MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Thanks David, great stats. With every new video posted, I am sure it helps to drive new views and discoveries across the board for all the other videos and the aggregate views for the whole MLT channel benefits.
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I’ve always been surprised there wasn’t more participation in the MLT Club forum from members at the Intergalactic Fan Club who are also MLT Club members. Jacki and a few others span both spaces and brings the party over from the Intergalactic Fan Club here, but I thought there would be more adoption of the MLT Club forum discussion by intergalactic Fan Club members who are members of both. I’ve always tended to focus my time here given it is an MLT sanctioned space and that MLT might find more desirable to have more participation here. Just something I observed since the MLT Club launched, thought I’d mention it to see what others thought.
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Hey Jurgen! Nice video there.
For me I think one of the most iconic album covers is the Beatles famous zebra crossing, that made the image of Abbey Road famous. I like how it looks like a piano keyboard in the second cover.
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You just don’t see this kind of craft any more, artists who write their own music, play all the instruments, arrange all the tracks and mixing, and who have incredible vocals and harmonize like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Righteous Brothers, Everly Brothers…. Today most acts do the equivalent of a glorified Karaoke with music written by someone else, and musicianship if any done by someone else. Mona and Lisa are the real deal, brilliant singer, songwriter, musicians, pioneering inspired music. MLT is to rock music today what the Beatles and Pink Floyd were to rock music in the 60s and 70s.
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Do you remember that adorable moment of little Mona and Lisa with the Easter Bunnies, where the rabbit is almost as big as them!
https://www.facebook.com/MonaLisaTwins/videos/1388280124565168
A little fun fact, have you noticed the rabbit on the moon! As it’s a super moon this weekend, have a look.
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Happy Easter !!! (1995) | Happy Easter !!! (1995) | By MonaLisa Twins | Facebook
Happy Easter !!! (1995)
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And here is a famous Jack London quote from his novel “The Call Of The Wild”.
“Beauty Smith was cruel in the way that cowards are cruel…he revenged himself, in turn, upon creatures weaker than he. All life likes power, and Beauty Smith was no exception. Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him.”
-Jack London, Call Of The WildIt’s not just the beautiful music that draws me to MLT, but it’s the beauty they express in so many ways, like their beautiful story of Neve.
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Jack London was a journalist and when he was 21, he was one of the hundred of thousands of prospectors who took part in the gold rush and witnessed the cruelty of the “Dead Horse Trail” along the White Pass Trail, and this is what he wrote. There is more about the plight of the pack animals during the Klondike gold rush. History Of The White Pass Trail.
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History of the White Pass Trail - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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It is quite amazing in the last year or so we got to see the humanity in Mona and Lisa the way they so lovingly brought two creatures out of the wild that would have faced certain peril, and saved them giving them a new chance at life. The love, care and respect they showed these “lesser creatures” is heart warming and inspiring. It is just an extension of the beauty of their music and art, and the beautiful human beings they are. That is why “Pretty Little Thing” song about Neve at the end of WHY? album is so precious and perfection.
One of the great journalists, story tellers, and authors of the 20th Century is Jack London famous for his novels “Call Of The Wild”, and “White Fang” and a host of others. Jack London is also honoured by many Animal Rescue and Cruelty Against Animal organizations around the world. Jack London’s passion for animals comes from real life experience from his real life Gold Rush experience.
In my recent trip to Alaska I took a short train ride up the “White Pass Trail” in Skagway which was the starting ground of many thousands of Klondike gold fever induced prospectors who packed thousands of pounds of supplies on horses, donkeys, and dogs to embark on their perilous journey up the treacherous 45 mile White Pass summit and on to the Canadian Yukon. Great cruelty ensued. After the train trip, I came across this plaque placed a the foot of the White Pass Summit trail, that sank my heart, and led me to discover more about Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush.
Here is what the plaque reads:
THE DEAD ARE SPEAKING
IN MEMORY OF US THREE THOUSAND PACK
ANIMALS THAT LAID OUR BONES ON THESE
AWFUL HILLS DURING THE GOLD RUSH
OF 1897 – 1898. WE NOW THANK THOSE
LISTENING SOULS THAT HEARD OUR
GROANS ACROSS THIS STRETCH OF YEARS
WE WAITED BUT NOT IN VAIN
-Placed by the ladies of the Golden North and the Alaska Yukon Pioneers.
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Hi Daryl
I’m so sorry for your loss, my condolences. I missed this post, sorry for the late reply also. Having both my parents in care homes, I know how things can change on a dime.
Your wife is right, your mother in law heard every beautiful note and word you sang. Things done out of love have a mysterious way of getting through.
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It was the first day of grade 5, and I sat in the new class room with new class mates and teacher. The desks we would sit in for the next whole year were arranged in rows of two. I wondered who would sit next to me, and a new kid came and sat in it. He was new to the school as I hadn’t seen him before in grade 4. 50 years later we would still be the best of friends, through high school and all of our youth. It’s funny how life works.
This past week I experienced the power of music. My childhood friend Glenn was diagnosed with a rare cancer 6 years ago. It’s a terminal cancer with a survival prognosis of 1 to 7 years, and my friend Glenn is in his 6th year. We were able to do a guys vacation get away together like we use to do on many California road adventures together in our younger days growing up. This time it was a week long Alaska trip together, that some how felt like a final time together, and our wives MJ and Lillian understood and let us do an all guys trip together.
It was a fairly new ship and they had this superb rock lounge where they had a nice live band that did all the great rock classics from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. They did Beatles, Cream, Hendricks, ZZTop, and on and on…all the music Glenn and I grew up on. The magic was how the songs they played transported us both back to our early youths and brought back so many memories like nothing else could, evoked feelings of those times I hadn’t felt in years. Glenn and I often looked at each other saying hey do your remember that one!!! Music is so special indeed.
The week blew by like a flash, but was full of so many fond memories we created. Just reminds me our time on this crazy merry go round is fleeting, and it’s the special moments and memories we make with the people we care about that remains with us forever, and all the things we do with our talents that help others and enrich lives that matter the most.
In 2018 shortly after Glenn got sick, MLT released their Orange album, and were so kind and gracious to write a little note for Glenn in the Orange vinyl I got for him that he still talks about. I got him the Christmas, Duo Session and latest Why albums. It’s MLT’s beautiful music, and a host of kind and gracious things they do accumulated over the years week after week, year after year that make me want to be a life long MLT fan, and I can never contain my enthusiasm and love for them.
NEVER FORGET TO STAY GROOVY INDEED.
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Happy Birthday Michaela! (29?). All the very best to you today and all year. Hope you are having a wonderful day. 🎂❤
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Hi Dave, they are adorable in the video aren’t they!
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Hi Jurgen
That is hilarious, the Beagles!!! 😁 Yeah that album cover became infamous with the Paul died conspiracy theorists. I never noticed Paul is bare foot. Apparently the day of the shoot, Paul was wearing tight shoes that was killing his foot, so he took it off.
I wonder if the Volkswagen in the scene was pure coincidence or did they add a VW “BEETLE” in the scene intentionally. The 5th Beatle.
Many years later, for a Paul McCartney live album cover, he answered back in a sense that he did not die.
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Thanks JP, and that’s a great song. I remember Welcome Back Kotter sitcom from the 70s, and this real catchy theme song, never knew it was John Sebastien’s song. Lyrics are really heart warming.
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Hi Dave
Thanks for the kind words for Glenn. He is one of the most positive persons I know, and whatever challenges life put in front of him, he never let it faze him and always came up on top. He manages his pain, gets along with people and strangers around him, such a positive spirit. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be in his shoes right now, but I know he has incredible courage, facing his illness every single day, staying active, working part time, doing everything he would normally do as much as possible, and continuing to be the great kind friend he is to me, and living life without flinching or giving up.
