Mid-Wits

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They’ve always lived among us.

National Post- The time John Lennon trashed Ronnie Hawkins’ house before meeting PM Pierre Trudeau

Lennon and Ono were not good houseguests. Even before she arrived, Ono ordered sixteen new telephone lines run into Hawkins’ house and would run up a $9,000 ($69,000 in 2022 dollars) phone bill during her short stay at the property.

The couple overflowed a bathtub, causing one of Hawkins’ ceilings to collapse. Lennon unwittingly started a fire in Hawkins’ barn. And Ono reportedly inflected the entire visit with a note of tension by quietly resenting every moment that Lennon spent out of her sight.

38 Replies to “Mid-Wits”

    1. Yoko Ono is a nightmare but John Lennon was a great talent. Apparently, he could be a dick at times but … hey, look at you!

  2. Imagine that?

    Read Lennon’s official biography. He was not a nice man. He neglected his first wife and son Julian. He was materialistic and a huge hypocrite. He didn’t give two shytes about peace, love and his fellow man.

    BTW, Yoko Ono wrote the words to Imagine but Lennon took all of the credit.

    Funny how I loved the Beatles as a kid but hate their music as an adult and senior. Paul’s bubblegum pop is exceedingly barf worthy.

    1. Yes, Lennon did far greater damage with Imagine. Musically beautiful but message is total crap. Wishful thinking at best. And since as a species we are not that advanced (to separate music from message), we took the entire thing for the message. And new ‘religion’ was born, Lennonism. Which ironically preaches for no religion whatsoever. Like I said, one of the biggest piece-of-crap propaganda pills in modern history.

      1. There’s an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where an evangelist takes the station to task for the degenerate music they’re playing. Johnny brings him into the station and reads the lyrics to Imagine to him and asks what he thinks of that. His response is “sounds like Communism to me!”

        Increasingly it is apparent that every strawman of a stuffed-shirt moral prig in every sitcom or movie from the 1970’s and 1980’s – from Dean Yeager to Dean Wormer to Archie Bunker – was 100% correct.

        1. ‘KRP was a great show. Jan Smithers was a doll.

          “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”

          mhb23re

      2. All in all, Lennon and McCartney and The Beatles put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces and brought the world much joy. I can forgive him one (or two) stupid song(s). And that’s all Imagine is, just a song. I can’t believe one song did that much damage to the world. Can you provide some actual evidence of that. Lennon invented neither Utopian visions nor … hypocrisy.

        I’m with Frank Zappa on this subject. In his testimony before the US Senate and Al Gore, Zappa insisted silly love songs caused more damage with their creation of unreasonable expectations than any of his or Twisted Sister songs.

      1. You and me bro! I am only recently discovering just how deeply, deeply, talented your metis Canadian guitarist really is. Robbie is amazing!

        1. Robbie is half Jewish and half Mohawk so not actually a Metis but yes a very talented songwriter and guitarist.

    2. Robertson had that Bo Diddley ‘Shave and a hair cut 2 bits’ rythm down didn’t he?

      The Hawk had a massive influence on r’n r. The public weren’t as familiar with him but musicians everywhere knew what he contributed.

  4. Yes, it was called rock and roll. You probably missed it.
    I sat through a brief Yoko “performance” when I saw Lennon in 1969, without the Beatles, obviously.
    Great concert, good times.

    1. I saw him and Yoko at the Rock n Roll Revival concert at Varsity Stadium in TO in 1969. When Yoko came on and started yelping she was booed off the stage I think I recall. The rest of the performances were fantastic.

  6. ronnie owned ‘the city hall tavern’ in london ontariowe. it actually was the former city hall.

    its near closing time, waiting patiently for my tune on the juke box.
    TIME TO GO bellows mr bouncer.
    l explain lm waiting for what l paid for, or can l have my 50 cents back.
    YOU NEED HELP FINDING THE STAIRS???????. (the tavern was on 2nd floor)
    l took that as a threat and left.
    the sarcasm and accusations became ‘why would l risk getting beat up over half a buck????’.
    ummmmm, because l didnt know that ‘rule’ about ronnie hawkins’ bouncers?

    anyways, this was early 70s, l instantly was NEVER a fan of hawkins after that.
    much later l found out he LOST MONEY with that bar. they did have good r&r bands.
    but it gave me satisfaction that the ‘beloved celebrity musician’, who made pocket change by hiring goons that would quickly resort to threats lost a lot of $$$. also, PUT UP A FRIGGIN SIGN telling people the ‘closing time rule’ maybe?

    but naturally since l speak against hawkins lm the bad guy.

    oh, incidentally, he did a call in fund raising thing decades later. l called in a cpl times reminding them of the threat and telling them to “feel free and send yer g*******d thugs over to my place NOW and see what happens”. (things are different when one packs on 50 pounds of muscle)

    they never showed. hmmm. howcum dat?

    1. used to hang out at the Coque d’or. May not be spelled correctly. Lower Young Street? Sat am the “boys” would be there. Everybody body has an experience that many would dismiss. I dismiss nothing. People can be assholes at anytime and we never know the circumstances.

    2. You’re not a bad guy, you’re an idiot. Closing time is mandated in law, and if the place doesn’t get patrons out at closing time they lose their liquor license.

      1. sooooooo maybe explain it that way instead of reflex resort to threats? hmmm?

      1. 50 cents then is like 3 bucks now. = half an hours wages then.
        fcukin goof bouncer did NOT need to resort to threat.
        do that nowadays and the bouncee comes back with a semi. pop pop pop.
        oh look no more unnecessary threats !!!

  7. Hawkins was supposed to feel honored that the gracious couple thought enough of him to bestow a house trashing on him. I mean the Beatles and all.

      1. I used to say hi to him once in awhile and really didn’t give a shit who he was. He always said hi back. This age thing catches us all. We are fleeting, short term and we leave nothing behind.

        1. Not me. I plan to leave behind a stack of 3 1/2 inch floppy disks and a few eight track tapes.

  8. Thank God Trudeau gives the National Post our money so that some hack can bring us this crucial pop culture news!

    1. Slightly better than the CBC’s report on the murder of Brampton resident and rapper “Sidhu Moose” in Punjab India. “World famous” apparently.
      Yeah, me neither.

    2. Beware.
      It is a State secret that you reveal.

      Your taxpayer funds were appropriated by the Liberal Government to buy the ongoing allegiance of the Canadian Media .
      Obviously it has worked spectacularly well and you therefore risk being a cancelled deplorable on the National news.
      To say nothing of being an enemy of the State.
      No peeking behind that iron curtain.

      In a lawless, constitutionless Canada, anything is possible.

  9. I feel so sorry for the late Mr. Hawkins.

    Once again, the Lennons and Trudeaus of this world show us that we can’t have nice things because of them.

  10. one “entertainer” trashing another “entertainer”, is like a Pro wrestling match, win win!

    2. Oasis does not exist without The Beatles and, while they didn’t suck, they definitely weren’t as good but hey, whatever.

  12. RIP Hawk. Too bad about the jerky guests. I worked with a guy who loaned Neil Young twenty bucks back in the mid sixties, when he frequently played in Fort William, and complained that Young stiffed him. I asked him, wasn’t the story he got to tell a million times worth twenty bucks. LOL

    1. Ono got inside Lennon’s head and screwed him up more than he already was, that’s for sure. Chuck Berry’s WTF eyes say it all. However, unlike Burr, I found it hilarious. Lennon, apparently, was famous for hitting women but I’d be more afraid of Johnny B. Goode taking care of business himself. Ask Keith Richards. LOL

      1. I caught that clip.

        The look on Chuck Berry’s face was one of horror and disbelief.

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