Guest Michael Rife
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I’m kinda fuzzy on the first 45 I bought. It was either Hey, Little Cobra or Sugar Shack. Now the first album I bought was definitely Meet The Beatles (kinda like With The Beatles in UK and Europe. Mike
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Looks good!! Is the second “A” which is in Lisa’s name the same “A” in Mona’s name? Mike.
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I was thinking recently that when I would hear an MLT cover of a Beatles song, I would think about and notice how the Beatles would do it differently. Slowly over time I now listen to the Beatles doing the song and use the MLT cover as the “baseline”. Recently examples are I’ll Be Back and I’ll Follow the Sun……in other words slowly over time I’m starting to consider the MLT cover as the “correct” way and the Beatles as being the “cover”. Strange……maybe it shouldn’t be this way. Mike.
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Only one!!!! It depends on if there is electricity on the island. If there is electricity, then I would take my Gretsch White Falcon…..an amp would have to be there, too. With no electricity then it would be my Martin D-35. Mike.
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I understand how Keith can get 3,000 guitars. He probably got some of them from the companies for free……Gibson, Fender and other companies will give free ones as gifts to the famous. He likely got some of the guitars because they were pre-owned by famous past guitarists, and he has some because he likes to collect them. There is no way he is going to be able to play them all and the shame of it is that the guitars were meant to be played and it is harmful to the guitar if you do not play them.
3,000 sounds like a lot but it is not uncommon for the famous to have an overload of guitars. I remember seeing an interview of Vince Gill and his “back-room” for guitars was like a walk-in closet with two rows of guitars on each wall. It was hard to say how many guitars he has.
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My two cents and may be worth less than that……..growing up in the 1960s and 1970s has spoiled us musically. We experienced first-hand the musical renaissance of hearing and seeing the Beatles for the first time and then the groups that followed from England (Who, Stones, Kinks, et al). The US liked everything from England……how else could we explain Freddie and the Dreamers??? It changed music for the better and then led to the US answer (Byrds, Young Rascals, Buffalo Springfield, Turtles, etc.). And in the background the US had its own innovator in Bob Dylan. From there music really branched out to psychedelia and to country-rock and to electric folk. Then in the late 1960s and early 1970s came the single singer-songwriter (JT, Joni, Carly, Elton John….well, Elton had some help with Bernie, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin, Gordon Lightfoot and many others). Then it seemed to have stopped in the mid-1970s….there were still innovators out there (Queen, Meat Loaf, 10cc) but basically it was all played out by the mid to late 1970s. I’m not quite sure if it is because we got older and there is a tendency for people to like the music they hear from the age of 10 to about 20 or if it is due to a real decline in innovation in music. Anyway……we grew up in a golden musical era and MLT reflects and adds to that era.
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I agree with Tommy…..to me the best music was from 1964 to around 1975. After that things went downhill. There are exceptions to this rule, though. Always liked My Sharona…..I know it irritates some because it is overplayed, but the interaction on the riff between the Strat and LP is worth the money for this song.
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I could see fans lining up to take a whack at anyone who tried to do anything to the twins…….much like that scene in “Airplane!”. Mike.
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Hi Jung;
I think that video is one of the best I have ever seen. It is not over-done and it’s simplicity makes the video and song so chilling to me.
After so many years………I understand the feelings you have meeting with your old friend. I’m getting to the age where the road ahead is shorter than the one I’ve been travelling on (but who really knows) and I’m purposefully staying in contact with many of my high school friends from so many years ago…….holding them near and dear to me……..some are no longer around and some remain (sounds partly like a Beatles song). It’s really strange that back then things were so clique-ish and now all of those things do not really matter. I guess age can be a great equalizer. Mike.
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To mimic what Mona has said………I saw a guy in a studio once bring in a guitar just for one lick in a song. He was trying to pay homage to the Beatles who paid homage to the Riverside sound in I Feel Fine (if you listen to the primary riff in I Feel Fine, it is a “nod” to Buck Owens and others) and he replicated the lick in part. The guitar was used for nothing else and it was an old orange Gretsch Duo Jet. I heard them do the song live in a show and the lick was not in the song. Mike.
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Silly answer………..I know birds tend to like my car. Mike.
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Not yet in the Boston area. I woke up this morning to a minor amount of snow on the ground. Hopefully it will melt off in the afternoon as the temps rise.
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Yeah, I imagine the other MLT band members would be there to assist…..maybe even Rudi and a few of the fans would be protective. Mike.
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Hi Lisa;
Thank you for the response. You are most kind. I think most people who have instruments feel this way.
I have one horror story that is sorta related…….. my wife plays the violin and she has a violin that was made in 1796. It is not a Stradivarius but if I remember correctly it was made somewhere in Austria (coincidence). Anyway…..one night after we finished playing she put the violin in her stand (actually a miniature version of a guitar stand). There was one guy who came on stage who should not have been there and he was a big guy who weighed over 250 pounds. Well, he stumbled near my wife’s violin and almost stepped squarely on the violin and the stand. She and I have been married 37 years and I know well the expressions on her face. But, that night she had a new expression when this happened…….kinda a mix between “dead to me” toward him and fear. Since then, she plays her backup violin most times and saves the “classic” for special occasions. Mike.
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Hi Howard;
Thanks for the tip concerning Tomás’s name (see, even the technologically challenged can do it !!!!).
I know in my case when sharing MLT music I have led with their Beatles’ covers thinking that the others would appreciate it if they heard something familiar. But, it could be that is where their “just a cover band” thought starts. I’m going to share “Still A Friend Of Mine” with all FB friends. If any song of theirs is going to “knock their socks off” it will be that one.
Best;
Mike
