WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from February 15, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:14pm listener james from westwood: Ono Pop!
	6:16pm Gary: James! I hear you might be here tomorrow -- I came in and volunteered today
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: Heh, that is correct, tomorrow and Friday! Someone mentioned? And hopefully not with rolled eyes or a gagging pantomime immediately following?
	6:27pm Gary: I might show up on Friday, but it depends on what I get done tomorrow ...
	6:33pm listener james from westwood: I was lucky to find a lull between projects. It's damn near perfect. Hoping I can catch the same during the Marathon itself.
	6:55pm Gary: I'll be around then, too, tho I'm not sure which days other than Wednesdays, but definitely in and out a few times those two weeks
	7:00pm ndbob: Heya Gary, James, everyone!
	7:00pm Gary: Hey Bob! How's it goin?
	7:01pm hyde: hmmm. this makes twice i have heard of Yoko this week. just yesterday i was marveling at her tweet about the world cup!
	7:01pm Dave in Vermont: Been looking forward to this show all day- Hopefully I will be able to listen the whole time.
	7:02pm Gary: Hyde! Dave!
	7:02pm ndbob: Hey Hyde and Dave!
	7:03pm melinda: Ready for some Yoko!
	7:03pm hyde: hiya, ndb.
	7:04pm ndbob: Heya Melinda!
	7:05pm Dean: I've always admired Yoko's work over the years, but for some reason I really get a kick out of one of her rare hits, "Kiss Kiss Kiss."
	7:06pm hyde: for posterity's sake, here is the text of her amazing world cup tweet from yesterday: Who will win the World Cup? A child who believes in a peaceful world."
	7:08pm Gary: Dean! Melinda!
	7:09pm ndbob: the B side of Cold Turkey I think
	7:10pm Jill B.: Hi Gary. Love the title of your show!
	7:10pm Gary: Mom! I thought you might like it :)
	7:10pm Gary: We're shipping your package off this weekend, by the way!
	7:11pm Gary: @Hyde, that's a great quote :)
	7:12pm Dave in Vermont: Flash Strap played this track on the Explorers Room on the eve of the Inauguration, umm two days before the Women's March during an amazing show of revolutionary women's music. www.wfmu.org...
	7:13pm hyde: @Gary it's hilarious. and as someone who actually follows soccer aka football, i can tell you that people were totally flummoxed by that. she's still boggling people's minds, which is fantastic.
	7:14pm hyde: @D in V i loved that show
	7:14pm Gary: @Dave, I gotta listen to that show -- thanks for the heads up!
	7:15pm Dean: This registers as mere gossip, but a friend of mine who owned a record store once gave a personal tour of Disneyland to Tony Visconti and his then-wife May Pang.
	🇰🇷 7:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yerknow...I was born almost exactly when the term 'Beatlemania' came into existence - & I have indeed been a Beatlemaniac for longer than I can remember - starting @ least as soon as watching their Sat.A.M. cartoon show when it was actually being broadcast in the 1960s ...& I listen to Beatle-themed podcasts by highly knowledgeable, even fun people ...& still - the Anti-Yoko narrowmlndness & antipathy is thick among them quite often. I dunno - being a Lennon worshipper (why mince words?) - maybe I just gave more credence to his judgement - & - or - my bent is simply I'm more open to the Free & the Avant-Garde...
	7:17pm Gary: RevRab! It's true, even still --
	7:20pm Gary: I don't know what Skrillex track this is, but Yoko's is "Why" from Plastic Ono Band.
	🇰🇷 7:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They love TheBeatles - mock her vocalizations - & characterize her as no more than a cold opportunist. No acknowledgement of her forward vision, originality, content, or influence - barely even what she did for John! There'd be no 'Imagine' w/out Yoko. It's incalculable.
	7:24pm Gary: Totally ...
	7:24pm Charlie: I'm at work and can't listen, but wanted to say how happy I am for three hours of Yoko, even if I can't hear it. Which is kind of like a Yoko piece...
	7:25pm melinda: Also...bands break up. Get over it, Yoko haters.
	7:25pm Charlie: and to recommend this wonderful book: www.amazon.com...
	7:25pm Gary: Charlieeeeee!
	7:26pm Gary: I will take that recommendation ... been wanting to read more about her work
	7:31pm Flash Strap: I can't actually be here for this, but I want to say how right-on it is! Gary you The Righteous One And Yoko is a genius for the ages, not one step back
	7:32pm ndbob: @Gary the 45 was on the jukebox in the Student Union when I was in college - got played all the time
	7:35pm Gary: Flash! Can't wait to dig in to your Warrior Women show!
	7:36pm Gary: Aha!
	7:38pm tim abdellah: Love me some Yoko! Hi Gary and all y'all!!
	7:39pm Gary: Tim! I still crack up when I think about that Beatles fan pic of you
	7:40pm melinda: I like this collaboration with Spiritualized.
	7:41pm Gary: @Melinda The two Witch remix compilations are definitely worth checking out
	7:43pm tim abdellah: Haha! :) The Beatle fixation runs deep with me !!
	🇰🇷 7:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You become naked.
	7:50pm tim abdellah: Wow - hadn't heard this Kim/Thurston collaboration before. Far out!
	7:50pm Gary: A prize to the first listener who removes all of his or her clothing! ... we'll have to take your word for it, naturally
	7:50pm Gary: @Tim - there's a WHOLE ALBUM of these extended tracks!
	7:53pm Dean: Rev was alluding to his namesake tune, no? Oh, thank you! Such a killer tune, Kiss... Somehow related, I'm just now examining a new book, "Le droit face aux ondes électromagnétiques." Roughly, The Law of Electromagnetic Waves.
	7:54pm Gary: That sounds like a terrific book, Dean
	7:56pm Dean: Bought the 45 at the time, but not the album. Still have it.
	7:56pm ndbob: excellent first hour Gary - catch the rest later
	8:00pm Gary: Night, Bob!
	8:02pm tim abdellah: Wow - i dunno if i ever listened to this. Lennon's picking here eventually became "Sun King" on Abbey Road.
	8:03pm Gary: Whoa, good ears, Tim
	🇰🇷 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @tim: Or 'Julia': the 'claw-hammer' technique Donovan taught him in India.
	8:05pm Gary: I am shamed by y'all's Beatles 411
	🇰🇷 8:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's also a gittar thang...Donovan prob learned it from BertJansch who learned it from DavyGraham likely as not...
	8:09pm tim abdellah: @Revolution Rabbit - wow, did he get that from Donovan? He uses that same picking pattern in "Dear Prudence" and "Look at Me" as well as "Sun King" and "Julia". Some good mileage there!
	🇰🇷 8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yup. Learned it quick Donovan says.
	8:13pm tim abdellah: Dude - I was just emailing you to make sure you knew about this one :D
	8:14pm Gary: Ha ha ... THANK YOU b/c if I had missed it, I totally would want to know about it!
	8:15pm tim abdellah: @Revolution Rabbit: That's amazing! How cool!
	🇰🇷 8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Let's face it - this is deffo in the category of appreciating Artists while still alive.
	8:24pm Dave in Vermont: Yeah, Rev, I saw a comment on a board the other day about honoring artists that are living. Was that you? I have been thinking about that since then.
	🇰🇷 8:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It wasn't me - tho' I have noted the bittersweetness of being intro'd to great Artists by way of Obituary Tributes these days. Yoko's in her 80s & it's been remarked how she's battled pneumonia & went to the March in a wheelchair & such. Damned impressive, she is.
	8:31pm Doug Schulkind: The DJ is playing Yoko Ono music as talkover music. The DJ is a magnificent DJ.
	8:31pm hyde: aw, Vertigo spoilers! ;)
	8:34pm Gary: Doug!
	8:36pm Scraps: I don't like Ono much -- I'm listening to change my mind, I hope -- but I don't hate her either, and the type of Beatles of despises her I despise.
	8:36pm listener james from westwood: First exposure other than as part of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was a video for "Hell In Paradise" as part of a special about the works/videos of Zbigniew Rybczyński on Night Flight in the 80s. First extended listens came in 1992 and after, when I became a WFMU listener.
	8:36pm Scraps: =who= despises her
	8:37pm Scraps: Beatles =fan= sheesh, sorry
	8:37pm Dave in Vermont: I really only knew about Yoko as "downfall of the Beatles" for the longest time. But I was also fascinated by the Give Peace a Chance project in bed. But then I heard the Live in NYC record and "Woman is the Ni***r of the World" and I was like whoa. Then I just allowed myself to hear whatever. I'm not sure if Yoko opened my mind to artists like Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas (sp?), Joan LaBarbara, etc. or the other way around.
	8:38pm Gary: Scraps!
	8:39pm Scraps: Gary!
	8:39pm Gary: @Dave I definitely learned to appreciate Yoko through those she influenced
	8:39pm Dave in Vermont: This is amazing.
	8:42pm Gary: I have been awake since 3 AM this morning and I thought I would be exhausted by now. Not so
	🇰🇷 8:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't remember ever feeling antipathy for Yoko - maybe the slightest xenophobia as a very very young NorthNewEngland honky in decades long ago. This piece illustrates a point she herself made: all kinds of people like Hendrix were being very Free w/ guitars & things - but somehow she was singled out for her vocal effects. (We get to hear Lennon open up on guitar here, Thx to her.) I always maintain that being a little brother exposed to & weened on Psychedelia from the earliest years was excellent preparation for the Avant-Garde, International Music - many things. I'm quite grateful for that - & it's despite denigration of 'Hippies' or whatever... On the other hand - I never got around to collecting & owning Ono, & in this sense a lot of it is still hearsay to me & I'm still under-exposed & -informed in terms of details...
	🇰🇷 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that people could still consider her talentless & be unaware of her influence staggers me - but then most people passively like what they are fed, & wouldn't know a LeneLovich or DiamandaGalas if they were strategically dropped on them w/ precision by drones...
	🇰🇷 8:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...or in Art or DanceMusic &tc. &tc. ...)
	8:53pm Gary: One of the most amazing concerts I ever saw was Diamanda Galas in 1991, singing from Plague Mass
	8:54pm Scraps: well, she wasn't singled out.... lots of avant-garde artists got laughed at. don't know why avant solo electric guitar was singled out for admiration, though. she was singled out more because she was a woman, and she got heard whereas most avant-garde artists nobody heard
	8:56pm Scraps: blatant sexism -"breaking up the Beatles" -- plus racism, though most people would say that
	8:56pm Scraps: =wouldn't=
	🇰🇷 8:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like my ex-gf's dad - one of the top periodontists in the world I'm told - said - I'm sorry, but Yoko's just expressing pain - like - let's chuck VanGogh & TheBlues then - no room for that in Art...Just too close by association to the Harmonic & Melodic gifts of TheBeatles...Good points Scraps.
	8:57pm melinda: @Scraps I think you are right. Her association with Lennon put her on people's radar, and she was then a popular target/scapegoat for the reasons mentioned.
	8:58pm tim abdellah: First heard her (other than on the White Album) on the Live Peace in Toronto album, which is a pretty ragged set, even without Yoko. The Double Fantasy stuff I found interesting, sort of cool, sort of annoying, at the time. The first thing I totally dug by her was the "Walking on Thin Ice" single, which I still think is fantastic. Got some of her earlier solo stuff over the years - I liked "Fly" for sure. I've quite enjoyed her albums over the last decade - "Between my Head and the Sky" and "Take me to the Land of Hell". I have really appreciated her positive presence on social media over the last decade as well.
	🇰🇷 8:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: People don't understand Yoko had her own standing among NYC Artists - & gave a lot of it up for the madness of the Beatle world. They don't see it - actually - the other way around.
	9:01pm Scraps: Yes.
	9:03pm quinn: love
	9:04pm Dean: Once owned the vinyl Fly and Approximately Infinite Universe. Sold them. I am stupid.
	9:04pm Scraps: By the way, Gary, thank you for playing Of Montreal. Always a good reason for playing them, I think.
	9:05pm hyde: haha, you keep attributing things to me that i had nothing to do with!
	9:05pm tim abdellah: Cambridge 1969 was recorded live in front of an audience: John Tchicai – saxophone John Stevens – percussion Mal Evans – watch
	9:06pm hyde: @tim whoa, cool band!
	9:08pm tim abdellah: I know, right! It was completely unrehearsed. Lennon apparently had no idea what he was going to do when he got up on stage. I think I heard about this recently in the "Zapple Diaries" book. www.amazon.com...
	9:09pm Gary: Quinn! ... OMG, Dean ... you're welcome, Scraps ... thank you, Tim ... and I take back whatever thank you I might have just thrown out at you, Hyde! :)
	9:10pm Gary: Wow, I would love to know what the audience thought of that
	9:10pm Dean: Strikes me, too, that I bought the "Woman is the Nigger of the World" single when I was 12. Still have it.
	9:10pm hyde: heh, it's fine by me. i just don't want to steal anyone's proper credit. ;)
	🇰🇷 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Quite sudden & ad hoc...& unlike Paul, a natural, John was always anxious about Live Performance - said he almost always got sick before going on, in fact...
	9:20pm Gary: Think of this extended guitariness as a pallet (sp?) cleanser in advance of my very very very very favorite Yoko track
	9:28pm tim abdellah: This rules! Ringo, Klaus, John and Yoko. Did I mention Ringo!
	9:29pm Gary: Ringo!
	🇰🇷 9:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Elsewhere on the album - Ornette & Charlie Haden! I've read Yoko said Ringo was way kewl w/ it all, right there. Yeah seriously - 1970 !
	9:33pm Dean: From Variety magazine, sans attribution, a June 4, 1969, review of Life with the Lions: Yoko Ono, the Japanese wife of John Lennon, is showcased in a long vocal performance on the first side of this disk in a number titled "Cambridge 1969." It sounds very oriental and is unmistakably monotonous. It's not clear what she is wailing about since her utterance consists of one unbroken syllable running in various octaves and rhythms for over 25 minutes. On the second side, Miss [sic!] Ono is featured on a more tender, free-form ballad, "No Bed for Beatle John," which is also not destined for the charts. There is also a rhythmic piece, "Baby's Heartbeat," which could be clinically authentic. One number is without sound, which may be the most listenable thing in the set, even if it reminds of John Cage.
	9:34pm Dean: Also reviewed on the page: Joe Cocker's With a Little Help From my Friends, Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Poco's Pickin' Up the Pieces, an others.
	🇰🇷 9:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That was the heartbeat of their child who would be miscarried/stillborn.
	9:38pm northguineahills: Ack, I'm going to have revisit this in the archive. This looks amazing!
	9:38pm Gary: NGH!
	9:39pm tim abdellah: Hitting the road - will listen as I pedal. Thanks Gary, love Yoko, and goodnight all!
	9:39pm Gary: Happy Ridin', Tim!
	🇰🇷 9:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HappyTrails tim!
	9:44pm hyde: confession: i didn't know if i could hack three straight hours of yoko ono, even though i love her in general. but now, the clicky star.
	9:45pm Gary: Yay! You win the World Cup, Hyde
	9:46pm Doug Schulkind: Yoko on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and
	9:47pm Gary: If I didn't have to commute back to Astoria from Jersey, I'd keep the show going for a while longer
	9:51pm hyde: i won the world cup? but i don't believe in world peace?!?!?
	9:52pm northguineahills: I hacked 3 hours of Yoko & friends live back in 2011 at BAM. That was a blast!
	9:52pm Dean: Earliest reference I can find in Variety is from Nina Sheridan's Notes for Dancers & Singers, Nov. 24, 1961: Yoko Ono uses dance movement, voice and instruments in a program fruitily titled "A Grapefruit in the World of Park," "A Piece for Strawberries and Violin" and others Nov. 24 6:00 p.m. at Carnegie Recital Hall...
	9:52pm Gary: Whoa, cool, Dean
	🇰🇷 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Compare - John, Paul, George & PeteBest : www.beatles-discography.com... - two shows that day - meet Manager Brian Epstein that month (a major turning point)...
	9:58pm Dave in Vermont: Thanks for a great show, Gary.
	9:59pm northguineahills: Que chido, Gary, gracias!
	10:00pm Gary: So great to hang out with you all tonight! Really loved your Yoko & related anecdotes / memories ...
	10:00pm hyde: great stuff, thanks. safe travels back to Astoria!
	10:00pm Scraps: Thank you!
	🇰🇷 10:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thanx Gary. You seriously deliver.
	10:02pm Dean: Earliest reference to John appears in an Oct. 6, 1962, issue of Disc, in a column, New to You, where the Beatles are introduced as "a rock-slanted vocal-instrumental group."
	10:02pm Doug Schulkind: Another all-time program, Gary. In other words, just another Wednesday evening on the Drummer Stream. Thanks!
	10:04pm Gary: Rock-slanted! Night everyone, see you soon!
	7:23pm zmmm: Hi Gary. Thank you.
	7:26pm Gary: You're welcome, Zmmm.

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from February 15, 2017

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February 15, 2017: #ShePersisted. A Tribute to Yoko Ono
Collaborations with John Lennon from the sixties and seventies, ear-bending tracks from her solo albums (some still out of print, some recently reissued), samples, covers, and tributes from around the world.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Bodega Pop	Intro "Intro" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop Live	2017
Opsybug	For Yoko Ono "For Yoko Ono" by "Opsybug"	The Mega Wolf Ticket	2015		0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)	Fly	1971		0:07:06 (Pop-up)
Stephen Emmer + Tony Visconti + Kazu Makino	LIsten, the Snow Is Falling (Part 2)	Recitement	2015		0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono + tUnE-yArDs	Warrior Woman	Yes, I'm a Witch, Too	2016		0:16:22 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono vs. Skrillex	Mashup "Mashup" by "Yoko Ono vs. Skrillex"	YouTube video	2012		0:18:13 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Wood Piece "Wood Piece" by "Yoko Ono"	Live at Epiphany Episcopal Church	2010		0:21:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Graveyard Drug Party	Yoko Ono "Yoko Ono" by "Graveyard Drug Party"	Paint Your Teeth	2013		0:25:35 (Pop-up)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono	I'm Moving On	Milk and Honey	1984		0:32:02 (Pop-up)
Doomsday Student	Yoko Ono's Nightmare	A Self-Help Tragedy	2016		0:33:15 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono + Spiritualized	Walking on Thin Ice	Yes, I'm a Witch	2007		0:35:41 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono + Kim Gordon + Thurston Moore	I Missed You Listening	Yokokimthurston	2012		0:41:08 (Pop-up)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Kiss Kiss Kiss	Double Fantasy	1980		0:50:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Key of Solomon	Yoko Ono "Yoko Ono" by "Key of Solomon"	Exile	2014		0:53:14 (Pop-up)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Remember Love	Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins	1969		0:57:38 (Pop-up)
of Montreal	I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window	The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower	2006		1:01:28 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Ask the Elephant!	Between My Head and the Sky	2009		1:04:59 (Pop-up)
FM33	Yoko Ono "Yoko Ono" by "FM33"	V.	2015		1:08:20 (Pop-up)
B-52's	Don't Worry "Don't Worry" by "B-52's"	Whammy!	1983	On initial pressing only; removed for subsequent pressings	1:11:58 (Pop-up)
RZA + Yoko Ono	Greenfield Morning / Seed of Joy / Life Is a Struggle	RZA & Yoko	2013		1:15:13 (Pop-up)
Flacido Domingo	I Shit Art, Yoko Ono!	U're a Fooken Jerk!	2014		1:23:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Japanese-Lovers	Yoko Ono "Yoko Ono" by "The Japanese-Lovers"	The Basement Tape	2010		1:26:02 (Pop-up)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Cambridge 1969	Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions	1969		1:32:03 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Spec of Dust "Spec of Dust" by "Yoko Ono"	It's Alright (I See Rainbows)	1982		1:57:53 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Yoko Ono	Will I (John Creamer & Stephan K Mix)	Open Your Box	2007		2:01:19 (Pop-up)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Born in a Prison	Sometime in New York City	1973		2:05:19 (Pop-up)
Marineville	Yoko Ono "Yoko Ono" by "Marineville"	Ready for the Dance	2001		2:08:40 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Why "Why" by "Yoko Ono"	Plastic Ono Band	1970		2:22:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Rumcaic	Öko Ono "Öko Ono" by "Rumcaic"	Öko Ono EP	2013		2:27:54 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	I Learned to Stutter - Coffin Car	Feeling the Space	1973		2:31:29 (Pop-up)
Lucas Rodrigues	Rooftop Concert (Yoko Ono)	Eventual Rasura	2016		2:37:53 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	No, No, No "No, No, No" by "Yoko Ono"	Season of Glass	1982		2:40:31 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono + Cibo Matto	Yes, I'm Your Angel	Yes, I'm a Witch, Too	2016		2:43:06 (Pop-up)
Rod Webber	Yoko Ono Knows "Yoko Ono Knows" by "Rod Webber"	Incandescent	2014		2:46:21 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	What Did I Do! "What Did I Do!" by "Yoko Ono"	Approximately Infinite Universe	1973		2:49:04 (Pop-up)
Xberg Baboons	Hey Yoko Ono "Hey Yoko Ono" by "Xberg Baboons"		2012		2:53:38 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	I Love You, Earth "I Love You, Earth" by "Yoko Ono"	Starpeace	1985		2:56:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000		2:59:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:14pm listener james from westwood: Ono Pop!
	6:16pm Gary: James! I hear you might be here tomorrow -- I came in and volunteered today
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: Heh, that is correct, tomorrow and Friday! Someone mentioned? And hopefully not with rolled eyes or a gagging pantomime immediately following?
	6:27pm Gary: I might show up on Friday, but it depends on what I get done tomorrow ...
	6:33pm listener james from westwood: I was lucky to find a lull between projects. It's damn near perfect. Hoping I can catch the same during the Marathon itself.
	6:55pm Gary: I'll be around then, too, tho I'm not sure which days other than Wednesdays, but definitely in and out a few times those two weeks
	7:00pm ndbob: Heya Gary, James, everyone!
	7:00pm Gary: Hey Bob! How's it goin?
	7:01pm hyde: hmmm. this makes twice i have heard of Yoko this week. just yesterday i was marveling at her tweet about the world cup!
	7:01pm Dave in Vermont: Been looking forward to this show all day- Hopefully I will be able to listen the whole time.
	7:02pm Gary: Hyde! Dave!
	7:02pm ndbob: Hey Hyde and Dave!
	7:03pm melinda: Ready for some Yoko!
	7:03pm hyde: hiya, ndb.
	7:04pm ndbob: Heya Melinda!
	7:05pm Dean: I've always admired Yoko's work over the years, but for some reason I really get a kick out of one of her rare hits, "Kiss Kiss Kiss."
	7:06pm hyde: for posterity's sake, here is the text of her amazing world cup tweet from yesterday: Who will win the World Cup? A child who believes in a peaceful world."
	7:08pm Gary: Dean! Melinda!
	7:09pm ndbob: the B side of Cold Turkey I think
	7:10pm Jill B.: Hi Gary. Love the title of your show!
	7:10pm Gary: Mom! I thought you might like it :)
	7:10pm Gary: We're shipping your package off this weekend, by the way!
	7:11pm Gary: @Hyde, that's a great quote :)
	7:12pm Dave in Vermont: Flash Strap played this track on the Explorers Room on the eve of the Inauguration, umm two days before the Women's March during an amazing show of revolutionary women's music. www.wfmu.org...
	7:13pm hyde: @Gary it's hilarious. and as someone who actually follows soccer aka football, i can tell you that people were totally flummoxed by that. she's still boggling people's minds, which is fantastic.
	7:14pm hyde: @D in V i loved that show
	7:14pm Gary: @Dave, I gotta listen to that show -- thanks for the heads up!
	7:15pm Dean: This registers as mere gossip, but a friend of mine who owned a record store once gave a personal tour of Disneyland to Tony Visconti and his then-wife May Pang.
	🇰🇷 7:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yerknow...I was born almost exactly when the term 'Beatlemania' came into existence - & I have indeed been a Beatlemaniac for longer than I can remember - starting @ least as soon as watching their Sat.A.M. cartoon show when it was actually being broadcast in the 1960s ...& I listen to Beatle-themed podcasts by highly knowledgeable, even fun people ...& still - the Anti-Yoko narrowmlndness & antipathy is thick among them quite often. I dunno - being a Lennon worshipper (why mince words?) - maybe I just gave more credence to his judgement - & - or - my bent is simply I'm more open to the Free & the Avant-Garde...
	7:17pm Gary: RevRab! It's true, even still --
	7:20pm Gary: I don't know what Skrillex track this is, but Yoko's is "Why" from Plastic Ono Band.
	🇰🇷 7:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They love TheBeatles - mock her vocalizations - & characterize her as no more than a cold opportunist. No acknowledgement of her forward vision, originality, content, or influence - barely even what she did for John! There'd be no 'Imagine' w/out Yoko. It's incalculable.
	7:24pm Gary: Totally ...
	7:24pm Charlie: I'm at work and can't listen, but wanted to say how happy I am for three hours of Yoko, even if I can't hear it. Which is kind of like a Yoko piece...
	7:25pm melinda: Also...bands break up. Get over it, Yoko haters.
	7:25pm Charlie: and to recommend this wonderful book: www.amazon.com...
	7:25pm Gary: Charlieeeeee!
	7:26pm Gary: I will take that recommendation ... been wanting to read more about her work
	7:31pm Flash Strap: I can't actually be here for this, but I want to say how right-on it is! Gary you The Righteous One And Yoko is a genius for the ages, not one step back
	7:32pm ndbob: @Gary the 45 was on the jukebox in the Student Union when I was in college - got played all the time
	7:35pm Gary: Flash! Can't wait to dig in to your Warrior Women show!
	7:36pm Gary: Aha!
	7:38pm tim abdellah: Love me some Yoko! Hi Gary and all y'all!!
	7:39pm Gary: Tim! I still crack up when I think about that Beatles fan pic of you
	7:40pm melinda: I like this collaboration with Spiritualized.
	7:41pm Gary: @Melinda The two Witch remix compilations are definitely worth checking out
	7:43pm tim abdellah: Haha! :) The Beatle fixation runs deep with me !!
	🇰🇷 7:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You become naked.
	7:50pm tim abdellah: Wow - hadn't heard this Kim/Thurston collaboration before. Far out!
	7:50pm Gary: A prize to the first listener who removes all of his or her clothing! ... we'll have to take your word for it, naturally
	7:50pm Gary: @Tim - there's a WHOLE ALBUM of these extended tracks!
	7:53pm Dean: Rev was alluding to his namesake tune, no? Oh, thank you! Such a killer tune, Kiss... Somehow related, I'm just now examining a new book, "Le droit face aux ondes électromagnétiques." Roughly, The Law of Electromagnetic Waves.
	7:54pm Gary: That sounds like a terrific book, Dean
	7:56pm Dean: Bought the 45 at the time, but not the album. Still have it.
	7:56pm ndbob: excellent first hour Gary - catch the rest later
	8:00pm Gary: Night, Bob!
	8:02pm tim abdellah: Wow - i dunno if i ever listened to this. Lennon's picking here eventually became "Sun King" on Abbey Road.
	8:03pm Gary: Whoa, good ears, Tim
	🇰🇷 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @tim: Or 'Julia': the 'claw-hammer' technique Donovan taught him in India.
	8:05pm Gary: I am shamed by y'all's Beatles 411
	🇰🇷 8:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's also a gittar thang...Donovan prob learned it from BertJansch who learned it from DavyGraham likely as not...
	8:09pm tim abdellah: @Revolution Rabbit - wow, did he get that from Donovan? He uses that same picking pattern in "Dear Prudence" and "Look at Me" as well as "Sun King" and "Julia". Some good mileage there!
	🇰🇷 8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yup. Learned it quick Donovan says.
	8:13pm tim abdellah: Dude - I was just emailing you to make sure you knew about this one :D
	8:14pm Gary: Ha ha ... THANK YOU b/c if I had missed it, I totally would want to know about it!
	8:15pm tim abdellah: @Revolution Rabbit: That's amazing! How cool!
	🇰🇷 8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Let's face it - this is deffo in the category of appreciating Artists while still alive.
	8:24pm Dave in Vermont: Yeah, Rev, I saw a comment on a board the other day about honoring artists that are living. Was that you? I have been thinking about that since then.
	🇰🇷 8:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It wasn't me - tho' I have noted the bittersweetness of being intro'd to great Artists by way of Obituary Tributes these days. Yoko's in her 80s & it's been remarked how she's battled pneumonia & went to the March in a wheelchair & such. Damned impressive, she is.
	8:31pm Doug Schulkind: The DJ is playing Yoko Ono music as talkover music. The DJ is a magnificent DJ.
	8:31pm hyde: aw, Vertigo spoilers! ;)
	8:34pm Gary: Doug!
	8:36pm Scraps: I don't like Ono much -- I'm listening to change my mind, I hope -- but I don't hate her either, and the type of Beatles of despises her I despise.
	8:36pm listener james from westwood: First exposure other than as part of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was a video for "Hell In Paradise" as part of a special about the works/videos of Zbigniew Rybczyński on Night Flight in the 80s. First extended listens came in 1992 and after, when I became a WFMU listener.
	8:36pm Scraps: =who= despises her
	8:37pm Scraps: Beatles =fan= sheesh, sorry
	8:37pm Dave in Vermont: I really only knew about Yoko as "downfall of the Beatles" for the longest time. But I was also fascinated by the Give Peace a Chance project in bed. But then I heard the Live in NYC record and "Woman is the Ni***r of the World" and I was like whoa. Then I just allowed myself to hear whatever. I'm not sure if Yoko opened my mind to artists like Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas (sp?), Joan LaBarbara, etc. or the other way around.
	8:38pm Gary: Scraps!
	8:39pm Scraps: Gary!
	8:39pm Gary: @Dave I definitely learned to appreciate Yoko through those she influenced
	8:39pm Dave in Vermont: This is amazing.
	8:42pm Gary: I have been awake since 3 AM this morning and I thought I would be exhausted by now. Not so
	🇰🇷 8:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't remember ever feeling antipathy for Yoko - maybe the slightest xenophobia as a very very young NorthNewEngland honky in decades long ago. This piece illustrates a point she herself made: all kinds of people like Hendrix were being very Free w/ guitars & things - but somehow she was singled out for her vocal effects. (We get to hear Lennon open up on guitar here, Thx to her.) I always maintain that being a little brother exposed to & weened on Psychedelia from the earliest years was excellent preparation for the Avant-Garde, International Music - many things. I'm quite grateful for that - & it's despite denigration of 'Hippies' or whatever... On the other hand - I never got around to collecting & owning Ono, & in this sense a lot of it is still hearsay to me & I'm still under-exposed & -informed in terms of details...
	🇰🇷 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that people could still consider her talentless & be unaware of her influence staggers me - but then most people passively like what they are fed, & wouldn't know a LeneLovich or DiamandaGalas if they were strategically dropped on them w/ precision by drones...
	🇰🇷 8:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...or in Art or DanceMusic &tc. &tc. ...)
	8:53pm Gary: One of the most amazing concerts I ever saw was Diamanda Galas in 1991, singing from Plague Mass
	8:54pm Scraps: well, she wasn't singled out.... lots of avant-garde artists got laughed at. don't know why avant solo electric guitar was singled out for admiration, though. she was singled out more because she was a woman, and she got heard whereas most avant-garde artists nobody heard
	8:56pm Scraps: blatant sexism -"breaking up the Beatles" -- plus racism, though most people would say that
	8:56pm Scraps: =wouldn't=
	🇰🇷 8:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like my ex-gf's dad - one of the top periodontists in the world I'm told - said - I'm sorry, but Yoko's just expressing pain - like - let's chuck VanGogh & TheBlues then - no room for that in Art...Just too close by association to the Harmonic & Melodic gifts of TheBeatles...Good points Scraps.
	8:57pm melinda: @Scraps I think you are right. Her association with Lennon put her on people's radar, and she was then a popular target/scapegoat for the reasons mentioned.
	8:58pm tim abdellah: First heard her (other than on the White Album) on the Live Peace in Toronto album, which is a pretty ragged set, even without Yoko. The Double Fantasy stuff I found interesting, sort of cool, sort of annoying, at the time. The first thing I totally dug by her was the "Walking on Thin Ice" single, which I still think is fantastic. Got some of her earlier solo stuff over the years - I liked "Fly" for sure. I've quite enjoyed her albums over the last decade - "Between my Head and the Sky" and "Take me to the Land of Hell". I have really appreciated her positive presence on social media over the last decade as well.
	🇰🇷 8:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: People don't understand Yoko had her own standing among NYC Artists - & gave a lot of it up for the madness of the Beatle world. They don't see it - actually - the other way around.
	9:01pm Scraps: Yes.
	9:03pm quinn: love
	9:04pm Dean: Once owned the vinyl Fly and Approximately Infinite Universe. Sold them. I am stupid.
	9:04pm Scraps: By the way, Gary, thank you for playing Of Montreal. Always a good reason for playing them, I think.
	9:05pm hyde: haha, you keep attributing things to me that i had nothing to do with!
	9:05pm tim abdellah: Cambridge 1969 was recorded live in front of an audience: John Tchicai – saxophone John Stevens – percussion Mal Evans – watch
	9:06pm hyde: @tim whoa, cool band!
	9:08pm tim abdellah: I know, right! It was completely unrehearsed. Lennon apparently had no idea what he was going to do when he got up on stage. I think I heard about this recently in the "Zapple Diaries" book. www.amazon.com...
	9:09pm Gary: Quinn! ... OMG, Dean ... you're welcome, Scraps ... thank you, Tim ... and I take back whatever thank you I might have just thrown out at you, Hyde! :)
	9:10pm Gary: Wow, I would love to know what the audience thought of that
	9:10pm Dean: Strikes me, too, that I bought the "Woman is the Nigger of the World" single when I was 12. Still have it.
	9:10pm hyde: heh, it's fine by me. i just don't want to steal anyone's proper credit. ;)
	🇰🇷 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Quite sudden & ad hoc...& unlike Paul, a natural, John was always anxious about Live Performance - said he almost always got sick before going on, in fact...
	9:20pm Gary: Think of this extended guitariness as a pallet (sp?) cleanser in advance of my very very very very favorite Yoko track
	9:28pm tim abdellah: This rules! Ringo, Klaus, John and Yoko. Did I mention Ringo!
	9:29pm Gary: Ringo!
	🇰🇷 9:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Elsewhere on the album - Ornette & Charlie Haden! I've read Yoko said Ringo was way kewl w/ it all, right there. Yeah seriously - 1970 !
	9:33pm Dean: From Variety magazine, sans attribution, a June 4, 1969, review of Life with the Lions: Yoko Ono, the Japanese wife of John Lennon, is showcased in a long vocal performance on the first side of this disk in a number titled "Cambridge 1969." It sounds very oriental and is unmistakably monotonous. It's not clear what she is wailing about since her utterance consists of one unbroken syllable running in various octaves and rhythms for over 25 minutes. On the second side, Miss [sic!] Ono is featured on a more tender, free-form ballad, "No Bed for Beatle John," which is also not destined for the charts. There is also a rhythmic piece, "Baby's Heartbeat," which could be clinically authentic. One number is without sound, which may be the most listenable thing in the set, even if it reminds of John Cage.
	9:34pm Dean: Also reviewed on the page: Joe Cocker's With a Little Help From my Friends, Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Poco's Pickin' Up the Pieces, an others.
	🇰🇷 9:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That was the heartbeat of their child who would be miscarried/stillborn.
	9:38pm northguineahills: Ack, I'm going to have revisit this in the archive. This looks amazing!
	9:38pm Gary: NGH!
	9:39pm tim abdellah: Hitting the road - will listen as I pedal. Thanks Gary, love Yoko, and goodnight all!
	9:39pm Gary: Happy Ridin', Tim!
	🇰🇷 9:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HappyTrails tim!
	9:44pm hyde: confession: i didn't know if i could hack three straight hours of yoko ono, even though i love her in general. but now, the clicky star.
	9:45pm Gary: Yay! You win the World Cup, Hyde
	9:46pm Doug Schulkind: Yoko on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and
	9:47pm Gary: If I didn't have to commute back to Astoria from Jersey, I'd keep the show going for a while longer
	9:51pm hyde: i won the world cup? but i don't believe in world peace?!?!?
	9:52pm northguineahills: I hacked 3 hours of Yoko & friends live back in 2011 at BAM. That was a blast!
	9:52pm Dean: Earliest reference I can find in Variety is from Nina Sheridan's Notes for Dancers & Singers, Nov. 24, 1961: Yoko Ono uses dance movement, voice and instruments in a program fruitily titled "A Grapefruit in the World of Park," "A Piece for Strawberries and Violin" and others Nov. 24 6:00 p.m. at Carnegie Recital Hall...
	9:52pm Gary: Whoa, cool, Dean
	🇰🇷 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Compare - John, Paul, George & PeteBest : www.beatles-discography.com... - two shows that day - meet Manager Brian Epstein that month (a major turning point)...
	9:58pm Dave in Vermont: Thanks for a great show, Gary.
	9:59pm northguineahills: Que chido, Gary, gracias!
	10:00pm Gary: So great to hang out with you all tonight! Really loved your Yoko & related anecdotes / memories ...
	10:00pm hyde: great stuff, thanks. safe travels back to Astoria!
	10:00pm Scraps: Thank you!
	🇰🇷 10:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thanx Gary. You seriously deliver.
	10:02pm Dean: Earliest reference to John appears in an Oct. 6, 1962, issue of Disc, in a column, New to You, where the Beatles are introduced as "a rock-slanted vocal-instrumental group."
	10:02pm Doug Schulkind: Another all-time program, Gary. In other words, just another Wednesday evening on the Drummer Stream. Thanks!
	10:04pm Gary: Rock-slanted! Night everyone, see you soon!
	7:23pm zmmm: Hi Gary. Thank you.
	7:26pm Gary: You're welcome, Zmmm.

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from February 15, 2017

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