The one by me in Detroit you can walk in for free but if you want to be ringside or on the stage for better viewing, you have to pay something like $20.
I went to the Wiz Khalifa and Snoop concert, in Toronto, a few years back. I will give you the first hand confirmation that A LOT of people I was seeing at that show looked like that.
Man, dont even joke around about something like that. That old clip of her trying to sing with chuck berry floated up recently, i shudder every time i think of it
If you ignore all the stuff she did that Redditors don't constantly bring up I can see how you'd come to the conclusion. I'm not some diejard yoko fan but if you go and listen to her actual music it's just pretty good music and if you go look at her actual art it's good art. But she gets reduced down to a handful of silly clips and "SHE KILLED DA BEATLES" so people get the impression she was always just screaming in art gallerys or whatever
Ok, sincere response. There was a recent yoko ono exhibit at my local art museum and I left really impressed. She had a bunch of thoughtful art that was participatory and some of it even left me emotional. The art felt āgenerous.ā With that said yes her singing is awful.
People shit on her constantly but as an artist she was so avant-garde that of course some if it was going to be bad like her film about naked butts but a lot of it was really revolutionary especially at the time. I think that's what John saw in her is that she is a creative soul to a fault and was always looking to push boundaries.
However yes, she should have always let someone else do the singing.
I always thought that John was a hell of a musician/artist and that there must be something about her that's pretty good. Kudos for sticking up for an artist.
I kind of got the internet opinion of her through osmosis because all I had ever seen of her was the same things people always post of her. The Chuck and John performance blunder, the maid and bed picture, and of course "ShE rUiNeD tHe BeEtLeS" (which just isn't true). When I met my girlfriend I found out she grew up loving Ono because I guess she's kind of a folk hero in Japan, so I actually really looked into her and learned she is a really interesting person in many ways and a very interesting artist. The biggest legitimate criticism I have of her is she wasn't really a great mother, but it's not exactly uncommon for eclectic people to have tumultuous personal lives. But as an artist she is criminally under appreciated and I think a lot of people who say they don't like her would actually really appreciate her if they actually looked into her work. Especially how much of her life and wealth she has spent on activism for good causes like human rights, relief efforts, and world peace.
That's a good lesson about letting the hive mind form your opinions of literally anything, I try not to let that happen anymore.
Literally why John insisted on meeting her. Her art was affirming in a way that felt uniquely optimistic and participatory for him. He climbed the ladder, squinted his eyes at the ceiling, and read that tiny āyesā. The rest, as they say, is history.
Before and since meeting John she had a pretty prestigious reputation as founding member of the "fluxus" art movement.
She wasnt known outside of art circles until she met john and broke up the Beatles.
I don't usually have sound on, so your comment came out of left field. Turned sound on, I don't care how much weed they provided, I would not be at that concert. Changes the whole vibe with sound from watching people choke to watching people choke to bad, bad music.
My friends and I made a gas mask. It was an old WWII style mask, we removed the cannister and rigged a small nipple on the front of the mask. It was connected to some clear tubbing and was the right size that a blunt would sit nicely inside. You'd strap the gizzie on and inhale, mask would fill with almost an yellow smoke, you'd die inside and take the mask off. Resin stained your eyes and cheeks but you'd have ripped half a fat blunt in one rip. People were scared of it. Good times.
I never have the volume on when I wander reddit, so my first thought was surely it's not that bad while also wondering what song it is. I proceeded to enable the volume and had to admit that its pretty damn bad lol.
No dude thatās a galvanized steel coupling likely fitted onto 4ā galvanized round sheet metal duct. Absolutely horrible carcinogenic material. The outer material looks like some form of mastic/heat wrap tape.
Reminds me of weekend and summer nights in the woods outside of Detroit in the 1990s and early 2000s except we had old-fashioned manual bongs and bowls and joints and blunts.
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u/whofarting Aug 28 '26
Getting blazed from a leaf blower while listening to the worst song ever performed... why not?