Roll Over Beethoven''5 - ELO

[genegaz]

Best performance of this song, ever! The early lineup of ELO was raw and rock'n'roll.

[ELONut]

The Real ELO concept at its finest

[grolum]

i don't say this often, but the studio version is better.

[ALaudun]

This is vintage ELO the orignal band members who also made ELO II.

[MACHAWK123]

Brilliant

[flashfast2000]

Finally a live version! Just plain awesome! Its too bad Mike Edwards didn't remain through the rest of the bands true success of the mid to late 70's. What a character he must have been with that zany smile and the wild onstage antics! It would have given the group a little extra 'edge'. But I could be wrong.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@flashfast2000 I don't think you are wrong. I agree that Mike Edwards was a big part of the stage act, and if he were still with them at the later stages, I have a feeling that the string section wouldn't have been dismissed. I think things musically went downhill with the departure of Gibson, De Albuquerque and Mike Edwards.

[mkp823]

@tigranvartanovitch I couldn't agree more. Gibson is a far more creative and melodic violinist than Kaminski. Edwards played great rock 'n' roll cello, and DeAlbuquerque was a soulful bassist - and I personally liked his "earthy" voice against Jeff's far more than Kelly's nasily-wannabe-Jeff-clone voice.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@mkp823 What I couldn't stand about Mik Kaminski was that his instrument didn't sound like a violin. I mean, can you imagine what "Kuiama" would be like if Kaminiski were in the band at that stage? I stopped buying their albums after Eldorado. They were hiring an orchestra and a choir. Although they continued to produce some good tracks, they had lost the plot. Their original idea was to get away from being a four piece rock band and they ended up...as a four piece rock band.

[mkp823]

@tigranvartanovitch I continued to be a fan (mostly due to Jeff's writing, but it's like listening to two different bands. You can even watch Gibson & Kaminski and see the difference. Gibson's bowing is very smooth and flowing. Kaminski looks like he's trying to saw through the thing. Kaminski relied heavily on electronic effects (like on Living Thing). It doesn't sound like a violin nor a fine violinist.

[gfh110]

@mkp823 Unfortunately I can't fairly compare Mik & Wilf because I heard Mik first and he was the one who inspired me to take up the violin. All the same, I respect them both. To me it seems like Mik was more interested in being a "rock violinist" and Wilf was more sort of a "violinist in a rock band." I have about a dozen of Mik's solos on bootlegs and each one is significantly different due to his improvisation, which is what I've always enjoyed most.

[MattHatter]

@gfh110 I see what you're saying. Sort of like how Blood, Sweat, and Tears was essentially a jazz band with rock leanings, while Chicago was a rock band with jazz leanings.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@mkp823 In case you didn't know, Maxine Nightingale's "Right Back Where We Started from" has both Wilf Gibson and Michael de Albuquerque playing on it.

[MattHatter]

You Tube! How can you keep taking this one down?! How can you watch it and then bow to the powers that threaten lawsuits and crap. This is one of the most kick-ass performances of this song that ELO ever did and it was caught on film for all to see! It never fails to blow my mind wide open every time I watch it!

[sepod]

Don Arden (born Harry Levy), 4 January 1926, Manchester, England died 21 July 2007, Los Angeles) was an English music manager, agent and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath. He was Also the father of Sharon Osbourne...Ozzies Wife.

[sepod]

ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England who released 11 studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern pop songs with heavily classical overtones, but falling under a light rock category. However, the band's direction for most of their existence was set by Lynne who, after the band's debut record, wrote and arranged all of ELO's original compositions and produced every album.

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[sepod]

"Roll Over Beethoven" was the second single released by ELO and became their 2nd consecutive top 10 hit in the UK, and a hit in the USA when an edited version of the track was taken from the album ELO 2 in 1973. ELO's elaborate 8 minute reworking of the track included an opening musical quote from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and clever interpolations of material from the symphony's first movement into Berry's song; the band closed all their concerts using this number, their signature song.

[sarpedon3]

Probably the definitive version of this song. Please Jeff Lynne, get the classic ELO (e.g Face the Music to Discovery) and make an album that shows these newbies in music on how to make great music.

[JLynnefan]

I agree...the best version of Roll over...i have goosebumps^^ Greetings from Germany

[richiebear1969]

Bravo!!

[luisescalonharo]

Roll Over Chuck Berry.

[peterfile343]

I'd watch out if I was you - YouTube have a habit of taking this one down.

[shelly10538]

What show is this from I wonder?

[ngobleus]

Thanks for posting. Love this performance.