Guest Steve
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OK, I’ll take a stab based on which ones I find myself going back to the most.
5. California Dreamin’
4. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
3. Two of Us
2. Bus Stop
1. Hotel California
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Thank you Michaela. I posted an appreciative message on the puzzle page when I discovered the archive earlier today. It’s so awesome that you guys listen to us and take our suggestions seriously. This whole MLT club is truly an enjoyable experience.
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As a child I was taught, ladies before gentlemen so I’ll let the twins chime in first before making my own comments, if I feel the need. For you USA 60’s dinosaurs that grew up on 60’s TV, I’m like Mr. Ed in that I don’t talk unless I have something to say.
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If I did one my list would certainly include Hotel California. Since everything I have is on my iPod, I put them all in one playlist and hit random. Then I’m surprised when the next song plays since I don’t know what it’s going to be. That’s my preference because as far as I’m concerned they’re all the very best selections.
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“How you doing?” is the most unanswered question there is. I’ve always been tempted to say to someone that says that to me “OMG, let me tell you about the day I had today.” Then start going on about anything and nothing. Kind of like my other threat of bringing a covered disk to a family gathering; just that, a dish with a cover and nothing inside (of course that gag would be followed with an edible treat of some kind waiting in my car to be retrieved.).
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Not to worry guys, my sister tells me I have a great sense of humor. But me tell lies? Well not in the pool. The creature that lives at the bottom doesn’t like liars.
So let me share a story with you regarding words meaning different things. Shortly after I arrived in England in 1972 some guys and I went to a pub in Scarborough. Now back in the 70’s the shag cut (ala Jane Fonda) was quite popular. So one of the local girls we were sitting with had a shag cut so I mentioned how I liked her shag not knowing that in England shag meant something altogether different as I’m sure you know that other meaning. The girls all laughed and I’m like, what did I say? It was explained and I never made that comment again. Probably said something harmless like, I like your hair.
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Lisa, what an impressive, well thought out response and if I didn’t know any better I would never guess that English is your second language.
Two points you elude to that fascinate the hell out of me are time travel and where the ideas come from.
I’m a wanna be author and I’ve written stories with and element of time in them without traversing back in some machine like H.G. Wells’ time traveler did but rather through the mind and through dreams.
Music takes me back to another time as I remember when I first heard a particular song and what I was doing and for a brief 2 to 3 minute period I’m back in my stomping grounds I call the 60’s. To me music is an escape to another time where things made sense and life, to me, was simpler.
As a writer, I find it interesting where my ideas come from. I remember lying on a raft in my pool last summer looking at my surroundings and thinking how everything, green grass, trees, rabbits, birds, clouds looked the same as it did when I was a kid and could almost put myself back in the 60’s. As I watched a jet fly across the sky and through a cloud the idea came to me for the story.
Musically, in my younger days I wrote a lot of songs whose ideas came to me in dreams or just staring at an object that placed a single line of lyric in my head and off it went or maybe just some phrase I heard that intrigued me. Of course as I look back at those songs many written in long hand that I still have, most of them, to quote John Lennon, are pure rubbish and I even wonder what in the world I was thinking when I wrote them. But they do represent a part of what I am.
But I love reading about the songs of other artists and where their ideas came from and I just find it all so interesting. I read a lot of Stephen King and enjoy reading his postscripts where he talks about how the story idea was born and I include one at the end of each of my stories as well. It’s all just so fascinating. So yeah, music taking me back to a moment in time and always curious about where the ideas/inspiration comes from is so intriguing to me.
And as I’ve said so many times before, I can’t imagine my world without music. I guess that was one of my reasons for taking guitar lessons when I was 15 (that and wanting to be in a band). I have an inherent need to not only listen to music but to make my own music as well. Like Wild Thing, it moves me.
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Lisa, I watched Hotel California again which seems like the 100th time and have another question. Now I’m nowhere versed on shooting music videos but I noticed during the ending solo while sitting on the side of the truck bed that what your fingering seems to be totally in sync with the music. Now I know what we’re hearing is the studio recording and not what you’re actually playing in the truck. But my question is how do you go about making a video like this? Is this segment shot with the song playing off camera where you’re able to match what we’re hearing? I know they are done in sections or scenes as it were at least I’m pretty sure they are. But I’m really interested in the process for making music videos like this. If this is explained elsewhere in the club could you kindly point me in that direction and I’ll go there and check it out. Thank you.
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I think I know what they’re saying. So without coming right out and saying it, here’s another clue for you all: 11/22/68.
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To paraphrase from Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project
Without music, color becomes pallor, man becomes [emotionless], home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment motionless.
It’s rather haunting but I can’t imagine a world without music. It covers the full spectrum of human emotions and for a brief moment allows us to forget our troubles and become one with the music. This is why I’m such a fan of MLT and The Beatles. Their music lifts me up, brightens my mood, gets my toes tapping or my eyes watering. It can be thought provoking but it always touches my inner feelings. The absence of music is akin to the silence of the grave. I hope I can somehow take music with me when I depart for the next plateau.
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Tim why don’t you use that app on the very end of Strawberry Fields and tell us if John is saying “I buried Paul” or “I’m very bored.” if it’s even John saying it.
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I think someone’s whispering Coo-coo-ca-choo and since it follows “The walrus was Paul” it makes sense.
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Go for it. Play that groovy MLT music while she’s still in the womb. Never too early to start.
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I always find it fun to try and figure out who does lead vocal on what song. I am seeing a trend developing in that Mona seems to be more of the rocker between the two. But I am starting to hear little things in their voices that are pointing me to one or the other. It’s not as easy as Lennon and McCartney but I guess that comes from years of listening to their work over and over and over… But no matter who sings lead I thoroughly enjoy MLT’s work.
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Well today before we left to take him to school he says to me, “Do you have the CD?” So I grabbed volume 3 and off we went. And yesterday my wife and I were out an about so I took volume 2 and 3 with me and we got all the way through 2 and half way through 3. On the way home we stopped at the American Legion for a drink and I said, “So the girls are pretty good, aren’t they?” She agreed. A few weeks back we went out and I took Orange with us and played it. I saw her tapping her foot to In It For Love. She’s not an easy one to convert to my kind of music but I think she’s digging the Twins. There is a gap between us, she was starting high school when the 60’s ended and I was graduating. Her family was more into country which I’ve never been, and I was into the San Francisco scene and British Invasion.
