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“Music transitioned over to individual singer songwriters”. Not quite Mike. When the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel split, the Hollies and the Who didn’t and the Rolling Stones were just on their fourth musical transition (from rythm and blues cover band, original pop rock band, psychedelia, hard rock).
Then don’t forget about the following 70s bands.
Led Zepplin, CCR, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Yes, Queen, The Allman Brothers Band, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Frank Zappa and the Mother’s of Invention, Grateful Dead, Kraftwork, the Stooges, Santana, Supertramp, Roxy Music, Queen and many more. And that’s before we even get to the punk and new wave bands from the mid sixties. We could go on and on!
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Ah Mike. All those grainy old 60s videos of pop music. Some were actually live (Like on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’), but many were also the bands miming their songs as this is what the particular TV show preferred. As for Dave Davies guitar on ‘You Really Got Me’, I was referring to his studio take for the record. His live shows would have been a completely different matter.
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Apart from the”First new reply”, I still have to scroll down for the latest posts. Hopefully this will be sorted with the new upgrade. This club just keeps getting better!
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Excellent Jung. Thanks for finding and sharing. Haven’t been able to listen to contemporary music for at least a decade (and a lot longer actually). Now I have some good scientific evidence to support my decision and explain to people it’s got nothing to do with my age or biases. Also makes me appreciate and love MLT all the more for what they are doing for us.
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I meant so slow of course. It’s Friday here, so hoping it arrives today so I don’t have to wait until next week!
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Still waiting for mine. Why is the post always so low to Downunder!!
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MLT are a small family business that has total control over their product. While this is great for artistic and quality control, it means that all their projects take much longer than groups that are supported by record companies with their plethora of managers, marketers, producers, engineers, roadies and tour managers etcetera.
Touring for an extended period of time would not allow them to effectively write new material for revenue raising albums or to produce new videos that are important for marketing purposes. Touring for them would also be expensive in terms of the travel and accommodation costs involved and they would need to be sure they could fill enough venues to pay the bills and generate some profit.
Their home country didn’t provide the opportunities for them to perform in public as Austria didn’t have a pub scene where live performances of their preferred music was possible. No open mike or busking opportunities. They chose Adelaide for a school exchange to improve their English as they would be forced to speak English as they were living with different foster families and initially attending separate schools. There was simply no opportunities to speak German.
In Australia they spent weekends busking in Rundle Mall and it was here they first realised they could make money out of what they liked doing. I don’t think they found Adelaide confining musically. On the contrary, Adelaide has always been a big live music city in Australia and is where the likes of the EasyBeats and AC/DC emerged from the immigration centres there. Mona has addressed their Australia visit in the Topic ‘MLT Adelaide Visit Downunder 2009’. Use the search function to find it.
As for California, they first visited there when they were 14 as it provided an opportunity for busking and also some open mike opportunities. They returned later the same year for a month during their school holidays and this time recorded three videos for their ‘California Dreaming’ EP. It didn’t necessarily open up a new world to them musically but what they observed was how liberal and open California was compared to the conservative environment they were used to at home.
When they were 15 they told their parents they wanted to leave school and concentrate full time on their music. They were able to convince their father they had a viable plan and the family then supported them. Often when playing live, people told them they needed to go to Ireland as it provided good opportunities for busking and for it’s pub scene provided for live music opportunities. While they were in Dublin they received a call from Liverpool with an oppportunity there and hopped on a ferry across the Irish Sea to Liverpool, where they met their parents. Things started happening for them and so they moved there permanently. And as they say, the rest is history.
This information is all available in their many interview and Q&A videos. Also, there is now quite a lot of information documented in this club forum, which as I have indicated, you just need to use the search.
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A couple of years ago I saw the Hollies live and the band included only two of the originals still touring, the drummer and the lead guitarist, Tony Hicks. Hicks also played banjo on a couple of their hits (eg stop, stop, stop) in the sixties. This night he played an electric guitar banjo for that number and later for another number he brought out something else I had never seen before, a guitar sitar, and yes, it sounded just like a sitar!
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It’s fascinating how so many musicians in the sixties experimented with different ways of modifying the sound of their guitars. Recording systems were still fairly primitive in the sixties. For instance, Keith Richards got that tremendous guitar sound at the beginning of ‘Street Fighting Man’ by playing his acoustic guitar through a cassette player, which were very new at the time. I still remember hearing that song (full blast), on head phones at a record shop for the first time in 1968! What a blast! I was amazed when I discovered many years later that they only used acoustic guitars on that song. The first track on the second side of ‘Beggars Banquet’ of course is the infamous ‘Sympathy For The Devil’!
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Hi Max. I’m sure one of the Wagners will respond to you when they get the time but my ‘educated’ guess is German. Where else in a place like Liverpool are they going to get the opportunity to stay in touch with their native tongue! Just like the twins chose to live in Adelaide in their last year of school, and with separate families, so they were forced to practice their English. How awesome is that!
I do imagine they might also practice some Liverpudlian while at home, but hope they don’t become completely infected and lose those really adorable German accents. I haven’t had the heart to tell them that Adelaide is the only capital city in Australia that didn’t begin as a penal settlement and that many of it’s first immigrants were Germans, some of whom were instrumental in starting Australia’s wine growing industry. The industry has developed into a major world exporter, especially from the South Australian Barossa Valley with its world famous Penfolds ‘Grange’.
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This was my post: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/something-about-the-beatles/#comment-49923
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Hi Michaela. I also noticed a post reply missing. It was from Mona to me in “Something About The Beatles – Interview With Robert Rodriguez”.
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I’m sure the twins could do an awesome ‘White Rabbit’ and would love to see it, psychedelic colours and all. I was only half serious about keeping it from them.
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I wish my brain was as clear as yours Jacki. Seems to be in a total fog most of the time! However, listening to the MLT soon clears it!
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Welcome to the club Max. You will enjoy your time here amongst the many other MLT afficianados!
