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Most people would consider themselves lucky to have any other band with the same star power as the Traveling Wilburys<\/a>. <\/p>\n The thought of that many legends in one band would have been unthinkable, but I suppose that when George Harrison has an idea for something, he would move the Earth if it meant getting what he needed. But as much as people loved to listen to their music, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty had a different perspective, being the new kids of the group in the beginning.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like each of them didn\u2019t have experience in the limelight. Petty had become the go-to face of heartland rock with the Heartbreakers, and even though Lynne hadn\u2019t been working with ELO for some time, his second career as one of the greatest producers in the world had already made him a star outside of the spaceships and large cellos scattered throughout the stage. <\/p>\n So being asked to join Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison in a group would have been a dream come true for all of them. And listening to their first record, you can hear that excitement coming out of the speakers half the time. No one in the group had an ego about them, and they were more than happy to make the best music they could among friends and hand off any song to whoever they felt could deliver it the best. When Orbison passed away, though, there was bound to be something missing from their next record.<\/p>\n The record is far from terrible, but Lynne said that no one really needed to hear a version of the Wilburys without Orbison, saying<\/a>, \u201cWe did a second album after Roy died, but I could have done without it. Roy was just too big a part of the original group.\u201d It\u2019s not like that is exactly an unfair assessment. Orbison was the heart of the band in many ways, but that doesn\u2019t mean there weren\u2019t some great tunes on the record, either.<\/p>\n In fact, the record feels a lot closer to a garage rock album than anything any of the members had done. \u2018Wilbury Twist\u2019 was a decent enough romp through a traditional blues tune, and while Dylan\u2019s voice is far more dominant than before, they do a great job at working around his shortcomings on tunes like \u2018Inside Out\u2019 and \u2018New Blue Moon\u2019. <\/p>\n