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The period from 1987 to about 1991 was an incredibly productive time from Jeff Lynne. It was during this time the several home videos were recorded by various poeple, including Tom Petty, George Harrison, Mike Campbell and probably other unidentified individuals. These videos were of a personal nature, catching several incredibly rare and unique moments in the creative process, including mostly moments during the recording of the Traveling Wilburys albums, Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl, Del Shannon's Walk Away, Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever and more. In addition, there is a lot of home recordings (some of it may be professionally done) for the mid-1990s Beatles sessions and Paul McCartney's Flaming Pie sessions.

These are sometimes referred to as the "garage recordings." This is a slight misnomer, but the name is often used to identify all known home video recordings from the period. The term arises because many of the recordings were taken from the recording of the Full Moon Fever (and other) songs that were recorded in Mike Campbell's garage during the late 1980s. However, the home videos cover several different locations and recordings, including various artist's homes and recording studios.

Although these are personal recordings, some of the material has been released over the years on various documentaries and TV specials, but only a small subset of the material has ever been offically released. Some of the footage certainly contains some rather private material, including children and spouses (and a very young Dhani Harrison), personal home locations and more. So only some of it has ever appeared officially. The first known appearance of this footage was on the Tom Petty: Going Home documentary in 1993, however, over the years more bits and pieces have appeared.

There was extensive footage filmed during the recording of the Traveling Wilburys' second album, Vol. 3, but only a tiny bit has been used in the The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys documentary. A full 36-minute recording showing several private moments has been bootlegged. It shows much of the band relaxing and chatting, but highlights include Jim Keltner's drum microphone testing, listening to selected tracks from Jeff's Armchair Theatre album, listening to working versions of Like A Ship and 7 Deadly Sins, bits of the album photoshoot, and the band reviewing images from the photoshoot.

Much of the material features song performances while in development. Thus, the songs are early working versions or individual instruments or vocals that will differ from the final versions. Sadly, because of the way this footage is used in documentaries, the original audio of the video is replaced with artists voiceovers (obscuring the musical audio) or replaced with the studio recording altogether. Efforts have been made below to identify where and when these rare musical performances can actually be heard.

A detailed analysis of the 2012 Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO documentary, including all the home video bits used, can be found HERE. This documentary also features footage in Jeff Lynne's home, produced in the 2000s, but that is professional film, not home video, so it is not included here.

The footage was all filmed on home video cameras in the late 1980s to mid 1990s. At the time, all home cameras filmed with a 4:3 aspect ratio, which was standard for television broadcasts at the time. However with the move of televisions to the 16:9 aspect ratio by the early 2000s, this presented a problem for documentary makers that wanted to use this 4:3 ratio footage in the 16:9 ratio format. The solution has been to add black bars to the sides of the 16:9 images, thus preserving the original footage; or to crop the top and/or bottom of the footage, to fit the 16:9 ratio, thus losing information. Sadly, two of the greatest sources for this rare footage, the 2012 Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO and the 2007 The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys documentaries, chose to crop the images.

Recording Roy Orbison's You Got It
Description: There are brief recordings of You Got It featuring Roy, Jeff, George and Tom. Particularly, there are several sections of the group recording guitars, backing vocals or lead vocals around the microphone, as well as some bits of Jeff, alone, recording the piano.
Images	Tom Petty: Going Home In Dreams Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down A Dream	Images	In Dreams Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO
	Per the bits of the group and Roy recording You Got It: Tom Petty: Going Home and Runnin' Down A Dream have nearly exactly the same footage. This includes a sequence of Roy, Jeff, Tom and an unidentified person sitting in a semicircle playing guitars all with a Tom Petty voiceover of meeting Roy and writing You Got It. This segues to footage of Roy, Jeff, Tom and two unidentified persons providing some handclaps to the song around the microphone, followed by Jeff, Roy and Tom only singing backing vocals (two different bits connected), then ending with Roy on the microphone alone singing lead (and obviously not final!) vocals. Although these two documentaries have the exact same footage (and Tom's voiceover), there are very small differences. The Runnin' Down A Dream documentary features a short bit of Tom and Jeff walking to a room before hand (possibly from the Traveling Wilburys Volume One home video material) that cuts off some of the home video footage while You Got It and Tom's voiceover play; and the Tom Petty: Going Home documentary features a much longer bit of Roy at the microphone at the end that is cut short in the Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down A Dream documentary. In Dreams feature a very short bit of George, Roy, Jeff, and Tom sitting around in a semicircle playing guitars, with voiceover by Jeff and not the home video audio. Rare Music: A mix of the recording of Jeff, Tom and Roy strumming guitars; handclaps and cymbals; backing vocals; and an alternate of Roy's lead vocals on the chorus.		Per the bits of Jeff playing the piano for You Got It: In Dreams compared to Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO, the latter features a much earlier start of the footage of Jeff playing the piano for You Got It. On the descending riff part of the song, both In Dreams and Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO have the same footage, but Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO cuts out after the descending riff while In Dreams continues and includes Jeff mugging for the camera while he plays. Thus, combining footage from both documentaries, a more complete segment is available. Rare Music: Jeff plays piano over the recording of You Got It, with the piano higher the mix.

Recording Roy Orbison's California Blue
Description: Roy is in the studio recording the song.
Images	Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO
	A very short segment of the end of the song is heard. This ending would feature later on the studio demo version of California Blue that appeared on the 2014 remaster and expanded edition of Mystery Girl. Rare Music: Roy sings alternate take of the ending of California Blue.

Recording Del Shannon's Rock On!
Description: Del is in the studio recording Walk Away with Jeff, Tom Petty, Benmont Tench and Howie Epstein including lead vocals, backing vocals and thigh slaps. Other footage inlcudes segments of the recordings of I Go To Pieces, When I Had You, What Kind Of Fool, Callin' Out My Name and I Got You (The Bird's Song).
Images	UNKNOWN Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO
	There exists among fan circles, some home video footage of the recording of tracks for Rock On!. This footage, from a completely unknown source, does appear to be professionally prepared as it contains segments that are transitioned from scene to scene and some including titles. The footage is: (1) simple acoustic guitars for Walk Away while showing footage of each person featured (Del, Jeff, Tom Petty, Benmont Tench, and Howie Epstein); Jeff, Tom and Tom discussing backing vocals and joking about handclaps and a bongo, which, after discussion, evolves into thigh slaps; (3) playing of the final track while the trio record their their thigh slaps and ends with Jeff joking around and doing ass slaps instead; (4) footage and recording of keyboard parts by Benmont Tench for I Go To Pieces; (5) playing of the final I Go To Pieces tracks while various shots are shown on the drummer drumming, Del talking to a child in the studio, Benmont at the piano; (6) Jeff, Tom and Del standing around the microphone having a discussion about plectrums; (7) Del at the piano playing guitar and singing When I Had You [the first half is the live performance and second half is the final studio track dubbed over]; (8) the recording of backing vocals for What Kind Of Fool by Howie and Del with intercuts of a child, a drummer, and recording of acoustic guitars intercut; (9) Del recording lead vocals for Callin' Out My Name which fades into the studio recording and several intercut images of Del, Tom and Jeff around the studio; (10) Del recording lead vocals for I Got You (The Bird's Song) from various angles intercut with Jeff and Tom recording acouistic guitars and a shot of the three of them around the microphone [but not singing], and ending with Jeff and Del at the microphone recording backing vocals. The 2012 Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO documentary contains only a small portion of this, showing Jeff joking about handclaps and bongos for the recording of Walk Away only. Rare Music: This is a set of strummed guitars for I Got You. Rare Music: This is a playback of an early mix of I Go To Pieces with Benmont Tench recording his keyboard parts, before the song blends into a playback of the final mix. Rare Music: This is a raw recording, guitar and vocals only, of When I Had You, which blends into playback of the final mix. Rare Music: This sounds very close to the final version, but perhaps an early mix. The backing vocals sometimes sound very strong in the mix, so it could be from a session recording the backing vocals to over the mix. Rare Music: This is more of the strummed guitars for I Got You only, which blends into playback of the final mix.

Recording Full Moon Fever
Description: Various shots of Jeff, Tom and others in Mike Campbell's garage recording songs for Full Moon Fever, including some shots of the motorbikes.
Images	Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO
	There is a short segment of Tom trying out some vocal excercises and Jeff walking in and saying he can try that out on whatever they are recording. The tail end of the segment has a voiceover by Tom. Also there is a short bit of Jeff and Tom playing acoustic guitars together, but there is a voiceover of Tom so it is impossible to know what they are playing. Finally, a very short bit of Jeff, Tom and two unknown people in the garage, watching an individual set up equipment.

Creating the Traveling Wilburys' First Album
Description: Home videos of the band at Dave Stewart's home while recording the album, the Traveling Wilburys photo shoot, and additional work at Friar Park.
Whatever Wilbury Wilbury The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys George Harrison: Living In The Material World Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones Top 2000: The Untold Stories Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO
Special note about Whatever Wilbury Wilbury: This was an 8 minute promo film, apparently created by George Harrison himself, to present at the Warner Brothers Records convention in 1988, to promote the Traveling Wilburys project. It includes many, many clips from throughout the recording of the album, all mixed up, intercut, and often lasting mere seconds only. The clips are too numerous and jumbled to break down here.
Arriving and hanging out Description: This includes various shots of the band members driving up to the house and being greeted by the others. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones Top 2000: The Untold Stories Various shots of the group arriving at Dave Stewart's house, ready to record are seen, including (but not limited to) Bob in a van, Tom in his car, then standing around, a POV shot of driving to the house, Jeff and George in the driveway and waiting, Roy and another person admiring his motorcycle. For the The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys documentary, there is a George voiceover, describing getting everyone together to record the album. The prior is a the start of the film; near the end of the film is a shot of Jeff and George standing around waiting when Jeff tries to redirect the cameraman's attention by pointing dramatically at the sky, followed by a shot of a waving Traveling Wilburys flag. The Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones documentary includes select shots from this, including a Tom Petty driving up, a POV shot of driving up to the house, and a bit of Jeff and George standing in the driveway, while Roy singing Not Alone Any More plays over it. The Top 2000: The Untold Stories program shows a short clip of Jeff and George standing together in the driveway. The photoshoot Description: Various shots of the band milling about on the porch and posing for the promotional photoshoot. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Top 2000: The Untold Stories Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones Top 2000: The Untold Stories Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain Various shots of the band with Neal Preston, getting ready for the promotional photo shoot, intercut with archive interview footage and interviews with George Harrison about the forming of the band. Also seen are the band arriving at the porch and examining various guitars they will be using for the photoshoot. The prior stuff is at the start of the film; the end of the film includes a short clip of Bob, Tom and Jeff comically switching positions to get ready for the camera. The Top 2000: The Untold Stories program showns a very, very short clip of the group posing for a photograph. The Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones documentary includes select shots from this, including Roy, Jeff and George sitting on the porch looking at guitars to be used for the photos. The Top 2000: The Untold Stories program shows Jeff and Tom on the porch examining guitars, which Jeff gives a voiceover. The Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain shows various clips of Tom and Jeff examining guitars on the porch. Also included are various shots of studio equipment, Jeff at the recording desk, Jeff and George hanging about. [The latter is likely not from the photoshoot, but are otherwise unidentified.] Recording of Last Night Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Then, after a label of "Day 1" is shown, the band is seen strumming the chords for Last Night while voiceovers of George and Roy are heard; this footage seems to be mix of various bits of variable band members strumming guitars or in the control room while voiceovers by Tom and George are feature, and it is likely that much of the footage seem is not of the band strumming Last Night. Then the band is seen working out the lyrics to Last Night (with suggestions such as "long and tall" or "short and fat"), then more guitar strumming (particularly by Jeff). Shortly after more interview segments, Tom is showing recording the lead vocals for Last Night (and flubbing the lyrics), then the full band is shown recording, while a voiceover by Tom. The Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones documentary includes select shots from this, including Roy, Tom and Bob sitting in a row playing the guitars of the song, then a segment of the group sitting around working out the lyrics, and a very short segment of the group around the microphone preparing to record vocals. Throughout, there are voiceovers by Jeff talking about the project. The Top 2000: The Untold Stories program sees the group (Bob, Roy and Tom) strumming guitars for Last Night, then sitting around working out the lyrics (includes the "short and fat" line). The Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain program features several short shots, including Orbison, Petty and Dylan strumming guitars (slowed down, so it appears they are strumming Congratulations which is played over it), the group around the microphone singing the chorus (with voiceover by Tom), and the group in the living room writing lyrics (includes the "short and fat" line). Rare Music: This is a long section of guitar strumming for the verses. Rare Music: This is a short bit of Tom recording part of a chorus to a tape playback. Rare Music: This is a longer segment of Tom recording vocals to a tape playback, where he messes up on a bridge line. Recording of Tweeter And The Monkey Man Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys The exterior of the house is shown, followed by the band inside strumming guitars for Tweeter And The Monkey Man. George Harrison voices over the writing and recording of the song, intercut with images of loading the cassette recorder and Bob recording the lead vocal. This cuts two four of the Wilburys (minus Roy) around the microphone recording the song's chorus. Rare Music: This is the band strumming guitars for the song, followed by Bob recording part of a vocal take. Rare Music: This is Bob recording some of his vocals to a tape playback, with the end blended into the final mix. Recording of Rattled Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Whatever Wilbury Wilbury Another exterior shot of the house followed by Jim Keltner playing the refrigerator shelves for Rattled. Jeff Lynne provides a voice over about recording the song while various shots of Jim playing the refidgerator, Tom Petty taking photos, Olivia Harrison looking into the refrigerator. As the song continues, George Harrison provides a voice over while a Chinese lantern is lit in the kitchen and flies away, then more footage of Jim at the refrigerator, and the band sitting in a circle strumming guitars and the band around a microphone singing. Finally, there is one more shot of the band around the microphone, while Jeff provides a voice over about the song. Recording of Dirty World Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys George Harrison: Living In The Material World For Dirty World there is another quick shot of the house exterior, followed by various quick shots of the band around a room, working out Dirty World lyrics with voiceovers by George and Jeff about the song. Finally, they are all standing around a microphone getting ready to sing. They are then shown singing the song's ending lines, alternating lyrics and cracking up at Roy's "trembling wilbury." The band arrives another day, sitting around the porch and talking, with Roy recalling the constant "Trembling Wilbury" goof from the previous day. On George Harrison: Living In The Material World, the uninterrupted (no voiceover) of the group around the microphone singing the ending lines is shown, however, it cuts just before Roy's "trembling Wilbury" line; it also shows an otherwise unseen bit of the group around the microphone talking about the lines and George questions an unused "clothes that stretch" line. The Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain program features the group on the porch, laughing about trying to record the closing of Dirty World and the "trembling wilbury" line always coming back to Roy. Rare Music: This is an alternate recording of the cyclical ending of nonsense "she loves you" items, ending with Roy singing the "trembling Wilbury" line. Roy's line is actually dubbed in from the final version of the song. This version is interrupted by voiceovers. Rare Music: Rare Music: This is an alternate recording of the cyclical ending of nonsense "she loves you" items, just before Roy's "trembling Wilbury" line. This version is not interrupted by voiceovers. Recording of Margarita Description: Bob Dylan singing and working out the bridge of the song. Images George Harrison: Living In The Material World This is a short segment where Bob Dylan stands alone at the microphone singing his portion of the song by reading off a notepad. The performance abruptly stops and he discusses the vocals with the others, off camera and unseen. Rare Music: This has early, raw acoustic guitars while Bob sings some working lyrics. Ghost Riders In The Sky and hanging out Description: In the kitchen performing and on the porch admiring guitars Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys George Harrison: Living In The Material World The group (minus Roy) is then shown in the kitchen singing Ghost Riders In The Sky, which a voiceover from Tom talking about the fun of the recording sessions. Then there is footage of Tom and Jeff on the porch, admiring some new electric guitars while there is are voiceovers by Tom and Jeff about the recording sessions. Jeff talking about the recording process. For George Harrison: Living In The Material World, an uninterrupted (no voiceover) performance of a full chorus of Ghost Riders In The Sky is shown, and a very brief clip of George in the kitchen (not seen elsewhere) is seen while Tom Petty give a voiceover. For the Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones documentary, a very short portion of the group in the kitchen performing Ghost Riders In The Sky is shown, but the audio played is a voiceover from Jeff. The Top 2000: The Untold Stories program shows this kitchen scene briefly, but the music is indiscernible due to a voiceover by Jeff Lynne. [Further, there are more quick shots of Jeff and the others at a mixing console and around the microphone, but it is so brief and with voiceover by Jeff, it's nearly impossible to identify.] The Mr. Bue Sky documentary shows this kitchen scene briefly, but the music is also indiscernible due to a voiceover by Tom. Further, this also shows a brief clip that was a different angle from over George's shoulder that is not seen elsewhere. Rare Music: This is the band singing the end of a chorus, a full verse, and more choruses. Recording of Not Alone Any More Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys In this segment, someone is seen at the engineering desk getting tapes ready, then Roy at the microphone getting ready to record Not Alone Any More while Jeff voiceover about. Roy, Jeff and Tom are seen sitting around playing and admiring guitars while Tom voices over about Roy's playing. Roy is then seen at the microphone recording a verse and chorus for Not Alone Any More. Footage is shown of Jeff walking into the studio and setting up the board while he provides voiceover of how he broke in to record a new set of chords for Not Alone Any More and the others sitting around as if admiring his work. (Note, this may be a rare bit of Jeff acting because if he snuck in to do the work, how was it able to filmed? Perhaps he reenacted the events for the camera). Then more of Roy at the microphone singing the song's end (while studio recording plays) and other's admiring what he did afterwards. There is also a clip of George, Jeff, Tom and Roy around a hanging microphone examining and touching it, but it's unsure where this fits in the songs as no song audio is played. For the Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones documentary, only a short bit of this is shown, including Roy at the microphone singing the chorus line, as well as Jeff, George and Roy standing outside working out lyrics (with Jeff having a pad and pencil in his hand). [Note: Does the latter really belong here?] The Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO documentary shows the bit with Roy at the microphone singing the chorus line (not the actual audio is heard, but a disc play of the album version). In addition, some scenes of Jeff and various people at the mixing desk are shown, as well as other brief shots of Roy in the recording booth waiting to record, all while Tom Petty provices a voiceover. Rare Music: This is the raw guitar of the song, with Roy singing a verse, chorus and another verse over it. Recording of Congratulations Description: In various rooms writing and recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys The group sitting around playing guitars and recording the backing for Congratulations while voiceover by George of the recording of the song. Then intercut footage of the group together recording backing vocals, Bob alone recording the lead, and the guys in at the recordings desk, while Goerge voices over how they had to hurry to record the song. This cuts to various footage of recording the guitars and the backing vocals, along with miscellaneous shots of the house and people walking around, with a voiceover of Jeff about having Roy and Bob in his group, then Roy having to leave on tour. In a separate segment near the end of the documentary, more footage is shown of the band recording the chorus for Congratulations is shown, but dubbed in is the final recording. The dubbed in part continues, while the footage shows them finishing the recording and walking away. The Legends: Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' In Britain program features a scene of the group around the microphone singing backing vocals, then later, around the microphone laughing. Rare Music: This is simple strummed guitars for the song, blended at the end with the final recording. Taking the tapes to England Description: The journey of taking the tapes on the plane from Los Angeles to England. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys While the Heading For The Light song playes, there are shots of a the journey that George and Jeff take from Los Angeles to England. Shots are shots of a limousine leaving for the airport, packing of luggage and tapes, while Jeff walks through the airport, then George and Jeff on the plane heading back to England, all while voiceover of Jeff talking about leaving to England and to work on the songs there. At George's Friar Park studio in England, shots are shown of George, Jeff, Tom and Roy recording and listening to Jim Horn's saxophone parts. Recording of End Of The Line Description: In England recording the song. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys There are short shots of Jeff playing piano and George playing guitar for End Of The Line. Rare Music: This is a short bit of an imcomplete version of the song. Filming End Of The Line music video and Milk Cow Blues Description: This is footage of the band recording the End Of The Line video, including the band in the trailers waiting and a bit of waiting on the set, when they play a quick Milk Cow Blues jam session. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys A short bit of the End Of The Line video is shown while Jeff talks about the video (on The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys), then behind the scenes video of the End Of The Line photo shoot while Tom voices over about the fun of recording it, with Tom leaving a trailer, a bit of the group playing about in a winnebago and later jamming to Milk Cow Blues while waiting. Rare Music: This is an impromptu performance of the song. Filming Handle With Care video Description: The band is shown preparing and relaxing during the shooting of the music video. Images The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Various clips from the Handle With Care video are shown, including actual music video segments and some private video, behind-the-scenes bits, all while Tom and George voiceover about the band.