Don't have a BandMix.com Account? Huntsville's premier video, commercial, and film production company Welcome to Fantastic Plastic! Performed by Lennon as a plaintive folk song on acoustic guitar, ‘Working Class Hero‘ finds him at his most inspirationaly acerbic, the sneer in his monotone delivery emphasising the absurdity and contradictions of authority – but there is also an inkling of irritation at the kowtowing rank and file who give the establishment a free ride. There is a feeling of liberation amidst the pounding, John aggressive yet content in what he and Yoko (eating, walking, sex) are sharing, but the delights of domesticity are then usurped by larger considerations.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'samtimonious_com-banner-1','ezslot_12',115,'0','0'])); Two years before with ‘Revolution‘ he questioned what it would entail, but for him and his wife it was now a pressing subject: ‘We sat and talked of revolution, just like two liberals in the sun/We talked of women’s revolution and how the hell we could get things done.’. Yet Yoko Ono is not the only woman to shape his thinking. - Steve - bass guitar September 10, 2020 It’s realistic, it’s true, first person music if you like‘. Pepper‘ to his childhood and a time when the difference between right and wrong, good and evil was so much clearer, (‘Remember when you were young, how the hero was never hung/Always got a way‘). On an album of superlative vocal performances, he loads every line with serene resonance. But Fantastic Plastic-- which features group founder and guitarist Cyril Jordan, longtime bassist George Alexander, and drummer Victor Penalosa, along with Wilson on guitar and vocals -- bucks the odds and manages to be a solid set that rocks convincingly and manages a higher overall batting average than most of their '70s efforts for Sire. By the time they were husband and wife in March 1969, aside from going to bed in the name of world peace and having a hit single with the pacifist anthem ‘Give Peace A Chance,’ the Lennon’s were putting together a scratch rock group, the ‘Plastic Ono Band’ encompassing whatever array of musicians they were working with at the time. As the song unfolds the melodic hooks, generated by John at the piano, sink in as much as the lyrics, anybody familiar with the musical arrangements and vocal phrasing of Jeff Lynne instantly aware of the influence. Playing the best of the 60's music! We are influenced by the radio, garage rock, alternative, pop/punk, heavy blues and rock music. The most sustained and by far his strongest solo LP, there are Beatle-aficionados who dislike the record, but anyone who has ever heard ‘Plastic Ono Band‘ will not have forgotten it. All rights reserved. Your email address will not be published. YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? login with Fantastic Plastic Records is an independent record label based in London and Brighton. Currently seeking: Drums, Other Percussion.Plastic Fantastic is an original rock band from Kalamazoo. Thank You! Your email address will not be published. eval(ez_write_tag([[468,60],'samtimonious_com-box-4','ezslot_11',114,'0','0'])); Less harrowing, but again showing him in a state of emotional fragility is ‘Hold On.’ Imploring himself, Yoko and the world to have faith in overcoming challenges they face, John offers up his hopes over a delicate  guitar melody. 0 Comments, John Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Phil Spector, Plastic Ono Band, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Yoko Ono. From behind a Hammond organ, Lennon throws out affecting couplets such as (‘People say we got it made, don’t they know we’re so afraid‘ – ‘Just a boy and a little girl, trying to change the whole wide world‘ – ‘The world is just a little town, everybody trying to put us down‘), each one deeply sincere, but never veering toward self-pity.eval(ez_write_tag([[468,60],'samtimonious_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_9',116,'0','0'])); On ‘Look At Me‘ however, he appears wracked by self-doubt, answering his own question of ‘Who am I‘ with ‘nobody knows but me,’ as if to counter the commentators eager to have their say on his identity – these meditations on  uncertainty set to a melody reminiscent of ‘Julia‘ from ‘The White Album.’. That said, the first sound to be heard is the tolling, funereal bells which  open ‘Mother‘ – a harrowing evocation not simply of her loss, but his anguish at being abandoned as a child, Lennon’s Liverpool childhood passing without involvement from either parent. Of all that has been written and said about the break-up of The Beatles and its co-incidence with the end of the 1960s, the most graphic and enduring account is the horses’ mouth, ‘lived it, breathed it‘ depiction by John Lennon on his 1970 solo album ‘PLASTIC ONO BAND. But the playing increases in urgency as John, leading the trio from piano, brings the song to a conclusion by repeatedly screaming the heartbreaking, child-like refrain of ‘Mama don’t go, Daddy come home‘ – the pain in his voice making the last thirty seconds almost unbearable. The Plastic Fantastic 60's Band. After the self-titled debut was released in 1997, Tanaka worked closely with Masayuki Kumahara and started to incorporate elements of Philly soul and house. YOUNG MAN DUES – THE WHO: Bingley Hall, Stafford 3/10/1975. The Fantastic Plastics are a Neo-New Wave band based in NYC. Only he is not quite finished. Nowhere on ‘Plastic Ono Band‘ is there a found a hint of compromise, Lennon saving his most graphic observations until almost the end – by the time ‘God‘ comes to a close a series of historical figures have been stripped of their aura and the 60s as an ideal, buried.