Zoom - Jeff Lynne

[FPSHOT]

I guess I can put this here.

This is a link to a large interview with Jeff where he speaks about the wilburys, about George and about the new ELO album.

There is also an Audio Sample for hearing part of one of the songs.
http://www.mwe3.com/

Here is another one with also a song to be listened to.
http://hometown.aol.com/bflat33/new.html




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George on Free as a bird, nov. 1995 ; 'I hope someone does this to all my crap demo's when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

[old_moon_shining]

Thank-you for the link FPSHOT. I am so looking forward to Zoom.
I very much like your new photo. Very cheeky look that!

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"You can learn something from everyone - but from some people you only learn patience."

[ABCKO]

Old Moon, yours is pretty cool as well !
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Mine pales in comparison to yours and FPSHOT's...
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P.S.: Nice to see you've made it here as well !
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Be seeing you...

[FPSHOT]

Yeah, we knew the good ones would come one day.

Hope the bad ones never find it http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/angry2.gif


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"You're killing me George, you've got me crying, you bugger" - Ringo's 1st reaction hearing George's recorded solo for King of broker hearts and 2 guitar lines for I'll be fine anyway, Dec. 1997

[darkhorse]

Who are the bad ones?

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"I'm a dark horse
Running on a dark race course"

[FPSHOT]

"I will say this only once";

I write on a Harrison board from time to time so had interesting posts there with some who are now here, like Old Moon, ABCKO and Roger. There are also some others there who I would prefer to stay away because their way of writing, aggressive etc.

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"You're killing me George, you've got me crying, you bugger" - Ringo's 1st reaction hearing George's recorded solo for King of broken hearts and 2 guitar lines for I'll be fine anyway, Dec. 1997

@*(%#$^&%$#%*^&$&!$^#@)$*&%#! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream2.gif

[old_moon_shining]

Thank-you ABCKO. I've missed you a bit lately. Nice to see you back.
FPSHOT, I know how Ringo feels. That man brings tears all of the time.
With reference to 'someplace else', I have nothing against discussing a subject in depth and thoroughly airing different opinions. Actually I enjoy it heaps. But if it is a subject that I'm not interested in or don't understand - well, that is my time to keep quiet and allow others a bit of a turn.

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"You can learn something from everyone - but from some people you only learn patience."

[Jsky]

Looking forward to ZOOM as well, especially the tracks that George plays on.


NOTE: Jeff Lynne to be on rockline june 6th 11:30 est

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[Jsky]

Looking forward to ZOOM as well, especially the tracks that George plays on.


NOTE: Jeff Lynne to be on rockline june 6th 11:30 est

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[bearkat77]

So Jsky, you're "doubly" looking forward? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[ABCKO]

Thanks Old_Moon_Shining
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And I'll bet that you're not really that "old"...
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Be seeing you...

[FPSHOT]

Old Moon; agree 100%.

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"You're killing me George, you've got me crying, you bugger" - Ringo's 1st reaction hearing George's recorded solo for King of broken hearts and 2 guitar lines for I'll be fine anyway, Dec. 1997

[old_moon_shining]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By ABCKO:


And I'll bet that you're not really that "old"...


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http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

And did you end up with 9 or 10? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave1.gif



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"You can learn something from everyone - but from some people you only learn patience."

[ABCKO]

Sorry, I don't get that one...
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[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On May 25, 2001 03:40 AM]

[FPSHOT]

Me neither and I have already taken my bananas.

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"Having played with other musicians I don't even think the Beatles were that good" George, 1973

[FPSHOT]

Have you heared the songs ? It really is the old ELO sound again. R&R.

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"Having played with other musicians I don't even think the Beatles were that good" George, 1973

[This Message Has Been Edited By FPSHOT On May 25, 2001 03:16 AM]

[ABCKO]

Haven't heard them yet but I'll surely get the album as soon as it comes out !

Do the songs sound anything like "Armchair Theatre" ?

I really like that one !
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How about George & Ringo ? I imagine they are their usual selves (i.e.: VERY good).

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Be seeing you...

[FPSHOT]

If you go to the links as above you can hear bits of two songs.

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"Having played with other musicians I don't even think the Beatles were that good" George, 1973

[FPSHOT]

If you go to the links as above you can hear bits of two songs, that is if you have a media player.

The two songs which one can hear are Melting in the sun, and Alright. These sound like the various rocking songs ELO had.

So, nothing from the Hari and Ringo contributions.

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"Having played with other musicians I don't even think the Beatles were that good" George, 1973

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
So, nothing from the Hari and Ringo contributions.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isn't It A Pity? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[old_moon_shining]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By old_moon_shining:
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And did you end up with 9 or 10? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave1.gif

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Sorry to be so vague - 'fingers' - ABCKO??



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"You can learn something from everyone - but from some people you only learn patience."

[ABCKO]

The cast came of about a week ago...and I have ten usable fingers again. Thanks for asking Old Moon.

P.S.: Mind you, unfortunately, I can no longer play the piano. But that's O.K. since I could'nt play piano even before having my hand slashed...
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P.P.S. : Come to think of it...I don't even have a piano !
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[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On May 28, 2001 01:01 AM]

[FPSHOT]

Time for your bananas ? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cool2.gif

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George in I Me Mine; 'I met Kissinger and Ford. Ford was very friendly, Kissinger looked like an Arab, talked like a German and was tanned all over, like Clark Gable, he was a bit like Charlie Chaplin, like a Rutle.

[ABCKO]

[QUOTE]Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
[B]Time for your bananas ? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cool2.gif

Indeed !
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/monkey.gif

With a couple of...
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Now you're talking,
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Be seeing you...

[FPSHOT]

Now that's what I call a funny Canadian combination. Bananas and beer.

I guess bananas for the brains (why else are monkeys so clever) and beer for the rest of the body.

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George in I Me Mine; 'I met Kissinger and Ford. Ford was very friendly, Kissinger looked like an Arab, talked like a German and was tanned all over, like Clark Gable, he was a bit like Charlie Chaplin, like a Rutle.

Is it just me, or does anyone else here like to have banana sandwiches? As in, peeling a banana and placing it in a slice of bread, much like a hot dog. I find it to be quite a nice little snack. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/drool.gif

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[ABCKO]

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif
FPSHOT, please don't call me a "Canadian". I'm from Montréal, Québec and as 49% of my fellow Québecois expressed in the 1995 referendum on independence, I DO NOT recognize Canada as MY country.

Actually my favorite choice would have been bananas and a Banana Daiquiry (or a Brandy Alexander) but there are no "smilies" for those...

Besides,

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/monkey.gif + http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/beer.gif = http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf4.gif

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Be seeing you...



[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On June 05, 2001 12:51 AM]

[FPSHOT]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By ABCKO:
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif
FPSHOT, please don't call me a "Canadian". I'm from Montréal, Québec and as 49% of my fellow Québecois expressed in the 1995 referendum on independence, I DO NOT recognize Canada as MY country.


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember the referendum, but in fact you could also have been one of the majority side. It is in my memory now.


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George in I Me Mine; 'I met Kissinger and Ford. Ford was very friendly, Kissinger looked like an Arab, talked like a German and was tanned all over, like Clark Gable, he was a bit like Charlie Chaplin, like a Rutle.

[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Is it just me, or does anyone else here like to have banana sandwiches? As in, peeling a banana and placing it in a slice of bread, much like a hot dog. I find it to be quite a nice little snack. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/drool.gif

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Slather that bread in a little smooth peanut butter before putting that nanner in there, and I'll have one with you... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/drool.gif



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[ABCKO]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
I remember the referendum, but in fact you could also have been one of the majority side. It is in my memory now.


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That's quite alwright my friend it's not like was http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream2.gif at you or anything. T'was merely intended as a clarification...

Peace brother,
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[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On June 07, 2001 03:10 AM]

[FPSHOT]

OK, in that case I delete it from my memory http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/smoking1.gif

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"The life I lead would even make a dead man yawn"

[FPSHOT]

To go back to Jeff Lynne,

what do you think of the slide parts George did on Armchair Theatre
- Lift me up
- September song
- Stormy weather

These last two do relate a little to the 40s and 50s, same as George did with Hoagy Carmichael's songs, although Jeff does not get the same atmosphere.

I find the slide parts real George like, full of melody, but as a background line as he also did for e.g. Gary Wright

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[old_moon_shining]

I've always liked the album (though probably 'cause George is on it) but all the same, 'Every Little Thing' gets me going.
Even though I read some critic said George and Jeff should have been 'shot' for doing those old ones ('Sept. Song & Stormy Weather') I think George's slide is extremely emotive. I would like to start a 'topic' about his slide guitar.

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"You can learn something from everyone
- but from some people you only learn patience."

[FPSHOT]

Why don't you start the topic and call it Slide Guitar http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wink1.gif

As I said, the two oldies indeed were not well treated.

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[old_moon_shining]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
Why don't you start the topic and call it Slide Guitar http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wink1.gif

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Quite the comedian, aren't we? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh4.gif



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"You can learn something from everyone
- but from some people you only learn patience."

[FPSHOT]

I have downloaded A Long Time Gone from the Zoom album and it really sounds like the 70s ELO. The George contribution is not that much though.

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[old_moon_shining]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
The George contribution is not that much though.

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Did anyone get Bill Wyman's 'Double Bill' album? I wondered if it is worth getting for the George factor.



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"You can learn something from everyone
- but from some people you only learn patience."

[ABCKO]

Just got my copy of "Zoom" and I'm not sure what to think...having listened to it only once so far.
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Not bad but not great either (maybe after listening to it a few more times...).
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The two songs with Ringo are pretty good but maybe the songs just did not suit Ringo. His drumming is good but not as good as say "Power to the people" (from the "Steal this movie" soundtrack).
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The two songs with George are good as well. On "A long time gone", George does'nt have much to do (as FSHOT had pointed out earlier). But on "All she wanted" George's slide guitar is more "present" and is as good as it has ever been...
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Actually my favorite song is a non-album track called "Love changes all" from the CD single "Alwright". A very good, simple & up-beat number. Nice slide guitar solo on that one...sounds like it could be by George (there are no performing credits for this song...).
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I'm certainly not crazy about "Alwright" though. Not my first choice for a single...
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[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On June 12, 2001 11:34 PM]

[ABCKO]

I still think that it is not right that Jeff called this an "E.L.O." album even though he's the only member of the group to play on it.
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Yes I know that, to many people, Jeff "was" E.L.O. but I'm sure the album would have gone over as well as a "Jeff Lynne" album. Besides, imagine Sting releasing a "Police" album on his own...or Rick Ocasek doing the same for a "Cars" album..?

For this, Jeff deserves a http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/spank.gif

And so does Paul... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/spank.gif
for calling his compilation album "Wingspan" even though many of the songs are from before & after (as much as 5 years after...) Wings...
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[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On June 13, 2001 12:01 AM]

[FPSHOT]

Zoom gets a lot of airplay in the Netherlands. The album is ' album of the week' at the No. 1 national Radio station, meaning that each hour a song is played.

Yesterday I heared some and other than what ABCKO writes, I consider this to be a real ELO album. It does not sound - from what I have heared sofar - like the Jeff Lynne from Armchair Theatre or from his workings with the various Wilburys.

Alright - the single - to me sounds like the ELO from the 80s. I will trace the B sides.

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[FPSHOT]

There is an additional song on the Japanese version of Zoom which is called Long Black Road.

This I have now downloaded and it does sound a lot like We Will Rock You from Queen impo.

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[FPSHOT]

ABCKO, Richard Tandy is playing on the album, that is a long time ELO man. It is not all Jeff, is it. What is the line up ?

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Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred pools . . .
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said you're breaking all the rules . . .
You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row . . .
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now . . .
And I'm still smiling.

[ABCKO]

My appolgies then. On all the promotions, adds & interviews I had seen for this album it always mentioned that Jeff would be the only E.L.O. member playing on the album.

Found this site listing all the E.L.O. line-up changes over the years...

www1.tip.nl/*t726839/html/eloright.html

(where i put an * , it should actually be that kind of horizontal "s" like they use in Spanish but I don't have one one my keyboard. Don't know what it is called either...).

If I read it right, Richard Tandy was'nt ever actually part of E.L.O. but joined ex. E.L.O.'s (including Jeff) with other bands & projects. But, FPSHOT, if you say that Tandy was indeed with E.L.O. than that is good enough for me and I apologize both to you and Jeff for my last post. Bur like I said, that's what was being said (no other E.L.O.'s on "Zoom") in all the reports I had seen so I plead "Not Guilty" because of mitigating circumstances...



[This Message Has Been Edited By ABCKO On June 18, 2001 12:45 AM]

[FPSHOT]

Hey ABCKO, no reason to feel like that but Richard Tandy has been a long time ELO member, if you want data/info let me know

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You can worry your life away with
Not knowing what each new day may bring to you
Or take each day as it goes on
Wake up to the love that flows on, around you.

[FPSHOT]

...But also the link does not match so please repeat that cause I like to get the info.

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You can worry your life away with
Not knowing what each new day may bring to you
Or take each day as it goes on
Wake up to the love that flows on, around you.

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By ABCKO:
Found this site listing all the E.L.O. line-up changes over the years...

www1.tip.nl/*t726839/html/eloright.html

(where i put an * , it should actually be that kind of horizontal "s" like they use in Spanish but I don't have one one my keyboard. Don't know what it is called either...).

If I read it right, Richard Tandy wasn't ever actually part of E.L.O. but joined ex. E.L.O.'s (including Jeff) with other bands & projects. But, FPSHOT, if you say that Tandy was indeed with E.L.O. than that is good enough for me and I apologize both to you and Jeff for my last post. Bur like I said, that's what was being said (no other E.L.O.'s on "Zoom") in all the reports I had seen so I plead "Not Guilty" because of mitigating circumstances...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Here you go, ABCKO and FPSHOT. http://www1.tip.nl/~t726839/html/eloright.html

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[FPSHOT]

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You can worry your life away with
Not knowing what each new day may bring to you
Or take each day as it goes on
Wake up to the love that flows on, around you.

[FPSHOT]

Has anyone seen a video of Allright? I haven't yet.

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You can worry your life away with
Not knowing what each new day may bring to you
Or take each day as it goes on
Wake up to the love that flows on, around you.