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COOKIE!!
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 17 May 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
People who whine about this being all serious and self-indulgent conveniently forget that in the middle of a purty nice song like "Hold On" John growls "COOKIE!!!!" out of nowhere, for absolutely no reason.
― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
In all the things I've read about "POB" I've never read a mention of 'cookie' and it doesn't exist in the liner notes. I was half entertaining the idea that I had been imagining it this whole time!
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
High point of John's career--definitely in terms of guitar work; one of Ono's two best. And definitely the funkiest Ringo or Klaus Voorman ever got. Ono was nearing a Faust-like state.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I really, really, really hope there are some bootlegs of the Klaus/Ringo/John rhythm section blasting from Valhalla somewhere.
This is why I like Ringo so much. He can act like a doofus, be the 'lucky guy that got picked randomly' to go down in history, and take all that criticism in stride. And then you hear this Yoko Ono POB stuff and think 'holy shit!!'
Ringo's so unpretentious. The day after they recorded 'Why' he was making a silly peace sign. I bet it never registered how badass it was, he just thinks "Oh well, that was a fun little jam with me friends!"
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Harmonic masterpieces" -- this thread is just chock full of classic Geir.
My view is Yoko/POB for reasons already cited.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Geir shocked by Beatles liking music by black people.
― leavethecapital, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The Beatles are my favorite band, but Yoko is my favorite Beatle.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never heard the rest of the album, but I know and love "why." is it worth my time to track down the rest?
― Billy Pilgrim, Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes! Get the whole album if you love "Why". Also get "Fly"
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 18 May 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
The Beatles' Hamburg roots brought them no fame. For a reason. It wasn't until they started composing their own tunes that The Beatles became the greatest and most important thing ever to happen to music. And Paul McCartney was the most important musical brain in the group, proving a touch of true musical sophistication to the otherwise way too raw and simple R&B roots.― Geir Hongro, Sunday, April 8, 2007 7:15 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Definition of "Curate's egg" here. Parts are very true, and parts are total bol. Without Hamburg, there'd be no 1st album, which brought them fame. "I saw her standing there" was made perfect by Hamburg (where they played it 10 times a week, at least)
The raw and simple R&B brought them fame. Yes, if they had stuck to that, they'd have fizzled out. But they developed musically. Oh no! They developed! Oh, it's OK, musical development was only banned in 1974...
― Mark G, Monday, 18 May 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, and these albums need re-releasing as a double or twin-pack.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 May 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Plastic Ono Band record, Between My Head And The Sky, is fantastic
― to cloves fork comfurt (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
plenty of Fly-esque tracks of "OHWHAHAHAHHAHAA" over heavy psych beats
― to cloves fork comfurt (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
another thread ruined by Geir
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
This is crazy sounding:
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/395
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
new Plastic Ono Band IS pretty good! new Sean Lennon is uhhhh. http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4079a19b95ca98b945924ba60584f7f8/2480031.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
actually terrible album covers of 2009
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
also, wtf Seanhttp://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sean-lennon-purple-terry-richardson.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
like, seriously
Together, we are stronger than Geir.
xpost or are we?
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
NSFW everybody
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
As I just discovered
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
shit, sorry about that, doggs. didn't realize it was totally nsfw.
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.ymlp108.com/GuerrillaGroup_1_image_3.jpg
― dmr, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
is that hope sandoval lying on sean lennon?
― piscesx, Monday, 11 January 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
She's hotter than Yoko and he's way more burnt than John.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Just a tiny bit. And--many will hate this--Yoko's contributions are half-played for laughs. Although Voorman speaks thoughtfully about how he'd changed his mind about Yoko by the end.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 January 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
From what you do hear, Bo Diddley sounded the best to me.
sounds about right!
― budo jeru, Monday, 9 January 2023 07:14 (one year ago) link
My Dad (a David, but no brother Glen) told me he had been at this. I’m on the fence as to whether he actually was but it’s still nice to think about.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 9 January 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link
That's great. Do you know if he was also at the Toronto Pop Festival a few months earlier? (The Velvet Underground and Sly & the Family Stone!)
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-performers-at-canada-s-first-pop-festival-in-1969-1.5180010
Small chance your dad turns up in one of the crowd shots--you should see it.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 January 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
The footage I've seen from that concert was pretty amazing. Little Richard especially (which was also used in The Little Richard Story a great film by William Klein. I think it was the first time I ever saw Jerry Lee Lewis play guitar - his set was good. I've only seen brief bits of the rest, but I'll have to check out Bo's.
― birdistheword, Monday, 9 January 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
Which concert -- Toronto Pop or the other Toronto show?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
Never mind. There's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEtOMrXJFTw
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's the one! I remember the outfit. FWIW, the one time I saw Little Richard in-person, he had the brightest, shiniest and most sparkling shoes I had EVER seen. Never mind shoes, of any piece of attire worn by anyone.
― birdistheword, Monday, 9 January 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
I will watch them and look for him, he was only about 15 in ‘69 though so doubtful he was at anything earlier. Sadly I lost him a few years ago so can’t ask :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 9 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
Oh I misread and thought the other was a couple years not months earlier
Ritchie Yorke turns up in Marcus's column today, and also in Revival69--at one point, he was instrumental in saving the whole show. Made me laugh, because Yorke became a running punchline for a friend and I who both remembered his book Axes, Chops & Hot Licks, a look at Canadian pop in the early '70s. It was one of the few rock-related books that might be in your school library in the mid-'70s, at least if you were Canadian. (Yorke was Australian, but he moved to Canada and wrote for the Globe and the Telegram.) I don't know if either of us had even read him--I have a copy of Axes I bought later--but based on his 10-favourite list in the first Paul Gambaccini Top 200 book, we decided he was a good stand-in for a certain kind of '70s rock critic, best described, maybe, by the joke in Annie Hall about achieving "total heavy-osity." Very unfair, no doubt. He died five years ago.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
He was included in the list of "10 Worst Rock Critics" that Marcus wrote for the Book of Rock Lists in 1980, I can't imagine that the passage of time has made him more beloved.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
I'm sure that was part of us seizing on him in particular.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link