j.w.Zwei Aspekte, die ich gerade rücken möchte: „Cloud 9“ wurde VOR der Wilbury-Aktion produziert und „Brainwashed“ muss sich dahinter nicht verstecken.
Aus dem Traveling Wilburys-Booklet ( Entstehung TW’s und unmittelbarer Zusammenhang mit ‚cloude 9′) by Mo Ostin (2007):
„the birth of the TW’s was a happy accident. Warner Bros. Records‘ Intern.
Department had asked that George Harrison come up with a B-side for „this love“, a single from his ‚cloude 9‘ album. At the time it was customary to
couple an A-Side with a never before-heard track, giving the single extra
sales value.
This was mid- 1988. ‚Cloude 9‘ was just out. George, along with cowriter
Jeff Lynne and their friends Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison, had been
hanging out in Dylan’s studio. I suppose George figured that as long as his
pals were on hand, why not use them to knack off this flippside ?
A couple of days later George came by my office to play the new B-side.
We went next door to A&R head Lenny Waronker’s office so he could here
it too. George played us „handle with care“. Our reaction was immediate.
This was a song we knew could ~not~ be wasted on some B-side. Roy
Orbison’s vocal was tremendous. I really loved the beautiful guitar figure
that George played. The guys had really nailed it. Lenny and I stumbled
over each other’s works, asking, „Can’t we somehow turn this into an
album?“. I also had a suspicion that perhaps George had been hungering
for another band experience.
We urged him on. George felt the spontaneity of it, felt his driving force. He
always had great instincts……..Once the idea of a full, collaborative album
was in front of us, George took over. The five frontman (Harrison, Lynne,
Petty, Dylan and Orbison) decided not to use their own names. George and
Jeff had been calling studio equipment (limiters,equalizers) „wilburys“. So
first they named their fivesome The Trembling Wilburys. Jeff suggested
„Traveling“ instead. Everyone agreed.
The group was born: five guys with star stature in their own rights ; but it
was George who created this Wilbury environment where five stars could
enjoy an ego-free collaboration. Everybody wrote, everybody produced –
and had a great fun doing so“.
Wenn das keine „glückliche+coole Entstehunggeschichte ‚based on CLOUD 9“
ist:sonne: ?:sonne: was vergleichbar dann ?
PS.: für mein Befinden enthielt George’s „brainwashed“ leider (aus bekanntlichen Gründen) nicht mehr die herrliche Dynamik v. „cloude 9“.
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