In fact, the backing vocals would almost always be recorded before the lead vocal, which was the last thing to go on." "When everything was overdubbed to the hilt and the tracks were completely full, then Jeff would say, 'Okay, I'll have a shot at it,' and start singing," Mack told Sound on Sound in 2013. After that, a massive post-production process got underway before Lynne finally filled in the lyrics. All backing tracks were laid down in a matter of days, once the group gathered for sessions in March and April 1979. The band's disco period was underway – and it started out with a bang. Then Lynne started trying something musically, a sound associated with contemporary acts like the Bee Gees rather than with the Beatles, ELO's most celebrated influence. ![]() I've gotten to the stage where I don't even enjoy recording anymore. I've tried doing more drum fills to liven it up, but when you put the orchestra and choir on top, it starts to sound a mess – so I have to keep it real simple. "In the studio, it's very restricting to work with this band. "I got bored with it too," he told the Dayton Daily News in 1979. At one point, he told Lynne, "Let's do away with the strings, let's do away with the choirs and let's just boogie out for a night."īevan was also itching to try a more straight-ahead sound. Discovery became the first ELO project without an orchestral component, marking the departures of Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale.ĮLO engineer Reinhold Mack played a key role in this shift. He started by trimming the lineup to a foursome also featuring drummer Bev Bevan, keyboardist Richard Tandy and bassist Kelly Groucutt. I got to feel trapped, and I didn’t have a clue as to what was going on. ![]() And it grew into this monstrous thing that I didn't want. Suddenly, the record companies and managers were clamoring for hits. And then, once I started having hits, it drifted from that. "In the beginning, ELO was supposed to be very avant-garde, very off the wall. ![]() "I just lost my way, totally," Jeff Lynne told Rolling Stone in 1990.
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