MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends south of the border!
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Hope you have a great Thanksgiving dinner with your family David!
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Hi Sara,
My first album, that I could call mine that my parents bought me was a Walt Disney “Three Little Pigs” narrated story album. I still have that album with the tattered album cover and all. I remember I took it to grade 1 Show and Tell, and the teacher put it on for the whole class room to hear. I really liked that! Wow, the MLT Club is so amazing, where else could I share a fond memory like that than here! Not only a place for like minded people to come together to share our passion in MLT, but can share things like this as well. Thanks!
In my early teens, my first music album would have been a Beach Boys greatest hits album that I bought, the first of many. My first concert too was the Beach Boys when I was about 15 or 16 or so, went all by myself to a huge stadium, never seen so many people in one place.
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How about a little Run, Run, Reindeer! The Christmas decor is popping up everywhere, and Christmas markets are open too. I even saw some homes put up Christmas lights just after Canadian Thanksgiving in early October.
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AC/DC Thunderstruck on electric guitar
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Hi Jurgen, what amazing musicianship, from that beautifully elegant Bach Toccatta played on that classical guitar, to that brilliant blazing performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 14 3rd movement on the electric guitar. If Beethoven lived today and could play the electric guitar, this is how I think he would have expressed that movement. The feeling and emotions Beethoven is trying to express in that piece was perfectly captured here on the electric guitar. When I use to be really into AC/DC and that wonderfully hypnotic guitar sounds captivated me, and fast forward a couple of decades to when I listen to Bach or Beethoven, the feeling and effect in my brain is the same. The music is expressing the same feeling and emotions, just different instruments. Thanks for sharing this.
ACDC Thunderstruck and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor on Organ have a lot in common for me in the instrumentation and feelings it evokes.
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor on organ
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Beethoven’s Piano Sonata’s are timeless, like this one. The melody sounds like it could have been composed today.
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Here is another one, this time on Beethoven, Rick Beato does it again! He must be on the same wavelength as me lately, and I love this! His remark about Bach Well Tempered Clavier being the old testament, and Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas as the new testament in music is brilliant. Would have to agree with him.
Rick needs to listen to MLT WHY? 😊
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Hi Daryl. I can listen to some music like Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, the first movement alone is over 20 minutes, and I don’t want it to end by the time it gets near the end, yet, Beatles Let It Be is just has impactful at 4 minutes. They are both perfection, interesting how art works. For me albums like Sargent Peppers, Pet Sounds, WHY?, and Orange are like a Beethoven Piano Concerto or Symphony, I like to listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. They take you on an emotional musical journey that takes you through the whole spectrum of emotions in the most magnificent way. In a Beethoven Symphony, there is tragedy and pain that through the 3 or 4 movements transforms the listener from sadness, through to triumph and joy, to peace and resolve, all in the most beautiful way. Beethoven’s 7th Symphony 2nd movement is so tragic and sad, but so beautiful, that it transforms the listener to overcome whatever hardship they are feeling through the beauty of the music, it can console and give peace and even triumph over fate like Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. That is the purpose of a sad song I think, just like Stairway To Heaven that starts off slow and melancholic with much beauty, but by the end those hard rock guitar sounds, wow, it makes you feel so good, gives you strength. I find MLT’s latest masterpiece work of art “WHY?” just as grand and magnificent as all the music mentioned here by Beethoven, Beatles, and Led Zeppelin, moving me with so much emotions.
There is good news in that MLT’s WHY? will be available on vinyl perhaps sometime in the new year, but it’s awesome to have that album on CD for now.
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Hi Daryl, I like your analogy of music and solitaire diamond. Many facets to music indeed and your perspective and experience can change as you listen each time. I know what it’s like to have an older brother who can afford to buy a lot of nice records. My brother’s vinyl collection opened a window to much music for me from Al Stewart to Ted Nugent to the Beatles and Pink Floyd and many more. The 60s was most certainly a magical time and a period of musical Renaissance, and Mona and Lisa capture that kind of magic and spirit today and also reflect in their music the social upheaval like the music of the 60’s did for that generation. It would be great if the younger generation today can experience that kind of musical Renaissance, and I think WHY? and their new music direction can do just that. MLT is the future of Rock and Roll.
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Hi Jurgen. Thanks, it’s an interesting thing you point out about the length of songs. I guess that is the beauty of it, that an artists inspired song is just as long as it needs to be to express everything they wanted to say and impress upon the listener in emotions and ideas. You have a less than 3 minutes song in the Beatles Yesterday, to Led Zeppelin’s 8 minute long Stair Way to Heaven, or at 45 minutes long Beethoven Symphony. Each is perfect and to add or take away time to it would likely ruin it. Like in Stairway to Heaven, the 2nd half of the song takes a wilder rockier guitar part compared to the first half, or A Day In the Life has two distinct halves that without the other would not work as great. MLT’s WHY? I feel has two distinct parts too, and both halves are perfection together. It is interesting you point out at different periods in time, music lengths tended to be shorter like in the 50s and early 60s, and then got longer in the late 60s and 70s, and then got shorter again. External influences would likely cause the trend, but when artists work within the song length trend of the time, they create their masterpiece just right. It’s just my theory, but if you look at the time of Beethoven, there was no radio or recordings that could be distributed to the public, so getting the music out meant doing public performances, so they had to be long enough like 30 mins to 2 hours to make it worth while for the audience when they attended a performance, so the music of the time was long, and the art worked within those parameters. In the 20th Century, songs could be a lot shorter as they were played on the radio or recordings made available to the public through the existing media platforms.
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Hi Jurgen, that is a cool Christmas video with great guitar sounds. For sweets, that are specifically Canadian I think, I like maple candies and maple cookies, made from maple syrup. Very sweet, but a unique taste.
Around Christmas my very favourite cookies are shortbread/sugar cookies. Love the ones made in shapes of angels, stars, and snow flakes. I also like nice nuts like almonds, cashews, pistachios, and exotic cheeses, and some eggnog, or sometimes a little Baileys or Irish Cream is nice to warm up with a little. At Christmas time, the local lake here does it’s annual Christmas lights around the lake walk, and vendors come out in food trucks or carts selling hot chocolate, specialty donuts, and those heated chestnuts and pretzels, and they have Christmas music playing throughout the park. It’s all making me hungry. 😜😁🎄✨
It’s starting to feel like an MLT Winter Wonderland.
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Rudolf, wow a DDOS attack, I never would have thought. I guess when your website starts to get big, it draws the attention of the hackers. Glad you got that resolved, thanks so much for all you do, and hope you got caught up on your sleep from all the long hours trying to resolve it.
