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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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