Nightrider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vrho4oliU

[Dr.Deth]

To be fair it was not Jeff Lynne who conceived and named the Electric Light Orchestra... it was his band-mate in The Move, Roy Wood.

Lynne was a Birmingham chap in a band The Idle Race whom Wood had been pursuing for some time, since founding member/bassist Ace "The Face" Kefford pulled a bit of a Peter Green, and since drummer Bev Bevan more-or-less fistically dismissed lead singer Carl Wayne.

By 1972 The Move and ELO were essentially the same band with different arrangements, recording "ELO 1" and The Move's "Message From The Country" simultaneously, and with Lynne and Wood contributing tracks to both projects.

Wood would leave due to disagreements during the ELO 2 recordings, to form the band Wizzard, leaving Lynne to carry on.

By 1975 it was widely felt that Wood had been the more successful side of the split, especially in the UK, though neither had really cracked over in the US. Perceptions would change through the rest of the decade, ELO became absolutely massive in the US as Lynne began writing (and recycling) tracks with a more... dare I say Move-y?... pop style for ELO. The average Brit by the mid-late 70's would still more readily recognize Wood's Wizzard than Lynne's ELO.

[Dr.Deth]

I wonder whether The Walrus contacted his barrister about this one from ELO 2 (also on the Set Of Six raw that's linked above). There's a riff or two dangerously close to some latter-day L&M and his signature reverb-to-11 on the vox.

[Dr.Deth]

Somehow that triggers my recall on the most epic, unknown, and epically unknown track I can think of by the band - Kuiama. Criminally underrated, mainly because of how few have heard it to rate it at all.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Jeff Lynne’s ELO is my #1 favorite artist /group. Proud member of the Freeper ELO fan club. Their last tour was perfection.

[EEGator]

The guy is super talented.