Blue Suede Shoes - John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band - Toronto 1969

[sunriseRISE]

what i love is john solid guitaring-- man you do not wanna be going on stage with p90 pick ups=a semi electricguitar= a fender 200watt stack with 8= 10inch speckers in the cabs =unless you are a the real deal =lennon was - he lays it down =dirty -sexy n'mean

[123CatGracie]

It was a Bodybag clowns. Ever heard of the Viet Nam war?

[96billy96]

1:12 Look at the jean of Clapton , hahaha fail !

[jjrge96]

0:47 LOOOL xD

[caesarcerf]

not too bad! three years from being on any stage Lennon really brings it.

[garriansoetedjono]

2:48 WHAT THE FUG !! what is she doing ?

[diegoloxa92]

Clapton was so fucking high on coke

[lees2oo8]

the messiah himself

[axecalibore]

Eric just plays a few notes to warm up, and it's better than most of the junk I hear by anybody ever. And he's just warming up.

[nanterre66]

GENIO!

[IMRUSTYJAMES]

love it

[DKashman]

Yeah that is Eric Clapton, it is not hard to research the facts.

Fantastic blast, wish there that there was an eternal supply of stuff like this.

[Timp7503]

I look only on john Lennon....

Thanks for uploading this.

[MetrazolElectricity]

Good... ok? But dump ono into the trash can, get Paul McCartney on the stage and relive those moments of playing elvis on the upstair of aunt mimi's house, man.

[familytreemusic]

i see that yoko's haters are always on the rampage...

sad

[baumblue]

We were there, it was at Varsity Stadium in June , and no that is not Eric Clapton . Yoko did a set before John came out , there are no words to describe her performance -maybe killing time and a few ear drums.

[MrKnikkers]

@baumblue If that is not Eric Clapton then I will eat my Blue suede shoes.

[close2zen]

@baumblue yes it is Clapton. do a little research and you won't sound so dumb.

[1952Telecaster]

I think Yoko was on drugs....really weird drugs. The stuff that makes you scream like a banshee and cover yourself in bed sheets on stage with a microphone in your hand kinda drugs

[BEATLES4EVER57]

Ho my god ! Yoko can predict the futur ! She predict the death of Elvis ! OMG

[darck777]

Lennon is so great that if you're looking for "Blue Suede Shoes" on YouTube this version is the first to appear.

[BEATLES4EVER57]

@darck777 Yes you're rght

[TruthContest]

Imagine all the people, living for today, living life in peace, sharing all the world. Imagine a world united in reason and truth, with no war, no poverty, no deception, no division. Imagine a world where we all radiate Love's presence, with absolute appreciation for the Infinite dance of Life. This is the world John Lennon imagined, and we are the ones that can achieve it. Search "Truth Contest" in Google, click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says.

[Bradlee6950]

fukin wanna be,,,,go the bag.cause youre musical talent is inside

[bloozintro]

I didn't know that Yoko Ono was in the Ku Klux Klan. Who'da thought?! I was under the impression that her Japanese racial characteristics would make her unwelcome in those quarters, but there she is! Putting on the sheet!

[corunguneee]

Only Lennon could incorporate the cries of the dying banshee and still have the song sound good.

[Fooblestheclown]

Lennon was cranking heroin big time during this era.....weeeeee!

[spodomaticfreeze]

@Fooblestheclown nah think he was clean at this point

[Fooblestheclown]

@spodomaticfreeze ....nope.

[Renhjarta]

In Claptons biography he tells the story of how he and John smoked so much weed before the concert that he (Clapton) had to lay down for a while before they could play. His playing didn't suffer though....!

[MickBoobaloo]

Who the FUCK is that guitarist, and why the fuck does he have gnarly licks like that???

[Amiles666]

@MickBoobaloo i believe that is eric clapton!

[PindamonhaMAN]

@MickBoobaloo yeah, thats Clapton!

[pieman419]

John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, and Yoko Ono disappearing into a sack.

Greatest moment in the history of rock and roll.

[SgtWalrus9]

at 2:28 John looks Yoko as if to say "what the fuck are you doing?"

[OrpheusIsThe1]

Not bad for smack heads Messers. Clapton and Lennon. LOL

[dimiballas]

Everybody may be accusing Yoko but she proved to be innovative...far ahead of her time...dozens of female singers, artists etc have copied her awkward theatrical and vocal style since then in early decades...Bjork for example...Yoko isn't likeable simply because she was accused for the dissolution of the Beatles by having a bad influence on John although the truth is that Macca really took the final decision to break away from the band...

[californiarage]

@dimiballas

No he didn't. Paul, Ringo, and George we're asking for them to think it over, but John said "No, no, no. This is good. I feel a release." And with those words, we lost the greatest band to be found.

[mkizimov1]

The were all hi on Heroin. Lennon puked behind the stage.

[MOODYANGELS1]

1000000000 TIMES BETTER THEN ELVIS

[TomMinderson]

Holloween!

[Zebonka]

Yep, Yoko here proving that appearances don't count. Even with a big white bag on my head, I am still going to suck at singing. I should know, I've tried it once.

[TITOZISKITO]

did he died?

[treatb09]

i wonder what ever happened to the glasses he always wore

[PoppaBlue59]

Crawlin into a bag was the best thing she could have done.

[DocGrim1]

@PoppaBlue59 It's too bad someone didn't seal it shut.

[RushTeez]

@PoppaBlue59 * Correction * Crawling into the bag is the best shes EVER done.

[kingkonggotnothing]

lennon has a nice beard

[BloozeDaddy76]

Nice solos by Eric, but Lennon's vocals lack the feeling and power of Carl Perkins and Elvis.

Check out the priceless 1985 performance of this song with Clapton and George and Ringo rocking out with Carl Perkins! It blows this version away.

[QueenieG7]

@BloozeDaddy76 gosh deadly agreed.

[theselector]

@BloozeDaddy76 That was good BUT check out this version and watch it till the end , you may be pleasantly surprised to see who performs. watch?v=Q3XZwzN4iMY&feature=re­lated

[GunMeat]

Yoko - worthless zombie

[BillieJean1958love]

OMG I WOUD DIE TOBE AT THIS CONCERT

[AbreCaed]

china loca...

[jokkergar]

2:54 WTF



[fede4avar90]

fantastic i love this version

[rollingstopp]

john is so skinney so bearded so in time amazingly cool

[Alithecomedian]

Eric clapton is one lucky motherfucker. He played with hendrix, lennon, duane allman. Strangely enough they all died and he survived

[bladesofglory12]

"Look! Look at me! I'm Yoko Ono and I can hide in a white bag!" Yes, Yoko, you can only do that, while John Fucking Lennon performs right next to you.

[treatb09]

@bladesofglory12 i liked it!

[mikiki11]

@bladesofglory12

darling... watch the movie: The US vs John Lennon

[bladesofglory12]

@mikiki11 Sweetie... I have.

[scottelement]

@bladesofglory12 I'd rather her hide in a white bag then screech & ruin the song!!!!

[bladesofglory12]

@scottelement AHAHA I agree..she sounds like a dying monkey lmao

[wwemmy]

@bladesofglory12 It's called "Bagism" and it's clever!

[Route66Landrunner]

@bladesofglory12 - Yoko was making a brilliant statement, without even speaking, with an underlying message to people who were saying the mindless thoughts that you yourself are now speaking outloud.

[bladesofglory12]

@Route66Landrunner Oh, Jesus shut the fuck up...you think you're all smart just like she did. Yoko was a dumbass. Whatever I'm not going to start a stupid, pointless online fight like the one you are so badly trying to start. Bye.

[MrKungfubadger]

@bladesofglory12 You are saying exactly what i'm thinking!

[reg5381]

she is ridiculous.

[swedishguitarist1]

I love how Yoko is hiding under a sheet.

[MrMike3865]

She and John are probably going to make love in a bag, good luck with that one..

[bannanahammer1]

WIN BEARD

[peepff]

Best. Beard. Ever.

[elreygarcia]

John threw up a lot of times on the plane and before the concert, knowing he's not played with this band before, only rehearsing on the plane. Love the little dance he does!

Take a lesson everyone that is in the business! It's all about the music. This kind of stuff is historic!

[raphelbender]

sin duda es el mejor rocanrolero de todos los tiempos y aqui lo demuestra interpretando todo un clasico dentro del rock obvio super mejorada toda la interpretacion. gracias por existir lennon,revolucionaste la musica y con ello llenaste patre de mi vida..

[sanyatyr]

GravityLimited

She doing "hell" -)))

[BeatleJim55]

A week later...at a meeting at Apple in London on Sept.20,1969...John Lennon quit The Beatles...

[TheBeeraw]

1 FOR THE MONEY! 2 FOR THE SHOW! 3 TO GET READY NOW GO YEAH GO!!! But on a random note....Wouldn't having a beard like that make eating soup and ice cream a total drag? Blehhh. ;)

[hamlet1976]

Thanks God I´m budist and I can´t say that I hope Yoko Ono burns in hell for ruining Lennon´s music.

[HonkyCat90]

Clapton looks so cool there!

[manolobgg]

@HonkyCat90 clapton's the man. 

[yuvalpeleg100]

clapton in canada with a les paul custom? WTF?!

[Butown]

I heard john puked before this show cause he was so nervous

[ericcarrtime]

"No, Yoko, you're not allowed to touch the mic, remember?"

[whyyeseyec]

As usual, Yoko makes a fool of herself and ruins the show.....

[cegelis3]

The prime of Eric's playing, and creativeness IMO.

[Clarissa9570]

Eric Clapton, Klaus Woorman, Yoko Ono todo un clasico 1969

[joebester]

I have this album on vinyl- had to order it special way back when- never did listen to side 2

[projapple12]

@joebester lol, I got one a few days ago and i put it on side 2 and my grandmother was like "Thats the worst album ever! lol

[andyjohnD]

Of course you can't forget Carl Perkins who wrote the song...

[MrRC1992]

please Yoko: stay under your blanket

[mgjansen1]

Great to see this. I've got the album. Clapton can not be heard very well o(compared to the record) except in the solo's. It's Alan White (Yes) on drums.

Yoko ruined side two of the record.

[chicho3418]

Que hace la puta de mierda de yoko ahí?

[kriahambul]

@chicho3418 asi se llamaba ? era hermana de yoko o algo asi?

[Fitzster53]

Love seeing Clapton with a Les Paul :)

[skeaneable]

I'm sorry John with his big beard looks like a jewish rabbi.

[Hemulen40]

@skeaneable Huh..what´s to be sorry abt ? ??

[Hemulen40]

John was always a rocker &  NEVVA EVVA a popper ! Haha...

[FlameClaw]

What the hell is Yoko doing?

[brazilianvideo]

@FlameClaw watch the PBS/WETA "John Lennon the New York Years" documentary and you shall understand.

[OL55CADDY]

@FlameClaw

Bagism-

An art form meant to extract from its viewer a heightened sense of their

preconceived sensations & prejudices.

John & Yoko often used it.

[GuitarGuy5000000000]

@FlameClaw Looks like some kind of impromptu art project!

[mecagoensonymusic]

@FlameClaw preparing John to die and to kill music

[Malifurios]

@FlameClaw Her version of Yoddeling, She did it for a straight hour and people started throwing things at her and almost all left, Thats when this concert died.

[VanMichaelsMusic]

@FlameClaw

Its TOTAL COMMUNICATION!!!!LOL

[apeshitdig]

@FlameClaw It's called "bagism." When you're inside a bag no one can judge you based on how you look or what color you are, only what you say.

[alkaun123]

@FlameClaw John's laundry :D

[kevinreedmusic]

@FlameClaw it's called Bagism, it's a peace protest John and Yoko did so that people aren't judged for their appearance

[SHONA825]

interesting enough John or anyone else in his Band did NOT receive any MONEY

for this show. \It got him a little upset when he learned that everyone else was getting paid. So he recorded this made an Album and Film. Result it is still earning money for his Camp. He was very close to NOT showing up for this show also.

[1west72ndstreet]

@SHONA825 he was also sick

john lennon fucking dead still blows then all away

and i dont care who you come back with..john was it

he was so ahead of his time elvis presley couldnt carry his guitar or note pad

and if that airplane reh was ever filmed going to Toronto well WOW!!!!

it's all there to see to prove me right

[OL55CADDY]

@1west72ndstreet

Without Elvis there would be no John Lennon-You know that-

Elvis is King

Rock n Roll is why

John Lennon is its prince-

Even he said "Before Elvis there was nothing."

The King broke the ground and paved the road

for the sixties rockers to cruise on.

Elvis gave rock n roll its persona.

Let's just say they both rock on.

[1west72ndstreet]

@OL55CADDY Elvis The Cover Singer & B-Movie Man can't touch John l

Lennon or Paul McCartney period!!!!!!!! You need to music grow up..you must rent?

When you create, write, play and sing the songs you are a REAL ARTIST!

King "Las Vegas" Elvis couldnt even play cowbell or write a letter!

I'll give you the 50's Elvis (great) BUT THAT IS ALL..Elvis went out a horror show!!!!

Look it up pal!!

[andyjohnD]

A real artist is someone who also could cover songs like Elvis did, or Billie Holliday and interpret it in away that is just as influential as someone writing a song.

Elvis could play the guitar as was shown in the 68 special, Elvis did all right despite being mismanaged by people who did everything to stomp his creativity.

In 1969 Elvis recorded music that was just as good as the ones the Beatles recorded. A song like "In the Ghetto" is just as powerful of a song

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Who was strumming those chords on That's All Right Mama in 54, who was playing that lick on 1968 on Baby What You Want Me to Do...

If it wasn't for artists like Elvis there would be no John Lennon.

Even if he was just a singer at the end, that still makes him a musician and very few Rock singers had the pipes that Elvis had...

"Before Elvis there was nothing." -JOhn Lennon.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Who was strumming those chords on That's All Right Mama in 54, who was playing that lick on 1968 on Baby What You Want Me to Do...

If it wasn't for artists like Elvis there would be no John Lennon.

Even if he was just a singer at the end, that still makes him a musician and very few Rock singers had the pipes that Elvis had..."Suspious Minds" "In The Ghetto",were great records

"Before Elvis there was nothing." -JOhn Lennon.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet The mismangement of Elvis Presley is one of the worst travestys in Rock "N" Roll. And a question, how does it feel to berate one of John's childhood idols? I'm sure Paul McCartney and George Harrison thought just like you when Elvis covered one of their songs. Brian Epstien and George Martin saw the Beatles as human beings, and Col. Parker and his team saw Elvis as someone to be expolited; had ELvis stayed with Sam Phillips who encouraged him he prob. could've write a song or 2

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Excuse me Burning Love was an aweful cover song, Suspisous Minds was an awful cover song, How Great Thou Art,and Steamroller Blues were aweful cover songs. Elvis still had one of the best vocals of that era and I bet if John were alive he'd berate you for calling ELvis a hick... I dare you write to the surviving members or call Elvis that in front of Macca's and Ringo's face.. But you're lucky, because Ringo doesn't accept fan mail anymore.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Paul Simon calls Presley's version of his song the best cover ever, so I would take the songwriters word over yours thanks; and I happen to think Polk Salad was a decent cover and his performance of the songs in That's the Way it Is is fantastic.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet I'm not putting down Lennon or the Beatles and I love their music. But hate to break it to you, but they were influenced by early Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Smokey Robinson (who Lennons cites the inspiration to Woman) there would be no Beatles and none of the songs would have existed.

Yes Elvis would have killed to have written songs like the Beatles, but if not for him and the Rockers of the 50's you have no Beatles period.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet ELvis didn't rip off Black Music; his sound and his vocal was not because he was trying to sound Black, but because he grew up with the music, his fave music to sing was Gospel. BB King and many artists respect him. Hate to break to you but the young Elvis Presley who you say ripped off Black music, was one of JOhn Lennon's idols, and was one of them who influenced him to take up music., oh and didn't Chuck Berry sue the Beatles for COme Together?

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet It's obvious you don't know yours because Hound Dog wasn't written by them, but Lieber and Stoller, you can't steal from someone who isn't a songwriter, and btw Lieber and Stoller worked with ELvis personally and respect him. And ELvis didn't need to say jack shit, because he let his voice and hips do the talking. And that's why John Lennon is doing ELvis' version of Blue Suede Shoes, right? The Beatles loved the 50's Elvis if you know know your ROck and Roll History

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Hell no I won't forget Elvis, oh btw Dylan once said that ELvis' covers of his song were the best:) Just like with John Lennon, he got me into music in the first place. QUit dissing the legends that paved the way for the Beatles in the first place, and enjoy John Lennon paying tribute to ELvis, Carl Perkins,etc with this cover of Blue Suede Shoes...

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Don't compare Elvis to anyone on Idol, he never autotuned his voice, and sung live.. He was a great singer of the music and only Micheal Jackson comes close to being able to hold an audience in his hand like that. So much like Sinatra he was limited, but that doesn't mean his impact on music is insignificant.

Most performers would kill to have Elvis' stage prescense, and btw when he was on top of his game when he performed in Vegas in 1969.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet In someways it was Elvis downward sprial that influenced Lennon to take a break from music. It's true ELvis' decline in the mid 70's was sad, and in someways what inspired Lennon from taking a break after his lost weekend. But, his recordings of Jailhouse Rock, Milkcow Blues Boogie, Baby Let's Play House (which a lyric of that song can be found on RUn For Your Life) are still as good as today, as it was back then to listen to.

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet I think the music that ELvis recordings (esp in the 50's) and perhaps the stuff he recorded that year in Memphis, and John's stuff are 10 x's better then some of the music that is out today. There is no auto tune on their vocals.. Can't forget John Sinclair, who was freed after the ann arbor concert

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet Don't have a Blue Christmas,lol Now if only we could spoon feed Justin Beiber this kind of music,lol

[andyjohnD]

@1west72ndstreet still if you were a music fan in 69 it was a good year....we can't forget about Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock now, can we?

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@andyjohnD Before Elvis, there was Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and a host of other blues players whose names have been too easily forgotten - History.

[andyjohnD]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones Actually Elvis' recording of That's All Right (1954) was before CHuck Berry's Maybelline (1955), so we should also include Crudup on that list. Elvis' willingness to also sing country music in the style of those blues legends is testiment of the importants of Sam Phillips finding him

[OL55CADDY]

@1west72ndstreet

Check out Elvis' chops on "You're So Square." That's him playing the surf guitar

bass intro about 2 years before Dick Dale-As for growing up- I've played trumpet in orchestras and bands as well as guitar in rock groups- lose the 1960's psuedo intellectual bullshit & embrace the King- I've been enlightening people like you since February 1964 when I would educate my class mates as to which Beatle songs were cover. They thoght the Fab4 had written "Roll Over Beethoven."Awake!

[1west72ndstreet]

@OL55CADDY elvis was GREAT early on after that a loser...as far as the beatles go, they still matter elvis does not....i bet u own jack shit just like elvis with his songs..to write, play & sing ur own song u seem to be clueless about on how incredible that is AND to keep music growing that is what the beatles did...elvis would have shaved his sideburns off to have written just one classic beatle or solo song DONT make me name the songs ill bury u alive

stop loving american idol tv contestants

[avalanche344]

@1west72ndstreet 10,0000,0000,0000% correct brother amen!

[pauljames00]

fuckin yoko its crazy

[The170460]

unfortunately the Gene Vincent part was removed from the final cut of the movie.

[therealnotpalc]

Clapton has the gift of always looking cool when he plays

[selfpotatoify]

Yoko Ono huddling under a sheet was just a taste of what lay in store. Everyone should have left after Give Peace a Chance.

[perixbr]

Bass: Klaus Voorman

[reelsmart]

Just love Lennon Epiphone Casino, just bought one just like it

[XATTaxlessMoney]

On September 13th, 1969 at University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium was a concert Rolling Stone magazine called the second most important event in rock & roll history.

The Toronto Rock & Roll Revival

I travelled 240 miles to see it, driven there by my dad who had broken his arm not long before. He was 70 years old, We all chipped in to get him a ticket and he was probably the oldest person there.

[walrusnation]

Clapton would have followed Lennon anywhere in those days...We could have had a remarkable superband if lennon would have had the same intentions as McCartney-Keep being a rock star. Instead he chose to experiment with yoko .

[90Nobodyknows]

Yoko Fuckin Ono.

[GravityLimited]

Yes, it is Eric Clapton.

[avalanche344]

@GravityLimited John asked Eric to do this Rock and Roll Revival festival in Toronto and on the day of the flight to Toronto, John slept in after a bender and Eric phoned him from the airport and gave John shit. It apparently went something like this " You get your ass down here and lets do this thing or don't ask me for any favors again ever!!!--- Eric Clapton, John came and they rehearsed on the plane- Hilarious

[SorgFamily]

@avalanche344

Not according to Eric Clapton in his auto biography. He said he was sitting at home and John called and said, "What are you doing tonight?" Eric said, "Nothing". John asked if he wanted to play with him in Toronto that night and Clapton said, "Sure". When he got to the airport Lennon, Ono and Klaus Voorman (the bassist) were waiting for him. I just read that bit not ten minutes ago.

Nice performance though considering they only practiced once and had never played together.

[redscorcher]

Can someone tell me is that Eric Clapton on the stage playing.Man it sure looks like him.

[reneperezz]

@redscorcher yes it is

[anamenotalreadytaken]

Wow!