ELO - "Don't Bring Me Down" - live 1986
Top Comments
All Comments (76)
-
@Velocity9s I agree. He needs his usual voluminous sexy fro!
-
@Velocity9s I would agree but since this was 1986, he would've looked outdated with the fuller hair. If anything, Jeff kept up with the hair and clothing trends over the years. He shed the fro look sometime between Xanadu and Time.
-
It's pretty normal to have backing vocals prerecorded and played at concerts. People do it even when they don't have to. Jeff did A LOT of the singing for ELO and so what if he had backing vocals prerecorded. There's a lot on ELO's songs that are hard to produce live. I don't know why they got so much trouble for prerecording SOME things. They still sang and played their instruments live. People acted like it was Milli Vanilli. They over reacted because that was clearly not the case.
-
This was not a good look for Jeff. He looks better with fuller hair. Just an opinion.
-
ELO the best
-
Bollocks..... Where's the blonde hippy.....and the Telecaster?
-
Och, aye, laddie, this song’s fer all the Scots. Have ye nae haird of Robert the Bruce?
-
maybe so, but you can clearly hear Jeff's voice in the backing vocals and there are times when you can hear Jeff's Les paul while he's not playing it. Not Knocking them, but they weren't entirely "live"
-
@zeets93 There was an 8th man playing those concerts in 1978 Jake Commander on acoustic guitar and backing vocals just offstage
-
some of the backing vocals were pre-recorded along with Jeff's acoustic guitar parts. Yeah they did play and sing live but that was along with the pre-recorded stuff



I have removed by Lip-synch post below. I feel so ashamed that I always thought they mimed on the Out of the blue tour.
Please forgive me!
BlackmoonUK 2 years ago 7
Yes, I discovered since I saw it that the concert I saw on TV (The Tony Curtis intro one) had the Standin' in the rain album track overdubbed onto the live performance. This is what made me believe they mimed. What a stupid idea that was eh?
BlackmoonUK 2 years ago 5