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Dec 6th, 2005 at 10:15am

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Anyone heard of this group from the late 80's?  Good stuff, the band is comprised of George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, who then invited Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison to join the band.  All in all, it was a low key band, considering they never put their real names on the albums, but their records made it to the top of the charts at one point. 

I love listening to them, because they weren't making records to make money, but rather to have fun, and its evident in their songs.
 

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Reply #1 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 10:27am

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I have the original albums on vinyl. This was the start of a new career for the legendary Roy Orbison. He sadly died just as he was all set to make a comeback. I also have his last solo album 'Mystery Girl' on vinyl. http://www.wilburys.info/insroy.html
This had all new songs on it & was produced by Jeff Lynne who managed to recapture the original Orbison sound from his earlier hits. I think it's an excellent album.

The name is actually Traveling Wilburys. Note that it would be spelled Travelling in the UK.
 

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Reply #2 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 10:32am

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I have the original albums on vinyl. This was the start of a new career for the legendary Roy Orbison. He sadly died just as he was all set to make a comeback. I also have his last solo album 'Mystery Girl' on vinyl. http://www.wilburys.info/insroy.html

The name is actually Traveling Wilburys. Note that it would be spelled Travelling in the UK.

Grrr, English

Yeah the last albums weren't as great without Orbison.  What did he die of anyways?
 

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Reply #3 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 10:39am

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Grrr, English

My main point was that it's Wilburys & not Whilburys. This has nothing to do with the English spelling. Tongue

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Yeah the last albums weren't as great without Orbison.  What did he die of anyways?

I believe it was a sudden heart attack. Check out the link from my previous reply.
Roy Orbison had a very tragic life which came through on his emotional songs.

PS. By a strange coincidence I just heard on the radio that today is the anniversary of Roy Orbison's death.
 

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Reply #4 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 3:10pm

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Whoa, freaky.

No I meant I do not speak english well.  I don be frum'da simple country where we don' get read on dem books
 

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Reply #5 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 3:24pm

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Whoa, freaky.

No I meant I do not speak english well.  I don be frum'da simple country where we don' get read on dem books

LOL You don't fool me. Tongue Wink

You wouldn't remember any of this but here's a few more little factoids about Roy Orbison. Like many others, he started out as a songwriter. Many of his songs were written with specific recording artists like Buddy Holly or the Everly Brothers in mind. The Everly's had a hit in 1958 with one of his songs named Claudette, the name of his first wife. She later died in a motorcyle accident in 1968. They were both keen motorcyclists. If this wasn't tragic enough he lost two of his sons in a house fire two years later.

Many people thought that Roy was blind or at least had poor eyesight because of the dark spectacles that he always wore on stage after becoming famous in his own right. These were in fact Rayban sunglasses.
 

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Reply #6 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 8:20pm

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Yeah, didn't he open for the beatles in their infant years at the Cavern?

You got me re-interested in the Wilburys.  I think I am going to buy my dad their CD's online so I can listen to them.  Also I am thinking about some Tom Petty, and Cloud Nine.  Funny how they actually bring back memories when I listen to them (I was very young when I first heard them)
 

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Reply #7 - Dec 7th, 2005 at 4:14am

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Yeah, didn't he open for the beatles in their infant years at the Cavern?

I don't think Roy Orbison ever played the Cavern. He was a big star & it was really only a very small local club. If I remember correctly the Beatles were booked as one of the supporting acts on a Roy Orbison tour of the UK in 1963. While the tour was on the road they had their first hit record & became instantly well known. After that nobody wanted to listen to poor Roy but were screaming for the Beatles who were quickly promoted to top of the bill on the later dates. This was the start of his decline in popularity although he had a big hit in 1964 with Oh Pretty Woman. This was possibly his biggest hit record until many years later. The Wilburys gave him the chance for a comeback after many years of being forgotten.

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You got me re-interested in the Wilburys.  I think I am going to buy my dad their CD's online so I can listen to them.  Also I am thinking about some Tom Petty, and Cloud Nine.  Funny how they actually bring back memories when I listen to them (I was very young when I first heard them)

Good idea. I've always found it interesting to know the history behind these things. I was never a particular fan of Tom Petty until I heard him performing with the Wilburys.
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Reply #8 - Dec 8th, 2005 at 12:51am

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I don't think Roy Orbison ever played the Cavern. He was a big star & it was really only a very small local club. If I remember correctly the Beatles were booked as one of the supporting acts on a Roy Orbison tour of the UK in 1963. While the tour was on the road they had their first hit record & became instantly well known. After that nobody wanted to listen to poor Roy but were screaming for the Beatles who were quickly promoted to top of the bill on the later dates. This was the start of his decline in popularity although he had a big hit in 1964 with Oh Pretty Woman. This was possibly his biggest hit record until many years later. The Wilburys gave him the chance for a comeback after many years of being forgotten.

Good idea. I've always found it interesting to know the history behind these things. I was never a particular fan of Tom Petty until I heard him performing with the Wilburys.

Yeah, its always interesting to see the circumstances behind the music. "Quiet Nights" by Miles Davis is one that I became particularly interested in.  Davis didn't even want that album out for whatever reason, but Columbia made him release it.
 

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Reply #9 - Dec 8th, 2005 at 6:29am

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Aaah now Miles Davis is fantastic. I particularly love "Tribute to Jack Jonson" too "rock" for jazz purists and to "jazz" for rock purists, it's just full of fantastic music. I remember once seeing a quote from Miles Davis from before he went electric saying that if he were ever to put together a rock band he would blow the world away and boy did he ever.

Miles Davis is what got me into Jazz Fusion with bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck. 8)
 
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Reply #10 - Dec 8th, 2005 at 9:27am

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Miles is one of the greats.
 

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