The Move - The Words of Aaron

[MrHekkus]

With or without Carl Wayne as vocalist, they were a good group.

[brilliantos]

Roy Wood was a man who was way ahead of his time! And quite a talented human being! As a musician who was once upon a time influenced by Dave Grohl the Foo Fighter, my influence now is Roy without a doubt!!

[DaveInBridport]

Jeff Lynne minus shades!

[mathwuman]

I'm like 57 now & play bass. I learned to get a chunky sound from entwhistle & roy wood. did you see that weird modded jazz bass he has there...looks like they turned the pickups to a radical angle & added a bunch of analogue electronics. I had a thunderbird non-reverse back then & even with that great chunky bass, I could never even get close to that great sound roy wood got. gwhatley - denver, co

[Lenulid]

Music from that time was great but why did they have to dress so freaky?

[hamstall]

Brilliant song, but very obviously mimed. Jeff is playing a WurlTzer EP200 in the footage, but the sound is mainly that of a clapped out Steinway K, probably the Abbey Road one.

Nice to see the vid nonetheless.

[BobMonkfish]

Video quality could be better, and the song is well, bland...

[LadyEdgar]

Jeff Lynne!! w-w-ithout sunglasses! and a beautiful song at that!

[RealDetroiter]

Ahhh! So great! ..But, someone should put up this clip that's better quality. There was one here prior to this.. it got removed.

[glynnt54]

Yes, I'm that old........... and that lucky!!

[glynnt54]

More lip-sinking from a band that was so much better than the business jokers realized, so the "suits" continued to compromise these gifted men's integrity with productions that became a joke of the television circuit. Disgusting! On a live stage, these guys were awesome!

[chevega]

first of all : you saw the move LIVE at some point? awesome!

second : they're not *totally* lip synching. they're miming along to the album track, but their mics are live and mixed slightly hotter as they're singing along. this has been a common lip sync "compromise" since at least the 60's.

great song.

[pdeckder]

I don't believe the Wood-Lynne version of the Move ever did a live concert after Rick Price left. The few live TV clips with Bill Hunt and Richard Tandy joining the core trio are all that exists of that version of the band playing live.

[Paulie88]

GREAT clip, thx for loading it up!!! Any way to get rid of the letterbox effect though? Their heads all look squashed like Ernie from Sesame Street.

LOVE the Move!!!

[jjwesley2525]

oh my god! what a clip! i didnt know this was on the ogwt. one of my favourite songs by the move. what a great band. class

[borski67]

why isn't there music like this today?

[posthumanhero]

because we've evolved technologically and music no longer matters......it is removed from th ground......this is unfortunate......in time our bodies will also be outdated......they already are, pretty much.

[MrTruthNoLie]

I've got to say...this song rocks...no doubt about it.

Superpsychedelia.

You heard the words of Aaron...if ya know the Real Answers...

Message from the Country...another tasty lick.

[nicestrat]

is this Joaquin Phoenix's new band?

[SkeebWilcox]

I don't think that there is a rock band in the world today smart enough to pull music like this off. And if they tried, it would sound like this, so what's the point? I'm very close to calling The Move my "all-time favorite band"! (Well, they actually share the title now with The Monkees)...

[locojets]

If you love The Move then you've gotta love early ELO.

[punditpete]

Oh man this stuff just blows todays music totally away.

Great songwriting and performance.

[scaligeri1]

Of course it is Bill Hunt, genius, and composer of Wizzard's Carlsberg Specual (B side of See my Baby Jive)

[shleml]

Bill hunt never wrote that song! Roy wrote them all and added different wizzard members' names to the b-sides to help them.... financially. What a nice guy!

[FinnMove]

B- side of Ball Park Incident.

[JeffELOLynne]

Why wasn't Bill playing the piano here?Where is Richard tandy,who mostly played bass but is a tremendous keyboardplayer?

[harrijac]

thats a fantastic song...but i wasnt aware of whatever that guy in the back right corner is playing...like a bassoon or something...i thought that part was a synthesizer...and who is he?

[NeilThompson30]

It's Bill Hunt

[jayjemkay]

my favourite move song

[LiquidDreamsUK]

Did they do another song on this session? Groups usually did two on the OGWT.

Great song, one of Lynne's best for the Move.

[FinnMove]

All the Jeff Lynne songs on the Message

from the Country album are great.

But this is the only one of them I have

found in these pages !

[FinnMove]

A great Move track. This is probably a TV- show. Not a real concert. Bill Hunt as

a " visitor" steals the show as he did in Angel Fingers of Wizzard later.

[drwinkle101]

Yes it's a TV show -- see the guy's introduction: "Rare performance on the OGWT in 1971". Old Grey Whistle Test was a live music show on UK BBC which ran from 1971 until the mid-1980s.

[FinnMove]

Thanks I didn´t notice. I know some interviews

on the OGWT. Like the ones of Jeff Lynne

and Roy Wood. They are also seen in these

pages ( if someone has not noticed ).

[VenusGrnys]

I wish all my vinyl wasn't ripped off in '87. I had Message From The Country and alot of other good stuff that I can't get anywhere.....

I loved that album...and Roy's "Boulders" album as well....

[Stygosi]

This is my name as well!

Great clip! Thanks for this!

[stbricesday]

OK, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, who's the other one on the bassoon?

[ELONut]

Bill Hunt who played in the original ELO and Wizzard

[stbricesday]

Thanks, I used to have Message LP, loved the Move but also liked ELO.

[theodorus45]

Great song,i never get tired of it.

[cumskuddle92]

bev? or no?

[kazzz15]

Yes, it's Bev.

[allasaurous]

Now, go and listen to the israeli national anthem,also called" the hope".and u will see where jeff drew those chords from and the little 3 note accent in the middle piano part Aaron was the high priest ,moses bro.

[ELOPNE]

Some of us saw his eyes,and his music a lot longer before than the rest of the world woke up.

[cpuwrite]

Two things impressed me about this video. First, I was watching it and some of the older stuff, and it amazes me how the band's sound changed (much for the better). Second...

HEY, LYNNE! WE SAW YOUR EYES!!! HA HA!!!! ;)

[jsorensen]

Jeff Lynne & Roy Wood complemented each other perfectly. Too bad they didn't continue together into the 70's & beyond.

[thezenpizza]

The Move - The Words of Aaron

The beginnings of ELO

[CrassusWampus]

Beautiful song - beautiful performance.I´ve been a fan of very old ELO,Kuiama has been a favourite of mine for about 25 years,and I revisited The Move 2 years ago and recognised how great they were (I´m born ´68 - so I´m a late (or very early) bloomer).Since then ´Words of Aaron´ is one of the greatest songs.Thank you very, very, very much for seeing them the first time.

[tenstorey2]

does that guy play bong?

[arielfranchesco]

why does the drummer look bad at jeff lyne?

[moveitwoody]

He doesn't like his stupid hat.

[arielfranchesco]

3.18 to the end it rokcs

[arielfranchesco]

do you remember when life was a brand new day?

[lastangelman]

Has anyone noticed that in the Move's promo performances, except maybe in Tonight video and California Man, Roy Wood tended to prefer performing bass guitar?

And man, he could play bottom pretty damn good on record. I wonder if he got sick of playing regular guitar during the ELO/Move era 1971-72?

[kenfig]

This is a great track ; ive got it on a 'Harvest' label box set.Roy Wood seemed restless in the '70s wanting to wander & do different things- nothing wrong with that, but after pop success with Wizzard , having left E.L.O. he was unable to enjoy the huge COMMERCIAL success which followed his involvement with the bands origins, leaving him RELATIVELY in the wilderness for the second half of the '70s & since.Still a great performer,musician & songwriting LEGEND & a cult hero

[truethought62]

1971 was a very good year artistically for the Move! Roy Wood could play many instruments--he did on his solo albums. That included the bass recorder,too! His yellow outfit is a trip, as well...good to see Jeff Lynne on electric piano/vocals..

[vinniecorbit]

That's a bass recorder at first. I don't know why because it's a Moog synth making those noises.

[moorlock2003]

The Move were a TREMENDOUS band. I rate them in the Top 5 of British bands.

[moorlock2003]

This is mimed but Roy Wood's mike is on, you can hear him.

[Pinbalpaul]

O.K., am I the only one who thinks Shazaam! is the greatest Move album? Followed closely by Looking On and Message From the Country.

[movilwagg]

You're not alone...at all...

I think Shazaam is the best Move album...even if Lynne have no participation there, isnt it?

By the way, I like very much the master track: Beautiful daughter...it is amazing.

And it show us Wood its a genious too!!

[bdcny]

Completely agree. Shazaam is my #1. Looking on is my #2, and Message my #3. The Move are incredible.

[pehbunny]

about Roy Wood - I thought Lynn and Wood were best when playing together. One's not better than the other. They're like peanut butter and jelly

[lendmeyourears]

wood and lynne made wonderful stuff together - surely its not too late for a re-union now that jeff has produced and recorded with all his heroes?

[theodorus45]

Much better than ELO

[moorlock2003]

Absolutely. Great, great band even with the loss of Ace Kefford, then Carl Wayne. Jeff Lynne was a great addition of course.

[Fruth37]

I always knew that someone on earth looked just like me and Roy Wood is that person. Same hair, beard, glasses, and build. Now if I could only play music one thousandth as well. One thousandth? Rock on...

[CountSmifnack]

I am posting 1 day away from this video's 1 year aniversary of being posted here. Thanks for the video. One of the Moves w/ Jeff greatest. Very underestimated song.

[Muddyrich]

what is that guy playing? a cor anglais?

[JanJurk]

He plays both bass and baritone recorder

[phototype70]

Jeff Lynne made The Move songs enjoyable for me. Night and day sounds and likeability between the Lynne songs and the Wood songs. I hate to say it but i am glad Roy left ELO. He would have held Jeff back. Jeff took off with hit after hit. Go listen to a Wizard cd or any Roy wood cd after he left ELO. Not at all on any level close to Jeff Lynne.

[Maneachicken]

I agree, but don't slate Wizzard for what they weren't. They were a very very good Jazz-Rock, Glam-Rock band.

Furthermore the Wizzard albums never featured any of the singles.

But this is IMHO one of the finest Move songs - It has the ploddy chorus, the irrisistable bass playing and a nice melodic riff.

Long live Jeff, Roy & Bev!

[ELONut]

Is it just me or Does Bev Bevan always look 'Pissed Off' behind the drum kit

[Krzyszczynski]

Not just you, ELONut. I too have noticed how glum Bev often (nearly always? ALWAYS??) looks in these clips, and really can't think why that should be. There's loads of cheerful photos of him in "The ELO Story".

[Maneachicken]

I'd love someone to post the mp3 from Message from the Country...

The bass playin from Wood is amazing.

[kirkwallboy]

Disappointing to hear Roy Wood being disappointed on the Radcliffe show the other night when he mentioned that, not only content with rehashing ELO as ELO II in the early 90's, drummer Bev Bevan is now touring another, altogether different, Move. A Move without Roy and Carl Wayne is a disgrace Mr Bevan, and you should be ashamed of yourself young man! If you're short of a few quid go and rejoin Black Sabbath mark 56 or whatever!

[MattHatter]

Absolutely one of the later-day Moves' best songs! One of the best songs on their "Message From The Country" album from 1971 as well as "The Minister." Funny Bill Hunt didn't become a permanent fixture in ELO.

[manatthewindow]

Thank you for posting this. :)

[Bailey4life]

its a basoon

[merlinthebigcat]

Bass Clarinet I think

[wilster200]

Brilliant! Never heard this before and I've been a fan of the Move since 1968!! Thankyou !

[vidyman]

any one have any thing from the rest of message from the country??

[JLynnefan]

Yes, a vid from 'Down on the bay' is also on YT

[Maneachicken]

It is Bill Hunt.

[nodamnnamesnottaken]

Real strange, cool tune. Still sounds unlike anything else out there to this day.

[shleml]

live vocals! cool!

[fr556]

That would be Bill Hunt playing a..oboe?

[openfold]

Bassoon....or a Curtal...

[Mikemaniax]

That 4th guy looks like Richard Tandy, and what is he playing? It looks like a bong with a mouthpiece.

[mikeartist]

Thanks a million for posting this! Really takes me back. Wonder if anymore of this OGWT session exists anywhere? Bill Hunt's tenor recorder solo is great but I've just dug out my vinyl copy of 'Message' and have to say that Roy Wood's studio version is wonderful!! Thanks again!

[animeska1]

great song off a great album...wish i was around to be a contemporary in this amazing period of music.

[xgrouper]

No guitar, just a bass, drums (Lets not leave out Bev Bevan) horns, and keyboards and this sounds better than most larger bands of today.

[xgrouper]

Message from the Country and Looking On..Two albums that chnged my life...I loved the Move and the original ELO>>>Great stuff.

[xgrouper]

Fuck yeah this is rare stuff. This was when the Move were great.. Message from the Country...

[dawkeye1]

didnt even know a video of this fab song ever existed until today, great that moog sound on the instrumental going down the scale, really dreamy stuff, think message from the country and "move" albums my favorites with ace kefford on bass, should have been more of them though, great band!

[RealOmind]

I just read that and strange way to go, huh? Anyway - good to see some old Move video. Seems like Lynn and Wood never got along too well. I've never seen them so much as look at each other even once.

[zgjfslkdfs]

I think you are mistaken. It's very hard to tell whether or not Roy is looking at Jeff sincer he is wearing shades. But in the outro of the song Roy is smiling briefly in Jeff's direction. The artistic differences only really came to light in the recording of the ELO 2 album

[KakashiTsunade]

Good point and I think you are right about that. I forgot that the first ELO / Move LP was a real team effort as opposed to the 2nd ELO effort where they started to go in different directions. A pitty they did not last together as Jeff Lynn and Roy Wood were ALWAYS a great pair.

[AllaBest]

They're like almost identical twins! Great talents were given!

[NeilThompson30]

When I saw ELO at Newcastle in 1976 I waited for their autographs at the stage door. When Jeff came out someone said - 'Great stuff Jeff - I love all the ELO albums - apart from the first one!'

Jeff looked up, laughed, and said - 'Well, I had nothing to do with that one!'

[myang3la]

I think Lynne and Wood got along fine. Remember, Wood was after Lynne like a little schoolgirl to join the Move while Lynne was with the Idle Race. Wood actually worked on some of his songs at Lynne's parents home. Doubtless there were tensions brewing later on, but Wood broke away before it became a serious rift. As has been noted ... they get along fine now (and apparently Lynne and Bevan are getting along too now).

[ELONut]

In fact what you have there is the Original ELO Minus Steve Woolam (Violin)

[SpaceBob]

Yeah. I was curious about Woolam's involvement with ELO until I (unfortunately) read the Wiki article on him.

[slightlyperturbedmax]

Who is that crazy extra musician doing such a good job of mimicking some of Roy's overdubs?

[ELONut]

Its Bill Hunt Who played horns with the original ELO and sax with Wizzard

[Polyphemus47]

Delicious. And all the more tasty, since I never dreamed I'd see/hear it. Makes a fella go all misty.

[lucie20054eva]

Great to see again, remember this from about 1971 i think it was , on the old grey whistle test. A Jeff Lynne composition, which on this occasion Roy doesnt seem too happy about. Was also a track on the Message from the Country Album. Rare Stuff.