Guest Daniel Smith
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Hmm. I’m feeling left out here. I guess they don’t love me. 🙁
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Well, it wasn’t rock and roll, LOL. The first record purchase of mine was the album Ramblin’ Rose by Nat King Cole, c. 1962. I really didn’t get into Rock and Roll as my primary choice of music until the Beatles’ first Ed Sullivan show in 1964. The first 45 I remember buying was Baby Workout by Jackie Wilson, at about the same time.
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Never mind. I’ve figured out a way around the problem.
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It’s been done before: Rock and Roll Heaven by the Righteous Brothers.
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I won’t list their covers, as for the most part Lisa is simply mimicking the original recording, WITH ONE EXCEPTION.
5. That exception is Morning Has Broken. Whether one has heard this tune in church or is familiar with the Cat Stevens version, the lead instrument is piano. Lisa does a great job of transposing the piano part to the guitar.
4. One More Time. Sort of reminiscent of Some Other Guy by the Beatles, but with cooler riffs than what George played.
3. I’m in it for Love. Very bluesy sounding, or possibly jazz. I wonder which guitar she used of the record. I would think it was something like a Gibson ES 335, at least that’s what it sounds like to me. (Yes, I realise she used a classical guitar in the video, but it doesn’t sound like a classical on the record. Maybe my ears are just bad.)
2. This Boy is Mine. Love the solo.
1. June. Good guitar work throughout, both in the fills and the solo. And she looks good, too, as does Mona, in the video.
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OK, seems like kind of a juvenile thing to do, but I’ll play along.
5. Bus Stop. Never fails to cheer me up. I love Mona as “the bus,” and the look on both their faces when Mona pulls the sock out of the bag. Not to mention it’s a great rendering of the song, almost as good as the Hollies.
4. All I Have to do is Dream. One of my favourite songs by the Everly Brothers. The Twins put their own spin on it, and the wintery scenes are almost like a Currier & Ives print. Not to mention, the early teenaged twins are as pretty as any girls that age can be.
3. Two of Us. A beautiful film history of their lives, from early childhood until almost the present. I don’t use the word “precious” very often, but this is precious.
2. I Don’t Know Birds That Well. The carefreeness of two young girls skipping down the path playing a guitar and ukulele gives an innocence to the song.
1. June. Just because Mona looks so pretty surrounded by the golden field of rapeseed. I also like Lisa’s guitar licks and that the camera focuses on her playing during the solo.
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Just wanted to say that I am really digging the jigsaw puzzles. I hope you keep that feature going.
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That song reminds me of some of the old “torch songs” of the 1930s and 40s. I love the bluesy guitar riffs in it.
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Well, first of all, “worse” is a subjective and relative term. As mentioned somewhere else in these forums, what is “better” or “worse” in music or anything else is really just the reviewer’s personal preferences. When I was young, most adults considered rock and roll to be lousy music, and possibly even Satanic. Now my generation, which is now the parents and grandparents of the current teenagers , are bemoaning the fate of popular music, which usually just means that they can’t relate to it so it must be bad.
I have found that there are some independent music labels that produce some fine music by many young artists. In fact, my personal favorite currently is one of those young artists (and of course, the MLT are another). The artist I am currently obsessed with seems like a young female Bob Dylan to me and happens to be from my former home state of Minnesota (as was Dylan). Since this is a Mona Lisa Twins site, however, I won’t mention her name. My point being is that there is still good music out there, regardless of one’s tastes.
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Tomorrow is another mail day.
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I meant that the concept is the same.
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I think we’re largely talking semantics here, but what I meant is that if she is just playing the solo the exact same as the way the original artist played it, I’d rather listen to the original. There are plenty of Beatles cover bands out there that do the exact same thing. Doesn’t mean they’re not entertaining, but they aren’t the Beatles either. That being said, the girls do have a few covers that I actually prefer to the originals. Friday on my Mind and Bus Stop both seem to have more energy than the original artists put into the songs, even though the instrumental parts are pretty much the same.
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And here I thought it was Wynton Marsalis making a special guest appearance. Somewhat disappointed. 🙁
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Thank you. I find it interesting, though, that John and George used the original pickup throughout their Beatles career, but then again acoustic-electric guitars were rare in those days, and the piezo type pickup hadn’t yet been invented.
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Ehhh, they didn’t offer those classes when I was in high school. Actually, back then, most adults didn’t consider rock and roll to be serious music. It was either considered garbage or possibly satanic. I find it rather ironic now that many people of my generation have the same attitude about rap and current music in general.
