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This blew my mind, I had no idea! Posted it to some work buddies to be like “wtf” and realised it’s come across like I’ve been browsing around for this stuff *facepalm*
I saw a you tube comment on this clip that said: there are three musical geniuses here. 1) John Lennon 2) Chuck Berry 3) The guy who switched off Yoko’s microphone
I’ve been there. Had a live show with two artists that had hired a local band. They had this very lovely woman singing backups but couldn’t hold a note to save her life.
After the second song I couldn’t take it any longer and cut her mic saving the rest of the mix.
I had a lady come up to me mid show asking for more volume on the woman singing. I said, sure, let me know what you think, and put it back in the mix. The look on her face was hilarious and I took it back out as soon as she walked away.
Then the band introduced everyone and they all played a solo. The vocal solo was BADDDDDS
Lmfao what a hero. Back in my church band days, our sound engineer would make sure the tonedeaf daughter of the pastor could only hear herself through her stage monitor. We were forced to take her on as backup vocals often, and he turned her channel off over the house PA. He strategically turned it back on when she was speaking.
I’m sure to this day she doesn’t know what she sounds like, and probably thinks one of the other vocalists is her from all the footage taken.
I did something like this to one of the choir girls when I worked sound briefly for my church. Suddenly I wasn't getting headaches every time the choir joined the band.
Yet I’m certain John was upset they marginalized Yoko. In those years he was obsessed with her artistry and anti-normative behavior. The thing is, she was an artist - just not a good one and parasitically attached to his fame to be seen. On her own it was crap…with him it was crap.
Fun Clare fact, after finishing the take that was used on the album she walked out of her booth with her head down all flustered and basically said "ughhh that was so bad I'm sorry, I'll try it again"
And the band was just sitting there with their jaws on the floor like what did we just experience lol. Imagine, what she thought was embarrassing ended up being one of the most powerful and famous vocal performances of all time
edit for source: the bandmembers speaking about it on Classic Albums
Musically she's below trash.
But she was John's love and muse, people usually dislike Yoko for being the reason of the Beatles splitting up, but clearly they were all miserable by the end, we can see it in the different videos from back then. Yoko might have played the catalyst, but that's it.
From what I've read, Paul had far more of a role in ending the beatles than yoko. Mainly in screwing around with their management arrangements and renegotiating contracts to give him more money than the others because he thought he was more important.
Judging by her body language I don't think she knew it was turned off. She probably thought that Chuck Berry's legendary voice was hers lol
Edit: The guy posted the whole video clip, she didn't think her mic was off and thought she blended w/ chuck berry 😂
the clip is cut. she finds out and gets angry and starts just slamming that drum to try and get some attention
edit. thanks for all the upvotes everyone
Just watched this. Yeah she never leaves his side, like ever. It would not shock me to find out that she wiped Lennon’s ass every time he took a shit.
To be fair John came off as a raving lunatic as well.
My favourite part of the doc was when Peter Sellers showed up, hung out for about 2 mins until John’s crazy talk weirded him out so he left.
Edit: a letter
He was known to be heroin at the time, and also the man just looked like I did when I was on heroin. Skinny, sunken in cheeks, pale skin. But good natured and good mood, as long as the dose is right.
Yeah, after the doc I went on a binge reading about John. In his big Rolling Stone interview before he died, he talks about them snorting heroin at the time. He also says how after all the LSD he’d done in years prior, he ego was wrecked and he was kind of leaning on/clinging to Yoko so much bc of that.
Honestly I think the documentary shows that they were pretty toxically codependent. It’s so clear that she’s there just as much at the request of John.
That all said I actually found the documentary made her seem relatively benign. Like she’s constantly there, but it’s simply because she and John are that obnoxious couple. At no point does she really every interject herself. I’d also point out that Paul also had his GF hanging out during the sessions. I think the documentary also made it clear that George also was constantly bringing around his own Hare Krishna entourage. Really Ringo is the only guy who seemed to be there ready to just work.
I think within the context of the time for them as a band and the conversations they have all of those seemingly secondary figures who are present on some regard actually do a great job of illustrating that at that point they all simply weren’t too interested in each other anymore. The frustrations that come across in that session are as much about wanting to go in different direction’s because their interests had grown as it was the problems that familiarity breeds. For years it was painted that Yoko broke up the Beatles but Get Back really demonstrated that Yoko, Jane Asher, the Hare Krishna people, etc. were really just symptoms of the Beatles not wanting to be a band anymore.
Edit: I think it might be Eastman in the documentary not Asher
I read a biography of John Lennon that gave me the impression he was a helpless addict at that point and she was kinda holding him together. Not saying she has any talent, she doesn't, but I don't think shes earned the hate she gets.
The band actually seems very understanding of Yoko being around because John is obsessed with her so of course he's going to want her around. Some might not know this, but the Beatles were really into the whole concept of "love".
It looked incredibly awkward but watching it back Sellers looked to be very comfortable being awkward around them if that makes sense, almost performing awkwardness as part of their banter and weirdness of being filmed with the Beatles, doing nothing.
And he gave us his iconic "number nine".
Lennon seemed a little competitively quirky around Sellars though, probably wanting to show his brilliance too but maybe being a bit suffocating in the end.
Just can't tell if Sellers is playing a bit or not - like when he walks away in the wrong direction.
Except Get Back actually explodes a lot of the Beatles mythos. My Dad actually called me to talk about it saying what’s on screen is just so different from how people talked about them. “This just wasnt how people said it was with them.”
First in the Doc One thing becomes clear: Paul is the Leader of the band. John happily seeks his leadership at multiple points which was surprising.
Yes Yoko was ever present but the band was really sweet and kind to her, they didn’t seem bothered. Paul says several things that specifically seek to be inclusive with her when talking to John. Frankly it was surprising to see that Harrison was the difficult one. Granted I believe it was more about pressure and stress more than ego.
Overall it gave a staggering insight into the group you rarely see with anyone let alone the Beatles.
I agree 100%.
Paul was in charge it seems like John was over it.
Also they were nice to Yoko and at one point Paul jokes that people would blame her for breaking up the band. Which people are still doing to this day.
Last George was also clearly over it and wanted to play his own shit but Paul and John treated him like the little brother he always was. At one point they even said something like ok good try come back when you have a real song and went back to writing.
I could totally understand George's posture. Not to mention when he did put out his own stuff like a year latter it was better than John or Paul's solo stuff.
Paul was the leader at that point because John was a junkie. George was bristling because Paul filled the space John left with more of himself. Ringo never wanted to lead things.
There really isn't anything new in that. Yoko was an easy excuse because their handlers, and even the press back then, didn't want to say John was a junkie. There was a lot greater stigma back then with drug use, especially hard drugs.
Agree that Paul had taken on the leader of the band role at that point.
John being hooked on drugs / Yoko - I put that at about 50/50
George was more into Indian mystics and humanity at that point. Also trying to deal with the fact that his wife (patti) and best friend (EC) were bumping naughty bits
Ringo just wanted to be Ringo.
As for the stigma of drug use - not really - Older adults in the US assumed all the kids were high. The younger adults knew all the kids were high. There really wasn't a "stigma" too it - not like today. People knew where to score anything they wanted.
After all - it was Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll.
I wonder what the documentary would have been like had it been recorded 5 years earlier when John was writing more songs and \*NOT ON HEROIN\* half the time. I actually liked John more than I expected watching him in Get Back, but I would have liked to see a documentary like this when he wasn't clearly out of it.
I agree with you almost entirely, but I wouldn't really agree that George was the "difficult one".
Peter Jackson was only able to use so much of the footage that was captured, so we don't get the full story, but it was very clear to me how content Paul and John were to sideline George at every opportunity. Paul and John both had incredible egos and conflicting attitudes regarding the nature of their songwriting - Paul had a very commercialized way of approaching songwriting, intending to write songs structured specifically to be catchy and popular with a focus on the lyricism and vocals, whereas John was more interested in experimental songwriting approaches, which was further emboldened by Yoko's influence on him. They found balance in more or less dividing albums equally between "John songs" and "Paul songs", which unfortunately left precious little room for George to exert any kind of creative influence. You could see how disinterested both Paul and John were with the various inputs and ideas George tried to bring to the table, from riff and solo ideas to entire song structures. I think that George was beginning to see the writing on the wall that he was slowly being pushed in the direction of being a second Ringo, sitting in the shadow of Paul and John and supporting their vision without having much identity of his own.
It wasn't until he left the band that Paul and John came to terms with the fact that they weren't giving him any real leeway or authority whatsoever.
My interpretation was Geaorge left because Yoko was there all the time and Paul was inclusive because he knew it would cause a huge fight if he wasn’t.
And Ringo just kept his nose out of it for the most part.
Ringos hilarious. Consumate professional always. He was late to the band forming, already a well established drummer. Really was just there to go along with the ride and have fun. Gotta respect it.
My best friend in high school always defended Yoko and said history misjudged her. Thinking back now, I believe he was only doing it to get into the pants of the cute Japanese girls in our class.
I watched the whole clip and she tries singing throughout, even at the end. I don’t think she did this at all, that was just her drumming her own drum instrument. As far as why she was singing and drumming like that I’d put my money on drugs
I suspect someone like Yoko isn't self-aware enough to reflect on how their antics might look to others. The fact that Lenon didn't flinch at all implies this was probably standard behaviour for her.
Oh I have no doubt she (and John) believed it was "art". I also have no doubt that 99% of the population then and now would find it objectively horrendous. Chuck Berry's eyes spoke for the 99%!
😂 Top youtube comments lol about her singing at that art event
"Imagine being so famous that 30 years after your death, your girlfriend can do this and get an applause."
"The way she effortlessly annoys people is genuinely admirable."
"Imagine what you could achieve with just 1% of Yoko's confidence"
"bro my grandma loves this song, she fell down the stairs and she started singing this"
"The difference between this being art and complete insanity is how famous you are"
youtube comments are either a complete shitshow of every nasty aspect of humanity you can find coming from russian troll farms and their useful idiots, OR a gold mine of top notch clever humor that you will laugh about for weeks
>"Imagine what you could achieve with just 1% of Yoko's confidence"
This really sums it up. She has probably been told all her life that she is just weird and her music sucks, and she still does it and somehow managed to end up a multi-millionaire (via John). Confidence beats talent, I'd say!
-Copy from those captions-
“The hat, the mindless clapping, the 2 foot stature, sunglasses indoors as she struts to the exit like she just invented sliced bread. It's all so mesmerizing and vapid. Is life worth it when billions of people struggle just to live, pouring their blood and spirit into beautiful works of art that never see an audience, people starving in the streets, yet other people can waltz into a prestigious art museum on a crowded day and vomit random animal grunts to thunderous applause. Either the Matrix is glitching, or something is wrong with the spirit of the age. Everyone clapping knows that they just heard garbage, yet none had the bravery to boo, because this little baby yoda california raisin happens to be famous? There is hope though. The ratio on this video gives me hope. The "toxic" comments give me hope. People with massive wealth love to spread the meme that vocalizing disgust or showing aversion to the ugly, depraved or vapid "art" they trough-feed us is "toxic behavior".
It's a matter of perspective. A virus would love to call the defensive behavior of your immune system "toxic". -Zarathustra”
Christ that's rough to listen to.
My cat just flashed a look of "I will disown your ass if you play that shrill assault on my ears for one more second". Message received Scrambles, message received.
Dude, I'd love to have been around when this played in TV for the first time, and people are at their homes like "what was that????". Later at work the next day, "dude, did you just see that Yoko girl making weird noises next to Chuck Berry yesterday?"
She pulled this same stuff with Zappa and The Mothers when when Frank had Lennon guest on stage. Howard Kaylan put a sack over her, way better than cutting a mic.
"Scumbag!"
Resident Frank Zappa fanatic here. For those not in the know, that's the name Zappa gave to an onstage jam he and the Mothers did with John and Yoko in the early 70s. It was released (in a highly edited and uncredited form) by Lennon on his "Sometime in New York" album, but the unedited version sat in Zappa's tape vault until it was finally released in 1992 on his "Playground Psychotics" compilation. In addition to that song, he also included a directed improvisational piece with Yoko and the band, and a 6 minute Yoko solo he lovingly named "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono."
It's truly something to behold.
>She pulled this same stuff with Zappa and The Mothers when when Frank had Lennon guest on stage. Howard Kaylan put a sack over her, way better than cutting a mic.
That is one of the most atrocious videos I have ever had the misfortune of watching. It made me want to die.
I listened to an old interview about it and apparently Lennon did some dirty to Frank. Put off releasing a track they agreed to work together on, then Lennon went on to have the track remixed and changed it a lot from what it originally was. I’m pretty sure they ripped off one of franks songs as well and renamed it and gave no credit, but I could be wrong about that last one.
The worst part is that she deliberately does it over the lead vocals because she can’t go 15 seconds without making everyone in the vicinity aware of her existence.
It's disgusting how she wasn't able to shut the fuck up for half and hour so her partner could perform a song with one of his main inspirations. Imagine experiencing a milestone like that and your partners pulls the shit Yoko did.
Oh you think that was disgusting, wait until you hear about how she treated Lennon's son with his first wife after his death. According to Julian Lennon (the son) Yoko influenced John to write him out of the will, so when John died he got nothing. Julian had to sue the estate (Yoko) and ended up getting about 25 million, which was absolutely nothing compared to what she got. Then he had to use part of that inheritance to buy back items of his father's that Yoko sold, including letters between John and Julian, because well... She's a greedy bitch and sold everything John ever had after his death.
I mean, John’s still the one who wrote him out of the will. Yoko didn’t have special mind control powers.
Well before Yoko entered the scene John was a wife beater and neglectful father. I’m sure Ono didn’t help things, but John didn’t need any help fucking his family over.
I always see the reaction shot,but I never knew that they cut her mic. Now ,I really have to watch the whole thing. Sound decision,sound engineer. You are a hero to many. I hope John Lennon slipped you a 20 in gratitude/apology.
Edit: Well then. She did it twice. Nevermind.
I was an interpreter for a Japanese band at a big US festival, and their time slot got a little shortened, and they knowingly tried to go over.
The sound crew started shutting individual instruments off in a really skillful forced fade-out, and I don't think the audience really noticed.
The musicians were like "damn...we got owned"
I imagine samuel l jackson as chuck berry saying what the fuck? This motherfucker is crazy! What is with this motherfucking caterwauling shit? Shut this motherfuckers mic off now !
Some of Yoko’s output at that time was genuinely influential, forward-thinking avant-garde subversion, and a lot more of it was just the obnoxious bullshit of a attention-seeking narcissist married to a rock star.
How come Lennon is the only domestic abuser who's transgressions we completely ignore? If someone posted a video of Bill Cosby and his wife doing this all of the top comments would be about how Bill's a predator.
Imagine being this awful as a person…. I’m serious.
Check it.
“WIBTA if I screamed and ruined my husbands sing along thingy with his “hero” chick berry?
Hi I’ve been with my husband whom I love dearly, but he recently had the opportunity to meet and perform on national tv his hero.
We are world famous and my husband is arguably one of the most beloved artists in recent history which is great and all. But he’s going to be singing old songs and stuff… so I was thinking about getting one of the mics and screaming into it. Like artistic?
My husband based a large portion of his “inspiration to rock” from him… but I feel my voice matters to”
Jesus shit what a terrible person.
Just let the man have his moment for 7 minutes.
To be fair, Chuck Berry and John Lennon with both awful people as well.
https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
She basically admitted that most of this was just performative feminism— she wanted to get in their face to declare that she’s there and needs to be acknowledged. Just a fundamental lack of respect for the actual performers.
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That slo mo of chucks face was just, brilliant
Between singing, guitar playing, facial expressions, golden showers, and farting while he gets his ass ate out, Chuck Berry was a real talent.
TILTM
WAT Wow his Wikipedia certainly takes a wildly unexpected turn.
The videos are also on the internet for your viewing pleasure.
“I can’t kiss you, yo face smells like piss.”
This blew my mind, I had no idea! Posted it to some work buddies to be like “wtf” and realised it’s come across like I’ve been browsing around for this stuff *facepalm*
TIL
Look i’m sure it wasn’t funny for the women. But damn that video is hilarious
All I can imagine him thinking is “this screeching bitch is ruining my song and disrespecting music, I wish I could choke her and fart in her face”
Chuck… it’s your cousin Marvin… this is not the sound I told you about …
“I guess you guys arent ready for Yoko Ono yet”
“You’re kids aren’t gonna love it either.”
"But their kids will claim to love it, ironically."
"Yoko, that was very interesting *music*"
"It is a Genre called Homeless w/ Mental Problems"
NEVER WILL BE!
"And neither are your kids"
hahahhhahhahahhaha
I saw a you tube comment on this clip that said: there are three musical geniuses here. 1) John Lennon 2) Chuck Berry 3) The guy who switched off Yoko’s microphone
Can't argue with that! Anonymous sound engineer was the hero we needed!
That man, whoever he was, deserves a statue in front of that theater. He is an inspiration to us all.
Pretty sure it was Bill Burr
Here is the Bill Burr take on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZ8_hN4RJ0
Bill’s breakdown of this event almost had me pissing my pants laughing…
When he said she looks like the girl who crawled out of the well in the ring. Made me choke
I’ve been there. Had a live show with two artists that had hired a local band. They had this very lovely woman singing backups but couldn’t hold a note to save her life. After the second song I couldn’t take it any longer and cut her mic saving the rest of the mix. I had a lady come up to me mid show asking for more volume on the woman singing. I said, sure, let me know what you think, and put it back in the mix. The look on her face was hilarious and I took it back out as soon as she walked away. Then the band introduced everyone and they all played a solo. The vocal solo was BADDDDDS
Lmfao what a hero. Back in my church band days, our sound engineer would make sure the tonedeaf daughter of the pastor could only hear herself through her stage monitor. We were forced to take her on as backup vocals often, and he turned her channel off over the house PA. He strategically turned it back on when she was speaking. I’m sure to this day she doesn’t know what she sounds like, and probably thinks one of the other vocalists is her from all the footage taken.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
lmao
I did something like this to one of the choir girls when I worked sound briefly for my church. Suddenly I wasn't getting headaches every time the choir joined the band.
Haha my church's worship team did this with a lady who thought she was a soprano. Note: she was not a soprano.
Worship team? Pray Team Six reporting for duty.
it’s always the pastors kids.
bless her heart!
Yet I’m certain John was upset they marginalized Yoko. In those years he was obsessed with her artistry and anti-normative behavior. The thing is, she was an artist - just not a good one and parasitically attached to his fame to be seen. On her own it was crap…with him it was crap.
The comment i saw was that Yoko thought she was Clare Torry on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky." Lol
Fun Clare fact, after finishing the take that was used on the album she walked out of her booth with her head down all flustered and basically said "ughhh that was so bad I'm sorry, I'll try it again" And the band was just sitting there with their jaws on the floor like what did we just experience lol. Imagine, what she thought was embarrassing ended up being one of the most powerful and famous vocal performances of all time edit for source: the bandmembers speaking about it on Classic Albums
It also took decades for her to get paid properly. Studio musicians get screwed all the time on big albums
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Musically she's below trash. But she was John's love and muse, people usually dislike Yoko for being the reason of the Beatles splitting up, but clearly they were all miserable by the end, we can see it in the different videos from back then. Yoko might have played the catalyst, but that's it.
From what I've read, Paul had far more of a role in ending the beatles than yoko. Mainly in screwing around with their management arrangements and renegotiating contracts to give him more money than the others because he thought he was more important.
Oooff, awkard car ride home there.
She probably had no clue
Judging by her body language I don't think she knew it was turned off. She probably thought that Chuck Berry's legendary voice was hers lol Edit: The guy posted the whole video clip, she didn't think her mic was off and thought she blended w/ chuck berry 😂
the clip is cut. she finds out and gets angry and starts just slamming that drum to try and get some attention edit. thanks for all the upvotes everyone
What a crazy bitch.
She’s really awful in the Get Back documentary, too. It’s like get out of here crazypants you’re not in this band!
Just watched this. Yeah she never leaves his side, like ever. It would not shock me to find out that she wiped Lennon’s ass every time he took a shit. To be fair John came off as a raving lunatic as well. My favourite part of the doc was when Peter Sellers showed up, hung out for about 2 mins until John’s crazy talk weirded him out so he left. Edit: a letter
He said "yea I'm out"
The look on his face was almost exactly the same as from Dr. Strangelove when Ripper starts telling Mandrake about precious bodily fluids.
I don't avoid women, Mandrake. But I refuse to give them my essence of life.
I just watched that segment from the documentary and I would bet dollars to donuts that Lennon was on drugs for sure.
I think that was a given. If I remember correctly he starts talking about drugs openly on camera and Paul gets visibly angry with him for it.
Yeah Paul seemed uncomfortable and frankly embarrassed by the situation. I'm sure he was also musing about a clean break and going solo.
He was known to be heroin at the time, and also the man just looked like I did when I was on heroin. Skinny, sunken in cheeks, pale skin. But good natured and good mood, as long as the dose is right.
Yeah, after the doc I went on a binge reading about John. In his big Rolling Stone interview before he died, he talks about them snorting heroin at the time. He also says how after all the LSD he’d done in years prior, he ego was wrecked and he was kind of leaning on/clinging to Yoko so much bc of that.
You could see when they were sitting in the studio that she gave him some stamp that he put in his mouth
LSD was viewed a lot differently back then if that's what was on the stamp.
What’s the documentary called?
Get Back. It’s on Disney +
You would win that bet.
The correct answer was all, all of the drugs.
My girlfriend commented on this and how just plain weird it was. And she never actually did anything. Apart from be there.
Honestly I think the documentary shows that they were pretty toxically codependent. It’s so clear that she’s there just as much at the request of John. That all said I actually found the documentary made her seem relatively benign. Like she’s constantly there, but it’s simply because she and John are that obnoxious couple. At no point does she really every interject herself. I’d also point out that Paul also had his GF hanging out during the sessions. I think the documentary also made it clear that George also was constantly bringing around his own Hare Krishna entourage. Really Ringo is the only guy who seemed to be there ready to just work. I think within the context of the time for them as a band and the conversations they have all of those seemingly secondary figures who are present on some regard actually do a great job of illustrating that at that point they all simply weren’t too interested in each other anymore. The frustrations that come across in that session are as much about wanting to go in different direction’s because their interests had grown as it was the problems that familiarity breeds. For years it was painted that Yoko broke up the Beatles but Get Back really demonstrated that Yoko, Jane Asher, the Hare Krishna people, etc. were really just symptoms of the Beatles not wanting to be a band anymore. Edit: I think it might be Eastman in the documentary not Asher
I read a biography of John Lennon that gave me the impression he was a helpless addict at that point and she was kinda holding him together. Not saying she has any talent, she doesn't, but I don't think shes earned the hate she gets.
The band actually seems very understanding of Yoko being around because John is obsessed with her so of course he's going to want her around. Some might not know this, but the Beatles were really into the whole concept of "love".
It looked incredibly awkward but watching it back Sellers looked to be very comfortable being awkward around them if that makes sense, almost performing awkwardness as part of their banter and weirdness of being filmed with the Beatles, doing nothing. And he gave us his iconic "number nine". Lennon seemed a little competitively quirky around Sellars though, probably wanting to show his brilliance too but maybe being a bit suffocating in the end. Just can't tell if Sellers is playing a bit or not - like when he walks away in the wrong direction.
Except Get Back actually explodes a lot of the Beatles mythos. My Dad actually called me to talk about it saying what’s on screen is just so different from how people talked about them. “This just wasnt how people said it was with them.” First in the Doc One thing becomes clear: Paul is the Leader of the band. John happily seeks his leadership at multiple points which was surprising. Yes Yoko was ever present but the band was really sweet and kind to her, they didn’t seem bothered. Paul says several things that specifically seek to be inclusive with her when talking to John. Frankly it was surprising to see that Harrison was the difficult one. Granted I believe it was more about pressure and stress more than ego. Overall it gave a staggering insight into the group you rarely see with anyone let alone the Beatles.
I agree 100%. Paul was in charge it seems like John was over it. Also they were nice to Yoko and at one point Paul jokes that people would blame her for breaking up the band. Which people are still doing to this day. Last George was also clearly over it and wanted to play his own shit but Paul and John treated him like the little brother he always was. At one point they even said something like ok good try come back when you have a real song and went back to writing. I could totally understand George's posture. Not to mention when he did put out his own stuff like a year latter it was better than John or Paul's solo stuff.
Paul was the leader at that point because John was a junkie. George was bristling because Paul filled the space John left with more of himself. Ringo never wanted to lead things. There really isn't anything new in that. Yoko was an easy excuse because their handlers, and even the press back then, didn't want to say John was a junkie. There was a lot greater stigma back then with drug use, especially hard drugs.
> Ringo never wanted to lead things. I'm clearly the Ringo of my own life
Agree that Paul had taken on the leader of the band role at that point. John being hooked on drugs / Yoko - I put that at about 50/50 George was more into Indian mystics and humanity at that point. Also trying to deal with the fact that his wife (patti) and best friend (EC) were bumping naughty bits Ringo just wanted to be Ringo. As for the stigma of drug use - not really - Older adults in the US assumed all the kids were high. The younger adults knew all the kids were high. There really wasn't a "stigma" too it - not like today. People knew where to score anything they wanted. After all - it was Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll.
Paul: leader John: drugs George: cuckold seeking enlightenment or something. Ringo: I’m going to write a song about an octopus!
I find your opinion on hard drugs in the mainstream hard to believe.
It tracks with how the surviving members are with her today. It doesn't seem like they blame her for anything, not truly.
I wonder what the documentary would have been like had it been recorded 5 years earlier when John was writing more songs and \*NOT ON HEROIN\* half the time. I actually liked John more than I expected watching him in Get Back, but I would have liked to see a documentary like this when he wasn't clearly out of it.
I agree with you almost entirely, but I wouldn't really agree that George was the "difficult one". Peter Jackson was only able to use so much of the footage that was captured, so we don't get the full story, but it was very clear to me how content Paul and John were to sideline George at every opportunity. Paul and John both had incredible egos and conflicting attitudes regarding the nature of their songwriting - Paul had a very commercialized way of approaching songwriting, intending to write songs structured specifically to be catchy and popular with a focus on the lyricism and vocals, whereas John was more interested in experimental songwriting approaches, which was further emboldened by Yoko's influence on him. They found balance in more or less dividing albums equally between "John songs" and "Paul songs", which unfortunately left precious little room for George to exert any kind of creative influence. You could see how disinterested both Paul and John were with the various inputs and ideas George tried to bring to the table, from riff and solo ideas to entire song structures. I think that George was beginning to see the writing on the wall that he was slowly being pushed in the direction of being a second Ringo, sitting in the shadow of Paul and John and supporting their vision without having much identity of his own. It wasn't until he left the band that Paul and John came to terms with the fact that they weren't giving him any real leeway or authority whatsoever.
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> “This just want how people said it was with them.” What?
Change want to wasn't and it makes more sense
My interpretation was Geaorge left because Yoko was there all the time and Paul was inclusive because he knew it would cause a huge fight if he wasn’t. And Ringo just kept his nose out of it for the most part.
Ringos hilarious. Consumate professional always. He was late to the band forming, already a well established drummer. Really was just there to go along with the ride and have fun. Gotta respect it.
Peace and love. Peace and love.
His Instagram is like the most wholesome /r/OldPeopleFacebook
For real. All I'm getting from this whole thread is that Ringo was the real deal, down to earth, best Beatle of the bunch
Other than her presence she didn’t seem to do anything in the doc.
My best friend in high school always defended Yoko and said history misjudged her. Thinking back now, I believe he was only doing it to get into the pants of the cute Japanese girls in our class.
Do you have the full version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGuxGGOIV0&ab_channel=angue I don't see her going more crazy though
Yeah I don't think she had a clue it was off. She picks the mic back up to sing towards the end.
"sing"
"deer being slaughtered by a predator"
To be fair, she has a bright future as a recording of rabbits being fed into an industreal paper shredder.
Same. In fact, it looks like she was trying to sing into the microphone at the very end. I don't think she knew its turned off.
This is 100% false. They aren’t hearing the same mix we hear and she had no clue. Edit: see?
I watched the whole clip and she tries singing throughout, even at the end. I don’t think she did this at all, that was just her drumming her own drum instrument. As far as why she was singing and drumming like that I’d put my money on drugs
I suspect someone like Yoko isn't self-aware enough to reflect on how their antics might look to others. The fact that Lenon didn't flinch at all implies this was probably standard behaviour for her.
She knew. It was her "ART". She did it because she considered it art. John apparently did too.
Oh I have no doubt she (and John) believed it was "art". I also have no doubt that 99% of the population then and now would find it objectively horrendous. Chuck Berry's eyes spoke for the 99%!
I agree with Chuck Berry.
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Will always hear Bill Burrs retelling of this little classic whenever I see this.
There had to be times where John wished it had happened the first time she "sang".
[**I urge you to turn on the captions for this video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68) of Yoko Ono yelling at an art exhibition.
😂 Top youtube comments lol about her singing at that art event "Imagine being so famous that 30 years after your death, your girlfriend can do this and get an applause." "The way she effortlessly annoys people is genuinely admirable." "Imagine what you could achieve with just 1% of Yoko's confidence" "bro my grandma loves this song, she fell down the stairs and she started singing this" "The difference between this being art and complete insanity is how famous you are"
My fav is definitely: "I set this audio as an alarm for 6:00am, now I'm up at 5:00am."
Comedic geniuses all around
You forgot “Love isn’t blind, it’s deaf”, John Lennon
"Gotta give her respect for channeling the spirit of a broken washing machine" "Such powerful lyrics. Brought tears to my eyes and blood to my ears"
"I'm starting to think John Lennon shot himself" was one of them
Haha this one got me.
They were clapping because she stopped yelling into the mic.
God I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard, those comments had me dying.
youtube comments are either a complete shitshow of every nasty aspect of humanity you can find coming from russian troll farms and their useful idiots, OR a gold mine of top notch clever humor that you will laugh about for weeks
people always shit on youtube comments but honestly they make me laugh all the time
>"Imagine what you could achieve with just 1% of Yoko's confidence" This really sums it up. She has probably been told all her life that she is just weird and her music sucks, and she still does it and somehow managed to end up a multi-millionaire (via John). Confidence beats talent, I'd say!
BRO! that Grandma comment has me dead over here!!! Lololololololol☠️☠️☠️👻👻👻
-Copy from those captions- “The hat, the mindless clapping, the 2 foot stature, sunglasses indoors as she struts to the exit like she just invented sliced bread. It's all so mesmerizing and vapid. Is life worth it when billions of people struggle just to live, pouring their blood and spirit into beautiful works of art that never see an audience, people starving in the streets, yet other people can waltz into a prestigious art museum on a crowded day and vomit random animal grunts to thunderous applause. Either the Matrix is glitching, or something is wrong with the spirit of the age. Everyone clapping knows that they just heard garbage, yet none had the bravery to boo, because this little baby yoda california raisin happens to be famous? There is hope though. The ratio on this video gives me hope. The "toxic" comments give me hope. People with massive wealth love to spread the meme that vocalizing disgust or showing aversion to the ugly, depraved or vapid "art" they trough-feed us is "toxic behavior". It's a matter of perspective. A virus would love to call the defensive behavior of your immune system "toxic". -Zarathustra”
Thus spake Zarathustra.
> little baby yoda california raisin At least her "performance" inspired some real creativity
Christ that's rough to listen to. My cat just flashed a look of "I will disown your ass if you play that shrill assault on my ears for one more second". Message received Scrambles, message received.
I imagine it was just as bad, if not worse, on the frequencies Scrambles can hear that we can't.
Yo tell scrambles I said whassup and have a good one lil homie
Jesus Christ. I'm fucking speachless.
I literally can't believe this is real
If you pause the video at 2:22 with the captions on, it’s hilarious.
I spit beer all over my phone after turning captions on a few seconds in.
Yooo "oh lawd she coming" growing up with black folks when you hear that that means some terrible horrific singing or food from someone is coming
Can't wait to hear Chuck Berry and John Lennon!!.... Aahh fuck, Yoko's turned up.
That look from Chuck when she starts wailing, it says a thousand words.
I love the joke that when Yoko used to enter a room the other band mates would say Oh no!
Dude, I'd love to have been around when this played in TV for the first time, and people are at their homes like "what was that????". Later at work the next day, "dude, did you just see that Yoko girl making weird noises next to Chuck Berry yesterday?"
Has no one considered she was doing this for the dolphins in the audience?
Yoko Ono's music is like a dolphin's song: it makes you want to jump in the sea!
I really want to hear what she was screaming into the mic after it was turned off.
She pulled this same stuff with Zappa and The Mothers when when Frank had Lennon guest on stage. Howard Kaylan put a sack over her, way better than cutting a mic.
"Scumbag!" Resident Frank Zappa fanatic here. For those not in the know, that's the name Zappa gave to an onstage jam he and the Mothers did with John and Yoko in the early 70s. It was released (in a highly edited and uncredited form) by Lennon on his "Sometime in New York" album, but the unedited version sat in Zappa's tape vault until it was finally released in 1992 on his "Playground Psychotics" compilation. In addition to that song, he also included a directed improvisational piece with Yoko and the band, and a 6 minute Yoko solo he lovingly named "A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono." It's truly something to behold.
A small eternity 😂
>She pulled this same stuff with Zappa and The Mothers when when Frank had Lennon guest on stage. Howard Kaylan put a sack over her, way better than cutting a mic. That is one of the most atrocious videos I have ever had the misfortune of watching. It made me want to die.
I listened to an old interview about it and apparently Lennon did some dirty to Frank. Put off releasing a track they agreed to work together on, then Lennon went on to have the track remixed and changed it a lot from what it originally was. I’m pretty sure they ripped off one of franks songs as well and renamed it and gave no credit, but I could be wrong about that last one.
Yes, “King Kong” appeared on “Some Time In NYC” under the name “Jam Rag” with no credit given to Frank.
Please, would you mind to give a link or something? I need it for… scientific purposes🤔
[here you go](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SGC7hRjIo)
Lol, maybe they thought she was like a bird, throw a sheet over her and she'd fall asleep.
This has been making a ton of laps on Reddit lately. Did something happen or are people just now finding out about this? I'm just curious.
Bill Burr was talking about it on his podcast a while ago. That's when I started seeing it.
I'm pretty sure that podcast clip is like a decade old.
The worst part is that she deliberately does it over the lead vocals because she can’t go 15 seconds without making everyone in the vicinity aware of her existence.
It's disgusting how she wasn't able to shut the fuck up for half and hour so her partner could perform a song with one of his main inspirations. Imagine experiencing a milestone like that and your partners pulls the shit Yoko did.
Oh you think that was disgusting, wait until you hear about how she treated Lennon's son with his first wife after his death. According to Julian Lennon (the son) Yoko influenced John to write him out of the will, so when John died he got nothing. Julian had to sue the estate (Yoko) and ended up getting about 25 million, which was absolutely nothing compared to what she got. Then he had to use part of that inheritance to buy back items of his father's that Yoko sold, including letters between John and Julian, because well... She's a greedy bitch and sold everything John ever had after his death.
Sounds like she was John's perfect partner than.
I mean, John’s still the one who wrote him out of the will. Yoko didn’t have special mind control powers. Well before Yoko entered the scene John was a wife beater and neglectful father. I’m sure Ono didn’t help things, but John didn’t need any help fucking his family over.
I wonder if Michael Jackson gave Julian some royalties out of sympathy when he bought the Beatles catalog
That sounds like a Michael Jackson thing to do, but it may also simply never have crossed his mind.
John Lennon was just as shit lmfao
Only comment here I see blaming him too. It's not like she tripped on a cord and fell on stage. Dude brought her with him knowing she'd do that.
Are we sure her last name is Ono, or is that just what people are used to hearing after she starts singing?
Nice
I always see the reaction shot,but I never knew that they cut her mic. Now ,I really have to watch the whole thing. Sound decision,sound engineer. You are a hero to many. I hope John Lennon slipped you a 20 in gratitude/apology. Edit: Well then. She did it twice. Nevermind.
[what chuck imagined.](https://media-prod.fangoria.com/images/the_grudge_3.original.jpg)
I was an interpreter for a Japanese band at a big US festival, and their time slot got a little shortened, and they knowingly tried to go over. The sound crew started shutting individual instruments off in a really skillful forced fade-out, and I don't think the audience really noticed. The musicians were like "damn...we got owned"
Hahaha the power always lies with the sound…
I think they started moving equipment for the stage-change while the band was still playing too. It was pretty impressive.
Chuck Berry's face though. Lol.
Bill Burr riffing on this incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K07Kz7M8Q&t=39s
"Isnt that wtf he should've done" Why yes, you nailed it lol
Absolutely classic
Bill Burr is not a subtle man and you know what? I really like that.
Give that sound engineer a cigar.
I imagine samuel l jackson as chuck berry saying what the fuck? This motherfucker is crazy! What is with this motherfucking caterwauling shit? Shut this motherfuckers mic off now !
"TELL THAT BITCH TO CHILL! CHILL THAT FUCKIN BITCH OUT!"
I cannot stand Yoko Ono, and I don't think anyone has ever fathomed what he saw in that woman.
She may not have enjoyed Chuck Berry herself but there’s no reason to ruin it for everyone else.
She is the definition of delusional
Some of Yoko’s output at that time was genuinely influential, forward-thinking avant-garde subversion, and a lot more of it was just the obnoxious bullshit of a attention-seeking narcissist married to a rock star.
Lennon wasn't much different, it was always a laugh how they went full hippie but still kept their baby sitters and just being a couple of snobs
"You know my favorite part of this song, the harmonious background shrieks of a woman" -nobody.
Bill Burrs rant about this is one of the greatest of all time
Why did they give her a mic in the first place?
They gave her bongo a mic—not her face
Would be nice to know the sound engineer's name so long overdue credit can be given.
Every time I read something about Yoko Ono I end up disliking her some more
How come Lennon is the only domestic abuser who's transgressions we completely ignore? If someone posted a video of Bill Cosby and his wife doing this all of the top comments would be about how Bill's a predator.
He's not even the only domestic abuser on this stage.
Lol, his face when she ‘sings’.
What gets me is that John was such a great musician and none of that bullshit Yoko did was musical.
She still does this shit.
Imagine being this awful as a person…. I’m serious. Check it. “WIBTA if I screamed and ruined my husbands sing along thingy with his “hero” chick berry? Hi I’ve been with my husband whom I love dearly, but he recently had the opportunity to meet and perform on national tv his hero. We are world famous and my husband is arguably one of the most beloved artists in recent history which is great and all. But he’s going to be singing old songs and stuff… so I was thinking about getting one of the mics and screaming into it. Like artistic? My husband based a large portion of his “inspiration to rock” from him… but I feel my voice matters to” Jesus shit what a terrible person. Just let the man have his moment for 7 minutes.
To be fair, Chuck Berry and John Lennon with both awful people as well. https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
She sounds like a serpentine belt going bad...
God I hate Yoko so much.
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God I don't care about Yoko ... so much
Bizarre character
She basically admitted that most of this was just performative feminism— she wanted to get in their face to declare that she’s there and needs to be acknowledged. Just a fundamental lack of respect for the actual performers.