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Hi Bill,
Maddie is the cutest ☺️
I guess that completely depends on the type of lessons and whether they are “suited” for an 8 year old. We really don’t know much about singing lessons, having only taken them briefly in our teens. We were never big fans of them, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not great for other people.
I love that you’re trying to nurture her enthusiasm for singing, so if she wants to take lessons, I don’t see why not.
Hugs to you both!
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Hi Rick!
We’re lucky to have quite the collection of guitars by now, mainly thanks to the amazing late Steve ♥ Many of which we don’t use on a regular basis (like in the studio or for practice) but that come in perfect for situations like these … When the guitars need to match the outfit ????
Yes, I’m aware we are incredibly spoiled in that regard!!
The purple guitar Mona is playing is a 75th Anniversary Rickenbacker model that Steve sent us many years ago that we treasure so much to the point where we don’t even dare play it haha. It is so stunning! But it looked perfect with Mona’s “Queen” outfit, so we decided to let it have a special appearance.
The white Epiphone is another guitar that was gifted to us by an incredibly generous fan a few years ago! It’s an Epiphone “Wildkat”. You might remember this Facebook post from a long time ago.
When we say we have the best fans in the world, we truly mean it 😉
Thanks for the congrats!!
Have a groovy day ♥
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Hi Diana!
We have thought about that ourselves and you’re right, that would be interesting but on the other hand we think that especially in times like these we should be very careful sharing sensible information on the internet. We’d have to ask everyone at least whether they’re comfortable with that first.
However we can certainly give you a general picture. I’d say that Americans are definitely most represented here and I’m sure you’ve noticed that the ladies are in the minority. But we’re just happy for whoever is here, no matter the demographics 🙂
You know how much we appreciate your generous donations, but of course we’d answer your questions regardless!! Thank you for your support and generosity and have a groovy day!
Thank you for your support and generosity and have a groovy day!
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Hi Richard,
We’re definitely open to covering some more Who or Rolling Stones songs in the future! “Eminence Front” would give Lisa quite a workout on the lead guitar, that’s for sure 😉
At the moment we’re focussing on writing and recording the next album so covers have taken a bit of a back seat but we are sure they will be back!
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Hi Pascal,
You’re right, not every song we’ve ever performed live has made it into a YouTube video. There could be many reasons!
Either we simply never properly captured it on video/recording (we only recorded and filmed some of our live shows) or we just never got around to editing and uploading it to YouTube.
Also, not every song we perform always turns out as well as we’d like it to and oftentimes we were simply too busy working on other projects to turn all our live performances into YouTube uploads.
We have covered SO many songs over the years, it’s almost impossible to upload them all 🙂
Hope you’re having a great week!
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Hi Deidre,
The Ricky I play is actually a 350v63 which is basically the 325 but with a normal scale neck. But I have also played the short scale version and actually quite enjoyed it (it’s great for some pinky action on those rock’n’roll riffs).
I think if you have big hands the short scale could be a disadvantage but in most cases it could actually make things easier.
Have you tried one yet? What was your experience?
Stay groovy!
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Hi Jeff!
We still have that beautiful Resonator guitar and used it again on a new album track just a few weeks ago. It’s not something I play a lot but it comes in incredibly handy for adding slide guitar to recordings. It was a gift from Steve, who I think you know about 🙂
It definitely was tricky to get the hang of slide playing and we both had to invest a bit of time into learning the basics.
Like I said, it’s not something we use an awful lot so we’re no pros by any stretch of the imagination but it’s fun to try and make it work in a song from time to time.
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Hi Glenn!
Glad you caught the Duo-Jet Bug! I love mine and I’m happy you like yours too. Personally, I don’t use a lot of pedals. At live shows I go into a Vox ToneLab ST pedal, where all I do is add a little compression, a bit of reverb and that’s usually it.I mainly use it for easy volume control. For most sets I don’t use any major effects and would even get away with plugging straight into a good Vox amp 🙂
In the studio I do sometimes play around with different plug-ins, but even there, less is often more for the kind of sound we’re going for.
What’s your preferred set up?
I love that you’re running your own guitar shop and wish you all the best,
Lisa
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Hi Walter!
We’ve used a whole lot of camera equipment over the years and have updated a lot of stuff as time went on and technology improved. But at the moment our “main” camera is the Sony A7 III. It’s been the main “work horse” for our Duo Sessions and music videos.
We like to use Sony’s compact camera “RX-100 V” for vlogging and “behind the scenes” filming and also find ourselves using our iPhones 8plus a lot for that.Live recordings are a whole different story as you need A LOT of cameras if you want to get many cool angles and we always used everything in our arsenal for those. But since it’s been a while that we’ve filmed a whole live concert and since we’d use different equipment these days (as cameras keep improving), it probably doesn’t make much sense to dive into that.
Hope that helps! Let us know if you have any other, or more specific questions.
THANKS and stay groovy!
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I agree with you, I also love listening to Lisa play lead guitar and she is much, much better than me! 😉 Every once in a while, if the song allows it, I’ll play lead just to keep it interesting (for us, and maybe also you) and to keep us on our toes.
For example, with our recent Duo Session for “I Should Have Known Better” we first decided that I should sing lead on it … which in turn meant that Lisa had to play blues harp … which then made us come to the decision that I should play lead so neither of us had too many things to focus on. The solo is simple enough and it just changed things up a bit.
For 90% of what we play it goes without saying that Lisa should play lead but sometimes we just like to mix things up. 🙂
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Hi Tim!
When playing live there is always something that goes wrong and there are plenty of instances when equipment would fail. We once played a show in Liverpool where the whole right side of the PA would stop working halfway through the show, and we just had to keep playing like that for the remainder of the set. We’ve messed up songs, forgot lyrics, sneezed, sang with a cough, dropped picks, had instruments fail and strings snap.
Somehow, when you asked for the “worst experience” none of these things immediately came to mind though. These sorts of “problems” rarely make a show a bad experience, I’d go as far as to say they sometimes even add a bit of entertainment or personality to a show. 🙂
The “worst” ones that come to mind were the types of shows early on in our career where you play on some tucked-away stage in front of a handful of people with “the venue owner’s mate” doing the sound. The type where you had interacted with more people filling up your car’s tank at the petrol station on the way there than during the actual show. That type where 70% of the audience is made up by the members of whatever band was booked after you by an aspiring “promoter” who thought that creating a Facebook event for your gig was enough to draw a crowd. It’s all part of the journey and I’m laughing about it now, but they were dreadful at the time. I’m sure there isn’t a band that hasn’t experienced these sorts of gigs! 😉
We played plenty of such gigs early on but calling one out in particular would feel wrong! ;-).
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Hi Diana!
We have to be honest – other than the name, we didn’t know a thing about Roger Miller before you sent those song links but they were a joy to watch, especially the live one!
The American stars of the mid-60s era had their own kind of charm, there is no doubt about that, even though it was so different to what was happening over in cheeky Britain. We’ll dig in a bit more and check out some of his albums!
Hope you’re doing great!
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Oh how our parents would have wished for at least one of us to be the organised one ????
It is really interesting that your daughters had such different characters. We also knew twins that were the polar opposite of one another but that was never the case for us.
While there are definitely a lot of differences in character between the both of us I would still say we are more alike than not, compared to most people.
Since it doesn’t boil down to easy things like one being messy, one being organised for us it would take quite a lot of analysing and writing to get our character differences across here, which might be too big of an essay for a reply here.
A short, humble attempt: Mona is a bit more outgoing than me, I am a bit more “in my head” sometimes, while Mona has a very creative chaoticness about her, she still often has a structured approach to things, while I work my way through a mess until I find creativity through the process, I’m a bit more of a “feeler”, she’s a bit more of a “thinker” but all in all I think we do balance each other out quite nicely.
And we share the vast majority of interests and hobbies which is pretty cool to have in a sibling and “business partner” 🙂
Hope that gave you a bit of insight!
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Hi John,
We get a lot of great requests everyday and love that people think of songs that they believe would suit us. We have a list of potential songs we might give a go and we sometimes add people’s suggestions to it, if it’s one we really like and haven’t thought of yet.
In the end we simply chose the songs that we love the most!
But of course, there are many things that also play a role in our decision-making to various degrees: Whether we resonate with the song, whether we think we could make the song our own, whether it works for a Duo Session / Full Arrangement (depending on what we’re trying to record at the time), whether we have a special personal relationship to that song, whether we really like the message/lyrics of the tune, whether we think it would do well on YouTube or be an MLT Club song only, whether we’re intrigued by the challenge of covering it, whether we’ve covered the artist before or want to try something new, etc. etc. etc.
There isn’t really one “recipe” we go with, when it comes to picking these songs. The most important thing is that we feel excited about the idea of covering that tune. If we do, then it’s usually a fun process and we’re happy with the outcome 🙂
