The Electric Light Orchestra - Prolougue / Twilight - Live

[stinkypants10]

I will never forget Kelly Groucutt and he sounds fantastic here! RIP Kelly, I love you. ELO is a phenomenal band live. I saw them in 1978.

[48julie49]

@TheZookyDragon: The B-Movie :)

[TheZookyDragon]

I feel like I'm there at the concert singing along with the lyrics, man. I sure wish I was born about 20 years before I actually was so I could've actually gone!

[2000sonic]

@TheZookyDragon

I was there - this must be Stuttgart - I saw them in Cologne - sadly without Bev, because he was ill.

He was replaced by the drummer from AFTER THE FIRE - the band that opened the shows on that tour.

He was not able to play all the original drum breaks which are played here - so this must be Bev playing.

[culturemole]

makes my hair stand on end ... I went to see a tribute band called "magic "a kind of elo I was blown away by their playing , they started with the prologue what a key board player, honest turn your back you wouldnt tell ( keyboard wise).

saw them wembley , birmingham and stafford. nice to have a reunion tour.

[Roadie02]

I saw this concer in Miwaukee and it was Awsome!!!!!!!!!

[drweth89]

Check out the Midnight Juggernauts from Australia. They sound similar to ELO :)

[48julie49]

heard them on new burton movie- awesome;)

[TheZookyDragon]

@48julie49 You're kidding me, dude! Which one??

[superllama01]

the robot went on to star in the thanksgiving special for athf

[harveybacon]

@superllama01 hahaha! Yes!!!

[monosound81]

I wonder whats become of the robot

[horsehockey1959]

I was at the first Frankfurt concert, it was fantastic!

[mellowlanternquartet]

The was obviously done in Japan. Hear all that clapping.

[monosound81]

ive heard germans LOVE to clap during live shows. Thats what Roger Taylor from Queen said.

[M400fan]

Fantastic! Time was something of a return to former glories - as a concept album, it had echoes of Eldorado and the Prologue with the spoken part is very reminiscent of the Eldorado Overture ("The dreamer, the unwoken fool..."). Tragically, I had lost interest in ELO totally by this time, after their abysmal output in 1980 - wish I'd given them another listen with this superb album, which I've only got into restrospectively - had I got into it at the time, I'd have gone to one of the concerts!

[azjeff1971]

That intro is just toally mind-blowing

[steamloco1705]

gret song ,and with that intro,its even better

[djminimoto]

"Just on the border of your waking mind".What deep lyrics!

[safford07]

I saw them in St. Louis, 1982. The robot tripped over some cord, but the show was fantastic! ELO was one of the best.

[MapKing696]

I was at that show, too. The robot was programmed to roll out a certain distance, turn, roll forward a certain distance, give its monologue... the stagehands placed it too close to the lip of the stage, and it rolled right off the edge of the stage. I remember the band had to wait before starting "Twilight" because they were all laughing so hard... good times.

[Gonzoidz]

I was at the tour in 1981. Awesome, I wish a DVD existed like Journey's Houston gig. Absolutre travesty it doesn't

[strider712]

I saw the Dortmund concert, I was there, what a fantastic night it was. I was serving with the British Army at the time and had never been to a concert before in Germany, man the germans rocked that night. Thanks for the uplaod, quailty does not matter it's the memory. 5 stars for that.

[Maneachicken]

Im going to start finishing the uploads in the next week.

[Ewa3101]

Amazing impressive this song even after so many years...

[FinnMove]

I wish they had visited here in Finland in Time tour in 1981 or 1982. Jeff Lynne later

said in an interview, that´s a country I have never visited. That was in 2001 when Zoom- project failed.

[olejniczak12]

this could use some clensing so it sounds better but by far one of the best bands of all.

[coxanagi]

nomamen, esos weyes son emos

[newro1]

Pffff, la música de emos siempre es triste, de queja, la música de ELO es rock-pop, siempre manejaron diferentes ideas para sus canciones y esta es una que nada tiene qué ver con la temática de las bandas emo, además... estos SÍ eran músicos, hay qué informarse mejor sobre algo antes de opinar.

[fwin0904]

"TIME" Was a great great masterpiece.

TIMELESS

[endrizo]

hehe nice to see so many ELO fans here

once you grew up listening to Elo Queen ELP yes, beatles and the likes you realize how poor music is nowadays.

what happened? technology ruined the ideas?young artist think that a song is made by pushing a few keys on a computer,

no way! you must strum your guitar george harrison masterpieces so so magical on a guitar only that is genius,and Jeff lynne is one of the last of that breed.

and the ultimate dream team band the traveling wilburys,unrepeteable

[lojir1164]

Well, Endrizo, as Jeff Lynne has proven, time and time again, technology only helps yo enhance and improve the music. By pressing that button or touching that key we can make a normal, mundane chord or song utterly fantastic. Sorry, it's not the technology that has ruined much of todays music. It's society, new generation, new ways of thinking. I seriously think that if these songs were re-released, and marketed properly (unlike ZOOM) they could be as popular as when I was a teen so long ago.

[olejniczak12]

eh most music nowadays is crap coming from a teen. nothing beats the true music of the old days.

[myaccount611]

Endrizio is right. Like you said technology can "enhance" music. But there needs to be music to enhance, which is the problem. They never actually sit down with an instrument and play. It's a matter of pushing a button, and boom you've got your generic drum beat. Where years ago that would've taken a recording or two to get right. Most importantly though, the human element is missing. Music from a machine and songs written by a few elite pop "masterminds". I'm not saying you're wrong though.

[lojir1164]

I think I was totally misunderstood here. I do not like the music that is coming out today, I simply meant that in the right hands, and with the right music, technology can make it amazing. A great example is "Don't Bring Me Down", The drum loop on that song is pure genius. So called "musicians" of today, are plain lazy. They steal their "music" from real artists of the past, and pretty much talk over it, as in rap & hip-hop. Artists like Jeff Lynne used technology to make the music others steal

[joseluisyago]

radiohead

[mogie]

I remember this from when I was just a little shit, this still sounds amazing!

[ssmaurice]

Thanks for putting this up, like so many others i grew up on this album. I envy you to have seen them live. What did you record this on?

The live sound is incredible, not many bands nowadays can reproduce their songs so well live.

Thanks again.

[Jordisarda]

one of the best eighties albums: "TIME" !!

[istenke15]

in 2008, this band still rock for me ..i grow up on this album ... good memories :)

[webuk44]

Brings back memories of seeing the TIME concert at Wembley. This song opened the concert with a little R2D2 type robot wheeled out on stage doing the prologue - wicked! Have been a fan since early 70's

[Dunes]

Great audio,I love the TIME album,but are there any filmed concerts of this anywhere?

[sEIGu]

been there in dortmund 1982. still amazing..

[GFMT1]

I remember buying the Time album in about 1982. I was very fortunate to have a JVC Quad amp (which I've still got in my shed), and Bolivar speakers with 12 inch bass cones. When the bass cuts in (00:37 in this clip) it was something else. Since then, I've enhanced it with Audacity, now when I play it with a subwoofer that goes down to 25Hz, it 'feels' wonderful. The drum link to Twilight is brilliant, and the Richard Tandy piano solo is masterful. One of my favorite ELO tracks of all time.

[celdoor]

Even tho i just discovered ELO, this is truly amazing. I just love the chorus parts.

[stkemle]

What wonderful memories this brings back. I saw this tour in Ft Worth Texas.I think it was Feb 1982. I can remember feeling a bit sad because the strings were almost totally gone from their performances.

Still, the show was fab! Thanks for posting this!!!

[osi000]

Waaaaah!!!! It is great, great.... oh, what I wanted to say?... eeer, yes, of course, it´s GREAT :-)

ELO was my first music (back in 1981 in Czechoslovakia, when I was 12 years old) and this is something I´ve always dreamed to hear. Thank you!!! And please, add something more....

[spoonfull22]

Truely an amazing album

[Marcusdietz]

Can you post "The Way Life's Meant To Be"? I saw this tour ("Time" Los Angeles Sept. 1981) but honestly don't remember the band doing that song.

[urchinus]

NICE!!! God ... i love ELO.

[trap0001]

Thanks for the post - never heard ANY of the Time stuff live.

[mre4nygma]

hey thanks for posting loved it. twlight is one of my all time favourite songs and i never herd it live before. excellent thanx.

[lawrev]

Any possibility to post the Beatles Medley from this show?

[davidballfan]

I love it! It's probably as close as I'll get to seeing (hearing) them live.

[mreloo]

post up friend, I love live elo audio or video

I 've seen them 10x in concert-I had a chance to talk to Dave Morgan on line...He's a pastor

of a small church in england (Praise The Lord)

[Maneachicken]

Yours Truly 2095 will be posted later today :D

[lawrev]

Post all the audio! I'd love to get all this audio on cd if that is possible.

[dokkie2]

no...

no video...

it's an audio recording.

[dokkie2]

I've also got this concert on tape....

it sounds excactly the same!

where was this taped?

[Maneachicken]

Im not too sure to be honest - Possibly the USA or Germany (Likely to be Stuttgart).

[Maneachicken]

A Note - on this particular Gig, drummer Bev Bevam was replaced by Pete King from 'After the Fire' because Bev was in Hospital in England with Kidney Stones.

And if you want more audio clips of the show, comment and I'd be pleased to post them.

Note also, that the only existing footage of all the Time Tours are poor mp3 files, so i apoligise for quality.

[dokkie2]

Now I just really want to put that tape to mp3!

I'll do that next week!

I also have the show from Koln 1982!

[Maneachicken]

The Video?

If you posted that I'd instantly Hug You!!!

I have 1986 at stuttgart, although the perfomance is bad!!!