FIRST TIME REACTING TO JONI MITCHELL "FOR FREE" LIVE BBC 1970 REACTION

[@TheLibrarian1955]

Song about a busker. Not every good artist gets to make it big. Lovely song.

[@elainediamond7572]

Thank you so much. Yes she’s one of the most beloved and well-known singers of any time. Greatly revered by several generations! Probably the most by mine since I was maybe 18 when she first appeared,andI was totally enraptured. ❤

[@Bonzoix]

Fifty plus years ago, when I heard this for the first time, it took my Joni Fandom and turned it into absolute, Joni love. And she has been an important part of my life ever since. For Free brings me to tears every time I hear it, and there is no way I understand why. Her Both Sides Now, The Circle Game, The Same Situation and numerous others will do the same. Review those, too. You’ll love them as do I. Thanks for sharing Joni to a new generation. Both her and I will not be around much longer, but I’m so glad her magic will go on. Peace, Love, Dove. (an old hippie salutation) ☮️💜🕊️

[@jaycorby]

My experience is similar to yours. I'll turn 79 three months from today, and Joni has been here with me for that same 50+ years you speak of. Btw, this is among the top 5 songs of Joni's I really love.

[@robertsaaf1467]

Thank you for reacting to her! I love this whole concert performance. This was in 1970 and I am going to go see her perform again this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in October 2024! 54 years later!

[@RobertaSirgutz-tu8xu]

More Joni. "A Case of You". Bring you to tears. Greatest of the singer/ songwriter gene in the 70's.

[@gablen23]

This is what art is about: creating and telling a story, that happens to all of us. Joni is amazing.

[@brendaguerin5423]

Proud to say she is from my country

[@glenndespres5317]

Joni is such a talent. She will make you think, and steal your heart doing it. You make excellent points in your comments.

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

Oh Canada !

[@lauragroce3816]

God Bless ya all my Joni.

[@Lakeshore14]

Joni is a giant and has written many songs that others recorded. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter and musician. You would like Both Sides Now and Big Yellow Taxi. Thanks for reacting to this. 👏👏

[@ThistleAndSea]

Joni is a treasure. She's the real deal. 🙂

[@elizabethkeady9183]

She paints a picture with her words!

[@copperhopperwarren4788]

This is about a very well-known street musician who played a sax @ the powell street corner in san francisco... he was an amazing musician.. heard him him every day on my way to work in the 70's

[@Mr05Chuck]

Joni was a woman I put up high on a pedestal while in college back in the early 70s. One of my big song writing influences. Finally, at the age of 71 I started a sobriety KZbin channel. Songs I’ve written about my 24 year sober walk. Raw iPad recordings but they are bearing fruit. Several young men have reached out to me for advice. The channel will never be monetized. I play real average for free lol.

[@dagmar.6954]

Joni Mitchell is a great Canadian-American singer-songwriter. She covers a lot of genres of music including folk, pop, rock, classical & jazz. She has had so many hits especially in the 60's-80's such as "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "Help Me", "The Circle Game", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock", "Raised On Robbery", "Free Man In Paris" etc.

[@pamhunter-to4xs]

Joni is straight up Canadian. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🙏. From Saskatchewan. We make full claim to her.. lo. She moved to US cuz in the 70s there was no music industry, per se. 😉🙏🇨🇦

[@BobSoltis1]

@@pamhunter-to4xs Joni took out American citizenship so she is both Canadian and American.

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

@@pamhunter-to4xs .Thank you !

[@jesrush]

Help Me is my favorite Joni song✌️😊🧿 I have the same black screen behind you….but I’m an artist so I painted a mural on it!😁

[@rainbowkeys711]

"Furry Sings the Blues" is another Joni Mitchell song in a similar vein to this.... it's fantastic...

[@susanrobinson9489]

I had a particular favorite The Last Time I Saw Richard from the Blue Album

[@kestrelle5345]

As I listened to Joni, I recalled my years working by Harvard University. Harvard Square is known for street performers. But it was in the subway there that I first came across the jaw dropping talent of the then unknown Tracy Chapman.

[@edgarsnake2857]

Great song and performance by Joni. Loved your reaction.

[@lauragroce3816]

Dude. We had this. I’m 73.

[@robertwatson2823]

My favorite Joni Mitchell song. Thanks for the great reaction.

[@lauragroce3816]

it’s in my heart. A,ways will be. My chest explodes with this. For many years years. Years. One of my favs. ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@leemorgan4799]

Both sides now is my favourite by Joni.

[@christinawoolley6206]

Thank you for sharing young man! 😻

[@chrislind57]

She does a duet with Johnny Cash that I teaaly like. Long Black Veil. Not sure who the originator was but hers and Johnny Cash's version is real nice.

[@TheDivayenta]

Long Black Veil was a penned country tune from the 50’s , sung originally by Lefty Frizell.

[@musik102]

Great reaction!

[@babylonsister118]

Try A Case of You, please and thank you.

[@joannparker1977]

Amen. 👍🏼❤️

[@TheDivayenta]

Mugs- for every newcomer to Joni, I recommend the sublime and jazzy, “ Help Me”.

[@gdmyers47]

I would have liked it more had you talked more about her performance of her great song.

[@ButternutGOLD]

For free means for fun

[@Prone2Thrill]

Imagine growing up with Joni Mitchell to Janis Joplin...thx mom!

[@paulweber686]

Joni helped, with songs and records like this to encapsulate the sentiment that we all felt was real in the late 60s/ early 70s. It's even more real now. We all feel the limitations of capitalism. It constrains our imagination now to the point where provoking nuclear war is an economic strategy.

[@lauragroce3816]

For free

[@sherryheim5504]

Now with AI, there won't be a need for cultivating art of any kind, AI will learn it and make it whatever you want without you even having a clue how to make music. You could feed it Joni's catalog and tell it to use it to write about a raging forest fire and it will do it. I hate the thought of human artistic talents being taken over by machines but that is what we are coming to. This is the time to go to every live performance we can by our older musicians like Joni, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, and the rest ...this may be our last opportunity to personally experience 100% human created, produced and generated music. Joni is a powerhouse of musical talents, I love all of her music, and he poetry (lyrics) is breathtakingly real and relatable. Thank you for your reaction to this great song and story.

[@mikepiccione886]

Did she write this song for Ren?😂❤❤❤

[@pbasswil]

One perspective on your musing about America not doing the cultivation of talent: In this case, Joni was one of the most fully self-cultivated artists in history! Piano, guitar, zither, composition, that voice(!), poetry, painting, etc. etc, - she brought it all out of herself fully formed, no help whatsoever. You could say she was a joint project between her native Canada and her adopted USA.

[@TheDivayenta]

I do believe she had some classical piano training.

[@pbasswil]

@@TheDivayenta Her parents bought their little upright piano in the hopes that Joni would excel in the classics, but apparently that never happened, and as far as I know she never learned to read music.

[@charlesdavis7461]

Painting pictures.

[@chimado2107]

Can you pls react to Carlos Santana live from Mexico make somebody happy please you'll thank me promise

[@elsievickie]

Santana at Woodstock 1969...Soul Sacrifice Wow....fantastic Live Performance. Santana has said in interviews about Woodstock, half a million people showed up for 3 days of sex, drugs, and rock in Roll. He said he was HIGH, They pushed his Performance earlier because they couldn't get the bands in because of traffic, had to helicopter them in. So Santana wasn't expected to go on stage...He said his guitar was turning into a snake, had to hold on...still he could play. Santana is among top guitar players. You should do a short documentary on Woodstock wild ride. I was sixteen and begged Dad if I could go, I lived in Arizona if it wasn't in upstate NY, I think he would of gone with me...I was lucky he loved music. Music always playing in our home. Etta James, Diana Washington, Simone, James Brown, Johhy Cash, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Hank Williams So thankful this was the sixties...He was a cool Dad, My appreciation for all types of music.. Santana was one of his favorites. Nina Simone was one of my favorites. God Dam Mississippi She sang this live, I thought shit she has guts...had so much respect for her. For that time in the 60s ...If you haven't heard it, must watch.. She went after everybody, Civil Rights. Sarah Vaughan was another Black singer I loved Check out Misty(live from Sweden) 1964. Thanks Mug

[@chimado2107]

@@elsievickie Carlos Santana at Woodstock is awesome but the lead guitar in the song I'm requesting is untouchable