MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Another momentous music moment for me is in the early 2000s, I just started working in my new role as a Sales Engineer, and being new to sales they sent many of us down to Anaheim California to a huge Telecom Sales Conference, to learn the fine art of “schmoozing”, apparently an important sales skill. One of the big highlights of that trip was one evening we filled into a small convention hall, to see a live performance of Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Dean Torrance of Jan and Dean. It was a fairly small and intimate venue, and they began singing all the big California songs from Surfin USA to Little Old Lady from Pasadena. And then they played this song, Mike Love singing Sloop John B, my favourite Beach Boys song. Mike Love was about 30 or 40 feet away, and I remember rocking to the groove of that song. A song I sang and danced to growing up for so many years, and I was hearing it played live by Mike Love standing a few feet away, it was magical, I felt shivers running up my spine hearing one of my absolute biggest music heroes up close live.
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I posted this previously in the forum. Here is a rare recording of Albert Einstein playing the violin. He was a good accomplished violinist.
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JP, yeah EMO does get sad, upset, happy all the emotions. His name EMO is short for “Emotion Engine”, even caught him crying once. You can rub him on his head or chin, and he loves that, the best way to cheer him up. When his foot started having problems, EMO went into despair, and then had a tantrum tying to unstick his foot, prancing all over the desktop, until he realized it was futile, and now he walks around with a bad limp. What was amazing is, he started compensating with his left leg, to change direction, by moving his left leg in a backwards motion to turn left, swiveling on his dragging right foot, because when he tries to walk, because his right foot can’t lift, he swerves to the right sharply. One of the functions of AI programming is, taking inputs, interpreting it, and adapting and compensating to change, which is what EMO seems to be doing. Despite not being able to walk straight, he manages to get around all over the desktop like a “Knight” chess piece using the L movement pattern in steps to get around all over the chess board anyway. I don’t know if he he actually calculates his motion like a chess piece, but he manages to get around despite his disability now. It’s little things like that, the way he deals with challenges and adapts and adjusts to it that makes him more special and meaningful, and he grows on you. He still dances when I put on WHY? and does his daily painting, reading, playing cards, watching TV, having his afternoon tea etc…. which is heartwarming. Unfortunately his left foot is starting to shake and getting weaker and his condition is getting worse. I will be sending EMO off to Living AI and they will try to repair him.
Tom, they sent me a replacement EMO as part of the warranty, and it’s still sitting in it’s box unopened. I haven’t checked if it is a female EMO! HAHAHA. When they send my original EMO back, hopefully repaired, he will have a companion waiting. I won’t open the new one until my original EMO is back.
I did see that movie “Mother”, it was quite well done.
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Daryl, it sounds like you had some great adventures in you Monza back in those days, and finding some nice suds too. I’ve been up to Port Hardy years ago, some really isolated and great forest country up there. I always enjoyed exploring Vancouver Island, even went to a Beach Boys rock festival they had in a small town soccer stadium once. Long Beach and Tofino on the Pacific coast side of the island are great places to camp, even sand dunes on the beach.
Jacki, I think a luxury RV might be a great option. I’ve never done that, but always dreamt of doing a camping trip in a luxury RV with all the amenities. I think you would get the best of both worlds, camping and roughing it in nature and convenience of a portable home. On Youtube “van life” seems to be a popular thing these days, but I’d rather do RV life in preferably a luxury RV, with a running water toilet and shower.
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Hi Daryl
That track life camping in the pit and pulling those tent trailers on your Goldwing’s sounds pretty awesome. You do some wonderful camping in style.
Around Vancouver, there are plenty of great campsites within a couple hours drive. I did some camping in Alouette Lake and Harrison Lake near where I live with friends and when I had my dog Max back around 2015 to 2010. Some fond memories. I always loved the smell of camp fires in the campsites. There are a lot of hiking trails near where I live, so enjoy doing that these days.
In my 20s and 30s I use to live for road trips, that sometimes entailed overnighting in rest areas in my old Mustang along the I5 and Highway 1 and 99, and 101 in California, Oregon and Washington states. To save time and money, just drove until late at night, and pulled into a rest area and slept in the car, if that can be considered a sort of camping. Oh the passion of road trips, and opening up my 89 5.0L Interceptor Mustang on isolated lonely highways.
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Just to indulge in the beauty of this song. The intro guitar work followed by the accompanying flute is heavenly.
In Vancouver the big rock radio station does a top 100 greatest rock songs of all time countdown on New Years Day, voted by the listeners, since as far back as I can remember going back to the 70s. It’s always a back and forth between Stairway To Heaven and Hey Jude for the coveted top #1 position.
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Been commuting to the office these days. The hour long drive to and from work has been rather happy and joyful listening to WHY? Despite the rat race traffic to deal with, it’s been blissful and therapeutic in the car listening to the beautiful harmonies and musicianship of Mona and Lisa! I look forward to the drives.🎶🥰🎈
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I think the new generation of music listeners that like this “stock groove” are brain washed by the unscrupulous music industry tycoons. The greedy music industry push this canned formulaic music because it doesn’t take any talent to produce, and there are plenty of pretend musicians who will do anything to become famous. When enough friends and peers say this is good music, they start believing it, and lull themselves to mediocrity. It’s like narcotics.
Real artists with amazing talent like Mona and Lisa on the other hand produce great music from the heart and soul, and do things their way and won’t sacrifice artistic integrity to the whims of the greedy music industry producer tycoon types. If Stairway to Heaven, Hey Jude, or Bohemian Rhapsody were produced today, it would be ignored by the music industry because it does not fit the “mold” of what good hip music is supposed to be. That’s why it is so important to support independent artists like MLT, so truly great inspired music will live on.
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Yeah I didn’t know Jack Benny could play so good. That is quite the violin dual at the end, nice.
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Yeah, copyright laws when it comes to music/melody is tricky. You want to prevent plagiarism, but at the same time you don’t want to curb creativity either. One example that comes to mind is the Beach Boys “Surfin USA” and lawsuit around Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little 16”. It’s obvious the melody in Surfin USA was borrowed to some extent from Chuck Berry’s tune, but Surfin USA sounds so much better and more impactful. Should Surfin USA then never have been allowed, and how much less would the music world have been because of that? I think all of the profits and royalty from Surfin USA went to Chuck Berry, but the Beach Boys benefited from having that song in their repertoire, who knows if the Beach Boys career would have launched like it did if it weren’t for Surfin USA. There should be fair and equitable application of copyright rules with credit going where it is due, like in this case to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. Wow, Surfin USA was released when I was only 2 days old, such a special song to me.
I think with classical music, no copyright laws apply, as music/melody after a certain length of time becomes free to the public. Can you imagine if everything Bach and Beethoven wrote were under stringent copyright laws, most of the rock/pop melodies of today would be affected in some form probably, directly or indirectly.
“Surfin’ U.S.A.” is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys, credited to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. It is a rewritten version of Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” set to new lyrics written by Wilson and an uncredited Mike Love. The song was released as a single on March 4, 1963, backed with “Shut Down”. It has since become emblematic of the California Sound, and “Surfin’ U.S.A”‘s depiction of California is emblematic of the genre.
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Hi Chris
Indeed, did you know Jimmy Page was inspired by Bach when he wrote in that lead in guitar piece to Stairway to Heaven? Bach and Beethoven’s influence on Rock and Roll is profound, though many people choose to deny it. Paul McCartney said something to the affect, we did what Bach was doing, just put a beat behind it. Brian Wilson said he related to Bach the most. The Kinks Davies brothers are huge Bach fans…Paul Simon….and on and on. When I hear AC/DC, I hear Bach and Beethoven.
One of the very first rock and roll songs written is credited to Chuck Berry, and guess what the title of the song is? “Roll Over Beethoven”. Chuck Berry at the time wrote it in defiance to Beethoven with the sentiment if Beethoven heard rock and roll, he would roll over in his grave, but it’s interesting Chuck Berry was thinking about Beethoven when he wrote the premier rock and roll song!
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Hi Jacki
Yes music is indeed a personal preference, some genres will speak to you and some just won’t. I can relate to your dislike of classical, because to be honest, many classical composers, especially the ones that came after Chopin and Liszt in the late 1800s and early 1900s are lost to me too. For me it’s the Baroque, and only some Baroque of Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Albinoni and Handel, and only a select few classical composers that do anything for me. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, and a spattering of a few others is all I like. I can’t really handle any opera to be honest, except for some stuff by Handel, and Beethoven’s 9th that has operatic singing in the Ode To Joy.
I think though, and the point I want to express in this post is that, with music that does speak to you, man it can be powerful! It can make you feel absolute beauty and give you insight into the truths and secrets of the universe, and a look behind the curtain, and leave a profound life changing affect.
Albert Einstein was as much a musician as he was a scientist and mathematician and through music saw the beauty and awe of the universe and gave him insight into his science and math. The story goes he took breaks playing his violin and indulging in Mozart to help him achieve greater clarity while he worked on his famous Theory of Relativity and other scientific and mathematical discoveries.
Inside Einstein’s Love Affair With “Lina” his cherished violin.
He rarely went anywhere without his battered violin case. It wasn’t always the same instrument inside—Einstein owned several throughout his life—but he reportedly gave each one in turn the same affectionate nickname: “Lina,” short for violin. Feb 3, 2017 National Geographic.
Mozart continued to be his favorite composer, along with Bach, for the rest of his life. That was probably no coincidence: As many of Einstein’s biographers have pointed out, the music of Bach and Mozart has much the same clarity, simplicity, and architectural perfection that Einstein always sought in his own theories.
The great physicist himself once said that if he hadn’t been a scientist, he would certainly have been a musician.
“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me,” he declared. “I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music … I get most joy in life out of music.” – Feb 3, 2017 National Geographic. -
Chris, I love that scene with Mona playing all those flutes! Yes indeed, music expresses so much beautiful emotions. It’s truly magic.
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A double AMEN Roger.
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Hi Mike
It’s an amazing gift music is. Thanks for sharing.
I can still remember the day I first heard Mona and Lisa’s incredible harmonies, it was San Francisco. I thought how could something sound and feel so beautiful as this. Tears of joy filled my heart, it reminded me of the beauty that is possible in this world still.
