Well I tried to send this to the list but my beloved husband changed our email address in keeping with GTE's changing to Verizon and it never got there. Colin has already posted Carly's answer so some of you might want to skip it. I was the one who asked the question to begin with.
Mark E in Seattle Carly Simon's website has an 'ask Carly' section where you can send questions and if they are deemed worthy of her time & attention, Carly will answer them. Her answer is posted on the website. I have sent 2 or 3 questions that I thought were reflective of my sincere appreciation of Carly's music and never gotten a response. So partly out of frustration at seemingly being ignored I asked: 'So what really happened between you & Chrissie Hynde at the Fez several years ago when Joni Mitchell played there?' Lo and behold, this was in my email today: Carly has answered your question. Please check the website to read her response. NOTE: She didn't understand the reference to Chrissie and Joni at first, so I expanded your question to give her a better reference. Since many people reading the question would probably need an idea of what you were referring to, I posted the modified version. Hope you don't mind! Great question, btw. Thanks for writing, Jodie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is my 'expanded' question and Carly's response. Q One of the downsides of the Internet is that misinformation stays up there forever. Whenever I do a search on "Carly Simon", I inevitably get a link to a story about you and Chrissie Hynde getting into a fight at a concert. So I'm wondering what really happened between you & Chrissie Hynde at the Fez several years ago when Joni Mitchell played there? Markly - Shoreline, Washington A Well, Chrissie was a bit intoxicated and was yelling out during Joni's performance which needless to say, everybody wanted to hear. Chrissie was sitting right next to me and I asked her to be a little quieter. No one else would have dared say that to her, but me, stupid me, didn't know it was Chrissie. She started choking me in a loving way, saying: "you're great too Carly, get up there, you need to do this too". Very nice, the only problem being that it was right in the middle of Joni's song and people were looking at US. So I moved seats. That's all it was about. I must say that her choking me in 'fun intoxication' looked to a lot of the audience like a fight. It was not. I just couldn't believe that no one was interceding and saying anything to her. I love her music and respect her as an artist. It was just one of those things. Go figure. Love Carly Carly Simon - 4/10/02
