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Hi Bill,
We would choose a Beatles track over a Wings song probably any time of the day which is why we never did any Paul McCartney solo stuff 🙂 Not saying that we don’t like the Wings stuff (“Jet” is such a fun song!) but there are too many Fab Four songs that we’d rather give a go. -
Hi Refugio!
Glad you’re joining us all the way from Mexico! 🙂 Golden Slumbers is a great song, we’d love to cover that one day!
Buenos días and thanks for being here!
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Hi Chris!
We are fit as a fiddle, thank you! We hope you are too! About your first question …. When we write harmonies it mostly starts out from an intuitive place. We sit around with our guitars and hum melodies, try different intervals, play around a bit.
Once we have a rough idea dad usually gets out the keyboard and we have a look at what notes we’re actually singing, how they fit in the chords, what other options there are, etc.
That part of writing is by far much easier on keys than a guitar because you see everything clearly in front of you. A guitar is too messy for that 😉
A third up is a safe and often beautiful place to start, but there is much more room in both directions so we usually just play around until we find something that fits the mood of the song. We just rely on our ears.About your second question … From time to time we play around with the idea of getting involved with film music one day and we’ve always had an interest in rock operas (we love Tommy, S.F. Sorrow, etc. …) and, to some extent, musicals.
If we ever dabble in it I don’t think we would necessarily be drawn to orchestra oriented Loyd-Webber-esque tracks first, but then again, even that sounds pretty fun. We are not ruling anything out and we can definitely see ourselves exploring that world a little down the line. Great question!
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Reina is wonderful, we’ve been following her channel for a while. We love the idea of doing streamed live shows and it’s something we are definitely considering.
At the moment we don’t see a way of fitting in the time to prepare, set up and rehearse for a show like that amidst working on a new original album, another big project (to be announced very soon!), and keeping up with everything else. But it is something we are quite certain we will make the time for eventually!
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Hi Andy,
Pleasure to meet you here in the MLT Club, thanks for being a member! 🙂
It will be time to start thinking of new songs for more Duo Sessions soon so we can start recording them for next year, and we appreciate your suggestion. We’ll probably stick to songs that we have not covered yet but god knows what we’ll try!
With everything going on right now we doubt that a tour will be in the cards next year but we’ll have a look at the venue you suggested. We’ve never been to Shrewsbury but it’s something that has been on our list for quite awhile now, it’s such a beautiful town.
Greetings to there and have a lovely evening!
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Haha, good question!
But actually no, not really. I think we still manage to keep a pretty private life, all things considered, and if we want to share parts of what we do with the world, it’s always because we really want to. And we’re glad that people care 🙂While our music will always be the uttermost important thing, we like creating an environment and “microcosm” to go along with it.
Pictures and video are our favourite way of doing that as long as you let me brush my hair and change out of my PJs first 🙂 -
Wow, that’s beautifully painted, thanks for sharing it with us!
There’s nothing better than art inspiring art inspiring art inspiring art 🙂 The more there is on this planet the better!
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Hi Rob!
At the moment it’s so hard to say for sure what the future will hold. Of course we’d love to travel more and play shows around the globe. We’ve never been to the Netherlands so that’s definitely on our bucket list.The world currently seems upside down but we’ll reassess future plans once we have a better idea of how the global situation will develop 🙂 We hope we’ll get to play a real live show for you one day!
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Aww, thanks Lynn!
We have offered to sign all CDs for MLT Club members so it’s our pleasure to take the time to do that. Thanks for getting our music in addition to the membership and for supporting us on this endeavour!YESSSS for starting to learn the Ukulele! Keep us up-to date on your progress, we’d love to hear a cover of “I Don’t Know Birds That Well” one day 😛
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Oh wow, that was impeccable! The “It’s Too Late” arrangement was especially dreamy! He’s got himself a new subscriber 🙂
The Lady Madonna arrangement reminded us of Tommy Emmanuel’s Beatles Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPkQn5nDTZs
Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Jerry,
We hope everything is groovy ♥We probably won’t be making any DVDs again. Licensing cover songs for video is very tedious and expensive and the medium itself isn’t sought after very much anymore. So we would rather just offer the videos in the Club for streaming as well as post them on YouTube, Facebook etc. and concentrate on new projects instead.
We hope that’s not too disappointing!
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Hi Bill,
“No More Worries Company” has a unique story, different to all the other songs on ORANGE. It is actually a song that Dad wrote back in the 80ies and used to be called “No More Working Company”.Dad has recorded plenty of songs in the past and that one was always our favourite so we wanted to include it on the album 🙂 The lyrics and arrangement all got a revamp but the basic idea, melody and song structure stayed the same.
THANKS, we’re glad you like it! We’re also really happy with how it turned out, especially Dad’s grandiose honky-tonk piano 🙂
Have a lovely day!
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What a fantastic clip!
I can’t believe we’ve never seen this so thanks for sharing it with us. There is so much mutual respect in this video, it was wonderful to witness.
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Hi Lynn!
Lisa is the better lead guitar player, and while I theoretically could have learned all the solo guitar parts, it would have taken me much longer and would have never sounded that good 🙂 I’ve always focused more on rhythm guitar (and started off with drums) so we can play together. So in the case of guitars, it has less to do with taste and more to do with skill whereas when it comes to our vocals, “skill” doesn’t play that much into it.
Hope that makes sense and thanks for the question ♥
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Hey Rick,
That’s a Wazinator Stompbox – the Classic KSB319 🙂 They are made by a small company in Australia and are everything you want from a stompbox. They produce a natural, woody and predictable tone and it’s definitely the best I’ve come across so far.
We’ve used it for acoustic shows quite a lot and of course in many of our Duo Sessions. Here is their website if you’re interested: https://wazinator.com/
I hope you’re well!
Mona