yeah this is definitely true, borne out by the superiority of his material with Voorman/Ringo/Keltner and Spector. Those guys all really brought strong, well thought-out supporting ideas to the table. Elephant's Memory might have been fine for Yoko's solo material, where something more conventional works as a good counterpoint to her very unconventional writing, but they were shit backing up Lennon imo. And after that it's p much downhill apart from Pussy Cats, which benefits (again) from Ringo, Keltner, Voorman, Kortchmar, Nillson etc.
This is all super duper otm. Listening to Pussy Cats for the first time right now and its much better than I thought it would be!
― Darin, Friday, 24 October 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link