[Jacki Hopper]

I have pens… T-shirts… A mug… Pins… Postcards .. Guitar picks .. I Love All the merch I have and if I was A Zilillionaire a Million times over… I’d Own Everything MLT… ????????????????❤️

[Jacki Hopper]

Of course .. BTO rox… Canadian iconic legends in Canadian Rock N Roll… I’m a Canucker here too… I know who ya mean by – – EH ????????… How about The Tragically Hip?! .. Mind you yes back in the day… Even before I existed… And growing up… Alot of great ???????? R&R bands and music came out..  I had borrowed from library awhile back ago… A great DVD featuring early days ????????Canadian Music Scene… Oh… Ronnie Hawkins.. (I did not know for the longest time he wasn’t originally Canadian  until awhile back ago…)… In this DVD .. There were bands that I then found out who were behind some songs I’ve known growing up but never knew exactly sang them…

I can see MLT being more than capable of doing any  guitar-enthusiasm song with complete confidence… Original and coversong-wise… We’ve witnessed it… We know it can be done… For me they can equal or even slightly better the original as their take just sounded a tad better????????☮️????????????????❤️????????????????????????️????????????✌️????????????

[Jacki Hopper]

Thankyou for your comments… I love being creative… Whatever the means are to do so… ☮️

[Jacki Hopper]

That’s my sentiments too…. MLT have that impact on folks… Their Music heals… Brings Joy and Positivity laughter… Calming… Inspires… Creates friendships… Today’s music landscape… For the most part…. Just lacks the caliber and craftsmanship that music of long ago… Prior to 1990… Anything from 1920s – 1960s was the best time for music…. Some 1970s – 1980s stuff works…. But from mid 1990s onwards… Somewhere… The calbre and such got lost… Went Awol…. With exception of a few local area and a few Canadian bands I still enjoy music of as for /to me… Have that Musicianship I can appreciate right up there with MLT…. Sorry to say but there are few mainstream stuff I care about these days… If an indie band or singer strikes a musical Chord with me nowadays… It has to be because the music spoke to me in a sense…. That’s my 2 cents worth here????☮️

[Jacki Hopper]

Yep… And probably a gazillion more… Hmmm… I wonder… If any Canadian bands or singers of past and present have Time Themed songs… Lol… Jim Croce… Time in a Bottle… That just came to me now .. Not Canadian or Cyndi Lauoer’s Time After Time… Lol

[Jacki Hopper]

Good Q Mike and love  and appreciate Mona’s detailed reply and what she stated makes perfect sense and I agree on all facets that she elaborated on.  While it’s good to do a varied setlist repertoire for gigs in general… Wherever the venue or gig type… It’s healthy to shake things up… Not play some songs for awhile… Breathe new life… Try out new stuff whether originals or covers…. Never get bored or get into the live funct burnout thing… Approach it to make it more enjoyable for all… Tis better to pour heart and soul and remain true then to go Music gig Awol and be no longer Contented… This is just my 2 cents worth of thought on this.

[Jacki Hopper]

Thankyou Jung… Airplane art… Lol… ????

[Jacki Hopper]

Whoops… Forgot to include Mona in the posting… In my brain she was then I forgot to type her in… Sorry Mona…. You and Lisa .. Both would do the guitar riffing justice to whomever songs chosen with/for to do so…. You can indeed be sure of that????????????????????????❤️????????????????????????️????????

[Jacki Hopper]

Lol… I certainly could imagine Lisa doing “American Woman” guitar riff……. There are so many amazing guitarists out there to choose from… Vince Gill… late Jeff Healey… late Stevie Ray Vaughan .. late Chet Atkins .. Etc… Whomever chosen.. Lisa would do it justice… Indeed????????????????☮️????

[Jacki Hopper]

Thankyou Jung for your commentary and Howard… I appreciate your reply

[Jacki Hopper]

Thankyou Jung????

[Jacki Hopper]

• I’d like to clarify something here and now…..I ‘m not competing nor anyone is competing /challenging with me on the poetry. I enjoy reading poetry by others. I welcome seeing other creative poetical efforts here . I don’t see it as a challenge or competition and a tad uncomfortable with that description.

[Jacki Hopper]

I enjoyed your poem Jing ????????

[Jacki Hopper]

I’ve not been a Grammys or any music awards fan for quite some time , perhaps since 1990…anything after that , well, it’s just not really music to my ears ….anything prior to 1990, yes, at least there was REAL MUSIC , in a sense, even some attempts to try and  showcase halfdecent stuff.   the stuff from 1990s – now, in whatever genre…just not the same…. it lacks the calibre, originality, true craftsmanship of musicianship…Besides MLT, there are  probably a few RARE GENUINE MusicGems out there, but rare….. I’m not a fan of today’s music landscape for the most part , sorry to say…. I like but a few outside MLT and Glass Tiger…. I like the oldschool stuff…when not listening to MLT, oldschool stuff is my Go-To Backup Music Appreciation of….

[Jacki Hopper]

Spoon playing…now, that is something, I’d like to try one day…..