John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Present the One-to-One Concert Release
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Let's get a thread going for the One to One concert. Things are 'happening' in the Lennon camp that may be point an October release. http://wogew.blogspot.com/2015/08/lennon-and-mccartney-in-october.html ============================================================ http://wogew.blogspot.com/2014/06/lennons-one-to-one-concerts-due-soon.html http://www.thefest.com/tag/jack-douglas/ Let's discuss and point any relevant news on this release here.
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His 75th birthday is coming up, and that certainly seems like the likeliest candidate to celebrate it! Maybe an expanded "Live In New York City" CD, too?
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Let's hope there's a new release here.... some great stuff here... and unfortunately, a lot of stuff that's still not going to cut it... not so great... but looking forward to it.... still pains me that we never got to see John in his prime as a live artist as we did Paul in that peak Wings Over America period.
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Funny, I just pulled out "Double Fantasy" for the first time in a couple years the other day. Quite a solid album, but I had totally forgotten that side one ends with "Beautiful Boy." What a lovely song, and how unbelievably sad given what happened next. Yeah, I cried. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." I miss you, John.
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Bruce M.:
Funny, I just pulled out "Double Fantasy" for the first time in a couple years the other day. Quite a solid album, but I had totally forgotten that side one ends with "Beautiful Boy." What a lovely song, and how unbelievably sad given what happened next. Yeah, I cried. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." I miss you, John.
Many songs make the heart heavy after what happened. "Nobody told me there'd be days like these..." "The monster's gone..." "I can hardly wait to see you come of age." "Living on borrowed time without a thought for tomorrow" etc, etc And the one that just tears me up: Grow Old With Me.
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So many songs from that period are gut-wrenching and heart-wrenching. He had really gained some newfound perspective and seemed so happy. Had let go of the anger and was on his way upwards. Double Fantasy (his part) is still to me a highlight of his career. Hard to listen to, though, in so many ways.
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Ditto, Ditto and Ditto!
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Well, this thread has veered a bit off topic and I'm to blame, but what the hell... Yes, "Grow Old With Me" is just unbelievably heartbreaking. I remember when I first listened to it when "Milk and Honey" was new, and cried my eyes out. Listening to "Double Fantasy" again after not hearing it for 2 years or so, I'm really impressed by Yoko's contributions. Except for "Beautiful Boy," her songs on side 1 are pretty consistently stronger than John's, but it's the interplay of the two that makes the album interesting. (And of course side 2 has "Woman" and "Watching the Wheels," which are both first-rate.) I suppose now I'll have to pull out "Milk and Honey" and have a good cry. Iguess it's weird to still be so affected 35 years later by the death of someone I never met, but somehow all 4 Beatles always felt like friends, not distant superstars. And for John to be gunned down just as he seemed to have put away his demons and settled into a happy life was so horrible it still infuriates me after all these years.
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Also OT, but if I could go back in time and change one thing, it would be to prevent John from being killed. I would alert the cops that a guy was lurking by the Dakota and I saw that he had a gun. I know some people would think that's crazy, but it's just how I feel.
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I've been going through the "Signature Box" this week and had a listen to Sometime In New York City...both discs. It was the first of the Lennon/Ono collaborations, minus their "avant garde" albums. 8 years before Double Fantasy. At the time it was pretty heavily criticized for its politics and the music, and did not sell at all. To this day it's his least known and least liked album. That being said, there is some pretty good music on it, both by Elephants Memory in studio and Frank Zappa and The Mothers on the live tracks. I even listened to Yoko's wailing and found it's like another instrument in the mix, almost like a second lead guitar. Approached like that, the album was quite enjoyable, even if the lyrics are topical and dated. Several songs played at the One-to-One Concerts are from that album.
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beatlesfanrandy:
I've been going through the "Signature Box" this week and had a listen to Sometime In New York City...both discs. It was the first of the Lennon/Ono collaborations, minus their "avant garde" albums. 8 years before Double Fantasy. At the time it was pretty heavily criticized for its politics and the music, and did not sell at all. To this day it's his least known and least liked album. That being said, there is some pretty good music on it, both by Elephants Memory in studio and Frank Zappa and The Mothers on the live tracks. I even listened to Yoko's wailing and found it's like another instrument in the mix, almost like a second lead guitar. Approached like that, the album was quite enjoyable, even if the lyrics are topical and dated. Several songs played at the One-to-One Concerts are from that album.
From that collection I can only stomach New York City, which I LOVE! Also I like a Yoko song from that time that wasn"t on the album: Move On Fast. Regards the Elephants, a more horrid group of players he'd have been hard pressed to find. To my ears anyway.
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moptops:
beatlesfanrandy:
I've been going through the "Signature Box" this week and had a listen to Sometime In New York City...both discs. It was the first of the Lennon/Ono collaborations, minus their "avant garde" albums. 8 years before Double Fantasy. At the time it was pretty heavily criticized for its politics and the music, and did not sell at all. To this day it's his least known and least liked album. That being said, there is some pretty good music on it, both by Elephants Memory in studio and Frank Zappa and The Mothers on the live tracks. I even listened to Yoko's wailing and found it's like another instrument in the mix, almost like a second lead guitar. Approached like that, the album was quite enjoyable, even if the lyrics are topical and dated. Several songs played at the One-to-One Concerts are from that album.
From that collection I can only stomach New York City, which I LOVE! Also I like a Yoko song from that time that wasn"t on the album: Move On Fast. Regards the Elephants, a more horrid group of players he'd have been hard pressed to find. To my ears anyway.
I forgot! Woman Is The Nigger Of The World is a mighty track.
