Hello,
March 22 was a good day for Joni fans at Symphony Space and while you who
could get in or listened on weak signal WFUV or via internet etc.,a lot more
fans were marching to protest the Iraq invasion on Broadway to Washington
Square Park.The protest was televised by WorldLinkTv on Ch.375 of Directv
Satelite and on other systems.Check out FreeSpeech.org and DemocracyNow.org
for details and independent views. But,those of you older fans who go back to
Joni's early work including Songs to Ageing Children (Alice's Restaurant
film),Fiddle and the Drum etc. should take some comfort that the music we
grew up with still has social relevance. Our children and grandchildren are
not creating as powerful songs as we did. Why do you think that is? Are we
losing our best qualities to harmonize as each generation did from Yankee
Doodle to Irving Berlin's Oh,How I hate to get up in the Morning to Eric
Burden's War,What is it good for,absolutely nothing,and Bob Dylan's Blowing
in the Wind? I don't want to bum you all out but as much fun it is to navel
gaze about Joni songs,Joni romances and the Joni special on PBS April 2,the
confluence of War and Music of either Patriotism or Protest is missing
now.Sting seems to be one of the few artists who have blended world music
themes and social concern.(Paul Simon,too) later,mark
