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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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"As with a man's choice of literature I would never second guess his choice of mate".
I never saw what Mr. Lennon (or most any man) would see attractive about this women or her art.
As a vocalist I always felt she fell somewhere between a banshee and an infant with a Double inguinal hernia.
Listen to what FZ had to say about the evening before watching the performance.
Zappa on John and Yoko
Frank Zappa and the Mothers Feature John Lennon and Yoko Ono- Fillmore East 1971
I think she is a legend in her own mind just because Lennon fell for her!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2010 - 01:56pm PT
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sans pacifier but with a nicer hat
HA!!
That Zappa footage is awesome. Too bad it has her-screechness in it.
Soprano my azzzzz.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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She is why I pay for pest control........
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Yoko lives next door to my cousin on West 72nd street.
Fortunately the walls are very thick.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2010 - 03:00pm PT
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BWA HA hahahaaaa!!
Good one Tami!
Now we're getting somewhere!
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enjoimx
Trad climber
SLO Cal
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Do you think the piece is performed the same every time or does she improv?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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A special place in Hell, a Yoko thread with Lois posting.
I can't even scream cause Ono does it better (worse?).
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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C'mon people, the responses here are lame. Okay so she's a vulture's orgasm, caterwauling of hell's pussy, a meat-substitute, ghastly, horrid, overblown,rediculous or ridiculous.
And those are her good points.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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And to think that John wanted her to sing harmony in Get Back ... Astounding!
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Phantom X
Trad climber
Honeycomb Hideout
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I hereby renounce sex and take a vow of abstainence.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Wow. That is...painfully annoying.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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The Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals refuses to answer calls in her building any more.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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She's a phenomenally talented troll, still able to hook the public after 50 yrs. The Jeff Batten of the art world. I'm a huge fan of that.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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i never saw what mr. lennon (or most any man) would see attractive about this woman or her art.
you'll find it in "don't let me down":
"and from the first time that she really done me,
"ooh she done me, she done me good ..."
... she does sound like she's having a marvelously fulfilling orgasm ...
sounds more like a recollection of (haunting by?) the ghosts of orgasms past.
if you like it high-pitched, check these kids out: a real soprano, a real musical saw, a real gypsy violinist ... and real talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SW2OCUJrKg
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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She's a phenomenally talented troll, still able to hook the public after 50 yrs. The Jeff Batten of the art world. I'm a huge fan of that. Drew has pretty much nailed it - Ono is a precursor to modern celebrity culture, a la pop tart Paris Hilton. Someone who is famous simply for being famous, rather than for any real accomplishment. In Ono's case, "wife of" sums her up, to her eternal consternation.
Whether her 'art' has any real merit is well beyond my comprehension.
Somehow I doubt that John Lennon was the most photographed man of the 20th century, although he may have been one of the more photographed.
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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There really is nothing new under the sun. There have been a lot of people who have had creative success simply by saying loudly, constantly, and insistently: I am a great artist.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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As Mick Jagger cattily said of Madonna, a thimble full of talent in an ocean full of ambition.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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pollack explored nature. his chaos was ordered, just as that of nature's. entropy is not only not bad, it's the basis for everything. years later, mathematicians began describing the ordered basis for chaos. pollack had a feel for this and he conveyed it in his art, ahead of the times. people gravitate to his art because they connect with the feeling of it. it has much more magnetism than the merely pretty.
warhol was a social artist. his art was rude. he repeated images over and over because that's what we have to digest, the same images over and over. our modern, commerce-dominated lives force us to think that campbell soup is big and important. it certainly put better-tasting, more nutritious homemade soup out of business. why? i don't look to warhol for feeling as much as commentary. jackie kennedy, marilyn monroe--too much was made of these women. that's why he makes them big and repetitious. ironically, they're both connectedly darkly to the same man. perhaps that's what drove each of them to such a public superficiality.
now you tell me for yoko, timid. i'm at a loss.
all art isn't the same as all other art, before or after 1960. lots of art can be pretty, fascinating, entertaining. yoko seems a bit entertaining. but she doesn't come close to the gravity of the contributions of pollack, warhol, or her husband. not many do.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Copy & paste :
Yoko Ono is planning to make music until she is at least 96 years old.
The 76-year-old musician - the widow of Beatles singer John Lennon - is currently "focusing" her creativity in preparation for a "few decades" of frenzied recording.
She said: "I'm glad I didn't die when I was 70. I haven't done enough even now. It's going to be fantastic. I don't have another 50 years so I'm getting more focused because I really want to hammer it in."
Yoko is convinced she has "a lot to add" to the music industry, but admits the biggest "musical revolution" of recent times was sparked by her late husband and the rest of The Beatles - George Harrison, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
She explained: "When John was trying to put the group together, only a few people could play guitar. Now there's not one boy who can't play guitar. The first revolution was started with John and his three friends and it really spread."
YIKES !!!
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aguacaliente
climber
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Somebody upthread said Yoko Ono was evil. That's a little rich. I mean there are murderers and torturers and committers of genocide and even boulderers in this world - at worst, Yoko is annoying.
I saw her do a cameo guest performance at some concert in Central Park once and it was actually quite cool. Yes, it was noisy. I like some noisy music. Even some noise that may not qualify as music to most people's ears. I probably wouldn't listen to a record of that performance - some things are just better live. Anyway there are plenty of records by people like John Zorn that have heinous noise on them; maybe they're even influenced by Yoko.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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How is it we come to regard some art ( visual, music or performing ) as "worthy" and other as less than worthy or through that spectrum to worthless?
It almost sounds like you are saying that anything someone calls art, should have value. The only person lots of art has value to is the artist. I think of the guy who put dog sh#t on the floor and called it art. I guess that makes my friends hound Van Gogh. Some art isn't art, its dog sh#t.
That doesn't mean that the person has no value, but when someone produces crap, I don't pay them for it. You likely have no problem not paying your auto mechanic if they don't fix your car. My auto mechanic is a friggen genius and I consider him to be an artist, but if he doesn't fix my car, then I want to know why. It is usually because he just doesn't want to do the work that it needs, or he doesn't have the equipment, and he sends me to someone who does. And I pay him for the diagnosis. But I don't pay him for fixing it, if he didn't fix it.
The same is true for art. If I don't think its art, then I am not going to buy it. Some times the only person who thinks something is art, is the artist.
I do wish that we as a society supported the arts a bit better, but I don't know how to do that, except go to more performances, and pay.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Nice, moosie. Thanks for intuitively knowing who my auto mechanic is.
Errr.. You??? Or your hubby??? Sorry sista, should I go sit in the car?
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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"............almost sounds", eh? But doesn't.
So what were you saying?
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Mimi
climber
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Wow Tami.
As Dylan once revealed, 'she gives off a bad vibe.'
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Mimi
climber
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He totally loved her. An intense relationship.
But as Mr. Garrison said in the succubus episode; never let poontang come between you and your friends.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Hey, I'm sure Yoko is a cool gal & all, But she needs to explore a new direction, maybe a silent one.
You'd tell your friends that, right? If they really needed to hear it?
Maybe?
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Mimi
climber
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Yes, the movie Spinal Tap totally exposed that.
State the definition of a succubus, AC.
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Mimi
climber
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AC, you would fall for that. You're busted as usual.
John fell for her at one of her openings while on a ladder pretending she was hammering invisible nails. Or something like that.
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Mimi
climber
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Turn it up to 11.
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Mimi
climber
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Totally knott surprised you'd have a Yoko fetish AC.
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Mimi
climber
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hahahaha! Some things never change.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Whoo, @ 76 she still looks like trouble.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The Wicked Witch o' the Whatever...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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LOL^^^ Wicked witch of whatever
The quote by Tami pretty much sums up Yono's "art" "Frankly I think Ono's work is hilarious. Is it a big joke to fulfill Andy Warhol's comment that art is what you can get away with ?
Love it or hate it... it has it's place in history.
As for the singing... where's that ranger with the tazer when you need him?
As for the "breaking up the Beatles-thing" I'll defend her a bit since I've heard some first hand accounts from a couple of folks... the general consensus is that personal and artistic differences were brewing long before Yoko came along. Her presence merely accelerated an outcome that was an absolute inevitability- with or without her.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I'm not so sure that they don't give her a little jolt just to get started,..
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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hey, enuff with the tazer crap already.
yoko is weird, but when you pick on a guy's ol lady, i mean,
somebody finish this thought, i just felt a brain bubble, stroke, anuresim, left side...
now i can't feel my right nut,
i must be half nuts, no, thats lance armstrong.
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