MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi David, that was great. Enjoyed reading what you wrote and agree wholeheartedly the Twins, they are amazing! A two of a kind.
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I don’t know a lot about making music or what those effects and pedals are for, but your guitar playing sounds just awesome as it is. ?
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Super creatively groovy Jacki!
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May was a time I had to say goodbye. Oh June please come and take the rain away. May you be kind to me….
May has become a sad month for me lately, so your song June is an especially sweet and dear song this time of year for me. Thank you for all your beautiful music.
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Tomas, condolences for the loss of your Aunt Lorraine.
Sweet Lorraine is one of my very favorites MLT songs. A truly brilliant song indeed.
You raise some very interesting points about good music, how it can touch and lift us when we need it, and just as life is a mixture of lightness and darkness, so is good music and art like Sweet Lorraine I think. The human experience is a mix of lightness and darkness too, and if art is in essence an expression of our human experience and emotions, it makes a lot of sense it will be a mix of goodness and darkness too expressed beautifully and profoundly. Some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard is about the conflict of light and dark. A lot of Beethoven’s music is exactly that, hence the immense emotional depth in his music. Second movement of Symphony No 7 for example, grave contemplation and turmoil, but extremely beautiful and moving.
I also like the last track on Beatles Rubber Soul, “Run for your life”. A real catchy tune, but lyrics are a little dark.
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Hi Howard. I remember that school marching band video from the Advent Calendar. That was a great rare glimpse into their high school days. Will have to search for the other one you mentioned. It’s also nice to know all the drumming in Orange and all the covers are Monas awesome sound.?
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Rudolph, yes the site is noticeably snappier and smoother lately. Greater navigating experience all around. Thanks much!
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Don’t forget Little Drummer Boy with Mona doing the drums. Perhaps a 2019 remake of Ain’t No Sunshine video could treat us all to another fantastic drum solo by Mona. Or better yet a Dueling Drums session by Mona and Lisa behind their respective drum sets would be quite spectacular. Would love to see Lisa on the drums too.
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A very warm welcome David. I’ve been an MLToholic 2 years and I cant get enough of their music. You’ve found a wonderful musical gem in the MLT. ?
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Hi Mike. Thanks for that flash back and insight to those wonderful musical times of the 60’s and early 70’s. As time goes on and those times fall further away from us, we are so fortunate to have the MonaLisa Twins with the same passion for the music of that time bringing us, as Jacki so eloquently coined it:
“…A beckoning to the true music times of past but with understanding of modern-day but intertwined perfectly balanced…”
On a side note, it’s interesting in the vast timeline of history, the greatest classical music of all time all happened within an approx 150 years span from 1700 to 1849 period from Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert to Chopin. All the famous composers who came after were inspired by the creativity from this period, just as music of the 60’s would inspire many generations of artists who would come along later. Before and after this period, there was nothing significant musically I think until 1960.
And it’s interesting that MLT, who are the future of music in many ways and carry on the creative genius of music making from 60’s are from Austria where the majority of the old guard great composers are from. 🙂 🙂
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In Sweet Lorraine Mona’s lead vocal and lead guitar riff (Lisa’s lead guitar I presume) throughout are like two voices in continuous dialogue. Love that effect. Such a brilliant song. In classical you get that where you have a piano in dialogue with the entire orchestra.
My wonderful MLT experience today. The joy of Sweet Lorraine.
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Jacki, I think you coined it just perfectly about what makes MLT so special and important today. MLT are:
“…A beckoning to the true music times of past but with understanding of modern-day but intertwined perfectly balanced…”
Their music has the poetic artistry of the great music of the Beatles and other legends of the past, but with a refreshing modern sound that just makes their music irresistible for today.
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Tommy, I don’t think most of the young people today know what is really hip in music neither. Pop music today seems to be getting more niche and appeal to smaller subsets of the population lacking the universal appeal of pop/rock music of the 60’s and 70’s. Even when I was in high school in the late 70’s, I remember there being just more passion for music everywhere, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Kiss, Super Tramp etc…There were record stores everywhere pushing the latest big album. At high school I remember some kids painted the gym wall just like the Pink Floyd Brick in the Wall album cover. Everyone wore T-Shirts of their favorite rock band etc, etc. Who didn’t have a nice turn table and amp with massive 100+ watts per channel speakers at home? I don’t think music today is just good enough to attract that kind of passion from the current generation.
I think the MonaLisa Twins and other talented acts who put the artistic side of music in front of the lure of $$$ and instant fame/success can restore some of the former glory of POP/Rock music. It’s just that the kids today need a reset from the downward spiraling trajectory of the pop music industry of the Ariana’s and Aubrey’s of today. It will take an inspired album like Orange to be discovered by the masses to realize what they have been missing in modern music today.
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Glad to hear you’re not in harm’s way of the flooding. Sounds like the areas affected still have a nail biting weekend of heavy rains and flood watch ahead. Out in BC it’s those massive forest fires that are a growing concern every summer. Global effects of extreme weather I guess.
Enough of all the doom and gloom, its freedom and good health we should always be thankful for.
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Tommy. It’s great you kept up your music over the years. I did piano for a short while and stopped and I think left a part of my soul there. I’m returning to it slowly.
