ELO Time- A Great Album..

In 1973, when my wife and I were basically still newlyweds we shared an old 2-story house with her brother, Spence, and his girlfriend. They partied a lot and people came and went at all hours. One night we were chillin' in the main room and Spence points to some guy smoking a bong with a group hanging around the back door and said, "That guy says he's with ELO."

And I said, "Member or roady?"

He said, "The singer, I think." Which is a stupid answer. So I watched the guy for a while and heard a British accent, and danged if he didn't look like Roy Wood. But we lived in a kind of small city called Roseville where very little was going on at the time. And I don't know if they performed in Sacramento that year, which is pretty close to Roseville and has a concert auditorium that was very well known back then (Alice Cooper performed there in '72 or '73).

So I'm gonna go look it up, but I think that guy was lying. But he sure looked like Wood, though.
 
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Murrmurr said:
In 1973, when my wife and I were basically still newlyweds we shared an old 2-story house with her brother, Spence, and his girlfriend. They partied a lot and people came and went at all hours. One night we were chillin' in the main room and Spence points to some guy smoking a bong with a group hanging around the back door and said, "That guy says he's with ELO."

And I said, "Member or roady?"

He said, "The singer, I think." Which is a stupid answer. So I watched the guy for a while and heard a British accent, and danged if he didn't look like Roy Wood. But we lived in a kind of small city called Roseville where very little was going on at the time. And I don't know if they performed in Sacramento that year, which is pretty close to Roseville and has a concert auditorium that was very well known back then (Alice Cooper performed there in '72 or '73).

So I'm gonna go look it up, but I think that guy was lying. But he sure looked like Wood, though.
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In the seventies singers and especially band members could get out and enjoy themselves in real situations.
Now, being stalked by social media it would be too dangerous or at the least inconvenient. They have to be disguised or in private parties.
I wouldn't want to be famous now for anything. Even if there were no paparazzi around everyone at the party would be on their phones pointing directly at you.

Sorry, off topic! I like 'Turn to Stone'.
 

hearlady said:
In the seventies singers and especially band members could get out and enjoy themselves in real situations.
Now, being stalked by social media it would be too dangerous or at the least inconvenient. They have to be disguised or in private parties.
I wouldn't want to be famous now for anything. Even if there were no paparazzi around everyone at the party would be on their phones pointing directly at you.

Sorry, off topic! I like 'Turn to Stone'.
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Most people were more chill about running into celebrities in public back then, too....most young people, anyway. A big chunk of my family lived in the Los Angeles area when celebs would show up at Venice Beach to work out, play badmitten and volleyball or surf, and people just treated them like other people on the beach.

Anyhoo, I looked up ELO - their first USA tour wasn't until 1989 or something, so that guy was probably not a member of ELO unless he could afford a flight to and from the USA just to hang out in a decrepit old flop-house with a bunch of Calif stoners and an out-of-place former farm-boy (me).
 
Murrmurr said:
Most people were more chill about running into celebrities in public back then, too....most young people, anyway. A big chunk of my family lived in the Los Angeles area when celebs would show up at Venice Beach to work out, play badmitten and volleyball or surf, and people just treated them like other people on the beach.

Anyhoo, I looked up ELO - their first USA tour wasn't until 1989 or something, so that guy was probably not a member of ELO unless he could afford a flight to and from the USA just to hang out in a decrepit old flop-house with a bunch of Calif stoners and an out-of-place former farm-boy (me).
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I saw ELO here in Phoenix in 1977 so maybe the information about tours isn't correct ?
 
MarkinPhx said:
I saw ELO here in Phoenix in 1977 so maybe the information about tours isn't correct ?
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Interesting. I only checked 2 sources (lazy). Maybe I didn't go far enough down the lists (again, lazy).

Still wouldn't put any of them in podunk Roseville, Calif in 1973, though. But maybe Roy Woods was scouting us out or whatever. If it was him, I know he at least got to smoke some fine weed.
 
Murrmurr said:
Interesting. I only checked 2 sources (lazy). Maybe I didn't go far enough down the lists (again, lazy).

Still wouldn't put any of them in podunk Roseville, Calif in 1973, though. But maybe Roy Woods was scouting us out or whatever. If it was him, I know he at least got to smoke some fine weed.
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Check out https://www.concertarchives.org/ . They were on tour in '73 in the states. Have to get going so I didn't check out the cities they toured.
 
MarkinPhx said:
Check out https://www.concertarchives.org/ . They were on tour in '73 in the states. Have to get going so I didn't check out the cities they toured.
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Ok, it is indeed possible I hung out with Roy Wood in li'l old Roseville in 1973. They played in Los Angeles that year, and in Sacramento (20 miles from Roseville) the following year. The Kinks did that Sac gig as well. I'll bet that was an awesome show.

In 1975, across the street from the second Roseville house I lived in was a head-shop. I saw Alice Cooper there. He was buying jewelry and skulls and other props for his concert in Sacramento that week. He had 3 guys with him; bodyguards, basically. One of them put his hand on my chest when I started walking over to Cooper, and Cooper said "Hey, it's okay," and the guy let me go talk to him for a bit....to Alice Cooper, that is.

He told me to come to his concert, but I didn't go. I worked and had a wife and 2 kids and had more important things to do with my money.
 
One thing that I know for sure is that Jeff Lynne is great and ELO has always been one of my favorites and that their music is timeless for me.
 

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