Live Peace in Toronto [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings

1. Blue Suede Shoes

2. Money

3. Dizzy Miss Lizzy

4. Yer Blues

5. Cold Turkey

6. Give Peace A Chance

7. Don't Worry Kyoko(Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)

8. John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)

Tracks:

Blue Suede Shoes
Money
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Yer Blues
Cold Turkey
Give Peace A Chance
Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For...)
John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)

Customer Reviews:

New Reissuse of Live Peace.......2006-04-29

After reading the reviews here, I was inspired to get Plastic Ono Band. I was reluctant, since it had not been remastered, but I did anyway. After buying at a local retailer, opened it to find the calendar dated to 2006! Looking on the back, I realized it was a new remaster. I will leave the rest to the great reviewers here, but this is noteworty

NB it is a mobile fidelity remaster, 24 karat gold. Never heard any others, but this one sounded great.

Yoko? Oh! No!.......2005-07-31

I'm pretty much in the "can't stand Yoko" crowd, especially when it comes to this performance. I try to be empathetic and happy that Lennon truly found the love of his life in her. I would even say she had a positive effect on him overall (I think some of his very best music was written while he was in harmony with her). I even have a lot of appreciation for avant-garde music (like Faust). And Rock n' Roll isn't always meant to be pretty . . . I just don't care to be subjected to Ono's main performance from LIVE PEACE again, thank-you.

The other reviewers covered the good stuff from this show quite well on this forum already, as well as the basic background info. It's some of the rawest, rockin-est stuff any of these guys has ever done. I just want to add that Clapton in the video footage looks VERY annoyed at Ono and flashes her some scathing looks. Now, I can't claim to know what the man was thinking of course. Another reviewer who claimed to be AT this show said the crowd was booing, so maybe Clapton was teed off at that. Whatever the case, he looks like he's in sheer agony, playing through clenched teeth. Fortunately for us, he channels his feelings into some kick-ass guitar playing.

Wonderful Live Appearance..........2005-06-12

The Toronto show which this album comes from was John's first real concert away from The Beatles. He had already appeared on The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus but that was more of a TV special than it was a concert, so this pretty much constitutes his first non-Beatles gig.

It's a truly wonderful performance with Eric Clapton, brilliant as usual, on lead guitar, breaking into some great solos, Klaus Voorman (an old German friend of The Beatles) on bass, Alan White on drums, and John on lead guitar. They start off with som great rock and roll covers. The band, newly named the Plastic Ono Band, breathe great life into these covers, and they all sound very rough and loud. After they go through these covers, they perform the fantastic Beatles song Yer Blues, which sounds even better here than it does in its studio version. They also premiere John's song about his heroin habit, Cold Turkey. It's not nearly as good as the studio version, or the version the Plastic Ono Supergroup did at the Peace For Christmas concert during Christmas of 1969, but it's still enjoyable, although it basically falls apart during the end. They then do a great version of Give Peace A Chance. Although I love the original version, it's fun hearing it in this electric version, even if John forgets the lyrics occasionally, which he actually does during some of the early numbers as well.

Of course, then it goes into Yoko's section of the concert. Before you start reading, I'm going to tell you that I'm a huge Yoko fan and I think she did "punk" before it was "punk". The two songs she does here, Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow) and John, John (Let's Hope For Peace), are wonderful numbers, especially the first one, which has some great guitar courtesy of Eric Clapton. Eventually, the band starts leaving the stage until it's only the scream of feedback left.

Live Peace In Toronto is a great album, but it's also very rough and if you prefer the polished studio versions of these songs, then you might want to listen to them again instead of listening to this album.

Live Peace In Stunning 1997 Yoko Ono Remix!.......2005-01-16

Stunning is the word to define this CD, because it contains the entire live performance that John Lennon and his brand new group, the Plastic Ono Band, gave in September 1969 in a Rock and Roll Revival in Toronto, Canada. It was the first time that John appeared live without the Beatles. Lennon himself, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, and Alan White which formed The Plastic Ono Band, a conceptual band which included a varity of talented and explorative musicans over the years. The songs included in this set are classics, and derived from the Lennon's Liverpool and Hamburg days, like Money, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, and Blue Suede Shoes. The other songs were from the late Beatles era, Yer Blues, Cold Turkey and the great Give Peace a Chance. There are two Yoko songs, Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow) and John, John (Let Hope For Peace), included on side two which are traditional Ono experimental with heavy electric guitar feedbacks and Yoko's unique, and utterly fascinating avant garde vocals. The sound of this CD is simply amazing, due to the remix that Ms. Ono gave to the original tapes in 1997. Definitely, a must, for all John Lennon and Yoko Ono fans. Buy it NOW!

Yoko Unleashed.......2004-12-17

This album is just so cool. Almost totally unrehearsed, the Plastic Ono Band pull off one of their greatest live shows ever. For John's side the rock 'n' roll classics are classic, 'Yer Blues' you just wish the Beatles could have played it as good on the 'White Album', the mellow version of 'Cold Turkey' you just chill out to, the re-working of 'Give Peace a chance' rocks and provides a few laughs as John make up the words as he's forgotten them.

But the most important part hasn't been played yet. John says to the audience, "Now Yoko's gonna do her thing all over you." And Yoko screeches, moans, and wails for 20 minutes as the audience watched in horror. They booed then, but these twenty minutes gave birth to Bjork, Hole, Nirvana, and pretty much all of alternative and experimental rock. For that very reason, this album is possibly one of the most significant in rock history. A must-have.

KEY TRACKS: "Give Peace a Chance" and "John John"

Average customer rating:

Mixed "bag" for Lennon/Beatles fans
Nice for the Line Up, But...
"Live Peace" in Mobile fidelity
The MFSL version
First Live Solo Performance

Live Peace in Toronto, 1969
John Lennon
Manufacturer: MFSL
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

Blue Suede Shoes
Money
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Yer Blues
Cold Turkey
Give Peace a Chance
Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) I
John John (Let's Hope for Peace)

Customer Reviews:

Mixed "bag" for Lennon/Beatles fans.......2007-07-19

The MFSL version of "Live Peace In Toronto" does sound better to these ears than the original CD release I had from 1995. It's has a decent dynamic range when compared to most of the new CDs produced out there. MFSL sounds warmer to me although detail is roughly about the same. This isn't the perfect John Lennon/Eric Clapton concert experience (keep in mind the little rehearsal time they had)but despite the raggedly playing its clear they're enjoying themselves. Do you want to spent the extra money on the MFSL version of the album? That depends on how you feel about this album. If you're perfectly fine with the previous edition and rarely listen to it on CD, you'll probably do quite well without this version or if you listen to most of your music on an ipod/smaller speakers again the previous version will sound just fine. We don't get any sort of bonus material although the calender was updated to reflect the year of release for this (it's part of the booklet).

As far as John Lennon was concerned The Beatles were dead. He was invited to participate in a concert for peace in Toronto. The story has it that Lennon committed to go, had asked Alan White (Yes) and Klaus Voormann to back up and Eric Clapton up. Depending on which version you hear Lennon and Ono decided not to go and Clapton got a call from the promoter who reminded Clapton that he lost money on the short Blind Faith tour the previous year and Clapton owed him. Clapton went to Lennon's house and told him he had to go--it's a gig and you never do a no show for a gig. He went.

The other version is that Lennon showed up at the airport having not been able to get ahold of Clapton and finally got a hold of him and convinced him to go just before they were set to leave.

All of that would explain the ragged but inspired playing on "Live Peace in Toronto" not of one Lennon's (or Clapton's) best albums but a worthwhile addition for fans of either man. The band practiced a couple of oldies on the plane without their amps along with one track that Clapton and Voormann knew ("Cold Turkey") because they had played on the single version and a Beatles tune (ironically Lennon chose "Yer Blues" (which Clapton knew having performed it with Lennon for The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus)which was written as a parody of the blue movement something that Clapton was instrumental in reviving). The band also trot out "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Money" early favs of John's that the band probably knew. Lennon concludes with "Give Peace A Chance". Lennon and the band played better on "Live in New York City" but this album has a charm (for Lennon's tracks) all its own.

The second half includes three Yoko Ono compostions--"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her hand in the Snow)", ""John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)". The latter "tune" is a feedback drenched experiment that fans would do best to avoid if you're expecting a melody or coherent song. If you want to listen to experimental art-rock, you might enjoy it.

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Nice for the Line Up, But..........2006-10-29

I feel a bit dissapointed with how short the songs are. I understand that Lennon didn't have much time to practice, but the majority of the songs were simply blues-based. With Clapton alongside, they could have jammed these songs for a while. It seems to me possibly, that Clapton didn't jam and get into it, because each time there was a break Yoko would start her screaming and throw off any creativity. The remastering sounds really great though. But overall, it sounds like a shortened live rehearsal.

"Live Peace" in Mobile fidelity.......2006-08-13

The album cover, with the usual mobile fidelity border (my only negative remark on the album), still disgusts me, but it was worth it. I've only heard the album from this version, but I can't see much room for improvement, as the sound here is better than all my earlier CD's.

My review on the music is on amazon for another version of the CD (a mistake made on my part), but in short, it is great live work, and one my favorite albums, almost equaling to The Beatles work, and the best of the solo albums. For John in concert, this is it. Maybe not worth five stars, but definately four 1/2.

The MFSL version.......2006-06-03

This is a review of the newly released Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab version.

Let me tell you, the guys at MFSL did an amazing job of this. It sounds crisper, cleaner, and better than ever before. It's amazing... it honestly sounds like you're actually at the concert. If you're a Lennon fan and you're interested in buying this album, be sure to pick up the MFSL version before it goes out of print forever.

First Live Solo Performance.......2005-12-09

I actually have the original US Apple LP. This edition is likely a 24K Gold Plated Limited Edition CD. This was performed at a peace festival in the Toronto area Spetember 1969. The Plastic Ono Band included Eric Clapton, longtime cohort Klaus Voorman, and future Yes drummer Alan White. Yoko of course spilled her guts! John was not fully ready to return to the stage after three years away (not counting TV), even more on his own (you all know how it was). He didn't even have a chance to rehearse, so he had to wing it. He had to improvise on "Give Peace a Chance", as he did on the original anyway. "Cold Turkey" had not yet been cut in the studio. "Yer Blues" was the only Beatles original he did. Yoko screams through "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John, John (Let's Hope for Peace)". This did sell better than the three LPs combined that actually sold more papers than the records themselves! This was typed on 8 December 2005, the 25th anniversary of Lennon's death.

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Great Album
1/2 = 5 stars & 1/2 = 1 star
First Live Solo Performance

Live Peace in Toronto, 1969
John Lennon
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Blue Suede Shoes
Money
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Yer Blues
Cold Turkey
Give Peace A Chance
Don't Worry Kyoko(Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)
John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)

Customer Reviews:

Great Album.......2006-10-19

This is a awsome cd I have all John stuff and this has to be my faviret. The last songs with Yoko I dont like that much but the other ones I can listen to over and over again. I love the way John and Eric play Money it just gets stuck in your head, and a funny but sad thing about this album is that they edited out most of Yoko screams during Johns songs because I also have the dvd and on it theres alot more of the Yoko screams.

1/2 = 5 stars & 1/2 = 1 star.......2006-10-09

Side 1 on the origional lp was great . You could over look ocasional NOISES from Yoko Ono . Side 2 was all Yoko Ono moanimg and screaming . (Either it is an aquiored taste or finger nails on a chalk board)This cd always tends to be high priced for half a cd .(Maybe you can find at a 50 % discount)

First Live Solo Performance.......2005-10-09

I actually have the original US Apple LP. It's out of print here, though. This was performed at a peace festival in the Toronto area Spetember 1969. The Plastic Ono Band included Eric Clapton, longtime cohort Klaus Voorman, and future Yes drummer Alan White. Yoko of course spilled her guts! John was not fully ready to return to the stage after three years away (not counting TV), even more on his own (you all know how it was). He didn't even have a chance to rehearse, so he had to wing it. He had to improvise on "Give Peace a Chance", as he did on the original anyway. "Cold Turkey" had not yet been cut in the studio. "Yer Blues" was the only Beatles original he did. Yoko screams through "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John, John (Let's Hope for Peace)". This did sell better than the three LPs combined that actually sold more papers than the records themselves! This was originally typed on 9 October 2005, the 65th anniversary of Lennon's birth.

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Important Information about the Twofer Russian Version

Live Peace in Toronto 1969
Plastic Ono Band
Manufacturer: Toshiba
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000062WR9
Release Date: 1997-05-23

Customer Reviews:

Important Information about the Twofer Russian Version.......2004-12-05

I know most people don't appriciate the reviews I do, so I don't expect anyone to appriciate this one. I'm doing this review for me. I'll be reviewing the russian version that's couples with Rock'N'Roll. This CD is 79+ minutes. Each album is almost exactly 40 minutes with Live Peace being 41 and Rock'N'Roll being 39. The Russian 2CD contains every note of both albums. Here is the track listings. LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO - 1969: 1. [Introduction of the Band &] Let's Hope for Peace 2. Blue Suede Shoes 3. Money [That's What I Want] 4. Dizzy Miss Lizzy 5. Yer Blue[s] 6. Cold Turkey 7. Give Peace a Chance 8. Don't Worry Kyoko [Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow] 9. John John [Let's Hope for Peace] ROCK'N'ROLL 10. Be-Bop-A-Lula 11/2. Stand By Me 12/3. A) Rip it Up B) Read[y] Teddy 13/4. You Can't Catch Me 14/5. Ain't That a Shame 15/6. Do You Want to [/Wanna] Dance[?] 16/7. Sweet Little Sixteen 17/8. Slippin' and Slidin' 18/9. Peggy Sue 19/10. A) Bring it on Home to Me B)Send Me Some Lovin' 20/11. Bon[e]y Moronie 21/12. Ya Ya 22/13. Just Because. The stuff in brackets is CD information I know to be correct, but is not on the CD anywhere. The track numbers in slashes are cd player track number/liner notes track number. The track listings in the CD art are seperated by album, but not in your CD player. The version of Live Peace on here does contain the first track "Introduction of the Band," but that track is combined with "Let's Hope for Peace." The much hated Yoko side of Live Peace is a true side. "Don't worry Kyoko" (5min) and "John John" (13min) is difficult for the uninitiated. But in all fairness at that point in the CD, you've only been lestening for 20 minutes, so really, how low is your paitence if you can't get through that? I think the bad aspect is reduced when you know you've got 39 minutes of classic rock via John Lennon right on her tail. This is a great version. The only bad thing about this twofer is that since Rock'N'Roll was remastered, reissued with extra tracks, the version you're hearing now won't be the best version but if you've ever heard unremastered music from 30 years ago0, you know exactly what this'll sound like. This doesn't obviously have the four bonus tracks (Angel Baby/To Know Her is to Love Her/Since My Baby Left Me/Just Because (Reprise)) because this was released significantlly before that remastered version was released. Oh, and the sound quality on Live Peace is a touch better than the sound quality on Sometime in New York, but basically equivalent. I'm sure you'll like the superfly Russian Federation graphics (joining the h in john with the l in lennon was awesome! Yay British Racing Green!) and trying to figure out what the angry-looking Russian says on the bottom of the CD. This can play in all non-POS CD players. If this helped, please say so.

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Tracks:

Introduction of the Band
Blue Suede Shoes
Money (That's What I Want)
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Yer Blues
Cold Turkey
Give Peace a Chance
Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)
John, John (Let's Hope for Peace)

Customer Reviews:

New Reissuse of Live Peace.......2006-04-29

Yoko? Oh! No!.......2005-07-31

Wonderful Live Appearance..........2005-06-12

Live Peace In Stunning 1997 Yoko Ono Remix!.......2005-01-16

Yoko Unleashed.......2004-12-17

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1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. Money
3. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
4. Yer Blues
5. Cold Turkey
6. Give Peace A Chance
7. Don't Worry Kyoko(Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)
8. John, John (Let's Hope For Peace)