Photo by Neal Preston.
“‘If you try hard to do something, then often nothing happens,‘ said George. ‘At other times you twitch your face, and there’s the Wilbury. I’m a great believer in destiny, or some creative support that comes from a higher source - even though it’s only pop music.‘ […] For Harrison, the experience was a welcome return to basics, ‘because the Wilburys remind you of good old Carl Perkins tunes or Bob Dylan tunes. It’s like a pastiche, a montage of all the good bits you remember.‘ […] This, for him, was a way of hitting back at all he hates in Eighties pop, ‘which over the last ten years has got so computerized and so monotonous. I’m amazed that people don’t realize that they’ve heard the same drum sample on the last 59,000 records. People have got so far from the human element with their computers.‘ […] Now there’s the major question — will Harrison and the Wilburys actually go on tour?
He admitted that ‘I hate waking up in motels in Philadelphia, I’d rather be at home,‘ but as a fan of the other members of the band he’d love to see them perform… ‘so I’d be inclined to do something.‘ - The Guardian, November 5, 1988
“Live, I don’t know... Tom Petty says, ‘Well, I’m waitin’, soon as I see the big W in the sky, I’ll be there!’” - George Harrison, VOX, September 1992
“It’s kind of stupid what we didn’t do more. I used to say, ‘Just flash the big W in the sky like the bat signal, and we’ll all come.’ We just thought we had all the time in the world.” - Tom Petty, Men’s Journal, August 2014 (x)