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We know a few Paul Revere and The Raiders tunes that we absolutely adore but we have yet to really dig into their catalog. It’s probably time to change that 🙂
We’ve never heard of Gary Lewis & The Playboys before but will check them out.There is still a lot of American 60’s stuff that we haven’t heard of. Obviously not everything is our cup of tea simply because it was recorded in the 60’s but it’s fun to get to know some of the bands that are lesser known here in the UK or Europe yet were huge in the States. It gives us a better understanding of the musical landscape.
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Hi Charlie, that is so good to hear! We’re glad our music became part of your life and that you found us through the collaboration with John Sebastian. One of our highlights of 2018 🙂
Thank you for joining the Club and for getting our CDs! Support like that is what helps make this all possible!
We are also really sorry to hear about the passing of your wife and our whole family sends our deepest condolences.
All the best and see you around,
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Hi John,
We’re very happy with what we have built up over the years and how we have “structured our business”. Being signed to a big label with a typical contract would most likely put us in a much worse position than we are at this point.Many people around us including close friends as well as our own dad have had major label deals in the past (or do currently have) and it’s not the golden ticket that a lot of people still think is it. It can be quite the opposite if you don’t know what you’re doing, or pointless when you have other means to run and control your own career.
When people hear things like “Universal Music” and “Sony” they usually think of the few handfuls of mega superstars that are signed with them but there is a lot more to it. Most major labels have been in touch with us but there is a reason we are still running our own label and will for the foreseeable future. 🙂
So all that might explain why we didn’t react overly enthusiastic to that comment in the interview although it was of course a nice gesture. Besides, we don’t think a public interview would be the best place to talk business either 😉
We always appreciate people spreading the word and if something comes of it and if good collaborations fall into place, then that’s great but we are very happy with what we have going on right now!
I hope that answers your questions!
Have a groovy day,
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Thanks Andy,
Everyone in team MLT is doing splendidly, we hope so are you 🙂
The black & white footage we used in “That’s Life” is from an old short film called “War Babies” starring “everybody’s darling”, Shirley Temple. A satire on “real” life and “grown up” business which we thought worked well with the lyrics of the song. The absurdity of this thing called life.
We’re glad you like the video and how we put it all together!
Groovy greetings,
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Oh we miss the food nearly as much as our family! 😛
The Brits have a lot going for them: music, art, sports … food just isn’t one of their strengths 😉 Salt is apparently the source of all evil around here, leaving most food rather bland.
Of course there are British dishes we enjoy and you can get great Italian, Indian, Turkish, etc. food around here too but we do miss the Schnitzel and the sourdough bread and the Knödel (dumplings) and the Mehlspeisen (cakes and pastries) and the roasts, sausages and Gulasch and all the basics like cold cut meats and spreads. The thing I might miss the most though is something called Leberkäse, a meaty guilty pleasure of mine. That in a fresh bread roll with ketchup is heaven on earth.
The Sticky Toffee Pudding here in England kind of makes up for some of these shortcomings though …
PS: Yumm, Korean food ???? !
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Hi Angelo and welcome back!
Taste can be such a fluid thing so we generally don’t really rank things in our minds too much, especially music, but I can tell you what vinyl I have framed up on my wall right now (they happen to be four).
Revolver by the Beatles, Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies, Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan and Universal Soldier by Donovan.If you had to narrow it down to three individual people it would probably be John, Paul, Georgeandringo 😉
I hope you’ve been keeping well in these strange times! See you around!
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Maybe! We have yet to plan next year’s Duo Sessions but we’d love to play some more original songs acoustically. Perhaps it will be new ones, maybe older ones, we’ll see 🙂
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Hi Bill!
With the UK being in a second strict lockdown at the moment they don’t want people to go out or meet with anyone outside of your household. If that drags on till Christmas, it will be a very lonely Christmas for many in this country 🙁
Thankfully, our core family is sharing a household at the moment, so we will be able to celebrate together, like we would every “normal” year. We have a tradition of video chatting with our extended family back in Austria, so for Christmas Eve itself nothing much is going to change this year.
But we’ll really miss the Christmas markets and get-togethers with friends. Hopefully, the situation is going to relax by the end of the year but that might be wishful thinking.
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And lots of them!
Normally they aren’t fully fleshed out for a reason, like us not being too happy with a song and dropping it to work on an idea we like better. Especially now that we’re writing lots of songs for the new album, we have accumulated a bunch of new half-finished songs that we either haven’t come around to finishing yet or dropped halfway through the writing process.
Our phones, computers and notepads are also full of little audio snippets or rough lyrics or riffs or melodies that might find their way into a song in the end 🙂
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Hi Lynn,
We just re-watched the “Liverpool Calling” video to see what clip you were talking about.
We are showing a slide where you can see our daily views go up from 2k to about 5k when we started uploading more regularly. We were so happy with that development!And now we are getting between 40k and 70k views every single day!! … watching that old video made me quite emotional. Given that the presentation at the LIPA school doesn’t feel THAT long ago so much has changed since. I guess 6 more years of hard work is paying off 🙂
You can actually follow our weekly and monthly stats here: https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/monalisatwins
Unfortunately, the income estimate numbers are anything but accurate but the daily weekly and monthly views are correct 🙂We know some of our fans follow the numbers closely because they normally are the first to let us know when we approach a new milestone 😉
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Yes, we could fix it quite easily. Thanks for telling us 🙂
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That’s probably our favourite Neil Young song, so if we were to cover one of his tunes, that one might be it.
All the best,
Lisa -
Hi Rick,
Yes, that is the same bass – a limited-edition dark-red Höfner. We love the look and, more importantly, the sound of it, so we always offered bassists who play with us to use it for live performances. And they’ve always been thrilled to do so 🙂 -
Haha now that would have been fun! It’s been a while since Mona and I had a good guitar battle. But the lead playing was all done by me, no overdubbing on the solo parts as far as I remember. Mona was playing the rhythm guitar throughout the whole song. And the drums of course 🙂
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Thanks, I will have a look.
