“From Out of Nowhere,” the new album from Jeff Lynne’s ELO, doesn’t quite live up to its name; fans have had a few years now to get used to the idea of Lynne again being an active recording and tou…
” covers Lynne operating as a DIY one-man show on record and with a large live ensemble that doesn’t include any castmates from ELO’s ‘70s/‘80s heyday. But as much as he loves maintaining his DIY credentials in the studio, he’s clearly also relishing being part of, well, at least a semi-orchestra on stage again. Variety spoke with him before Friday’s release of the new album.
Basically, at the time, I had me doubts about it, totally. I couldn’t see ever doing a tour with that lineup, as well. It just wasn’t the right lineup. But now we’ve got a 13-piece band that really sounds like the records of ELO. We can actually cover any song that I’ve ever done with this amount of people, with three keyboards, two cellos, violin, four guitars, bass, drums, percussion, backing vocals; everything’s covered.
No, not really. It was actually before we went on the last tour, so that last tour was one more time, in that case. It’s just the fact that I actually started to enjoy playing live because of sound being so good, because of the in-ear monitors, which I can now hear me-self perfectly well through. I used to use those big floor monitors, like a wedge on the front of the stage, and you could never hear yourself in those things.
Thank you. Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I felt like I wanted to play a bit of guitar, because I hadn’t done it much. And once I got involved with all them strings and stuff like that, I sort of forgot about the guitar a little bit. Now I’m really back into the guitar much more than I was before. So I think you’ll hear bits of guitar that are either uplifting or weird. I like weird stuff, and I like uplifting stuff. I like stuff that moves you.
Yeah, we had a guest solo of Richard, which I really enjoyed. But I do like playing all the things me-self. I really enjoy playing drums, bass, guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, piano. That’s me favorite thing, filling the machine up with all the bits that I’ve thought of, and then see how we think of it then.
Not really. I don’t think so. Only because I like the band so much that we’ve got. To me, to have all those great members of the band not playing and just me doing it on me own just seems — live, I’m speaking of now —like you can’t get the atmosphere, really, without the rest of the band. For me, you need to see ‘em all doing their stuff. It just makes the atmosphere better, I believe, because they’re all really great musicians and all rocking out.
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