> From: Gary Zack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That is just incredible! You must have been standing at the > stage door right where I was after the show! I remember the > fellow asking Joni for a kiss, and I was kicking myself for > not thinking of asking first........ > I have her autograph from the program in a frame. I wonder > if she signed it with YOUR pen??? :-)
Gary, this is too wild. There were only a very few of us, as I recall, right backstage, with Joni kind of perched on the edge of some sort of platform behind the curtain. The lucky one of us asked for a kiss, and I asked something about her recording with other musicians (she said she had some people in mind). When someone asked for an autograph she said she didn't have a pen and I handed her mine. Without a doubt she used my pen to sign your autograph. (The autograph that I got was thrown out by accident by my mother years later.) When I left the theatre I realized that she had kept my pen, so I went around back to the stage door in hopes of seeing her again and getting my (by now) very special pen back. She came out about ten minutes later with three men, one of whom was Elliot Roberts. I got up the nerve to ask for my pen and I can recall the exact expression on her face and tone of her voice as she apologized for losing it, saying she was always losing other peoples' pens. She pulled a daisy from the bouquet someone had given her and said "Would you like a flower instead?" Umm, yeah. The daisy didn't make it back home. I took the overnight bus back to Toronto and spent a few hours waiting in Union Station for the train home. As ill-fate would have it there was a blood donor clinic there that morning so I gave blood and while I was in the recovery area, someone stole my jacket with the daisy in the pocket from the coat rack. > Do you remember her playing "Rainy Night House" and making a > mistake? She stopped and said something like, "Oh I'm so > sorry, I guess I'll just have to start all over again" or > something like that? She was just beautiful. She wore a floor length velvety dress, maybe burgundy, that moved so enthrallingly when she swayed side to side, especially during Night In The City. The entire audience was in the palm of her hand. I have no physical mementos left but the magic is indelibly etched in my mind. I'm so glad you were there to share it. Rick
