MLT Club Member Christopher
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Jung and Jacki, I am glad that you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. I was in Canada myself, it is so much easier to cross the border these days. On October 1st all the Covid restrictions were lifted and by using my Nexus card, it was clear sailing!
Spent the weekend in Toronto watching my Blue Jays fall to the Seattle Mariners in the baseball playoffs. Tough for us Jays fans, but it was nice returning to “Tronna” for a couple days.
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Edgar Winter?! Stevie Ray Vaughn?! Much respect! Welcome to the MLT Club.
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Jung, you did not digress when you wrote about the Queen and her Parker pen. You have a link, especially since fountain pens are a passion of yours. Hope you use it only to sign good documents and to write happy correspondence.
It is always easy to see that Mona and Lisa love the pen and pen-related gifts that you send them. It perfectly fits their hobby of journalizing. I am certain that your pens have been the source of music, lyrics, and video ideas.
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Since it still is Friday, September 9 for about another half-hour here; the countdown has begun. We will know the title of the new album, along with the cover art, in two weeks. Two weeks, fourteen days, twenty-eight half days…etc.
Well, you get the picture. Hope that the time goes by fast.
And wouldn’t it be great if one of our choices were in the ballpark?
Now we play “the waiting game” lol.
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God Bless The Queen
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We just lost a wonderful and important person. Queen Elizabeth II has passed. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a few minutes ago, put it best: “She was one of my favorite people in the world and I will miss her so”.
Deepest sympathies to everyone in Great Britain and in the Commonwealth. May Her Majesty rest in peace.
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Butterscotch Blonde with a light color maple neck and a black pickguard. I guess it is nicknamed the “Noodle” model after a guitarist in the animated band Gorillaz. One of my students did a project last year on the band for Computer Applications and she is taking Accounting from me this year, so I’m sure she will laugh when I tell her I purchased a “Noodle”!
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Thanks for your input, Darryl. I am glad that you like the Squier Affinity Tele. You are making it easier and easier for me to make this purchase!
Made the leap and purchased it today. I like it quite a bit. Was playing around with other guitars. They had a couple Gretch guitars and although I wasn’t going purchase something that grand, had to try one in MLT tradition. Way too much guitar for me, lol!
The only thing that I don’t love about it is that the high E string is so close to the end of the fretboard, but that’s not a big thing. It is so easy to handle and has a nice sound. Just have to build up the callouses on my fingers!
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Thank you Paul…it is the playability that really made me love the Tele. Since I plan on just playing for fun, I began with the Squier Fenders. There was a bottom-of-the line one there and it felt alright, but once I went to the next level, one can tell the subtle differences.
We used the Mel Bay methods because each year I would compete in the music festival in Canada which would choose its songs from Mel Bay. Did pretty good, but now it is time to have a little more fun!
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Jung, thank you for your encouragement. Watching and listening to MLT has played a big role in spurring my interest to play again. The Duo Sessions are the best, one can watch how they play. Made my want to play again!
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Jung, kudos on winning The Wide, Wide Land hand-written lyrics! I have to admit, you and Jacki H. are the two members that I am rooting to win the zoom call contest. Both of you are most deserving.
My first MLT Joy? The first MLT video that I watched; namely, “If I Fell”. It came up via my algorithm when I was looking up the Beatles during the Get Back revolution and it just blew me away. I started watching their other Beatles videos right away, ordered a t-shirt, and within a week joined the MLT Club.
My second MLT Joy? The first MLT original video that I watched; namely, “That’s Life”. I tease my wife saying that if I was a major league baseball player, “That’s Life” would be my walk-up song. She always says ‘I thought it would always be “Limelight” by Rush’. Well, things would be different in 2022, lol.
My third MLT Joy? The day that our high school baseball team gave in and allowed me to have some MLT in the pre-game batting practice mix. Many of them, who are so far removed from the Mersey Beat, came in after hitting saying ‘Hey, they’re really good!’ Made my day.
My fourth MLT Joy? Winning Mona’s guitar strings that she used on her Martin Acoustic for “Songbird”. Highly unexpected! They are in a prominent place in our living room, along with my ‘I’m Groovy’ button, cards, and guitar pick. The MLT sticker is proudly displayed on my laptop.
Also, I just have to say that it is so nice that Mona and Lisa communicate with us weekly despite their very busy schedule. It has to be very hectic for them right now with the album and the business of it all. It shows the appreciation that they have for their supporters.
Finally, thank you to everyone in the MLT Club. You are all a great group of people and I have learned a great deal about so much!
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Yes Jung, your taste in fine pens and in stationary certainly are evident. You have sent Mona and Lisa some real nice Mont Blanc items. Loved Lisa’s line about the perfume that you sent them for their birthday: “Now that we are twenty-eight, we can appreciate the finer things in life”. They were so excited!
Don’t know if you are aware of this but here goes…during my time as a student and a teacher, I noticed that there is an item that all Canadian students must have; namely, a cloth or nylon pencil pouch. As an Undergraduate, I had a Canadian classmate who had one full of little pencils to do his accounting, as a Graduate Student, all my Canadian classmates had pencil pouches, and during my student-teaching experience at Niagara-on-the-Lake, they all had them as well.
Once I started as an Adjunct at the University, once again, all my Canadian students had one. It stuck out to me because U.S. students usually stop using them in High School, which always ends up with them asking me “do you have a pencil?” which can get annoying, lol.
It didn’t matter if you were an A student or a D student, all Canadian students had pencil cases! If you were a rocker, you would write “Metallica” on it, if you liked prog-rock, “Rush” would be on your case, or it could be plain, have sports teams, unicorns, anything that matched your persona.
One of these years, I am going to recommend to my students to have one in their backpacks…maybe I won’t have to hand out as many pens and pencils!
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Jung…once again your reflections are spot on!
Labor (or Labour) Day since I grew up three miles from the border. A new year, and as both a student or a teacher, the quiet dread of having to prove your meddle once again.
Friday after that first week, normalcy. Summer is now in the rear-view window. Hopefully I have a nice group of students and all is well. Hoping to have some students that I had before for other classes and maybe some high school baseball players from the season before.
And yes, I am enjoying the Buffalo Bisons. Since they are a Blue Jays minor league club and so is Vancouver, many of our Bisons have played for the Canadians. Talked to a couple of them and they have fond memories of the city and of Nat Bailey Stadium.
Keep up with the great work Vancouver!!!
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Could “Pretty Little Thing” be a tribute to Neve? Guess I will find out soon, when my CD arrives, don’t tell me, just want my prediction on record!
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Congratulations Jung! You must be among the first to receive the Studio Scribbles along with your other goodies. Christmas comes early! You must have a low, low, number on the scribbles which is only proper considering how much you have done for Team Wagner. Enjoy, and thanks for being here. Your conversation topics and input set the tone for a wonderful group of MLT Club members.
I am holding my breath in hoping that my CD and Studio Scribbles come in on Friday since it is my birthday. For now, I have a printed copy of the “Why?” cover on my classroom door (I waited, of course, until Mona and Lisa released the cover on the general internet). Students have come in asking “why?” and I just reply “why not!”