I guess my name showed up on this because I had replied to
Ian's post. But I was not there.
RR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On August 29 in Joni Mitchell History:
>
> 1970: Joni plays on the fourth day of the "Isle Of Wight Festival" at the East Afton
>Farm, Godshill, Isle of Wight. From Wally's Bio Page: "When Joni came out on stage,
>the size of the audience amazed her. She told them 'It looks like they're making
>"Ben-Hur" or something!" All through her hour-long set, she had to deal with the
>noise of the rowdy and agitated crowds, and the frequent and distracting sound of
>small airplanes taking off. About two-thirds of the way through her song "Chelsea
>Morning" she stopped and told the audience "I don't feel like singing that song very
>much. Let me play you one on the piano.'"
>
> Randy Remote: I was there and remember her performance was marred by a noisy
>helicopter flying overhead, which Joni could neither see nor hear. This resulted in
>100,000+ people booing, jeering and shouting "go away" at the helicopter. Sadly, Joni
>thought the boos were aimed at her and started to cry.
>
> Ian Scott: That helicopter incident is particularly significant when you consider
>that the festival was the biggest live entertainment event in the history of the
>world: roadies who worked at both were unanimous that it was bigger than Woodstock.
>Now, the impression that I get from all publications is that there was some hostility
>between the crowd and Joni that day. This is ABSOLUTELY not true. I was sitting
>inside the arena and in a good position to feel the general mood of the crowd, and I
>can assure you that the only hostility was directed toward the helicopter pilot
>flying overhead and NOT at Joni. 95% of the crowd did not even notice the Yogi Bear
>incident(he had no mike and was not centre stage) and more than 99% had no sympathy
>for him. By the time Joni struck into "Big Yellow Taxi" the helicopter had gone and
>everybody was listening to Joni.
>
> 1986: From Wally's Bio Page: "A Showtime series "Coast to Coast" hosted by Herbie
>Hancock premiered [today]. Joni was a guest on that first show for a jam session with
>Herbie, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, David Sanborn, and Larry. The two songs they
>jammed on were Joni's compositions "Furry Sing the Blues," and a pepped-up
>latin-flavored version of "Hejira."
> More info: http://www.jonimitchell.com/Experimental.html
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