chris wrote:i have something i may want to add to this...it wasn't john's band. wasn't it frank zappas elephant's memory? that would explain there being a different lineup than what we are used to. maybe.
markfeber@yahoo.com wrote:it was elephants memory but they were never really franks band were they? i read they were a group of their own? ya know whats weird? i have never heard that sometime in ny city album. and i consider myself a fan! i bought everything from imagine on but just wasnt interested in that earlier stuff. i think in the early 70s i was serious into all things must pass and maccas stuff along with ringos first plus my friends had gotten me into other music too. but now in my old age i am back into the beatles big time!
You're mixing up three different things. The album Some Time in NYC was recorded in 1972 with a band called Elephant's Memory, but it was not Frank Zappa's band. It was a New York band that John associated with for a while.
The album included a second disc, called Live Jam, one side of which was John and Yoko with Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention, recorded live at Fillmore East in New York in June 1971. (The other side featured John & Yoko with a number of artists, recorded live at the London Lyceum in 1969.)
Finally, the album Live in NYC was recorded at the One to One concerts in New York, in 1972. Both Live in NYC and Some Time in NYC featured an abbreviated Plastic Ono Band (Basically John & Yoko with Jim Keltner) combined with Elephant's Memory. Jim Keltner was pretty much a fixture in John's backup bands in those days, although Elephant's Memory had their own drummer. This would explain the two drummers in that concert.
(Interestingly, Jim Keltner worked with George Harrison a lot too, and is also one of two drummers in the Concert For Bangla Desh, the other being Ringo!)
