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The 10 Biggest MonaLisa Moments?
10) Getting the 100 show Cavern Club residency.
9) The writing and recording of Still a Friend of Mine. One of the most beautiful friendship songs written in the last 30 years. Phenomenal melody, fantastic lyrics- great vocal performance- in my opinion their greatest song.
8) The writing and recording of The Wide, Wide Land. Here they wrote a song that may one day stand as the song that best hits the target concerning Alzheimer’s and they totally nailed the recording.
7) The California Dreaming recording session! The first record is amazing in its own right but they really hit their stride with this one. I know it’s only 3 songs but they are 3 remarkable songs.
6) The decision to put their first song on YouTube!! 30 million views later…
5) The two incredible CDs, When We’re Together and Orange!
4) The decision to drop out of school to do this full time. It was a a brave decision that has allowed them to produce the equivalent of 9 CDs (at 10 songs per CD). We owe all the videos (or at least many of them) to this decision.
3) The discovery that Michaela was an incredible asset- she could manage every element of the business from getting the music into the hands of buyers to public relations- from running the website to playing sax. The Twins have already had a longer career than the Lovin’ Spoonful. I’ve no doubt that if Michaela had managed the Spoonful, they would have hung around until the start of the disco era.
2) The discovery that their dad was an incredible asset- he could produce, engineer, play instruments, help write, do video, do a million and one technical things here at the Club, give support, make suggestions- and that was just before 3:00!
1) Two 14 year olds were given a drive with all The Beatles music on it- and that was the game changer. From that time on- they knew what they liked, they knew the direction they wanted their music to take and they became convinced that making music was their destiny. As indeed it is!
I’m sure I’ve missed a few or that somebody else has a better list! -
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A few more big MLT moments that come to mind are:
– The 2007 concert and first album release of that concert.
-Mona and Lisa 6 months student exchange to Australia to study this interesting long eared creature, make new friends, sing, and fine tune some English along the way.
-Trip to Liverpool for the first time busking in front of the Cavern and doing a couple of music videos. Black Bird and In My Life.
-(edited to add) Moved to Liverpool 2014.
-Concert tour across England with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.
-Abbey Road studio recording (a tick off their bucket list)
-Performing at Glastonbury Concert 2017 with Steve Harley (another tick off their bucket list)
-John Sebastian comes to Liverpool to spend a few days with MonaLisa Twins to record a song and appear in their video “Waiting for the Waiter”. (Orange album release already mentioned)
-Creation of MLT Club and release of BAM 2 and 3.
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Great job in finishing the list of big moments, Jung!! I’m not sure the 2007 concert, the Steve Harley tour or the John Sebastian experience can be left off. And of course, the creation of this Club has gotta go on the list!
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