Discovery

Recording in Munich had brought Lynne together with the finest technology of the day, and he took full advantage of the resources available to him. What Lynne had not realized is that session musicians were not all the same. Up to this point Lynne had been using unionized British session musicians, who were notorious for stopping dead and putting away their instruments on the minute their paid session expired. Even if there was thirty seconds left to play, they'd have to agree to be booked for another three hour block--one example is at the end of Eldorado, you can hear the musicians stopping and putting away their instruments. This was common practice to 'almost but not quite' finish in the current session so the band would have to pay for another three-hour block, but Jeff liked the effect and dismissed the musicians expecting to be paid for another three hour session. This probably figured largely in Lynne's scheme to keep his own string section as part of the band all those years, thinking their attitude was universal. However, in recording Out Of The Blue, using German musicians for the first time, Lynne discovered a totally different atmosphere among the German session musicians: "Orchestras in Munich were totally different." Jeff recalls. " They'd all crowd into the control room and go, 'Wow, that's good! Let's try it again. Maybe we can make it better.' They'd be totally into it." After his experience in recording all of Out Of The Blue in Munich, leaving the De Lane Lea studios and difficult musicians behind, Lynne began to rethink both the band and the music. He ultimately decided to fold the string section, although they still toured together. Discovery would not be the stellar sensation of its predacessor, but still earned a Platinum sales award, with top-ten hits Shine A Little Love and the totally string-less Don't Bring Me Down, plus British top forty hits Confusion and Last Train To London. Lynne now recognized that he needed a identifiable hook or theme album, and produced both in 1981 wih the album Time, about a guy who finds himself a hundred and fourteen years in the future.


	Yours Truly, 2095 \| home Electric Light Orchestra \| Electric Light Orchestra II \| On The Third Day \| The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach \| Eldorado: A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra \| Face The Music \| A New World Record \| Out Of The Blue \| Discovery \| Xanadu [Movie Soundtrack] \| Time Discovery Recording in Munich had brought Lynne together with the finest technology of the day, and he took full advantage of the resources available to him. What Lynne had not realized is that session musicians were not all the same. Up to this point Lynne had been using unionized British session musicians, who were notorious for stopping dead and putting away their instruments on the minute their paid session expired. Even if there was thirty seconds left to play, they'd have to agree to be booked for another three hour block--one example is at the end of Eldorado, you can hear the musicians stopping and putting away their instruments. This was common practice to 'almost but not quite' finish in the current session so the band would have to pay for another three-hour block, but Jeff liked the effect and dismissed the musicians expecting to be paid for another three hour session. This probably figured largely in Lynne's scheme to keep his own string section as part of the band all those years, thinking their attitude was universal. However, in recording Out Of The Blue, using German musicians for the first time, Lynne discovered a totally different atmosphere among the German session musicians: "Orchestras in Munich were totally different." Jeff recalls. " They'd all crowd into the control room and go, 'Wow, that's good! Let's try it again. Maybe we can make it better.' They'd be totally into it." After his experience in recording all of Out Of The Blue in Munich, leaving the De Lane Lea studios and difficult musicians behind, Lynne began to rethink both the band and the music. He ultimately decided to fold the string section, although they still toured together. Discovery would not be the stellar sensation of its predacessor, but still earned a Platinum sales award, with top-ten hits Shine A Little Love and the totally string-less Don't Bring Me Down, plus British top forty hits Confusion and Last Train To London. Lynne now recognized that he needed a identifiable hook or theme album, and produced both in 1981 wih the album Time, about a guy who finds himself a hundred and fourteen years in the future. [BACK][HOME] PLAYLIST 1. Shine A Little Love 2. Confusion 3.Need Her Love 4. Diary of Horace Wimp 5. Last Train To London 6. Midnight Blue 7. On the Run 8. Wishing 9. Don't Bring Me Down ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Electric Light Orchestra Is: JEFF LYNNE: Lead vocals. backibng vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, piano and synthesizer BEV BEVAN: Drums, Roto Toms, percussion RICHARD TANDY: Grand Piano, all synthesizers, electric piano and clavinet KELLY GROUCUTT: Bass Guitar, vocals, backing vocals Strings arranged by Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy, and Louis Clark Orchestra conducted by Louis Clark Engineer: Mack Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, W Germany Album design: John Kehe The Albums...1971-1986 click on an album cover to see contents