[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

I remember as a little kid, my parents had this one album by the Harmonicats, and I was fascinated by the harmonica’s especially the long ones. I remember the album cover of the 3 members standing side by side with their harmonicas and the guy with the moustache. My parents use to play it a lot and I got into it too.

I’ve always liked the sounds of a harmonica in music. I remember one thing that stood about the Beatles when I first discovered them was the use of harmonica in some of their songs like Love Me Do.

I was gifted a little Harmonica many years ago that I still have and like to occasionally play around with. Even tried to learn a bit watching Youtube. It’s a Hohner Pocket Pal, fairly inexpensive I think, but small and sounds nice. Cetainly beats these colorful banana toy harmonicas I use to play with as a kid. Your post got me to pull out that little Hohner.

https://youtu.be/Mp1So5PmRB4

[Jung Roe]

Hi Daryl

That looks thrilling and fun! Just seeing the photos it looks like you were moving. Just curious, on the straightaways how fast can you get up to before you have to slow down for the curve? I love watching races whether bikes, cars or trucks.

I use to follow NASCAR very closely in the 90s, and I recall one season Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt Senior were neck and neck for the Winston Cup Championship and I must have followed every single race. There were some amazing race moments that season. My favourite track was the short half mile oval track, Bristol, and it was so fun to watch as the course was so short, these powerful stock cars barely hit a hundred MPH in the short straight away before they would hit the curve and had to slow down. It was quite strategic often the race was won by who could brake the most skillfully and swing past the car in front as they slowed down into the curve.

Later on, I got a NASCAR racing SIM with force feedback steering wheels and pedals, and I experienced racing in Bristol, boy was it fun.

[Jung Roe]

Thanks David for these stats. With the new Duo Sessions over the last few weeks, as well as all the Live At The Cavern videos being released every week, there is going to be a big uptick and cumulative effect on the aggregate views for all the MLT videos on MLT’s Youtube channel. An uptick in views will likely mean a growing audience. I think it will be great in advance of new MLT original videos from WHY when they are released?

[Jung Roe]

Hi Dan

That sounds quite intriguing, a new Beatles song some 5 decades later, looking forward to it in September. With Georges guitar work from 1995, Ringo’s new drum track, and 3 part harmonies from the past, it will be the Fab 4 together again, almost like how artists today collaborate across the internet and piece together a song, but in this case it is stretched across the decades. It will be very special!

[Jung Roe]

A superlative golden gem, MLT’s latest masterpiece original:

https://youtu.be/G2dDBSr3L_E

Of course Kudos to Papa Rudi for all you do, and from whom Mona and Lisa inherited their brilliant musical talent and good looks.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Steve

It looks like with this one, both Paul and Ringo endorse it, and in fact I think Paul initiated it getting Ringo to work on it. It is good to leave well enough alone sometimes, but hopefully this will be well received.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Chris

That is great, always love to see people from different musical tastes and genres coming to discover and appreciate MLT. You can’t escape the lure of Mona and Lisa’s powerful, majestic and beautiful music. Really, really good music transcends divisions and touches people.

[Jung Roe]

Hi JP

Nice track, I like it. They do capture the feel of Pink Floyd, it’s almost meditative and nice lyrics. Some great drumming in there too. I’ve come to really enjoy and appreciate Pink Floyd over the years, it all started with the Wish You Were Here album. Thanks for posting it.

[Jung Roe]

Jurgen, nice virtual tour and great photos and sketches, thanks for posting it. I see where the album cover for Revolver came from. He certainly captured some intriguing moments with the Beatles in the photos. I recall Mona and Lisa met Klaus Voormann, there is a photo of them with him in the archives here.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Thanks for posting that, it’s a real touching video and song. I looked up the song and it looks like Ringo co-wrote it with George Harrison. It would be interesting to see some photos Ringo took, whether taken intentionally for artistic value or not, they certainly capture the moment in a very special way, and become priceless treasures of ones you love. In Paul’s video, he expresses that sentiment too.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Dave, well spoken. I love the direction their original works are going, each new album is innovative as they expand their diversity and create new sound and style, never repeating themselves. They are on the same creative path the Beatles went on.

[Jung Roe]

Hi JP, this is melody genius indeed. What they can do with 5 notes and syllables.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Phil, yeah I’m on the same wavelength with you about the song WHY? It is a pocket symphony with such beautiful, sophisticated and emotion grabbing effects with the instrumentation and vocals. I love those harmonies, with the accompanying bass at the beginning, and then the incredible effects of the strings come in, it’s all mesmerizing in amazing beauty and magnificence. A brilliant masterpiece in music composition. This is the stuff of the great composers and modern composers like John Williams and the Beatles later period of experimentation and innovation. In 4.5 minutes they’ve captured the emotional depth of a 45 minutes and 4 movement long 9th Symphony of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Great little video, the background music is soothing, almost meditational, really nice. It takes me to the kind of music of Enigma and New Age that I really liked a lot.

The time lapse photography definitely changes your perspective of time, and let’s you perceive the passing of time much differently from how our minds can perceive it. If you could go into nature, for example glaciers, or a mountain range, and do a time lapse photography of 1 frame each century in the same spot and go back a few hundred thousand years, it would be a whole different perspective. You could see glaciers evolving, mountain range changing, canyons like the Grand Canyon being formed by the meandering river. Our perception of time is limited to the limitation of our body and mind, but certainly an insect would see it differently, as would a tree if it could talk.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Some spectacular time lapse photography in the video. The variety of landscape in New Zealand is wonderful, and love the secluded nature of the country, like a whole different world unto itself. Ideal place to film fantasy movies like Lord Of The Rings. Thanks for the virtual travel escape.