Polly Samson = Yoko Oh-no?

crofloyd · Post by **crofloyd** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:31 am

drafsack wrote:Rog never let his wife get involved with any of his records - mind you he was never with any of them long enough for them to contribute

he didn't allow his bandmates to contribute, let alone his wife

Post by **henno** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:04 pm

do you think she is going to cause Pink Floyd to break up....

NEWSFLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

need i say more.....

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:33 pm

Aahhhhhhh, the truth at last... Polly made David destroy Pink Floyd cause Roger wouldn't let her write the lyrics when she secretely was Rogers second wife back in the seventies.

cRaB · Post by **cRaB** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:57 pm

drafsack wrote:Rog never let his wife get involved with any of his records - mind you he was never with any of them long enough for them to contribute

he did worse...

he let one of his ex appearing on an official PF sleeve....

Lurking Fear · Post by **Lurking Fear** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:22 pm

Um, Dave always has contributors on all his solo albums-
read the credits for the songs on about face. He's the first to admit he's not much of a lyracist.

Randy Floyd · Post by **Randy Floyd** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:33 pm

The only thing I have a problem w/is the album cover. I'm sure the wifey had an influence on this. Anyone else think it looks kind of um, (oh wots the word i'm looking for here)..."gay"?

I'd much rather prefer the same thing, though w/DG standing on that little island, silhouetted w/his guitar.

nosaj · Post by **nosaj** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:37 pm

What exactly is wrong with Yoko Ono?

Any Colour · Post by **Any Colour** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:57 pm

Don't deny a man a bit of hapiness in his life.

Zoophobia · Post by **Zoophobia** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:33 am

David does not give a crap what anyone thinks about his wife or his album. He loves them both dearly.

The Gunner's Dream · Post by **The Gunner's Dream** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:36 am

Polly really can't be compared to Yoko because Polly had nothing to do with the initial break-up of Pink Floyd in 1983. Are we perhaps mixing up Yoko with Linda Mcartney?

Tenniru · Post by **Tenniru** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:23 am

This is kind of overreactive. So Dave collaborates with his wife who happens to be a new musician. And by the way, I do think being a songwriter and session musician makes her a musician in her own right.

Yoko never even went that far, except for Sometime In NYC and Double Fantasy/Milk And Honey; and by then she was already an accomplished songwriter, and it wasn't as much a "handout" as it was a collaboration with another musician.
Aside from that, she inspired; but she never had so much as a guest vocal, let alone an instrument or going as far as to write lyrics for John.

I do think Yoko and Polly are totally diffirent. Incidentially, I'm a Yoko fan. (Approximately Infinite Universe has got to be one of the finest albums I've heard in a long time.)

goldeneagle33 · Post by **goldeneagle33** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:55 am

Tenniru wrote:This is kind of overreactive. So Dave collaborates with his wife who happens to be a new musician. And by the way, I do think being a songwriter and session musician makes her a musician in her own right.

Yoko never even went that far, except for Sometime In NYC and Double Fantasy/Milk And Honey; and by then she was already an accomplished songwriter, and it wasn't as much a "handout" as it was a collaboration with another musician.
Aside from that, she inspired; but she never had so much as a guest vocal, let alone an instrument or going as far as to write lyrics for John.

I do think Yoko and Polly are totally diffirent. Incidentially, I'm a Yoko fan. (Approximately Infinite Universe has got to be one of the finest albums I've heard in a long time.)

I guess you never watched yoko writhing and wailing on the floor of the rolling stones rock and roll circus video while john and eric clapton were trying to ignore her and keep the music going. But then I guess that does'nt qualify for being a vocal.
I guess I read that Polly is a novelist of some sort, seems like her contribution lyrically is probably better than david could do, but her qualifications as a musician are still unproven. I haven't heard that she has sang on the tour yet, so maybe there is still hope!

goldeneagle33 · Post by **goldeneagle33** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:13 am

I thought I would do a little research, I found this review at Amazon, for a book titled Out of the Picture, by Polly Samson:
From Publishers Weekly
A clerk in a London photo agency, 20-something Lizzie is trapped in an unhappy affair with her compulsively philandering married boss. For Lizzie, the likably neurotic heroine of Polly Samson's Out of the Picture, everything that's wrong with her life seems to lead back to her father, who abandoned the family when she was small and continues to obsess her. Samson's debut novel (which follows the story collection Lying in Bed) is a finely crafted diversion, but if there are no wrong notes, there's also not much that sets these characters apart from the distant parents and mournful young women who populate so many post-Mona Simpson coming-of-age novels.
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Post by **mosespa** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:35 am

Tenniru wrote: but she never had so much as a guest vocal

You've OBVIOUSLY never heard The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill from The White Album.

(Whispering like Jack Palance:) Check it out.

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:32 am

goldeneagle33 wrote:I guess you never watched yoko writhing and wailing on the floor of the rolling stones rock and roll circus video while john and eric clapton were trying to ignore her and keep the music going. But then I guess that does'nt qualify for being a vocal.

That, and her appearance during the Toronto gig by the Plastic Ono Band, are the most horrific and embarasing moments in the history of rock music. Why on earth did nobody tell her to quit it because she was raping, literally raping, a good piece of music? Didn't John Lennon have the nerve to tell her it was goin nowhere? I really don't get it.

All my very humble opinion, of course...

Or am I simply to naive to understand the deeper meaning of this type of 'avant-garde'...