ELO? yay or nay?

As with most entertainment things, I am going to look at this through the lens of film, surprise, surprise being in a film forum... AND, I can't believe no one has mentioned THE scene which ends one of the best films of the 1990's with ELO's "Livin' Thing." You know the one.

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Oh and as such that's a huge yaay for me. Just for that alone.

I don't think ELO II was associated with Jeff Lynne, though, was it? I think that's why the current/last iteration is purposely called "Jeff Lynne's ELO."

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Well, you COULD mean Cruella, but I'm guessing you mean that OTHER movie.

Yay!!! I always liked them but I like them more now. I was into Renaissance and The Beatles in my teens. That and disco took all my attention. Over the years, I have revisited the great Seventies groups I wasn’t paying attention to back then.

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I guess I'll highjack this thread to document our concert going experience last Saturday evening. A while back, Kelly noted that ELO was about to start their farewell tour. She "claims" this is her favorite band and just had to go. Having no idea wtf 'Ello is, I hesitantly agreed to go. She came by the office the night the tickets were available. If I remember correctly, she had a code to gain presale access. After scouring the seating options, she decided to go with the Mr. Blue Sky VIP package. We were lucky enough to find seats on the floor in Row J. Not far at all from the stage. So the tickets were ordered and I later completely forgot about it.

Three days before, I remembered that I still needed to find a hotel! Yikes. I lucked up there and found a spot at the Omni, neighboring and physically connected to the hosting State Farm Arena. We drove up the day before the show to have a free Saturday to ourselves. Curious, I looked up local events for the Friday before and found David Brighton's Space Oddity - A David Bowie Tribute band performing in Duluth, about 40 minutes north of our hotel. Hells yeah.

I won't waste ELO thread space with Bowie fandom, but if you get an opportunity to go to one of his shows, please do. He nailed it. Back to the point here, ELO was great. Seats were great. The VIP experience was great. We met a handful of really cool people at our table before the show and made a few Facebook friends in the process.






















So, uh, Yay?

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Surely you've heard many of their hits over the years, though, yes, @ynwtf? Great pictures, and I'll try not to be envious of your VIP experience. (I save my VIP dollars for "Weird Al" concerts these days.) Glad you got to see Jeff Lynne on his final tour!

Yes, I totally recognized several songs. Not sure I've heard the "Electric Light Orchestra" name except in mostly forgotten childhood conversations.

The show was awesome btw.

Right? Not bad for a 76-year-old dude!

Another true ELO story: I was first introduced to "Hold On Tight" via some car commercial that used the song.
I liked what little I'd heard of it on the commercial so I looked the commercial & song up on the Internet to find that it was a song by ELO.
Now, I already knew of the band since I actually had one of their albums on 8-track cassette when I was a kid (it wasn't mine, but like a lot of other music, I probably "inherited" it from my older brothers - i.e. found it laying in a box somewhere).
I just didn't know that they performed this particular song. So, I sallied forth, and purchased whichever ELO album (CD) had that song on it, and the rest is history.

"WHO is the MASTAH?!?

Another true (ELO-related) story:
For years I thought actor Michael Beck, star of Xanadu (1980) and The Warriors (1979) was singer Andy Gibb (for some reason).

Probably because they were similar looking, and they both teamed up with Olivia Newton John at some point.

Michael Beck


Andy Gibb

Being a fan of ELO, Olivia Newton John, Gene Kelly and the film Xanadu, I owned the movie on DVD and VHS, the 33rpm vinyl of the soundtrack, the 45rpm of Suddenly, the 45rpm of I'm Alive and the CD of the soundtrack.

I still get the urge to watch the film.

I think it is also a favorite of @Holden Pike ... yes?