[Mona Wagner]

Thanks for joining the MLT Club, Don! And equally big thanks to your wife for introducing you to our music!

We hope you’ll enjoy it here ! We love how many members are musicians themselves 🙂

If you ever have any questions, you can shoot us an email or post in the forum.
♥

[Mona Wagner]

Hello, hello!

Lisa and and I also want to welcome you here and say a big thank you 🙂

Old, young … it doesn’t matter, we’re here for the music and that’s what we love about this community ♥ We hope you’ll enjoy your time here and send groovy greetings across the Atlantic!

Mona & Lisa

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Bill!

If we had to choose a Dave Clark Five song to cover “Because” would definitely be up there so we might consider it one day! There’s too little time and too many good songs to record … and then there’s all those that still want to be written! Thanks for the suggestion though, now I’ll have the tune bounce around my head for the rest of the evening 🙂

Stay groovy!
Mona

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Richard,

We’re glad and grateful you joined us here – welcome to the MLT Club! 🙂

It would be great to have tabs of the lead parts of our songs to share with other people but we unfortunately haven’t had the time to work on that yet.

You can find the chord sheets to our original music here but when it comes to tabbing the lead lines, we’d have to get familiar with the whole process first, find the best tabbing software etc. or find a way that would allow someone else to do it for us (it would be tricky to get the original positioning right without a visual reference).

It would take quite a bit of time which we should currently spend working on new music, but it’s on our list for future MLT Club additions. If we have a spare minute we’ll look into it more!

We also just googled The Egg -What a cool looking venue! We’ll try and keep it in mind should we make it to that area! 🙂

Lots of groovy greetings!

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Dale, or should we say Sherlock! 😉

That’s an excellent question, thanks! You are right – it was just the four of us that day and here is how we did it:

Dad and Michaela stood on either side of us with buckets. They would throw the paint at the same time while dad would control the camera that was in front of us with a remote control in his other hand. He’d press the shutter while throwing the paint which turns out wasn’t the easiest task. It was a challenge getting the timing right but we got enough good shots to piece together the final artwork in Photoshop (using multiple images).

It was a fun project up until the point when the clean-up began! 😉 We still found paint on the ceiling and the camera equipment months and even years later!

All the best to you!
Mona

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Kenneth,

It is great to meet you here and to learn of your many interests in life. Thumbs up for the Austrian grandparents 😉 We thank you for the thoughtful introduction and the many interesting comments and forum posts you already left here.

I think you meant to reply to some of the greetings in the Club but accidentally replied to the notification emails instead of posting them here in this thread. We found your email replies in our club email inbox. If you want the others to read your answers please make sure to post the replies directly in the forum instead of replying to the notification emails. We hope that makes sense!

Anyway, again thank you for sharing a little bit about yourself. We hope you’ll enjoy your time here in the Club. If you ever need help with anything, please let us know ♥

Peace & Love,

Mona & Lisa

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Howard!

We actually did think about getting out the flute for that song but the blues harp won in the end as we thought it would fit the song much better. Maybe one day the flute will make its debut in a duo session but it would have to make sense musically. 🙂

I’m glad you are enjoying the covers. We’ve been loving the freedom it gives us to explore different songs and styles without making a full 2-week production out of it. There will definitely be more coming soon!

I hope you’re well!
Mona

[Mona Wagner]

Oh, that made me giggle! That’s Lisa’s Photoshop skills 😛 She just thought it would be funny to take a screenshot from the “Hair” movie (the scene where they sing that song) and virtually squeeze ourselves into the car with everyone else. Here is the original clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmZqb2VVc48

And thank you for the compliments! That song definitely was a bit of a challenge to make it work. It was easy for it to top over to the more cheesy side so we were trying out different arrangements to keep it fun but not too “sweet”. That’s what we came up with. LOTS of spacey harmonies and percussions, sparse guitar leads and harmonica. Oh and did we mention harmonies and percussion. Yeah loads of harmonies and percussion 🙂

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Rick,

The Ahhhs in “Time Of The Season” are just me going “Ahhh” – with some reverb added and the treble lifted so it sounds more percussive. Lots of breathing was required! 🙂
We loved the original arrangement and how the Zombies incorporated those vocals like an instrument/rhythm element. Of course we had to keep that!

Dad isn’t singing on that song but maybe he should have been, haha! He definitely could have hit those lower notes much easier than me 🙂

We hope you’re well!

Mona

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Rick!

With an e-drum kit you can programme your cymbals to sound like whatever you want – a ride, a crash, a duck sound … . The cymbals and toms are basically just triggers that you assign a midi sample (a snippet of sound) to, so when you hit that particular trigger this is what you’ll hear. That’s what makes them so versatile. 🙂

I generally play with a ride cymbal on my right and a crash on the left, which is a very common set-up, so that is what I would do with my e-drum, too.

As a sound module I use a Roland-TD12. The last time we used the kit live was in 2007. I am sure there are much more advanced ones on the market by now but it did a good job back then!

And lastly, the only time I’ve ever used chimes was when I was playing percussions for a Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel performance. There were a couple of songs for which they came in handy so I bought some for the tour. I haven’t used them since though 🙂

Thanks for the questions as always!

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Steve!

A huge warm welcome to the MLT Club from the whole team! 🙂

We love hearing about everyone’s different perspectives on music in the Club and thank you for sharing yours! Not a Beatles fan, but a fan of our music … that doesn’t happen a lot and we are intrigued!

We definitely say thanks for the kind words and for supporting … and enjoying! …what we do!

Even more so in today’s times the support of MLT Club members means the world to us and makes it possible for us to keep working and creating!

We send you all the best and wish your sons good luck with their music too!

Mona & Lisa

[Mona Wagner]

Hello and Howdy Robert,

Thank you for saying hi and welcome aboard!

So you discovered our music and only a few days later the world starts to go mad and you can’t leave your house anymore … we promise, it wasn’t our fault! 😉

Seriously though, thank you for your support in these trying times and we appreciate you sharing a bit more about yourself with us. We hope you and your loved ones around the world are doing well and send all the best and much peace & love from across the pond!

Mona & Lisa

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Paul!

Lisa already answered a lot of your questions but to chime in real quick: I prefer 2B Drums sticks too. I’m not very picky about it but if I had to choose I’d always go with sticks that are too heavy rather than too light.

As for picks – I nearly always go for plain old, regular sized, medium gauge nylon plectrums. There are a few strumming techniques, in “June” for example, where I use a soft gauge for a more connected rhythm tone (it really makes a big difference) but those are the exception.

Thanks for the question! 🙂

[Mona Wagner]

Hi Rick!

You are right, I do own an E-drum kit, a Roland TD-12 and I used it very heavily in my early years of playing! The whole “Live in concert, 2007” album was recorded on one, and if you look up any of the YouTube clips from that concert you will see it in the videos, too.

You can program the individual drums and cymbals with any sounds you want which makes them very versatile, but more importantly you can turn down the volume to almost nothing. That came especially handy when we first moved to the UK. Our rehearsal space initially wasn’t nearly as well soundproofed as our rehearsal room in Austria, so there was no way we could use the regular drum kit without having the neighbours knock on our door. (It happened anyway but we quickly sorted things out 😉 )

I think it would go a bit too far to explain all the details about what an e-drum kit is and how it works but Wikipedia does a great job at that, if you are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit#Electronic_drums

Ever since that first concert we played in 2007 I haven’t used it live, but we have recorded bits and bobs on it throughout the years even as recently as on ORANGE.

At the moment it’s packed away in the garage because I have the Ludwig kit set up, and the studio isn’t big enough for the both of them.

I hope you’re well!
Mona

[Mona Wagner]

Thanks a lot, we’re grateful you feel that way and that you get so much positive out of our music and what we do.

In some ways, we still hope to “change” a lot, to grow and to improve but we get your sentiment, take it as a compliment and say thanks 🙂

Hope you’re happy, safe and healthy,

Mona