Dang, y’all, goddamn Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra is (finally) playin’ the Pacific Northwest!!! If you have any musical taste in genius pop music, I’ll assume YOU ALREADY HAVE TICKETS. But if you need context, ELO was a huge, like massive, Top 40 band in the 1970s and early ’80s. ELO started with Lynne, once a principal member of psych-pop group the Idle Race, when he partnered with Roy Wood and Bev Bevan from the Move and took their side project of basically using only cellos and violins to craft an orchestral progressive pop album and rode it to stardom. (See: “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Living Thing.”) by Mike Nipper