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Oh yes, the San Francisco cover and video is truly sublime, and Once Upon a Time captures that 60’s spirit and mood in the same vein so brilliantly.  Love watching them both.

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Oh yeah Jacki, Deep Purples Smoke on the Water with one of the great guitar riff intros!  Mona and Lisa do perfect justice to this song in 2007.  Just goes to show the ladies can do any genre and hit it out of the ball park.  From a Janis Joplin to Deep Puple’s Ian Gillan’s vocals, Mona and Lisa’s vocals have the depth and dimensions to do it all too, even at that young age.

Thomas, yes definitely an incredible performance on the drums by Mona in Twist and Shout!  She does John Lennon’s vocals (that almost injured him) so perfectly while doing the drums so spotlessly.

Some other favorites of mine from that album would be “Aufstehn” from the very beginning (their singing is so dynamic, and love when they sing in German too).

Alone is another I’ve really come to enjoy.  The guitar playing, singing and melody are so intricate and sweet.  A real charming original ballad of theirs.

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Hi Howard.  Thanks for sharing your Beatles moments!  I have to say you didn’t waste anytime with your very first album ever, going straight to the top creme of the crop album “Sargent Peppers”.  🙂  That is an album one can never tire of over listening to, it is so great.  The Beatles Red and Blue albums I am sure introduced so many to the magic of the Beatles music I think.  I remember those two albums in my older brothers collection early on, and then that  Biology trip when I felt the full force of the Beatles magic.  It seemed the 70’s is when hi-fi stereo technology for the household really took off.  I remember my dad’s first real good hi fi system with massive speakers that could make the whole house shake.  When my parents left the house, that hi fi system was utilized by the 5 household sibling to it’s fullest.  What musical joy.

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Thanks for sharing your Beatlemania moment Jacki.  I bet that teacher must have been quite touched to be remembered by you like that so many years later.  I stopped believing in coincidences.

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Very nice!!! I can feel that groovy mood taking in those lovely colors and pretty birds.

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I enjoyed the radio too.  On occasional sick days in the winter, I’d just stay in bed all day just listening to the radio while I hacked and sniffled under the covers.  The CBC usually, with all their unique and quirky programming.  There use to be an awesome AM station where I live that played a lot of (60’s through 70’s) classics, and on Sundays and late night they played old 1930’s era radio dramas, and all kinds of interesting programs that played on the radio before TV era.  But, about 10 years ago it came under new management and turned into a contemporary top 40 pop station, like we didn’t have enough of those crowding the airwaves already.  Yuck, my radio listening air time took a huge nose dive after that.  I do listen to the CBC or the NPR and BBC on the internet sometimes, but it’s not quite the same as radio over the airwaves with one of these:

 

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Hi Jacki, yes I guess I did not get out much musically then. 🙂  There just didn’t seem to be anything contemporary worth listening to then, until I discovered MLT.   It was about a year after I heard the MLT version before I checked out Jason Mraz official video and other live acoustic performances.  It was a very universally popular song.   Jason Mraz’s version is a much slower ballad with a reggae feel while MLT’s version is faster and more rock and roll.  But it is very interesting that while very different, Mona and Lisa’s version stays true to the charm and essence of Jason’s Mraz’s original version, that it makes me want to listen to it for it’s own merit and unique experience, even at the very early stage in their musical development.

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I think art and money have been at odds forever. Don’t mean to over simply it, but the music industry is about entertainment and promoting music that will sell like a commodity. Brainwashed manufactured music the record labels are pushing we’ve all heard a thousand times before. Truly inspired music that has creativity and originality are too risky to promote as they don’t fit the current pop music mold.

We are indeed so fortunate to have MLT giving us their labor of love; beautiful, soulful, truly real music like when we first heard a Beatles or Dylan song, that will be with us through our darkest and happiest times. Yes thank God MLT have remained independent.

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In the Beatles 1965 USA tour, I read George Harrison used his Gretsch Tennessean on tour as his primary and the Country Gentleman as back up, while he put his DuoJet to rest for a while.  In that famous 1965 Shea stadium concert you can see his shiny Tennessean in all its glory.  About 20 mins into the show, he changes over to the Country Gentleman, while John briefly waits for George.  You can see both guitars in that show.  I posted that video on the other Guitar Heaven  thread in the other sub forum.

Correction: It’s actually George’s Rickenbacker 360 he changes over to.

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Very groovy Jacki.  I like the color effects.

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Thanks so much Lisa for sharing your memorable Beatles/music moment. Loved reading what you wrote.

It is also so fitting and wonderful, that song “Getting Better” that moved you so much, years later you would do such a wonderful acoustic version of it with Mona that would move all of us here at the Club, and later to the rest of the world. Music is such a wonderful thing that enriches lives and can move your soul so deeply. Some of Beethoven and Mozart’s music, and the first time I heard your San Francisco, The Wide Wide Land, The Little Drummer Boy and many others are a few examples where I felt music move me so deeply because of its sheer beauty. You know they talk about examples where people experience moments of pure joy because of the beauty of a piece of Art, well you experienced that through Beatles music, and many of us here like myself experienced it through your music. I guess inspiration is contagious.

Stay cool in that summer heat.  Best of wishes to you and Mona, and your parents.

Stay groovy and Beatley back at you!  🙂

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Sorry to hear about your Mom Roger.  Condolences.

I agree.  For MLT to be able to move people with this song like they do is a testament to the great musical artists they are, and great people too.

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I can envision that too David, as it does kind of sound like cranking the engine over on a cold winter morning, now that you point that out but oh so graceful the Beatles make it sound!  Or maybe the next time I have trouble starting my engine, I will hear some Beatles, and it wont be so bad.  🙂

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Thanks much Jim for that really detailed in-depth explanation of the differences between the two.  Mona’s 350 sounds like quite a nice instrument too with it’s great volume and articulation plus the lineage to John Lennon’s legendary 325.  I can imagine the original John Lennon Ricky 325s owned by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon would be valued astronomically high.

In the Shea Stadium Beatles concert loved seeing John, George and Paul jamming with their respective guitars to “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”, just like Mona and Lisa did with their Ricky and Gretsch to that song at the Cavern Club.