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While The Traveling Wilburys<\/a> were ultimately torn apart after just two albums when they realised they couldn\u2019t carry on following the death of Roy Orbison, it would have been a shame to never hear the songs that the band created together in a live context again.<\/p>\n Of course, there was no reason why the other four members couldn\u2019t continue performing the songs they were part of; it\u2019s just that they weren\u2019t prepared to do them as a fraction of the ensemble that they\u2019d formed together. Orbison himself probably wouldn\u2019t have minded whether they had chosen to carry on beyond the release of the ironically-named\u00a0Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, but almost as a mark of respect, they chose to put an end to proceedings and disband following their 1991 album.<\/a><\/p>\n Besides, all of the remaining members were incredibly busy and in-demand artists in their own right, so it does make sense that they\u2019d knock it on the head in the absence of their departed friend<\/a>. There were always going to be opportunities for them to collaborate again, but doing it under the Wilburys name wasn\u2019t going to be feasible without the \u2018Big O\u2019.<\/p>\n However, given none of the members were spring chickens when the supergroup formed, death was always going to be an inevitable obstacle to overcome, and while Orbison\u2019s passing came first in 1989, much earlier than any others, time was not necessarily on the side of the remaining foursome.<\/p>\n Since then, two more members in George Harrison and Tom Petty have passed away<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean that Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan couldn\u2019t still pay tribute to the work they made together. However, Lynne has expressed certain stipulations about venturing into that territory, and in a 2019 interview with Record Collector, he said he\u2019d only be tempted to touch certain songs by the band under a very specific condition.<\/p>\n During the interview, Lynne was asked about his decision to continue playing songs that had been written by the three deceased members, and the Harrison-penned \u2018Handle With Care\u2019 was brought up as a significant example of one song that was still in rotation, although he argued that it only really worked when he had help from one particular person.<\/p>\n \u201cI enjoy playing it,\u201d Lynne confessed. \u201cOn our last American tour we had Dhani Harrison singing it, as he was supporting us. It\u2019s his dad\u2019s song, so we encouraged him, and it always went down well because it was a true Harrison voice singing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n However, while having the offspring of one of the members singing a Wilburys song might not be exactly the same, he said that it was the closest he\u2019d ever be able to get to performing it authentically again. \u201c[It\u2019s] in the genes,\u201d he continued, referring to Dhani\u2019s ability to sing like his father<\/a>. \u201cHe can sound the spitting image of George, when he sings. He doesn\u2019t normally copy him, but he can when it\u2019s appropriate, when we\u2019re doing that one.\u201d<\/p>\n The loss of a close collaborator and friend in Harrison would undoubtedly have been hard for Lynne to take, but to perform one of his greatest songs that he was also a part of alongside a direct descendant of his old pal must have been an emotional occasion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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