> i know joni didn't like performing for huge crowds (she mentions this in the life and times bio)but enjoyed the small venues has anyone heard her say more about this, other than that she started doing it in coffee houses because she needed the money and not because of some inner urge or desire or need?>
JONI ON THE BIG STAGE: "I never liked the big stage. I liked the coffee houses. I never liked the idea of separating myself from people, or being elevated. Maybe it's Canadian! You know, stick your head above the crowd and we'll be glad to lop it off! But something in me made me not like the separation. As the stages got higher and higher, the fickleness of the crowds, suddenly this was being taken seriously and there were critics sitting out there. I disliked the formalization of it as it went to the big stage and this need for perfection. In the coffee houses it was so experimental, so casual, so friendly. I could jump off the stage and sit down with them, stay at people's houses, go out to dinner. There was no inequity. I remember the first night when I heard someone suck in their breath when I went by. And I ran! It filled me so full of adrenaline that I ran for about six blocks in the opposite direction: 'That's Joni Mitchell!!(gasp!)' Boom! I was outta there!" Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
