MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Wow, Jacki! You DO know birds that well!
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It’s back! I’m seeing e-mail addresses again.
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The intro that I enjoy most is that of “Won’t You Listen Now”. No matter how hard I’m working or thinking at the moment, when that song starts I always instinctively whistle along with the harmonica, and I’m instantly transported to an easygoing Tom Sawyer mindset.
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On behalf of everyone in the U.S., thank you, Jacki, for your holiday wishes. We just couldn’t hear you yesterday because of all the fireworks.
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Another area in which they excel is writing, as evidenced by all the lengthy and thoughtful responses they provide here. Lisa’s essay of an answer to a question a few months ago about what music is, is worth reading over and over. I’m hoping to live long enough to enjoy their joint autobiography.
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The moment in the trailer when the guy looks up “Beatles” on the Internet and finds only “beetles” reminds me of looking up MLT on Wikipedia and finding only, shall we say, crickets.
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Hi, Jacki.
I just started playing the ukulele a few weeks ago, and I was having many of the frustrations you mention. Much earlier in this thread I described how I overcame some of these problems by laying the instrument in my lap and pressing straight down on the strings.
It gets rid of the issue of trying to physically support the instrument with your hands (which are needed for more important things), plus your view of your fingers is not foreshortened or uncomfortably close up. I also find it’s much easier to depress the strings this way without my fingers touching them in extra places.
I’m still struggling with some chords that involve more than two fingers (death to G!), and I probably look ridiculous, but to some extent I’m making music!
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When I hear the intro to “I Want To Hold Your Hand” I picture someone trying three times to start a car, and then it sits there and idles for a couple of seconds. The onset of the vocals corresponds to stepping on the gas pedal.
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Those are all great examples, Jung. A good intro really invites the listener to adapt to the mood of the song before committing to the story it tells.
I think the percussion instrument (the claves, I just found out) in “And I Love Her” is just as important to making the intro memorable as is the guitar riff.
Funny, you mentioned “Ticket To Ride”, and as I tried to play the intro in my head, I instead heard the intro to “You Can’t Do That”, and I realized for the first time that the two are rather similar.
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That song was actually my gateway to discovering the music of the Seekers ten years ago. It played on a cable TV music station with pictures of the group, and I was shocked to discover after all those years of just hearing it that the lead singer (Bev Bivens) was female. I researched her on the Internet, and read that her voice had been compared to someone called Judith Durham. So then I looked up Judith, and a new musical passion was born. But you’re right; the harmonies on this song truly soar, and it’s easy to picture MLT really getting into it.
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The Nemesisians might beg to differ with you, Howard. Let’s hope there are more of us than there are of them.
It sounds like several of us have an interest in astronomy. Coincidence? Could MLT’s music be the famed “harmony of the spheres”?
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My first experience with the Beatles’ music was via watching “A Hard Day’s Night”, and when I saw and heard John playing the intro to “I Should Have Known Better”, I thought “Wow, this song is gonna be great!” (Apparently I’ve just got a thing for harmonicas…) Likewise, I found the shout of “We’re out!” to be a terrific lead-in to “Can’t Buy Me Love”, although technically it’s not part of the song.
Once I’m familiar with a song, I generally can’t disentangle my feelings for the intro from those for the song as a whole. The intro just becomes the title card for the show to follow. But for the Beatles, the show is almost always one that I have to stay for.
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No inconvenience at all; just a vague feeling of unworthiness.
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I don’t want to put a damper on a fun bit of trivia, but Nemesis is only hypothesized to exist, not confirmed. But if it does exist, it’s obviously the evil twin, unless it turns out that the Sun causes more mass extinctions on Nemesis’ planets than Nemesis does on the Sun’s!
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A few years ago Paul McCartney said, perhaps jokingly, that some younger fans think that’s actually the name of the song.
