Yoko Ono & the Art of Writing Serendipitous New Music
Was speaking with a couple of friends, discussing the possibility of 4ever kinda’ luv, especially related to marriage. And, without much knowledge of this situation, for some reason, Yoko Ono and John Lennon kept creeping into my head. The bed-in, give peace a chance, sex with the muse, artistic souls…seemingly unconditional and eternal…u get the drift.
So – been learning new guitar chords to expand my vocabulary, but realized as I went along, this very well could make me sound like everybody else. But I proceeded cautiously. Then, one night – BOOM!!! Chords I never played popped in my head and this song about Yoko came to me.
This song has been dominating my consciousness for a full 11 days now. So woke up at 6:20am this morning to go to the beach and finish it. Envisioned a big change of pace for the tune but once on the water, realized it just needed to flow with a subtle kind of change instead. Funny how the sound of waves brings perspective.
The seredipity – a man and woman passed by the bench on which I was playing, walking their dog. We exchanged pleasantries and he said – “Do you take requests?”. Then he said laughingly, “I’d like to hear some Beatles…like Hey Jude?”. I replied I really only do originals and thought to myself – how bizarre yo!
Then, later in the day, went to the library to pick up some new books for my boy. And on the shelf – BIG AS DAY – was a children’s book entitled Yoko Writes Her Name! U KNOW I had to check it out for him.
Needless to say, this new tune about Yoko is one classically beautiful song. Once I lay it, I’ll post it 4 sho’!
Peace, be one wit’ the process, and be all up in the serendipity of life yo!
Todd
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“Sell peace the way other people sell soap” – Yoko Ono (Thanks to Joan Athey – Curator of the Give Peace a Chance photo exhibit featuring the photography of Gerry Dieter, for this quote)
Yes – Yoko is a fine example of unconditional love. As the curator of a photo exhibition Give Peace A Chance (check website) for two years I have been studying the Bed-in and a side effect of that is of course to study the actions of John and now mostly Yoko. She is an amazing woman, living her art and following the blueprint for peace that was set out in 1969, “Sell peace the way other people sell soap”. She has actually, even though scorned for so long, made peace entertaining, if you know what I mean. Your day of synchronicity? I have had so
many examples of it while doing the book (check my site) In Toronto at my show there three weeks ago, a young Czech woman came to me with an idea, wanting tips on how to get Yoko’s attention. I spoke to her, encouraged her with her idea and generally gave her a big booster talk about interconnectedness and art and the essential goodness of people and how there is an exponential thing happening …
She e-mailed me a few hours later saying that amazingly on her way home, there in the sidewalk was a picture of John Lennon. Just lying there.
Keep the faith! Thanks for noting your coming and goings in your blog.
Joan.
Thank u so much for taking the time to comment Joan! Wow – that’s deep – ’sell peace the way other people sell soap’. i’ll let u know once i record a rough of the song. we all are interconnected and there are way more good people out hear if we just open our eyes (and turn off the news)…peace – todd
Whoops .. I mean lying on the sidewalk, not in the sidewalk for that photo. And my website is http://www.peaceworksnow.com.