The Move - When Alice Comes Back to the Farm

[jimmadcap]

Jeff Lynne?? This is all Roy Wood. Yea, Jeff was in the band, but calling it the Jeff Lynne version is insulting.

[talpajam]

sounds like open E tuning on the lap steel

great tune

[worthmoremusic]

Roy Wood...the mad genius behind The Move.

[ramparamsdell]

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[posthumanhero]

I used to have this attitude towards Jeff Lynne being this and that until I relaized that in the 70s he had a much higher artistic standard than Wood who degenerated into cheesy 50s music while Lynn pursued stuff very much in the Moves progressive rock veign with ELO.

[ozzymotorhead]

@posthumanhero by the end of the 70s lynne and ELO were playing crappy disco music with no heart

[posthumanhero]

@ozzymotorhead and by the early 70s roy wood started putting out cheesy albums like mustard and shanana......so there....lol.

[oli77sch]

Missing the cello from the studio version... butt still very good! And I like the changes between even and shuffle feel.

[SVB2002]

@oli77sch This kicks ass without the cello. , It would have been cool to see The Move continue in the Hard Rock genre. They should have continued as two separate bands with the same core members and not have Roy gone on to form Wizzard by himself ( However, he had bassist Rick Price join him, along with Hugh McDowell and Bill Hunt playing cello and horns.

[bobgreen623]

Right from back as far as I can remember, Roy Wood's production values with the Move, his bit of ELO, Wizzard and his solo stuff has always been gloriously messy and not too polished. You have to love him.

[19dick68]

When I was in Bournemouth in 1970 they performed live in the Pavillion and this was their new release.

[19dick68]

When I was in Bournemouth in 1970 they were giving a concert in the Pavillion and this was their new release. They also performed Brontosaurus

[thatmuse76]

I always liked this Beat Club version of the song compared to the one on the Looking On album because it seems to rock a little harder. What is with the anti-Jeff Lynne comments. Really ELO did not start their real decline until about 1979 and while the Move made great music from the beginning, Carl Wayne I think was more interested in making the Move a cabaret band.

[maida1982a]

This is a Woody song. A Woody vocal. A Woody killer guitar solo. Jeff plays rhythm.

[mkp823]

@maida1982a Try Lead/Rhythm. There's quite a bit of lead guitar in the breaks.

[RoyWoodsWig]

Proto metal

[willimoto]

OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO THE MOVE!

[yourtubesteak]

Outstanding!

[schizoidboy]

This is my first time seeing and hearing this but it is great, a good blues influenced sound that actually reminds me a bit of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Good performance.

[rubyredlipstick71]

My bad, I meant to say, both Roy & Jeff's vision of ELO. Very heavy compared to that sound...

[johnnyd63]

My favorite Move incarnation! I really liked the Carl Wayne era (Check out "Last Thing On My Mind" from Shazam ,just brilliant),but Roy and the boys really tore it up that last year with Jeff Lynne.

[glynnt54]

Like your name suggests, you are indeed a boneless sausage, reflective no doubt, of your overwhelming grasp of reality.......... and a limp......... hotdog?

[glynnt54]

You bet....... Roy WAS the Move. This song in particular was all Roy. Jeff, although great in his own right, clashed too much with Roy to have a continued collaboration. This is a rare video, whereas they are actually playing, rather than doing the ridiculous lip-sinking they were forced to do for so many years. Wonderful talent all around!

[yourpaljc]

''The Jeff Lynne version of The Move''???! The Move was always ALL about Roy!! One of the absolute geniuses of British songwriting of the last 50 years.

[tatunkha]

@yourpaljc Roy wasn't in the Move at the beginning was he? which renders your comment redundant if true.

However he was & is a great songwiter as is Jeff. thanks for being passionate about great music

[Omenuiwf]

@tatunkha The original Move line-up (from 65-68) were:

Carl Wayne: vocals

Roy Wood: guitar, vocals

Trevor Burton: guitar, vocals

Chris 'Ace' Kefford: bass, vocals

Bev Bevan: drums, vocals

Ace Kefford left in '68 and wasn't replaced, Trevor Burton was replaced by Rick Price in '69 then later in the year Jeff Lynne replaced Carl Wayne.

[rockerbox1973]

@yourpaljc  very well said mate!

[yourpaljc]

@rockerbox1973 Thank you buddy. The Move are for sure one of my favourite bands & Roy is a wonderful writer & producer & of course a rocker at heart. I like Jeff's stuff with Tom Petty & I'm sure his heart is in the right place with all the other stuff he's been so lucky to have been involved with whilst Roy has really struggled & was screwed by ex management for years. Love Bev & Carl was great, & Trevor & Ace too. They were a wonderful part of a soundtrack to a world that has gone forever.

[thawthepast]

great and grand++++++

[mikejaz2]

God was television bad back then...

[ronnieneo]

Shit hot cool!

[FinnMove]

A very sexy woman introducing.

Anyway I like also the track itself.

[zfloid44]

Incredible! It works without the 'cellos!

[FinnMove]

I agree. Do you agree that very sexy woman

in the beginning like in the song Brontosaurus ?

[itsme111478]

Wow, that host must have been on there for years. She turns up all the time in clips from Beat Club and Musik Laden.

[jbdx241]

Uschi Nerke was on beat club/ musikladen 1965-1979

[rastacraw]

Lynne almost looks like Fripp in this.

[FinnMove]

Yes, but Fripp always playes seated with no emotion at all. I know most of the stuff Fripp has played, they are also good.

But I think there are no other similarities between Lynne and Fripp though. Well. The Move and King Crimson played both prog rock in the early 1970´s.

[rastacraw]

there must be at least one or two additional numbers they played on this particular TV gig. right?

[80sking678]

great song

[punditpete]

This was the first Move song to not chart in UK.

I guess its not so easy on the ear as some of the earlier stuff but it still rocks.

Great music !

[NeilThompson30]

It was the second of two songs not to make the charts. The first was 'Wild Tiger Woman' in 1968.

[cirkus76]

"By the Jeff Lynne version" you knob...I'm aware how much Roy kicks ass, but so does Jeff (IMHO).

[LiquidDreamsUK]

Wow, never seen this before. Brilliant and thx for posting.

[newportgwentdragons]

about time this was highlighted, what a band and what a sound from 3 musiccians

[lighthouseofhope555]

This early Jeff Lynne Move stuff is great nostalgia! I love some of the acid 60's groove! Great to listen to even though I was part of the late 70's and 80's, growing up with Jeff's other band (you know, that band with the full orchestra. Oh what was there names, um ELO that's it/hahaha!--I'm being sarcastic-ELO is my favorite band of all time actually). Thanks for the memories and great music Jeff! The Move was an integral part of a music era long gone from today's horrid hip hop culture.

[wilster200]

Brilliant. The boys brought tears to me eyes...

[rastacraw]

thank god for this beat club gig. I love watching this line-up jam live. brings tears to my eyes, too. dammit.

[NeilThompson30]

ensconce - well said.

One slight correction though

(sorry to be pedantic)

This is from the 70s

[ensconce]

Hey this jams, like the vocals, very modern sounding.. Well espeacially for the 60's, ahead of their time

[cyberdale]

Loooooove the Moooooooove! The Roy/Jeff combo was kinetic indeed! No disrespect to the late great Carl Wayne, but Looking On/Message From the Country (re-issued a couple of years back with extra tracks and clear as a bell!) are Heavy Duty (did I mention Heavy?) Move!

[uturunco08]

aguante el rockandroll loco, una masa the move. Hey Hey My My el rocanrol no morirá jamás.

[robin7771]

This F***ING kicks ass! Great heavy Move classic. Rock on Roy!!!!!!

[NeilThompson30]

Every version of the Move was great. Jeff's great. Carl was one hell of a singer (so was Roy, Trevor and Ace) Bought this the week it came out and the classic Looking on album. With hindsight you can see why it wasn't a hit - too many tempo changes - long title! etc. Very heavy sound going on there. Why are their Brummie mates Sabbath always credited with inventing heavy metal? Shazam came out before Sabbath's first album and Hello susie is a doomy heavy classic. Carl wayne RIP.

[bluesfunky009]

good stuff,i luv elo but i luv the move more-i wish roy would have stayed-elo would have been more intresting and would have some street cred -with some heavy rockers and experimental tracks

[Kegwithlegs]

I think this is also on the Looking on Lp, one of the best Move lps!

[cirkus76]

Jeff kinda looks like Robert Fripp in this video.

[sonicdeath10]

Yeah he does, doesn't he?

Love the way Roy plays his electric slide guitar on his lap, like a lap steel. Weird.

[thatmuse76]

@cirkus76

Okay, I'm glad that I am not the only one who noticed that.

[bluesboy55]

Great stuff !!

[bernard35]

I love the move :)

[someguy23475]

Woody playing the slide on his knee is just awesome!

[tatunkha]

@someguy23475 this is called a lap slide . thats the way they are played.

[ccjroberts]

uhm.......oh my god. this makes me SO happy.

[newportgwentdragons]

jeff lynne version of the move? get real

[cirkus76]

Your right. When something changes it isn't a new version. Tool.

[VDGG94ki]

Owned!

[lechaise]

@cirkus76 I think he means that the band wasn't of Jeff Lynne's making, a better term would be "the version of the move with jeff lynne" rather than the jeff lynne version.

[mfnpjparty]

yeah this is still Roy Wood's band, I wouldnt say its Jeff Lynne's version. Thing is I like ELO alot, and I like the Move just as much, but I don't like the jeff lynne years of the move very much, I dig the carl wayne era stuff.

[nobby431]

great live performance