What's up with the Plastic Ono Band?

I suggest earplugs and copious amounts of alcohol.

@tinyfaery I don’t think either of the performers you mentioned understand their own music. I would be worried if I was you and understood it.

I saw Yoko years ago. There’s no understanding it- it seemed truly like self-indulgent noise to me.

Yoko is/was part of the Fluxus art movement (as was Beck Hansen’s grandfather), which is probably shorthand for “self-indulgent crap”, but you know, sometimes the cacophony she played in the last 35–40 years is exactly what’s going on inside a lot of people. She expressed that.

I’m not a huge fan of a lot of her older work, but she did do a dance album in the last couple of years that’s relatively melodic. “The Plastic Ono Band” now is Yoko herself, her son Sean, Japanese dance artist Cornelius (who’s a lot like Beck), and Yuka Honda, who was in the Japanese 90s dance-girl pop band Cibo Matto.

She’ll probably do most of her set from that album. She’s not dumb enough to completely alienate people who would be a potential new audience to her (and John’s) old work. I’ll give it up to her, for a woman who’s loathed by the mainstream and damn near 80, she’s out there doing her thing and keeping up with the youngbloods. Good on her.

@aprilsimnel She is playing with Kim Deal, Thurston Moore and Perry Farrell, along with Gaga that night.

Oh! Whoops! I’d see that show! I love those other three!

Yoko’s album isn’t music. It’s art. Not everyone gets it, and not everyone gets the difference.

Yoko is a classical pianist, btw.

they melted?

I take back every bad thing I said. I had a spectacular time. The band is so good. Plus, I saw so many awesome special guests. If anyone wants to know more pm me and/or look here.