MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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The truth may be in the pudding (the sticky toffee pudding kind).
I think most people today if you quoted a bunch of solo Paul, John, George, or Ringo songs would be less familiar with them compared to Beatles songs, except for the more musically savvy. This might suggest the Beatles as the fab 4 had more momentum as a musical force and each of their songs had a more profound impact on a larger scale of people over the decades than the solo works ever did. After the Beatles break up, as solo artists they certainly would have enjoyed the fame, and anything they produced would have been received with the same level of attention as they did when they were the Beatles, but it does not appear their solo works had the same level of traction with the people as the Beatles works did. Just my opinion.
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Thanks Lisa!
It’s always so great to get to know a little more about you. Given all the other stuff outside of music you do so great, ie art, photography, Photoshop…., I have a hunch you are one heck of a cook too 🙂
Ribs and Sticky Toffee pudding sounds pretty nice. Sometimes you have to indulge a little too. Had to see what Sticky Toffee Pudding is so I googled it 🙂
It looks to be a British dessert?… and I have to say it looks quite mouth-watering! Next time I’m at a restaurant with a selection of desserts, will have to check this out if they have it.
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Awesome Jacki.
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I hear those angelic voices here again that drew me to MLT in the first place. Mona and Lisa’s harmony is just truly magnificent in their Little Drummer Boy. What they do with their voices weaving in out in such perfect harmony is magic. Those sweet sounds, so sublime!
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Hi Tim
Yes Brian Wilson never reached the song writing heights of the Beatles as his artistic growth came to an abrupt end around 1967 and by 1968/69 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for serious substance abuse issues and resulting mental breakdown. Interestingly he was 26-27 (born in June 1942) during this period and came dangerously close to being another Club 27 casualty to substance abuse which seems to have snuffed out so many great musical stars before they could shine their brightest. I read up a little on the Club 27 phenomenon, and the most common theory is that around 27 the body can’t take the ongoing substance abuse that lead up to it from late teens to early 20s. All the abuse finally catches up by about 27. If you look at it, just before 1968, Brian finished his Pet Sounds Album, released Good Vibrations (his two greatest achievements), and started on his 12th album “Smile” which was supposed to be his response to Sargent Peppers, and anticipated by many musical critics to be the makings of the next monumental album to eclipse the best Beatles Albums to that point, but Brian was not able to finish Smile because of the substance abuse and the Band released a half-baked unfinished Smiley Smile album that basically flopped in the charts. It was a great tragedy, so much unfulfilled potential for Brian Wilson, the world would never witness.
On a positive note, I saw their 2012 50th anniversary concert tour (on TV), and it was inspiring to say the least to see the entire Beach Boys band (Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Bruce Johnson) touring the world and putting on such a great show. To see these men all old enough to be my father still rocking and rolling was very inspiring indeed, and blew a little breath of fresh air into my life at the time. Apparently Brian is starting another concert tour to commence Nov 30th this year. How amazing! And didn’t Paul McCartney release a new album this year?
Music is indeed a never ending life time journey as these two great legends prove. So many decades later the Beatles and Beach Boys still touch and move people’s lives with their music. What greater testament to greatness is there? And I am thankful there are still a few bands like the MonaLisa Twins carrying on that tradition of great music making that started in the 60’s. So yes, I see some Brian Wilson, as well as a lot of Beatles greatness in the MLT.
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Hi Tim, you draw some interesting parallels between Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) and MLT.
For myself, 40 years ago I was a Beach Boys nut, and today I am head over heals over MLT music, so there is that parallel personally for me. I have to say the Beach Boys was one of the greatest harmony bands, and MLT harmony match and exceed. They both greatly admire Beatles too, although with Brian it started as a rivalry.
With MLT album Orange, I couldn’t help but draw parallels with the Pet Sounds and Sargent Peppers albums, in terms of the artistic and thematic unity within the album. Much more than a collection of songs. With MLT songs like “Nothing is In Vain”, “Dreams”, “Sweet Lorraine”, “Once Upon A Time”, “Still a Friend of Mine” I see highly complex for the studio kind of song writing Brian Wilson and Lennon/McCartney started to get into in the mid/late 60s.
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Howard. I have the CD versions of these two albums, but have been scouring the thrift and used record stores for an original vinyl of these.
Heard “And Your Bird Can Sing” and it has great guitar sounds and catchy singing. An MLT cover of this I’m imagining would be pretty awesome with Lisa’s guitar work all over it.
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Tim. That is interesting about the US version. I guess I will need to look out for that one if there are any around. Thanks for the insight.
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So I got the Beatles albums Rubber Soul and Revolver this weekend.
I’ve listened to many of the songs on both albums individually over the years, but there is something more meaningful about listening to the album in context with all the songs together.
Listening to Rubber Soul, I can just imagine how out of the world it might have been in 1965 hearing Drive My Car, Norwegian Woods, Michelle, Girl, and In My Life for the first time. That classical instrumental part in In My Life, the beautiful guitar lead in in Norwegian Woods. Like no music before it’s time.
In a 2014 tweet, Brian Wilson wrote:
@BrianWilsonLive: “I listened to Rubber Soul, and I said how could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place?”
And here in an interview with Brian Wilson published in 2018, he expresses his admiration of the Beatles and how inspiring they were to him, just as they would touch and inspire so many great talents throughout the ages to follow, like our beloved MonaLisa Twins. The MLT version of “She’s Leaving Home” touches me the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbheV5Wavjs
…And now onto Revolver for me.
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A few more big MLT moments that come to mind are:
– The 2007 concert and first album release of that concert.
-Mona and Lisa 6 months student exchange to Australia to study this interesting long eared creature, make new friends, sing, and fine tune some English along the way.
-Trip to Liverpool for the first time busking in front of the Cavern and doing a couple of music videos. Black Bird and In My Life.
-(edited to add) Moved to Liverpool 2014.
-Concert tour across England with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.
-Abbey Road studio recording (a tick off their bucket list)
-Performing at Glastonbury Concert 2017 with Steve Harley (another tick off their bucket list)
-John Sebastian comes to Liverpool to spend a few days with MonaLisa Twins to record a song and appear in their video “Waiting for the Waiter”. (Orange album release already mentioned)
-Creation of MLT Club and release of BAM 2 and 3.
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Or it means you can get 20% more stuff. 🙂
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Sounds good Howard. Maybe by then there might be a sizable MLT fan base there we can do an MLT fan group get together. Wouldnt that be a blast. There are a lot of famous places in Canada I havent been to so nothing to be embassased about.
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It’s sounds pretty nice down under in your neck of the woods Howard. Visiting there is on my bucket list. Would love to see your beautiful country, Ayers Rock and see one of these creatures in the wild!
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Hey Seattle Bob and Michael. You might want to go on over to the “BBC Radio Merseyside – Liverpool Plays Pepper radio broadcast here at the MLT Club, and listen to “She’s Leaving Home”, where Lisa plays the Mandolin! I have to say, it is just wonderful. Mona and Lisa never ceases to impress!!!
That would be another live performance video I would love to see one day.
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I saw the weather forecast where I am in western Canada. The stretch of sunny weather has changed to rain until the summer. Warming up with tea and MLT tunes sound just perfect.
