A friend's band is playing at a local bar this Friday. His original bass player passed away last year and the replacement bass player can't make it this week. The bass player filling in is the bass player who fills in when the bass player for ELO can't make it.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
RIP Richard Tandy (announced by Jeff Lynne on Facebook)
https://consequence.net/2024/05/rich...boardist-dead/
RIP - wonderful player.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
So glad I got to see Richard, Jeff and the rest of the electric light orchestra in concert twice back in the day, late 1974 and early 1976. Man, they were good. I feel younger just thinking about it, and that doesn't happen often.
Frog in boiling water
Having a bunch of insanely talented musicians on stage faking it? I seriously doubt it. Lynne is one of the most hardcore consummate musicians out there, why would he sacrifice his integrity? This isn't The Milli Vanilli Band from 1989...
As an orchestra teacher for 28+ years, I heard slightly imperfect intonation from the (gorgeous!) violist, so I know her part was as real as rain.
Fans of ELO II here? I love the opening track "In Old England Town" with that nasty but delicious proggy groove in 9/8
Must be true today, or in recent years (decades ?).
But I remember that back in the 70ies E.L.O had the bad reputation of using backing (playback) tapes in concerts for the orchestral sounds and the musicians were faking.
I've never seen them live and can't attest if these rumours were based on any reliable proven sources.
BTW, QUEEN had the same bad reputation back then...
I recall reading they used backup tapes in 1978 because the "spaceship" stage design was very hot and caused tuning problems with the strings. Also Lynne used a larger string section on the records than the three guys touring with them then so it was probably hard to get a convincing sound.
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