Aimee Wilbury
09-28-2007, 05:03 PM
There are lots of reasons. What do YOU think happened?
From Wikipedia:
Some possible reasons for the skip from Vol. 1 to Vol. 3 include the fact that some consider Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever as Vol. 2 (Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, and Roy Orbison perform on the album), a nod to the many bootlegs titled "Volume 2" containing early studio mixes/alternative takes, to honor the death of Roy Orbison by not releasing the project started with Orbison, or as a simple joke. Harrison once claimed in an MTV interview that the band had written material for a Vol. 2, but the material was stolen before completion.
Also, from the Wikipedia article for Volume 3:
Another possibility relates to the fictitious musical Wilbury family created by these two albums. Both albums used art work stylized to look old. They also both use different names for the band members. This creates an aura of age and the missing Vol. 2 can be seen as a recording, by a different Wilbury band, that did not survive the passage of time.
From Wikipedia:
Some possible reasons for the skip from Vol. 1 to Vol. 3 include the fact that some consider Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever as Vol. 2 (Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, and Roy Orbison perform on the album), a nod to the many bootlegs titled "Volume 2" containing early studio mixes/alternative takes, to honor the death of Roy Orbison by not releasing the project started with Orbison, or as a simple joke. Harrison once claimed in an MTV interview that the band had written material for a Vol. 2, but the material was stolen before completion.
Also, from the Wikipedia article for Volume 3:
Another possibility relates to the fictitious musical Wilbury family created by these two albums. Both albums used art work stylized to look old. They also both use different names for the band members. This creates an aura of age and the missing Vol. 2 can be seen as a recording, by a different Wilbury band, that did not survive the passage of time.