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A Toot and a Snore in '74 is a rare bootleg alb...
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Added: January 05, 2008
A Toot and a Snore in '74 is a rare bootleg album of the one and only
jam session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together
after the break-up of the Beatles. First mentioned by Lennon in a 1975
intereview, details were brought to light in May Pang's 1983 book,
Loving John -- and it gained wider prominence when McCartney made
reference to the session in a 1997 interview. Discussing with
Australian writer Sean Sennett in his Soho office, McCartney claimed
the 'session was hazy ... for a number of reasons'. The story is
corroborated by biographies such as Christopher Sandford's 2006
McCartney.[1]


Lennon was in his "lost weekend", kicked out of the house by Yoko Ono
for 18 months; thus he was with his girlfriend May Pang. Sandford
paints the scene very vividly, as the room froze when McCartney walked
in, and remained perfectly silent until Lennon said, "Valiant Paul
McCartney, I presume?" McCartney responded: "Sir Jasper Lennon [a
character Lennon played during an early TV appearance skit], I
presume?" McCartney extended a hand, Lennon shook it, and the mood was
pleasant but subdued, cordial but not especially warm (at least
initially). McCartney went to Los Angeles at Ono's request to help
John repair his marriage with Yoko.


Lennon had begun producing Harry Nilsson's latest album, *** Cats,
when Paul and Linda McCartney dropped in on the Burbank Studios
session on March 28, 1974. They were joined by Stevie Wonder, Harry
Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis, May Pang, Bobby Keys and producer Ed Freeman
for an impromptu jam session.


What followed was not very productive. Lennon sounds to be on cocaine--
he can be heard offering Wonder a snort on the first track, and on the
fifth, asks someone to give him a snort. This is also the origin of
the album name, where John Lennon clearly asks: "You wanna snort,
Steve? A toot? It's goin' round." Whether the snore/snort discrepancy
is intentional or not is not known. In addition, Lennon seems to be
having trouble with his microphone and headphones.


Lennon is on lead vocal and guitar, while McCartney sings harmony and
plays drums. Stevie Wonder sings and plays electric piano, Linda
McCartney on organ, May Pang on tambourine, Harry Nilsson provides
vocals, Jesse Ed Davis is on guitar, producer Ed Freeman fills in on
bass, Bobby Keyes plays saxophone (less)- Hide quoted text -



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONPHdCQ-Ak

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