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Day Tripper
As you’ve all probably seen on social media, MLT Day Tripper video just surpassed the 1 million views mark, as many others already have and a couple more are about to. MLT videos new and old are accelerating in views, exponential growth of the good kind is the new trend for MLT, well deserved!
Day Tripper is a Beatles song well known for having one of the coolest guitar riffs throughout, and Mona and Lisa perform this one just brilliantly. Some other brilliant covers MLT did with some of the most awesome guitar sounds are While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Hotel California, Wish You Were Here, and Tired of Waiting for You among many others. What are some of your favourite MLT covers with great guitar sounds?
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Of their originals, I love the guitar treatment throughout in the acoustic version of Sweet Lorraine. That rhythmic guitar riff at the start is hypnotic and love the howling guitar riff towards the end. The MLT magic of 2 voices and 2 guitars in all it’s glory.
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All of their stuff, bar none…just can’t choose…Equally All??
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I just love how versatile you guys are. You can go from beautiful ballads and folk songs to rock in a couple of clicks. This is one of those rockers.  Your vocals are really far out here and it’s kool when you jam out at the end of the song.
I love when you did that at the end of For What it’s Worth. Seeing how much fun you are having adds so much to the song, and what a great way to show off a little. Mona is bouncing all over the stage while Lisa goes into her serious guitar solo face. Awesome! MLT Rocks!! The serious face fits the solo. I love your slide work here, there and on Waiting for the Waiter
On a more serious note, I know playing the same lick through an entire song can be quite the workout, both mentally and physically. You make it look easy, and more than that we can see how much fun you are having. Your band mates look as though they are having the time of their lives, also.
Mark Twain once said  ‘Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ That ain’t work man, that’s Rock & Roll
Now I feel compelled to go watch For What it’s worth. Stop children what’s that sound?
I found out
JP
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Jung, I agree with you about Lorraine. That riff is very hypnotic. I can’t wait to see the Duo Session.
Hear the children’s choir singing….
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JP, yeah For What It’s Worth is awesome indeed!
Great guitar work! Love the way Mona and Lisa jam out on this at the Cavern. I agree, their versatility in the music and what they can do is really amazing and makes them so special, from Both Sides Now to For What It’s Worth, they are so natural with them. Just like the Beatles! It translates into their originals too. On Orange when I first heard it, I was impressed the they way they ended that album going from Club 27 with those superb hard rock and roll guitar licks to the heart string pulling ballad Still A Friend of Mine with a grand piano.  Very few can be this diverse and be so incredibly good.
And thanks for that brilliant quote: ‘Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ Just what I need to hear right now as I go through some changes! 🙂
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To everything mentioned so far, I’ll add “Johnny B. Goode”, “This Boy is Mine”, “Paint it Black”, “Revolution”, and “The Last Time”. Like “Day Tripper”, “The Last Time” really tests Lisa’s endurance and this is a live performance where you might expect mistakes. I didn’t catch any. On “Johnny B. Goode”, there’s a look she gives after the intro (13 seconds in) that reads: “That was so easy, I can’t believe I used to think it was hard”. Of course, they both make everything they play look easy.
I’ve been watching the view count on “Wish You Were Here” for the last few days. It’s been getting 2000 views per day, which will put it a 1M by the end of September if that pace continues. That’s six months. “Day Tripper” took six years. Let’s share it with everyone we know.
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Hi Lynn. Like your descriptive observations. Yes Mona and Lisa both make it look so easy, but there is so much mastery that goes into their playing indeed. Love watching them play on stage.
Their Wish You Were There is so moving to watch starting off with such emotional guitar sounds, and then the vocals come in and they take you yet to another level with that song. It deserves multi million views in short order:
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here. -
I like watching Mona and Lisa rocking out on stage with their guitars on this one too.
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Everytime I play this song, gotta sing along and do my air drumming/guitaring….just have to…I do better at airplaying than I would to do it for real at…lol…. #AirplayingMusicalGal ???
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