I picked up a FLAC copy of this album. And here is a review of it:
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969 (1969)
Although one of the world's best-kept secrets at the time, this was John Lennon's declaration of independence from the Beatles, the document of a concert appearance at Toronto's Rock and Roll Revival festival about a month after the conclusion of the Abbey Road sessions. Thrown together literally on the wing (they rehearsed only on the flight from England), the ad-hoc band consisting of Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums hit the stage to the surprise and delight of the thousands who packed Varsity Stadium. "We're just going to do numbers we know, you know, because we've never played together before," confesses John, who was reportedly extremely nervous before going on. But the repertoire ought to have been a cakewalk for a quartet of seasoned rockers -- blues-based oldies ("Blue Suede Shoes," "Money," "Dizzy Miss Lizzie") and basic recent Lennon numbers ("Yer Blues," "Cold Turkey," "Give Peace a Chance") -- and they lay it down in a dignified, noisy, glorified garage band manner. Lennon is in fine vocal form, confident and funny despite his frequent apologies, while Yoko confines her caterwauling to "Cold Turkey." That was side one of the original LP. Side two, alas, was devoted entirely to Ono's wailing, pitchless, brainless, banshee vocalizing on "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope for Peace)" -- the former backed with plodding rock rhythms and the latter with feedback. No wonder you see many used copies of the LP with worn A-sides and clean, unplayed B-sides -- and Yoko's "art" is just as irritating today as it was in 1969. But in those days, if you wanted John you had to take the whole package.
I was at that concert. Imagine this line up:
Whiskey Howl,
Bo Diddley,
Chicago,
Junior Walker and the All Stars,
Tony Joe White,
Alice Cooper,
Chuck Berry,
Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys,
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Gene Vincent,
Little Richard, Milkwood (Toronto-based Polydor recording artists),
Doug Kershaw, and
The Doors.
Screaming Lord Sutch was later added to the bill. The Alice Cooper Band was the backing band for Gene Vincent,
[5] while a member of Flapping, Ron Marinelli, Danny Taylor, and Hugh Leggat a member of Nucleus, were members of the backing band for Chuck Berry. The Doors, as the headlining act, closed the show.
The following artists' live music performances were issued on album and cassette:
Chicago Transit Authority – "Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969 – Vol. I" (Accord 7140, 1981)
Chuck Berry – "Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969 – Vol. II & Vol. III" (Accord 7171/7172, 1982)
Alice Cooper – "
Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969 – Vol. IV" (Accord 7162, 1982)
Bo Diddley – "Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969 – Vol. V" (Accord 7182, 1982)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – "
Live Peace in Toronto 1969" (Apple 3362, 1969)
Can't believe I'm not familiar with Ms. "Go Shay" as I do have some of Darden's material. Think I have his Self titled album from the late 80's and Native Soil from early 90's. Being from Austin I caught him in 2001 at the Mercury as well he had Nancy Griffin, Trish Murphy, ASTEX and Abra Moore who was the instigator (in Texas) who is claimed to have formed one of my fave bands Poi Dog Pondering out of Austin (Hawaii really as the lead singer Frank Orrall was from there and moved to Austin) and my next door neighbor Bruce was their main bass player during the Austin years
I highly recommend their first three albums "Self Titled", "Wishing like a mountain and thinking like the sea" and "Volo Volo" plus Pomegranate
