on Bob Dylan's birthday, "flopit" wrote:
>
>transcript of an mp3 i just downloaded under the impression that it was an
>ani & joni duet...
...snip...
>um,speciually not in my line of work, but um hhhuu,,its funny because bob
>was never really, he was never really a deity for me, any where near the
>way, the scope, which joni,mitchell was ( audience cheer!!), and i, and i,
>you know, i think that respecting his work, and respecting,him, is a, is a
>good idea,and uh, i think hes done quite a few cool things, but, um its
>funny to me how it seems like, where i come from, in the states, the canon
>of bob, seems to be going deeper and richer and, more engrained in my
>culture, every day, and joni, seems to be sort of systematically ,,,,
>forgotten, and periodically condescended to by the media, in the states,
> .........etc, etc
>
maybe Ani DiFranco has said something similar at other times, but I'm
pretty sure that this is a recording of her performance at Port Fairy
Folk Festival in Australia in March 1998, broadcast nationwide on
radio by the ABC. It was Ani's first tour here and she really shook up
the folkie crowd, with many walking out disgusted (mostly at Ani's
language onstage). Each time she cursed, more people would leave the
tent, enabling delighted fans to get closer to the stage.
I thought it was most amusing that Ani was happy to endure the difficulties
of re-tuning her guitar, and could justify the agonies of doing so,
based on having seen Joni go through the same agony with her own tunings.
-Gerald
