Guest Michael
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Mr. Fones actually contributed something spectacular to the Advent wreath that I hadn’t thought of before; he’s bringing voice to it through The Monkees video, and then asking about the differences that their tradition brought. We all agree that the video is happy, and hopeful of the future. The Monkees are holding candles while singing.
Anything learned or researched about Advent is going to be stellar by default. The star that led the 3 kings makes Christmas Eve ..stellar. It’s in the stars.
Let me preface all that a bit in mentioning Jung’s research on the Advent wreath. Jung is just as stellar in him mentioning the liturgical aspect. Even at home there’s something definitely going on about doing, versus watching. I built upon Jung’s point a little bit in that way.
Which brings me to my point:
The liturgical colors don’t quite match up to Advent wreaths. The white liturgical color doesn’t start until after midnight, when it’s Christmas Day. So how can lighting the white center candle on Christmas Eve be reconciled to the purple liturgical color? So, in my upbringing, the center white candle was almost always lighted on Christmas Day.
If the order of candle lighting is the most essential element or take-away in Advent wreaths, why would the colors clash when a given liturgical color comes into force? The white center candle on Christmas Day is the “minor” view (according to research source frequency). All sources allow for both varieties (Christmas Eve or Christmas Day) while maintaining the right order of the candle lighting, but the majority of sources propose lighting the white center candle on Christmas Eve.
Just saying.
You see, I caught Lisa red-handed pretending to light the white candle in the daily Advent calendar videos. Mona is in on it. You have to watch those two.
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Yellow Submarine played start to finish had a definite feel to it despite the song appearing on Revolver, you get some new songs, like “Only a Northern Song” was something new. “All Together Now” has a new sounding appeal to it even though it goes back to basic acoustic guitar.
The orchestration is interesting but repetitive in a few places, or too many measures were included, but it’s a full accounting for all musical sounds in the cartoon/movie.
Years later, I thought the song, “Yellow Submarine Sandwich” was simply one of the Beatles reworking previous material, but as it turns out, it was a parody group that wasn’t all too bad.
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I don’t know right off, I’ll have to research about it and see. I noticed when it comes to all things about The Monkees, it’s almost always a happy discovery. That’s pretty much the legacy left by the group and individual members, and it’s likely the way they’d want to be remembered.
If you watch 8mm films of the making of Sgt. Pepper, you’ll see Mike Nesmith in the background watching the orchestra make the last long note of the song, “A Day in the Life”. They happened to be visiting at the time of the recording sessions and were invited to stop by. About a year later, I always wondered if Lennon sanded down his sunburst Epiphone Casino electric guitar to a natural wood color in order to look like Nesmith of The Monkees. It’s something John would probably do because he’s silly-minded and John loved that show also.
Nesmith was happy about his own songs. Listen to his comment at the end of a recent live show performance of Tapioca Tundra or The Door Into Summer.
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One thing I learned is purple is the ultimate representation of royalty. Jesus Christ was a royal claimant to the throne and an attempt was made on his life in infancy.
In The Monkees Christmas carol, Peter is holding incense probably because incense is one of the gifts from the 3 kings of the orient. Gold and myrrh were the two others, as you know. All of them speak to royalty and purple Advent candles are a summation.
