Traveling Wilburys: Classic Or Dud?

'Vol.3' is painstakingly dud.

loved the singles. favourite wilbury: harrison.

Bob Pollard
Bobby Gillespie
Steve Malkmus
Kevin Shields
Noel Gallagher

They were almost going to replace Orbison with Del Shannon but then he died too and they didn't get anyone else in for Vol3.

It really shouldn't be as good as it is and it's a whole load more light hearted and fun than these supergroup get togethers usually are. I suppose they were all of that age where they didn't have to prove anything to anyone and the way it came together was pretty informal I think. So, more classic than dud.

I'm so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care

Managed to distil what was so great about his career into about 15 seconds.

Lemmy
David Bowie
Grace Slick
Yngwie Malmsteen
Dave Gahan

I would pay GOOD money to see that.

I remember at the time it was described an an affectionate send-up of The Boss.

Vol. 3 sounds like the fun has gone out of it, very stale. There are a few decent songs, "If You Belonged To Me" is a highlight. But not one of them could replace a track on Vol. 1.

I have Vol. 1 on cassette!

if anyone else would have put out that record it would have been laughed to dipsville. but they were all so likeable, famous, whatever.

sorry, dud. dud. dud. dud. dud. another of bobs 80s crimes.

Favorite:
Orbison

Vol. 1 is still the best though. Can't wait for a re-release. I heard there was one coming up with Vol. 1+3+an included DVD

:D

Oh well, who cares

classic. Petty (Lefty?) is my favorite Wilbury. On my last tour with Jeff Lewis and Langhorne Slim, we all toyed with the idea of doing a version of "End of the Line" together at the end of the tour, but it never materialized.

Volume 1 >>>>>>>>>>> Volume 3. The latter is certainly passable.

Isn't Volume One, like, the biggest-selling out-of-print album of all time (aside from the Milli Vanilli one)?

Is this really true? That's an interesting piece of trivia!

Nu-nu-ILX Mk II has only been back for one day and my diction has already hit the bricks!

He once told USA Today that Dylan was the one who called and said "When are we doing another one of those?" before 'Volume 3.'

"Handle With Care" smokes at least eight-tenths of all Beatle solo stuff.

As for Volume 3, it's got some good tunes.

What's the latest on the Volume 1 reissue?

Bryan Ferry = Smoothie Wilbury
Andy Partridge = Unfunky Wilbury
Isaac Brock = Froggy Wilbury
Pharrell Williams = Neptune Wilbury
Lou Reed = Cranky Wilbury

Richard Butler (psychedelic furs)
Robert Smith
Morrissey
Ian McCullough
Siouxsie Sioux

Roy Orbison, the emo Wilbury

As a record clerk, I've broken many hearts by telling people the TW catalog is outta print, especially right after George Harrison's passing.

Frank Black
Jay Farrar
Dave Grohl
Lee Renaldo
Paul Westerberg

Boooo! hater!!!!

'you you ya you hoo woooo!'

I'm interested in knowing what the biggest selling out-of-print album of all time is too! I found this one on CD at my local library, so I just burned myself a copy. It's fun. I really like the version of "Handle With Care" that was done at the Concert for George.

Constructing a new Wilburys is more complicated than it seems. You need the following five types: Wistful Crooner (Oldest Generation), Contemplative Rocker (Middle Generation), Gravelly Poet (Middle Generation), Spacey Pop Producer (Young Generation), and Roots Rocker. Roots Rocker ideally needs to have copped at least 50% of his/her style from Gravelly Poet at some point in time, and despite Spacey Pop Producer's production, the overall feel has to be recognizably Roots Rock, enough to tame Gravelly Poet and make Wistful Crooner feel natural next to Contemplative Rocker.

Depending where you set the generation markers this can turn out a few different ways... also, it's going to be tricky to find a good selection of producer-performers to fill the Jeff Lynne role, methinks... Here's what I've got, with rough attention to the generation lines (fudging it, though):

Roots Rocker: Jack White
Contemplative Rocker: Melissa Etheridge
Spacey Pop Producer: Ric Ocasek
Gravelly Poet: Michael Stipe
Wistful Crooner: Chris Isaak

TELL me that wouldn't move a few million copies AND probably be the best thing any of them have been involved in ten years...

Roots rocker: Howe Gelb
Contemplative rocker: Ira Kaplan
Spacey pop producer: Dave Fridmann OR Pharrel
Gravelly poet: Mark E Smith (how could you resist?)
Wistful crooner: Jens Lekman

Really? I learned to tell them apart solo by listening to the Wilburys! "Heading for the Light," btw, is by George.

I don't think Fridmann works, just because AFAIK he's not a singer or a guitarist. You need five frontpersons to be the Wilburys. Pharrell is closer although I'm not sure how much he fits the "rootsy white blues mishmash" genre. Would LOVE to see him making his production meet in the middle with the rest, though. And I'm not really crazy about Ocasek in my lineup, so hey, why not.

Actually, might be interesting to consciously produce Wilbury combos for other genres. How would a New Wave Wilburys shake down? Bear in mind you're almost certainly stuck with Sting as the Gravelly Poet, so try to build the rest of the group to overcome his horrific pretentiousness, the way the original Wilburys got Dylan to do nice fun songs like "Congratulations." (Or is that Tom Petty?)

Er, quite the opposite, knowing George...

Just got the box. Nice package.

Competition among peers is often fruitful for all.

I take your point, but that's not really what went on here.

So is the business of pirated TWs discs suddenly over?

And Alfred made a good point way up there somewhere about the production. Love Jeff Lynne or hate him, but he reined in a lot of his behind-the-board mannerisms on these.

I remember how he coasted on the first album with that Armchair Weather thing, and carefully stuffed both Tom and George (I think) into the lead video.

price of the first record seems to have dropped to about $16 on amazon used, so, that cash cow is now over

I remember how he coasted on the first album with that Armchair Weather thing, and carefully stuffed both Tom and George (I think) into the lead video

I reviewed that album for Stylus' ELO feature. Not awful, but most of those songs are bedecked in paisley and curls.

It's funny. The boxed set booklet reproduces all the liner notes, including these from Volume 1:

Wilbury Record Company is a subdivision of the Trans Wilbury Corporation of Bulgaria

Beware! Pirated Compact Discs damage your equipment. Buy only genuine Wilbury Records Compact Discs

This makes me miss George more than anything else I've come across, I think.

Love Jeff Lynne or hate him, but he reined in a lot of his behind-the-board mannerisms on these.

Substitute "George Harrison," "Tom Petty," and "Bob Dylan" and it still works.

Bob Dylan has stylised production tics that he applies to his work on other peoples' records?

Did they do it all in a couple of takes? He usually makes that happen I think

ONE MORE WEEK

They've been playing "End of the Line" (is that the name?) in commercials for some movie called 'Knocked Up' lately. I predict a HUGE resurgence in interest in the band from the general public. And then the band, including Roy Orbison, will reunite.

IT'S OUT

Looking forward to getting this!

totally 90s version:

Roots Rocker: Darius Rucker
Contemplative Rocker: Liz Phair
Spacey Pop Producer: Trent Reznor
Gravelly Poet: Michael Stipe
Wistful Crooner: Eddie Vedder

...shit, that would be really terrible, and I like several of those people. Um..

Roots Rocker: Darius Rucker
Contemplative Rocker: Liz Phair
Spacey Pop Producer: Ben Folds...no wait, Damon Albarn...?
Gravelly Poet: Tom Waits
Wistful Crooner: Billy Corgan

Listened to Traveling WIlburys this morning. Or tried to. Couldn't get past the third track. God that shit sounds rough.

I've had the song "Last Night" from Vol. 1 stuck in my head today - which is weird since I haven't listened to the album in months.

Learned tonight that the Wilburys showed up on all the streaming services two days ago. That's a cool development.

Curious to find out what triggered it and why now.

Wonder if this is related to an event slightly less than 2 weeks from now

I posted about the stream and re-reissue a while back on The Bootleg Series thread, to shit reaction:

THE WILBURYS ARE COMING…
CONCORD BICYCLE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH THE TRAVELING WILBURYS TO REISSUE CATALOG
The Traveling Wilburys’ Music to Debut
on Streaming Services for First Time Ever

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Concord Bicycle Music is very pleased to announce that it has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with The Traveling Wilburys to represent the iconic band's entire catalog, including physical and digital reissues.
For the first time ever, the super group’s music will be available on streaming services, beginning June 3, 2016, along with the re-launch of the hugely successful Traveling Wilburys Collection box set as a limited-edition, uniquely numbered 2-CD 1-DVD box set, standard 2-CD 1-DVD package, deluxe 180-gram vinyl box and for the first time as high-resolution downloads. The release includes albums (Vol. 1 and Vol. 3), bonus tracks and a DVD featuring footage of the band from the first chord to the final mix.
When originally released in 2007, The Traveling Wilburys Collection debuted at #1 in the U.K. and six other countries and entered the U.S. charts at #9, making it the highest chart debut of a box set at the time, and has since been certified Gold.
The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 feature music's greatest singer-songwriters — George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan — as the legendary band the Traveling Wilburys.
The Wilburys formed in 1988 after Dylan, Harrison, Petty, Lynne and Orbison assembled at Dylan's Malibu, California studio to record a B-side for the Harrison single "This Is Love." The resulting song, "Handle With Care," was instead released under the Wilburys name, with the artists posing as a band of brothers. George later said, "I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for ages thinking, 'Well what can I do with this thing?' And the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album." The original album release, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, achieved great success; after hitting No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, the certified double Platinum album earned a GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, the group's second album, was released in 1990 and dedicated to Lefty (Roy Orbison) Wilbury, who passed away in late 1988 before recording could be completed. "She's My Baby" and "Wilbury Twist" became radio hits as the album reached #11 in the U.S. and was certified Platinum.
Scott Pascucci, CEO Concord Bicycle Music and Sig Sigworth, SVP Catalog Concord Bicycle Music said in a joint statement, "The global success of the Traveling Wilburys reissues in 2007 was one of our career highlights. So, we are very proud to bring the Wilburys' catalog to Concord Bicycle Music and work with these incredible songs and musicians a second time."
"…one of the few rock super groups actually deserving to be called either super or a group."
—Rolling Stone, Dec 1, 1988
# # #
The Traveling Wilburys
Website: travelingwilburys.com
Facebook: facebook.com/travelingwilburys
Instagram: instagram.com/officialwilbury
Twitter: twitter.com/officialwilbury
YouTube: youtube.com/user/TravelingWilburys

Cool.

am I reading it right that this PR is that bicycle company is doing a straight reissue of the 2007 reissue

I still haven't listened to the second disc or played the DVD of that

Still wondering about a live event. May involve just one member.

The behind the scenes doc featured on the dvd is on youtube, search "True History of the Traveling Wilbury's" only 25 mins long but some great footage of the lot of them having a grand ol time holed up in dave stewart's kitchen

It’s TW Saturday at the bar, “I knew it long before he ever became a Jersey girl…”

Make yr own Wilburys

https://www.monkeon.co.uk/the-time-traveling-wilburys/

This was entertaining.

looks like 1999 was a pretty good year for Wilburys.

I get this, but it changes every time you refresh

The Traveling Wilburys for the year 1999
Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode (37)
Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden (41)
Hazel O'Connor (45)
David Byrne from Talking Heads (47)
Laurie Anderson (52)

Yeah, I've tried it a few times, and it seemed like 1999 was more reliably interesting than some of the other lineups.

Laurie Anderson can be Shakey Wilson.

*Wilbury

1990 looks interesting, especially if they can resuscitate Eddie.

Cyndi Lauper (37)
Francis Rossi from Status Quo (41)
Bryan Ferry (45)
Roger Waters (47)
Eddie Cochran (52)