Joni Mitchell at 70

[shamanseeker]

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]

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.

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

[Sooz]

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.

[Sooz]

My favourite musician/artist/songwriter of all time.

This doesn't look good.

http://jonimitchell.com/

[sandy]

Sending thoughts of wellness to and for Joni...............girl after my own heart and generation. :sun:

[Sooz]

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.

[Swami]

I was reading about her a couple of days ago...

“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/20...on-music-scene

[Sooz]

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...movideo_m=3430

[gardener]

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]

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.

Sooz
xxx

[norman]

I heard on the radio today that she told an interviewer a few months ago that she's got Morgellons Disease.

[Calz]

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]

x

[Sooz]

Looks like Joni is doing OK:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...401-story.html

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

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-da...09-column.html

[Swami]

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-Dy...-Agent%20.html