MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Phil
So glad you joined, and wish you all the very best and enjoyment checking out all the content here. I recommend checking out all the Duo Sessions, and then heading on over to the Behind the Scenes, but you really can’t go wrong wherever you begin.
I remember when MLT posted their Nowhere Man cover, and I was just blown away, it’s so awesome. Ever since they first mentioned Nowhere Man while rehearsing in their room, I waited in great anticipation for that song. Here is a fun behind the scenes where you get a sneak peek at their early try at Nowhere Man.
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This discussion reminds me of the Mona Lisa portrait. 500 years after Leonardo Da Vinci painted it, the world is forever fascinated, and even to this day there is speculation and debate about who the subject of the painting really is, and fascination with the smile, eyes, layering of the paint, the 3 dimensional aspect never before seen in it’s time etc… It’s the archetypal masterpiece, the best known, most visited, most written about work of art in the world because it intrigues and is open to interpretation.
I always said about MLT, their albums when I listen to it I can get a fresh experience, something new, a different perspective, new idea, or inspiration. They are master song writers. Open to interpretation, can mean something for one person, and something much different for another, but there is no right or wrong interpretation. Mona and Lisa intentionally kept their songs open to interpretation.
I recall someone famous once said about good art: When a person writes a song they can have one interpretation, but it’s not contingent on the audience getting the same interpretation to like it, resonate with it, or feel it. In some ways the best art is open enough where the artist gets to have their experience when they make it, and the audience gets to have their experience when they listen, and it doesn’t have to be the same.
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Now while this might sound juvenile, but I found the best way to listen to the song WHY? to maximize the enjoyment is to crank it up on your best speakers really loud. Then you will hear the nuanced interplay between the bass, organ, and strings to the vocals, and then mid way into the song, the drums do some fireworks. Then you feel the build up between the vocals and strings until that final exploding chord ends the song. It has to be ultra loud to feel the full might of that exploding chord at the end. This will leave you feeling breathless and in a satisfying peace, like you ran an emotional marathon.
I can’t remember where but I recall MLT commented about about a song that “it is best to be listened to loud” or something like that. Perhaps it was WHY? Actually the entire album sounds great loud.
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Thanks so much Jacki, David, and JP for sharing your thoughts and experience in the MLT Club. I have to say I totally agree with everything you all said. Just echoing your sentiments, even though I’ve never met Mona and Lisa in person (hope to one day too!), they are like real good friends for me when I think of them. I mean I’ve shared so many things about myself and some of my deepest feelings with them in the MLT Club, and MLT Clubbers as well, in the many posts, and some of the Advent Calendars, that I haven’t shared with family and close friends. Mona and Lisa have created a very special place of their beautiful music, and friendship through the MLT Club that is so special.
I was a little bummed a couple of weeks ago it looked like the membership would cross the 700 threshold and then dropped below 680. I know there will be valleys, but it will continue to grow.
To other new members here who joined to see what it’s like, I say stay on a while longer, you’ve found a gem that keeps on giving here at the MLT Club. It’s not about just the music they post, although their music is why we came, but there is so much more. In the recent Q and A, Mona said they are not the fastest song writers but take their time and hope to create music that means something, that can touch us. Like all great artists, it’s not about quantity but quality, and that is what MLT is about, songs that can touch us deeply and move us like nothing else can. You don’t get that by cranking out new music videos every week and new albums every few months just to satisfy the crowds. I will cite another Beethoven example (I can’t help it, I know Beethoven), but in the grand scheme compared to other composers, Beethoven’s composition output is very small. For example he wrote only 9 Symphonies compared to Mozart’s 50+, and Bach’s 90+. He took his time, and his work eclipses all others as the greatest of all time. Quality over quantity, and that is what I see in MLT. They took a few years to make WHY?, but wow, what an amazing masterpiece.
Back to my point, MLT Club is about amazing music created with care, patience, and utmost quality, and becoming a part of a like minded community that loves truly inspired music, and Mona and Lisa’s friendship through everything they share with us like vlogs, photo albums, Q and A’s, What’s On the Table, Reactions and so much more. They share who they are as people to us on top of their music. They take the time to know us each by name, of course the more someone participates in the club the better they will remember, but the point is there is a genuine personal touch and appreciation for the fans. It is a real music journey together with them, sharing this experience together with every new song, video and album they create with the utmost care and quality.
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Hi Steve,
When I first heard this song, it transported me back to my road trip days down to Southern California in my 89 Mustang, in MLT style. Windows rolled down, full throttle on the High Output V8, on a lonely country highway. Absolutely love the guitar sounds and I think captures the spirit of freedom, “disconnection, time to shift gears”. For me it is a song on the album that captures free spirit in the sun feel, but there is also a social commentary on the environment, and that not everything is OK which resonates with these times. “Cause something this broken will not survive”. That’s the beauty of great art, open to interpretation. Another brilliant song off the album, that stays true to a theme of issues of the time, but also a free adventurous feel to it. So much diversity in the album for songs for everyone.
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The idea that people have seen your work 90 million times is mind blowing. Yes 100 million around the corner, and continuing steeper and steeper exponential growth to reach every one in 8 billion.
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I love MLT’s interest and curiosity about space as depicted in the WHY? album cover artwork. They even pretended to be aliens when they were little with one of their friends! 😊
Here is one of my favourite MLT cover videos.
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Niiice Chris. I like Bob Marley, his music just tickles and grabs me inside when I hear it. I discovered his music at a reggae festival in Toronto in the 80s, and always been drawn to his music.
“Light Up The Darkness” – Bob Marley
Definitely a Hammond! Pretty much all of Bob’s records with an organ feature the sound of the Hammond- most reggae records for that matter feature it.
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Hi Steve
I would be very interested in seeing the Mona Lisa portrait hanging in the Louvre. With the huge lineups, I wasn’t sure if they let people stop and take in the masterpiece for any length of time. It sounds like they give you some time to look and contemplate it’s magnificence. I heard it’s not a very big painting.
I don’t think I’ve ever been moved by a piece of visual art as much as music, though some paintings have captivated me. A beautiful piece of music, painting, sculpture, literature that can provide a moment of absolute beauty or divine insight is so cathartic.
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Tim and David,
Some impressive numbers indeed. At 27K views per day on average overall for all MLT videos on Youtube (that’s not counting Facebook I presume), if they tried to match that audience at a venue like the Cavern Club that can seat 250 (sitting and standing) at full capacity, they would have to do 90 shows a day to reach the same number of ears and eyes. Great plan they are on, creating new music while reaching so many with their music each day.
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Steve
Yeah the lyrics definitely evoke a feeling of leaving for a better place.
As for ‘something being broken that will not survive’ for me is a broken environment leading to a train wreck. In the lyrics “early sunrays are melting the ice” gave me the feeling about the environment and the melting glaciers and shrinking arctic ice shelf, in line with the commentary on our society today theme of the album. Open to interpretation.
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Yeah MLT’s version of Starman is just magical, pulls me right in every time.
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Hi Chris
That is such a beautiful song, what a genius songwriter John Lennon was. The lyrics are so amazing, captures the awe of gazing up at the universe looking back at you with a million eyes.
“Images of broken light
Which dance before me like
A million eyes, they call me on and on
Across the universe
Limitless undying love
Which shines around me
Like a million suns
And calls me on and on
Across the universe”
I’ve always been fascinated with astronomy, and if I had the time and freedom to do anything I wanted, studying and delving into astronomy would be one of them. There are so many endless questions when I look out into space, I always ask “WHY!” with passion.
I love the song Janitor Joe too, and you are right, makes me want to get up and dance when it comes on.
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I’m not sure an organ is even used in this song. It looks like just a keyboard synthesizer. In the previous video you can see a Hammond. It looks like that catchy 3 Little Birds phrase is done on a Hammond.
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Hey David, I guess it’s not unlike the Beach Boys “Surfin USA”, a remake really of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”, rearranged with new lyrics, but in a lot of cases of great songs by artists, that was not written by them, they put their heart and soul into it and create the magic to make it great and all their own, I think the credit is all theirs still.
