Studio A, Record Plant, New York City
John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded with Fluxus artist Joe Jones on 12 July 1971.
Ono knew Jones from her days working as an artist with the Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. He brought several of his music-creation installations, which he manufactured under the brand Tone Deaf Music Company, to the Record Plant studio for a session with Lennon and Ono.
Several tape reels were filled with experimental and improvisational recordings. They had titles including ‘Rain Stains’, ‘Airmale (Tone Deaf Jam)’, ‘Don’t Count The Waves’, ‘New York Rain Stains’, ‘I’m Afraid’, ‘Fly Paper’, ‘Where Is The Wind’, and ‘You’.
Lennon and Ono used ‘Airmale (Tone Deaf Jam)’, ‘You’, and ‘Don’t Count The Waves’ in the soundtrack of their 1971 film Erection, a time-lapse video of the construction of a hotel at 147 Cromwell Road, Kensington, London.