John Lennon

Hi,
 
I'm not sure how folks will take my feelings on this, but I have refrained from mentioning anything, as the love/hate side of it all is sad and disgusting, in general, and someone like John kinda didn't give a s$it if someone did not like it, and this is something that he learned from Yoko, but is also a part of the things that everyone loves to trash her for.
 
AND, it's not fair. It's like you are the parent that never liked the person your child married, but their relationship lasted forever, like it or not! Which means you are wrong, not them, I imagine!
 
I was into the Beatles from the start, and was listening to many things they were saying. I can not tell you how much they meant, but I took Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour seriously, because where we were at in Brazil, it was not secret that the indigenous folks also did what we call "drugs" but are a regular part of their life. I knew right away, when the Beatles stated in hundreds of interviews that it was about "learning" and you don't spend time with the Maharishi Yogi (sorry spelling) and not learn something "inward", that today, with the media craze. most folks tend to distort grossly and trash senselessly! When I compared some of those comments to a lot of things I had read in literature, they made sense ... but the media wanted to tell you that long haired kids and hippies could not be right! (so to speak!)
 
I still have an interview with John, a year before he died I think where he is upset and disappointed that people were trashing his relationship with Yoko. And that people had no respect for a person's choice, and the worst part ... she was an artist, and that means she was not one of those women that disappeared after a child is born! But no one takes a look at what she did, and how she got the attention, which everyone thinks that her vocals in a few pieces of music are so horrendously bad that she's an atrocious being because of it. It never dawns that she might have done that on purpose and that John wanted it that way so people would not worry about him, which was not intentional, but a way to minimize the importance of the music or his work itself!
 
But there were a lot of things that were very important to me ... and Revolution #9 would not have happened without John and Yoko. It was exactly what her white painting with a dot was all about ... you turn on the microphone, walk down the street, and that's that ... a day in the life ... and the simplicity of it all got lost ... her big work of art was a huge canvas painted in white, with just one little black dot in the middle of it, and there are a couple of ways to interpret this ... there is a point, and no one gets it or the point is so small that it is irrelevant.
 
I think that John knew the difference!
 
The interview I had was nice and honest and it was done when he spent a couple of days in bed in that famous bed-in thing, and there are some words in there that are sad, and one of them was him saying that he could not walk the park or the street in peace or quiet and that was something he missed.
 
The Let It Be film shows John really well, and at the end, it also shows that the people around him are rude and nasty and don't even say hello to him or her! That's totally uncalled for, but it shows that there were some things already happening. The bootlegs, showed out takes that were fun, and John was no different than any of them, breaking into songs and other bits and pieces that were funny. He was always the one to break things up with a bad joke or lyric! And then there are the Christmas Shows, and the last one done (there were 7 of them), it was all John and Yoko. You can say what you want but he is the only one sitting there and thanking the fans and trying to have some fun with it! I think in the end, that says a lot more about JOHN than we give him credit for!
 
We are a bunch of cynical folks, and we dislike people that are outspoken for whatever reason. We don't trust them, because we have no ability to trust ourselves, and think anyone else has anything of value to offer. We all have it, and that's that, but we can't say it, because that means we don't fit into the classless socialistic society that we have become manipulated by and have to be subserviant to. Folks like John were some of the examples for me that you could break out of it somewhat ... and I believe him!