Episode 318 - Sean Ono Lennon
5/31/202653 min
Sean Ono Lennon joins Sodajerker to discuss The Great Parrot Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, the new sci-fi concept album from the Claypool Lennon Delirium. Sean talks about collaborating with Les Claypool, creating characters and mythology for the record, and exploring the dangers of artificial intelligence. We also examine the duo's use of wordplay, Sean's eclectic musical influences, and the lessons he absorbed from his parents.
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First 90 secondsBrian· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome once again to Soda Jerker On Songwriting. It's Brian and Simon here, and joining us this time round is a British American musician, songwriter, and producer who's enjoyed a wildly eclectic career spanning three decades and counting.
Simon· Host0:30
This prolific, multi-talented, and intensely collaborative fellow has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz, Lana Del Rey, The Lemon Twigs, Marianne Faithfull, Albert Hammond Jr., and Mark Ronson, to name just a few.
Brian· Host0:43
Along with Primus's bass-wielding frontman Les Claypool, he's also one half of psychedelic prog rock duo The Claypool Lennon Delirium, and their third studio album, snappily titled The Gray Parrot, Ox, and the Golden Egg of Empathy, dropped just a couple of weeks ago.
Simon· Host0:56
A sprawling sci-fi concept LP about the ominous rise of AI with accompanying comic book, it's an incredibly entertaining, not to mention deeply thought-provoking piece of work. And to talk about the creative process behind it, we're super excited to welcome the excellent Sean Ono Lennon to the show.
Brian· Host1:13
Sean was born in 1975 in New York City to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, you may have heard of them, on his father's 35th birthday. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he felt a deep connection to music from a young age, but it was only in the years following his dad's death when Sean was only five that he gravitated towards playing guitar