ELO or ELP

Hi,

ELP, had some easy, fun things, but, in general they were more towards the composing side of music and its interpretation than it was about a pop song.

Not to take anything away from ELO, but in terms of music ability and design, they are "simplistic" as opposed to a lot of the materials that ELP did, which GL even stated that they were not easy stuff to play and often required a very hard level of concentration to do it right on stage. 

But there was one person in ELO that I think was excellent, and he was thrown out of the band, unless he left them ... Roy Wood ... by the time you put on "Eddie and the Falcons" and "Mustard" you will find not quite a madman but someone that is trying to express things musically in a very enthusiastic way that was not exactly a pop song, even if it was satirical in many ways ... and even Annie Haslam has stated many times that the guy was an amazing musician ... sadly for all the folks here, probably totally forgotten ... because ELO is more famous and gets all the accolades in the media ... after all they made millions for a few record companies ... and that is all they were .. a cash cow! Only thing missing is that one album cover with the poop coming out looking like gold!