PDA

View Full Version : Joni Mitchell at 70



Sooz
4th September 2014, 10:38
Hi All, enough of doom and gloom for a moment and all the horrible things that go on here on this planet.

Here is an icon I have long admired and even though I don't know her, she has been a big part of my early adult life. Her songs used to haunt me in a nice way. Nowadays her songs take me back to nostalgia. I love all her later contemporary jazz music too, not just in the 70's when I was teenager and in my early 20's travelling the world.

I can't believe my 'invisible friend' is now 70. Still looks absolutely fabulous with those impossibly high cheekbones, full lips, great teeth and the ever-present cigarette...(lyrics, 'with her lips wrapped around a cigarette, Yvette...)

Here is a lovely interview I watched today. Such an amazing, talented woman. I hope you enjoy it.

For those not acquainted with Joni Mitchell, she considers herself a painter first and a musician second. 'She lives in a box of paints' - another song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc

Sooz
4th September 2014, 10:41
Another interview you might like:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/nov/07/joni-mitchell-70-birthday-blue

Sooz
4th September 2014, 10:44
'Yvette in English' by Joni Mitchell

By no means my favourite Joni song, in fact I don't think I could ever choose one, but this one is a stand-out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqsltKSWNRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqsltKSWNRA

Sooz
4th September 2014, 11:35
Another fave of mine. Another two I will post and then I will stop, OK? lol...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KX4tQ6uBV0

Sooz
4th September 2014, 11:40
I used to sing this song to my son, to sleep when he was little. (Just one more and then I go, I promise, lol....!):yawn:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCVJ1Adewg

Sooz
4th September 2014, 11:46
Thanks for indulging me. Joni is pretty special to me as you can tell. Last one!

Sex Kills:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CESBHEDlPzA

shamanseeker
5th September 2014, 13:34
What I like about Joni Mitchell is that she is ageless in a spiritual sense (she also looks pretty good for 70). She has moved on and doesn't look back too much. We all need to do this I believe. I'm certainly in a period where I feel I have to move on, live life to the full and make the most of the present. She's an inspiration.

Sooz
5th September 2014, 14:43
What I like about Joni Mitchell is that she is ageless in a spiritual sense (she also looks pretty good for 70). She has moved on and doesn't look back too much. We all need to do this I believe. I'm certainly in a period where I feel I have to move on, live life to the full and make the most of the present. She's an inspiration.

Snap! I had a shake-up today about moving on as well. It was quite unexpected and hit me right between the eyes...like a hammer, a completely reversed explanation of where my head was at.

We all move on and grow. I had got stuck with not acknowledging that.

Made me think.;)

Sooz
6th September 2014, 06:29
This is a priceless catch to add to the thread. Thinking I would never find any pictures of the inside of a recluse's home, I was astounded to find this. Behind the scenes of the above interview. She's lived here since 1974 and it is 'pure' Joni.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/among-the-canvases-behind-the-scenes-at-joni-mitchell-s-home-1.1358489

and anothery

http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=635

john parslow
6th September 2014, 08:16
Sooz, she is a beautiful icon from my formative musical years. I loved watching these videos, thank you for a brilliant walk down memory lane ... xx

Sooz
6th September 2014, 08:33
Sooz, she is a beautiful icon from my formative musical years. I loved watching these videos, thank you for a brilliant walk down memory lane ... xx

Thank you so much John! Glad you are enjoying the thread.

I just found another video clip that I've never seen before. Wow! It is one of my most personal favourite songs, to listen to late at night, in bed as I fall asleep. It relates to a lost Love. And the clip is EXACTLY as I have imagined all these years.

I don't find it depressing at all. It gives me comfort that I had that Love in the first place. It has quite a lovely nostalgic feel about it.

'Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all', and all that jazz. Lol...it makes me smile;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjDi_plwi5A&list=AL94UKMTqg-9C0AEsw9AaFkKcM0VAuebDx&index=15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjDi_plwi5A&list=AL94UKMTqg-9C0AEsw9AaFkKcM0VAuebDx&index=15

john parslow
6th September 2014, 09:17
Hi Sooz, I must confess that I had not heard the track 'Two Grey Rooms' until just now ... must be a much more recent song because her voice has lowered in pitch from those early heady days when her voice was just sublime, reminds me to look through my old vinyl albums to see what I have ... xx

Sooz
6th September 2014, 09:45
Hi Sooz, I must confess that I had not heard the track 'Two Grey Rooms' until just now ... must be a much more recent song because her voice has lowered in pitch from those early heady days when her voice was just sublime, reminds me to look through my old vinyl albums to see what I have ... xx

Lol...oh nose, not the going through the old album stack! My first album was Court and Spark. Chelsea Morning reminds me of when I lived in Chelsea, London. Turbulent Indigo another good one from the 90's.

john parslow
6th September 2014, 15:23
Lol...oh nose, not the going through the old album stack! My first album was Court and Spark. Chelsea Morning reminds me of when I lived in Chelsea, London. Turbulent Indigo another good one from the 90's.

Hi Sooz, I am almost ashamed to admit that I have now found a large box of cassette tapes in my garage and quite a collection of 70's American rock bands - hooray! I also found my father's old cassette player, which is now 'plumbed into' my music system, so I have been having another wander down memory lane ... I know I'm a bit sad but found some great music ... x

Sooz
7th September 2014, 11:46
Hi Sooz, I am almost ashamed to admit that I have now found a large box of cassette tapes in my garage and quite a collection of 70's American rock bands - hooray! I also found my father's old cassette player, which is now 'plumbed into' my music system, so I have been having another wander down memory lane ... I know I'm a bit sad but found some great music ... x


Why feel ashamed? What a find! A Box of old cassettes. I must admit mine are all gone, but I refuse to ditch the records. Ones like INXS, Beatles, Barry White, David Bowie etc...

It is wonderful to find bits and bobs from one's past. I recently found a box of old pix in the back of my cupboard. Of my parents, grandparents etc. Such modest, classic, innocent pictures with no nose-rings, or sticking out of tongues, ala Miley Cyrus lol...

All dressed up in their finest clothes looking very civilised and in Love. They are treasures. I've been very busy digitising......busy, busy, busy....

shamanseeker
8th September 2014, 09:51
How Sooz!

I don't think we lose our great loves. We may have to wait a while but life is eternal and we will come across them again - I'm sure x

markoid
10th September 2014, 09:23
I got to see her with about 100 other folks when she did a special for HBO in LA circa 1980. My favorite song of hers is 'For Free' and she sang it and actually messed up, twice, towards the end and had to redo it... so I got hear my favorite song 3 times!!! What a buzz that was.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSgoNNQ0m8

Sooz
10th September 2014, 09:29
Hi Markoid,

I saw her live in concert around the same time in Sydney, or maybe mid 80's - can't remember.

It was when the album 'Wild Things Run Fast', came out.

Edit: Never heard that song before! Thanks.:tiphat:

Sooz
1st April 2015, 06:18
My favourite musician/artist/songwriter of all time.

This doesn't look good.

http://jonimitchell.com/

sandy
1st April 2015, 06:41
Sending thoughts of wellness to and for Joni...............girl after my own heart and generation. :sun:

Sooz
1st April 2015, 06:49
She was found unconscious but regained consciousness in the ambulance and is in good spirits apparently and with friends around her.

If you find it fitting, light a candle, sing a song and send prayers to this fabulous songbird.

This woman has been so much a part of my life.:love:

Swami
1st April 2015, 07:01
I was reading about her a couple of days ago...

http://photos.vanityfair.com/2015/02/06/54d549bf8a2fdf64645fcf5f_laurel-canyon.jpg


“WHAT JONI MITCHELL DID WAS FAR AND ABOVE WHAT MOST OF THE GUYS COULD DO AS A SONGWRITER OR GUITAR PLAYER,” SAYS CHRIS HILLMAN.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/02/laurel-canyon-music-scene

Sooz
1st April 2015, 07:12
I kind of feel bad that I wrote in my music thread, that 'Joni Mitchell just doesn't cut it anymore', a few days ago.

Gulp....what I meant to say was, 'sometimes a Joni Mitchell song doesn't cut it when it comes to Love, when something more visceral is on offer.

I was referring to Oz band The Cruel Sea/Tex Perkins, which appears to have poofed itself in the recent meltdown.

'The Honeymoon is over'. This is the more visceral one I was referring to http://www.take40.com/artists/85/the-cruel-sea?movideo_m=3430

gardener
1st April 2015, 12:53
Dear Sooz, thank you for alerting us to this sad news I have just lit a candle and put on the album BLUE love this woman, I am sure she will be ok my thoughts of healing have been sent, fond regards gardener

Sooz
1st April 2015, 13:06
Thank you gardener for your always kind thoughts. I am going to light a candle soon too as I go to bed.

I will be sending healing thoughts so she can come through this. This woman is almost like my sister, she has been with me since my 20's, through love affairs, marriage and all sorts of ups and downs.

I think Joni will pull through this. I don't think this is her time to go. Not just yet.:love:

Sooz
xxx

norman
1st April 2015, 13:09
I heard on the radio today that she told an interviewer a few months ago that she's got Morgellons Disease.

Calz
2nd April 2015, 02:41
I heard on the radio today that she told an interviewer a few months ago that she's got Morgellons Disease.

For quite some time it would appear ... very hard way to live from what I understand ...



Morgellon's Disease Sufferers Include Folk Legend Joni Mitchell

by Grant Lawrence
AlterNet
May 2, 2010


"Fibres in a variety of colours protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer, a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year."
Folk Legend Joni Mitchell

Singer Joni Mitchell says she suffers from Morgellon's Disease.

Many doctors claim the disease is fictional or blame it on other causes. The Centers for Disease Control is investigating Morgellon's Disease. According to the CDC, "Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision." (source: Morgellon's Research Foundation)

Evidently the CDC is taking Morgellon's Disease seriously even if many medical professionals aren't. The CDC is currently conducting an epidemiological investigation on Morgellon's. The fibers that protrude from the sufferer's skin have been analyzed and strangely they have not been associated with anything man made or plant made. It does not match any fiber database, according to Lab director Mark Boese of the Tulsa Police Crime Lab.

So what is causing the strange feelings, manifestations, and fibers associated with Morgellon's disease?

Clearly there has to be something more than delusions and pain disorders for many of the sufferers. Theories of the cause range from environmental toxins to infectious bacteria. Some have even claimed that Morgellon's is a release of an intentional or unintentional government bio weapon and some others have claimed it is even the result of chem trails that seem to permeate the sky these days.

The best guess is that Morgellon's is associated with a bacteria.


http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2244

ERK
2nd April 2015, 02:55
x

Sooz
2nd April 2015, 09:47
Looks like Joni is doing OK:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-joni-mitchell-20150401-story.html

This is an excellent article (link is in the link above). 'My Dinner with Joni':

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-daum9dec09-column.html

Swami
2nd April 2015, 17:17
Operation Rolling Stone


This would also explain Joni Mitchell's very strange comments in 2010, when she said of Dylan:

He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We
are like night and day, he and I.

Wow, she couldn't be much clearer than that, could she? And she should know, since she dated Cohen
for a year back in the day. Recently she was given a chance to backpedal from her statements, but
refused. She attacked the previous interviewer as a “moron” and an “asshole”, but didn't take back the
claims of plagiarism, faking, and deception. She actually added a bit of fuel to the mysterious fire, by
saying

I like a lot of Bob’s songs, though musically he’s not very gifted.

Hmmm, that plays right into what I have discovered here, since why would she like the songs of
someone not musically gifted, unless he was actually singing someone else's compositions?

http://www.docdroid.net/wbge/dylan.pdf.html
http://henrymakow.com/2015/04/Bob-Dylan-Change-Agent%20.html

Ledstar
2nd April 2015, 19:23
Joni was a part of my life to for many years, been listening to her since - Clouds-.I always wanted to try and catch her at her favorite restaurant in Encino when I lived in Hell A, as many told me she was there frequently. I ran into someone who saw her buyin cigs one day at a liquor store. And another said they saw her on Beverly Blvd collecting flowers from a tree. Her songs were always my life at some times. She has a new CD Love has many faces. :love: So glad she's doing better..:)

http://blogs.kcrw.com/musicnews/2015/02/joni-mitchell-on-kcrw-love-has-many-faces/

Hermit
2nd April 2015, 21:56
Sooz: I'm from Regina. Joni is almost our home town girl.

sending thoughts and prayers

777
3rd April 2015, 13:11
Threads merged as requested.

I dearly hope she's ok and echo milneman