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It’s brilliant. If you haven’t watched it yet, make sure to check out the making of video: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/why-album-cover-making-of/

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WOW! Jealous!

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Jon Lord is one of my all-time favorites. Hard to believe he’s been gone over 10 years now.

A couple other favorites:
Tom Scholz doing “Get Organ-ized” live: https://youtu.be/z5pX82GebFU
And of course, the legendary Keith Emerson who could play forwards, backwards, upside-down, and even using knives: https://youtu.be/k_RVm9BTUig
But my favorite will always be Rick Wakeman. Here’s Rick and Jon Lord together: https://youtu.be/AsJApGdm97c

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Guess I’m not a cool cat. 🙁 But hats off to Papa “the genius behind the scenes” Rudi! Yay!

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Love the ink!

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That looks like an “about time I finally got it right, if I had to play that one more time I’d flip my lid.”

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I must agree with the other sentiments here. I could never tell either Mona or Lisa, “I like you less…”
The real question (ironically) is WHY? Why does one need to choose one over the other? Why does one have to be better? And is that a preference based on musicality or personality or….what? I sure hope you don’t expect Papa Rudi to answer this question! ROFL

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What a great post!

The only autograph I have that might mean anything to anyone else is from Alison Sudol’s early days as A Fine Frenzy. Now of course, she’s better known as Queenie in the Fantastic Beast films and other things. I had a couple pics of us as well, but they’ve somehow vanished into digital oblivion.

I agree with David on the meaning of handwriting. That would mean my whole personality has changed drastically over the years, as I have constantly reinvented various aspects of it, either to make it more legible, more efficient, or just do something different. I now actually have 3 different styles I use regularly: an almost fully print mode, a complete cursive style, and my usual writing, when journaling and such, is a hybrid of the two. So I guess I’m really a schizophrenic! I rarely dot my i at all, so what does that mean? LOL

Jung is gunning for some kind of award from the International Fountain Pen Society for promoting the cause, because he’s now sent several of us down the path of bottled lunacy. ROFL. So far I only have 5, but I’m sure I’ll have more pens than fingers and toes before long.

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Perfect. Now to hear the recording…

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You mean *other* than MLT songs? Well, the first to come to mind is the *other* Wagner and Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre: https://youtu.be/XRU1AJsXN1g

But also this classic by written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!

https://youtu.be/s5BJXwNeKsQ

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And while we’re at it, how about a Donnie Osmond “This Ink Socks?” ROFL

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First Beatles, then Hendrix? I can’t wait for the Prince Purple Rain ink!!! LOL

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I do, actually. My current favorite is my Private Reserve Ebony Purple!

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Yes, I can only imagine what other things he had to test. lol

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Ah, yes, and my all-time favorite Cylon quote…”We did not crash…we were flying along and the ground came up and hit us.”