[Jacki Hopper]

Hi Bill, glad to hear it was enjoyed loved your sentiments, and the #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified Kinship between/of/from All MLT Clubbers is indeed a Global Groovified Gift of Friendship …🇨🇦😊✌🤘

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  Jacki Hopper.

[Jacki Hopper]

Hi Bill & Maddie …

I also posted a USA Thanksgiving Post here to wish all the USA MLT Club Members a Happy Thanksgiving and hoping you have a #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified one with your family today ( Canada celebrates it in October ) 🦃🇺🇸🤘

[Jacki Hopper]

Oh Lordy… The Partridge Family, Puff n Stuff ( especially when Cass Elliot was on the show ) The Monkees TV show, The Banana Splits an various Music shows on TV I loved watching in the 1970s-80s growing up in Canada….

The Irish Rovers TV show was classic fave, especially the Leprechaun episodes on show,

I could go on and on… Also like a few others on here, I have 2 older brothers and between them and my parents in all their music tastes and of my own, I was influenced to enjoy what I heard in our house whether on whatever radio stn was on, my older bros vinyl/cassette tape/8Track tape collection, likewise for my Mom & Dad’s music collection… My Aunt (Dad’s sister) is the church organist/pianist for her church, and therefore enjoy Gospel/Contemporary church music too….Basically, if it makes me sing/dance along , etc then it’s truly music that moves me and I enjoy listening to …🤘📻🔊

[Jacki Hopper]

Hi again Jurgen, just clarifying ….I do not live in Montreal, I live about 2 hrs away by car, train, bus from MontreaI … I am sorry that you got confused and thought I lived there, no, I live in Ottawa , Canada s Capital City , although from downtown Ottawa , courtesy of a few bridges, we can easily be in province of Quebec ( Hull- Gatineau regions of it and many Government workers from both Quebec side and our side in Ontario, work interchangeably, as well as does the area public bus transit systems for the Gatineaui-Hull region in Quebec along with the only the downtown Ottawa core buses that travel back and forth , between the 2 areas via the bridges, and in Ontari, in my area, . sort of, there are 2 car ferrys that you can take to go across Ottawa River to other regions of Quebec ….. There you go , a little more bit of Canadian tidbits for you .

[Jacki Hopper]

Gosh…that was eons ago…I can’t honestly recall, however in tge 80s during my teen yrs ….Glass Tiger & Duran Duran were my album Go Tis….lol…now I still am a fan/friend of Glass Tiger….as for Duran2…not really…I kinda stopped being a fan of DD yrs back, they went musically in a direction that I didn’t care for, etc …. but I do enjoy music from different genres…I have my fussiness over what I specifically enjoy/not ….. but will say this…next to MLT…. there are but a rare few in today’s music landscape I embrace , or at least can enjoy, as for rest of it …not so much….I prefer the old school stuff over new of what I enjoy …. I grew up in a household mostly on radio of mixed old

oldies, country, pop, rock , gospel, bluegrass, blues …etc…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  Jacki Hopper.

[Jacki Hopper]

Gidday Eh Sara and a #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified Welcome to here….Happy you discovered MLT ….My discovery was on YT , .15 yrs ago…. Enjoy All The MLT Club offerings , look forward to your future postings 

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  Jacki Hopper.

[Jacki Hopper]

Hi again Jurgen, like Jung I’m in Canada too only I live nearing/ towards East Coast ….. At Xmas in my family, we eat shortbread cookies, fudge, pie, squares etc, turkey veggies, mashed potatoes, gravy, and like Jung has already seen, in October after our Thanksgiving , I’ve seen Xmas stuff in stores, Xmas lights up and on outside homes , front yard Xmas Decorations , etc ….lookup the songs I mentioned in my previous ( I didn’t want to post links for fear website would act up as that was an issue on here in the past ) there’s many Xmas songs I enjoy but what I had mentioned previously , are my Xmas Go-Tos,

Also, everyone has their own , cultural ideas of Xmas celebrating or perhaps, don’t celebrate it , but it certainly is a festive spirit that arises around this time of year and snow does add that nice touch ( I’m not a Winter person , not fond of snow/cold, would rather embrace late Spring and Sumner without humidity, but…my ideal dream Winter would be for to be one day only– Xmas Day with gentle snowfall, mildly cold and then afterwards resume to Soring/Sumher weather …😉🎄🌷 )

• This reply was modified 1 year, 12 months ago by  Jacki Hopper.

[Jacki Hopper]

Hi there David, a warm #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified Welcome to here ( my trademark saying is #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified ) and nice to see yiubhere and joined the MLT Club , and you’re going to gave fun discovering all of the Groovy nooks n crannies of offerings the club has. I’ve been an MLT fan going on 15 yrs now , once you’ve discovered MLT, you’re guaranteed to become a Lifelong fan….hope to be seeing more postings from you ☮

[Jacki Hopper]

My Go To Xmas Songs Faves besides the MLT Xmas Songs stuff are : Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer/Merry Bloody Xmas To Me~ Irish Rovers … I Want A Hippopotamus ~ Gayla Peavey… Bob n Doug McKenzie Version of 12 Days of Xmas , Give Live For Xmas/Ugly Sweater songs ~Glass Tiger … the whole Xmas CD of John McDermott called Images of Xmas , a few more songs I can’t think if right now, my brain/body needs to go to bed now as it’s just a tad after 2 AM for me …🎄

[Jacki Hopper]

Truly, the literal sense of taking music on the roads ….lol…

A creative cool concept , Thanks for sharing this besides clip Jeffrey , I wasn’t aware of this , if I was in Hungary, and had my driver’s license to drive, I’d happily drive/cruise along on this road, and would the speed limited be in meternomes !? ( forgive/correct me kindly if I’ve named the thing that measures beats, wrongly, I ‘m just good at somewhat singing, sensing rhythms , kinda fiddles/dabbles around on instruments I like, I cannot read music barely, relay on singing with lyrics rather than music sheets, etc )

[Jacki Hopper]

Good Sunday Morning, barely coherently awake but I’ll reply best my brain can function at 6 AM ish…. (I fell asleep early last night while bing watching watching S5 ofThe Crown on Netflix and having worked ealier in the day, slept through the night, guess I needed to do so )

Okay, now to reply back to topic…. Yes Bill, I whokeheartedly agree and share/echo sentiments from others but will add my 2 cents worth … It is a rare gem when one can successfully, be independent in the music business these days if not on a record label, and am happy Team MLT chose to do their own thing, as mentioned by all here, to have that freedom rather than be under the imprisonment of a major record label and all that it facilitates. Also, with Papa Rudi’s experience in the past as a recording studio owner who has engineered some well known musicians in Europe , gave him invaluable insight into how it all works and having that knowledge , etc . Has proven the decision to go independent was indeed the right choice….

Now as for the kinship with fans, the only other band I’ve seen/experienced similarities with as with MLT , is Glass Tiger…

I’m going to also add, ( my fave Canadian band , whom I known personally for half my life basically ) for/to me, in terms of how they have the magic connection with their fans, though they are with a record label, they ‘ve managed to maintain that down to earthiness and care about their fans (what band would personally call up a fan to thank them for letter, chat with briefly-pre internet/social media age, …not many bands would do that , still don’t I don’t think to that level these days either, if they do it’s rare ) and/or get to visit/chat before a show during a soubdsheck or afterwards, or during a show to, make eye contact with you when they acknowledged you, I’ve had that wonderful experience with GT over the years and still do whenever I can be able to go, and they come to my city. ( Though GT’s big Heyday was in the late 80s-90s and after that, and continues even now, they all still pursue their own interests outside GT band stuff…the band pursued other some solo stuff , etc outside band stuff of interest for themselves ( bass player runs a successful full time portable astronomy observatory business but still will occasionally perform with GT , when he can , the keyboardist produces other bands, done some Nature sounds mixed with CDs, etc, Guitarist does some solo stuff on the side, lead singer wrote a book, does solo stuff, stroke survivor, etc ). To sum up this portion of my thoughts of the magic fan connection , also the similarities parallel with MLT & GT , is that awesome friendship amongst fans are created because of the/love passion of the music and of the spirit/attitude , being down to earth grounded towards/of with their fans . As I say it is a rare thing, it does exist, but only do I witness it with MLT/GT .

Overall, my thoughts on Bill’s posting here , echoes what he/all of those whom have replied here with in regards to their sentiments . It takes a special kindredness to embrace and in return the power it eminates, truly will shine and do its thing for the Good .

The best thing MLT did, to choose to go fully independent, to pursue in their own way, control in order to give the ultimate Unequivocally , the best they can because of no one else to puppet them in all facets of the music industry , if they were with a label … I know MLT have had some folks ask them previously as to why not be with a label, appear on the TV talent shows, etc. , and they have replied why…. simply, Independence is their formula that is proven effective, and works so why mess with it….

Let me conclude (now becoming more awake, Morning brain-coherent…lol ) with … Best creatively I can summon at this morning hour as I post this at…

” Bloom and Blossom Best when nurtured as to what nutrients are cultivated to enrich,inspire, encourage, create, grow Positivitywise, for that what will provide the outcome ” [C.]JackiHopper2022 ~♡

Pardon my going on, on…once I get on a writing roll, lol, I go ….lol, forgive my going on but wanted to convey my thoughts in tgeir entirety 😉🙃😊

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by  Jacki Hopper.

[Jacki Hopper]

Yes, your Ottawa in Winter photos pretty much sums up a typical usually Winter scene in Ottawa ( although Mother Nature has NaturePause now and needs to adjust her meds accordingly…lol As the normal weather/seasonal stuff is all helterskelter nowadays ) , and lijewise in Alberta, in Ottawa , especially around January/February , we can get down to -40 degrees celcius too with/without windchill factor….. as Ottawa is kind of like a valley …it can be a catch/trap weather patterns and being situated along water …

[Jacki Hopper]

Lol about 8 track machines, yes,, not always reliable they were back then….

As fer The Monkees stuff, jyst listened to their music from their TV show …😉🙃

[Jacki Hopper]

Safe travels David to/back from Kentucky and enjoy your #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified USA Thanksgiving, Gobble It Up Groovy 🦃🤘🇺🇸

[Jacki Hopper]

Thankyou Walter 🤘