Lennon: Klaus Voormann Part 2/12
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2012
- Klaus Voormann is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, musician, and record producer. He first met the Beatles in the early 1960s in Hamburg, and remained close with the band until the end of their career.
He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles (Revolver) and The Bee Gees. As a musician, Voormann was the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, a member of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and a session musician for three of the former members of The Beatles, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and many others.
In this interview Klaus discusses his time in the Plastic Ono band, working on singles such as 'Instant Karma' and albums 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band', 'Imagine' and 'Walls and Bridges', as well as Phil Spector, Yoko Ono and the other former Beatles.
Klaus is a Great Human Being!!!!! He's thoughtful, mild mannered and kind.
GREAT bass player. And great artist, of course, and he seems a beautiful guy.
So cool to hear him talk about Plastic Ono Band album. Sweet dude,
Such an interesting life, working with so many great artists, doing what he loves. And travelling the world without the pressures of fame the Beatles had. Yet making a good living and living the good life.
Carly Simon summed him up well, a humble guy. Someone in the background not seeking to steal anyone's thunder, so not a threat to the big egos.
The way Klaus evokes those days and analyses is magic🎉
I especially like the comparison of Dylan singing and playing solo his Songs in contrast to coming back with the then best live Band 1965/66 and part of the audience preferred the acoustic Dylan because they just wanted to hear the songs without trimmings. Thus is the understanding of Klaus for the return to simplicity in Johns first solo album, just John, Ringo & Klaus and the Songs❤
I think in a few decades, minimalist albums like Plastic Ono will still sound fresh, while anything pushing whatever the envelope was back in the day will often be quite dated. Nobody wants to hear 1980s electronic boom-boom drum stuff, but the simple Guitar-Drums-Bass trio, played as fantastically well as John, Klaus and Ringo did, will always be attractive. (Not to mention the incredible and brilliant songs).
This has only had two comments in all these years? What the fuck is going on? This is great.
The only person to have his photo on an official Beatle album front cover apart from the four Beatles...and obviously 'Pepper'...as far as I know
the good German