A Musical Journey – Part 5 – JR Wilbury
So Part 5 of my Insomniacs Guide to YouTube.
OK, I got an idea for YouTubing from trawling through the Wikipedia article of the Travelling Wilburys & seeing a reference to ‘Ayrton Wilbury’, apparently a pseudonym for George Harrison’s son Dhani to honour F1 driver Ayrton Senna, a friend of George.
Although I confess to not being part of the Wilburys, I will take this opportunity to mark my respects to another great race driver, Jason Richards who died last week of cancer.
Anyway, one of my favourite songs, Travelling Wilburys – Handle With Care:
I can’t listen to that without listening to this. There is tragedy here too, with Roy Orbison passing before the video clip was made. I think his fellow band members off a fitting tribute in End of the Line:
Growing up it was certainly uncool to like people like Roy Orbison. I always knew who he was, but like the Beatles, he was old & a wore funny glasses. Heck, he even has a mullet & pony tail in this clip. I must have been the ripe old age of 17 or 18 when I realised how amazing his voice was.
This clip was filmed in late 1988, shortly before he died, although the song wasn’t released until 1989. He was due to fly to London to shoot Wilbury clips a few days after his death.
You Got It – Roy.
Sorry about the stupid ad, but that’s YouTube isn’t it.
The Travelling Wilburys was like the second coming of Roy Orbison. A few years later, thanks to the American Recordings series, Johnny Cash also a sort of re-birth musically. In the late 50s, they became famous together.
Here is Johnny with Ghostriders in the Sky. Again, apologies for the ad.
I think this one came up because they were both recorded at Montreux.
BB King was my key to discovering the blues. Yes, I watched (& loved) Rattle & Hum, so I knew who he was (“I don’t do chords”), but again, I must have been 17 before I actually listened.
I always think it’s funny when the song title contradicts the song, but The Thrill is Gone is a perfect example. Almost 15 years after I first heard it, the thrill is not gone:
Not much to say about this, but from BB King to Mark Knoffler & Eric Clapton, stick in Nels Cline & David Gilmour, & I’m pretty happy with that line up of guitarists I’m not as talented as. Dire Straits – Money for Nothing:
I saw this, & I wanted to bag it out. This was the song I used to listen to psyche myself up for under 12s cricket. 20 years later, I hear how poignant the song actually is. I wonder if the winds died down after the Iron Curtain & the Berlin Wall came down… Plus this is a bizarre version, with yet more ads. I think I’m prepared to say that it is a great song – Scorpions – Wind of Change:
