Imagine John Lennon's Piano In New Orleans

[AtPontchartrain]

Instant karma for our city??

I admit to being, well, a touch (like maybe 87.64%) skeptical, but....

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The piano on which ex-Beatle John Lennon composed his hit song "Imagine" in 1971 has been brought to New Orleans for a photo session the piano's owner, musician George Michael, hopes will heighten awareness of the plight of the hurricane-stricken city.

The brown Steinway upright piano will be photographed in the lobby of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and also at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. Lafitte's, built in the French Quarter before 1772, is thought to have been a base of operations for the pirate and Battle of New Orleans hero Jean Lafitte.

The piano, which bears burns left by Lennon's cigarettes, will be photographed by Kenny Goss, owner of Goss Gallery in Dallas. Its stop in New Orleans is part of a worldwide tour of sites where acts of violence have taken place and locations that capture the human spirit.

"Kenny and George want to honor those that lost their lives, those injured and those whose lives were impacted forever by Hurricane Katrina," said Caroline True, producer of the piano project. Katrina struck Aug. 29, 2005, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and wiping out the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

To date, photos have been taken at Dealy Plaza, site of President Kennedy's assassination; the Memphis site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s killing; Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; and the former Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, site of a controversial 1993 confrontation between the religious sect and federal law enforcement officers.

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[marignygreg]

It's easy if you try.

[ohio]

where's waldo?

[Blitzzzzz]

It's easy if you try.

So I've had this fantasy ever since the Thing....
Folks are doing all sorts of things to help the musical culture of New Orleans rebound, but what is the thing that you hear mentioned so often by musicians as the way they first found their voice, the piano. And what was the thing that most likely didn't survive the flooding in the lower ninth and elsewhere, the piano.

Ok, so now, what is the thing that folks practically give away, cause no one wants to move one, the piano. If we could find away to collect some of the "lost and lonely" pianos and bring them to New Orleans to plant in someone's grandmother's parlor, or a young parent's front room, or a school, think about the young Allen Tousaints, Fats Dominos and John Lennons we might be seeding for the future.

Anybody else think this might be a good idea?:cool:

[NYMAMA]

So I've had this fantasy ever since the Thing....
Folks are doing all sorts of things to help the musical culture of New Orleans rebound, but what is the thing that you hear mentioned so often by musicians as the way they first found their voice, the piano. And what was the thing that most likely didn't survive the flooding in the lower ninth and elsewhere, the piano.

Ok, so now, what is the thing that folks practically give away, cause no one wants to move one, the piano. If we could find away to collect some of the "lost and lonely" pianos and bring them to New Orleans to plant in someone's grandmother's parlor, or a young parent's front room, or a school, think about the young Allen Tousaints, Fats Dominos and John Lennons we might be seeding for the future.

Anybody else think this might be a good idea?:cool:

Right after the thing I contacted a few groups(don't remember who now ) and told them we have an older spinett we would gladly donate . No one ever took us up on the offer. If you find a way to organize this and get it down to NOLA you are more then welcome to it.

[marignygreg]

So I've had this fantasy ever since the Thing....
Folks are doing all sorts of things to help the musical culture of New Orleans rebound, but what is the thing that you hear mentioned so often by musicians as the way they first found their voice, the piano. And what was the thing that most likely didn't survive the flooding in the lower ninth and elsewhere, the piano.

Ok, so now, what is the thing that folks practically give away, cause no one wants to move one, the piano. If we could find away to collect some of the "lost and lonely" pianos and bring them to New Orleans to plant in someone's grandmother's parlor, or a young parent's front room, or a school, think about the young Allen Tousaints, Fats Dominos and John Lennons we might be seeding for the future.

Anybody else think this might be a good idea?:cool:

....but your not the only one.

[festbabe]

....but your not the only one.

...I hope someday ya'll will join me.

[NYMAMA]

...I hope someday ya'll will join me.

And we can all be as one....

[marignygreg]

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye.

[NYMAMA]

Blackbird fly..

[breambob]

It was forty years ago today...