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Wall of Fame
Hello Mona and Lisa, and all the members of the Club.
I come back from among “the dead” (since I had interrupted my subscription for 6 months) on this day of All Saints with a question to ask you.
If you had a wall where you could place three photos as a “Hall of Fame”. Who would you put on the wall? Here below is mine.
Best regards
Angelo
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Hi Angelo and welcome back!
Taste can be such a fluid thing so we generally don’t really rank things in our minds too much, especially music, but I can tell you what vinyl I have framed up on my wall right now (they happen to be four).
Revolver by the Beatles, Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies, Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan and Universal Soldier by Donovan.If you had to narrow it down to three individual people it would probably be John, Paul, Georgeandringo 😉
I hope you’ve been keeping well in these strange times! See you around!
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Hello Mona, thank you for your kind answer.
I could have almost guess it thanks to your excellent “what’s on the table” and “our musical influences part 1 & 2” but I had posted the question on the first of November, so I asked the question in the context of Halloween and the “All saints day” on time to remember the dead and to pay homage to them. Fortunately, everyone you mentioned are still very much alive, apart from the late John Lennon and Georges Harrison. But then, the Zombies is a very good answer in this context. Although the founding members being almost all alive the band died in 1968. Fortunately just after recording Odessey and Oracle and moreover the band was indeed inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Here is an interesting remark discovered on wikipedia “In 1967, frustrated by their continuing lack of success, the Zombies signed a recording contract with CBS Records for whom they recorded the album Odessey and Oracle at EMI’s world-famous Abbey Road studios. (Odyssey was accidentally misspelled by Terry Quirk, an art teacher who designed the cover). [17] The band’s budget did not stretch to session musicians, so they used a Mellotron to fill out their arrangements. According to Argent, they used John Lennon’s Mellotron, which had been left in the studio after the Beatles’ sessions for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. ”
Stay safe and take careAngelo
Angelo
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Welcome back Angelo! Glad you made it back.
My hall of fame would be:
The Rock & Roll Heroes – MonaLisaTwins (In one picture frame)
The Maestro – Ludwig Van Beethoven
60s Legend and Survivor – Brian Wilson
The violinist – Albert Einstein. BTW they say he has quite the knack for math and physics too.
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Hi Jung,
I’m never far from MLTs. We say in French “to love one day, to love always …”
Brian Wilson…, interesting. If I attended a lot of Jazz concerts, from a Pop-Rock point of view, I only attended (on site, in life), only three big concerts in my life, The MonaLisaTwins & Mike Massé, Santana and The Beach Boys – Concert – Knokke, Belgium – 07/21/1987 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrn-K805ww)
If you take a good look in the crowd, you can probably see me, next to my windsurf board wearing a fuchsia t-shirt … so long ago!
Take care.
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I have my top fave:
1. MLT
2.Glass Tiger
3. Cass Elliot
4. Denny Doherty
5. Patsy Cline
6. Vince Gill
7. Billie Holiday
8. Amy Winehouse
9. Marla Gibbs
10. Beatles
Of course, numerous more I could list but for space and courtesy sake, I’ve narrowed it to 10…..
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Hi Angelo. If there was only 2 concerts on my bucket list to see, it would be the MLT first and foremost and the Beach Boys. I’ve seen the Beach Boys so far, and well you’ve done them both. Lucky guy! Thanks for sharing that concert, I will be looking sharply for a guy in a fuschia T-shirt; can you tell me at what point in the video, you appear. 🙂 Wow, 1987, I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.
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Hi Jung,
Well to see me, you would need really sharp eyes (I can’t see myself) because I was in the crowd about fifty meters from the stage. (Behind Mike Love when interviewed). I don’t like being in the front, stuck in a tight crowd.
On the other hand for the MLTs, the concert was in the Epstein theater with seats and when after a few songs, I saw that there was one left in the front row right in front of them, I quickly ran, during a musical pause to seat in this place. But there too I can’t be seen on the videos and that’s quite fine. But to tell the truth, if I was very happy +++ to meet them, from a concert point of view, we are almost in the same situation because we both saw a real Beach Boys concert and my little advantage is to have seen a Mike Massé concert accompanied by our stars. But that’s not really a MLT concert. So I’m like you, I’m waiting and hoping that someday … it happens.
Let’s keep the faith in the future.
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Hi Angelo. Yes indeed, let’s keep the faith, and one day we will see a full MLT concert, and hopefully meet them back stage! 🙂 I enjoyed that Beach Boys concert, thanks for the link. I’m afraid the definition on my computer is not sharp enough to make out individuals in the crowd well, but did see a few people in what looked to be a fuschia shirt, so I probably saw you. BTW, Steve McQueen is my favourite old actor. Bullit, Great Escape etc….
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