Guest David
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Jung, great selection and I second Len on White Room, which blew me away on first listen and shows that the Twins are not confined to sweet ballads a la “Close to You”.
In my opinion, no discussion of their amazing guitar work is complete without a mention of their absolutely incredible cover of the Zombies’ “Time of the Season”. The interplay of the two guitars during the two breaks is sparking with energy, like an electrical transformer that could explode at any moment.
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I’m loving how much more responsive it is. I joined the club in July and just thought “I guess they have a slow site” as I waited for pages to load. It made chatting with folks really difficult. But now everything is positively zippy.
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Hi Roger and Jung,
I think we’re in agreement this should be in an upcoming Duo Session, just as it was originally performed. The delicacy of the original would be too easily broken with additional instrumentation. Now, who starts the petition to make that happen? 😉
Jung, I’m going to watch that interview now. I’ve been wondering if the Twins have ever done a song in which only one of them performs. I know Mona getting cold feet at open mic doesn’t quite count, of course…
On another random note, do you think it’s a conscious thing for them to always have Mona to Lisa’s right? It’s pretty rare to see Mona on Lisa’s left (our right). Even on the cover of “When We’re Together” where she is technically standing to Lisa’s left, they’re looking over their shoulders at the camera, putting Mona on the left in the frame. What do you think?
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Well said, Johnnypee.
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Hi David, thanks for tracking these numbers. I’ve started tracking daily views for the channel and subscribers. Youtube doesn’t give precise numbers, so I can only see when subscribers go up another thousand. I started tracking in early August, so I don’t have much of a trend yet. I didn’t know the last Sunday of the month was the usual MLT upload day. It’ll be interesting to see if that correlates with a bump in subscribers as well as views. Views will be a bit easier to see, since subscribers only tick up in increments of 1,000. I wish that were a weekly occurrence, but I don’t think the channel gets enough activity to capture new subscribers at that rate.
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I’ve forced myself to avoid listening to any of the songs not already on Youtube. I kinda read a bit of “Why?” on my iPhone, but that’s it. Nothing more until the CD and lyric sheets arrive. Can I do it? Do I have the willpower? It’s like when the calendar arrives will I have the willpower to only reveal each month when that month has arrived?
Who am I kidding? I doubt I’ll last the weekend.
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Thanks team MLT for getting us Help! playing again. 🙂
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Oh, and there’s this one you may know…
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Here’s a little ditty with a positive message:
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Hi Jung. The way “Pretty Little Thing” follows “Why?” reminds me of the end of Abbey Road, where the epic medley and its profound final line is followed after a bit of silence with “Her Majesty”. You could also point to the white album where “Good Night” tucks us in with a lullaby after “Revolution 9”. I think Mona and Lisa learned from the Beatles that if you start to sound too big, you’d better follow it up with something that shows you don’t come off as thinking you’re “all that.”
Speaking of epic and profound, the five hour Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera, “Einstein on the Beach”, had Einstein as a motif, making the occasional appearance playing his violin, as you can see in this excerpt.
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Yes! That’s the one! I guess I hadn’t seen the video but a couple of times before it disappeared. At the time I was just impressed with the Photoshop work, since I’ve used Photoshop at work for the last 20+ years but not to that level. Fairly recently I heard or read that Lisa had been using Photoshop since she was a kid and my jaw hit the floor as it dawned on me that the Photoshop was all Lisa’s. I never thought it was gruesome, just gruesomely fun.
I hope it finds its way back into the light of day. Now that I more fully appreciate the Twins it’d be a whole new level of awesome.
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On that video, I think someone took an existing Zombies video and swapped out the audio. I seem to remember an MLT original video. Do you know it? It seems to have disappeared. Anyway, the interplay of the two guitars is really nice. I know nothing about music, so “really nice” is about the extent of my musical analysis!
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Good point, though of course everything would all come back around again. If only we had a good math nerd to figure out how long it would take Australian seasons to go out of sync and back in with the northern hemisphere through the addition of one extra day per week. What an awesomely nerdy waste of time that would be!
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Hi Jung. Good find in the land down under. Normal rules clearly don’t apply there. Apparently weeks even have eight days!
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Alas, I don’t have a story that good, but I do have a little story. Maybe it’s the acorn from which a mighty oak grows… Anyway, I was spending too much time on Twitter awhile back and saw a tweet from someone talking about Toto and “Africa.” So I chimed in with a link to the Twins and Mike Masse. The guy commented with thanks and that it was a great cover. But the real payoff was several days later when I was reading the comments about one of the MLT videos on YT and I saw one that read, basically, “I came here because someone on Twitter linked to your cover of “Africa” and I’ve been hooked, playing all your videos ever since.”
<font face=”inherit”>I read that and thought, with a bit of pride, “Hey, I’m that someone!” I don’t know if it lead to joining the MLT Club, or even buying a CD; but at least it got another person aware of the </font>Twins<font face=”inherit”> and naturally feeling the pull of their immense talent and charm. So it ain’t nothin’!</font>
