Yeah, they are cool. We have a local guy that dresses like this guy and rides a penny farthing bicycle in the parades.

I like good elevator music. If you have to listen to music in an elevator, you might as well listen to the best. 60 years later and I still hear Beatles music almost every day. I haven’t heard an REM song since the 80’s. Are they even relevant?

Thanks David, that’s pretty good music. Of course I remember the one by Three Degrees. It’s funny they never had more hits. They sounded a lot like the Supremes. I just looked at their Wiki page and they were more popular in the UK despite being a Philadelphia based group. Sounds like there is still a version of the band that is active. Very cool.

Paul

Well you could join us with your Insect Filling Station stories, lol. I was trying to picture that too. Must be for wasps and hornets to stop in for aviation fuel, lol.

Paul

That’s great that you get to see her live, I bet it will be fantastic. And I will check out that album too, thanks.

Forgot the picture, lol.

Paul

I think we all had a pair of flared pants back in the 70’s, lol. The statues are cool though. We have a company in my town that makes fiberglass statues. They made a 32 foot statue of a biker for our information center. My younger brother worked there for many years and helped sculpt and set up the statue. They have made statues that…

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Paul

I have seen this one before but couldn’t remember where it was at. It is in Houston Texas at a Micro-brewery. The statues are 36 feet tall and quite impressive. The only thing wrong with it is that John is on the left and Paul on the right which is wrong. Even in their Hamburg days and up until the quit playing live, Paul was always on…

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Ed

That’s cool. My town has a John Street, lol. There is also a George Street in La Crosse WI (nearby).

Yeah that’s terrible about Kyle Busch. I feel really sad for his wife and kids. It sounds like rain may be a problem for the racing at Indy and Charlotte but it’s suppose to be pretty decent here on Sunday. I have a couple parties to go to on Sunday so it wouldn’t bother me too much if they got postponed until Monday, lol. I may go watch the…

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Howard

I think you just have to make two identical cookies and like you said, use red and yellow food coloring to make one Lisa and one Mona. I don’t want those life-sized cookies though. They would be too hard to dunk in a glass of milk, lol.

I suppose this is your last big weekend before your knee surgery. Hope you enjoy the holiday and of…

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Lol, has anyone tried to make Mona Lisa Twins cookies? I’m not that good of an artist, or baker for that matter. Hmmm, I do know someone who is, maybe I’ll look into that. Could be a good Christmas gift.

I remember this place from the Twins Hamburg vlog. Those look like giant cookie cutters to me, lol.

That’s cool that you two met up like that. I also like that collection of merry-go-round ponies, lol. That’s a very unique item to collect.

Another one of my favorite Dylan songs sung by someone else. This was always one of my favorite Rod Stewart tracks and albums. Girl From The North Country from his album Smiler.

https://youtu.be/7NwxarwMgW8?si=w-YsLPko9TidIGdo

Paul

That video link won’t play for me but I found an alternate link to share. I like this version by Beth Rowley. It sounds very country to me. I even thought I heard a kazoo in there, lol. Maybe it’s a low saxophone, hard to tell but I like her singing. I still like a lot of Reina Del Cid covers but I think this one is…

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Roger

Cool topic, I can probably think of a few. The first one that comes to mind is Can’t Get It Out Of My Head by ELO. Jeff Lynne’s voice sounds very much like John Lennon on this one. It may be closer to a Lennon song from a solo album like Double Fantasy but the string section sounds very Beatlesque.

https://youtu.be/1cXw0Wx1unI?si=eeh6E7EnzAuoLZSg

I have one drumming video to share. This is how it all started back in the caveman days, lol. The drummer looks very familiar, maybe an ancestor.

I’ve probably shared this before but I love this clip from Ringo’s movie “Caveman”. I like towards the end when the blind man is sticking his hand in the fire to get the timely…

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Jurgen

That is really cool, what an awesome sound. I bet that would be cool to see and hear at a concert, in an outdoor amphitheatre.

Jurgen

I don’t recall hearing “Joy” before but it’s a good piece of music. I can see why it would be a hit.

Yeah, Johnny Cash did one of the most famous versions of Orange Blossom Special. I knew it was an old song usually played bluegrass style with a fiddle but there are lyrics for it also. Johnny did it with lyrics but a lot of the bluegrass…

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This one sounded (in parts) similar to the Walton’s (TV series) theme music. I found this beautiful rendition of that music by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Adam Klemens). A wonderful trumpet solo by Martin Pavluš. Nicely done and very true to the original.

https://youtu.be/TtOlUIrciXo?si=AyXv2exL1D3dlyQV

I’ve heard Orange Blossom Special a million times by many artists (Even my Brother’s band) but have never heard this version, very cool.

Jurgen

I’ve never heard of either the song or the artist but it’s a nice piece of music, very comforting and pleasant.

We really should have started a forum for TV and movie themes. There are some great ones with lyrics too. Does it count as an instrumental if you can’t understand the lyrics? Song writer Jim Ellis wrote this tune which is officially titled “WKRP in Cincinnati End Credits”. The lyrics he sang while recording the music were complete gibberish…

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I remember hearing that tune before but would have never guessed the title or artist.

Jacki

I tend to agree with you about his singing but his songwriting is genius. That’s true with some of my other favorite songwriters too like Kris Kristofferson or Willie Nelson. But give their songs to an amazing vocalist and they can become a masterpiece. I just listened to a great Bob Dylan song, “It Ain’t Me Babe” by Mona and Lisa.…

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Per

I believe Chris is right, you get them all because you have been a member for a while. I think when non-club members buy a CD or album, they get a free download for that album only. I’ve never downloaded any because I always listen to the cd’s in my car and like Chris, watch lots of their YouTube videos.

Thanks Paul, I did not know anything about Midge Ure so thanks for that. There was actually alot of good pop music in the 80’s, but most of it got overshadowed by not so good stuff that dominated the radio airwaves.

Paul

It is a pretty cool tune. I love the bass notes on the piano and a little surf guitar never hurt anything.