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John Lennon - 1969 Live Peace in Toronto
2006 MFSL Ultradisc II™ 24 KT Gold CD UDCD763
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Performing at Toronto's Rock and Roll Revival festival a month or so after completing Abbey Road, John Lennon and a hastily assembled line up consisting of Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums shocked and delighted a huge audience at Varsity Stadium. Featuring timeless rock & roll classics such as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Money," "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" and (at the time) new Lennon numbers "Yer Blues," "Cold Turkey," and "Give Peace a Chance" - the band rollicks through a raw, but authentic rock & roll set with great vocals by Lennon and awesome guitar work from Clapton. The set also includes Ono's innovative, avant guard vocalizing on "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope for Peace)" -- featuring rock solid rhythms and artful use of guitar feedback.
Review by Richard S. Ginell
Although one of the world's best-kept secrets at the time, this was John Lennon's declaration of independence from the Beatles, the document of a concert appearance at Toronto's Rock and Roll Revival festival about a month after the conclusion of the Abbey Road sessions. Thrown together literally on the wing (they rehearsed only on the flight from England), the ad-hoc band consisting of Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums hit the stage to the surprise and delight of the thousands who packed Varsity Stadium. "We're just going to do numbers we know, you know, because we've never played together before," confesses John, who was reportedly extremely nervous before going on. But the repertoire ought to have been a cakewalk for a quartet of seasoned rockers -- blues-based oldies ("Blue Suede Shoes," "Money," "Dizzy Miss Lizzie") and basic recent Lennon numbers ("Yer Blues," "Cold Turkey," "Give Peace a Chance") -- and they lay it down in a dignified, noisy, glorified garage band manner. Lennon is in fine vocal form, confident and funny despite his frequent apologies, while Yoko confines her caterwauling to "Cold Turkey." That was side one of the original LP. Side two, alas, was devoted entirely to Ono's wailing, pitchless, brainless, banshee vocalizing on "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope for Peace)" -- the former backed with plodding rock rhythms and the latter with feedback. No wonder you see many used copies of the LP with worn A-sides and clean, unplayed B-sides -- and Yoko's "art" is just as irritating today as it was in 1969. But in those days, if you wanted John you had to take the whole package.
First Live Solo Performance, December 8, 2005
Reviewer: John Sposato (Syracuse, NY, USA)
I actually have the original US Apple LP. This edition is likely a 24K Gold Plated Limited Edition CD. This was performed at a peace festival in the Toronto area Spetember 1969. The Plastic Ono Band included Eric Clapton, longtime cohort Klaus Voorman, and future Yes drummer Alan White. Yoko of course spilled her guts! John was not fully ready to return to the stage after three years away (not counting TV), even more on his own (you all know how it was). He didn't even have a chance to rehearse, so he had to wing it. He had to improvise on "Give Peace a Chance", as he did on the original anyway. "Cold Turkey" had not yet been cut in the studio. "Yer Blues" was the only Beatles original he did. Yoko screams through "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John, John (Let's Hope for Peace)". This did sell better than the three LPs combined that actually sold more papers than the records themselves! This was typed on 8 December 2005, the 25th anniversary of Lennon's death
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