I like Yoko Ono, and her knitting.

[LeftyStrat]

It wasn't Yoko that broke up the Beatles, it was Linda Eastman and her father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4

[cbass]

I like her knitting better than her singing

[M Fowler]

Two bass players?

[Leo_Gnardo]

Too late to worry about it. Papa Eastman taught Paul to invest. (Interview w/ Paul on Fresh Air. Funny stuff!) Now pardon me whilst I expand...

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Yoko and Sean are doing their best to get NY state to avoid fracking for natural gas. Considering the wreck frackers have made of other gas zones this may be a good thing. Should you choose to disagree, that's all right. Fracking will arrive eventually despite any protests. Just you wait... what a party it will be then.

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Yoko's "Walking on Thin Ice" is one scary piece of music. What I didn't know until recently is it was a dance hit remix@ 10 years ago. I swear I heard a different mix on radio @ 1981 than I'm hearing on Yoko's best hits CD. Tony Levin on bass, ya can't go wrong. Thought Adrian Belew, but I saw Hiram Bullock credited on guitar. Wiki says it's John, his final work.

outro, spoken:

I knew a a girl
Who tried to walk across the lake.
Of course it was winter
but all this was ice.
It was a hell of a thing to do you know.
They say the lake was as big as the ocean.
I wonder if she knew about it?

WHooee..... a tale from a Japanese shaman with chilling chilling music.
Gets me every time.

To add another dimension to the story, final mix was done 8 Dec. 1980. John Lennon was carrying a tape copy home to the Dakota when he was shot.

[Structo]

Sorry her singing always sounded like cats fighting to me.

She was probably good for John Lennon but not good for Beatles fans.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Sorry her singing always sounded like cats fighting to me.

Fair enough review. Part of Yoko's stage show way back when, was getting into a cloth sack with a microphone and yodeling in her own special way. Not to forget, John was a Captain Beefheart fan, so unusual & avant-garde was the order of the day.

There's also the rare and hilarious extension of FZ and the Mothers Live at Fillmore East (with Flo & Eddie) album, after John & Yoko showed up to jam. Cover looked much the same, white with pencil scribble ID. Gotta find both.

[Zippy]

Fracking will arrive eventually despite any protests. Just you wait... what a party it will be then.

Now you done stirred me up...

Why the heck are we rushing to pull it out of the ground NOW only to sell it to foreign markets? This has nothing to do with "energy independence", it's only greed.

[briane]

Why the heck are we rushing to pull it out of the ground NOW only to sell it to foreign markets? This has nothing to do with "energy independence", it's only greed.

you have to bite the bullet - the greedy company always wins.

buy stock in fracking if you want to survive it.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Why the heck are we rushing to pull it out of the ground NOW only to sell it to foreign markets? This has nothing to do with "energy independence", it's only greed.

I'm sure you know we're WAY on the same page with this one. Sell all the fuel to ... you know who ... then in 20, 50, 100 years whaddawegot - nuttin'.

[Structo]

The problem is, is that we produce so little oil compared to a world market that it probably will never affect the price of gasoline here in the good ol' USA.

Hey, I know.
Let's use what we pump out of the ground ourselves and screw OPEC.

[Leo_Gnardo]

The problem is, is that we produce so little oil compared to a world market that it probably will never affect the price of gasoline here in the good ol' USA.

Hey, I know.
Let's use what we pump out of the ground ourselves and screw OPEC.

Oil production USA domestic is up. A lot. OTOH I'm sure the price of gasoline & diesel & heating oil will also remain up & only go further. Offset your displeasure by owning Exxon-Mobil stock. If you can't beat 'em, own a piece of 'em. You can start a DRIP account with as little as $300. Even a poor-ass bottom-scraper like me did, so I'm sure just about anybody else here on TAG can too.

Geeze guys YOKO we almost forgot. AWHOOgagoogah-luruskookledoodah-badobadooo! From inside the bag...

Bet SHE's got some XOM shares. What billionaire doesn't? There's somethin' to sing about. Smile, all the way to the bank.