John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band or Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band?

COOKIE!!

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.

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!

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.

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!"

"Harmonic masterpieces" -- this thread is just chock full of classic Geir.

My view is Yoko/POB for reasons already cited.

Geir shocked by Beatles liking music by black people.

The Beatles are my favorite band, but Yoko is my favorite Beatle.

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?

Yes! Get the whole album if you love "Why". Also get "Fly"

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...

oh, and these albums need re-releasing as a double or twin-pack.

The new Plastic Ono Band record, Between My Head And The Sky, is fantastic

plenty of Fly-esque tracks of "OHWHAHAHAHHAHAA" over heavy psych beats

another thread ruined by Geir

This is crazy sounding:

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/395

new Plastic Ono Band IS pretty good! new Sean Lennon is uhhhh.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4079a19b95ca98b945924ba60584f7f8/2480031.jpg

actually terrible album covers of 2009

also, wtf Sean
http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sean-lennon-purple-terry-richardson.jpg

like, seriously

Together, we are stronger than Geir.

xpost or are we?

NSFW everybody

As I just discovered

shit, sorry about that, doggs. didn't realize it was totally nsfw.

http://img.ymlp108.com/GuerrillaGroup_1_image_3.jpg

is that hope sandoval lying on sean lennon?

She's hotter than Yoko and he's way more burnt than John.

Had to research because "DAMN".

For the Fall issue of Purple magazine, Sean Lennon appears in a recreation of his parents’ famous 1981 Rolling Stone cover, their last photo together by financially troubled photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new snap by Terry Richardson features Sean in his mother’s place while nude model Kemp Muhl fills in for his dead father."

Launched in 1969 with the single "Give Peace A Chance", PLASTIC ONO BAND is known for its avant-garde music, film, art, and activism. Revived in 2009, YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND includes Yoko Ono, Cornelius, Yuka Honda, Haruomi Hosono and Sean Lennon. On February 16, the group performs a very special concert, featuring songs from their new album Between My Head And The Sky , welcoming many special guests, including some original band members.

There are some eye-opening special guests.

http://imaginepeace.com/news/archives/9356

It occurred to me hearing "Give Peace a Chance" full through on the radio tonight that this tune has to be one of the most raggedy pop hits of all time. It's pretty much just one long chorus with a big group of singers and John Lennon scatting every so many measures. What the heck is making that drum beat sound? It might be more than just a microphone in a room. Maybe it was staged to sound that raw, I don't know, but it seems hard to believe that the song was that big a hit. The tune made it to #14 in the US charts and #2 in the UK.

It's a tough choice because they're both excellent, yet very different records. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is hugely underrated, IMO. Post-punk before there was post-punk. It actually makes John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band look relatively conservative, and hits the spot in the same way for me as Public Image Ltd. or Can or The Fall do.

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.

Which concert -- Toronto Pop or the other Toronto show?

Never mind. There's this:

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

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.

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 :(

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.

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.

I'm sure that was part of us seizing on him in particular.