The Last Bass Outpost

The singer/guitarist of my former band is a huge fan of Jeff Lynne.

His new solo album is about to be released. This song has some obvious ELO influences

I'm repeating myself, but the more Jeff Lynne's music has an ELO-influenced sound, the better off it is, IMO. 

Agreed, but there is also a slight cheesiness factor in Lynne's ELO music that even Macca at his most popularity-craving doesn't have.

But he is an excellent craftsman.

Yes, that's true.  No one who says they listen to ELO a lot is going to be viewed as a hard rock person.  Also, although I like George Harrison, I would have preferred that he had collaborated with someone else other than Jeff Lynne.  Like on that "Cloud Nine" album, George Harrison seemed way too influenced by Jeff Lynne for me.  But George obviously thought highly of him.  To me Jeff Lynne did well especially with some of those early ELO songs when he was at the peak of his creativity.  That ELO music has always been criticized for being too cheesy of course.  Some of the harshest criticism was directed toward the "Xanadu" movie with so much ELO music in it.  Still, I think ELO got a bum rap.  Even the movie wasn't quite so bad as they make it out to be.  I've seen way worse movies.  Has anyone seen "The Pest" with John Leguizamo?  That's the worst movie in the history of the world. 

People are always making mistakes about Brazil.  The most common being that they think Spanish is spoken there instead of Portuguese.  I used to have some really good Brazilian friends and they would talk about all the misconceptions.  In this case, Brazil shouldn't have been mentioned at all.

That's the flip side of Ready For The Times To Get Better, which was Joe's 1980 cover of Crystal Gayle's 1978 hit.

Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You was co-written by Hugh Moffatt and his then-wife Pebe Sebert, who is the mother of the notorious Ke$ha, who has now dropped the dollar sign and is just Kesha. I noticed she was scheduled to be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Glad I missed it.

My familiarity with Kesha is pretty sketchy.  Usually when I see her name it has something to do with suing her producer for sexual assault.  But it isn't a case I've kept up with. 

Wait! What?
Spinal Tap wasn’t for real?
 

It was funny.    I wish they could come up with stuff like that more often, but I guess comedy isn't very easy. 

I think it was likely a comic aside.  Most of the movie is about stuff that wasn't even real anyway.