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That’s hard to say. As much as we love playing live we decided we’ll jump straight into working on the next original album over anything else. If and how we’d fit in live performances into the next year isn’t decided yet.
With all you groovy people being spread around the globe so much we think at least for now it’s more fun for everyone if we focus on videos and new releases. Of course all of that can still change but at least for now that’s the rough plan 🙂
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Hello, fellow guitar player! 🙂 We love how many people here play music themselves, especially Beatles stuff! Sorry that you missed us at the Cavern, it would have been great to see you at a show there.
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Hi Howard!
Thanks for that lovely introduction, your pre-orders and for joining the club! The full triad 😉 ❤
Unfortunately we’ve never gotten a chance to see Brisbane during our 6-month stay in Australia but if the people there are anything like the rest of your country it must be a terrific place!Thanks for sharing a bit of your life with us too – we love hearing details like that. Seeing the Stones in ‘73 must have been a treat!
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Hi John, just got back to your first forum post and will now have a look at your second one and everyone else’s that came in since 🙂
If we get some questions that we might want to think about a bit more before answering or if they come in before we’re about to “hit the sack”, we might not always be able to get back right away. But hey, so far we did them all within 24 hours! 😉
We’ll try to be in here at least once a day for now. We love reading everyone’s questions, getting involved and hearing people’s thoughts and feedback.
Gonna go through some more questions now, then getting back to working on a new MLT Club surprise!
Welcome to the Club and thanks for joining us, John!
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Thanks John! Glad you liked our version of Yesterday. We were a bit nervous about covering it 🙂
About Paul’s new album: I’ve only listened to it once in its entirety so I can’t say very much yet. On first listen I left liking some songs but I’m not going to comment on “Fuh You” 😉
Considering the life Paul has lived I’m always hoping for more depth lyrically but then again he has enough songs under his belt to have said and done it all before. I think the album is very well recorded and the sound is amazing. And like you said, it’s probably the kind of album that would grow on me over time.
And it’s fascinating how he’s constantly doing, creating and involved in all sorts of projects. He just doesn’t slow down, does he? 🙂
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Welcome, Eduard! We’re also glad to see so many fellow Beatles fans and musicians here and thanks for the compliments about our original music. We’re glad that’s what you stayed here for! We’re working on more of that 😉
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Yeah! Hi Mike, thank for joining us here! Had to google what a mandolin capo looks like and now I want one and we don’t even own a mandolin. They are tiny and adorable! Do you play it in the usual G-D-E-A tuning? We’ve never worked with that tuning or gotten the hang of it but are always intrigued by the differences in string instruments.
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Hello to the East and welcome to the MLT family 🙂 Glad we made it on your radar through our “Drive My Car” video and that you decided to join us here. Kon-nichi-wa! I used to have a japanese housemate when I was on student exchange in Australia/Adelaide and I always made her teach me some words. The only thing I still remember is katatsumuri … not the most useful of words haha 🙂 Hope you’ll have lots of fun here! Moshi moshi!
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All the new songs on the albums are recorded from scratch at the studio. We’re still planning on doing something with the Cavern recordings at some point but that’s a different project for a different time 😉 We purposefully didn’t want to mix the two.
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For “She’s Leaving Home” maybe? 😉 We’ve never had the chance to try a harp but if we ever came across one I’m sure we’d have a go! There are so many instruments we’d love to master a bit more before picking up new ones but it’s tempting.
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It’s hard to rank them! My list would look quite similar although I’d put “In It For Love” in there somewhere.
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No More Worries Company – Mona & Lisa lead
Once Upon A Time – Lisa lead, Mona harmonies
Close To You – Lisa lead, Mona harmonies
It’s Alright – Mona “Teachers”, Lisa verses, Both chorus
Waiting For The Waiter – Lisa lead, Mona harmonies
In It For Love – Lisa lead, Mona harmonies
Count On Me – Lisa 1st verse, then both
Sweet Lorraine – Mona lead, Lisa harmonies
That’s Life – Lisa lead, Mona harmonies
Club 27 – Mona lead, Lisa harmonies
Still A Friend Of mine – Lisa lead, Mona harmoniesWould you have gotten everything right? If you asked us we’d say that we don’t sound very alike but of course it’s easy telling yourself apart. 😉
I already mentioned in a different forum post that I had the initial idea to write Count On Me during a power blackout back in Austria. I was sitting in complete darkness, quite literally.
When working more on the lyrics later on, I didn’t struggle much with the verses. It is something that is on my mind a lot. Trying to figure out one’s place in this world, never quite feeling at ease, doubting, questioning but in the end trusting in the journey. You know, the sort of existential stuff that keeps you up at night 😉But I wasn’t quite sure where to take it for the chorus. I knew I wanted to emphasize the positive sides of the relationships in my life that helped me figure out those “bigger” questions. How important it is to have people around you that you can trust. The fact that Dad came up with the lyrics for the chorus, kind of refers to exactly what the song ended up being about. What do the kids call it? It was kind of … meta? 😉
Family played a big role in helping me figure out “life stuff” so I love that he gave it that spin in the chorus. And I also just wanted to write a folk song in C that goes to an E before it hits the F … always wanted to use that chord progression haha.
Hope that answered your question 🙂
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Okay so from the top of my head, I’d say (in no particular order):
Sweet Lorraine, Count On Me, Still A Friend Of Mine, The Wide Wide Land, Club 27
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All pre-orders will get the signed postcards included in their parcel but all MLT Club members will get their actual CDs signed as well. We’ll see if we can make that a bit clearer on the website 🙂 It will be time to set up the signing station soon, we’ve already got the pens ready!
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Bear with me, complicated answer ahead:
We thought about that early on but it’s very complex and financially not feasible to release a DVD with cover songs, at least not at this point. The reason being that contrary to a cover CD release, where we simply pay royalties to the original songwriters through the standard Mechanical-Copyright Protection Societies it’s a much less straightforward process when you add the video element to the mix.
We would have to individually contact the copyright owners of all 24 songs that we played during that concert and all would have to agree that we can use our images in context with their song and sell it. The fees we would have to pay would be the same as if we were using their songs as a film score which gets charged by the minute.
So all in all we decided it’s not worth it, way too expensive and we’d rather put our energy and money on writing or covering new songs. We are fine to put them on YouTube since YouTube has their own deals with all the main music labels and publishers: the ad revenue money that gets generated through our cover songs gets passed on to the copyright holder so that’s why they don’t mind. 🙂
Long answer to a short question but you might find it interesting to know.
