MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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“…Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we’ve lost along the way, yeah
In this bright future you can’t forget your past
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I’m from Michigan, but I was driving 9W last summer; my nephew, who lives in Albany, was getting married in Poughkeepsie. Not as far north as that sign.
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in Tarrytown at my niece’s wedding. Even further south.
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I’m remembering Nights in White Satin reading this.
Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an IllusionClara Bow, in person or a colorized photo, could appear in color or bw, depending on ambient light. Teens don’t use their bw vision as often as they did millennia ago, but probably still use it daily.
I think it’s just another tool for the artist. Almost like timbre to a musician.
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Yeah, heard that on the radio last night. He was great.
Lots of memories of listening to him and learning and playing his songs back when I was in high school and just started playing guitar.
If You Could Read My Mind was probably my favorite, but I remember playing Carefree Highway back then too.
When I started listening to Mona and Lisa, I realized it had been a long time since I’d done much listening to someone just playing acoustic guitar and singing. When I was younger I listened to people like Lightfoot, or Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, people like that. But I had gotten away from it.
Maybe it’s more a reflection of my age than anything else, but it seems like we have lost so many greats in recent years.
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You might find the TESS project interesting.
Most exoplanets are found when they transit in front of their star. During the time a planet orbits between its star and earth, the planet blocks a little of the light from the star so it’s slightly dimmer, so even though you can’t see much or any of the planet since the star is too bright, you still know it’s there.
But there are other reasons a star’s light can fluctuate too, and so far, the automated solutions they have for deciding which of these are actually planets are not as good at doing it as humans are. So NASA looked for volunteers to help find planets. That’s the TESS program.
Once they find a real planet, they can swing JWST and friends over to check it out in detail, and see if it’s got water, oxygen, etc., in the atmosphere, so maybe it’s got life.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be known as the person who found the first planet that had life on it? Small chance, sure, but even if they don’t find life on it, your name would be attached to that planet forever, since you found it.
I’m not sure this is still ongoing, but NASA does a lot of cool programs, and people can get involved sometimes.
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I don’t have any MLT songs that aren’t my favorites, but Starman is also right up by the top for me among their covers.
Unbelievable, like a Duo Session on Mars. As I’ve said before, the genius of Bowie + the genius of the Twins.
Oscar for Best Picture and Best Cinematography.
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I enjoyed hearing Janitor Joe was originally Lisa’s idea. I love that song. I’m wondering if Joe’s up there right now, wrenching with his channel lock, laughing as he sends these weird JWST pics back to earth. Maybe that’s what he was up to.
It has that awesome guitar lick right off the bat that always has me dancing. And my recent look into what viral songs have in common suggests, duh, dancing. Makes sense to me. Music is a total body experience.
I’ve always been interested in Astronomy. This is quite a time period we’re living in — Janitors going interstellar and the best music in the multiverse.
Astronomer is a great job, kind of like Economist. Facts are optional, but you get to pretend like you know what’s going on.
And it reminded me of something else…..Jai Guru Deva — Om
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I’ve had a theory for a while that the Twins are doing their marathon running since they know they’ll have to outrun crowds of fans soon, like the Beatles did. Twinmania. I’m only partially joking about that.
I think the explosion is already in progress.
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One reason those vids look interesting is that there were 200 different automakers in America in 1920.
As far as safety goes, I did some looking at New York City.
In 2019, there were 121 pedestrian deaths.
In 1920, there were 114 pedestrian deaths.
Not that much difference, but there were more than 3.3 times the number of people living there in 2019 than a century earlier.
You guys are right, Jung and Tim. It was dangerous crossing the street back then.
But on that video, and so many others, you look at it and can tell it’s been colorized. I don’t think that helps.
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In the song the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon mentions Mariners’ Church in Detroit where every year they ring the bells 29 times for the sailors lost on that ship.
Yesterday they rang it 30 times. Once for each sailor, plus once for Gordon Lightfoot.
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Fred,
99 Luft Balloons is definitely known in America.
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Someday, way in the future, that prop will have it’s own spot in the MonaLisa Twins Museum in Liverpool.
One More Time is my favorite video. Of course, any video that has multiple Monas and Lisas in it has a big advantage.
In the middle of that dancing Lisa appears to get flipped up in the air, and you don’t get a really clear view of it. I always wondered if there was a stunt double doing that. 😉
But it can’t have been more dangerous than jumping out of an airplane or running a 1/2 marathon through a Welsh bog, right?
I think Lisa should have won Best Actress Oscar for that, and Mona should have gotten Best Supporting Actress. That was a great video.
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I think you can tell it’s a B-3/C-3 by the sound. I mean, if it was easy to imitate that sound, why would anyone want to mess with a box that weighs 400 pounds?
But this was for music from the ’50s to the ’70s. In the ’80s the first polyphonic synths and samplers came out. Synths can generate a sound that sounds organish, and samplers use recordings of the real thing. So then it’s harder to be sure of what you’re listening to. A sample can be a recording of an actual Hammond. But even if it is, there’s still a difference in how it can be played, for example.
And there are other organs that sound similar too. Some with the Hammond name on them. But there are a lot of factors in something like this. I remember studying human perception in college, lots of things can affect this. I mean, a CD and an MP3 are quite different, can you tell which is which?
When you mentioned Three Dog Night, I figured it was a B-3 based on how it sounded and when it was recorded, plus like Tomás said, Greenspoon was known for playing one.
I am not an organ player. I have no doubt Rudi could tell you a lot more than I can about them, since he’s a pro and I’m not. But I do think the C-3 he has now is still the gold standard for that sound.
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Jacki,
If you click on your name in the upper right corner of the page, then click on Comments, you can see what comments you’ve made.
I sometimes check on what I posted too.
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Joey played at the Detroit International Jazz Festival a number of times, and not too long ago. I saw him there, but didn’t know much about him otherwise.