MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Agree. For Mona and Lisa, when it comes to their music and creating something special, I think any new instrument would be game if it would give them the effect they were after. They seem to just learn it and adapt it into their song as needed. They carry on the creative tradition of the great groups from the past.
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That’s a beautiful instrument Howard. The pre-cursor to the harpsichord and piano. It sounded great in that song “Thackery Meets the Faculty, Then Alone”. Perhaps when MLT have a need for an exotic instrument to include in one of their songs, a Clavichord could be an idea 🙂
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That’s brilliant Tomas, great MLT quiz!
Unfortunately I wasn’t so brilliant matching all the lyrics, got 7 out of 10 correct. But that was fun.
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Will definately go see it when that movie comes out in the summer.
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Wow Tomas, that’s unbelievable, my mom too and the whole family loved that album and Lulu’s singing. ???? I still have that original LP from 1967 and listen to it. One of a very few family treasure from those days I was able to keep.
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Hi Howard. I love that song “To Sir With Love” too. It is a powerful kind of a good by song to a friend, in the case of the movie to the teacher character played by Sidney Poitier by the whole class to whom he made a profound impact turning the bratty teenagers into mature young adults. Love the lyrics and melody; a profoundly moving song itself. When I was 8 or 9 I remember the whole family around the record player listening to this album and my sister singing “To Sir With Love” whenever it came on. This is a 60’s classic for me.
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Hi Jim. I always assumed it was guitar, but I don’t know of anything definitive stating what instrument was used. I have the actual LP, and it just states the song is instrumental. In other sources it mentions Ron Grainer has used harpsichord in other scores, so perhaps that is what it is. Boy, I thought it was guitar all this time. I suppose it can be done on guitar quite beautifully too?
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For all the guitarists here, one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard came from guitar strings, this song from a sound track of To Sir With Love. I think the solo guitar melody is just sublime here. It reminds me of the dueling guitars in “Deliverence”, but for one guitar and more mellow and beautiful. Someone commented on Youtube this piece is a masterpiece. This album my dad bought for the family back in the 60’s after seeing this movie in the theaters and this album was really the intro for the whole family to the 60’s rock and roll.
Anyway, what do you think? The guitar is a truly incredible instrument, and as Beethoven said, it is a mini orchestra in itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNIN4-iiTk
What string was used in this song? 🙂
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Nice Jacki! Like the contrast of the colors to the black background.
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Nice ones Tommy. Mona and Lisa I am sure would do Sunshine of Your Love great justice given their marvelous interpretation of Cream’s White Room.
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Thanks Jacki for your input.
I agree with everything you said. It seems back in the 60’s and 70’s if a band comes up that sounds good, record labels would produce them, and the listening consumers would vote by buying their records if they liked the music. And if the music was not good, poor sales would exclude that band from being produced any further. So good music and talent would be rewarded by good record sales.
Nowadays it seems record labels are completely risk adverse, and try to create a genre of music that sells through a kind of brainwashing via advertising and clever marketing, and creating an image of what is supposedly good cool/hip music, and then type cast new bands into a mold, that they believe will be successful. So the listening public is basically spoon fed what the “experts” believe is good music. Creativity and inspiration goes out the door, and pretty soon everything sounds the same and predictable, which is the sad state of affairs with modern processed pop music today.
Problem is those fewer bands with real talent and inspired music to offer are lost in a cloud of garbage created by the monopoly which is the modern music industry/record labels.
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Got 18 correct. Recognized many more but just couldn’t recall the name of the songs.
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Loved the guitar jamming session by Mona and Lisa on the just posted “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” here at the MLT Club. Niice guitar riffs there. This is just what I was thinking about when I posted this thread to see Lisa and Mona’s Gretsch and Rickenbacker smoke.
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I listened to Little Wing and that is indeed a more technically advanced Hendricks piece. My fave Hendricks are Foxy Lady and Purple Haze, and I hear a healthy dose of Club 27 in them. ????
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Hi Lisa
Thanks for those kind words. I’m really enjoying all your music and everything you’re doing. Your music indeed is magic!????
Much love and warmest wishes to yourself, Mona, and your parents.
Jung