ELOShazzy, I think the outfit is actually a reworked chasuble, which is the coloured outer garment that Catholic priests wear when saying Mass. Bev's coat has sleeves, which the chasuble doesn't, so it's been substantially altered.
The cheek of this band, to jump forward 15 years in the future, steal a song from Paul Weller, then travel back in time and pretend it was their's. Roy and Jeff should be ASHAMED of themselves.
@lechaise YOUR RIGHT SHAME ON THEM LOL.........ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF SHAME HATES ELO ........ THE HALL OF SAMES WILL INDUCT PAUL WELLER FOR THIS EXCELLENT SONG ALONE........
THIS CAME OUT AROUND THE TIME OF MY 19TH BIRTHDAY (SEPTEMBER 1972) REMEMBER ONE OF MY FRIENDS BUYING AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT I DIDNT KNOW DEF LEPPARD HAD DONE A COVER VERSION. STIL SOUNDS GREAT TODAY(NEARLY 40 YEARS ON)
This was originally written for The Move,the group's other name at the time....Then,Roy Wood bought himself,r $250,a Chinese Acoustic Bass and used it as a result on the track,and,lo & Behold ELO was born!
From their Self-Titled Lp,AKA "No Answer",named after a botched Telephone Call made by a secretary of a United Artists Exec who'd wanted to know the UK title..She'd simply wrote on a tablet page "No Answer",and,PRESTO! The US title! They'd never changed it!
Despite my tiny apartment I got out the big Infinity speakers, the turntable and the receiver and have been listening to all my old vinyl again and it is because of music like this....the iPod generation has no idea what it's missing.
Notice the Roadies in Gorilla Masks? Wilf Gibson had left by then as well as another member,so Roy and Jeff dressed up two Roadies in Masks-VOILA! Instant group!
I was was thinking just now, I wonder how many Paul Weller fanboys have come here to find out to their horror that their hero DOES listen to ELO Music after all, lol
Did AC/DC's Are you ready come first or did This one?They both sound the same so I was wondering who ripped off who.But of course this (by far)sounds better
@randomrighthere561 You're right it does sound like AC/DC song Are You Ready at start of song however though..... This song came first so if you're wondering who ripped someone off that would be AC/DC taking ELO song.
first heard this song on the sunday morning kshe classics(here in st,louis)
fell in love with it. i heard that this was the first song that e.l.o. did after the band was started. when i first heard it, i thought that it was done by jeffs old band-the move
first heard this song on the sunday morning kshe classics(here in st,louis)
fellin love with it. i heard that this was the first song that e.l.o. did after the band was started. when i first heard it, i thought that it was done by jeffs old band-the move
@spadge321 LoL! But let's face it, there are loads of bands who make a whole career of individual Beatles songs: Jam (Start vs. Taxman), Oasis, Tears for Fears (Seeds of Love)... to name a few that come to mind.
I always wondered what the 10538 signified until I read an interview with Roy Wood, saying it was a number on a recording monitor they had in the studio.
This is the debut single from ELO - Note Roy Wood on cello - He had to leave the band. ELO was his and Jeff Lynne's concept (many people forget that) They wanted the Beatles idea of studio music being played live. Roy Wood went on his way with Wizzard and Lynne led the ELO brilliantly for years - Great band!
It's not a cover it's a rip-off. Plus JL and RW didn't get all hissy about it which was good of them. As for "Start!", another great Weller song and not a cover, but a rip-off of Taxman. Again GH was cool. Changing Man? Lucky man more like....
@oneUNITED7SS Paul Weller is a great artist and a local hero of mine. Sampling means using the original recording but Weller played (i.e. didn't sample) the descending guitar riff without additional songwriting credits and later revealed this in his autobiography. With respect maybe you should research sampling and get over yourself while you're at it. :)
@Audioadventures Listen to the second time the intro is played. It sounds literally the same as in Changingman. But alright. I know when I'm wrong. I admit it. Thank you for that information. I hadn't known that.
Esta cancion y video representa totalmente las sensaciones que ELO logra transmitirme: misterio,nostalgia,transportarme a otros mundos y epocas y esa sensacion inigualable y exquisita de "erizar la piel" que no logra la musica de hoy...Jeff Lynne=genio y carisma!
@candycandy1974 I hope you don't mind if I translate for you (and paraphrase a little).
"This song and video represent all that ELO can convey: mystery, nostalgia, transportation to other worlds and ages, and this indescribable and exquisite shiver down the spine that today's music simply cannot achieve...Jeff Lynne=genius and charisma!"
Esta cancion y video representa totalmente las sensaciones que ELO logra transmitirme: misterio,nostalgia,transportarme a otros mundos y epocas y esa sensacion inigualable y exquisita de "erizar la piel" que no logra la musica de hoy...Jeff Lynne=genio y carisma!
>:D I give full respect to the old music and to the lucky bastards that got to be able to listen to it in their generation. Myself only being fucking 14, I only listen to GOOD music, and all the other kids I know unfortunately listen to music nowadays. And when I get older, I am still gonna be listening to the music my PARENTS were listening to back in the 60s, 70s and alas, all my other friends who are the same age as me are gonna fucking listen to *classic* Coldplay or Bieber >:( Sad ain't it.
Kid Thats awesome, well maybe you can turn your friends on to some of The great Music you love. & if your curious there are some more recient bands that harken back to The Golden age of Rock, Check out bands Like The Myracle Brah,The Grip Weeds ,Of Montreal ,The High Dails ,Olivia Tremor Control you may like these bands as well also check out some lesser known bands from the 60's,70's who are totally fantastic & you'll love like, Badfinger,Big Star,Raspberries enjoy the search
@PulpFictionized Kid Thats awesome, well maybe you can turn your friends on to some of The great Music you love. & if your curious there are some more recient bands that harken back to The Golden age of Rock, Check out bands Like The Myracle Brah,The Grip Weeds ,Of Montreal ,The High Dails ,Olivia Tremor Control you may like these bands as well also check out some lesser known bands from the 60's,70's who are totally fantastic & you'll love like, Badfinger,Big Star,Raspberries enjoy the search
@PulpFictionized Speaking as a lucky old bastard. I was there. True there was a lot of shit too at the time. Saw Slade live, OMG the Sweet, early Bowie, had a thing for Suzi Q . . . Have never got over not stll being there. Then I discovered a rock combo caled Thin Lizzy and the world was never the same again . . . Best, Tony
@PulpFictionized Well, I'll be listening to music from all the generations I come across. Each generation had it's god awful music my friend. To say that there wasn't someone who got attention back then that didn't deserve it would be ignorant. There were talentless hacks in every generation. Also, I love all good music that catches me and sends me where nothing else can. Also, I enjoy Coldplay and the sounds they create. However, I dislike Bieber. So what if this generation has it's classics?
@PulpFictionized Come on then buddy, what bands to do like? I love: Genesis, ELO, ELP, Journey, Survivor, Foreigner, ZZ Top, VAN HALEN, Pink Floyd, Yes, Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy and General AOR Rock.. and you?
@AJTAFFY I like Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yes, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Badfinger, Cream, Derek and The Dominoes, Harry Nilsson, Marvin Gaye, Rough Trade, Steppenwolf, Steve Miller Band, The Police, Olivia Newton, Bow Wow Wow, The Turtles, The Animals, The Vogues, The Foundations, The Association, Bing Crosby, Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Chicago, Credence Clearwater Revival, Cole Porter, The Ink Spots, Artie Shaw, David Wilcox, Simple Minds, Hall and Oates, ect
@PulpFictionized You're very wise for your age Pulp! I've raised my sons on the classics and they love them. They listen to hip hop as well, but they love the music I grew up with just as much. My oldest son has been raising his 4 year old son on the classics as well.
When friends ask him what's the best concert he's ever seen my oldest sons says "When dad took me to see Paul Rodgers. Because I got to hear songs from the bands Free, Bad Company, and The Firm all in one concert." Makes me smile.
@PapaWolfman Thank you :D and I'm very glad you've showed your sons how good the music from your generation really is. I'm fine with whatever kinda music kids listen to, and for me it's the classics cause I just don't like the modern music for some reason. It's good that kids like to listen to their parents' or even grandparents' music :3
@PulpFictionized I totally agree. There are too few new bands and artists who have the talent and ambition to try and bring back the type of music, and concerts, that were around in the 60s and 70s. Hopefully that will change.
@PulpFictionized Very sad. Music these days is so full of shit (some good stuff too). People don't seem to be interested in real music anymore i.e real instruments, etc.. :(
@addicted2050 I absolutely agree. It is hard to find real music nowadays. There is only some specific kinds of songs and bands I like of the 21st century, but I always love the oldies the most :D
@PulpFictionized I hope you listen to the Waterboys.. :) Do let me know about some of those bands you listen to, I'm always open to new suggestions.. :D
The guys in the masks are members of the road crew they didn't have a full line up when they did this TV appearance. In the studio Roy Wood had multi tracked paying the cello.
lyrics: Did you see your friend, Crying form his eyes today? Did you see him run, Through the streets and far away? Did you see him run? Did you see him fall? Did his life flash by? na na na na na Did you hear the news? na na na na na na na Someone na na na, na na na na na na. Did you see him hide? Did you see him crawl? Does his life mean more? na na na na na Did you see that man, running through the streets today? Did you catch his face? na na na na na na.
I love that riff, along with the trombone or whatever joining it on the 2nd and 3rd verses. ELO are one of my favourite bands now, they can mix Guitars & Drums with classical instruments and put them to amazing effect.
Seventies bands like the E.L.O,were accomplished musicians,serious in the music side,and more important had nothing to do with the media,celeb,silliness that goes on today!
I love ELO (Mr. Blue Sky is my song of choice, but anything'll do), but I really think Def Leppard did a great job with this song. Def Leppard took it and made it darker and more electronic. It's just so different from the original that I don't bother comparing the two; I take them as separate recordings from separate entities. That way, I can appreciate ELO's and Def Leppard's versions the way they both deserve.
Wooowwwwww!!!!! Crazy video for a song that transports me to another time. Pig masks taken from a horror movie create a creepy atmosphere, increased by the fact they play cellos that give kind of severity and seriousness to music. The black background rounds it all off. Insuperable song of ELO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet another example of why the 70's were absolutely the best time in rock music. Although the 90's were awesome to grow up in musically, (I graduated high school in 1992) they kind of pale in comparison to the 70's. Though the stuff in the 90's (on predominately independent labels, i.e. SST) blow this shit today out of the water.
One of the very few riffs that Abba stole, listen to the opening to Gimme Gimme, Gimme a man after midnight, but in fairness there is a few Beatles moments in this one, what a track, what a sound, what a talent Jeff Lynne is, he even joined the travelling Wilburys
ROY WOOD, JEFF LYNNE,BEVAN, EDWARDS,WOW THE TALENT IN THIS GROUP ,THIS SONG ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ROX,TURN IT UP, KEEP GOING,A BIT MORE,THATS IT ,NOW SIT BACK AND ENJOY.
@Estherlovestheworld Good music never gets old and can be shared by more than 1 generation. I am a gen xer so this wasn't my generation ether, but I still love em.
I also must say that the song has a sound to it that I can't really name,..it is like a mixture of past, futuristic, eerie, and....I just can't describe it even like that. I do have to say that the white hair and beard and little glasses he is wearing has a really funky cool look to it. I don't think many could pull off that look quite that way.
It's almost unbelievable that this was their first released song, in such a short time. It is brilliant. I am mid 40's, so I was mainly into other groups when I was a teen, as I was a little kid then. It wasn't until I lost that young mentality you see that for whatever reason makes one think they have to "listen only to Rock, or only to Country because all others only do" did I discover ELO's genius. If it sounds good, listen to it no matter the genre.
Wow, first time I've seen this video. Interesting stuff to say the least. I love Bev's obviously-not-on-this-soundtrack roll at 3:48. And it's nice to see Jeff having some fun on "stage." Looks like he's channeling a bit of Ian Anderson.
Every time I hear this song I like it more. I just wish I had lived at least as a teen from 65-80, the best years of rock. My generation was the 80's, which was OK, but NOTHING compared to that era. Even though it would make be 20 years older, I wish I had come to age during that era rather than being born in the middle of it (69 a couple weeks before woodstock)! So you know it isn't nostalgia with me, this is just awesome music!
So after all the success why didn't they talk more about the NWO pigs and world bankers they were on to back then? Because they all cashed in and became pigs. Only Al Jourgensen and a few others actually spelled it out.
that was fun, jeff haming it up!, wonder if v pirate patch was in soladarity with v pirate radio ofshore broadcast from ships 2 get around govt cencership?, thats how kenny everett ( entertainer) started, wonder if thats in v same time perid?
yeah well theres a difference between "being influenced by" and stealing a riff note for note, as weller did. THIEF! (Another weller related theft, btw ...bassline in jam's "START!" = taxman). Saw elo @manchester free trade hall c 1975?-ish. I remember there was some query as to whether gig would be allowed to go ahead because they had....A LAZER !!! Would we be blinded ?? Torrid times !! I may have played air guitar to this. Allegedly. A lot. Wonderful track !
@Iconicity No,he didn't! although the riff is a variation on 'Dear Prudence' anyway.....Weller is a famous magpie-eg-Taxman for his Start! bass line is note for note rip off and the even the guitar solo is the same more or less! (which imo is more than being influenced! it's note for note!)numerous other examples in his work,not to mention trying to sing like Steve Marriot on every song since he went solo (and failing!)
ELOShazzy, I think the outfit is actually a reworked chasuble, which is the coloured outer garment that Catholic priests wear when saying Mass. Bev's coat has sleeves, which the chasuble doesn't, so it's been substantially altered.
MelHarwood 1 month ago
ELO was supposed to be a band that did songs like "I am the walrus"
I'm not sure how close they came, but i like the results!
seraphima91 1 month ago
Richard Tandy on bass? Well I never :-) What a great tune
Kapricorn1 1 month ago
The cheek of this band, to jump forward 15 years in the future, steal a song from Paul Weller, then travel back in time and pretend it was their's. Roy and Jeff should be ASHAMED of themselves.
lechaise 1 month ago 3
@lechaise YOUR RIGHT SHAME ON THEM LOL.........ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF SHAME HATES ELO ........ THE HALL OF SAMES WILL INDUCT PAUL WELLER FOR THIS EXCELLENT SONG ALONE........
ELOSHAZZY 1 month ago
I love bev's wizard outfit....1:48 lol
ELOSHAZZY 2 months ago
Thought Jeff
George Harrison...Jeff Lynne... Pirate Song?
TheNamron55 2 months ago
@LeChevcaliereNoir4474 IVE JUST CHECKED THIS OUT IN MY COPY OF THE "GUINNESS HIT SINGLES" AND IT DEFINITELY CAME OUT IN THE JULY OF 1972
gilllew 2 months ago
That mindless stomping Jeff Lynne does is just super!
MarkAFerguson 3 months ago
know this from the 'life on mars' series soundtrack sooo good wish i was born in the 60s to 70s
GEOThePROTOTYPE 3 months ago
THIS CAME OUT AROUND THE TIME OF MY 19TH BIRTHDAY (SEPTEMBER 1972) REMEMBER ONE OF MY FRIENDS BUYING AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT I DIDNT KNOW DEF LEPPARD HAD DONE A COVER VERSION. STIL SOUNDS GREAT TODAY(NEARLY 40 YEARS ON)
gilllew 3 months ago
@gilllew September 1973 not 1972. Around the time of my 29th birthday. I remember it well as I was going through bad times then.
LeChevalierNoir4474 2 months ago
John Lennon: I am the Walrus
Jeff Lynne: Arrr, I be a Pirate.
tfd829 4 months ago 2
Dear Prudence meets I am the Walrus
mlmr11 4 months ago
The mighty Jeff Lynn-Vocals/guitar,Bev Bevan-Drums,Violinsky-Other strings.....Awesome band
martinwoodholland 4 months ago
My favourite ELO song!
ZwankyTanky 5 months ago 3
This was originally written for The Move,the group's other name at the time....Then,Roy Wood bought himself,r $250,a Chinese Acoustic Bass and used it as a result on the track,and,lo & Behold ELO was born!
mrmjb1960 6 months ago
From their Self-Titled Lp,AKA "No Answer",named after a botched Telephone Call made by a secretary of a United Artists Exec who'd wanted to know the UK title..She'd simply wrote on a tablet page "No Answer",and,PRESTO! The US title! They'd never changed it!
mrmjb1960 6 months ago
i think mr weller was takeing notes
shaftsbury94 6 months ago
@shaftsbury94 nice comment. you're the first other person i've read who noticed this. dunno if you play guitar, but yes, its note for note.
echo680 5 months ago
Best thing ELO ever did - still got all the albums, though : )
Joeskint 6 months ago
Despite my tiny apartment I got out the big Infinity speakers, the turntable and the receiver and have been listening to all my old vinyl again and it is because of music like this....the iPod generation has no idea what it's missing.
telecasterchick 6 months ago
@telecasterchick Too right,i have a rega planer 3, doesn't compare today's mp3 shite!
gtk477 5 months ago
I'm a changing man.......
1976clarkdogg 7 months ago
changing man lol
joydivision808 7 months ago
Does anyone know what 10538 refers to?
dibenj 7 months ago
@dibenj I read (on Wikipedia, I think) that it's a prison number. The song is about a prisoner who escapes and it goes badly for him.
Libra003 7 months ago
Notice the Roadies in Gorilla Masks? Wilf Gibson had left by then as well as another member,so Roy and Jeff dressed up two Roadies in Masks-VOILA! Instant group!
mrmjb1960 8 months ago
This is as good as The Beatles ever were at their best... anfd I live in Hampshire... so I'm not Birmingham biased!!!
davindo91 8 months ago
@davindo91 awesome m8.saw them in 81.met a few of the fellas in the band.
darrylmcgurk 8 months ago
I remember putting on ELO Eldorado and playing side one and two very loud at 6 am to wake up the house...1974 i think..them were the days...
kurbkrawler000 8 months ago
I was was thinking just now, I wonder how many Paul Weller fanboys have come here to find out to their horror that their hero DOES listen to ELO Music after all, lol
ELONut 8 months ago
Did AC/DC's Are you ready come first or did This one?They both sound the same so I was wondering who ripped off who.But of course this (by far)sounds better
randomrighthere561 8 months ago
@randomrighthere561 AC/DC was not a band when this song came out.
TheUncleDougger 7 months ago
@TheUncleDougger oh
randomrighthere561 7 months ago
@randomrighthere561 You're right it does sound like AC/DC song Are You Ready at start of song however though..... This song came first so if you're wondering who ripped someone off that would be AC/DC taking ELO song.
American86 4 months ago
bloody brilliant
MegaLandrover3 8 months ago
gr8
znuffery2k 8 months ago
I love it
classic old stuff
jrokka12 9 months ago
Gr8 stuff! ! ! KEEP ON LISTENING n LEARNING! oH fRABJOUS JOY! ! ! :-)
MrSontaran3 9 months ago
elo songs rock i dont see how enybody could dislike them
jjkjjlee123 9 months ago
@treason2010 Heyy, right back at ya, man >:D
PulpFictionized 9 months ago
Roy Wood is a genius. So is Jeff Lynne.
mrizz22 9 months ago
AWESOME STRIKING
joeyrider 10 months ago
And somehow Roy Wood is playing a cello .......LOL Thought he went to form Wizzard, good joke Jeff
VantiveMan 10 months ago
@0:43 What a spoony bard
aawiz1234 10 months ago
Great song! But I think the video is also awesome. Whoever edited the fast cutting at the end did an outstanding job.
Libra003 10 months ago
first heard this song on the sunday morning kshe classics(here in st,louis)
fell in love with it. i heard that this was the first song that e.l.o. did after the band was started. when i first heard it, i thought that it was done by jeffs old band-the move
jw12061 10 months ago
first heard this song on the sunday morning kshe classics(here in st,louis)
fellin love with it. i heard that this was the first song that e.l.o. did after the band was started. when i first heard it, i thought that it was done by jeffs old band-the move
jw12061 10 months ago
Jeff Lynne is obsessed with I am the Walrus,, he has tried to re write it 25 times,, bless him,,
spadge321 10 months ago 25
@spadge321 Love your comment you got the point.. what are we without our obsession? xo mate
joeyrider 10 months ago
@spadge321 i think god did bless jeff lynne!
zazz63 9 months ago
@spadge321 Funny shiv, brah. I think ya hit the tusk on the head.
jcadow 9 months ago
@spadge321 LoL! But let's face it, there are loads of bands who make a whole career of individual Beatles songs: Jam (Start vs. Taxman), Oasis, Tears for Fears (Seeds of Love)... to name a few that come to mind.
visog 7 months ago
@spadge321 He did a damn good job trying.
MotherFan666 4 months ago
@spadge321 Well, if you're going to pilfer a song to rework as a motif throughout your career, you might as well steal from the masters, right?
LeeinLimbo 2 months ago
I always wondered what the 10538 signified until I read an interview with Roy Wood, saying it was a number on a recording monitor they had in the studio.
deansgatedora 11 months ago
"Did you catch his face, was it 10538?"
What a great song! Music and lyrics are awesome! A classic.
keniac14 11 months ago
This is the debut single from ELO - Note Roy Wood on cello - He had to leave the band. ELO was his and Jeff Lynne's concept (many people forget that) They wanted the Beatles idea of studio music being played live. Roy Wood went on his way with Wizzard and Lynne led the ELO brilliantly for years - Great band!
altkrist 11 months ago
Ok song, Weller's Changing man cover is shit loads better tho!
RockBish97 11 months ago
@RockBish97 Errr no.
It's not a cover it's a rip-off. Plus JL and RW didn't get all hissy about it which was good of them. As for "Start!", another great Weller song and not a cover, but a rip-off of Taxman. Again GH was cool. Changing Man? Lucky man more like....
Audioadventures 11 months ago
@Audioadventures Changingman was not a ripoff. It sampled this. Get over it.
oneUNITED7SS 11 months ago
@oneUNITED7SS Paul Weller is a great artist and a local hero of mine. Sampling means using the original recording but Weller played (i.e. didn't sample) the descending guitar riff without additional songwriting credits and later revealed this in his autobiography. With respect maybe you should research sampling and get over yourself while you're at it. :)
Audioadventures 11 months ago
@Audioadventures Listen to the second time the intro is played. It sounds literally the same as in Changingman. But alright. I know when I'm wrong. I admit it. Thank you for that information. I hadn't known that.
oneUNITED7SS 11 months ago
hey pulpfictionized it does not matter when you were born if you like the music thats all that matters
mark374 11 months ago
Esta cancion y video representa totalmente las sensaciones que ELO logra transmitirme: misterio,nostalgia,transportarme a otros mundos y epocas y esa sensacion inigualable y exquisita de "erizar la piel" que no logra la musica de hoy...Jeff Lynne=genio y carisma!
candycandy1974 11 months ago 2
@candycandy1974 I hope you don't mind if I translate for you (and paraphrase a little).
"This song and video represent all that ELO can convey: mystery, nostalgia, transportation to other worlds and ages, and this indescribable and exquisite shiver down the spine that today's music simply cannot achieve...Jeff Lynne=genius and charisma!"
captainparadoxius 11 months ago
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Esta cancion y video representa totalmente las sensaciones que ELO logra transmitirme: misterio,nostalgia,transportarme a otros mundos y epocas y esa sensacion inigualable y exquisita de "erizar la piel" que no logra la musica de hoy...Jeff Lynne=genio y carisma!
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candycandy1974 11 months ago
why is jeff lynne dressed like a pirate??
rockandroll2167 1 year ago
good tune, odd video. :)
Scott06096 1 year ago
good toon, odd video. :)
Scott06096 1 year ago
the end of this song just screams "here comes the juggernaut that is e.l.o."
ChrisPartykaMusic 1 year ago 3
Roy woods and Jeff Lynne are super talented together!!
caxfingers 1 year ago
>:D I give full respect to the old music and to the lucky bastards that got to be able to listen to it in their generation. Myself only being fucking 14, I only listen to GOOD music, and all the other kids I know unfortunately listen to music nowadays. And when I get older, I am still gonna be listening to the music my PARENTS were listening to back in the 60s, 70s and alas, all my other friends who are the same age as me are gonna fucking listen to *classic* Coldplay or Bieber >:( Sad ain't it.
PulpFictionized 1 year ago 61
@PulpFictionized
Kid Thats awesome, well maybe you can turn your friends on to some of The great Music you love. & if your curious there are some more recient bands that harken back to The Golden age of Rock, Check out bands Like The Myracle Brah,The Grip Weeds ,Of Montreal ,The High Dails ,Olivia Tremor Control you may like these bands as well also check out some lesser known bands from the 60's,70's who are totally fantastic & you'll love like, Badfinger,Big Star,Raspberries enjoy the search
jayceerocker 11 months ago
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PulpFictionized 11 months ago
@jayceerocker Hey, thanks alot, man, really appreciate it --- I'll look into those bands ya recommended. >:D
PulpFictionized 11 months ago
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@PulpFictionized Kid Thats awesome, well maybe you can turn your friends on to some of The great Music you love. & if your curious there are some more recient bands that harken back to The Golden age of Rock, Check out bands Like The Myracle Brah,The Grip Weeds ,Of Montreal ,The High Dails ,Olivia Tremor Control you may like these bands as well also check out some lesser known bands from the 60's,70's who are totally fantastic & you'll love like, Badfinger,Big Star,Raspberries enjoy the search
jayceerocker 11 months ago
@PulpFictionized Speaking as a lucky old bastard. I was there. True there was a lot of shit too at the time. Saw Slade live, OMG the Sweet, early Bowie, had a thing for Suzi Q . . . Have never got over not stll being there. Then I discovered a rock combo caled Thin Lizzy and the world was never the same again . . . Best, Tony
The1960Rocker 11 months ago
nice one man
i saw thin lizzy twice in Manchester in 78
and i saw Dr Feelgood 3 times,, sadly not the original line up though , minus wilko,, great times,,
tom
spadge321 10 months ago
@PulpFictionized Well, I'll be listening to music from all the generations I come across. Each generation had it's god awful music my friend. To say that there wasn't someone who got attention back then that didn't deserve it would be ignorant. There were talentless hacks in every generation. Also, I love all good music that catches me and sends me where nothing else can. Also, I enjoy Coldplay and the sounds they create. However, I dislike Bieber. So what if this generation has it's classics?
PortalMouth 10 months ago 5
@PulpFictionized im 17 buddy, me and you should talk about our music tastes!!!
AJTAFFY 9 months ago
@AJTAFFY Haha, there is a shitload of music I like, man >:D
PulpFictionized 9 months ago
@PulpFictionized Come on then buddy, what bands to do like? I love: Genesis, ELO, ELP, Journey, Survivor, Foreigner, ZZ Top, VAN HALEN, Pink Floyd, Yes, Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy and General AOR Rock.. and you?
AJTAFFY 9 months ago
@AJTAFFY I like Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yes, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Badfinger, Cream, Derek and The Dominoes, Harry Nilsson, Marvin Gaye, Rough Trade, Steppenwolf, Steve Miller Band, The Police, Olivia Newton, Bow Wow Wow, The Turtles, The Animals, The Vogues, The Foundations, The Association, Bing Crosby, Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Chicago, Credence Clearwater Revival, Cole Porter, The Ink Spots, Artie Shaw, David Wilcox, Simple Minds, Hall and Oates, ect
PulpFictionized 9 months ago
@PulpFictionized thats quite a selection.
shaftsbury94 9 months ago
@PulpFictionized Your parents raised you right!
hamlanzon6 8 months ago
@hamlanzon6 Ahaha XD thanks, man
PulpFictionized 8 months ago
@PulpFictionized you'd be suprised how many people listen to music from past generations. why should you be praised for it.
tomoliveras 8 months ago
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PulpFictionized 8 months ago
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@tomoliveras I have no fucking idea, man xD ahaha! I do believe you though; there is alot of people who do >:D
PulpFictionized 8 months ago
@PulpFictionized went to see them dude in 81.wow
darrylmcgurk 8 months ago
@darrylmcgurk Hoo, man. I wish I were alive then, so I could have seen 'em. :D
PulpFictionized 8 months ago
@PulpFictionized You're very wise for your age Pulp! I've raised my sons on the classics and they love them. They listen to hip hop as well, but they love the music I grew up with just as much. My oldest son has been raising his 4 year old son on the classics as well.
When friends ask him what's the best concert he's ever seen my oldest sons says "When dad took me to see Paul Rodgers. Because I got to hear songs from the bands Free, Bad Company, and The Firm all in one concert." Makes me smile.
PapaWolfman 7 months ago
@PapaWolfman Thank you :D and I'm very glad you've showed your sons how good the music from your generation really is. I'm fine with whatever kinda music kids listen to, and for me it's the classics cause I just don't like the modern music for some reason. It's good that kids like to listen to their parents' or even grandparents' music :3
PulpFictionized 7 months ago
@PulpFictionized I totally agree. There are too few new bands and artists who have the talent and ambition to try and bring back the type of music, and concerts, that were around in the 60s and 70s. Hopefully that will change.
PapaWolfman 7 months ago
@PulpFictionized Very sad. Music these days is so full of shit (some good stuff too). People don't seem to be interested in real music anymore i.e real instruments, etc.. :(
addicted2050 3 months ago
@addicted2050 I absolutely agree. It is hard to find real music nowadays. There is only some specific kinds of songs and bands I like of the 21st century, but I always love the oldies the most :D
PulpFictionized 3 months ago
@PulpFictionized I hope you listen to the Waterboys.. :) Do let me know about some of those bands you listen to, I'm always open to new suggestions.. :D
addicted2050 3 months ago
Young Jeff..!!! Cute!
candycandy1974 1 year ago
great stuff - many thanks - and Roy Wood yes!
OFFTHEBUSH 1 year ago
The guys in the masks are members of the road crew they didn't have a full line up when they did this TV appearance. In the studio Roy Wood had multi tracked paying the cello.
paulspalace 1 year ago
gotta love jeff's ott performance =)
infradig8 1 year ago
Video was 1971. Lynne was 23yo.
milladrive 1 year ago
pumishumi 1 year ago
@pumishumi thanks dude.... ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
mariovas1766 1 year ago
Singer at age 40: FUCK IT! I'm gonna dress like a crazy rock-pirate!
Zackr27 1 year ago
@Zackr27 - if Jeff was 40 then, he'd be approaching 80 now. I think he's a bit younger than that. But I take your point.
JBofBrisbane 1 year ago
I love that riff, along with the trombone or whatever joining it on the 2nd and 3rd verses. ELO are one of my favourite bands now, they can mix Guitars & Drums with classical instruments and put them to amazing effect.
'Aaaaaahaaaaaaaa' (Cellos)
'Aaaaaahaaaaaaaa' (Cellos) - Sweet.
'Aaaaaahaaaaaaaa' (Riff)
Go 10538!
TRibsey 1 year ago
Paul Weller - Changing Man
bluemoonrising26 1 year ago
For this video the 'roadies' wore pigs mask to make up the band numbers. 10/10 song
pinkandjefflynne 1 year ago
Many Beatles references here, both subtle and obvious
uspscsx 1 year ago
love it
RussFeesmith 1 year ago
Seventies bands like the E.L.O,were accomplished musicians,serious in the music side,and more important had nothing to do with the media,celeb,silliness that goes on today!
buldic 1 year ago
this is gods own music.
willobi 1 year ago
I love ELO (Mr. Blue Sky is my song of choice, but anything'll do), but I really think Def Leppard did a great job with this song. Def Leppard took it and made it darker and more electronic. It's just so different from the original that I don't bother comparing the two; I take them as separate recordings from separate entities. That way, I can appreciate ELO's and Def Leppard's versions the way they both deserve.
DethLeppard666 1 year ago
And of course, Paul Weller nicked the main riff for 'Changing Man'. Lazy git didn't even bother to change the key or the tempo.
czfred 1 year ago
E.L.O. For ever! great song!
Hermes455 1 year ago
Wooowwwwww!!!!! Crazy video for a song that transports me to another time. Pig masks taken from a horror movie create a creepy atmosphere, increased by the fact they play cellos that give kind of severity and seriousness to music. The black background rounds it all off. Insuperable song of ELO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrSapocagon 1 year ago
Yet another example of why the 70's were absolutely the best time in rock music. Although the 90's were awesome to grow up in musically, (I graduated high school in 1992) they kind of pale in comparison to the 70's. Though the stuff in the 90's (on predominately independent labels, i.e. SST) blow this shit today out of the water.
mrtones73 1 year ago
One of the very few riffs that Abba stole, listen to the opening to Gimme Gimme, Gimme a man after midnight, but in fairness there is a few Beatles moments in this one, what a track, what a sound, what a talent Jeff Lynne is, he even joined the travelling Wilburys
gerrycooley 1 year ago
The French horn player looks kinda like Zoot from the Electric Mayhem.
itsme111478 1 year ago
ROY WOOD, JEFF LYNNE,BEVAN, EDWARDS,WOW THE TALENT IN THIS GROUP ,THIS SONG ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ROX,TURN IT UP, KEEP GOING,A BIT MORE,THATS IT ,NOW SIT BACK AND ENJOY.
eddietheturdburglar 1 year ago
Wow I can't belive that Mike Edwards is dead. I grew up with ELO. The Album time got me through some tough moments.
They will always have a place in my heart when it comes to their music.
flubber2kool 1 year ago
i <3 ELO and I'm 19! and where did i hear ELO from? My 14 year old bro!
Estherlovestheworld 1 year ago
@Estherlovestheworld Good music never gets old and can be shared by more than 1 generation. I am a gen xer so this wasn't my generation ether, but I still love em.
christo930 1 year ago
@Estherlovestheworld Fantastic to hear this!!
leftylefty1776 1 year ago
Genial
ertolv 1 year ago
(((Mike Edwards)))...
TTBluez 1 year ago
RIP, Mike Edwards.
Frach438 1 year ago
I also must say that the song has a sound to it that I can't really name,..it is like a mixture of past, futuristic, eerie, and....I just can't describe it even like that. I do have to say that the white hair and beard and little glasses he is wearing has a really funky cool look to it. I don't think many could pull off that look quite that way.
Thanks for the video.
rrussell39 1 year ago
It's almost unbelievable that this was their first released song, in such a short time. It is brilliant. I am mid 40's, so I was mainly into other groups when I was a teen, as I was a little kid then. It wasn't until I lost that young mentality you see that for whatever reason makes one think they have to "listen only to Rock, or only to Country because all others only do" did I discover ELO's genius. If it sounds good, listen to it no matter the genre.
rrussell39 1 year ago
MR. MIKE EDWARDS - (MAY 1948 - SEPT. 2010)
TheHernanPatricio 1 year ago
On 4.31 till 4.37 Was Mike Edwards (the cello player with the hat on)
R.I.P Mike Edwards
Quofool50 1 year ago
@Quofool50 : What a bizarre way of shuffling this mortail coil...
Efrasnel 1 year ago
@Efrasnel
Tel me an essyer way then?
Quofool50 1 year ago
Wow, first time I've seen this video. Interesting stuff to say the least. I love Bev's obviously-not-on-this-soundtrack roll at 3:48. And it's nice to see Jeff having some fun on "stage." Looks like he's channeling a bit of Ian Anderson.
gfh110 1 year ago
Every time I hear this song I like it more. I just wish I had lived at least as a teen from 65-80, the best years of rock. My generation was the 80's, which was OK, but NOTHING compared to that era. Even though it would make be 20 years older, I wish I had come to age during that era rather than being born in the middle of it (69 a couple weeks before woodstock)! So you know it isn't nostalgia with me, this is just awesome music!
christo930 1 year ago
Their take on I Am the Walrus
gjeeg9999 1 year ago
Much better than the shit in todays charts!!!
Pfaffenfresser1 1 year ago 2
This is one of their best. I love Jeff's playing on this!
ToddSweeneyOnce 1 year ago
Just the eyepatch on Lynne tells you he's a boss. God this band is so incredible!
eddielieber 1 year ago
I LIKE the video, what they tried with it, the mood..
ChrissyMontagne 1 year ago
So after all the success why didn't they talk more about the NWO pigs and world bankers they were on to back then? Because they all cashed in and became pigs. Only Al Jourgensen and a few others actually spelled it out.
ChrissyMontagne 1 year ago
From their first album, post-Move, and one of the first I bought with money from my first Saturday job when I was at school. Takes me back a bit lol.
spiccybaby 1 year ago
Cmon Weller... Own up to your theft!
Nicap2 1 year ago
@Nicap2 first time ive heard this and im amazed! changingman is an outright rip!
jimmykinski 1 year ago
Heh heh, I think Jeff has a leg cramp in the beginning.
At least Def Leppard didn't mangle this when they did a cover. They kept pretty true to the original arrangement.
3impersonators 1 year ago
Einfach toll! Simply great!
Pfaffenfresser1 1 year ago
this song blow me away when I fist heard it
amonduultje 1 year ago
Jeff listened to Strawberry Fields and Dear Prudence and got the idea for a band.
heimdallhinfrode 1 year ago
ahh just awesome
AveNDarknesS 1 year ago
A psychedilic song by ELO (#2 of 4)
pfhunt276 1 year ago
IS LIKE THEIR VERSION OF I'M THE WARLUS
ANOCHHE 1 year ago
A lot like 'The Beatles' I am the Walrus'
preluki 1 year ago
Sounds like the music from the movie "Still Crazy".
misterstamper 1 year ago
Great video, i love how Jeff and Roy looks in this one !
mickviking1 1 year ago
good fuckin MUSIC
GLUEBAGxZACKx666 1 year ago
Obviously Ian Anderson had an influence on Jeff back in ELO's early days
TheChugulator 1 year ago
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This is where the changing man get's his inspiration...
ProudboneTv 1 year ago
This is where the changing man get's his inspiration...
ProudboneTv 1 year ago
Just noticed that the numbers in the title are Fibonacci numbers.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
that was fun, jeff haming it up!, wonder if v pirate patch was in soladarity with v pirate radio ofshore broadcast from ships 2 get around govt cencership?, thats how kenny everett ( entertainer) started, wonder if thats in v same time perid?
richtensail 1 year ago
Love the fancy dress!!!! Great track.
caxfingers 1 year ago
How is the guitar riff on this song similar to the FINGER-PICKED acoustic in Dear Prudence? I don't understand.
GarsinX 1 year ago
@GarsinX It's a variation on it-but played on an electric guitar
thenowuk 1 year ago
is that che??
canadaguy2112ca 1 year ago
Paul wellers "rip off" of this is outstanding and I'm sure these old hippies would approve of his "cover"
Weller is god. Like this too btw.
originalspykid69 1 year ago
the Def Leppard version is awesome
StourheadStudios 1 year ago
the masked pig faces on cellos etc remind me of i am the walrus
both are superb tunes love em both
chromealien 1 year ago 2
Okay, first off, EXCELLENT quality considering the age; thank you for sharing.
I have never seen Jeff Lynne so animated before! The eye patch is... unexpected.
Shows how early this is; I had forgotten Tandy did the bass in the early days.
3impersonators 1 year ago
yeah well theres a difference between "being influenced by" and stealing a riff note for note, as weller did. THIEF! (Another weller related theft, btw ...bassline in jam's "START!" = taxman). Saw elo @manchester free trade hall c 1975?-ish. I remember there was some query as to whether gig would be allowed to go ahead because they had....A LAZER !!! Would we be blinded ?? Torrid times !! I may have played air guitar to this. Allegedly. A lot. Wonderful track !
echo680 1 year ago
Why worry if Weller "stole" from this.Didnt ELO steal from The Beatles?
Still a great song though,whatever.
pythongoon 1 year ago
ummm... it's dear prudence
inputmodule 1 year ago
Did Paul Weller credit ELO for using this riff in Changing Man?
Iconicity 2 years ago
I hope so, a shameless rip off....
Yorkmackem 1 year ago
@Iconicity No,he didn't! although the riff is a variation on 'Dear Prudence' anyway.....Weller is a famous magpie-eg-Taxman for his Start! bass line is note for note rip off and the even the guitar solo is the same more or less! (which imo is more than being influenced! it's note for note!)numerous other examples in his work,not to mention trying to sing like Steve Marriot on every song since he went solo (and failing!)
thenowuk 1 year ago