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Yoko on the street.

Holy Shite. Yoko Ono’s show at the MCA is absolutely fantastic. No doubt, she is one of the greatest artists of the 20th & 21st Centuries. I have come a long way around. I remember in high school sort of hating on Yoko for breaking up the Beatles. But it was a bad rap. John & Paul just didn’t see eye to eye anymore.

Anyway the show is great. There is a video with a young & gorgeous John & Yoko doing a crazy-ass performance piece. It is so cool and inspiring to see them performing together with total, unbridled, discipline & commitment.

Yoko also has been doing little “dot” drawings since the 90’s. They are absolutely fabulous. A truly thrilling and inspiring show, there is a surprise in every room.

Yoko has had an uncommon, quite brilliant, sad, and wonderful, inspiring, life. As young girl in Japan running & sheltering from the bombs dropped by the USA in World War II, later making avant garde art with John Cage, making short films, doing crazy performances pieces in London & New York, meeting John Lennon and totally blowing his mind, expanding his vision, breaking up the Beatles (ha!), inspiring John to expand his artistic approach, creating some great solo records herself, inspiring John to make music too, then tragically having her husband gunned down in front of her in New York City in 1980.

She has carried on, to this day, doing her thing, never stopping, creating art, and promoting Peace. And that old revolutionary philosophy she & John promoted early on works today too: “Change a Mind/Change a World.”

Peace, yes, but also, in the face of Tyranny, Peaceful, Non-Violent, RESISTANCE! Abolish ICE. Damn the fucking torpedoes. – Jammer

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carla & jimmy at the tap2It’s only the 4th day of this very improbable new year, and it already feels like we’ve packed in a lifetime of experiences. So I guess this is gonna be a thrilling, bumpy ride. Cool.

The 2nd day of the new year we did our show at the Red Line Tap. The accompanying photo is the whitewolfsonicprincess songwriting team, pre-show.  Our set felt good, and it was all a blur at the same time. I really felt the power of our new lineup with drums and additional percussion backing our songs. It’s all about rhythm!

Then on the 3rd day of the new year, we were back in the studio working with our drummer, Rich, visiting from Tokyo, Japan. He laid down some over-dubs on two tracks. I was a little apprehensive, wondering how it would all play out, but it turned out to be a very rewarding and inspiring afternoon.

Two projects are starting to emerge, “The Shadow of the Marigolds,” and “Magnificent Bird.” New sounds, lots of intriguing directions. I guess we’ll see how it rolls out in the next few months. I’ve been thinking that 2015 will be a “make or break,” or “make and break” year. I expect to create and destroy, and destroy and create lots of new work. And embrace the new and let go of the old. Hope so. – Jammer