MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Thanks so much Jacki, David, and JP for sharing your thoughts and experience in the MLT Club. I have to say I totally agree with everything you all said. Just echoing your sentiments, even though I’ve never met Mona and Lisa in person (hope to one day too!), they are like real good friends for me when I think of them. I mean I’ve shared so many things about myself and some of my deepest feelings with them in the MLT Club, and MLT Clubbers as well, in the many posts, and some of the Advent Calendars, that I haven’t shared with family and close friends. Mona and Lisa have created a very special place of their beautiful music, and friendship through the MLT Club that is so special.
I was a little bummed a couple of weeks ago it looked like the membership would cross the 700 threshold and then dropped below 680. I know there will be valleys, but it will continue to grow.
To other new members here who joined to see what it’s like, I say stay on a while longer, you’ve found a gem that keeps on giving here at the MLT Club. It’s not about just the music they post, although their music is why we came, but there is so much more. In the recent Q and A, Mona said they are not the fastest song writers but take their time and hope to create music that means something, that can touch us. Like all great artists, it’s not about quantity but quality, and that is what MLT is about, songs that can touch us deeply and move us like nothing else can. You don’t get that by cranking out new music videos every week and new albums every few months just to satisfy the crowds. I will cite another Beethoven example (I can’t help it, I know Beethoven), but in the grand scheme compared to other composers, Beethoven’s composition output is very small. For example he wrote only 9 Symphonies compared to Mozart’s 50+, and Bach’s 90+. He took his time, and his work eclipses all others as the greatest of all time. Quality over quantity, and that is what I see in MLT. They took a few years to make WHY?, but wow, what an amazing masterpiece.
Back to my point, MLT Club is about amazing music created with care, patience, and utmost quality, and becoming a part of a like minded community that loves truly inspired music, and Mona and Lisa’s friendship through everything they share with us like vlogs, photo albums, Q and A’s, What’s On the Table, Reactions and so much more. They share who they are as people to us on top of their music. They take the time to know us each by name, of course the more someone participates in the club the better they will remember, but the point is there is a genuine personal touch and appreciation for the fans. It is a real music journey together with them, sharing this experience together with every new song, video and album they create with the utmost care and quality.
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Hi Steve,
When I first heard this song, it transported me back to my road trip days down to Southern California in my 89 Mustang, in MLT style. Windows rolled down, full throttle on the High Output V8, on a lonely country highway. Absolutely love the guitar sounds and I think captures the spirit of freedom, “disconnection, time to shift gears”. For me it is a song on the album that captures free spirit in the sun feel, but there is also a social commentary on the environment, and that not everything is OK which resonates with these times. “Cause something this broken will not survive”. That’s the beauty of great art, open to interpretation. Another brilliant song off the album, that stays true to a theme of issues of the time, but also a free adventurous feel to it. So much diversity in the album for songs for everyone.
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The idea that people have seen your work 90 million times is mind blowing. Yes 100 million around the corner, and continuing steeper and steeper exponential growth to reach every one in 8 billion.
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I love MLT’s interest and curiosity about space as depicted in the WHY? album cover artwork. They even pretended to be aliens when they were little with one of their friends! 😊
Here is one of my favourite MLT cover videos.
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Niiice Chris. I like Bob Marley, his music just tickles and grabs me inside when I hear it. I discovered his music at a reggae festival in Toronto in the 80s, and always been drawn to his music.
“Light Up The Darkness” – Bob Marley
Definitely a Hammond! Pretty much all of Bob’s records with an organ feature the sound of the Hammond- most reggae records for that matter feature it.
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These two amazing talented powerhouses saved me, they reminded me how beautiful the world can be. Those incredible harmonies and melodies.
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They made me see the awe and wonder of the universe
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These guys kept my sanity
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I find when you are so filled with emotion, be it joy or grief, nothing can help you express that passion that needs to get out for your sanity and health, better than music can. I think through out my life it was music.
Early it was the Beach Boys, they let me feel the wonder and awe of life in a young 14 year old, then in my early 20s as I dealt with incredible pain of expectation and failure and frustration, AC/DC kept my sanity. When it was all too much, I could crank up AC/DC and listen to Malcolm and Angus Young’s hypnotic guitar sounds that soothed my soul. Later in my 30s as I felt so much anticipation of my life and career, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart were there, letting me feel how art and music was the oxygen I needed to go on. Life’s pressures could not get me down, I could retreat to Beethoven. I could understand when my mom told me how when she was young, her life around her felt like was it was falling apart with the Korean war, and her father’s death, Beethoven was there for her. She used to listen to Beethoven’s 5th Symphony to find comfort and refuge in those dark times. Then later in my 40s what felt like the greatest tragedy in my life befell me with my mom, the center of my universe, was slipping away to dementia. Those were the darkest years of my life as I dealt with loss I could not bear. Music in the form of Mona and Lisa’s incredible harmonies was there as I arose from the ashes of loss in 2017. Their music is incredible and the pinnacle of musical joy so far for me. I am so grateful to music, it is an incredibly beautiful gift music is, and all those musical artists we are blessed with, for me it’s Brian Wilson, Angus/Malcom Young, Beethoven/Bach/Mozart, Mona and Lisa Wagner!!! 🌹💖
If you have a music story, please feel free to share it, would love to hear it. 🙂
My first love of music:
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Steve
Yeah the lyrics definitely evoke a feeling of leaving for a better place.
As for ‘something being broken that will not survive’ for me is a broken environment leading to a train wreck. In the lyrics “early sunrays are melting the ice” gave me the feeling about the environment and the melting glaciers and shrinking arctic ice shelf, in line with the commentary on our society today theme of the album. Open to interpretation.
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Yeah MLT’s version of Starman is just magical, pulls me right in every time.
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Hi Chris
That is such a beautiful song, what a genius songwriter John Lennon was. The lyrics are so amazing, captures the awe of gazing up at the universe looking back at you with a million eyes.
“Images of broken light
Which dance before me like
A million eyes, they call me on and on
Across the universe
Limitless undying love
Which shines around me
Like a million suns
And calls me on and on
Across the universe”
I’ve always been fascinated with astronomy, and if I had the time and freedom to do anything I wanted, studying and delving into astronomy would be one of them. There are so many endless questions when I look out into space, I always ask “WHY!” with passion.
I love the song Janitor Joe too, and you are right, makes me want to get up and dance when it comes on.
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I’m not sure an organ is even used in this song. It looks like just a keyboard synthesizer. In the previous video you can see a Hammond. It looks like that catchy 3 Little Birds phrase is done on a Hammond.
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Hey David, I guess it’s not unlike the Beach Boys “Surfin USA”, a remake really of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”, rearranged with new lyrics, but in a lot of cases of great songs by artists, that was not written by them, they put their heart and soul into it and create the magic to make it great and all their own, I think the credit is all theirs still.
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Thanks David! Yeah those songs and music are like my corner stones of my life, when I think of a phase of my life, they come to mind, they wrote the soundtrack of those times in my life. The music had a huge impact and made a difference in my life.
Thanks for sharing another surprising gem from the Monkees, not that I am surprsed how talented they were as artists, despite the acting and doing the Monkees show that must have taken up most of their time and professional effort, yet they wrote some great songs too like this and others you’ve shared in the past. This one is really beautiful and introspective.
From how I remember, my older brother first introduced the family to this new TV show called the Monkees, and he said they were just like the Beatles. I was pretty young then, and only knew of some of their gorgeous songs I heard my brother and older sister play on the stereo sometimes, never knew what the Beatles looked like nor their names, so early on the Monkees embodied the Beatles for me. When I heard a Beatles song, I envisioned the Monkees from the show.