[Jung Roe]

I like this quote.  It’s no wonder MLT are also great at painting/drawing art.  It’s just an extension of their remarkable musical talent.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

― Leopold Stokowski

[Jung Roe]

A warm welcome Paul, glad to have your here!

[Jung Roe]

Nice!  It cheers me up looking at it.

[Jung Roe]

Thanks Jacki.  Your many groovy art work was my inspiration for this.

[Jung Roe]

You both look so adorable in that picture with the blond and red streaks.  Stephen to your point, in that MG photo shoot and video, Mona and Lisa looked better than many of the finest Hollywood stars from the glamorous heydays of film.  I hope Hollywood doesn’t come around and steal them away from us.

[Jung Roe]

Great question Jacki, and loved your insightful response Mona.  If a story or idea can be expressed in less words the better, and preference to keep a song short and sweet makes a lot of sense.  We see most of the Beatles music and a lot of great songs from that time rarely exceeding 4 minutes.  The same concept apply in professional speeches and presentations where short and sweet is much more effective in getting a point across than a long drawn out one.  Kind of like watering down a good soup too much and it just becomes bland and loses its impact.   I wonder as music progressed through the 70s and beyond, getting longer and longer, how many potentially great songs fizzled out because they were too long.

[Jung Roe]

Thank you both Lisa and Angelo for that detailed explanation and illustrations of the parts.  Now when I see Lisa’s Gretsch Duo Jet, I have an idea of what I am looking at, and how it’s customized  🙂

 

[Jung Roe]

Mike, Howard.  I feel the same way.  MLT covers are so good, their interpretation have become for me the benchmark by which all others are compared, and often pales in comparison to the MLT.  When I heard “When I’m 64” on the Sargent Peppers album, couldn’t help but compare the two versions with the MLT one as the baseline.  Glenn Gould’s interpretation of Bach is for many classical music lovers the highest regarded benchmark for Bach’s keyboard works.  MLT is to the 60’s music, what Glenn Gould is to Bach for me.

[Jung Roe]

Can’t argue with Rudolph’s explanation.  More accurately it would be Leeza I think.   🙂

 

 

 

[Jung Roe]

Beautiful guitar sound, and beautiful playing too Tomas!

[Jung Roe]

Cruising the high seas to Alaska
Many mornings, found myself up at 6AM
Off to the quite library on the Promenade deck
Not a soul in sight, the whole place to myself
Overlooking the ocean such a peaceful relaxing morn
Pen in hand, journal open, head phones on, creative writing juices flow
Can’t stop listening to MLT Orange on headphones
8AM comes along, I know friends will be coming up soon to wisk me away for breakfast
Sweet Lorraine comes on again,
This wonderful music I can’t resist
Who cares about breakfast
I want to listen to this all day!
Time to hide

[Jung Roe]

Thanks David.  Yes, Turtles is a good comparison too.  Love their song “Happy Together”!  Sweet Lorraine is a timeless masterpiece that can be compared to some of the best of the Beatles, Turtles, and many other classics from the 60’s, yet sound modern and relevant as a brilliant masterpiece of today.

[Jung Roe]

That’s beautiful Jacki.  Thanks for that!  A special thought to all the wonderful moms who enrich our lives every single day, and also to the ones who are not with us, but lives in our hearts.

[Jung Roe]

I concur, that is brilliant David!

[Jung Roe]

Sweet MLT music went to Alaska