I once wrote that Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) made more great albums than any solo Beatle, but also more bad albums. Of course, perspectives on Ono's music vary wildly, and the albums I think are great are the ones the mainstream rejected most vigorously. It's when she makes the most concessions to pop norms (whether rock or dance/electronic) and her lyrics get sappy that I don't like her work. But certainly anyone starting to explore her music could use some guidance.
There are plenty of places to read about her life, so I won't review that info, especially as I touched on some of it in my recent interview. But a few points are worth making, over and over, to counter clichés and misconceptions that have thrived for decades. Ms. Ono was a respected artist for years before she and John Lennon met near the end of 1966. And she didn't break up the Beatles,...
There are plenty of places to read about her life, so I won't review that info, especially as I touched on some of it in my recent interview. But a few points are worth making, over and over, to counter clichés and misconceptions that have thrived for decades. Ms. Ono was a respected artist for years before she and John Lennon met near the end of 1966. And she didn't break up the Beatles,...
- 2/18/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
At the tail end of the sixties, Joshua White made a name for himself by projecting swirls of color behind the stage at the Fillmore East, a Yiddish theater turned concert space in Manhattan's East Village, where regulars of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa gave the venue the exalted title, "The Church Of Rock And Roll." White's Joshua Light Show and its contemporaries in the UK and the West Coast turned the live shows of musicians of the time -- Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin -- into dreamy listening sessions around a lava lamp writ large.
For four days this fall, those sessions will re-commence. A revival of the Joshua Light Show will drop into Nyu's Skirball Center For The Performing Arts in September, near White's old stomping grounds at the Fillmore (which lives on today as a bank). Among the musicians fronting White -- who now...
For four days this fall, those sessions will re-commence. A revival of the Joshua Light Show will drop into Nyu's Skirball Center For The Performing Arts in September, near White's old stomping grounds at the Fillmore (which lives on today as a bank). Among the musicians fronting White -- who now...
- 8/9/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
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