MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Yuja is amazingly talented. I also thought she needs a good piano to be able to do that too. The action needs to be in good condition to play that fast.
And it reminds me of something I used to tell people.
“If the leader calls a Rock tune, it doesn’t matter if you can’t play Rachmaninoff.” You can play lots of styles of piano really well without ever playing like that, or even playing stride
Too bad you can’t hear some of the old time players, to see how they could play. Looking at the music they wrote, they must have played really well.
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Jung,
I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but I just found someone on Twitter giving love to the Twins, and I shared it back.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1681741220903616512
MonaLisa Twins - Any Other Day (Original) Official Video - Watch here https://t.co/RaJQrmJiFc - Follow @MonaLisa_Twins #MonalisaTwins pic.twitter.com/tNr7yVMX0K
— Metal Rock Punk News (@MetalRockPunkN) July 19, 2023 -
And I’ll mention one more thought.
Can you imagine those two toddlers we see in some videos, wandering around at a home with a studio in it, with pro musicians coming and going, growing up that way.
It’s no wonder Mona and Lisa speak music so well.
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Everything he said is true. I can think of a lot of examples. And he said it really well. He is a teacher indeed. Thanks for posting that, Ian.
I’m going to share that vid with other people. So many Ted talks that I’ve seen that move me – that was another great one.
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You said, “Music really is a language.”
Agreed. I’ve always said that.
I think that’s one reason it’s so universal.
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I don’t know if Guinness tracks that, but tempo on songs can be stated as bpm, beats per minute. It might be on the sheet music. So it probably wouldn’t be that hard to track.
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Always liked “I’m not in Love”. Of course, I wasn’t in love with it…
Interesting how they tell you how they split the atom to produce it. And show this pic of a Moog that’s looking a bit different from the ones I remember in the ’70s. I recall Minimoogs from that era. This is serious patch cords, what I think of as more like ’60s stuff. Idk, I didn’t own either one at the time, but friends of mine did.
The keyboard I bought 10 years ago came with a patch that sounds an awful lot like that wall of sound mix of vocals that they used. I guess that’s paying homage to what they did.
So props to them for finding a way to do what they needed for the song in the mid ’70s.
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I’m a bit upwind of you Jacki, they had tornado watches here. Don’t recall any were sighted.
Glad to hear you’re okay. Take care.
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Yes, that’s the cover I was referring to. Of course what you said about how you discover music can affect perception is very true. Music is not just a controlled experiment. I didn’t even know Crowded House wrote that song until maybe 10 years after I first heard the cover of it.
Reminds me, and this whole thread reminds me, of what a friend of mine used to say. “The only bad music is no music”. A lot of truth to that. And there is great music done all the time. Music is one of the great things uniting all of us. Thanks.
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That’s a great song. Huge for Crowded House, but also big for Sixpence None the Richer. I heard their cover of if on the Smallville tv show and looked it up. I think I like SNTR’s version even better than the original, but they’re both great.
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I love Nothing is in Vain too.
I am familiar with the BTS vid for Nothing is in Vain. I own a DVD player, but I think I only own one DVD. Fortunately, I can use that DVD to watch that BTS vid any time I want. Yes!
But I had never seen the Songbird BTS video until just now. I just watched it. Thanks for mentioning it. It’s great. I love those BTS videos, they definitely feed my interest in learning how things are done, plus at the same time, my interest in all things MLT.
I always feel like I’m on top of the world too when I’m listening to Lisa and Mona.
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Johnnypee, since you asked about the next video,
Janitor Joe, filmed in outer space, courtesy of a hole in the roof of a school.
And I think JJ will have one of those trademark red balloons too.
I mean, I’m sitting here watching the Nothing is in Vain vid, with its cameo of the Hubble telescope, interplanetary fish, etc., so why not?
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And, 3rd time’s the charm, I thought of one more thing to mention.
For the first few months after I joined the Club, I did not try to start a new thread in the Forum. You know, that old terra incognita thing.
But then I tried and found that I am not able to start a new thread; the page just greys out. I reported this not long ago in the Support area and Papa Rudi replied saying he was having a developer look at issues mentioned in that thread.
Maybe that slowed recent participation rates too? Idk.
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Okay, if I didn’t put you to sleep with that last post, here are a few more thoughts.
You’ve probably heard of the Pareto rule, aka the 80/20 rule. Below is a Wikipedia entry talking about how that might apply to the web. And for the web, the # being offered is that 1% of users on a web message board produce content, 99% are lurkers. Or thereabouts. Obviously it varies by board.
One thing that occurs to me, which maybe you veterans could weigh in on, but during the Advent Calendar days, I’m guessing the participation rate seriously jumps. I know I’ll be there daily.
I also have no doubt it jumps on my favorite day of the week, too — Friday. This site is about Twins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
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Jung, when you say there are Club members who participate in the Intergalactic Club but not much here, do you have an idea of how many people that is? I saw that club a while back on Facebook, but never checked it out. I’m also kind of wondering if you mean actively posting there and not here, or what you meant by that. Sorry if I am just misunderstanding you.
When I joined in February, one thing I noticed early on was that I could see how many members there were, and at that time, there were 699, iirc. So it seems like membership here is pretty steady in the last 6 months. The other thing I checked back then, was how many of those 699 had been active in the past month. I looked at that since membership is month to month.
The answer was 54%.
I just checked again, and in the past month, there are 55% active here.
Stability is a good thing, sometimes. And in this case I suspect it is.
Or, maybe Mona, Lisa and Michaela should just have birthdays every month…