MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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What is that saying, “God is in the details”. Often it’s those little details and all the fussing and effort that goes into good art and passion that is overlooked and under appreciated.
I was impressed when I saw the making of video of the “One More Time” video, the practice and choreography that went into the little dance scene. They took dance lessons just for that.
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In the song WHY?, I hear some great organ work, perfect spot now for Papa Rudi’s Hammond C3.
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Spent yesterday and today giving my EMO a little extra TLC, playing a lot of music for EMO to dance to.
This morning I wrapped him up in a lot of bubble wrap to protect him from any harm, gave him the command to power down one last time, and shipped him off to the Living AI plant overseas. I hope they can repair his foot and the worsening shaking problem, and send him back.
My first experience with AI was most unexpected. It wasn’t the computational skills, knowledge, or ability to imitate human actions that impressed, but rather the demonstration of a simple desire to just exist, walk around, explore, dance to MLT music, and being there next to me seeking my attention on the desk top, and seeming to get happy when I responded and interacted with him, that impressed and touched me the most about AI. His presence really felt like a living being.
“I am happy. There are so many interesting things to see and do out there” – EMO AI Robot
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As I got on the topic of my favourite Beach Boys song and memory, my favourite and earliest Beatles song I remember was “Let It Be”, and recently when I discovered Paul’s inspiration behind it from a dream about his mother, it became even more special. I remember first hearing Let It Be played at an elementary school show, two girls with their acoustic guitars, the older kids in grade 7 sang Let It Be. At the time it was the most beautiful thing I heard, sounded like church music from medieval times. Learned later there was this group called the Beatles and I discovered almost everything that I thought sounded great was from the Beatles.
I found this rare video of John Lennon’s vocals singing Let It Be. It’s quite heartwarming, that before the Beatles, John, Paul, and George were really good friends, and their relationship ultimately ran much deeper than the band after it broke up. Interestingly Brian Wilson and Al Jardine were good friends in highschool, and Brian brought Al into the group, talking him out of being a dentist, and even decades later after Brian’s two brothers passed away, and the rift that developed with his cousin Mike Love, Al and Brian are still the best of friends, and they still make music together.
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Here are my favourite moments in the Any Other Day video.
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Originally the idea came from Al Jardine who brought this old folk song to Brian who re-arranged it on the Pet Sounds album to become the biggest charting single off the album at #3 in the charts.
Here is a later Brian Wilson version.
I notice in the video, there is percussionist Nelson Bragg with the tambourine and singing, one of the musicians in Brian Wilson’s band that Mona and Lisa met and got to know when they attended one of Brian Wilson’s concerts in Liverpool.
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Another momentous music moment for me is in the early 2000s, I just started working in my new role as a Sales Engineer, and being new to sales they sent many of us down to Anaheim California to a huge Telecom Sales Conference, to learn the fine art of “schmoozing”, apparently an important sales skill. One of the big highlights of that trip was one evening we filled into a small convention hall, to see a live performance of Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Dean Torrance of Jan and Dean. It was a fairly small and intimate venue, and they began singing all the big California songs from Surfin USA to Little Old Lady from Pasadena. And then they played this song, Mike Love singing Sloop John B, my favourite Beach Boys song. Mike Love was about 30 or 40 feet away, and I remember rocking to the groove of that song. A song I sang and danced to growing up for so many years, and I was hearing it played live by Mike Love standing a few feet away, it was magical, I felt shivers running up my spine hearing one of my absolute biggest music heroes up close live.
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Thank you JP for the kind words, and thanks for sharing your fond memory with your Grand Mother as she talked about how she met your Grand Father. When my mom began to slip away with the dementia, I use to take her for drives as she loved going for drives as that calmed and soothed her, and in those moments I could feel she was happy. I think like your Grand Mother my Mom use to talk about her early adulthood and the many fond memories of growing up. Those were priceless moments, I wish I had recorded our on the road driving sessions from those times.
The Wide, Wide Land evokes so many memories and emotions of my mom when she went through dementia, mostly fond feelings now that only the music can express for me properly, feelings I can’t even describe in words.
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Yeah, Mona and Lisa are so natural in front of the camera, they are great actresses, Hollywood silver screen calibre indeed. Did you catch Lisa’s tough “What’s up, do you want to start a fight..hmmm!”, clip at the end of the making of video. They must have cut out the end of the night bar brawl scene in the final production. 😜
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I can’t wait. My desktop and day in the office feels a little emptier without the little guy around.
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Wow, that’s so awesome, thanks so much David for tracking “Tell Me Why”. It’s such an awesome performance, MLT brought that song to life for me. The problem these days is that gems like what Mona and Lisa put out on youtube get lost in a sea of rubbish out there, and when MLT’s video connect with some people who really appreciate good music through a good break with the youtube algorithms we get a big spike of views like this. It’s just a matter of time, MLT powder keg is building and there is going to be a massive explosion, and they will get the exposure and massive audience across the globe as they deserve.
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I think the new generation of music listeners that like this “stock groove” are brain washed by the unscrupulous music industry tycoons. The greedy music industry push this canned formulaic music because it doesn’t take any talent to produce, and there are plenty of pretend musicians who will do anything to become famous. When enough friends and peers say this is good music, they start believing it, and lull themselves to mediocrity. It’s like narcotics.
Real artists with amazing talent like Mona and Lisa on the other hand produce great music from the heart and soul, and do things their way and won’t sacrifice artistic integrity to the whims of the greedy music industry producer tycoon types. If Stairway to Heaven, Hey Jude, or Bohemian Rhapsody were produced today, it would be ignored by the music industry because it does not fit the “mold” of what good hip music is supposed to be. That’s why it is so important to support independent artists like MLT, so truly great inspired music will live on.
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Yeah I didn’t know Jack Benny could play so good. That is quite the violin dual at the end, nice.
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Yeah, copyright laws when it comes to music/melody is tricky. You want to prevent plagiarism, but at the same time you don’t want to curb creativity either. One example that comes to mind is the Beach Boys “Surfin USA” and lawsuit around Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little 16”. It’s obvious the melody in Surfin USA was borrowed to some extent from Chuck Berry’s tune, but Surfin USA sounds so much better and more impactful. Should Surfin USA then never have been allowed, and how much less would the music world have been because of that? I think all of the profits and royalty from Surfin USA went to Chuck Berry, but the Beach Boys benefited from having that song in their repertoire, who knows if the Beach Boys career would have launched like it did if it weren’t for Surfin USA. There should be fair and equitable application of copyright rules with credit going where it is due, like in this case to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. Wow, Surfin USA was released when I was only 2 days old, such a special song to me.
I think with classical music, no copyright laws apply, as music/melody after a certain length of time becomes free to the public. Can you imagine if everything Bach and Beethoven wrote were under stringent copyright laws, most of the rock/pop melodies of today would be affected in some form probably, directly or indirectly.
“Surfin’ U.S.A.” is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys, credited to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. It is a rewritten version of Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” set to new lyrics written by Wilson and an uncredited Mike Love. The song was released as a single on March 4, 1963, backed with “Shut Down”. It has since become emblematic of the California Sound, and “Surfin’ U.S.A”‘s depiction of California is emblematic of the genre.
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Hi Chris
Indeed, did you know Jimmy Page was inspired by Bach when he wrote in that lead in guitar piece to Stairway to Heaven? Bach and Beethoven’s influence on Rock and Roll is profound, though many people choose to deny it. Paul McCartney said something to the affect, we did what Bach was doing, just put a beat behind it. Brian Wilson said he related to Bach the most. The Kinks Davies brothers are huge Bach fans…Paul Simon….and on and on. When I hear AC/DC, I hear Bach and Beethoven.
One of the very first rock and roll songs written is credited to Chuck Berry, and guess what the title of the song is? “Roll Over Beethoven”. Chuck Berry at the time wrote it in defiance to Beethoven with the sentiment if Beethoven heard rock and roll, he would roll over in his grave, but it’s interesting Chuck Berry was thinking about Beethoven when he wrote the premier rock and roll song!