MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Graham
Greetings to you from Canada! Welcome to the Club and the MLT world, so glad you’re here! When I first joined, I was just overwhelmed with so much beautiful music, and now there is even more, it doesn’t stop. Hope you have a wonderful time checking everything out.
Check out their Hamburg VLOGs if you want a suggestion, it’s so much fun. You can’t go wrong wherever you start. 😊
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Looking at other numbers, the MLT Club membership was sitting in the 690 range for a while, glad to see it crossed the 700 threshold to 704 members.
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In a similar vein, I think MLTs “Jump Ship”, could make an amazing sound track for a Hollywood box office movie, like maybe in the next Bond film.
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Hi Jacki
One of my favourite songs from a movie, is Simon and Garfunkle’s “El Condor Pasa”. I first heard this song in a 1973 movie “The Voyage of The Yes” starring Desi Arnaz Junior, about surviving a voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a sloop, and then more recently in a 2014 movie “The Wild”, about a young woman portrayed by Reese Witherspoon hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, trying to find meaning in her life that was filled with tragedy. I always found this song intriguing and beautiful, about survival and perseverance. Perhaps Mona and Lisa could weave their magic on this one and do some incredible things with it. It’s begging for beautiful harmonies and sweet guitar work.
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I remember the day before the official album Orange release on Sept 29 2017, as CDs were in transit around the globe, I heard Orange for the first time the day before. It felt like the magic of Christmas morning to a child. I found what I wrote in my journal that day, and the subsequent day of Orange release. I heard piano for the first time in their music, strings, and the most beautiful singing ballad. It’s different from anything they did before. I expressed it best how I felt in my scribble below.
It’s funny the handwritten scribble feels like a piece of that time, as I physically wrote it down making the ink bond to the fibres of the paper. I wrote…….
(click the images to see full view, as they are cutoff in the preview)
https://youtu.be/QsiKXfFkRoA?si=jbbJDDvJWaekQZ0e
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Hi Phil
I never knew how a patreon works, thanks for filling me in. I agree, the MLT Club is a much better value by far. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been a part of.
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Hi Jurgen
That music box is simply amazing, and made to play God Only Knows, wow. At one point seeing all those mechanical levers moving to the music was something else. I think Brian Wilson would be quite impressed, and would probably want one if he knew.
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Hi Tim
2000 Hot Wheel cars, that is impressive! I used to have a small collection, and a little Mattel Hot Wheels suit case that held a dozen cars. Loved the set. Later I got into Sizzlers, do you remember those, they came with a charger that looked like a gas pump, and the cars were about the size of Hot Wheels but with an electric motor, kind of like Tesla’s 😁. I had a cool blue Camaro, but my brothers red Ferrari always beat it around the track. Do you have many Mustangs in your collection of Hot Wheels? My fave car.
I have a few vintage Cross and Parker fountain pens and ball points that span from the 50s to the 80s. I have 1917 vintage Waterman 52 flex fountain pen with an amazing calligraphy flex nib that is my vintage prize pen. I also have a couple of vintage pocket watches from 1905 and 1909 that run and keep time. The 1905 one is solid sterling silver, and gains a couple minutes a day, but is amazing. I really love the craftsmanship of nice pens and watches. I am fascinated with both my 1917 fountain pen and 1905/09 watches, and always makes me wonder about the lives of people that use to own them and held them like I am. As I mentioned earlier, all my pens I’ve acquired over the years and hang onto have special memories now associated with them, some are pricelessly sentimental like my mom’s old Sheaffer fountain pen.
I think MLTs “Junk” captures the essence of the fascination of items from the past that held special meaning to people. Another example of a wonderful gem I never would have experienced if it weren’t for Mona and Lisa. Their version is so beautiful and elegant. The singing is magical.
And speaking of special instruments, the McCartney Hofner Bass and Gretsch Country Gentleman Mona and Lisa used in the video are quite beautiful and impressive.
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Hi Tim
MonaLisamania indeed, I like that! 👍😊 I missed Beatlemania because I was still in diapers when they came to America, so I am glad I am able to experience that same passion and love mania for a musical group in Mona and Lisa in my life time. If I attend a live MLT show, I promise though I won’t scream in a frenzy like those 16 year old’s did at the Beatles shows, but no guarantees. 😁
I remember in one of the Q and A’s Mona and Lisa mentioned performing with Amy, and they kept in touch for a while. It is great to see that video of the 3 of them together, 3 amazing musicians rocking to the Beatles is priceless.
Mona and Lisa brought back to life a lot of Beatles songs and songs from the 60s that I have long forgotten, and they also let me discover so many Beatles and other rock gems I never even knew of like Hey Bulldog, that I really like. They opened my eyes and ears to the magnificence of “God Only Knows” for example. I remember listening to that song in my teens, and thought it was a good song, but it was Mona and Lisa who really made me understand how it could make Paul McCartney cry. The same with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It was a good song, but when I heard Lisa’s guitar work on it, oh wow, the guitar does really weep, it never sounded so goooood. They have a true magic with music, able to bring out the greatness and potential in a song even the original artists did not quite hit to the maximum potential.
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Hi David
Thank you for embellishing 🙂, really enjoyed reading what your wrote. You hit the nail on the head about MLT that make them so special, they make music that they like, not what they think will sell. They are artists first and foremost, and they see music like that, and I love they won’t sacrifice their artistic integrity with their music. They carry on the spirit and tradition of the great 60’s legends, and take their music in the direction they feel is right. It reminds me of Mozart in the movie Amadeus when the prince who knows nothing about good music, tells him to modify his opera because it is too long.
https://youtu.be/H6_eqxh-Qok?si=AtHLusKJT13WGWbT
Because they are artists, when they do a cover, they add their own artistry into it, creating something refreshing, unique and all their own, but at the same time understanding musically what makes that song great in the first place, and remains true to the essence. They add value to the covers they do, not merely mimic it like most others who cover songs. It’s like their cover of “Walking In The Air”, they took a classical piece, and completely revamped it into a rock version, something completely new like I’ve never heard before, but at the same time all the beauty that I loved about that piece retained, and taken to the next level, better than any previous version I ever heard. That is genius.
I also love their philosophy of never repeating themselves when it comes to their creativity. When I first heard Orange, what an amazing progression from When We’re Together (another great album), new styles, new sounds, new instruments. And then when I first heard Why?, the richness and depth went another level. They are musical pioneers. It is like listening to the Beatles progression from Help, to Rubber Soul, to Revolver, to Sargent Peppers, to Abbey Road….just keeps getting more amazing.
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Hi Jacki
In the time I’ve been on this incredible MLT music journey, you are the one constant in the fan side, a real trooper, the best, MLT are so lucky to have you, and I’ve always appreciated the warm welcome and friendship and things you’ve shared with me over the years. ❤
For me similar to you, it was one of the songs from their California Dreaming EP that I first discovered MLT. I believe their cover of California Dreaming was MLTs first official music video, followed by San Francisco which was the magic that caught me forever. For many songs they covered like all 3 California Dreaming EP songs, California Dreaming, San Francisco, Hotel California, and many others like God Only Knows, Mr Postman, Walking In the Air…etc and all their Beatles covers, Mona and Lisa’s version has become the gold standard for me. Even better than the originals. For example the Beatles latest song “Now And Then”, I prefer to listen to Mona and Lisa’s version, it’s just better and more moving, the gold standard. Sorry Paul, Ringo and all the Beatles fans out there.
And their originals, wow, I love even more. WHY? is absolutely brilliant, and it just keeps getting better!!!
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Congrats Daryl, that looks super cool! Looks like the painful process of getting it done was well worth it.
One of my nieces (first cousins daughter) became a tattoo artist recently and is doing quite well. So much so, she abandoned her career in microbiology to do her own business with a tattoo studio.
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Jurgen, Tim
The Hurdy Gurdy is an amazing instrument. I have this little music box and as you turn the little lever the barrel activates these mini tuning forks like a piano roll and plays Fur Elise, the hurdy gurdy looks like it, but is much bigger and more complex and and plays a ton of tunes! Patty Gurdy is wonderful with the instrument. Is her last name really Gurdy?
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Hi JP
In that video you posted a while ago where Rick Beato was amazed with the speed, precision, and dexterity Yuja Wang could play some of those blistering fast pieces like Flight of the Bumblebee. her approach to the beautiful, slow and tender pieces is just as impressive, she plays with such feeling and sensitivity. She did Chopin’s Piano Sonata No 2 wonderful justice, especially the 3rd movement (Funeral March), very moving.
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That’s great to see so many thousands and thousands of view of the public livestream. Thanks for pulling those stats David. A very successful livestream I would say, they filled a huge football dome and more.