From: UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Heiko Recktenwald) Subject: Re: Ono, It's Yoko Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 16:20:44 MEZ >::: ::: >: : >: IDIO-AUDIO -- Toronto's Indie/Experimental Music List : >: http://www.lglobal.com/~dmytrik/idio-audio.html : >: : >::: ::: > > >Lee's Palace, Toronto, Yesterday. > >63 year old legendary artist, musician, and alleged destroyer of the >Fab Five Yoko Ono rolled into town. > >Yoko is no stranger to anyone, her fame is not however based her >prestigious role as a member of legendary art collective fluxus during >which she worked with the likes of John Cage, Joseph Buoys and other >world renown artist. > >Yoko's unfortunate fame is based on the red neck's perceptions that >she destroyed the Beatles by turning John Lennon against them, and the >fact that "she can't sing". > >The real truth is, of course, that after working with artists the >stature of John Cage, John Lennon may have been the LEAST significant >musician Yoko's had worked with up until that point, the Beatles >ruined Yoko Ono's Career. > >Yoko Ono is a multi millionaire, with her Japanese Banking Family, her >person earnings and the estate of John Lennon -- she is not short of >cash -- This is clearly no steel wheels tour, she does not need >whatever money she made playing Lee's Palace. At 63 years old, she is >OBVIOUSLY not trying to capitalize on anything, she is touring because >she wants to. > >Playing along with Yoko, on guitar and keyboards is her son Sean >Lennon a big beefy kid, that seems to take it quite well that he is >playing in a rock band with his Mother. > >With Sean being what? Twenty years old and the Drummer and Bassist >also similar youths, Yoko may have been the combined age of her entire >band. > >That's not to say that Yoko didn't rock. The band was very tight, >powerful and versatile, they seemed very enthusiastic with what was >going on, the music they played covered heavy and ethereal genres >ranging from punky rock (or no wave) to poetry with minimal musical >accompaniment gracefully. > >Yoko's presence was strong, she seemed relaxed and confident in her >casual Gap style outfit, her singing still full of her trademark yelps >and noises mixed with Japanese and english words. She mostly sang >while standing pretty much still, small expressive movements like >raising her hand in a fist got instant reaction and imitation from the >crowd and at one point she broke into a highly expressive dance that, >in the context, I assume is founded in Japanese Tradition. > >The crowd was overwhelmed with reverence for Yoko and while I was >exchanging a few words with the radio monkey, an audience member who >was carefully watching the show turned around and said "Shhh" to us. > >This is definitely the first time ever that I've been shushed at a >rock concert. It had the aura of a historical event. > >It was a good show and a great (probably last) chance to see one of >our cultures biggest Pop enigmas: Yoko Ono. > > >..... > >Dmytri Kleiner -- Quirk > >P.S. Oh, Nevermind. > dmytrik-AT-lglobal.com > http://www.lglobal.com/~dmytrik/idio-audio.html > "Gravity lets (c) 1996 Idiosyntactix (tm) Toronto > you down" > > > IDIO-AUDIO -- Toronto's Indie/Experimental > music electronic mailing list. Send email > to majordomo-AT-lglobal.com with the following > command in the body of your message: > > subscribe idio-audio <your email address> > > [ The rec.music.reviews FAQ is posted regularly and can also be obtained at: ] > [ Anonymous FTP - at ftp.digex.net in /pub/access/awrc/rmr/FAQ.txt ] > [ World Wide Web - http://www.access.digex.net/~awrc/rmr/ ] --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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