Sweet smell of success

Always loved the Travelling Wilburys. Love the video of Handle with Care. Great vocals from the Big O. One moment of magic is near the end when George Harrison sings the line:- "Sweet smell of success" and Roy Orbison, coming into view in the background, has a great smile that for me "says it all", whatever "all" might be.

Not enigmatic at all. Just a simple smile as two friends share a sense of reality. The limits of "success". Not enigmatic but clear and unambiguous. Both have known "success" and know how pointless a life striving for it can be. Roy can smile. Both can smile. Beautiful moment.

Dylan of course is in his own world yet somehow part of everyone elses.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

Dylan does have that look when he glances up. "You still here?"

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@Mamapolo2016 Hi there, here's another video, "End of the Line." You must have seen it. Dylan in more expansive mood, I think he even cracks a smile! Then the rocking chair, empty apart from a guitar, in love of the Big O who had reached the end of his line. Perhaps not. Heartbreaking yet beautiful.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

@SW-User I just watched that (again) last evening!

Although there's no comparing musical quality, music is, in the end, communication, and the Wilburys remind me of uncounted evenings on somebody's porch, when someone called out "The fiddle's here!" as an old man crawled out of his pickup truck, waving, and joined the guitars, a dobro, a harmonica, all manned by their human friends, talking to each other. Then the harmonizing voices, the crickets in the fields, the peepers and bullfrogs by the creek, rose in celebration.