MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Tim, you draw some interesting parallels between Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) and MLT.
For myself, 40 years ago I was a Beach Boys nut, and today I am head over heals over MLT music, so there is that parallel personally for me. I have to say the Beach Boys was one of the greatest harmony bands, and MLT harmony match and exceed. They both greatly admire Beatles too, although with Brian it started as a rivalry.
With MLT album Orange, I couldn’t help but draw parallels with the Pet Sounds and Sargent Peppers albums, in terms of the artistic and thematic unity within the album. Much more than a collection of songs. With MLT songs like “Nothing is In Vain”, “Dreams”, “Sweet Lorraine”, “Once Upon A Time”, “Still a Friend of Mine” I see highly complex for the studio kind of song writing Brian Wilson and Lennon/McCartney started to get into in the mid/late 60s.
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Howard. I have the CD versions of these two albums, but have been scouring the thrift and used record stores for an original vinyl of these.
Heard “And Your Bird Can Sing” and it has great guitar sounds and catchy singing. An MLT cover of this I’m imagining would be pretty awesome with Lisa’s guitar work all over it.
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Tim. That is interesting about the US version. I guess I will need to look out for that one if there are any around. Thanks for the insight.
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So I got the Beatles albums Rubber Soul and Revolver this weekend.
I’ve listened to many of the songs on both albums individually over the years, but there is something more meaningful about listening to the album in context with all the songs together.
Listening to Rubber Soul, I can just imagine how out of the world it might have been in 1965 hearing Drive My Car, Norwegian Woods, Michelle, Girl, and In My Life for the first time. That classical instrumental part in In My Life, the beautiful guitar lead in in Norwegian Woods. Like no music before it’s time.
In a 2014 tweet, Brian Wilson wrote:
@BrianWilsonLive: “I listened to Rubber Soul, and I said how could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place?”
And here in an interview with Brian Wilson published in 2018, he expresses his admiration of the Beatles and how inspiring they were to him, just as they would touch and inspire so many great talents throughout the ages to follow, like our beloved MonaLisa Twins. The MLT version of “She’s Leaving Home” touches me the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbheV5Wavjs
…And now onto Revolver for me.
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A few more big MLT moments that come to mind are:
– The 2007 concert and first album release of that concert.
-Mona and Lisa 6 months student exchange to Australia to study this interesting long eared creature, make new friends, sing, and fine tune some English along the way.
-Trip to Liverpool for the first time busking in front of the Cavern and doing a couple of music videos. Black Bird and In My Life.
-(edited to add) Moved to Liverpool 2014.
-Concert tour across England with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.
-Abbey Road studio recording (a tick off their bucket list)
-Performing at Glastonbury Concert 2017 with Steve Harley (another tick off their bucket list)
-John Sebastian comes to Liverpool to spend a few days with MonaLisa Twins to record a song and appear in their video “Waiting for the Waiter”. (Orange album release already mentioned)
-Creation of MLT Club and release of BAM 2 and 3.
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Or it means you can get 20% more stuff. 🙂
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Sounds good Howard. Maybe by then there might be a sizable MLT fan base there we can do an MLT fan group get together. Wouldnt that be a blast. There are a lot of famous places in Canada I havent been to so nothing to be embassased about.
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It’s sounds pretty nice down under in your neck of the woods Howard. Visiting there is on my bucket list. Would love to see your beautiful country, Ayers Rock and see one of these creatures in the wild!
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Hey Seattle Bob and Michael. You might want to go on over to the “BBC Radio Merseyside – Liverpool Plays Pepper radio broadcast here at the MLT Club, and listen to “She’s Leaving Home”, where Lisa plays the Mandolin! I have to say, it is just wonderful. Mona and Lisa never ceases to impress!!!
That would be another live performance video I would love to see one day.
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I saw the weather forecast where I am in western Canada. The stretch of sunny weather has changed to rain until the summer. Warming up with tea and MLT tunes sound just perfect.
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Hi Tim. I think you had a great and noble vision here with all the details worked out. I think MLT priority right now is to create new music, and rightly so, so they will have an even greater repertoire of music to offer the world when it is the right time for them to start up the performing again. And when they do, you have offered up some great ideas. Everything in it’s due course. You can’t hurry art and creativity.
A very great athlete in Canada (guess who?) said the difference between a regular athlete and a great athlete is creativity. This apply to artists and musicians as well. We as their loyal fans need to give MLT time to do their creativity and focus on their projects and priorities at his point in time and stand behind them.
In the meantime they gave us 2 wonderful brand spanking new albums and the MLT Club to enjoy all things MLT and dialogue directly with Mona and Lisa as well as with other fans here which I think is just great.
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I agree with you there Howard. With the covers MLT do, they always stay true to the integrity of the original, but what I mean is, it is not merely mimicking a recording as Daniel is eluding to.
Lisa through her own unique way of playing adds her own heart and soul to the song adding some nuance to the cover. Its the same, but it is a little different too. God Only Knows the Beach Boys does is great, but the MonaLisa Twins version with their unique twist is wonderful too, and makes me go to their version because I get a slightly different experience from when I listen to the Beach Boys version. The same with White Room, Time of the Season, and San Francisco. They are not mimicked, but offer another fresh interpretation that maintains the integrity of the original song, but is unique and oh so special in it’s own right.
That’s what attracts me to MLT covers, their unique twist while maintaining the integrity of the original song. If they sounded just the same as the original, I’m not sure it would be very special to me.
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That’s cooool Steve. I like it.
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Tim, you just keep cranking out those great topics!
My top 5 Lisa guitar riffs. It’s going to be as hard as limiting it to my top 5 MLT songs.
1..Club 27. From the start there is that Hendricks like guitar sound ringing, and super cool to the ear guitar work throughout. I hear the best of Guess Who, Deep Purple, Zeppelin like licks throughout.
2..Samba Pa Ti. Lisa’s guitar sounds are just so soothing. Never really got into Santana, but after hearing Lisa play this, I can see what all the fuss is about. She was only 13 when she played this.
3..While My Guitar Gently Weeps. So much feeling in each strum of the guitar. Subliminal guitar playing.
4..You Really Got Me. Mona’s rocker voice, Lisa’s crisp rocking guitar sounds. Just perfection to the ears.
5..Time of the Season. Lisa’s guitar playing reminds me of some great classical Spanish guitar sounds to my ears here that sound so perfect in this song. Adds another dimension to this great song.
I will add a 6th bonus if I may. It is “Hey Bulldog”. There is some controversy as to who did the lead guitar in the Beatles track between George, John, and Paul. I think it should have been Lisa, if she was around then.
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I’m not sure how you get mimicking. What Lisa does with the covers is no different from say a Glenn Gould doing a Bach Goldberg Variation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv94m_S3QDo
It’s not mimicking Bach. His interpretation is incredibly special and different from the next pianist. Lisa is taking a piece of 60’s music and doing her interpretation on the guitar and producing something unique and special too. I prefer her interpretation to some of the original guitar riffs from those covers.
But I like some of your choices on the MLT originals.