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More from the weird seventies:
From “Society of Rock”:
“Although Dutch- based rock band Focus’s “Hocus Pocus” has to be one of the most unconventional songs out there, these guys rock harder than anyone we know. Yes, there is yodeling and screaming, but some of the killer electric solos have a serious effect on our blood pressure and we love it. Considered an “instrumental,” “Hocus Pocus” eventually hit #8 on Billboard Charts in 1973 and became the band’s only successful hit.”
Focus – Hocus Pocus Live ‘73
Okay, Mona on drums and flute and Lisa on guitar, but who’s up for the vocals??
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Not Adelaide Skip. Goes way back further than Adelaide. More like 1996. I’d start with their “Dreams” video perhaps.
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You need to do the MLT Club Birthday Quiz + Give-Away, Skip. If you want to get 100 % correct you may need to do some research!
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Or maybe Dr Who’s Tardis could get us all there!
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I’ve been encouraging the Wagner family to return to Adelaide to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Mona’s and Lisa’s stay there. Not likely to happen this year with so much on at the moment and a new album about to be released. Hopefully, they’ll have more time for such an adventure next year. Wouldn’t it be awesome if they could include a couple of live concerts while visiting! I’m sure they wouldn’t have any trouble picking up a bass player and drummer in Adelaide!
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That’s a great White House performance Jung. Sir Paul had an awesome band too. The drummer is just perfect! I guess the dude on the keyboard is using a synthesizer for the brass sounds.
Some interesting facts about the song from the web:
“It’s actually an ode to pot,” McCartney explained. A cover version by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers peaked at number six in 1966 in the UK. The song was issued in the United States as a single from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Music compilation album in 1976, six years after the Beatles disbanded. It reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Beatles’ last top ten US hit until their 1995 release “Free as a Bird”.
The brass was close-miked in the bells of the instruments, then put through a limiter. This session, on 18 May, marked the first time that the Beatles had used a horn section. The percussion instrument most predominant is the overdubbed tambourine.
In Barry Miles’ 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney disclosed that the song was about marijuana. “‘Got to Get You into My Life’ was one I wrote when I had first been introduced to pot … So [it’s] really a song about that, it’s not to a person.” Many lyrics from the song suggest this: “I took a ride, I didn’t know what I would find there / Another road where maybe I could see some other kind of mind there.”,'”What can I do? What can I be? When I’m with you, I want to stay there / If I am true, I will never leave and if I do, I’ll know the way there.” “It’s actually an ode to pot,” McCartney explained, “like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret.
Author Devin McKinney similarly views the early take as “radiat[ing] peace in a hippie vein”, and he recognises the arrangement as a forerunner to the sound adopted by the Beach Boys over 1967–68 on their albums Smiley Smile and Wild Honey.”
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Yes, that would be nice David, but I think I’d prefer to hear The Righteous Sisters doing a cover of this one:
The Righteous Brothers – “Unchained Melody”
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Well, John, you need to purchase “MonaLisa & Band Live in Concert (2007)” and you will hear them play “Smoke on the Water”. Track 22. Or check it out on the Jukebox!
https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/mlt-club-jukebox/
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I well understand Mona. Definitely not worth producing an annual MLT calendar. However, something like last year’s Advent Calendar would be nice if feasible and not too time-consuming.
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Organise yourself a test ride John. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. I imagine you’d prefer the off road version. The Ducati Multistrada hss been the class leader for me, but it’s a 1200 cc job. Unbelievable acceleration but a little heavier with a seat height that doesn’t suit me at my age. The Tiger comes with an optional lower seat version which makes a big difference for me. I’m 177 cm or 5’9.5 “. I think the Tiger is the perfect fit for the multipurpose ride it was built for. Let me know how you go.
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Good answer Lisa and I know you are always right even if you stand to Mona’s left on stage. As for your favourite city in Australia, I don’t think you have been to Brisbane – yet! Is this true?
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Can you put some flesh on those Twins Skip? They’re looking dangerously undernourished!
