Hard rock music

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Jung!

We’ve always loved the Who, Led Zep, Hendrix etc. so I wouldn’t say it’s a recent interest. Yes, we’re usually more drawn to melodic songwriting when it comes to our own music but we’re trying a lot of new things with this current album and there will be a mix of everything, including some heavier tracks.

Warm wishes right back at you!

[Jung Roe]

Thanks Mona!

That sounds so awesome about the diverse mix of stuff on the new album. I think you have the full musical spectrum covered from the sublime ballads to the heavy rock songs and everything in between, and you do it all superbly. The way you ended album orange going from your rockiest song to that point, Club 27, to your sweetest ballad, Still A Friend of Mine was brilliant and highlighted your diversity and wide range of emotions in your music, and it looks like will be a precursor for what’s to come. 🙂

All the very best
Jung

[Johnnypee Parker]

I picked up on that in the podcast, also, Jung. I was thinking the same thing, more songs like Club 27? Excellent!
Seeing Lisa and Mona on stage for numbers like For What It’s Worth shows that there are a couple of rockers waiting to let go. I am really, really, really looking forward to the new album.

Did you notice during Stuck In the middle, Mona sings with a slight American accent? or maybe it’s just me?

I’ve got Friday on my mind!

JP

[Jung Roe]

Hi JP. Oh yeah, I love their Cavern Performance of You Really Got Me too, Mona and Lisa are supreme rockers! Mona does the lead vocals on Stuck In the Middle like she grew up in Nashville, and Lisa’s honky tonk guitar work, they can do anything with the best of them in any genre. Yeah, looking forward to Friday indeed.

[Rick Ross]

hi Jung,

In a fairly recent interview, either Mona or Lisa replied to a question about the new Original album, saying something to the effect ” the first song on our new album, is a true rock and roll song in every sense”.

Like you I can’t wait for.the new material, and hearing those edgier tunes.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Rick! Wow that is great to hear, my curiosity is now going wild, “…a true rock and roll song in every sense” to kick off the new album! When Mona and Lisa let loose on an edgy rock song, it’s something else, and when it’s an original as we’ve experienced with Club 27 it’s out of this world. I really, really can’t wait! 🙂 Seeing Club 27 let loose soon is going to be absolutely awesome too!!! Lots of good times in store for us all!

[Jacki Hopper]

Count On Me to echo the same sentiments as Jung, Rick, etc, it’s gonna be frikkin fab cool to hear songs that have that kind of “Club 27 -ish essence to them, the edgier side of things to amplify full creative musicanship throttle ????✌

[Jung Roe]

Wow, I just heard this new awesome Paul McCartney release from a couple of days ago, and I liiiiike it. Ultra cool as Club 27. With MLTs Club 27, and some edgier rock songs in their new album, could rock and roll as we remember it with awesome guitar work be coming back! I vote a big yes.

https://youtu.be/XMmtw5yZNEY

This video, with Rock and Roll and surfing, was released June 20th, on Brian Wilson’s birthday, and 2 days after Paul’s birthday on the 18th on the heels of MLT Club 27 released June 16th on MLTs birthday. What a wonderful coincidence.

[David Herrick]

Great find, Jung! It’s so cool that Paul is close to 80 and still innovating.

[Jung Roe]

Hi David

Yeah Paul McCartney is impressive isn’t he. Looks like this song was conceived going back to 2016 before finally being recorded on his 2020 album, and new video released in June.

The riff from “Slidin’” came from the soundcheck jam at his Dusseldorf show in May 2016.

Slidin’ came from a soundcheck jam when we were playing in Dusseldorf in Germany. During soundchecks, when I’m checking my guitar, I like to try and make something up and the band will join in and the sound man then gets the sound of my guitar which I’m going to use later in the show. So I started jamming and this riff came out that I liked and so we developed that and I thought ‘I must do something with that’. I really liked it as a riff, it stayed in my brain, so we did and recorded it for ‘Egypt Station’ [his 2018 solo album] with my band but it didn’t work out, so I had it kind of half finished so I changed some things here and there and put lyrics on it and so it became this.

‘Slidin’ for me is… I would listen to the Olympics, the Winter Olympics and hear the announcers saying ‘sliding’, they kept saying the word ‘sliding’, when they meant Snowboarding or Skiing or Tobogganing anything with slides, I just thought that’s a great, nice name for all of those, a group name for all of that so I then started thinking of snowboarders and skiers and that became the song ‘Slidin’.

<cite>Paul McCartney, from NME, December 23, 2020</cite>

I guess because they decided to release the video in the summer they tied it to a surfing theme, but if it was the winter, I am sure it would have been on a skiing or snowboarding theme video.

[Jung Roe]

True rock songs, bring them on. These sound so good together. I’d say about the only two good songs released this year to the public so far, and wait until Janitor Joe hits. All paving the way for MLTs new album. Awesome timing.

https://youtu.be/hAaLlR7Wg10