MLT Club Member Richard McGlenn
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Concerning the size of the business that the MLTs are building they already are likely dealing with situations where they are going to have to bring in others to deal with the shipping of merchandise or they will be physically trapped by their own success. The MLT Club Wire gave a clue that they have been out of the country recently, possibly doing another “get out of town and write some songs” trip and someone would have to ship merch in their absence.
I once asked them how far do they want this adventure to take them as far as their careers inquiring if they thought they would like it to get to the level that it got wild and crazy to keep up with and Lisa replied “insane sounds pretty good”. Now whether that’s still the case is a question they continue to have to ask themselves. If they decide to perform live again or even tour they will need to pay for promotion and deal with the logistics involved with that, which isn’t a big issue artistically.
For now I know the focus is still on writing new original music and building their portfolio of musical assets which gives them the best opportunity to monetize it and support themselves. I don’t think there is any reason for them to compromise on that goal and protect the process of creating their original songs the way they want to. It’s going to mainly be in the area of distribution and promotion I think that they will have some decisions to make as their fan base continues to grow. If for some reason they were suddenly discovered by a large share of the world and demand for merchandise and live performances is greatly expanded, they would have to decide how they want to handle that end of the business. They pride themselves on providing the best product musically, visually and making very sure that their customers are totally satisfied with the product they are buying. They should be able to continue to do that even if they have to delegate more on distribution and promotion to others.
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They may enjoy making the videos as much if not more than writing or covering the music. That might be an interesting question to ask them. They often say that musicians want to be movie stars and movie stars want to be rock stars.
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Download a free copy of Audacity and play the song in reverse using that software and you’ll hear the “secret message”.
Stay Groovy,
Rich
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Howdy Jacob to the MLT Club from a fellow Floridian. Not just a Floridian but a NATIVE Floridian who’s family has lived here when mosquitoes ruled this part of the world and pineapple was king. You’re going to enjoy the club, I guarantee it.
Rich
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Howard,
My question isn’t enquiring at whether they liked the movie or the music but rather were that not that aware of the film especially when having spent time in the region where it was filmed. Maybe Mona can give a little insight into how they missed all those billboards and buses in the area taking folks on “The Sound of Music” tours.
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Mona,
Having spent so much time vacationing near Salzburg I would have thought it was impossible that you all didn’t know more about “The Sound of Music” since so many of the movie locations were shot in the Salzburg area and they have such a tourist industry built around the movie.
https://www.salzburg.info/en/salzburg/the-sound-of-music
Did you girls really not have much of a clue about the movie growing up?
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The First 45 I bought was the Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand/I saw Her Standing There on the Capitol ORANGE and Yellow swirl label and had the picture sleeve on it. Bought it at a Woolworths for 99c when 45s typically sold for 49c back then. Some of the other major acts 45s were probably more than 49c but I don’t think they got the premium that the Beatles got. It was not long before they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and I was 8 years old. I think that 99c plus 3c sales tax amounted to about a month’s worth of allowance. Major purchase for sure.
The 1st album I bought was the Beatles “Second Album” which was the clever title Capitol actually put on it in the U.S. Great marketing don’t you think. There was a collection taken up by me and my 5 siblings to cover the whopping $4.97 cost for the album. The Beatles were still a bit of a mystery to my parents and the brothers and sister were afraid to buy it so they gave me the money since I was the bravest of the bunch to make the purchase without knowing how our parents would react to it.
This was after they had appeared on Ed Sullivan which we all watched in our house with our parents and I can’t remember if there really was any objection to their music from Mom and Dad but we grew up in a very conservative Irish Catholic household and the media input was carefully watched by the grown ups when it came to the kids.
I have no idea what happened to them but I know they got played to death on our Hi-fi until they skipped too much probably. Good memories.
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I’ve noticed over the years while thumbing through sheet music books the title of an old song that’s the same as a contemporary song and wondered how they got away with it copyright wise. So I did a little research a few years back and discovered it was a “fuzzy” area when it came to protecting a song title.
Generally, copyright law protection does not extend to song titles because they usually are short and lack sufficient originality. Therefore, you can (and often do) have multiple songs with the same name, and the first to name their song, for example “Crazy,” does not have the right to stop other people from releasing their own songs named “Crazy.” An exception to this is that some long titles may be found to have sufficient originality to be afforded copyright protection.
If the song was a hit song, the song title could be protected from unfair competition as a trademark under trademark law. A trademark is a word, phrase or symbol that is used to identify and distinguish the source of a product or service. You might think of it like a brand.
And this is why there are copyright lawyers.
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Handsome looking critter no doubt!
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Guess we’ll have to wait for the book or the movie to find out the details.
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Thanks to Mona, Lisa, Rudi and Michaela, Dumbo is now a part of Rock n Roll history. You’re quite Welcome Dumbo! Keep on Rocking.
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Got my CDs in the post today here in Sunny Florida
. Tell Dumbo he’s welcome. He’s always been a star and now he’s part of Rock n Roll History. -
“Baby Mine” is a song I commissioned the MLTs to do a cover of for my grandchildren. My wife and I sang it to our kids when they were young when it was bedtime and my oldest daughter sings it to our grandchildren for bedtime since it originally is a lullabye.
When I approached Michaela I suggested an Allison Krause style lullabye with just the Twins and acoustic guitars but told them to give it the MLT special touch. They wanted to go instead with a 4 piece band version with a 60s twist to it. So it went from lullabye to the rockingest version you’ll ever hear. When I played the song for the grandchildren they couldn’t stop jumping around dancing to the “lullabye”. My middle grandson insists on watching it everyday still. I say watching it because my daughters made a video for the song for my Father’s Day gift last year which is adorable. The Wagners have seen the video and enjoyed it thoroughly and if they permit it in the future I may ask if I can post it to the Club or IFC site on Facebook.
Rich
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Mona,
Thanks so very much for answering my questions on the rest of the family’s musical background. I think a lot of fans have been curious about how the other half of Team MLT learned their skills. I still think a book and movie screenplay are in the future when you have the time… My hat’s off to your Dad for playing such good bass lines if he’s only being playing the bass for a little over 10 years. I really enjoy his melodic style. The bass line for Dreams is one of my favorites.
So much talent available for you all to draw from it’s no wonder your music is so pleasing to the ear.
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Team MLT has a very valuable asset when deciding how feasible it would be to put a US tour together and that’s their Mailing List database which gives them a good idea how many fans they have in any specific metro area. They can use it to determine if there are enough known fans around to make a show worthwhile demand wise. And if they decide to make the plunge it they can use the list to target promote shows. I like Tim’s idea of fan promoters or sponsors if you like. If the MLTs had a good idea that their expenses would be covered it might give them more courage to take the plunge. A fund raiser could also be used to cover the overall costs of travel, room and board. I don’t know how big they want to make this family business so they may be content to continue on their current path while using the MLT Club to do online exclusive concerts or chats with fans. It’s really going to depend on what they’re comfortable with. Go on tour and then you have to have someone take over the shipping of merchandise from England and someone to water the plants……etc.
