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| From | R+K Sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: ELO fans -- ponder this |
| Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:59:48 -0700 |
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Showdown is on The Third Day. I fell out of my chair when that came out. I couldn't
believe they did such a rip off! In 1973 or 4 Tom Donahue interviewed Lennon on
KSAN. During the course of the interview, Sean, Tom's son played a segue of Out Of
The Blue and something from Eldorado. I want to say I Can't Get It Out Of My Head.
Afterwards John said that was a great call, how they fit together.
Look What You Dun by Slade is a very good Plastic Ono cop....Just been listening to
Miss X by MC5, and it owes more than a little to Plastic Ono Band.
I wish they'd release all those early ELO albums with out the orchestra interludes
and just give us the naked songs. I was a big fan, but it was a little over done. A
song like Oh No Not Susan does not need that little introduction. It's a pain to
cue up those songs to play on the radio the way I want to hear them!
rs
mike vancha wrote:
> on 6/8/04 7:44 PM, Tim Cain at timgcain@insightbb.com wrote:
>
> > I was listening to a tape of a radio interview with John Lennon from the early
> > 70s, and he was talking about Electric Light Orchestra and how much he liked
> > them. He said he thought United Artists dropped the ball on pushing
> > "Showdown," which he thought was a No. 1. He then described it as a cross
> > between "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Lightning Strikes."
> >
> > Just as I was thinking, "What's he talking about?" the DJ played "Showdown,"
> > and I coudn't stop laughing -- Lennon's got it exactly right. I've listened to
> > it so many times, and I can't believe I never heard it before.
> >
>
> What album is "showdown" on?
>
> Mike V.
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