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YES, cold fingers while playing guitar (or any instrument, really) are the worst! The best way to avoid it is to hold your hands under warm water for a good few minutes, then dry them really well and then keep them in your pockets for as long as possible. It doesn’t always work, and especially in video shoots like “The Wide, Wide Land” we had to accept having icicles for fingers, but we always try to make it work somehow.
Luckily we’ve had a bit more luck with recent video shoots but you’re right, we have frozen a lot in the name of art ????
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Hi Michael,
I edited that part together. There was no way I was gonna leave in the entirety of Lisa’s 5-minute ramble so I had to take drastic measures 😉 -
A scripted spontaneous moment of klutziness
???? And all i gotta do is … act naaaturally ????
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Haha, that was a poll we did during last year’s Advent Calendar. Mona and Michaela were team “raisin” and Dad and I were “anti-raisin” (with Dad being the real extremist of the group 😉 ).
We’re all very cool with nuts, but my favourite would be pecans. Lately I’ve been stuffing dates (100x better than raisins) with pecans for a little sweet snack. Add a glass of milk … heaven!
As much as Mona and I love mixing sweet and savoury foods (Pizza Hawaii is the best and nobody can convince me otherwise), mixing tuna and raisins seems wild. But we’re happy to try everything once 😉
We hope you’re doing fabulous and we once again say thank you for your recent donation!
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Hi Walter,
Yes, that’s a classical nylon string guitar I played on Time Of The Season. I doubled up the solo so it is me playing several tracks on top of each other. I thought it added an interesting touch to the whole thing.I couldn’t remember what electric guitar (no acoustics) we used for the rhythm part on “White Room” so I had to open up the recording session. So … The rhythm parts were played on the trusty Gretsch Duo Jet, not the Rickenbacker. Mona played the drums on the song which I remember her enjoying a lot. She loves Ginger Baker!
I recorded the lead parts on a Fender Strat and used a Wah effect setting from my boss GT-8 pedal. It was fun to revisit that song just now. Since it isn’t on YouTube it’s been quite a while since I last heard it. It was such a cool song to play 🙂
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks, we’ll consider it! We try to get the balance right between posting to YouTube regularly but also keeping Club content exclusive as a “thank you” for everyone’s extra support. It is tricky to navigate that line sometimes but we do our best. We’ve still got plenty of videos planned for the rest of the year for both the MLT Club and the channel and can’t wait to share them with everyone! -
Hi Thomas,
We learned the hard way that we have a very different taste regarding the ideal bass sound than most bass players. It is almost 180 degree opposite to the development bass sound has taken in popular music.
One of the reasons we like 60s music so much is the bass sound from this era: this humming, pushing bass that you can feel more in your stomach rather than hear with your ears when playing in lower registers. At the same time you would hear lots of infatuating lyrical melody lines. A perfect accompaniment that never interferes with vocals or guitars but supports and enhances the song.
Nowadays basses often get praised for their sustain, how much treble they can produce or how many strings they have. That is perfectly fine when you also want to use them as a solo instrument. Since we care more about how the bass sounds within a song, we usually prefer almost exactly the opposite: a rather short sustain with a distinct and very defined attack, a warm wooden tone. And we prefer short-scale and 4 string basses because of the better playability. We also never missed the only thing you really gain with a 5 or more string bass – the lower notes. If we’d really need a low D we’d prefer to tune the E string down but we never had to.
To answer your questions:
1) As we are not into the style of music where a five or more string bass can shine, like Funk or Jazz/Rock/Fusion, we think it is mostly not the right tool for our purposes.
2) Neither 🙂 It is just not the kind of sound we’re after. Our favourite bass sounds are a great acoustic double bass, a Höfner violin bass, a Rickenbacker 4001 and all with flatwound strings. One of the most important choices regarding sound are the strings. We exclusively use a special kind of flatwounds that have a lot of thump and enough presence to not sound too muddy but still sound like a bass and not like a guitar.
3) He did not bring an instrument but we dimly remember that he might have mentioned his baritone guitar (we talked a lot about instruments).
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Hi Thomas,
Since Dad is the main bassist in the house, we’ve passed this question on to him 🙂 -
Vegemite belongs on the bottom of a volcano somewhere in the middle of an ocean surrounded by radioactive sharks. ????
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We’re glad you liked the pictures! Many of them were taken with the camera you sent us for our Birthday ♥ It’s perfect for these little adventure trips. Again a huge Thank You.
We are definitely more avid hikers/outdoorers now in comparison to our younger selves (especially our teen version) but there are still many incredible trips and times we spent in nature when we were younger.
Some of my favourite childhood memories are from the time we spent driving around places like Croatia or Corsica in our Camper Van with Dad and later also Michaela ♥ I especially remember being absolutely spellbound by the beauty of Corsica and all the amazing, sometimes hidden little spots that Michaela introduced us two (she had been there prior). The wild lakes and rivers we jumped into, the waterfalls and woods and amazing sunsets we would watch from the roof of our car.
Some summers we also would stay with our grandparents in the countryside. Michaela’s parents owned a little hut in the woods where we spent the summers biking and playing with our friends from sunrise to sunset. We would also spend many holidays at extended family’s farms and always loved getting dirty and playing outside with the animals.
As for hikes, one of the most memorable ones would have been the trip we took with Michaela’s parents to Eastern and Southern Tyrol where we spent many days hiking the incredible Alps and Dolomites. We posted some photos of it in the MLT Club a while ago: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/osttirol-photo-post/
Nature is adventure and will forever play a big part in our lives ♥
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Hi Tim,
Of course, that was one of the first things our host families made us try when we arrived in Australia 😉 I initially thought it tasted horrendous … bitter, salty, slightly fishy … but after eating it “correctly”, with lots of butter on toast, it started to grow on me. Soon I was making myself Vegemite sandwiches for lunch! Heck, I’ll actually make myself one right now, it’s been ages since I had one, and we still have a little jar that an Aussie friend brought us on a visit. -
Hi Alexandre,
As you know, we love the Beatles and their music has played an incredibly important part in our own journey. By covering their music, we have not only been able to learn a lot as musicians and songwriters, but also could reach a like-minded audience and later on play our own music to them. We truly owe them a lot ♥
So I feel like we will always continue to cover more songs by them from time to time, even if we focus more on our own original music. It is too much fun not to 😉
Their later work is more suitable for studio projects (rather than Duo Session) so we might tackle some of their late-60s songs for a future “MLT play Beatles & more” volume.
We have uploaded a very early cover of “Strawberry Fields” we did when we were 15 here.
Thanks for the question and stay beatley!
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Hi Leif,
These new taxes are incredibly annoying, and we are sorry in case these costs were unexpected for you. It all came with the EU putting new regulations in place for all orders from outside the union, which since Brexit now also includes the UK.
These past few months we have spent a lot of time researching and considering new distribution alternatives for international orders. We have been able to make some changes and bring the shipping prices down but we can’t do anything about the import VAT for orders from outside the EU, unfortunately.
Thanks for buying the albums, we hope you are enjoying the music!
Stay groovy!
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Hi Roger,
We saw your question here. First off, a big thank you for wanting to send us something for Christmas! We consider ourselves very lucky ducks!
Knowing how long some parcels have taken during the height of last year’s holiday chaos, you’re definitely safer off sending it sooner than later. We don’t mind holding on to the parcel for a bit but maybe leave a little note like “don’t open till Christmas” on the outside of the package so we don’t accidentally have a sneak peek 😉
And we’re sorry that you somehow ended up on a test page, it’s something that shouldn’t have happened. We have a few test pages to fix bugs, test out new features etc. so we can only imagine the confusion of suddenly ending up in a slightly different version of our homepage where half the functions are disabled. We are looking into it right now to make sure this won’t happen again!
Thanks again and have a groovy day.
