MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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All Things Must Pass: A beautiful song in memory of George Harrison.
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Hi Claire
Thanks for sharing that. I never knew much about guitars, never mind Gretsch guitars before I discovered MLT. Lisa’s Gretsch Duo Jet is famous here for that unique Gretsch sound, ie the warm, rich tone and twangy articulate sound. I never knew some of my favourite musicians from decades past favoured the Gretsch too: Randy Bachman’s stolen 1957 Gretsch and decades long search and retrieval, Malcom Young’s 1963 Jet Firebird mentioned in the article, as well as others like George Harrison and Pete Townsend….
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“The Word” is love. And “All You Need Is Love”.
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Here is something totally different. In 1993 classical composer Michael Nyman’s piano piece for soundtrack to a movie “The Piano” was a big hit in the classical realm. I have the soundtrack to the movie “The Piano” and often like to listen to this piece. Was one of the piano pieces I really liked when I started piano lessons. It is really hauntingly beautiful.
https://youtu.be/nisjjuntbl4?si=BpljHph-byC_D-UB
From Wikipedia:
In 1993, Nyman’s popularity increased after he wrote the score to Jane Campion’s award-winning 1993 film The Piano. The album became a classical music best-seller with over three million copies. His soundtrack won an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award. He was nominated for a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe. -
If there was ever an underrated gem, this would be it. Brian Wilson’s unfinished follow up masterpiece to Pet Sounds, a response to Sgt Peppers, a song from the unfinished album Smile, “Surfs up”. It is honored here by David Crosby, Vince Gill, and Jimmy Webb.
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Hi Jackie
Being the geniuses they are and having dipped into the divine spring well of inspiration as Bob Dylan described it, the Fab 4 I have acquired some deeper intuition about the world. Loved what Ringo said.
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Hi Ed, I know this one, a brilliant song. The opening bars with the acoustic guitar sound and effects is wonderful, and really makes the song. They bring it back again towards the end, and the song takes off with the wonderful guitar work and vocal harmonies. Very nice.
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Tim, sorry to hear of your loss. I’m glad the song made you think of your very special Pretty Lady. Music is very special in that way. It’s one of the gems from the 70’s I listen to every now and then, and moves me every time.
I love the organ work, reminiscent of Whiter Shade of Pale. Apparently Trooper used a Hammond-B3 in the recording. It sounds beautiful.
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Great song Tim, the guitar bassline and vocals are wonderful. One of rock’s iconic classics.
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Thanks Tim. Listening to that song it really strikes a chord in me, and the lyrics make me a little emotional, and make me realize how fortunate I am to live in such a beautiful place, and gratitude to my parents for giving me all this. There are certainly a lot of gems right here in my backyard, a very big backyard, to explore and appreciate.
I will check out that channel you mentioned, will get to see some places around Prince George I missed getting to because of the fires.
I posted this one here before, from another Canadian band from the 70s that was really big in Canada. This was one of my faves from back then. A real gem.
To all the pretty ladies, especially the twins here we all adore and cherish. 💛❤
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Hi Joe
Wow, I would have loved to hear Surfs Up Part 2. I could only imagine what that must be like, perhaps one day that boot leg copy will get remastered properly and released. What a treasure trove that would be. You lucky guy, that performance with Brian and Jeff Beck must have been amazing.
Here is an excerpt of Brian Wilson’s explanation to the Surfs Up lyrics.
https://youtu.be/2ITDY7d4-UM?si=UE3II5giODZxRBSG
Those surfing songs were really about the joy in the universe Brian felt and God. They certainly brightened up my life growing up. I have “Brian Wilson Presents SMILE” 2004 CD album set with this song, will go listen to it later. I wish I had the vinyl box set with lights that Brian was so proudly displaying in that video. 😁
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Hi Roger
That must have been an amazing road trip, would love to do it one of these days. A few years ago we were planning to go up to Prince George and Prince Rupert half way up the BC coast, but we had a bad fire season that summer, and all routes up north were closed due to the wild fires, so had to call off the trip. But doing that drive up to Alaska is still one of my road trip goals.
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Hi Bud
When I first met MJ, my wife, we drove from Vancouver to Whistler Mountain which is about a 2 hour casual windy drive. I remember she was looking at the road map of British Columbia I had in the car trying to find Whistler, she was looking at way up north near Yukon and Alaska thinking we had traveled that much unaware how big BC is. I showed her on the map we barely left the Vancouver area. In Korea driving 2 hours in any direction you would have travelled a significant distance. Yeah BC is pretty massive indeed, having lived here pretty much most of my life, I shamefully have only been to a fraction of BC, not having been to the wide swaths up north. It looks like you’ve been to many of the popular places in BC. That movie “First Blood” with Sylvester Stallone was filmed in Hope.
I always loved visiting Seattle, and as I mentioned before use to go down there often spending the weekend over there. I especially like going over the floating bridge (Hwy 520) to Bellevue, or across the Port of Seattle to the Alki Beach area, or the Ballard Locks area, University District etc…. Seattle is pretty well known for it’s unique music scene with Jimi Hendriks being from there, and the whole Grunge genre originating there, with the likes of Sound Garden and Nirvana originating from around there.
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Wow, really nice JP! The guitar work is captivating.
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Thanks Roger. I posted this one yesterday in the Day 6 Advent Pet Sounds discussion with Joe, but will post it here again. Here is Brian Wilson at his piano in 1966 singing Surfs Up. You can see all his brilliance pouring out of him. https://youtu.be/sTifX3mpnV4?si=AVjtAfP1mbsDhjOQ