klaus voorman
klaus voorman overdubbed jim pons's bass on the "sometime in nyc" album on which zappa and the mothers jammed with john and yoko.
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info from TT - 2002/05/16
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa - Subject: Did Phil Spector Hate the Turtles?
Hello--I read something interesting yesterday that I was not aware of before.
Apparently when John and Yoko and Phil Spector released their versions of the
FZ/Fillmore/jam on the "Sometime in NYC" album, they not only stripped
out Mark
and Howie, which we all know about, but they also removed Jim Pons's bass lines
and had Klaus Voorman overdub them. That was news to me but it's apparently
true.
Which led me to thinking...seeing as Mark and Howie and Jim were all Turtles not
two years prior to this event, was there bad blood between that band and the
ever-paranoid Mr. Teddy Bear himself?
Did he offer to record them early in their career and they told him to go take a
hike?
I don't believe that John or Yoko would have told them to strip the Turtles out
of the mix, simply because they were old friends of John's, had a good
relationship with him and had been frequent drinking buddies during their common
time in the charts. (The Turtles have often said that they modeled themselves to
be the American Beatles, which while it didn't quite happen, it was certainly a
fine thing to aspire to!)
Any thoughts or knowledge on this would be appreciated. Mark and Howie are going
to be here in Phoenix on June 3 but I can't go, so I can't exactly ask them.
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