MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hey Howard. Now do you think surf music might be in the MLT repertoire any time soon? “Surfin Safari in Adelaide” sounds catchy.
Or if not singing about surfing, seeing them ride the surf would be just as good.
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Mike, Tomas, thank you both for that. MLT are indeed the hope for the future of rock/pop music as the direction of the current music scene appear to have no direction other than a downward spiral in it’s current trajectory, as many fans of rock/pop have lost interest in it over the recent decades and have gone to other genres, like country, or in my particular case to classical after the early 90’s, or back to the music of the 60’s and early 70’s for others. The music from that time, the Renaissance, is really timeless and that style is as relevant today as it was back then. Stuff from the 50’s pre Beatles you can take it or leave it for me as it all sounds dated, but “A Day in The Life”, “Let It Be”, “Hey Jude”, “Satisfaction”, “Brown Sugar”, “Wild Horses”, “My Generation”, “Time of the Season”, “Good Vibrations” etc the list goes on. They sound as good and inspiring today as they did when they first came out. That is the mark of great music. Mona and Lisa said a great thing in that last big interview with Robert Rodgriguez. What is Beatlesque? The Beatles may have started it, but the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, Bob Dylan etc in the 60’s caught on to it. It is just great music writing that legions of great bands caught on to.
As Mona and Lisa work on their new music right now for their next album, you can be sure they are thinking the same things Paul McCartney talked about, making music to have a positive impact on peoples lives as art, not entertainment which is what popular music of today has turned into.
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Howard, I would think Mona and Lisa are both very good pro swimmers by how comfortable they look doing those under water scenes in the video. Is there anything they are not good at doing 🙂 . Will have to check that making of video as they talk about the fish and how impulsive an idea it was. I believe they gave the 2 giant gold fish a nice home in the stream around their place. A lot of ingenuity and video editing/production skill went into creating this impressive video for sure. One of their best.
A Day in the Life is one of my fave Beatles songs next to “Let It Be”. Rolling Stones Magazine elevated “A Day In the Life” to the “best Beatles” song stature, above even “Hey Jude”. The fact it is a true John Lennon and Paul McCartney collaboration effort with John coming up with the original first half of the song and Paul helping and adding the ending is that much more special. That song has a certain mysterious mood that I get when I hear it, and I feel the same thing when I hear “Nothing Is In Vain” too. Maybe that dreamy melody with the voices sounding like they are in a distance. I can’t seem to quite put my finger on it. I feel like I’m floating when I hear them.
I am trying to remember that symphony with the odd intro effect. It’s not a Beethoven one. Soon as I remember, will mention it here.
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Reposting here as the original post formatting seemed to have corrupted.
In the recent Paul McCartney interview of 2018, Paul said he was
“…very proud that the Beatles output was really positive.”
This is in reference to some of their songs like Black Bird, Hey Jude, and Let it Be.
Paul said:
“there’s people out there going through problems,….and hopefully people will listen to our music and realize it’s not just me alone going through this…and I can fix it”
Here is a link to the interview:
With MLT’s music, songs like, “The Wide, Wide, Land”, “Nothing Is In Vain”, “No More Worries Company”, “Close to You”, “Once Upon a Time”, “It’s Alright”, “In It For Love” etc… are all very positive leaving the listener with a sense of hope and some insight. MLT music is about making a positive impact on people’s lives which Mona and Lisa take pride in just as Paul McCartney does with their Beatles music. Great artists think alike!
Lisa said:
“But really, the moments I found most fulfilling and “right”, were often reading the emails or comments from people who told us about the effect our music has had on their lives…but we are trying to add as much joy and value to this planet for as long as we can before we check out.”
Mona said:
“Even though we usually play a lot of covers we’ve never been a “cover band” and while we did our fair bit of grinding and collecting hours on sweaty, small stages we’ve always done it to hone our craft and experience the dynamics of live playing rather than for the money…..Because of that we have never not been excited about a gig.”
Pop music today is missing this and listeners today want to go back in time to more positive music too. Mona and Lisa bring a ray of hope and sunshine into people’s lives through their music just as the Beatles music have been for many decades.
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Agree. For Mona and Lisa, when it comes to their music and creating something special, I think any new instrument would be game if it would give them the effect they were after. They seem to just learn it and adapt it into their song as needed. They carry on the creative tradition of the great groups from the past.
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That’s a beautiful instrument Howard. The pre-cursor to the harpsichord and piano. It sounded great in that song “Thackery Meets the Faculty, Then Alone”. Perhaps when MLT have a need for an exotic instrument to include in one of their songs, a Clavichord could be an idea 🙂
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That’s brilliant Tomas, great MLT quiz!
Unfortunately I wasn’t so brilliant matching all the lyrics, got 7 out of 10 correct. But that was fun.
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Will definately go see it when that movie comes out in the summer.
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Wow Tomas, that’s unbelievable, my mom too and the whole family loved that album and Lulu’s singing. ???? I still have that original LP from 1967 and listen to it. One of a very few family treasure from those days I was able to keep.
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Hi Howard. I love that song “To Sir With Love” too. It is a powerful kind of a good by song to a friend, in the case of the movie to the teacher character played by Sidney Poitier by the whole class to whom he made a profound impact turning the bratty teenagers into mature young adults. Love the lyrics and melody; a profoundly moving song itself. When I was 8 or 9 I remember the whole family around the record player listening to this album and my sister singing “To Sir With Love” whenever it came on. This is a 60’s classic for me.
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Hi Jim. I always assumed it was guitar, but I don’t know of anything definitive stating what instrument was used. I have the actual LP, and it just states the song is instrumental. In other sources it mentions Ron Grainer has used harpsichord in other scores, so perhaps that is what it is. Boy, I thought it was guitar all this time. I suppose it can be done on guitar quite beautifully too?
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For all the guitarists here, one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard came from guitar strings, this song from a sound track of To Sir With Love. I think the solo guitar melody is just sublime here. It reminds me of the dueling guitars in “Deliverence”, but for one guitar and more mellow and beautiful. Someone commented on Youtube this piece is a masterpiece. This album my dad bought for the family back in the 60’s after seeing this movie in the theaters and this album was really the intro for the whole family to the 60’s rock and roll.
Anyway, what do you think? The guitar is a truly incredible instrument, and as Beethoven said, it is a mini orchestra in itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNIN4-iiTk
What string was used in this song? 🙂
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Nice Jacki! Like the contrast of the colors to the black background.
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Nice ones Tommy. Mona and Lisa I am sure would do Sunshine of Your Love great justice given their marvelous interpretation of Cream’s White Room.
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I agree with you there Howard. For a cover idea after their orig song writing and album are done, I think To Sir With Love would be a great one. Lisa would do this song incredible justice! I can just imagine too.
