MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Jacki, these are groovy cool. Love it.
The heat wave has missed us thus far in the Pacific North West Canada, but then there is all of August still left. On Monday morning it was cool enough to need a light jacket waiting for the train. Weather is a little all over the place in Canada. They were having temps in the 40C in Anchorage Alaska a couple weeks ago!
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To be able to talk shop and listen to first hand account stories from a 60s musical legend like John Sebastian himself must have been just surreal.
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Wow Jacki, that is quite something that you,’ve communicated with Scott McKenzie on Facebook. I agree he would have been extremely proud and happy to see his song so beautifully interpreted by MLT.
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John, yes “Ain’t No Sunshine”is a great one highlighting all of their brilliance. From Lisa’s singing, that even this early on, demonstrates great depth and color, ultra talented drumming and keyboarding skills displayed by Mona and Papa Rudi, and last but not least Michaela’s breathtaking Saxophone sounds right from the beginning.
With Samba Pa Ti, I can feel every single beautiful guitar note in my mind. That’s how good it is! Lisa makes the guitar gently weep. I can listen to it all day.
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Groovy perfection!
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Oh yes, the San Francisco cover and video is truly sublime, and Once Upon a Time captures that 60’s spirit and mood in the same vein so brilliantly. Love watching them both.
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Oh yeah Jacki, Deep Purples Smoke on the Water with one of the great guitar riff intros! Mona and Lisa do perfect justice to this song in 2007. Just goes to show the ladies can do any genre and hit it out of the ball park. From a Janis Joplin to Deep Puple’s Ian Gillan’s vocals, Mona and Lisa’s vocals have the depth and dimensions to do it all too, even at that young age.
Thomas, yes definitely an incredible performance on the drums by Mona in Twist and Shout! She does John Lennon’s vocals (that almost injured him) so perfectly while doing the drums so spotlessly.
Some other favorites of mine from that album would be “Aufstehn” from the very beginning (their singing is so dynamic, and love when they sing in German too).
Alone is another I’ve really come to enjoy. The guitar playing, singing and melody are so intricate and sweet. A real charming original ballad of theirs.
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Hi Howard. Thanks for sharing your Beatles moments! I have to say you didn’t waste anytime with your very first album ever, going straight to the top creme of the crop album “Sargent Peppers”. 🙂 That is an album one can never tire of over listening to, it is so great. The Beatles Red and Blue albums I am sure introduced so many to the magic of the Beatles music I think. I remember those two albums in my older brothers collection early on, and then that Biology trip when I felt the full force of the Beatles magic. It seemed the 70’s is when hi-fi stereo technology for the household really took off. I remember my dad’s first real good hi fi system with massive speakers that could make the whole house shake. When my parents left the house, that hi fi system was utilized by the 5 household sibling to it’s fullest. What musical joy.
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Thanks for sharing your Beatlemania moment Jacki. I bet that teacher must have been quite touched to be remembered by you like that so many years later. I stopped believing in coincidences.
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Very nice!!! I can feel that groovy mood taking in those lovely colors and pretty birds.
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I enjoyed the radio too. On occasional sick days in the winter, I’d just stay in bed all day just listening to the radio while I hacked and sniffled under the covers. The CBC usually, with all their unique and quirky programming. There use to be an awesome AM station where I live that played a lot of (60’s through 70’s) classics, and on Sundays and late night they played old 1930’s era radio dramas, and all kinds of interesting programs that played on the radio before TV era. But, about 10 years ago it came under new management and turned into a contemporary top 40 pop station, like we didn’t have enough of those crowding the airwaves already. Yuck, my radio listening air time took a huge nose dive after that. I do listen to the CBC or the NPR and BBC on the internet sometimes, but it’s not quite the same as radio over the airwaves with one of these:
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Thanks so much Lisa for sharing your memorable Beatles/music moment. Loved reading what you wrote.
It is also so fitting and wonderful, that song “Getting Better” that moved you so much, years later you would do such a wonderful acoustic version of it with Mona that would move all of us here at the Club, and later to the rest of the world. Music is such a wonderful thing that enriches lives and can move your soul so deeply. Some of Beethoven and Mozart’s music, and the first time I heard your San Francisco, The Wide Wide Land, The Little Drummer Boy and many others are a few examples where I felt music move me so deeply because of its sheer beauty. You know they talk about examples where people experience moments of pure joy because of the beauty of a piece of Art, well you experienced that through Beatles music, and many of us here like myself experienced it through your music. I guess inspiration is contagious.
Stay cool in that summer heat. Best of wishes to you and Mona, and your parents.
Stay groovy and Beatley back at you! 🙂
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Sorry to hear about your Mom Roger. Condolences.
I agree. For MLT to be able to move people with this song like they do is a testament to the great musical artists they are, and great people too.
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I can envision that too David, as it does kind of sound like cranking the engine over on a cold winter morning, now that you point that out but oh so graceful the Beatles make it sound! Or maybe the next time I have trouble starting my engine, I will hear some Beatles, and it wont be so bad. 🙂
