MLT Club Member Roger Penn
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What a great post!
The only autograph I have that might mean anything to anyone else is from Alison Sudol’s early days as A Fine Frenzy. Now of course, she’s better known as Queenie in the Fantastic Beast films and other things. I had a couple pics of us as well, but they’ve somehow vanished into digital oblivion.
I agree with David on the meaning of handwriting. That would mean my whole personality has changed drastically over the years, as I have constantly reinvented various aspects of it, either to make it more legible, more efficient, or just do something different. I now actually have 3 different styles I use regularly: an almost fully print mode, a complete cursive style, and my usual writing, when journaling and such, is a hybrid of the two. So I guess I’m really a schizophrenic! I rarely dot my i at all, so what does that mean? LOL
Jung is gunning for some kind of award from the International Fountain Pen Society for promoting the cause, because he’s now sent several of us down the path of bottled lunacy. ROFL. So far I only have 5, but I’m sure I’ll have more pens than fingers and toes before long.
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Perfect. Now to hear the recording…
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You mean *other* than MLT songs? Well, the first to come to mind is the *other* Wagner and Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre: https://youtu.be/XRU1AJsXN1g
But also this classic by written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!
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There have already been numerous requests, pleas, supplications, urgings, etc. lol. Ultimately it’s their song and their musical journey, so I don’t want them to do anything they’re not comfortable with and 100% behind. They’ll do it if and when they’re ready. Now, that being said…
PLLEEEEAAAASE!!! We all love that song so much! 😀
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Well, obviously Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger top the list. Another more recent example is Midnight Oil. There are a lot of artists that have had a song or two along those lines even if that wasn’t part of their identity. One favorite that comes to mind is “Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band” (yet another Canadian nod).
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Definitely my all-time favorite contemporary (non-traditional) Christmas song.
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Yes, and one of the rare times we see them “reversed.” Just one of my favorite songs ever. Fingers crossed they do it on the livestream this year.
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I do too! Especially the new members list. So much easier to get in touch with people.
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I’m totally with you there. But then, I’m a grumpy old person too. LOL
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It would be easier to make a list of groups NOT influenced or paying homage to the Beatles in some way, because it’s almost impossible to make rock/pop music that doesn’t incorporate something that they invented or popularized. Prog rock is probably the planet farthest from the Beatles Sun, so when even groups like Marillion (btw nice to know another fan!) do that, and many of them cite the Beatles as influences, it’s pretty amazing! Off the top of my head, though, I’m not coming up with any songs that are directly meant to be a Beatles homage without being an actual cover. Other than MLT, of course!
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Yes, I can only imagine what other things he had to test. lol
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Ah, yes, and my all-time favorite Cylon quote…”We did not crash…we were flying along and the ground came up and hit us.”
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Wow, jealous. Very nice.
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I am firmly in the opposite camp. In fact, just hearing one bar of that song makes me hate Christmas. One advantage of the digital era is that we don’t have to fast-forward the tape or pick up the needle; we can just rip the album and leave the one song we can’t stand off of it. One fascinating thing to me about the MLT Christmas album is that it has the best and the worst (for me) Christmas songs of all time on the same album! 😀
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So sorry you have to deal with crap like that, but so grateful you were able to deal with it. Thanks so much for all your work, both musically and otherwise!