Joni Mitchell - Harry's House

Recorded live at Warner Bros. lot 1998
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[@croon4u]

isn't it lovely to have an artist to grow old with...

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

... as far as I'm concerned the first stanza alone of this song makes Joni Mitchell a genius.

[@alexsalinas32381]

The image is not from this world! But she delivered it here!

[@jeffblack5024]

Talents like this were killed by the internet age. We won't see her like again.

[@Digginbehindthedikes]

Brian Blade matches perfectly. What an amazing musical drummer.

[@NYNick49]

Reminds me of Jack deJohnette

[@jeamphe]

It's gonna take some time before another artist comes on top of her. Can't believe the sound of the guitar, the playing, the tuning, the melody. She's unbeatable so far.

[@briankubarycz296]

Does anyone know what this tuning is?

[@mrkennethj7232]

@@briankubarycz296 Tuning: C G D F Bb D

[@kevinjager8007]

and don't forget how she flows in and out of meters.

[@MidnightJazzer]

No one ever will, not like her no way,, Ga Ga, winehouse and the lot are no contest for her creativity, good point tho!

[@gigidayz6936]

There will never be another. Joni is singular.

[@roywetherop4685]

Great Lyrics can't be beaten by anybody I have heard in the past she is simply the best artist to ever record

[@yaelz]

Joni is this miracle that happens only once in a generation. God bless her.

[@JOHNJOHNSON-pr1ft]

I agree that she is an amazing miracle, and even now I keep on finding gems among her work. But she is not the only miracle of her generation. She blossomed among a set of unbelievable miracles, some of whom were close friends or even short term lovers of hers. Neil Young (friend) Stephen Stills (friend) David Crosby (lover) Graham Nash (lover) Peter Gabriel (friend) and many, many other mind blowing geniuses were in her close circle.

[@nicbeets]

She is from an another planet!

[@johngraydon506]

More like nce in a lifetine friend. She turn me on spiritually every time just takes me away ! Wish i could meet a preacher that gave me that much, hearing Martin Luther is the closest ! Maybe americas darkest day !

[@hivicar]

@@JOHNJOHNSON-pr1ft James Taylor, Leonard Cohen...

[@richardhornbostel3958]

@@JOHNJOHNSON-pr1ft I don’t believe David Crosby was a lover. He wanted to be, but I don’t think she was interested in him

[@joelear2320]

Brilliance of a true artist in every sense.

[@hmlwgew1]

there was a oint in time, when, being african american and having experienced rock and roll and R&B, I came upon Joni Mitchell. It was like an awakening. the Hippie movement had felled me. I was a stranger in a strange land and she gave me comfort.

[@GabrielCsaba]

There are the great ones, then there are the ones they consider great, and then there's Joni.

[@mickspencer2030]

The Lady was on fire this night and sexy beyond words ❤

[@markthompson4953]

I was interested to see how Joni was going to pull off a live performance of this track. She absolutely nailed it ! Love you J.M.

[@JanD84]

I have always loved Joni been listening to her since I was 15 now 58:)

[@generalpurpose9796]

You'd be about 66 today. A half century of Joni.

[@karenlipshin1585]

66 for me!

[@captainnemo9736]

This is a real definition of true fan

[@jasonmarcel4823]

The drummer is Brian Blade, for those who asked earlier. He plays for a lot of acts and does his own work as well. His latest album is oh so good. Look for it.

[@ampersanderthal]

Do you know who's on the bass?

[@jasonmarcel4823]

@@ampersanderthal Larry Klein (who was also her husband from the early 80's to early 90's). He was her exclusive bassist from "Wild Things Run Fast" (1982) onward. You can find him making guest appearances with a multitude of artists over the years ("Across the Lines" from Tracy Chapman is one of my favorites).

[@davidjernigan6846]

There are some duo recordings of Joni and Brian Blade, and a joint interview. Brian’s biggest gig has probably been playing with Wayne Shorter’s recent band (Grammies and stuff).

[@roywetherop4685]

One of my Favourite Joni songs there are so many Hissing of Summer Lawns brilliant work she is so creative not afraid to do something different

[@emmastacedarling]

how much do i wish i had been there

[@cassiodorus1]

Nobody is like Joni -- all her stuff is incredible.

[@michaeldean9338]

Simply one of the greatest PURE talents of the Twentieth and 21st Centuries. MORE with Jazz musicians, Joni. It's when you're your finest! (screw your 'critics'. The Mingus went COMPLETELY over their heads.) Smart decision using the great Brian Blades.

[@nick.caffrey]

She is a MASTER of her craft. No discussion.

[@celtic12stringman]

Stunning,what a wonderful songwriter/musician/performer Joni is, I love everything she has done, there is nobody quite like her,plus, she always gets the best musicians to back her.

[@kenmarshall8371]

Love that guitar tone for starters

[@kenmarshall7680]

Band is also killing wow her guitar's tone is otherworldly

[@emmastacedarling]

just stunning. as is everything she does. i adore her.

[@missytootsweet]

Some of my favorite Joni lyrics in this song. "She is lost in House and Gardens He's caught up in Chief of Staff He drifts off into the memory Of the way she looked in school With her body oiled and shining At the public swimming pool ... ... Shining hair and shining skin Shining as she reeled him in To tell him like she did today Just what he could do with Harry's House And Harry's take home pay."

[@abk245]

This version is absolutely incredible. I can't stop listening to it.

[@FernandaGomezVasquez]

The jam at the end of this song is amazing, I could listen to Brian and Joni all day. She was really digging it you can tell.

[@MarkSeibold]

There just aren't any new young female acts anymore today singing great improvised jazz while they are simultaneously seen playing great guitar riffs without a plectrum, but with the entire use of the strumming hand in the classical style, with her guitar detuned, to a hundred different open tuning styles that she invented. She could also sit at a piano and play as well. No less singing her own original great hundreds of selfwritten poetry, still a beautiful multi-talented towering goddess on stage in her mid fifties. Unlike so many acts we see today, that appear to be manufactured on a Grammy Awards stage with the help of so many others, Joni Michell was entirely self made. She said in a lifetime achievement award, presented to her near her hometown in Canada, when she was in her mid forties, you don't have to sit there and watch TV all day, you can turn it off, get up off your ass and go do something!

[@GrandCynth]

LOVE these videos of her singing live! I only saw her once, in 1974. At the time I had just been introduced to her music....what I wouldn't give for the chance for that to be a do over!! Five rows from the stage, on the floor, front and center!!

[@tallerdebelgrano1123]

This Joni's moment it´s so cool...

[@berkslaw]

GOLD, JONI! GOLD!

[@seabobinsd]

I cannot stop listening to this brilliant Joni tune. Brian Blades drumming is fast and furious amazing. Bob

[@dboy6896]

One of a kind all time great!! She stands alone in her natural talents but surrounded by millions of adoring fans. Thank you forever Joni. Love to you!!

[@michaeldean9338]

GREAT musical communication! Brian Blades is a complete bad-azz! Hoping Ms.Mitchell is on the road to a healthy recovery (leave the tobacco alone, Joni!!!!) . I know that she is Canadian, but she's an American treasure in my eyes. Love you Joni!!

[@dameargumentos]

love the drummer..and of course joni.. which I recently discover.. I love the lyrics...love from mexico. I can stop listening this song, I playe all ready like 10 times.

[@ronaldevers2862]

I never get tired of listing to Joni Mitchell...

[@daviddiangellidaviddiangel1304]

Joni is so inventive and inspiring! She is a pure gem shining constantly throughout generations. I Adore her more than any other Artist. Love.

[@cafinario]

She is so so talented.

[@Pete02168]

I could listen just to Larry Klein and Brian Blade jam all day long. Add Joni and it's magic.

[@iparastim9882]

Joni was my girlfriend from 12th grade through college. She taught me how to play guitar and sing. The one thing she could not teach me was how to write her poetry.

[@youkyouk7471]

Les paroles de Joni sont toujours subtiles et puissantes, cette chanson c'est de la dynamite !

[@John-km2uw]

Joni will be influencing music artists and memorizing music fans long beyond her mortal years. Simply amazing...j

[@tanyaschimon3045]

AMAZING!! Thank you so much!♥️

[@tome57a]

Wow... this song is a gem, and the performance smooth as a polished diamond... I'd never heard it before and I am a lifelong Joni fan! What a privilege to discover another brilliant musical poem by the greatest lyrical poet of our age...

[@twangbarfly]

+tome57a You NEED to buy this DVD - it's incredible from start to finish!

[@panorama4526]

I know this for so long. But it‘s so much better than I remember…

[@sidilicious11]

Exquisite music.

[@matstango]

Beautiful song. I just love it!

[@spitdust1]

Absolutely beautiful... a stunning version of a wonderful song

[@tslick75]

love the line about the helicopter being a dragonfly

[@carlosfarias9749]

She is the Ice Queen, came from the Arctic, with her crown full of songs, lyrics and incredable pictures, whom came out of her magic hands, bringing us, simple mortals, a glimpse of the Infinite, where she belongs. I love her, indeed.

[@s8nisbae]

I'm not here bc of harry's new album you are

[@MollyViola]

Hahaha

[@tanyaschimon3045]

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[@rileysummers484]

Brian Blade was for sure one of the best musicians she ever worked with on the drums, him and Manu Katche.

[@k.h.4698]

I love Joni’s little smile as she finished her song, as if to say “Was that okay?”

[@jrw344]

Her rapport with Brian is wonderful, when she "accidentally" forgets a line on "Song for Sharon". Brian laughs as she suddenly remembers the line, a little trick on her audience.

[@stephencarpenteri2223]

She's the angel of our generation.

[@nedmerrill6228]

We have Taylor Swift singing about lipstick.

[@jrmrinaz]

how incredible to have been in the audience,,,,

[@FlatlandMando]

Some people you would like to live forever & she is one of them. Her music certainly will. Each song paints amazing canvases. No surprise she is a visual artist too.

[@thepleyadian6559]

Impecable es decir poco, una bendición escucharla, y tampoco alcanza esta definición.

[@stephenhunter7260]

Its watching someone at the peak of their existence. Shes magnificent.

[@58flattop61]

Beyond sublime...! Jai Sri Krisna

[@PeterKurlMuzik]

Stunning, Magic & absolutely Superbbbb!! What a magical Performance by all... Love it!!!

[@stamsospecial]

cresta que maravilla esta mujer!!

[@MegaWildswan]

@missytootsweet it is amazing so few can write things like this. and the music is spellbinding

[@TheHoney43]

I just love Joni. So relaxing a nice break in the day.

[@keldholse618]

Thank you for this quality piece from my goddess : )

[@ivannio8519]

Queen Joni ;)

[@oldnatty61]

I'm in love w/ Joni.

[@artistdancing]

NiCe! I love Joni...forver now..

[@kenmarshall8371]

I have to laugh at how great they are playing WOW!

[@christopherbowman7799]

Another record my older brother had

[@victoriaviola143]

Ohhhhhh!!! joya!!!

[@zonalGman92]

@STFUGTFO1 From wiki- In 1995, Joni's friend Fred Walecki developed a solution to alleviate her continuing frustration with using multiple alternate tunings live. Walecki designed a guitar to function with the Roland VG-8, a system capable of configuring her numerous tunings electronically. The VG-8 encoded the pickup signals into digital signals which were then translated into the altered tunings. This allowed Mitchell to use one guitar on stage. She's used 50 different tunings apparently!!

[@NYNick49]

@zonalGman Thank you for pointing this out! It explains why the chord shapes are standard, but what comes out of the amp sounds like an alternate tuning. I have never heard of this processor. I will research. Great post!!

[@countrypaul]

Pretty damn amazing!

[@LeaSenMusic]

Brian Blade is a legend

[@hivicar]

That Rhythm Section really comes off well, refreshing layers around Joni. Hissing version starting to wear me out, a bad reminder of relationships like that.

[@colingordon8265]

I wish she would sing up!

[@davids7006]

Ear nectar

[@Jcp108]

awesome

[@mstrultan]

@VIDEOenzo Yeah, as much as a like this version, I miss the original studio album's segue into Centerpiece, and then back into Harry's House. It's pretty hard to find any Joni I don't love. :)

[@ramnay77]

Muito bom!

[@firstlast5350]

For me one of Joni's very best songs. No mysterious little adlibs at the end though . . . get down off of there . . .

[@honeybozo]

Stunning performance, even when she's offbeat in the first verses she rocks. Brian matches her peerlessly.

[@charlieleonardo]

She’s a honey!

[@chefsu11715]

online, many chain music stores.

[@earlgarcia6106]

That weird moment when someone says ‘well they’re better than Joni..” and you walk away...doesn’t even need to be justified with a response

[@lindaduffy6858]

when did Joni and all of us..... get older, old?

[@michaeldean9338]

When you can pull Blades for your drummer, you're nothin' but bad azz! Love you, Joni. Leave the tobacco alone!!

[@jpgr6270]

The drummer is Brian Blade

[@looppool]

This may be my favorite Joni Mitchell song. I'm so glad that they did not include the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross jazz tune, "Centerpiece" in this live version as they did on 'The Hissing of Summers Lawns". Because of the amazing synchronicity of the lyrics, I know why Joni bookended that piece on the album, but I always thought that "Harry's House" was a vastly better song. and btw, who is this wonderful drummer on this session? I"m guessing that this is Joni's husband at the time, Larry Klein on bass but I don't know.

[@themistermax]

All these years later (I remember when they released Hissing, and Court and Spark, etc., and saw her on the Court and Spark tour)... I still know every word of almost every song she recorded. Does anyone know the lineup for this recording?

[@pgonzo98]

brian blade drums,larry klein bass guitar,greg leisz pedal steel

[@BJ-xh8tg]

1:57

[@luckybellmuzick]

shhh the queen of cool is singing

[@bach984]

Does anybody know how her guitar is tuned? It doesn't seem to be standard tuning 🤔

[@Jim1971a]

No centerpiece?

[@pgonzo98]

joni w/blade....

[@AndreasHelberg]

:-)

[@ErwinHeiser]

Awesome, anyone know where this dvd can be bought?

[@pierremaes5453]

Painting with Words and Pictures ... !

[@Zepster77]

Is her complete performance this night available anywhere ??

[@BleedBNG]

I have the link to Amazon for the DVD www.amazon.com/Joni-Mitchell-Painting-Words-Music/dp/B0002CTT44

[@clearfield2009]

which harry is this i wonder

[@JackMsounds123]

whos the drummer ?

[@wanettarenay8215]

JONI DOING A COKE FOLK NUMBER