Thanks Jacki for the headsup.

I see your #MLTBUZZLUVGROOVIFIED reply on Facebook from 5 hours ago to the “Ask the MLT” post. Idk if that’s where you saw it.

You have a great holiday too Howard.

Whatever they decide to do, I will always enjoy it.

Jung and Howard,

That’s what I recall is happening Friday too. Duo Sessions on vinyl. Which is awesome.

I’m excited about 2026. They’re rolling out the Dream Studio, going on tour, and we’re seeing some of the songs they drop racking up a lot of views in a hurry.

That all sounds great.

I don’t recall hearing anything recently about another original album.

I’d be VERY MUCH in favour of that, for sure, if that was happening.

It sounded like some announcement or something coming this Friday though…

Bud,

Starman.

I have playlist(s) of over 200 videos on YouTube that are my favourite MLT videos.

But the main list, with everything on it, I have ordered, somewhat. Usually what’s newest goes near the top, and what I’m currently motivated to bump the view totals for is up there as well, and then I’ve kind of, over time, got it sorted so I hear…

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Jacki,

Thanks for that. Telling us how you feel about it.

I have to say, I’m closer to your take than a lot of other people’s.

He’s quite a poet. And he moves people. To be sure.

More power to him. And anyone who inspires people to love music, has got me behind them.

Jung,

The YT algorithm decided to show me the vid below today.

I was laughing about it, and thought you might enjoy it. Music theory is supposed to explain how music works, but sometimes it just gets to the point where someone should pencil in “here be dragons” at the edges. It does seem to me that if it’s not good at explaining songs that…

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Yeah, I’ve seen more than one clip of Macca explaining how if he hasn’t figured out a part of a song, he sticks some nonsense word in there temporarily, then goes off and consults an oracle later, or something. You don’t want to get stuck on trying to fix everything when you’re in the zone and the creative juices are flowing. Or…

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That’s why you do mulitple takes in a studio. Then pick the best one.

There’s no way multiple takes are exactly the same anyway.

This thread reminds me of another songwriter who I would put in the same class as Dylan in terms of lyrics. Make no mistake, I have full respect for the rarefied air that that is.

The guy is Paul Simon. When Mona and Lisa covered the Boxer, not that long ago, I ran across a quote from him about his embarrassment that the song went live with…

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Jung,

DaVinci never actually finished the Monalisa. Or so I’ve heard, he never actually told me personally. He only spent 20 years on it after all. I can relate to that. What musician plays one of their old songs the same way now?

Jazz musicians consider it cheating to play any song the same way twice. Or at least some of the greats said…

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Howard,

You’re right about the history of protest songs. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. America has had more than enough injustice to beget lifetimes of protest songs. Still does.

The Q&A, that we’re still in between Parts 1 and 2 of, about an Artists’ Role in Society, struck me as a bit different from past Q&A themes. It sounded…

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Woody Guthrie influenced a lot of people.

That’s a fantastic song. I keep a Protest song playlist on YT. I just added this song to it, and checked. It has 143 songs on it now. Which doesn’t even scratch the surface. Some of them are from the Why?+ period that will always be famous in the Twins’ career.

And I haven’t really tried to build it…

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Reminds me of the Pareto Principle. 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.

I would rate Lennon higher on the songwriter scale than Dylan. They are from different milieux. I base my rating on the evidence of my ears. But its my personal rating.

Music is a wide canvas onto which to exhibit your art.

I just looked up the word “music” in…

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I always thought this sounded like a Beatles song. Although I like it more than any Beatles song I can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2dDBSr3L_E

Per,

I remember finding this page a while back about Club benefits. But most often, I watch their music on YouTube, so I don’t usually get the music out of the Club. And I’ve bought copies of everything they’ve ever done too, so I can’t tell you if I get them because I’ve been a Club member for a while, or because I bought copies. I suspect…

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Jung,

Thanks for that followup. I’ll drill down on the links in that when I have some time.

And I’ve heard 2 cuts on that Dylan album, I’ll listen to the rest, I will. Lol. Thanks.

Howard,

Remember our discussion about faking a song?

3 chords are easier to remember, or guess, than 15 verses.

You’re right about the movie; he’s quite a storyteller.

Tangled Up in Blue I do remember, but I don’t recall ever hearing the Jack of Hearts before. Thanks.

Howard,

“Some of his songs are more like watching a movie”. That’s a good way of putting it. He’s painting a picture for you in your mind’s eye.

“Blood on the Tracks”. Maybe it’s time I listen to that album. I don’t know Dylan’s albums very well at all.

Jung,

Wow, déjà vu all over again. I was looking at Dylan yesterday, and here you are today, helping me out. Thanks for posting this.

There are some people on YT who post videos with a title like “after turning a billion and 3, Bob Dylan finally lists the 8 albums that are the greatest of all time”. Or something like that. I always thought…

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I can think of some guesses why you might see that behaviour. All big companies that have products accessible over wide geographic areas use a CDN, a Content Data Network. So there are copies of their site all over, and you typical are seeing a site that’s physically close to you, or they might route you elsewhere if they’ve got an outage…

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I remember that Q&A. That didn’t make sense to me either, that YouTube would pay for a video where they don’t run ads, so I tried to look it up. I found a link that said that YouTube does not pay for those embedded videos back then, but the piece I posted above says they do. Again, I come back to, how does anyone really know, since those…

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My bad, I should have done my homework before bringing this up.

As you said, Tim, views are different by type and platform. Accordign to this site. I haven’t double checked his explanation against other people.

Here’s an SEO guy whose company is trying to sell animation products, but he talks about how each site varies in how they…

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Howard,

You said: “I always thought they had to practice everything they did for hours (or more) to make it sound right.”

And you were right, they do. But they’ve been doing that practicing all their life, since they first picked up an instrument. One of my favourite sayings is “the more songs you learn, the easier it is to learn more…

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David,

Thanks for keeping us up to date on this stuff. I don’t know if you ever go over to Facebook or not, but, for example, this week, the Twins said, on Facebook, that between YT and FB, Solsbury Hill is already over 1M views. It had 500k in the first day there. So that would mean Facebook right now is around 800k.

The Boxer had 500k in…

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Howard,

Pros don’t need to “learn” a song. Even if they’ve never heard the song before, they’ll just follow what the band is doing. They can fake it. Dan could have done just fine without looking at their setlist, but sometimes they might have a special arrangement they want to do. Which he could have faked too.

A friend of mine is a pro…

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Howard,

It’s not unusual to be able to do that, although he’s very young. He did well on that video, and he’ll do even better very soon. I wish him luck.

When I said that “eventually” the AI got the first one, I had to tell it step by step how to do it. It took like 10 tries before it got it, mostly because it always thinks whatever it tries is correct, it never checks its work, it doesn’t really “do” logic, and it likes telling me things that are totally unrelated to what I asked for. In…

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Howard,

That sounds like fun I hope you have a great time.

Maybe I’ll try this tomorrow. Instead of just telling bad jokes about it.

Howard,

Years ago, I could have written a program to figure this out, but I’m well past that these days.

I haven’t written a program since I retired, so that’s almost 5 years.

I think first I’ll need to find a list of hit songs from back then.

I have to tell you that I used the first clue as an example, and asked an AI to figure it out.

Eventually it did.

Wow, I just found this thread.

This looks like you’ve been working hard on this, Paul, thanks.

That’s a good idea, in the root cellar.

I was thinking about a steel cage to keep the flying glass from hitting us, and anything short of a complete collapse from landing on us. And since it’s steel, maybe make it a Faraday cage too. Who knows what the next fun event will be.