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A documentary about The Traveling Wilburys is now available to watch online.

It's called "A True History of The Traveling Wilburys" and was posted on the band's YouTube channel last week in honor of the 30th anniversary of their second album, Vol. 3.

The doc was filmed back in the spring of 1988 while they were recording Vol. 1 in LA.

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“It real­ly had very lit­tle to do with com­bin­ing a bunch of famous peo­ple,” says Tom Pet­ty about the Trav­el­ing Wilburys. “It was a bunch of friends that just hap­pened to be real­ly good at mak­ing music.”

One of the most mod­est super­groups of the 20th cen­tu­ry, one that fate and chance threw togeth­er for a very brief peri­od, the Trav­el­ing Wilburys made music that sits out­side the usu­al his­to­ries of 1980s music, fea­tur­ing five men in dif­fer­ent states of their careers. Tom Pet­ty was about to have a come­back, George Har­ri­son had just had one, Jeff Lynne was no longer hav­ing chart hits as ELO, but he was shap­ing the sound of the late 1980s as a pro­duc­er, Roy Orbi­son was *about* to have a posthu­mous come­back, and Bob Dylan was…doing what­ev­er Dylan does—every album he put out in the ‘80s had an equal num­ber of detrac­tors and come­back claimants. Put it this way: the Trav­el­ing Wilburys didn’t feel like a nos­tal­gia act, and nei­ther did it feel like a mar­ket­ing idea. It was actu­al­ly light­ning in a bot­tle.

“It was George’s band,” Lynne says in the above mini doc­u­men­tary, but it wasn’t real­ly formed as one. It just sort of *evolved*.

As he explains ear­ly in the doc, Har­ri­son was hav­ing din­ner with Roy Orbi­son and Jeff Lynne and invit­ed them along to a stu­dio in Los Ange­les the next day. He had the han­ker­ing to make a tune, and they wound up using Bob Dylan’s home studio—the nor­mal­ly reclu­sive Dylan actu­al­ly picked up the phone on the first ring and gave the okay. And Harrison’s gui­tar was over at Tom Petty’s house, so he came along as well. The song they record­ed that day was “Han­dle with Care,” which fell togeth­er like mag­ic. (Dylan pro­vid­ed the title after look­ing over at a card­board box).

Har­ri­son sat on the song for a while, hav­ing no idea what to do with it. The only thing he could do, was to record nine more songs and call it an album. Which, once they had found time in everybody’s sched­ule, they did. The songs were record­ed at the home stu­dio of Dave Stew­art (of the Eury­th­mics) and final­ized back in Lon­don with Har­ri­son and Lynne. The group gave them­selves the assign­ment of one song writ­ten and record­ed per day. That the record isn’t a mish-mash of jam­ming, left­over ideas, and cov­ers, and instead has a legit­i­mate amount of clas­sic sin­gles and career-high­light moments is a tes­ta­ment to the friend­ship between the five (and drum­mer Jim Kelt­ner, who knew them all).

Friends indeed, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t also big fans of each oth­er. What’s cool to watch in the doc is how in awe they all seem: George is amazed by Bob’s cryp­tic scrawled lyrics and his abil­i­ty to nail a song on essen­tial­ly the first take. Tom Pet­ty is in awe of George’s demo­c­ra­t­ic ways with choos­ing who gets to sing one of the songs, regard­less of who wrote it—really, how do you fol­low Roy Orbison’s ver­sion of a song? But Tom Pet­ty still had a go.

The album main­tains that friend­ly vibe in the record­ing: micro­phones were mobile to catch music wher­ev­er it hap­pened. Jim Kelt­ner played rhythm on the inside of the kitchen’s refrig­er­a­tor. Songs were writ­ten in the kitchen. And after the work was done, the music would con­tin­ue. “A lot of ukule­les till dawn,” says Har­ri­son.

Roy Orbi­son only made it into the first music video off of the album, “Han­dle With Care.” He passed away just after the album went plat­inum in 1988, and appears as an emp­ty rock­ing chair on the next video, “The End of the Line.”

The four remain­ing Wilburys would reunite for one more album (jok­ing­ly titled Vol­ume 3 by prankster Har­ri­son), but the first album still sounds time­less, five friends just hav­ing a good time togeth­er.

The True His­to­ry Of The Trav­el­ing Wilburys will be added to our col­lec­tion of Free Doc­u­men­taries , a sub­set of our col­lec­tion, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas­sics, Indies, Noir, West­erns, Doc­u­men­taries & More .

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I’d argue that Orbi­son made his come­back just as he was about to die, and died at his sec­ond-peak. Remem­ber, his songs were just fea­tured in mul­ti­ple David Lynch films, he had that wild­ly-pop­u­lar Black & White Con­cert, where he was backed by oth­er super­stars, and his song “You Got It” and his album, “Mys­tery Girl”, were at the top-of-the-charts when he sud­den­ly ascend­ed into Rock & Roll Heav­en. Good for Roy, he was a nation­al-trea­sure!

Hi, good arti­cle over all but you got a major fact wrong about Roy Orbi­son and his involve­ment in the first Wilbury album. He was fea­tured on almost every sin­gle track on the album and well as a stand alone song, above and being the tit­u­lar Han­dle With Care. His pres­ence was huge, and I don’t know how you couldn’t know that unless you haven’t actu­al­ly lis­tened to the record you’re talk­ing about. Very strange.

I caught that too. But what do I know, I’m an old rock and roll ani­mal with one foot in the grave. I record­ed this doc on DVD from the Sun­dance chan­nel decades ago. Still have it and coin­ci­den­tal­ly just watched it again.

For myself, this group of incred­i­ble guys will always be a part of my music world. All of them leg­ends, and sad­ly 3 are gone. When TW was active­ly record­ing and tour­ing, I was not famil­iar with them. I’m embar­rassed about that, although I was always lis­ten­ing to all of them indi­vid­u­al­ly. I just was not aware of the group itself. I love the music now and will always!

They didn’t say that Orbi­son wasn’t involved with every track on the album. Only that he was in one music video. Which is absolute­ly true.

Orig­i­nal writer here: yes, that was an unfor­tu­nate typo on my part, writ­ing “song” instead of “music video”. I was Run­ning Scared from the inter­net com­ments at first, and was Cry­ing over it , but now we’ve fixed the error. I apol­o­gize and ask for [Pret­ty Woman riff} Mer­cy!!!

I’m not an IT guy. Where can I watch the doc­u­men­tary of the Wilburys?

If you read the artical,it said he only made it into the first Music Video off the first album

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Released on October 29 th  1990, ‘Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3’ turns 30 today! In celebration, we are sharing the documentary, ‘A True History of The Traveling Wilburys’, on the band’s official YouTube channel. The Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary.

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Spring, 1988: George Harrison asks Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to spend a day in the studio at Bob Dylan's L.A. house. The result is "Handle With Care." He liked the process so much that the five of them, plus Jim Keltner, spend a week in May at Dave Stewart's house, where they write and record a song a day to produce an album. We watch the creative process: group efforts ("Dirty World" is a found poem) and individual ones (Dylan's lyrics for "Congratulations'). Petty calls them "a bunch of friends who happened to be really good at making music." The album, released in October, goes platinum. The rock video for "End of the Line" is a eulogy for Orbison (1936-1988).

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Spring, 1988: George Harrison asks Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to spend a day in the studio at Bob Dylan's L.A. house. The result is "Handle With Care." He liked the process so mu... Read all Spring, 1988: George Harrison asks Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to spend a day in the studio at Bob Dylan's L.A. house. The result is "Handle With Care." He liked the process so much that the five of them, plus Jim Keltner, spend a week in May at Dave Stewart's house, w... Read all Spring, 1988: George Harrison asks Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to spend a day in the studio at Bob Dylan's L.A. house. The result is "Handle With Care." He liked the process so much that the five of them, plus Jim Keltner, spend a week in May at Dave Stewart's house, where they write and record a song a day to produce an album. We watch the creative process... Read all

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‘The True History of The Traveling Wilburys’ was filmed in the spring of 1988 whilst the band were recording ‘Vol. 1’ in Los Angeles, and includes footage shot by Nelson Wilbury.

In trying to explain how the Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, “The thing about the Wilburys for me is—if we’d tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let’s form this band and get these people in it—it would never happen, it’s impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really.”

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Directed by Willy Smax

Spring, 1988: George Harrison asks Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to spend a day in the studio at Bob Dylan's L.A. house. The result is "Handle With Care." He liked the process so much that the five of them, plus Jim Keltner, spend a week in May at Dave Stewart's house, where they write and record a song a day to produce an album. We watch the creative process: group efforts ("Dirty World" is a found poem) and individual ones (Dylan's lyrics for "Congratulations'). Petty calls them "a bunch of friends who happened to be really good at making music." The album, released in October, goes platinum. The rock video for "End of the Line" is a eulogy for Orbison (1936-1988).

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(AND GEORGE... MY MANS... HE DESERVED ALL OF THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE)

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Breaking: Real Footage of Elusive Bob Dylan Sighting. Watched with Ima and Monga.

Review by SergeGainsbourg

They were fucking.

Review by dymoure ★★★★★

I wonder if these guys shared what shampoo/conditioner they use.

More like The Chillax & Hang Out At Home Wilburys.

Review by sam

I'm constantly amazed by how Tom Petty talking sounds exactly like Tom Petty singing.

Review by Sebastian ★★★★½ 1

Basically magic to see these guys just hanging out in a house wearing like T-shirts. Any movie with the chapter title “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” gets a 4.5 minimum in my book. Realized when they started talking about Orbison being dead that George and Petty were too now which wasn’t quite as joyful as seeing the five of them squeezed into a kitchen and sitting in a circle all playing guitars. I’m a Dylan fan first and foremost and I’m pleased to report that, though he has easily the least screentime and dialogue of any of the band members, we do get to see him in a sleeveless shirt.

Review by ☮︎ ashley ☮︎

“iNfiNiTy wAr iS tHe mOsT aMbiToUs cRosSovEr oF aLl TiMe”

the traveling wilburys would like to know your location.

Review by emma

the traveling wilburys radiate dad in a hawaiian shirt energy and i mean that as a compliment

Review by Evan ★★★★★

I wonder what cereal they ate in the mornings before recording

Roy seemed like a porridge guy Tom definitely loved cornflakes Jeff is a cheerios man  Bob devours lucky charms ( he’s embarrassed about it) George probably liked frosted flakes

Review by Joseph D’Andrea

There’s an unbelievably hysterical part in this when Jeff is telling a story about the recording of “Dirty World” (the best song on the album), about how whenever Roy would say the “Trembling Wilbury” line, they would all crack up, and the documentary shows footage of it—George, Tom, and Jeff all collapse in laughter, and stone-faced Bob just turns around to walk out of the booth. The most mysterious man to ever live.

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A Fascinating Documentary About How and Why George Harrison Formed The Traveling Wilburys

• January 26, 2022

In 1988, director Willy Smax made a documentary about The Traveling Wilburys, specifically showcasing how George Harrison put together an incredible group of such talented musicians, seemingly to meet a musical obligation. But it turned out to be so much more.

It appears that Warner Brothers had asked Harrison for a B-side to his song “This Is Love” . In order to satisfy this request, Harrison, who was in Los Angeles at the time, put together a new band. The band, which consisted of Harrison, Jeff Lynne , Bob Dylan , Tom Petty, Jim Keltner, and Roy Orbison , had come together at Dylan’s studio to record “Handle With Care” .

This was mid-1988. Cloud Nine was just out. George, along with cowriter Jeff Lynne and their friends Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison, had been hanging out in Dylan’s studio. I suppose George figured that as long as his pals were on hand, why not use them to knock off this flipside?

The group later came back together to record an album. Among the songs recorded were “End of the Line” , “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” , “Last Night” and “Inside Out” . Rather than the one song requested by the record company, Harrison and the band produced two popular albums. Sadly, Roy Orbison passed away after the release of the first album. The band paid tribute to Orbison in the video for “End of the Line”.

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The Traveling Wilburys Collection

THE TRAVELING WILBURYS COLLECTION

Track Listing:

Disc One – Vol.1:

• Handle With Care (3.20)
• Dirty World (3.30)
• Rattled (3.00)
• Last Night (3.48)
• Not Alone Anymore (3.24)
• Congratulations (3.30)
• Heading For The Light (3.37)
• Margarita (3.15)
• Tweeter And The Monkey Man (5.30)
• End Of The Line (3.30)
• Maxine (2.49)
• Like a Ship (3:30)

Disc Two – DVD:

• The True History of the Traveling Wilburys documentary (24 minutes)
• Handle With Care (video)
• End of the Line (video)
• She's My Baby (video)
• Inside Out (video)
• Wilbury Twist (video)

Disc Three – vol.3:

• She's My Baby (3.14)
• Inside Out (3.36)
• If You Belonged To Me (3.13)
• Devil's Been Busy (3.18)
• 7 Deadly Sins (3.18)
• Poor House (3.17)
• Cool Dry Place (3.37)
• New Blue Moon (3.21)
• You Took My Breath Away (3.18)
• Wilbury Twist (2.56)
• Nobody's Child (3.28)
• Runaway (2.30)

Album Info: Nearly twenty years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys is reissued in this collection. The previously released albums  Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 and Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 feature inarguably some of music’s greatest singer-songwriters – George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan – as the iconic band The Traveling Wilburys.

Both CDs are combined on this 2-CD/1-DVD release and feature bonus tracks of rare and newly mixed unreleased music. The all-region DVD contains historic footage documenting the first chord to the final mix, and their five video clips. Digipack also includes a 16-page booklet.

Vol. 1 Musicians: Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals: Lucky Wilbury Keyboards, Guitars, Lead & Backing Vocals: Otis Wilbury Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals: Charlie T. Jnr. Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals: Lefty Wilbury Guitars, Lead & Backing Vocals: Nelson Wilbury Drums: Jim Keltner Saxophones: Jim Horn Percussion: Ray Cooper Tom Toms on “Handle With Care”: Ian Wallace Guitar Solo & Backing Vocals on “Maxine”: Ayrton Wilbury Guitar Solo on “Like A Ship”: Otis Wilbury Additional Backing Vocals on “Like A Ship”: Otis and Ayrton Wilbury

Vol. 3 Musicians: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Mandolins, Sitar, Lead & Backing Vocals: Spike Wilbury Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals: Muddy Wilbury Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Leading & Backing Vocals: Clayton Wilbury Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Lead & Backing Vocals: Boo Wilbury Drums & Percussion: Jim Keltner Percussion: Ray Cooper Saxophones: Jim Horn Lead Guitar on “She’s My Baby”: Gary Moore Clavioline Solo on “Runaway”: Clayton Wilbury

Collection Produced by: Otis Wilbury / Clayton Wilbury

Collection Artwork/Photo credits: Vol. 1: Original Art Direction by David Costa for Wherefore Art? Vol. 1: Sleeve Photgraphy by Neal Preston, Gered Mankowitz & Chris Smith Vol. 3: Original Art Direction and Design by David Costa and Nicky Hames for Wherefore Art? Vol. 3: Sleeve Photography by Caroline Greyshock Vol. 3: Wilbury Twist Photography by Julian Hawkins Collection Design by Drew Lorimer and Olivia Harrison

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The Traveling Wilburys were a British-American super group consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums, the first in 1988 and the second in 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded. The project's work received much anticipation given the diverse nature of the singer-songwriters. Their debut album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 proved an enduring critical success, in 1989 and 1990 winning accolades such as a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.

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