Joni Mitchell - Blue on Blue & Interview

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@mya5980 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great find for me, I'm glad I came across this. Joni Mitchell has always had a clear articulate way of expressing herself, whether it be during a interview or through a expressive creative story, song, or her amazing art of painting and sketches.

@EliteRock 8 жыл бұрын

Self-possessed, articulate, unpretentious, matter-of-fact - so unlike nearly all of her peers back then. She really was ahead of her time.

@nspector 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe outside of time?

@davidmayhew4818 8 жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine the world without her. She was just everything to so many of us.

@jordanbutt1060 8 жыл бұрын

she's still alive ! you gave me a scare there

@jh3756 8 жыл бұрын

😂WTF!!! I thought NO NO NO JONI'S NOT LEFT US TOO!!! Then I see this was written before today, sometime ago. Joni is still alive why the fuck would you say shit like that, I nearly had a breakdown!😠

@remedyrea1617 5 жыл бұрын

He asks she if she's always been happy and who she sings her songs too, and I wonder so deeply if her mind flashed to nearly dying of polio and being told she'd never walk as a child, or to her then 2-year-old daughter she had given away. Maybe I'm projecting, but it seems to me that her face shows brief glimpses into what she's truly experiencing when these questions are asked. She seems deeply sad when the topic of happiness is brought up, and wary when asked if she's always been happy. This young woman had already suffered deep pain, and I imagine being criticized as "too happy" was very painful considering what she was coping with behind closed doors. I am incredibly grateful to have seen this early interview, thank you for posting.

@nspector 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I wondered similar.

@TylerMusicBoi 7 жыл бұрын

I love how she tells stories about the song as she tunes her guitar. It gives you a more personal feel. One of many reasons why I love her!

@MrDiddyDee 3 жыл бұрын

It was a hangover from her folk days to engage and explain your songs, but more practically it was to fill in while she found the next open tuning on her guitar. This was not merely fine tuning a few strings that may have slipped a bit, but tuning individual strings up and down selected semi-tones. An audience wouldn't want to sit in silence while she got the following tuning set up, so a little story filled that hurdle. Increasingly through her career she created most of her guitar based songs around a wide variety of open tunings. After the earliest albums standard tuning was side lined in favour of over 50 different alternative guitar tunings. Later on, with the success and fame, she could afford to have multiple guitars already pre-tuned and ready to go, and to hire a guitar technician to maintain the guitars whilst on tour and that whole side of performance logistics.

@StevenParrisWard 7 жыл бұрын

She's always going to be a part of so many people's personal lives. One of those you revisit years later and remember those you once loved.

@jessicamoore1314 6 жыл бұрын

It’s remarkable & beautiful to see the change in Joni over the years. Here, bright, joyful and full of hopeful innocence and yet able to write poetry of a woman who has lived seasoned years. Now she is the seasoned woman and is the embodiment of the words she wrote so long ago, slightly darker and less enchanted by the world as only experience can change...

@leapsplashafrog 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing artist and really smart harmonic cookie. Best wishes Joni

@infamous8181 9 жыл бұрын

I love her

@jmiller05 8 жыл бұрын

So gorgeously radiant here. Talent makes the skin glow in excess.

@nacarreira777 5 жыл бұрын

One of a kind! Love her so much.

@BPMMusic105 10 жыл бұрын

"Chuck and I were the golden couple of Detroit...I was living a lie and I don't like to live a lie." Now I can see why she said that. The fact that her songs are criticized for being too happy is hysterical considering this is the woman who would later release records like "Blue", "For the Roses", and "Turbulent Indigo" among others. Also she doesn't protest and always has happy endings with her songs?? I can see why she's so critical of this time in her life, I would be too knowing what life had in store for me later. Regardless, it does take a sort of inner strength to go out there and put on that front knowing the kinds of things she was going through in her life. I'll always have a special place in my heart for her music (as corny as that may sound).

@leapsplashafrog 7 жыл бұрын

BPMMusic105 What was going on in her life?

@petergoettler1385 5 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece! Thxs.

@PninianPnin 10 жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview.

@lisamoroney3036 3 жыл бұрын

Wow / from 1967 !!!!

@shelstewart6214 10 жыл бұрын

lovely, days of our youth....magic!!

@nunya1738 10 жыл бұрын

Joni makes me happy. Every time. Even when she makes me melancholy. Love this woman.

@shelstewart6214 10 жыл бұрын

She is a queen amongst writers and singers.. rare talent amongst many I love her!! She's very bitter now too bad ..she has made a great impact with many of us though!!

@nunya1738 10 жыл бұрын

Shel Stewart I think the bitter thing is a bit overplayed, at least as to her feelings about her music, etc. She is just so honest, whether writing or doing an interview. Famous folks get asked the same things ad infinitum, and apart from having had enough of the industry finally (that didn't properly value her, exiled her from radio after doing Mingus a solid), she has spoke her mind, on Dylan, and the like. The old boys club treated her like a chick in the day, so, yeah, if you KNOW you are that damn good, some bitters. I just don't think she walks around pissed about things, but simply has no qualms about speaking her mind, and sees no value in false modesty, pretending she wasn't that damn good, etc. Not arguing with you, my friend, just adding a different perspective, my take. She is pretty embittered with her race, the ones who have flucked up our environs, "How long, how long...short sighted business men...nothing lasts for long", as the lyric in Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody goes. Pretty mad about all the love for toys and gadgets that blinds us (not myself) to the damage to the creatures, whales and the like beaching themselves, getting the bends, all the under the ocean bullshit we do and send. Like Bill Marrs (the HBO show host, comedian, if I got that right) once said, "Mostly I am pissed that nobody is pissed". PEACE

@shelstewart6214 10 жыл бұрын

Yes its mostly about the dissapoinments in powerful government and powerful corps who control the world...they turn their heads and not to the benefit of mankind as a whole. Mother Earth. Gaia is very angry with mankind in general..for destroying the natural beauty of earth..only time will tell the tale and spin the flow of Karma!!

@nunya1738 10 жыл бұрын

Shel Stewart Waiting on the pendulum, myself. Whatever this is here (life), even if it is indeed a holographic universe, all the circumstantial evidence that does nothing to dispel the notion/theory...I try to remember its all small stuff, the worries. Appreciate the beauty where I find it...and that all things are temporary. This woman's stuff, man...I have (despite my 49 years) really only gone DEEP into all things JM the last cpl months, hard...but she has struck the primal chord of my own soul, such as that is. As far as genius artists, top of their game, unafraid to speak truths, and to power--she just joined my short list, along with Muhammad Ali and George Carlin. Very wonderful to have been confirmed, in spades, my suspicion all along (without a deep look, apart from childhood radio memories and her HITS CD, not even an album--sheesh!)--that she was one of the very, very best. PEACE, friend.