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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Interview: Joni Mitchell
http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-interview-joni-mitchell/In a rare and wide-ranging interview spanning 90 minutes, singer-songwriter-artist Joni Mitchell spoke from her home in Los Angeles. Her latest project, a box set called Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced, combines her experience as a Grammy-winning musician, a painter and a dance enthusiast by collecting 53 songs into four discs from 40 years of recording.
Q: You just celebrated your 71st birthday in L.A. at the Hammer Museum. Were you happy with the way the tribute went?
A: It was wonderful but now Ive got laryngitis because I partied too hardfor three days straight.
Q: You once said it was painful to go back and relive your work. This project had you reviewing 40 years of work. Was it distressing?
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PM Martin
(2,660 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)"Your music doesn't make me feel happy or young." The shit she put up with...
I saw that interview with Jian and she hated him instantly. He kept interrupting her. It looked he wanted to get to the next question on his list and wasn't listening.
Joni's one of the last adults standing. Thanks for posting.
niyad
(113,552 posts)YAYYY.
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)She got me through my college years in the 1970s! Great to see her still looking luminescent!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Seems appropriate that this and the Joan Baez article should get posted the same day. Remarkable women and remarkable artists, both.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)for posting this.!
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)song-writing could aspire to. "Free Man in Paris" is probably my favorite song of hers, followed by "Big Yellow Taxi." Thanks for posting this. Brightened my day a little.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)interview. Much about her musical production issues. She looked great in a voluminous bronze colored outfit. What a unique woman and incredible talent. Read that she's dealing with a controversial health disorder called Mongellons Syndrome. Bizarre.
robbob
(3,538 posts)The whole thing is up on YouTube. Pat Methany on guitar, the legendary Jaco Pastorius on bass, late great Michael Brecker on sax. Unbelievable. Joni playing with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, who you can tell are happy and honoured to be sharing the stage with her.
I think it's my all time favorite live concert recording. I've watched it at least a dozen times.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Being a bass guitarist my first focus was on Jaco, who somehow manages to completely tear it up while remaining in a supporting role (he was the musical director of that band), but it wasn't long before I was completely bewitched by Joni's amazing voice and songs. That was one of the best bands ever to tread the stage.
Triana
(22,666 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)I'm a swooning!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)She has been and still is my heroine. She has seen me through the best and worst of times.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
LuvLoogie
(7,027 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,027 posts)robbob
(3,538 posts)Check the live Shadows and Light concert which I posted above. I love The Band but Jaco is in a league of his own and their version of Coyote blows my mind. The harmonics interplay between Jaco and Pat is a thing of beauty.
<on edit> I believe it's the first song they do after the short introduction, so you don't have to search for it...
<on edit again> opps, sorry, first tune is "In France they kiss on main street".
LuvLoogie
(7,027 posts)but Joni Mitchell's performance of Coyote with The Band was better. I love Jaco and Pat, but I found Jaco's, admittedly tasteful, noodling to be distracting from the vocal, lyrical point of the song. Robbie's phrasing didn't step on the vocal, which I find mesmerizing on the Last Waltz version.
Joni assembled a great band for her tour; she is a great musician herself. But she is foremost a songwriter whose guitar and piano work is expert and original, but subtle.
When you do a major tour of songs encompassing the span of your carreer, however, you need to keep the audience energized for an hour and a half +. And she treated the audience by featuring Jaco, Pat et al at several points during the show.
I just feel that the Last Waltz performance had better velocity and brightness. The vocal was allowed to soar, move and sustain without feeling rushed.
LuvLoogie
(7,027 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)I still remember the time Al Kapp got into an argument with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their "Bed-In."
deurbano
(2,895 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)I couldn't remember, nor do I remember why Kapp lampooned her.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Thanks for posting.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)I feel blessed that she influenced so much of what I grew up listening to.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)That's painful.
K and R anyway.