MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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Here’s another great song about being home with a great warm, cozy live feeling. I never really appreciated John Denver’s talent when I was younger but I sure do now. What a gifted singer, songwriter and musician. One of America’s best.
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David, this could be a great discussion for the holidays as this season between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when I always think about family and friends. I was blessed to be born into a large family in the heartland of America. And even though it seems most of the good ones have passed away and only the a-holes are left, there really are still a lot of great people around and I love spending time with the young ones and hopefully teaching them a thing or two. I think no matter what you do in life and how far you go there is nothing like being home with the people you love.
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One of my favorite bands was the Canadian prog-rock band Rush, Arguably the best three rock musicians to be in the same band together. There’s actually a lot of great 3 piece bands but I don’t know any others that could make that much sound. I never seen them live but their first live album All The Worlds A Stage made me a fan for life and they continued to always get better. This is a clip from their 30th anniversary tour. A song called The Spirit of Radio which they do start playing after a 7 minute intro made up of guitar riffs and melodies from 30 years of classic songs. Always a great performance from this band.
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I had forgotten about Melanie until the Twins released their cover of Look What They’ve Done To My Song. I remember that song and Brand New Key from when I was young. Since the Twins release I have went down the Melanie rabbit hole on YouTube several times. What a talented and uniquely gifted singer and songwriter. It’s hard to describe what makes her special, she is just that, special. And she would have been so fun to hear live.
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David, John had a lot of great songs, my older brother Tom loved John Denver and played a lot of his songs. Hopefully I can share more of his songs in the weeks and months and hopefully years to come.
Here’s one I found with Thanks in the title. Slade was a glam-rock band from Wolverhampton U.K. that was huge in Europe in the 70’s but could never quite make it in the States. The had some success in the 80’s with the song My Oh My and the band Quiet Riot had a huge hit with a Slade cover called C’mon Feel The Noize. I always liked their music and their crazy stage outfits. I loved the singer Noddy Holder’s voice, he could belt out a song like no one else, the “Wolf of Wolverhampton”. This is a song from a soundtrack album for their movie Slade In Flame called Thanks For The Memories. It’s not the Bob Hope song.
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Roger, I love Beth Hart, she’s a powerhouse singer and performer. She should be world famous, thanks for posting that link. This category may take some thinking, Lol. But I will find something.
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Thanks Jung, yeah the Moody Blues are one of those bands that are great to listen to through a good pair of headphones and just relax and drift away with the music, beautiful stuff. I like the way this song goes into almost a boogie beat between the verses, almost like two different songs.
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Daryl, thanks for that clip. I hope everyone following this thread listens to that one. I like Procol Harem’s music and for their music to be surrounded or engulfed within the symphony is a beautiful sound. It would have been amazing to be there but that is a great recording too. I bet it was a great feeling playing on that stage too. I was in a natural amphitheater once in the Rockies outside of Colorado Springs. No one was playing there, we were just exploring the area and it was just a natural area in the mountain where they built the stage. Me and my nephew went to the top of the seating area and my brother and sister stood on the stage singing and we could hear every note. It’s true that sometimes the venue makes a difference in how the music sounds and feels.
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Jung, thanks for that one, I love it. Grand Funk was a great Rock n Roll band that I loved as a teenager in the 70’s. I don’t think any white boy had more rhythm than Mark Farner. Must be a Motown thing. Not too many bands liked to follow them at a live show, ask Led Zeppelin.
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Chris, yeah Stevie was one of the greatest. That would have been a great experience to listen to him play to a huge crowd like that. Like I said in another comment, I think the biggest concert crowd I was in was for Motley Crue at Ft. McCoy, I think it was around 10,000. I was at a Packers-Bears game of 78,000+ and we had to empty the stands because of lightning. 78,000 people trying to get to the bathrooms at the same time, that was fun (not). It took me 45 minutes to get to the bathroom and back to my seat and the game was re-starting.
Here’s a clip with a massive crowd. The original Lynyrd Skynyrd band playing in Knebworth in 1976. They were a great Southern country-rock band but in all fairness here, they were opening for the Rolling Stones.https://youtu.be/NAbxZrzEvJQ?feature=shared
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Yeah she is amazing, she came back a few years later as the headliner and everybody knew who she was. It was a huge crowd and we had the grandstands rocking and it was a great show but something about that first show and being that close to an incredible vocalist singing at the top her lungs, I swear she didn’t need a microphone. I’m sure she wondered why I was just standing there, I was in a trance. Every time her eyes met mine it was like a laser burning into my brain. It was an experience I could never get listening to a record, even a live one.
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Yeah I wasn’t sure of the dates or who was president. I think It had been an annual event to have the Beach Boys there but somebody was trying to cancel it until the fans spoke up.
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Yeah Jung, there isn’t a band that’s more American than the Beach Boys. They pretty much defined the California sound in the 60’s and beyond and set the standard for Rock n Roll harmonies. Yeah, I love seeing Brian on stage and Dennis back there pounding the Drums. I think they really lost something when he passed away. I know first hand you really can’t replace a brother.
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Thanks Jung, What an amazing performance. I couldn’t imagine being in a crowd that big listening to the Beach Boys and singing and bopping along to the music. What a great time. As I recall, initially the White House had cancelled the show saying the Beach Boys weren’t the image of America that they wanted to project. Almost instantly they got so much backlash from the public that they were forced to reschedule it and apologize to both the American public and the band. Geez, if the Beach Boys don’t represent America then you might as well make the Grand Canyon a garbage dump and shoot all the bald eagles. Politicians should keep their noses out of music and sports, sorry about the rant. I’ve never been in a crowd that size at a concert, maybe 10,000 at some of the outdoor concerts on the Ft. McCoy military base. Motley Crue had a big crowd there as well as Brooks & Dunn/ Lynyrd Skynyrd show.
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Hi Nicholas, That’s an interesting way to look at it and it makes a lot of sense. When an artist is recording in the studio they are trying to put their best interpretation of their song on to the tape, and can make changes and try different mixes to see what sounds the best. Maybe that’s why they call the finished disc a record. If I’m listening to music at home or in the car I’d rather listen to studio music. A lot of live records just aren’t that great sound wise. There are a few exceptions of course like the Twins Live at the Cavern Club, and it’s mostly because of the outstanding sound recording by Papa Rudi. When I go see a live show, the sound doesn’t have to be perfect nor do the songs have to be perfect. I go to watch and listen to human beings playing music and I expect mistakes. But there is a connection between me and the artists that I can’t get from a record. It’s hard to explain but I’m sure most music fans can relate to it.
Here’s a live video of The MonaLisa Twins at the Half Moon Putney probably recorded with a phone or laptop. The sound isn’t real good but the feeling is there, along with the obvious talent of the performers. I love the vocals of Mona and James, I love the sound of Jake’s drums and Mona’s harmonica and I love watching Lisa play her guitar, changing tone settings while singing lead. I love hearing Nothing Is In Vain played live. I hope I don’t get in trouble for sharing a MLT video that was made by someone else.
