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I think it’s easiest to simply refer you to this post … Why Orange? https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/why-orange/
We’re happy to hear that the CD arrived safely with you 🙂 Happy Listening! -
We must not have been good enough 🙁 … I did forget to brush my teeth that one time, dammit …
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Mmmmh, we’ve never done something by The Dave Clark Five’s before … tempting … There is another “Because” with lots of harmonies that we’d like to give a go one day too 😉
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Hi Rick!
You are right, we completely re-recorded the song from scratch. The live version from the Cavern Club was Christmas fun for that day but as you can tell by our voices we’ve been quite ill with a cold. Also, we didn’t want to have just one live performance on the CHRISTMAS album but all proper studio productions with all bells and whistles. Quite, literally … we added some bells and even a marimba. 😉
Have a great day!
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Ohh, thanks Jacki. Ever since we discovered Charity shops here in the UK, our wardrobe has been changing pretty frequently. We love hunting for little treasures and vintage clothes and often give away stuff we’ve been holding on for a while or already wore in some videos and pictures. Just to keep it interesting and fun 🙂 So there aren’t many go-to items I’d wear time and time again, except my favourite slouchy clothes I always wear around the home.
I have a Beatles Jumper for example that I bought back in 2009 when we visited Liverpool for the first time that I can’t get myself to throw away, despite the many holes and tears it’s collected over the last 11 years.
2009 …
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I guess all I can say here is Thank You! I’m glad you notice and appreciate the little guitar embellishments and licks. Like you said, it’s all down to practise and I am well aware that there’s a gazillion things I could be better at. But that’s journey and fun of playing any instrument 🙂
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Hi Mike!
Welcome and … Thank You! 🙂
We try our best to keep alive what we value most about music and put out there as much as possible. It’s great to see that it resonates with people who grew up during our favourite era of music, and it’s also exciting to see a new generation of kids who are falling in love with all the “old stuff”.
They are getting more every day, we see it in the reactions to our music as well as amongst our friends and their kids / younger siblings. It goes to show that good music will never die – don’t lose hope! 😉
All the best from Liverpool and thanks for being here,
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Hi Rick!
Your asking why we chose the instruments we did early on made me try to put myself back into my 9 year old shoes. Not as easy as I thought!
We never really had a discussion about me starting with drums and Lisa with bass (and soon after guitar) but looking back it fit in with our characters, especially at that age. Lisa had the patience and perseverance to get through the initially tricky stage of learning a string instrument earlier than me, while I was drawn to the loud, fun nature of bashing the drums and figuring out the “rhythmic puzzles”. It just made sense.
After only a couple of years we started taking each others’ classes too, so it all balanced out again. 🙂
As I’ve always been more of the rhythm guitarist of the two of us, it made sense for me to incorporate the blues harp while lisa focused more on soloing and lead playing.
As for Lisa and the Cello – I think she just liked the sound of it and wanted to try it out, so we had the option to include it in recordings. Knowing the basics of bowed instruments opens up a whole new world of possibilities for arrangements!
I hope you’re well! All the best for 2020!
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Love, love, love him. We finally got to see him live last year, and the show was phenomenal. Intimate, entertaining, personal, and of course his playing was insane. He is one of the artists that influenced us the most when we first got into guitars as teenagers. Heck, we even got a Maton in the hopes it would make us sound a bit more like him 😉
A friend who saw his show got us this signed picture when we were recording the “When We’re Together” album.
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Your mum was right! In Germany (and Austria, where we are from) it was – and still is – tradition to light up the tree with candles and sparklers for Christmas Eve. In these regions we only put up the tree on the 24th (or the night of the 23rd) though, so it’s as fresh as can be. And the candles usually only burn for the big moment when the whole family gathers around the tree, before opening the presents which we do on the evening of the 24th. They might sing some songs first too, while watching the tree shine and sparkle.
It’s important to not repeat the procedure after the tree got old and dry, or else your living room might go up in flames. People start using fake candles and fairy lights more and more which is much safer … but not quite the same 🙂
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Hi Brian,
It’s funny, that is probably one, if not THE most suggested non-Beatles song we get. And for good reason, it is an incredible song. We’ve tried it with our band before and back then it didn’t work 100% so we haven’t revisited it since.
But I agree with you, we should probably give it another proper go at some point. It’s on our list and we’ll think about it once we have room for new projects again 🙂 -
Hi Brian! Yeah, you joined us here 🙂 That is wonderful, thank you for the great introduction.
We wish you all the best with any upcoming projects, you sound like a busy man!
We hope you’ll enjoy your time here at the Club. See you around! -
Hi Ivan and Sasha, it great to have you here! What a sweet introduction, you two seem like a great team 🙂 And well done, Sasha, for having your first performance singing Christmas songs at the church last week! That is exactly how we started off, too: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/christmas-performances-2001/
We hope you’ll enjoy your time here and Mona and I send big hugs ♥
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Thanks Howard! At the moment we’re using every spare minute to work on new music and videos but we could put together a bloopers reel at some point later down the line …
🙂
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I believe I did that on a programme called After Effects back then. It was a fairly easy thing to animate as it was basically just a white line zooming through the air and then disappearing. We thought it’d be a fun little detail. Glad you noticed 🙂
