ENCORE, Yoko! Encore.
A report surfaced this week that engineer/producer Jack Douglas was working on a project to commemorate the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's October 1980 "comeback" record, Double Fantasy.
"Unplugged," was the descriptive word thrown around.
Now, with obvious understanding that we are dealing with a rumour at this point-to say nothing of the fooked-up fickleness of Apple/EMI-it would seem to moi that a DF acoustic CD would be a long shot.
Yoko Ono has already been there, done that one a few years ago, with a Lennon acoustic demo offering that has long since been forgotten.
Furthermore, have Her Nibs and Douglas kiss, kiss, kissed and made up after their legal spat over DF royalties that Douglas claimed he was owed?-
Overheard Chinese whispers say that at least at this time, Apple/EMI are only entertaining proposals on possible 2010 Lennon projects, although at least one such TBD, is pretty much a lock.-
In any event, I'd rather put my lot in with another box set, Lennon Anthology Part Deux, rather than a specific DF release.
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The Anthology, now going on 12, was pretty damn fine, although anything can be improved on, and here's Yoko's chance.
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She's got TONS of unreleased-and even un-booted-material from the span of Lennon's career, and since the true fans would want outtakes from all era's, then another career-spanner should be the way to go.
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That way, if Ono wants to devote an entire disc to DF stuff-including work by Cheap Trick and other notables that got left off-she could easily do it.
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Finally, of course chronologically it is totally real that thirty years have passed since John's death but I just still can't seem to emotionally register it, or that so much time has passed.
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Let's hope that whatever is released this year does JL's legacy justice.
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