I have to say that, although I appreciate this great bluegrass video with Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs, I have to say that connecting it to Joni's interview is a silly promo stunt that I wouldn't expect from you. You're better than this.
Wow so insightful. In the 60's we wanted to change the world, in the 70's we wanted to change ourselves, in the 80's we gave up and said "let's just get rich" and started screwing over the other guy for capital gain now in the 90's we're noatalgic about the 60's. That is the best nutshell of the 2nd half of the 20th century I've ever heard.🤔
Thought that, too. Would take five minutes of Joni over an hour with so many others. When I saw her puff that cigarette, was relieved to know she is still among us. She's actually, re-emerging and singing publicly again. A remarkable artist on so many levels.
A genuine genius of a woman. Beautiful and talented. Clever and bright. There is one Joni Mitchell. Only one and I’m so fortunate to be on Earth while Joni is here. ❤️
My favourite musical artist. Her final conclusion about the evolution of each decade from the 60s through to the 90s is so elegantly poetic and succinct - just like her songs. Beautiful clip David!
@Jasul Araez Hejira. To me, the most cohesive album of any singer-songwriter in my collection. Vast, melancholy, with acutely well-observed characters and emotional dynamics. 'Amelia' and the title song are heartbreaking; 'Furry Sings the Blues' is artful realism, as is 'Song for Sharon' (my favorite on the album). It epitomizes her abilities to 'paint' vivid images in music and lyrics.
Her evolution as an artist was incredible! From folk to rock to jazz all the while just being Joni. What a wonderful interview. Joni has been a favourite of mine for over 50 years. Thank you so much for sharing!
I discovered Joni in 1992 with her record Night Ride Home. My roommate who was 20 years older than me said, "Dude. You need to get Court and Spark. Every good hippie had that record back in the day." I got it. It was like nourishment to every one of my molecules. Her vocal, musical and lyrical talent was light years above her contemporaries.
David, you are an incredible man. We, the uninformed, the unwashed masses are forever in your debt. Thank you for your pursuit of truth and documenting reality throughout your life.
Wow, David!! Awesome. Thank you! PS: I feel like I am Joni's "biggest fan" since I was 11 years old when I heard her song, "Both Sides Now" being sung by Judy Collins as I was riding the carousel at Hemisfair '68 in San Antonio. I was enraptured and when the carousel ended I jumped off and told my mother I wanted the 45 rpm of that song. I got the record and looked for the composer of that song and it was "Joni Mitchell." I then would see her on the Dick Cavett Show, Johnny Cash, and then came her albums. I grew up with Joni as my musical mentor or twin spirit, or sister, and so much more and her lines ALWAYS pour out of me from time to time and she IS in my blood like holy wine. Much gratitude and love to you and yours, beloved Mr. Hoffman!
Would have been Judy collins you heard singing in 67-68 album wildflowers. Not sure Mitchell recorded or performed it until 69? And of course when she perfectly recorded and performed it in 2000. There’s nothing better than learning of another JM super fan. 🤗❤️🐢🙏🏽.
@@ImATurtle, yes, my mother went and bought the 45 the next morning and the FIRST thing I looked at was to see who wrote the song, and it was Joni Mitchell(Roberta Joan Anderson.)
Me too! both sides now came out when I was nine years old! I have loved Joni’s music for many years and so thankful to see her back on the stage again and touring! I love this interview!
Mr. Hoffman you are one thoroughly alright and cool guy. I hope these days find you well. I'm glad you are able to share your passionate work and Insights with us they are always quite fascinating. I imagine you've brought plenty of folks a lot of good times and happiness. Thank you for contributing to the bountiful many great things our world has to offer my friend.
@tonyfrancis7163 She was better than either one of them imo. Dylan was so jealous of her he wouldn't even carry on conversations with her. That's who the song " Talk to Me" is about.As a lyricist she committed to the idea of actually creating real descriptions of situations unlike others like Dylan who purposely left his lyrics ambiguous so that " each listener can fill in with their own meaning". I hate it when song writers cop out like that.
Wow what a lady! So interesting to see that everyone has his or her beginnings and thus have also people whom they look up to..This was a little gem indeed Mr Hoffman🙏
Joni is one of my artistic heroes and my favorite songwriter of all time. She writes like no other person and has enormous depth in her lyricism and musicianship that always floors me. Loved this interview.
Love Joni Mitchell! Actually the magnetic/video tape held up quite well, all things/time considered! Just phenomenal footage to behold! Thank you David for sharing this "Gem" of an interview!😉✌
At 1:20 she tells us why she chose to "set poetry to music." The first poem I fell in love with was the haunting Tom Rush cover of her song "Urge for Going." Pure poetry from start to finish.
she said she was influenced to do it by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, and they each were influenced by others, artists with original inspiration to create
Both Sides Now, The Circle Game, Woodstock and Big Yellow Taxi are just a few of Joni Mitchell songs that I love. Nice that she granted you 5 minutes of her time to you wish it could have been longer as the Graham Nash interview you did was. Thanks Joni Mitchell and David Hoffman.
Short but meaningful interview with a great singer. Joni was very nice to give such a good interview. Very good of you to show us such a good interview.
Joni Mitchell is magic, a national treasure❤ The interviewer was'nt great, good thing Joni Mitchell was kind and gracious enough to salvage it for her.
The interviewer's young voice and guileless questions gave the interview a certain charm - although I was in suspense fearing that Joni would bite her head off - you don't get the impression she suffers fools gladly. Reminds me a little of Margaret Atwood in that sense - intelligent women who had to put up with a lot of BS at a young age ......
Thank you so much for this, David Hoffman !!! I can think of No One else in this industry that would Paint beautiful portraits for her album covers, except Joni Mitchell...She was and still is the ultimate musician; self taught, had polio as a child, affecting her hands, and still worked really hard to overcome this, learned music, learned how to make her own "tunings" of her guitars, so she could accompany herself, all the time, with this most exquisite, beautiful, always in tune, voice ! No one else has ever done all of this... The next most beautiful voice ever - Linda Ronstadt... :)
I wish the sound didn't cut out when she described the '90s at the very end, with just a couple words. David, do you by chance know what she said there? Regardless, thank you for this! Great to hear her thoughtful, honest comments.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Sorry, I wasn't clear, this was before the video ended, as she is looking ahead to the '90s she says a few words but there is a little hiccup in the sound so we don't hear her; but I bet, totally understandably, (!) you can't remember what she said there. It's ok, I just thought I'd ask because I was curious .It's a nitpick in the big picture of this clip. Thank you for doing it -- I'm not sure but I don't think it's all that easy to get Joni to do interviews.
Just watched this interview of Joni and of her views about the 50's and 60's was very enlightening to hear her thoughts on how in the 60's were like to live in those days, I myself being born in 67 five months before the Summer of Love, believe it or not I remember bits and pieces of the late 60's when my Dad was stationed in Hawaii and was shore duty he was an instructor on the Naval base teaching about Submarines and sometimes he would take me to work with him and he had his own office and he had a little refrigerator loaded up with soda pop and candy, but I remember seeing sometimes Hawaiian natives indigenous on the beach long story short I do remember even as a baby remembering the 60's in bits and pieces. Good video David 👍🏻😊👍🏻
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Wow what a fantastic interview with her "snapshots" of the decades as she experienced them. And I understand now why her "poetry set to music" can be acerbic. "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Look at all the trees, put 'em in a 'tree museum ' and charge the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em."
'joni' needed those (what seemed like) very "mundane" questions to give a GREAT recap of time & say a few novel things!! what a good interview. at first i couldn't understand where the interview was going but then the interviewer gave some backdrop & it was a GREAT interview. i love joni's song 'for free'--one of my favourites. could be sung in a church. too bad these people who were doe-faced once end up horrified anyone will approach them or they'll have to move around in societal nomenclature . . .
Once again, you not only give us this wonderful interview with one of the most insightful artists ever, but you edit it well with those quick little photos that illustrate her comments. Just a little help, but not at all intrusive. Well done!
This was great insight from an amazing talented woman. You can tell she had a very deep thought process, and was right in so many of her observations. As an old guy I was in love with Joni,…saw her in concert two times, and have all her albums, which she did the artwork herself, Amazing talent!
Ahhhhh! You were so lucky. Joni Mitchell is one of the most talented singer songwriters of the 20th century. Most people do not know the expanse of her ability to master many musical genres as well as a wide variety of instruments.
Love this lady, always, still. Haven’t experienced the world in the same way, however, retaining optimism in the belief we still CAN (and must!) change the world for the better. Old now, I will never quit encouraging, never stop trying. 🤷🏼♀️
Neat Perspective:). Such an Introspect:)❤️🌞❤️💃💃💃 She is one in the group of deep, lovely, amazing artist of all times,:). I probably listen to at least one of her tunes daily, sometimes more if I need extra inspiration:)
She is honest. Too bad we can't have more of that. As we know from listening to her music, she is extremely intelligent. She adds a lot to the conversation.
You see paradise you put up a parking lot. 🎤 That song means a lot I always like that song. You take away a building to make a parking lot. That's not good. Thanks for sharing this video David Hoffman film maker. She's awesome.👍👍🎥
I was born in 63 and during the 80's I really tried to resist the negative aspects of what was happening in politics. I think a lot of us just wanted to ignore what was happening. That was true for me. Joni sure was right about everything she said and it was very true that people in the 80's were obsessed about making money. I recall a Christmas party that my folks had back in 84 and the only thing people talked about was real estate and investing. This was back in Santa Barbara. All those people I knew from the party bought houses and apartments to rent and they continued that trend to this day. Most of my peers growing up during the 70's and 80's were forced out of California because they couldn't afford the housing. Now we see a huge exodus of people leaving California because high tech businesses are leaving. Those that are homeless there will never be able to get back on their feet by themselves. I live in Colorado now and I have seen the same trend that happened in California. People will point that it's because of Californians or Texans that are transporting their values to other states but that isn't true. What you can point your finger at is greed and it doesn't matter what state you are in. Our culture is centered around making money and it is a cancer that is tearing up apart and the world for that matter. If we don't figure out a better moral system to live by we will be forever under the thumb of the wealthiest. Oh, and I'm not implying that we should hate successful people but find common ground with everyone. We need to grow up.
Thank you so much for sharing this, David! I had no idea you interviewed Joni. She tells things like they are with so much insight...could listen to her talk and think for hours. I respect that she didn't idealize the 60's, although the wave of nostalgia that came in the 90's must have been a welcome relief after the shallowness of the 80's. It seems the propaganda of the times rarely affects her ability to see through the bullshit (the one exception IMHO was her call for censorship during the pandemic...afterall the official science of the day once declared DDT to be safe, and people like "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson and Joni once dared to question it. Anecdotally I am informed by my grandmother's experience getting Guillain Barre syndrome and becoming paralyzed and almost dying after getting a swine flu shot that was rolled out too quickly in the late 70s with an eerily similar propagand campaign, and I refuse to let her experience be in vain.) I left you a comment a year or so ago quoting a Joni song "Come in from the Cold" about the suppressive culture of the 50's because your video on the same topic reminded me of this line: "Back in 1957 we had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers Could make our circuitry explode All we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold" I've been enjoying your channel for several years and recognized you to be a kindred spirit and had a feeling you might be a fellow Joni fan! Thank you for sharing your story of how you came to discover Joni's music through Buffy Sainte Marie! I think most Joni fans can remember with great detail when her music first touched them, because it's such a life changing moment (sort of like how everybody remembers where they were and what they were doing when JFK was shot or on 9/11, only in this case it's a positive version of soul shock.) I found her music at age 17 via reading the liner notes on the song "Woodstock" that CSNY covered on their album Deja Vu (found them by way of the "Wonder Year's" soundtrack...it was the 90's, what can I say?), and then heard two more references to Joni inside other people's songs all within a few weeks (an ad libbed live version of Led Zeppelin's Going to California," and "Got Till It's Gone" by Janet Jackson with a line that says, "Joni Mitchell never lies" - very true!) I had never heard of her before (she had virtually no airplay in the 90s), but this was a sign from the universe, so I bought a couple of her albums at the record store sight unseen and unheard (before internet in my family's house) and was absolutely blown away. My emotional education began that day, and I've never quite been the same! Thanks so much for the culturally enriching work you do David! I am especially fascinated by the culture of the 60's. I have this feeling I was a hippie in a previous lifetime, and your interviews with people from that time period have helped me to connect with those ideas in a more real way than the way the hippie movement was presented in the mainstream press and Hollywood-ized in film. I really appreciate your content and how you give voices to not only the people you interview from everyday walks of life, but also how you allow and encourage diversity of thought and opinion in the comment section while encouraging civil discourse. That is something that is getting to be rare these days. Take care.
She was very fair to the 50s! Respects the fact that the era was about enjoying hard-won prosperity. Also, she nailed how the 60s was co-opted by cynical people.
You heard what you wanted to hear about the ‘60s. She said it was a positive, mind-expanding era in which we tried to change the world. You only heard that people were co-opted. You must be a conservative. Your era was the ‘80s which she hated.
Wow. What a gem found in the loft. Joni was an immense talent and metamorphic with her work across the decades. She also had such clear insights into those decadal changes. Do you have any old hidden Neil Young or Jackson Browne footage floating about???!!! 😄
Joni Mitchell is a national treasure for both Canada and the United States but most of all she is a treasure for all the thinking, and feeling people of the world who might listen to her voice and take some delight in Joni’s lyricism.
Wonderful ! See utubes of videos of Brandi Carlile as she brought 'Joni Jam' to the performing stage at Newport folk festival and again scheduled for June in Seattle. A real treat. One of the first albums I purchased was her Blue album -so classic and timeless a masterclass of poetry set to music !😎😘
So true! I love your comment. I get more from her breakdown of history than all other sources put together. History books would be so much better, accurate, interesting and lively if written by Joni!
I wanted to watch until the end of the interview. I was also in her age group, so she saw the same things as me. I wanted to hear what she thought about living in this country.
Wonderful as always, David. ... However. at 1:00, no that is not a pic of Edith Piaf, the French musician Joannie was so influenced by. That is Sylvia Plath, the great American/English write and poet. Both Sylvia and Edith died in 1963, but that's their only intersection.
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I value the music from the sixties so much. The conversations, the lack of cynicism, the openness of possibility, the education about prejudicism we were taught in school resulted in a feeling of togetherness, of being on a team as we grew to adulthood. I think it was easier to be yourself then, more comfortable to be alone, because although there was this team spirit in the background, there was alone time needed to mull over new ideas which were often presented in songs. Your friends felt comfortable trusting each other,which was important. There were few distractions to keep friends from spending time together. Not much tv was watched. We talked on the phone, but there were no social networks; our networks were face to face, and we enjoyed that. Much talk was about music, it really was the glue that held groups of teens together. Music was like an additional language, tieing everyone together. Language was fine, but songs expressed an added depth to communication between friends, between generations, between all human relationships. Some music I listened to as a teenager is still in the fabric of my memory. I can recall what I was doing, where I was, who I hung around with, so much of my life can come swelling up when I hear certain songs from back then. Or just a lyric from a song. Lol, I can remember nights when friends, those who could, would sneak out at night, and just walk the streets, all of us singing and laughing and talking about life for an hour or two, then sneak back in, with no one the wiser. I remember one night in a little fishing village that hadn’t become a tourist trap yet, and where my family had a cottage, staying out all night. Four of us tried to get some sleep in a broken down car. After everyone being grumpy after a night of trying to get comfortable, the sun came up, and we watched it together in awe. We all felt the same,and we were merged as one person. Even today, 50 years later, if I hear Linda Ronstat sing Blue Bayou, it can bring me to tears. We seemed to have lots of time for school, sports and raising money for sports, babysitting for spending money, ( we all got part time jobs when we turned 16,)chores, hanging out, riding our bikes, reading, hitch hiking to the city to buy clothes and gifts, dating, dances, going on vacations, going to a movie, etc. We lived full lives, knew a lot about our friends and their families. We had each other’s backs in a real way, and life was good. We weren’t troubled by far off wars and disasters. The world was much larger back then, and the news was very different. It wasn’t presented to instill fear in people. The opposite, really.
Interesting and enjoyable, and more revealing of Joni than one might expect from 5 minutes. Surely the 80s used to be the worst decade, but it always seems to get worse...
What did she say about the 90’s? Audio was cut off. How could this have been recorded in 1989 when she references the 90’s? Aside from those questions, lovely to see her and hear her thoughts. So genuine. ❤️
If you like Joni this is a moment in bluegrass music as giant as she. Five minutes of magnificence.
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SHE IS A PINKO COMIE
I have to say that, although I appreciate this great bluegrass video with Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs, I have to say that connecting it to Joni's interview is a silly promo stunt that I wouldn't expect from you. You're better than this.
"All artists are perennial children.." One of mine is an artist and has always been in a different orbit.
SHE IS A PINKO COMIE
Artists also tend to be old souls.
Wow so insightful. In the 60's we wanted to change the world, in the 70's we wanted to change ourselves, in the 80's we gave up and said "let's just get rich" and started screwing over the other guy for capital gain now in the 90's we're noatalgic about the 60's. That is the best nutshell of the 2nd half of the 20th century I've ever heard.🤔
I love her depth of thought, just instant poetry when she speaks. She wasted not a moment of those 5 minutes.
Thought that, too. Would take five minutes of Joni over an hour with so many others. When I saw her puff that cigarette, was relieved to know she is still among us. She's actually, re-emerging and singing publicly again. A remarkable artist on so many levels.
She's a master musician
A genuine genius of a woman. Beautiful and talented. Clever and bright. There is one Joni Mitchell. Only one and I’m so fortunate to be on Earth while Joni is here. ❤️
@Kathy Grosvenor I have often found myself thinking the same thing: being on Earth at the same time; on hallowed ground if she is here
My favourite musical artist. Her final conclusion about the evolution of each decade from the 60s through to the 90s is so elegantly poetic and succinct - just like her songs. Beautiful clip David!
@foreignparticle1320 What’s your favorite Joni album?
@Jasul Araez Hejira. To me, the most cohesive album of any singer-songwriter in my collection. Vast, melancholy, with acutely well-observed characters and emotional dynamics. 'Amelia' and the title song are heartbreaking; 'Furry Sings the Blues' is artful realism, as is 'Song for Sharon' (my favorite on the album). It epitomizes her abilities to 'paint' vivid images in music and lyrics.
Do you have it on CD or vinyl?
@@jasularaez CD. I never got into vinyl.
Her evolution as an artist was incredible! From folk to rock to jazz all the while just being Joni. What a wonderful interview. Joni has been a favourite of mine for over 50 years. Thank you so much for sharing!
I discovered Joni in 1992 with her record Night Ride Home. My roommate who was 20 years older than me said, "Dude. You need to get Court and Spark. Every good hippie had that record back in the day." I got it. It was like nourishment to every one of my molecules. Her vocal, musical and lyrical talent was light years above her contemporaries.
Thank you for sharing.
Wow I'm 52 since yesterday and I can finally say "I miss the old days"
Man! That isn't enough. I would have listened to her for a half hour! But, thank you David. Joni and others from her ranks are still my Heros. ❤️
She's very natural and sincere in her words and her music. Not a bit phony. It's refreshing. Thanks for sharing this 👍
A beautiful person!
My absolute favourite person on the face of this earth. ❤❤❤ Thank you for this.
Excellent interview
David, you are an incredible man. We, the uninformed, the unwashed masses are forever in your debt. Thank you for your pursuit of truth and documenting reality throughout your life.
Wow, David!! Awesome. Thank you! PS: I feel like I am Joni's "biggest fan" since I was 11 years old when I heard her song, "Both Sides Now" being sung by Judy Collins as I was riding the carousel at Hemisfair '68 in San Antonio. I was enraptured and when the carousel ended I jumped off and told my mother I wanted the 45 rpm of that song. I got the record and looked for the composer of that song and it was "Joni Mitchell." I then would see her on the Dick Cavett Show, Johnny Cash, and then came her albums. I grew up with Joni as my musical mentor or twin spirit, or sister, and so much more and her lines ALWAYS pour out of me from time to time and she IS in my blood like holy wine. Much gratitude and love to you and yours, beloved Mr. Hoffman!
Would have been Judy collins you heard singing in 67-68 album wildflowers. Not sure Mitchell recorded or performed it until 69? And of course when she perfectly recorded and performed it in 2000. There’s nothing better than learning of another JM super fan. 🤗❤️🐢🙏🏽.
@@ImATurtle, yes, my mother went and bought the 45 the next morning and the FIRST thing I looked at was to see who wrote the song, and it was Joni Mitchell(Roberta Joan Anderson.)
Me too! both sides now came out when I was nine years old! I have loved Joni’s music for many years and so thankful to see her back on the stage again and touring! I love this interview!
Nice to hear her talk 😊
Thanks for sharing David.
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What a lady! Thank you, Joni, for sharing your talent with the world!
Mr. Hoffman you are one thoroughly alright and cool guy. I hope these days find you well. I'm glad you are able to share your passionate work and Insights with us they are always quite fascinating. I imagine you've brought plenty of folks a lot of good times and happiness. Thank you for contributing to the bountiful many great things our world has to offer my friend.
I wish there was more to her clip. She had me to the last second, wanting to hear more truth. Thank you Joni!
This is great history keeping!
Mr. Hoffman, I'm so grateful for this short, yet epic interview with the one n only Joni Mitchell. 🎶🏆💚👋🥰 Smiling from within.
Joni is amazing on so many levels! Thanks for sharing.
This is wonderful. Imagine being encouraged by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan to put your poems to song! ❤️
Surely she meant she was encouraged by their example ? (Like thousands of others at the time).She hadn't met them at that point.
@@luckydave328 she met Cohen in 67 and Dylan in. 69. Brief romance with Cohen.
@@tonifrancis7163 Yes but she began writing songs in 1964. She was already well-known by the time she met Dylan and Cohen.
@@tonifrancis7163 Ps. Not her song but she recorded House of the Rising Sun in 1963.
@tonyfrancis7163 She was better than either one of them imo. Dylan was so jealous of her he wouldn't even carry on conversations with her. That's who the song " Talk to Me" is about.As a lyricist she committed to the idea of actually creating real descriptions of situations unlike others like Dylan who purposely left his lyrics ambiguous so that " each listener can fill in with their own meaning". I hate it when song writers cop out like that.
Wonderful song writer
With a voice like an angel
Wow what a lady! So interesting to see that everyone has his or her beginnings and thus have also people whom they look up to..This was a little gem indeed Mr Hoffman🙏
Joni is one of my artistic heroes and my favorite songwriter of all time. She writes like no other person and has enormous depth in her lyricism and musicianship that always floors me. Loved this interview.
One of the most insightful pieces featuring Joni Mitchell I’ve ever watched. I learned more in these 5 minutes than much of what I’ve heard before.
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Her recent performance of Clouds with a group of female musicians was very moving. Thank you for this.
Holy mackerel, that's one incredible and succinct synopsis! Joni, one of a kind ❤
I love Joni Mitchell! Thank you for sharing this.❤️
Love Joni Mitchell! Actually the magnetic/video tape held up quite well, all things/time considered! Just phenomenal footage to behold! Thank you David for sharing this "Gem" of an interview!😉✌
this is so beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this
At 1:20 she tells us why she chose to "set poetry to music." The first poem I fell in love with was the haunting Tom Rush cover of her song "Urge for Going." Pure poetry from start to finish.
she said she was influenced to do it by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, and they each were influenced by others, artists with original inspiration to create
Many good memories of listening to Joni Mitchell in the early to mid-70s.
A true gem ! Thanks for posting. Never seen this before. I love Joni.
So honest and so intelligent.
Dave. This is the first time I presented it.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Wonderful !
Both Sides Now, The Circle Game, Woodstock and Big Yellow Taxi are just a few of Joni Mitchell songs that I love. Nice that she granted you 5 minutes of her time to you wish it could have been longer as the Graham Nash interview you did was. Thanks Joni Mitchell and David Hoffman.
Short but meaningful interview with a great singer. Joni was very nice to give such a good interview. Very good of you to show us such a good interview.
Love her so much ❤
Joni Mitchell is magic, a national treasure❤
The interviewer was'nt great, good thing Joni Mitchell was kind and gracious enough to salvage it for her.
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The interviewer's young voice and guileless questions gave the interview a certain charm - although I was in suspense fearing that Joni would bite her head off - you don't get the impression she suffers fools gladly. Reminds me a little of Margaret Atwood in that sense - intelligent women who had to put up with a lot of BS at a young age ......
Thank you so much for this, David Hoffman !!!
I can think of No One else in this industry that would Paint beautiful portraits for her album covers, except Joni Mitchell...She was and still is the ultimate musician; self taught, had polio as a child, affecting her hands, and still worked really hard to overcome this, learned music, learned how to make her own "tunings" of her guitars, so she could accompany herself, all the time, with this most exquisite, beautiful, always in tune, voice ! No one else has ever done all of this... The next most beautiful voice ever - Linda Ronstadt... :)
I wish the sound didn't cut out when she described the '90s at the very end, with just a couple words. David, do you by chance know what she said there? Regardless, thank you for this! Great to hear her thoughtful, honest comments.
If I ever knew what she said after the video ended (too abruptly for sure) it has long ago left my memory banks.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Sorry, I wasn't clear, this was before the video ended, as she is looking ahead to the '90s she says a few words but there is a little hiccup in the sound so we don't hear her; but I bet, totally understandably, (!) you can't remember what she said there. It's ok, I just thought I'd ask because I was curious .It's a nitpick in the big picture of this clip. Thank you for doing it -- I'm not sure but I don't think it's all that easy to get Joni to do interviews.
that says it all ----- thank you, joni.
Thanks for sharing. Nice one Joni :)
This is amazing! I love joni.
Just watched this interview of Joni and of her views about the 50's and 60's was very enlightening to hear her thoughts on how in the 60's were like to live in those days, I myself being born in 67 five months before the Summer of Love, believe it or not I remember bits and pieces of the late 60's when my Dad was stationed in Hawaii and was shore duty he was an instructor on the Naval base teaching about Submarines and sometimes he would take me to work with him and he had his own office and he had a little refrigerator loaded up with soda pop and candy, but I remember seeing sometimes Hawaiian natives indigenous on the beach long story short I do remember even as a baby remembering the 60's in bits and pieces. Good video David 👍🏻😊👍🏻
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker your most welcome and I will watch the replay of the live stream I'm sorry that I missed it
Wow what a fantastic interview with her "snapshots" of the decades as she experienced them. And I understand now why her "poetry set to music" can be acerbic. "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Look at all the trees, put 'em in a 'tree museum ' and charge the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em."
'joni' needed those (what seemed like) very "mundane" questions to give a GREAT recap of time & say a few novel things!! what a good interview. at first i couldn't understand where the interview was going but then the interviewer gave some backdrop & it was a GREAT interview. i love joni's song 'for free'--one of my favourites. could be sung in a church. too bad these people who were doe-faced once end up horrified anyone will approach them or they'll have to move around in societal nomenclature . . .
Once again, you not only give us this wonderful interview with one of the most insightful artists ever, but you edit it well with those quick little photos that illustrate her comments. Just a little help, but not at all intrusive. Well done!
This was great insight from an amazing talented woman. You can tell she had a very deep thought process, and was right in so many of her observations. As an old guy I was in love with Joni,…saw her in concert two times, and have all her albums, which she did the artwork herself, Amazing talent!
Ahhhhh! You were so lucky. Joni Mitchell is one of the most talented singer songwriters of the 20th century. Most people do not know the expanse of her ability to master many musical genres as well as a wide variety of instruments.
Love this lady, always, still. Haven’t experienced the world in the same way, however, retaining optimism in the belief we still CAN (and must!) change the world for the better. Old now, I will never quit encouraging, never stop trying. 🤷🏼♀️
Neat Perspective:). Such an Introspect:)❤️🌞❤️💃💃💃 She is one in the group of deep, lovely, amazing artist of all times,:). I probably listen to at least one of her tunes daily, sometimes more if I need extra inspiration:)
I've always loved Joni
She is honest. Too bad we can't have more of that. As we know from listening to her music, she is extremely intelligent. She adds a lot to the conversation.
You see paradise you put up a parking lot. 🎤 That song means a lot I always like that song. You take away a building to make a parking lot. That's not good. Thanks for sharing this video David Hoffman film maker. She's awesome.👍👍🎥
Thanks!
Love hearing her speak on this.
Joni you are a classic and important to me.
I was born in 63 and during the 80's I really tried to resist the negative aspects of what was happening in politics. I think a lot of us just wanted to ignore what was happening. That was true for me. Joni sure was right about everything she said and it was very true that people in the 80's were obsessed about making money. I recall a Christmas party that my folks had back in 84 and the only thing people talked about was real estate and investing. This was back in Santa Barbara. All those people I knew from the party bought houses and apartments to rent and they continued that trend to this day. Most of my peers growing up during the 70's and 80's were forced out of California because they couldn't afford the housing. Now we see a huge exodus of people leaving California because high tech businesses are leaving. Those that are homeless there will never be able to get back on their feet by themselves. I live in Colorado now and I have seen the same trend that happened in California. People will point that it's because of Californians or Texans that are transporting their values to other states but that isn't true. What you can point your finger at is greed and it doesn't matter what state you are in. Our culture is centered around making money and it is a cancer that is tearing up apart and the world for that matter. If we don't figure out a better moral system to live by we will be forever under the thumb of the wealthiest. Oh, and I'm not implying that we should hate successful people but find common ground with everyone. We need to grow up.
Like I said. I named my daughter Joni. Hejira was such a great album too. Seeing her grow old right along with me is hard. She's forever young.
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A voice that few could ever match. Always pleasant tones delivering a story.
I have loved Joni’s music since I was nine years old! I love this interview! Thank you for posting this, and sharing it with us!
Thank you so much for sharing this, David! I had no idea you interviewed Joni. She tells things like they are with so much insight...could listen to her talk and think for hours. I respect that she didn't idealize the 60's, although the wave of nostalgia that came in the 90's must have been a welcome relief after the shallowness of the 80's. It seems the propaganda of the times rarely affects her ability to see through the bullshit (the one exception IMHO was her call for censorship during the pandemic...afterall the official science of the day once declared DDT to be safe, and people like "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson and Joni once dared to question it. Anecdotally I am informed by my grandmother's experience getting Guillain Barre syndrome and becoming paralyzed and almost dying after getting a swine flu shot that was rolled out too quickly in the late 70s with an eerily similar propagand campaign, and I refuse to let her experience be in vain.) I left you a comment a year or so ago quoting a Joni song "Come in from the Cold" about the suppressive culture of the 50's because your video on the same topic reminded me of this line:
"Back in 1957 we had to dance a foot apart
And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines
Holding their rulers without a heart
And so with just a touch of our fingers
Could make our circuitry explode
All we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold"
I've been enjoying your channel for several years and recognized you to be a kindred spirit and had a feeling you might be a fellow Joni fan! Thank you for sharing your story of how you came to discover Joni's music through Buffy Sainte Marie! I think most Joni fans can remember with great detail when her music first touched them, because it's such a life changing moment (sort of like how everybody remembers where they were and what they were doing when JFK was shot or on 9/11, only in this case it's a positive version of soul shock.) I found her music at age 17 via reading the liner notes on the song "Woodstock" that CSNY covered on their album Deja Vu (found them by way of the "Wonder Year's" soundtrack...it was the 90's, what can I say?), and then heard two more references to Joni inside other people's songs all within a few weeks (an ad libbed live version of Led Zeppelin's Going to California," and "Got Till It's Gone" by Janet Jackson with a line that says, "Joni Mitchell never lies" - very true!) I had never heard of her before (she had virtually no airplay in the 90s), but this was a sign from the universe, so I bought a couple of her albums at the record store sight unseen and unheard (before internet in my family's house) and was absolutely blown away. My emotional education began that day, and I've never quite been the same!
Thanks so much for the culturally enriching work you do David! I am especially fascinated by the culture of the 60's. I have this feeling I was a hippie in a previous lifetime, and your interviews with people from that time period have helped me to connect with those ideas in a more real way than the way the hippie movement was presented in the mainstream press and Hollywood-ized in film. I really appreciate your content and how you give voices to not only the people you interview from everyday walks of life, but also how you allow and encourage diversity of thought and opinion in the comment section while encouraging civil discourse. That is something that is getting to be rare these days. Take care.
Great comment.
She was very fair to the 50s! Respects the fact that the era was about enjoying hard-won prosperity. Also, she nailed how the 60s was co-opted by cynical people.
You heard what you wanted to hear about the ‘60s. She said it was a positive, mind-expanding era in which we tried to change the world. You only heard that people were co-opted. You must be a conservative. Your era was the ‘80s which she hated.
@@DJ-bj8ku A positive, mind-expanding era…that was co-opted by cynical people. You can’t corrupt something that wasn’t good to begin with.
Monumental artist and historical figure, and i still am a Joni fan.
Wow. What a gem found in the loft. Joni was an immense talent and metamorphic with her work across the decades. She also had such clear insights into those decadal changes. Do you have any old hidden Neil Young or Jackson Browne footage floating about???!!! 😄
Thanks for posting David!
Thanks for that pleasant surprise.
Thank you for the interview.
Thank you🌺
Great clip. Joni doesn't pull punches. And she rocks. So does David Hoffman's videos.
Peace ✌
David, thanks for this mini time capsule.
Joni Mitchell is a national treasure for both Canada and the United States but most of all she is a treasure for all the thinking, and feeling people of the world who might listen to her voice and take some delight in Joni’s lyricism.
She turned out to be an "Influencer." I bet she never thought it would be like that.
So real. So excellent.
Joni's summary of all these decades is astonishingly insightful in all its terseness.
Cool, thanks Joni
A great big ❤!
This is a little gem
Wonderful ! See utubes of videos of Brandi Carlile as she brought 'Joni Jam' to the performing stage at Newport folk festival and again scheduled for June in Seattle. A real treat. One of the first albums I purchased was her Blue album -so classic and timeless a masterclass of poetry set to music !😎😘
Brilliance!
There is a review of every decade but if she were able to live hundreds of years, she would be able to review every century!
So true! I love your comment. I get more from her breakdown of history than all other sources put together. History books would be so much better, accurate, interesting and lively if written by Joni!
Thank you for this Ddavid !!!!!!! Its great !!
thank you
Thank You and God bless you. Bill. Uk
I wanted to watch until the end of the interview. I was also in her age group, so she saw the same things as me. I wanted to hear what she thought about living in this country.
Thank you.
“Educated consumers…” as she takes a drag on a “filtered” Winston cigarette. Very insightful interview, though, to be sure. Thanks!
She looked uncomfortable.
I didn't know she tripped.
Love her even more.
Wonderful as always, David. ... However. at 1:00, no that is not a pic of Edith Piaf, the French musician Joannie was so influenced by. That is Sylvia Plath, the great American/English write and poet. Both Sylvia and Edith died in 1963, but that's their only intersection.
Yes. I made the Arab Brian you are correct. But it's going to have to remain as they will not bring the video down reedit it and put it back up. TH-cam doesn't like that.
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I value the music from the sixties so much. The conversations, the lack of cynicism, the openness of possibility, the education about prejudicism we were taught in school resulted in a feeling of togetherness, of being on a team as we grew to adulthood.
I think it was easier to be yourself then, more comfortable to be alone, because although there was this team spirit in the background, there was alone time needed to mull over new ideas which were often presented in songs.
Your friends felt comfortable trusting each other,which was important.
There were few distractions to keep friends from spending time together. Not much tv was watched. We talked on the phone, but there were no social networks; our networks were face to face, and we enjoyed that. Much talk was about music, it really was the glue that held groups of teens together. Music was like an additional language, tieing everyone together. Language was fine, but songs expressed an added depth to communication between friends, between generations, between all human relationships.
Some music I listened to as a teenager is still in the fabric of my memory. I can recall what I was doing, where I was, who I hung around with, so much of my life can come swelling up when I hear certain songs from back then. Or just a lyric from a song. Lol, I can remember nights when friends, those who could, would sneak out at night, and just walk the streets, all of us singing and laughing and talking about life for an hour or two, then sneak back in, with no one the wiser.
I remember one night in a little fishing village that hadn’t become a tourist trap yet, and where my family had a cottage, staying out all night. Four of us tried to get some sleep in a broken down car. After everyone being grumpy after a night of trying to get comfortable, the sun came up, and we watched it together in awe. We all felt the same,and we were merged as one person. Even today, 50 years later, if I hear Linda Ronstat sing Blue Bayou, it can bring me to tears.
We seemed to have lots of time for school, sports and raising money for sports, babysitting for spending money, ( we all got part time jobs when we turned 16,)chores, hanging out, riding our bikes, reading, hitch hiking to the city to buy clothes and gifts, dating, dances, going on vacations, going to a movie, etc. We lived full lives, knew a lot about our friends and their families. We had each other’s backs in a real way, and life was good.
We weren’t troubled by far off wars and disasters. The world was much larger back then, and the news was very different. It wasn’t presented to instill fear in people. The opposite, really.
fiona apple, joni mitchell... you're a man of TASTE, sir
Look at her influences and compare them to today's musicians and you understand everything about modern media.
thank you Joni......I love you .......we all Love you......im sorry... 🧡💛💚💙💜💖
Interesting and enjoyable, and more revealing of Joni than one might expect from 5 minutes. Surely the 80s used to be the worst decade, but it always seems to get worse...
Joni is as beautiful as ever.
Amen Joni.
What did she say about the 90’s? Audio was cut off. How could this have been recorded in 1989 when she references the 90’s?
Aside from those questions, lovely to see her and hear her thoughts. So genuine. ❤️
Unfortunately, that is all that I have including the cut off audio.
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I edited my comment. Wondering about the year being 1989 when she referenced the 90’s. Thank you for sharing! Best of wishes always!
Going to hopefully see Joni here at the Gorge in June