MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Fred,
Ilse DeLange as a solo artist doesn’t ring a bell, but about two years ago I bought the album of the same name from the duo Common Linnits. I didn’t have in mind Ilse DeLange being part of the band. The album turned out well. Have Common Linnits produced any other albums? Otherwise, I enjoy listening to „Within Temptation“ and I also like the solo album by frontwoman Sharon den Adel “My Indigo”.
I have already presented Floor Jansen on various other topics. The finnish band „Nightwish“ originally recorded the cover version of „The Phantom of the Opera“ with their lead singer Tarja Turunen. I like Floor Jansen’s voice and her likeable charisma better.
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Alaska even has its own folk festival:
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The Paperboys are a Canadian folk band from Vancouver, formed in 1991. The Paperboys mix Celtic folk with bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, Zydeco, soul and country influences (says Wikipedia). I now own four albums of the band and they produce varied and entertaining folk music. So they are not newcomers to the music business, but your question was: „Does anyone know any exceptional song covers by artists we have not heard of ?“ And I haven’t heard of the Paperboys here in the forum yet:
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Hi Tom, hi guys,
great music! I’ve already presented the following music clip some time ago in another topic, but I like this cover version of “Fly me to the moon/ Lucky” better than anything else I have heard about it so far. Rick Hale seems to be a well-known artist by now. But his duet with Breea Gittery is probably rather rare:
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Ian Anderson describes his own idea of wanderlust in the song “Far Alaska“: imagining a journey to far-off lands from Rio to Alaska and he encourages the listener to do the same: “Pick a place or stick a pin in“
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Hi David and Jacki,
thanks for your posting. As far as I know, Johnny Horton was largely unknown to us. This is probably due to the fact that country music leads here an exotic shadowy existence and somehow doesn’t fit our lifestyle. Johnny Cash and John Denver are well known and perhaps a few others as well, but that’s it. Interestingly, quite a few songs about Alaska are in country style: it must have something to do with the idea of infinite vastness, long roads leading through untouched nature somewhere into nowhere. But you can certainly explain it better.
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Just for fun, I entered the search terms “George Harrison Drumming”, “John Lennon Drumming” etc. and was surprised that Paul apparently picked up the drumsticks regularly. He was probably already active with the Beatles (e.g. ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’) and later also with the Wings.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, Paul joined the band „Foe Fighters“ in 2007 and accompanied a track on their album at the time on drums.
In the following video clip, the sound was added to the image later and is therefore not syncronized (or Paul drums something else…😀). It doesn’t matter: the illusion is very entertaining because there are very few videos where Paul is seen on the drums. An unusual sight.
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Hi Jung
thanks for the beautiful Alaska piano music. You will definitely like whale watching. The humpback whales in Alaska are quite famous. It is an awe-inspiring experience when these giants of the sea rise out of the water and leave their wet element to breathe or to hunt fishes. You might even be able to take a few nice snapshots. I’m an enthusiastic landscape and nature photographer and used to my subject holding still. Animal photography is not really my cup of tea: the animals are usually too fast and I’m much too slow. An extremely unfavorable constellation. And I don’t enjoy hammering out serial images. Oh, and it’s best to choose a small boat, otherwise you won’t see much except for the backs and heads of other tourists and upstretched arms with cameras. Here are my attempts to capture whales and dolphins (after the heads and upraised arms have disappeared and the whales too….):
PS: Yes, king crabs are real monsters. I think the legs and claws are also the only edible parts. So how did you get the shell open? With your hands or with special tools?
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And here’s another “Drum Big Band”. Lots of different people having fun together.
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Thanks Tom,
greatful drumming. I don’t know much about the band, although I know it by name of course, but the gig is pretty cool. A bombastic space journey, indeed.
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Yep David, Paul is drumming 😀. I saw the movie “Spies like us” in the late 80s, but I can hardly remember the plot. And I didn’t associate the movie with Paul McCartney at all. I think the video clip you sent was never aired in our country. MTV Germany didn’t start until 1997 and so Youtube is still a veritable cornucopia of ideas and music for me. There are so many music clips, from the 70s and 80s, that I’ve never seen before. Thanks.
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Hi Jung,
many thanks for your very detailed and loving travel report to Alaska. The cruises are really comfortable for you. Enviable. With us, round trips by ship usually start in Hamburg or you first have to get on a plane to find a suitable port. Your variant is great: grab the luggage trolley, just walk over there and get on. Let’s go 😀 And while you captured the natural beauties above the water with your camera (thanks for the impressing pics), there was an equally wonderful, mysterious world beneath your feet without you probably noticing it:
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Thanks guys. Since I’m not particularly good at keeping jokes and I’m even worse at telling, I got some help from two bearish full professionals:
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Hi David,
thanks for the music track. Unfortunately Johnny Horton doesn’t ring a bell. Judging by the picture and the musical style, the track was produced sometime in the 50’s?
The BeeGees once took the road to Alaska (and sound surprisingly mature):
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Hi Jung,
„Human creativity does not exist in a vacuum, but comes from the artists experience of the world around them, all the influences from the past and present, and the environment they live in, and their individuality and unique perspective infused together to form their creative expression“
I like that very much. I derive the following interesting thought game from this: if, for example, Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul McCartney had been born a few centuries earlier, would they have made music too? Beethoven without access to the classical instruments and large orchestras of his time and Paul McCartney without electric guitar, piano and drums? What would their music have sounded like then, or would their talent have lay dormant and they would never have become musicians? Personally, I believe that many of us have undiscovered abilities and talents that we take for granted and that we often don’t pay any special attention to. And it requires special circumstances, perhaps the right environment, perhaps also coincidence, for these talents to be awakened and able to develop.
„But sometimes I think comparisons can be a damper of joy for the artists and their work“.
I fully agree and I hope that Mona and Lisa will concentrate on their own music in the future. They gave us a lot of great cover songs and that’s the path that almost all great musicians have taken. However, they have reached a point in their musical development where they should focus fully on their own style of music. Then at some point the comparisons will stop. I would be very pleased. I think with the album “Why” Mona and Lisa proved that they sound like MLT and not like anything else. Therefore my personal wish: Goodbye cover music, hello MLT music.
