MLT Club Member Jürgen
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…and finally a song about unfulfilled dreams and longings:
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…just like this piece…
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A melancholic song marked by loneliness and pain of separation…
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Not only since “Last Christmas” by Wham we know that Christmas is not always as smooth and harmonious as many people would like to have. And indeed: surprisingly many artists take Christmas as an occasion to talk about sorrow and separation. Perhaps for all people who also have to spend the Christmas Celebration alone a small consolation.
A song that was covered several times, among others by U2:
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Thanks for the hint Jung. I haven’t even noticed this feature yet. Funny. What exactly am I seeing there? The current active members? And why are some numbers highlighted in yellow and others in blue?
David, I can edit posts as long as they are „fresh“. Felt up to 12 hours. After that, the editing function disappears and the posts are forever set in stone.
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The Octobass. This instrument has already been presented in another topic, but as David correctly pointed out at the time: the instrument actually belongs in this topic and I think, after the monster bass guitar from ZZ-Top, it is now time to present the monster double bass in action:
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I stumbled across this music video by chance and at first I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what Elwood Francis of ZZ-Top was dragging onto the stage: a bass guitar with 17 strings. Whether you need them all like that? A really unusual musical instrument:
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No, you’re definitely not a grumpy old person, Sara. It’s always the question: what is my purpose in attending a live show? If I do this to know which smartphones are currently in fashion, then it’s ok when the person in front of me keeps holding his smartphone up all the time (oh yeah and of course I’m also particularly interested in which ringtones are especially popular at the moment). Otherwise, I see it like you: I enjoy the concert and afterwards watch the shaky videos of the others, or even not. Especially in the cinema, I find it annoying when suddenly somewhere in the auditorium a mobile phone owner creatively illuminates the cinema with his device, or is poking around in his 20 liter popcorn bucket for hours, but now I’m going off topic… 🙂
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My idea with the time machine was half fun and half serious. My conscious childhood memories begin sometime in the 70’s. Before that, everything is just gray fog. What would it have been like to stroll along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the 1960s and see the people of that time? Their clothes, their way of expressing themselves, their way of life? What would it have been like to sit there in the Star Club and see many bands that were unknown at the time and that you know will one day conquer the world musically?
I had a special kind of time travel experience maybe 20 years ago. Somewhere in a neighboring town there was a Beat Club modeled on the 1960s. A small, low stage surrounded by round, high wooden tables with bar chairs. There was maybe room for 50 people, so a very cozy and intimate atmosphere. The musical hosts: The Beatles. Not one of the well-known revival bands that are more or less good and that I wouldn’t actually watch, but selected members of a kind of musical revue tour that toured Europe for a short time. And they were damn good. Of course, they wore the usual wigs, but in the dim light of the club atmosphere, their outfit looked pretty real. The bassist was left-handed and the resemblance of their voices to the originals was amazing. Of course, everything was rehearsed down to the smallest detail and yet they seemed surprisingly natural and real. And the instruments? It wasn’t a playback, it was real musicians. Every grip was right, every chord fit. And for about 90 minutes I succumbed to the illusion of having traveled 40 years back in time.
Yes, live music is something completely fascinating. But I’m not a fan of the big concerts and I don’t like big crowds. I feel kind of constrained there and so I’m actually a lover of pub music and smaller events. And that’s how I ended up coming to the Star Club, or the Star Club came to me, whatever. The owner of the Hamburg Star Club granted patents for the Star Club name in the 1960s, so that there were also offshoots of the original Star Club in other major German cities. I don’t know how successful they were. In 1988 this idea was revived and another, probably last, Star Club was opened in my hometown. The location was a former cinema hall, like the original in Hamburg. Only with the difference that „Star Wars“ and „Alien“ had been shown there before and no sleazy films like in Hamburg. The cinema was still one of the old kind: with a gallery and an antique charm. Every weekend, unknown artists performed there and had the opportunity to play live music. The quality of the music was mixed: from very good to rather mediocre. I was there often with my friends. None of the bands made it big, but I loved the idea. Later, nationally known artists also performed in this latest version of the Star Club. After 15 years this place was closed as well. Today there is a cafe. No, it certainly wasn’t the great freedom like Hamburg, but seeing the young artists live there was something special.
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How are the acoustics in your living room David? Better than the Cavern and Star Club? Then I’ll come over…
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Hello Sara,
if only I could finally find my time machine again, which I have stored somewhere in the basement, I would like to go back to Hamburg in 1962 and see the still young Beatles live at the Star-Club (and invite them to a beer…). And I would also like to see Mona and Lisa there as the opening act. Ringo can stay seated at the drums.😀
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Thank you Jung for liking my little childhood story. But you also seem to have many fond memories of that time, and the small coal mining towns in the northern parts of of British Columbia sound romantic. Yeah, sometimes quite strange tools were used for sledging. Cooking pot and carpet are the more ordinary things. We ran a show on TV for a short time in which the moderator raced through an ice canal while sitting in a wok. You can do it if you want a lot of attention, but you don’t have to. I definitely prefer such a romantic horse-drawn sleigh ride through the winter landscape (I’ve never done it, but I’d love to try it):
PS: Regarding the video: No, I am not sponsored by the Austrian tourist industry…😀
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Yeah, that’s really funny Tom thanks.
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Yeah David, finger extensions and a back corset. The instrument looks damn heavy, like a back killer.
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Yes the early Beatles sounded like unpolished diamonds, but definitely like diamonds.
