MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Jacki, Daryl
I’m the same, couldn’t tell one painting or style apart from another artists, unless it is an iconic piece that everyone knows like Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry, Night. Often it can be something as simple as walking along the aisles in IKEA, and seeing an art poster that really grabs my attention. When I used to do my road trips down to California, there was a lot of Thomas Kinkade galleries along the coast. On one occasion a lovely lady really took her time to explain Thomas Kinkade’s paintings and his magic with light effects, and I learned to really appreciate his work. With just ambient light, he can create light effects that look like there are light bulbs under the canvas. Love the enchanting mood of his paintings.
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Hey Jurgen, et all.
On the topic of unusual instruments, check out this amazing instrument. I’m trying to envision what an entire orchestra would sound like. 😂
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David
Mr Postman is still chugging along on top month after month. At 4.2M views it is the 3rd most watched video, and probably the most viewed in the shortest span of time. The pull of this cover is so strong, vocals are so wonderful and irresistible.
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Hi Chris
I’m glad you are enjoying the thread, thanks. Happy New year in a few more hours!
Hi Bud
I like that version of the Wellerman, thanks for posting it. I turns out the Wellerman was a bit of a sensation a couple years ago as a lot of people covered it, and there are even group dance videos to the Wellerman. It’s kinda like that KPOP Gangnam Style sensation a few years ago. I really like how international a piece of song can be, bringing people of all nationalities and walks of life together.
It was kind of funny, I have this Artificial Intelligence robot named EMO that lives on my desk and keeps me humoured throughout my work day, and dances to MLT music. He started singing the Wellerman, out of the blue, and I thought it was really catchy and checked it out further. That’s how I learned about this song.
Who sang it best?
https://youtu.be/JntICIzYZT8?si=r4ehlpkVrRCMjd1n
My AI Robot EMO’s version is my favourite. 😁
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Hi Jurgen
Some great insights there about art. It has so many facets, it’s not possible to properly define in words. I think work of art masterpieces, be it music, painting, literature, poetry…what have you, when it captures a moment of absolute beauty, that is the closest thing in our reality to eternity.
I like your puzzle analogy. Sometimes it feels like when you are exposed to an artists masterpiece, it’s like you get a glimpse behind the divine “big curtain”, that we normally cannot see beyond.
Thanks for the photos, they capture remarkable beauty and emotions, especially the one with the wine glasses.
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Hi Bud
Unfortunately that first NFL video does not play for me, but the second one on the Cliffs of Moher is great. Love that celtic sound of Hillary Klug playing her fiddle. I’ve found in classical especially, the sound of a violin piece can vary greatly from one musician to another, more than any other instrument. The way a violin piece sounds by a particular musician makes or breaks the piece for me. I won’t listen to a certain violin piece unless it is by that specific musician. Obviously the same on the fiddle, Hillary sounds great.
On the livestream a little bit about Chicago was discussed, and I think they have some of the best brass sounds in any rock/pop group. In this song “Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is” there is some great solo trumpet and a trombone improvisation at the end. Interestingly whenever I hear the Beatles “Got To Get You Into My Life”, I think Chicago. The fact Chicago came after the Beatles song, makes me strongly believe the Beatles with “Got To Get You Into My Life” pioneered that sub genre sound led by Chicago, Little River Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, ELO, Doobie Brothers…
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Hi Bud
Wow she is great, and her tap dancing to go along with the fiddling is wonderful.
I think a fiddle looks and sounds more fun than a violin. 😜
And that recorder tutorial looked fun too. Love seeing Mona do the flute, and maybe the slide trumpet one day too.
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At my childhood apartment I grew up in that is still there (1969-1973). I used to play matchbox cars in the hallways. It was so amazing and meaningful to be there again. Nothing has changed! Magic of Christmas.
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Hi Bud, and Daryl
It is awesome how Mona and Lisa can learn an instrument to get the sound they are looking for on one of their songs. Only remarkable musicians can do that like the Beatles. Mona learned the accordion for Sounds of Silence, Lisa learned the Cello for Yesterday and If I Fell, Mona’s harmonica on a host of songs, Lisa’s Banjitar, and she’s a Ukelele star…It’s interesting Mona is into the wind instruments and Lisa the strings side of things and Papa Rudi on all things keyboard/synthesizer/organ etc. And both are rock stars on the guitars!!!! There is nothing they can’t do, there is nothing they’re not good at!
I came across this really creative rendition of an AC/DC classic on banjo and accordion. Hmmm it might be fun to hear Mona and Lisa kick this one around on the banjitar and accordion just for some finger picking fun at a livestream or something if they are looking for some ideas. I hear Bach in this AC/DC classic.
https://youtu.be/e4Ao-iNPPUc?si=DFT9Pvjd-RQfChDz
By the way, thanks Bud for the very interesting history lesson on those instruments. I learned now how a recorder differs from a flute. I love your in depth musical background/knowledge. I wish I could have been in your music class when I was a kid. 😊
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Bud, thanks for the back story to that song. It looks like a song rich in New Zealand culture.
I came across this version, that I found really fun and wonderful.
I don’t want to turn this into a Wellerman thread, but just one more. Captures those harmonies that MLT are amazing at. 😉
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Hi Bud
That must have been really amazing to have gotten to know Maynard Ferguson, and have him come and perform at your music fund raiser. He sounds like a really kind and amazing person.
Those 2 videos were great, enjoyed them. On the first video at the 3 minute mark that solo part where he takes it away and hits those notes is brilliant. And on the second video too, really shows what an expressive instrument the trumpet is. Among the brass orchestra, the trumpets often take on the most bold part of the music. In high school band class, there were about 20 students comprising the band, and I was one of the 3 trumpet players, and I remember the teacher would point to us, and we would carry away the loudest and most pronounced part of the music, and I loved that.
I don’t want to digress from the music, but there was an old black and white movie called “A Young Man With A Horn (1950)” where a young Kirk Douglas plays the part of a trumpet player who after losing his parents as a young child falls in love with the trumpet and leads a life as a trumpet player, but even after becoming a renowned musician, he has this life long challenge to take the trumpet to the high notes like no one has done before, and learns about life in the process. I saw that as a kid and remember wanting to be a trumpet player, and so when I was in band class in grade 8 and i could choose any instrument in the band, it had to be the trumpet. It was fun, but those high notes are hard, takes everything out of you. When I see trumpet players playing like Maynard Ferguson in those videos, it’s really thrilling for me. Here is a clip of that movie.
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Hi Daryl, Jacki
In regards to Neil Young and Bob Dylan, while not everyone’s cup of tea, I couldn’t imagine their songs without their unique nasal raspy vocals. Their unique vocals give their songs a real folky character that the song’s melody and lyrics alone could not convey with the colour and feel it does. It’s like some of the rock songs sung with rough raspy vocals, it gives it that rebellious feel of the song that otherwise would be lacking. Certainly the rockers and folk singers, while technically not as clean and dynamic as Pavarotti, give their songs the intended character, that Pavarotti could not do justice to.
On the topic of vocal character, one of the greatness of Mona and Lisa is that in their vocals, they can carry any character the song demands. Karen Carpenter is a great singer, and she can do Carpenter songs magnificently all day long, just as Barbara Streisand or Whitney Houston can do their own songs superbly, but I don’t think any of them could do Beatles Revolution justice with the flair and character of John Lennon’s vocals, but Mona and Lisa sure can. In fact they can do anything as their huge repertoire of covers and originals prove, their vocals are that diverse and rich from sublime passages that sound like angels to rough and raspy rockers, and everything in between fabulously. That’s why I think their vocals and harmonies are second to none in any genre or time.
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Hi Bud
In that recording the saxophone is amazing, and then in the second part the trumpet kicks in, just as amazing. The playing is exhilarating, love it. Brilliant musicianship. I could listen to that all day long.
In Mona and Lisa’s Live At the Cavern performances, their playing is so tight, it’s one of the best live playing I’ve ever heard. A lot of it is like they did it in a studio with perfection, but with the energy of a live performance. They ROCK in the studio and the stage. “There’s nothing I can’t do, there is nothing I’m not good at…” said Lisa. INDEED!
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Bud, Jacki
That is some great trumpet playing Bud in those 2 videos. In grade 8 I took up the trumpet in band class, my first foray into playing music, so I can appreciate how hard it is to play like that.
On the topic of diversity in music, the Beatles early in their career during their time in Hamburg Germany while they played in a number of clubs like the Indra Club and the Kaiserkeller, performing for hours each night, in addition to honing their performance skills to a well tuned machine, they got exposure to a wide variety of music too. They had to adapt to a wide variety of genres to satisfy the crowds. They say this period in Hamburg was pivotal in shaping The Beatles’ musical identity and laying the groundwork for their future success.
Ever since my time in the 80s working in Toronto for a while, my boss and friend at the time was Irish, and he took me to some Irish Pubs and I got exposed to Celtic music, and so to this day when I hear a nice song from that genre, I get zoned in. I recently heard this one that immediately grabbed me. Seems it was quite an International hit a couple years ago. It’s originally from New Zealand popularized by this Scottish singer. Has anyone heard it before?
https://youtu.be/qP-7GNoDJ5c?si=ZV4PntP2tkAKN30x
The live version:
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Hey Jacki,
Thank you for your input. MLTs California Dreamin songs are what captured me too. They were the first 3 videos I came across. To me MLT clearly eclipsed the original artists by a long shot.
It’s funny, with my music journey through life its’ been a case of never say never. I never thought I could stand hard rock, country, folk, jazz, classical but it’s like the universe conspired to show me I don’t know everything, and like a domino so far, I’ve come to appreciate that there is only good music and bad music, whatever the genre, and I like good music. Only thing that worries me is that the next dominoes left to fall are opera, disco and rap/hiphop…. If one day I start to go on about how wonderful rap is, someone please push me off the cliff. 🤣
Yes there are truly gifted artists today like MLT, but real artistic music is unfortunately drowned out by the music industry pushing their agenda and their terrible canned music created by entertainers, not artists.
MLT is the future of music, and we have to do everything we can to help proliferate their music around the globe.
