I'm an old worn out farmer . Hard as nails they say . So ? Why must I weep on hearing this ? Damn your eyes , the you two ....... And , all my blessings .............
I'm a musician myself and there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of musicians that I admire and respect. There are very few that leave me literally awestruck by how unfathomably brilliant they are. Joni is one of them. This is an amazing performance of an incredible song! It never fails to move me to tears. Astonishing...
funny - i honestly thought you were saying all of those things about Pat Metheny, because I'm writing this as i watch his solo. I'm living this life to find treasures like this.
Back in the day I criss crossed the US and Canada in my tractor trailer and her music was playing all the time on my stereo. I'm 71 and alive today thanks to Joni keeping me awake and always wanting more. Love you gal!
Taken together, Amelia, Pat's Solo and then into Hejira from this concert is one of my favorite musical moments of any kind since I first heard it when the album of this concert was released. Truly sublime perfection. The whole concert was amazing. What a collection of artists.
I first saw Joni Mitchell perform with no prewarning of the monstrous talent she possessed. It was at a small club in Philly and I only went in as an afterthought having never heard of Joni. To this day it was one of the most moving experiences of my life and since then Joni has continued to amaze with everything she has done. She is the most under appreciated talent of our age . Simply Perfection.
She's always been the love of my life. I envy you seeing her. Hejira was my way in, a brilliant schoolmaster setting a class of punks the song as homework. With my first holiday paycheck I bought the album :) Better lyrics than Dylan, better voice than anyone.
prydonian460 There is a well known retrospective of Joni’s career which argues, " ... when the final count is in she will most likely go down as the most important post-war female artist in popular music." Hence I don’t subscribe to her being under-rated 😉
Pat's solo is burned in my subconscious since 35 years ago, it marked my music taste for life (not to mention Joni's delicious voice that led me to meet Pat); grateful to watch him live twice later at Buenos Aires
1989 or 1990, sitting on the floor of a Buenos Aires apartment, listening to one of those music-only Sunday afternoon radio shows of the pre-online era, I had never heard a note by Joni. I had only read about her, read what other musicians said of her. Musicians I was a fan of, saying how they were nuts about this woman with the weird male nickname, describing her music as angular and addictive and impossible to cover properly unless you could tune your guitar like you were insane. I didn't even know what nonstandard tuning was. I didn't have a proper grasp of English yet, let alone guitar - I had, in short, no idea of life, the universe, or anything. And this version of Amelia came up on the radio. And I KNEW. I just knew. I was 100% sure that this song, this impossible syncopated sort-of-picking, these chords I couldn't even begin to comprehend, this haunting, impossibly sexy, utterly non-girlish voice..., this was "that Johnny woman" all my favorite rockers were gushing about. I fell in love instantly. And then... then it took me over a whole decade and the advent of Napster just to make sure. Joni is pure gold, always will be.
Gabriel Csaba é , desde sempre a minha segunda paixão (a seguir à minha mulher). Ouço-a desde miúdo e continuo a ter pó ela uma enorme paixão musical, como se estivéssemos noutro mundo...
I think that Metheny's solo, especially at the start, is just out of place. It's a jazz thing to solo and go off, but I like it to happen in the context of the melody of the song. He slows it down later and gets all groovy with it, but as for me I pass on this kind of soloing.
Amen its true to be a black man growing up in Saginaw Mi in the 1960s and a kid would listen to WSAM radio station and first time hearing Joni Mitchell at about 8,9 years old riding my Huffy 3 speed bike radio attached feeling wonderful and been a fan of hers and alive at 61 years old playing Joni Mitchell music. Now that is a blessing from God people. Joni Mitchell you're the best of the best 👌
you too huh 😊. thanks to me Mum, Joni's first 2 albums were my bedtime music (and Donovan's double album as well). they inspired me to beg for a guitar at 9 and I ain't quit playing yet ... luv you Joni!! ❤
This is my favorite piece of music ever. And I was there. I lived just north of Santa Barbara. I had just graduated high school. It was a magical moment in time.
This song, this whole concert, was one for the books. Incredible lineup of musicians, incredible songs, incredible performances by those musicians. All done without multitracks, without pitch correct, without all the devices used in studios today. Joni MItchell at the peak of her powers. Check out "Free Man In Paris", also from this concert.
I saw her play several Hejira tunes in Santa Barbara in 1979, backed by Metheny, Pastorious, Michael Brecker, and Lyle Mays. The concert was recorded and later became “Shadow and Light.” It was entrancing, stupefying really. ❤
a friend in high school won radio station tickets to the Court And Spark concert, and invited me; hooked forever. All the albums, cds collected. This album however is a favorite, played too much if that's possible.
I could listen Amelia every single day, without getting tired. I'm 68 calculate, how many times I had listen to it. I simply go nuts the way she plays her guitar. Unique! ❤❤❤
There was a time where the whole world was in love with Joni, listening this song reminds me i still am. How is one able to create such beauty? Love you forever Joni!
This is my all time favourite Joni song. It touches me every time I hear it. “Like icarus ascending. On beautiful foolish arms “ ………has there ever been a more beautiful and evocative line in a song? And then that solo from Pat. It’s just a perfect interpretation and extension of the song and lyrics. Breaks my heart in the best way every time I hear it.
We named our beloved daughter after this song when she was born in 1986. Needless to say she more than adores this song and Joni. Now, Amelia is a mother. And we are grandparents. Bless.
This whole recording of the Shadows and Light tour is such precious footage. Joni with a collection of jazz immortals, even Jaco before the shadows closed around him. The film, I think, captures some of the greatest moments of pop music. I wish the footage that was NOT used in the final film version was available too. I’d pay a pretty penny for that. A magical moment in time I feel grateful to own.
This is a masterpiece. Compositionally, musically brilliant Joni is such a gifted lyricist and guitarist we will never see repeated.This goes down as one of her greatest achievements from the superb"hejia' studio album that is in my all time top ten albums. H et selection of accompanying musicians is exemplary. Jacob Pastorius and Pat Metheny whose contributions is so tastefully considered that it is just a match made in heaven.
And a tribute to greatness,talking about the hero’s among us. Like she didn’t come back… never found, probley went down in a cloudburst. Over and so ‘done’ not Ever seen or heard from. We love her brave face, unafraid of eternity. So well told… It opens your feelings up.
Possibly my favorite song of hers. So much feeling in this song, I love how it takes its time and slowly builds and swells in tiny moments. The lyrics are so vivid and the melody/chords are so soothing, it could just go on forever.
Always heard her popular songs when I was young and thought, "What weird but amazing chords!" I'm actually a drummer but I've never heard such beautiful different chords blended together like this. Heard this song on Rick Beato: What have I been missing my whole life? What an incredible artist - Can see the pictures she paints perfectly in my mind!
Yep, the Beato video was the one that finally got me to pick up some of her albums. I was aware of her all my life, of course, but never really got into her until then. My brother tried to get me interested as a teen by giving me "Blue", but it didn't take at the time. I guess I wasn't ready. Now I can't get enough.
This record is absurdly brilliant: the musicians, Joni´s voice, the setlist... Since long ago I´m in love with Joni´s music. I have 114 Joni´s tracks in my smartphone: superlative, mesmerizing, heart-touching!
THERE'S ONLY ONE JONI MITCHELL..THE BEST..THE ORIGINAL GENIUS ..ONE OF A KIND ...ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD I LOVE HER FOREVER...KEEP CHARGING WILD WONDERFUL WOMAN...MY LIFE HAS BEEN SO MUCH MORE MEANINGFUL WITH YOUR MUSIC AND ART IN IT !!!..THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL ANGEL❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Still so moving, so deep, so true, so heavenly-musically. - Such a great Album: Joni - the best. Pat is great. Don Alias, wow. Paco, miss you. Lyle Mays, miss you too.
(trad. al español al final) Why are we Argentines so addicted and in love with her despite not understanding exactly her lyrics, but do we have the ability to capture the emotion that her voice transmits? Witch, Angel, a Higher Self? It will be that she activates our well-trained tango and sentimental gene? ¿Porqué los argentinos somos tan adictos y enamorados de Joni a pesar de no entender exactamente sus letras, pero tenemos la capacidad de captar la emoción que transmite su voz? Bruja, Ángel, un Ser Superior? ¿Será que Joni activa nuestro bien entrenado gen tanguero y sentimental?
@@jazzfusioner9840 But mainly thanks to Joni for writing what seemed like an endless book of magical songs. My name is Carey and I wish it had been me getting out my cane.
@@cccustard one of the great musical confluences, ever, with this extraordinary team of musicians/songwriters expanding their horizons....as they would being the finest examples of musicians...In great music Dirt Cobbler
Impeccable taste of melody poetry and music. Tribute "to the ghosts of aviation...some find their paradise, others come to harm...spent their whole life in clouds and altitudes looking down"...from " pillows of wanderslust". So fitting to those in aviation. Everyone of them I've met...I've admired.
A most wonderful song and such an amazing story, told by one of my favorite songwriters, singers and guitarists. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays are great too.
Thank you so much for uploading this! I've been searching for this since I first heard it back in 1982, and it's a real gem! Pat just takes us aloft on the strings of his guitar, and I feel so safe and comfortable. (I love flying, but I am so terrified of air turbulence! We hit rough air back in 1971 and took a 6,000 foot tumble through wind sheer on our way to Chicago on June 21. Our pilot was a WWII fighter pilot, and thank God he had the training and experience he did! Our landing gear was broken, and he put that DC8 down with a four point landing that couldn't have been any better. I believe God with piloting that airplane with him, because we were the last plane to land before the airport was closed. There were two storms that merged right over us at the airport, and we had flown through one of them. We then had to get on another airplane right after the airport was reopened to fly to Moline, Illinois. I'm glad we did that, because I didn't want to get on another airplane after that experience. Pat's music helps me through those rough experiences and gives me so many reasons to celebrate life and give thanks to God for all I encounter. I've been listening to him since 1978 or so, but I really fell in love with his music in May of 1982 when I heard an interview with him for the first time. I really hope I get to meet him, because he still inspires me.
Oh to have a Tardis! This would be one of my first destinations! Best wishes to you MS. Mitchell, hope your are doing well!! All of this group are pure genius! Tears in my eyes!
Dios mío!!! Qué sentimiento!! Que Artista! Qué mujer de luz creando caminos y sentimientos!! Irrepetibles e inimitables!! Tin Navio se quita el sombrero.
So long ago it seems and I just discover that video. Joni sings and Metheny plays. I had heard them before of course but never saw that solo live. And I never realized it was about that Amelia, all these years. I am a happy idiot. Thanks for posting this!
Whenever I hear this, no matter what version I am transported and travel with you Joni . I have such a strong mental image to accompany the experience and it’s the same every time. Such poetry and such music is timeless. Thanks so much Joni . For this and everything else you have ever done.
What can be added to Joni Mitchell's outsized talent? ... that elegance that her music has and her lyrics even to vanish on stage when Pat begins her solo covered by the unique and alien sound of Lyle Mays. It's a "decisive Moment" in the purest Henri Cartier-Bresson style.
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lyrics [Verse 1] I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was the hexagram of the heavens, it was the strings of my guitar Amelia, it was just a false alarm [Verse 2] The drone of flying engines is a song so wild and blue It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you Then your life becomes a travelogue of picture postcard charms Amelia, it was just a false alarm [Verse 3] People will tell you where they've gone, they'll tell you where to go But till you get there yourself you never really know Where some have found their paradise, others just come to harm Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm [Verse 4] I wish that he was here tonight, it's so hard to obey His sad request of me to kindly stay away So this is how I hide the hurt as the road leads cursed and charmed I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm [Verse 5] A ghost of aviation, she was swallowed by the sky Or by the sea like me she had a dream to fly Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms Amelia, it was just a false alarm You might also like Song for Sharon Joni Mitchell Running to Stand Still U2 Billie Jean Michael Jackson [Verse 6] Maybe I've never really loved, I guess that is the truth I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude And looking down on everything, I crashed into his arms Amelia, it was just a false alarm [Verse 7] I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel to shower off the dust And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust I dreamed of 747s over geometric farms Dreams Amelia, dreams and false alarms
Stunningly beautiful composition and performance by Joni, but when Pat begins his solo that follows, and Lyle strikes his first chord-- tears. Reduced to a puddle, as one commenter put it.
What a testimony to Joni's monumental gifts that she was able to birth these moments and allow such disparate mammoth talents - Pat, Jaco, Wayne - to manifest at their most beautiful and yet still encompassed by her lyricism and her strength. I have not flown a plane in the last 20 years that I have not heard that solo and looked out the window at the "geometric farms". Irreplaceable.
Ones purest stuff is revealed at this not to young...not too old age. Pats Solo here is etched into my DNA,...more than any other rendering of playing that Ive heard anywhere.
As a career pilot with two daughters and one lovely granddaughter this song is priceless.Added a musician and student of song this song is life and hope
I'm an old worn out farmer . Hard as nails they say . So ? Why must I weep on hearing this ? Damn your eyes , the you two ....... And , all my blessings .............
Love to you and happy New Year !
@@gabrieleschulze7627 And to you Gabriel and many of them !
How funny that Gabriel spoke to you. We had a charmed youth post war but now the memories have faded, allies become enemies....
💕🙏🙏🙏💪
Real as it gets.
I'm a musician myself and there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of musicians that I admire and respect. There are very few that leave me literally awestruck by how unfathomably brilliant they are. Joni is one of them. This is an amazing performance of an incredible song! It never fails to move me to tears. Astonishing...
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My eyes well up every time I think of Joni and all she had to overcome, and the fact she is still with us and vital.... She is the GOAT.
Perhaps more so than you imagine..I imagined this storyline as well as wrote its’ entirety
So happy to have it rendered so fantastically famously
funny - i honestly thought you were saying all of those things about Pat Metheny, because I'm writing this as i watch his solo. I'm living this life to find treasures like this.
I cry every time I hear this song. My favorite musicians from when we had real songs about real things sung by real people.
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I Cry too .......❤
Back in the day I criss crossed the US and Canada in my tractor trailer and her music was playing all the time on my stereo. I'm 71 and alive today thanks to Joni keeping me awake and always wanting more. Love you gal!
I hear ya...she kept me going too, just made 69!
Romantic!
Yes, Peter, and her music has been apart of my life, too, all of my 65 years, too!
Yes indeed Peter. Joni has kept a lot of us on our feet.
i would do anything to have been alive to see this¬ !!
Taken together, Amelia, Pat's Solo and then into Hejira from this concert is one of my favorite musical moments of any kind since I first heard it when the album of this concert was released.
Truly sublime perfection.
The whole concert was amazing. What a collection of artists.
jesus, when those synths come in with that guitar solo its something other worldly. one of the finest solos I've ever heard.
What a line up !!!!
Pat his solo give me chills and tears
This was Joni her dream team and one off the best line-up ever on a stage.
I first saw Joni Mitchell perform with no prewarning of the monstrous talent she possessed. It was at a small club in Philly and I only went in as an afterthought having never heard of Joni. To this day it was one of the most moving experiences of my life and since then Joni has continued to amaze with everything she has done. She is the most under appreciated talent of our age . Simply Perfection.
She's always been the love of my life. I envy you seeing her. Hejira was my way in, a brilliant schoolmaster setting a class of punks the song as homework. With my first holiday paycheck I bought the album :) Better lyrics than Dylan, better voice than anyone.
Yep...simply perfection and genius creativity...to boot.
well said+
prydonian460 There is a well known retrospective of Joni’s career which argues, " ... when the final count is in she will most likely go down as the most important post-war female artist in popular music." Hence I don’t subscribe to her being under-rated 😉
prydonian460 She's the most well known under appreciated artist I've encountered......
These are ten of my favorite minutes of recorded music of all time.
Pat's solo is burned in my subconscious since 35 years ago, it marked my music taste for life (not to mention Joni's delicious voice that led me to meet Pat); grateful to watch him live twice later at Buenos Aires
Me too...
How is it that Pat has More hair nowadays than he he did back then?
@@ChromaticHarp I don't get it why a lot of the artists from the 80s never have given up their 80s hair style.
Yes right - it's as if she's just standing there singing, not realising that she's one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century
Wow what great take by Metheny. True to the composer and yet very personal. She let her collaborators shine, thru her genius. A generational artist.
Tal cual!
And wath about Lile?
You can really apreciate her art work…. All the artwork. No drummed,no bass. Just the legend left..and broken dreams. Bless her heart ❤️.
G.Damn! That woman writes, outplays and sings better than most anyone. Legendary.
Yes she is!
And totally understands “all the Music”
This is one of Pat's best solos IMHO. Lyle's supporting synth underneath make it even more magical. Those two were a terrific team from Day One.
Truth...
The most beautiful guitar solo ever.
This is the most beautiful dream….. Joni’s song, her voice, the stirring poetry…and then Pat Metheney’s solo…what a beautiful dream….
1989 or 1990, sitting on the floor of a Buenos Aires apartment, listening to one of those music-only Sunday afternoon radio shows of the pre-online era, I had never heard a note by Joni. I had only read about her, read what other musicians said of her. Musicians I was a fan of, saying how they were nuts about this woman with the weird male nickname, describing her music as angular and addictive and impossible to cover properly unless you could tune your guitar like you were insane. I didn't even know what nonstandard tuning was. I didn't have a proper grasp of English yet, let alone guitar - I had, in short, no idea of life, the universe, or anything.
And this version of Amelia came up on the radio.
And I KNEW.
I just knew.
I was 100% sure that this song, this impossible syncopated sort-of-picking, these chords I couldn't even begin to comprehend, this haunting, impossibly sexy, utterly non-girlish voice..., this was "that Johnny woman" all my favorite rockers were gushing about.
I fell in love instantly.
And then... then it took me over a whole decade and the advent of Napster just to make sure.
Joni is pure gold, always will be.
Very well described... saludos desde esa misma Argentina (bueno, a no ser por aquellos programas radiales sin cortes:)
Cheers Gabriel, from Poland, my own feelings you've described.
Gabriel Csaba é , desde sempre a minha segunda paixão (a seguir à minha mulher). Ouço-a desde miúdo e continuo a ter pó ela uma enorme paixão musical, como se estivéssemos noutro mundo...
You built that like Metheny builds his solos!... Cant ignore the HHGTTG reference either 😉👍
>> woman with the weird male nickname
What was her weird male nickname?
just stumbled on this video. three genius musicians. pat is still going strong saw him last night in Seattle - what a show.
6 geniuses in that band.
I think that Metheny's solo, especially at the start, is just out of place. It's a jazz thing to solo and go off, but I like it to happen in the context of the melody of the song. He slows it down later and gets all groovy with it, but as for me I pass on this kind of soloing.
Amen its true to be a black man growing up in Saginaw Mi in the 1960s and a kid would listen to WSAM radio station and first time hearing Joni Mitchell at about 8,9 years old riding my Huffy 3 speed bike radio attached feeling wonderful and been a fan of hers and alive at 61 years old playing Joni Mitchell music. Now that is a blessing from God people. Joni Mitchell you're the best of the best 👌
you too huh 😊. thanks to me Mum, Joni's first 2 albums were my bedtime music (and Donovan's double album as well). they inspired me to beg for a guitar at 9 and I ain't quit playing yet ... luv you Joni!! ❤
You seriously believe we give a flying F about the colour of your skin?
How is that even remotely relevant??
A true musical Goddess.
This is my favorite piece of music ever. And I was there. I lived just north of Santa Barbara. I had just graduated high school. It was a magical moment in time.
This song, this whole concert, was one for the books. Incredible lineup of musicians, incredible songs, incredible performances by those musicians. All done without multitracks, without pitch correct, without all the devices used in studios today. Joni MItchell at the peak of her powers. Check out "Free Man In Paris", also from this concert.
I saw her play several Hejira tunes in Santa Barbara in 1979, backed by Metheny, Pastorious, Michael Brecker, and Lyle Mays. The concert was recorded and later became “Shadow and Light.” It was entrancing, stupefying really. ❤
a friend in high school won radio station tickets to the Court And Spark concert, and invited me; hooked forever. All the albums, cds collected. This album however is a favorite, played too much if that's possible.
Wow
No matter how many time I hear this, it touches me in the deepest places. Tears for such beauty, there is no words to express how precious this is …
I could listen Amelia every single day, without getting tired. I'm 68 calculate, how many times I had listen to it.
I simply go nuts the way she plays her guitar. Unique!
❤❤❤
There was a time where the whole world was in love with Joni, listening this song reminds me i still am. How is one able to create such beauty? Love you forever Joni!
How did this stage not melt, from the incandescent TALENT gathered upon it, all at once?
This is my all time favourite Joni song. It touches me every time I hear it. “Like icarus ascending. On beautiful foolish arms “ ………has there ever been a more beautiful and evocative line in a song?
And then that solo from Pat. It’s just a perfect interpretation and extension of the song and lyrics.
Breaks my heart in the best way every time I hear it.
Why haven't I heard of her before? I'm 25 and just discovered her, she's amazing, I love her singing and playing.
I discovered Joni at 27. That was 25 years ago now & she still amazes me.
Been a fan of rock (metal, punk, alt, classic, indie) my whole life. Discovered Hejira during the pandemic. Been a Joni fanatic ever since.
Better late than never! So happy you have discovered Joni, now you have some catching up to do :)
I’m excited for you and the wonderful rabbit hole you will go down. Enjoy!!!
Hopefully you kept on digging into her music. She'll change your life for the better the deeper you go.
My dear God, how beautiful this is...after some 30 years
Named my beloved daughter after this song. Hope she sees this in a few years and love this song as much as I do. Xx
We named our beloved daughter after this song when she was born in 1986. Needless to say she more than adores this song and Joni. Now, Amelia is a mother. And we are grandparents. Bless.
I love this Joni Mitchell song about the lovely spirit of Amelia Earhart. The guitar solo at end is so beautiful and apt. Unforgettable rapture.
No one can fly higher than her, the whole
sky in her voice and her talents, touching
the ghost of Amelia
Adore everything about Joni Mitchell since I first heard her in 1967.
The most beautiful song ever written. Performed by a true wonder. Thank you, Joni Mitchell!
This is immortal moments of music. I am so happy that this is available for us to listen after so many years.The lineup in this concert made history.
This whole recording of the Shadows and Light tour is such precious footage. Joni with a collection of jazz immortals, even Jaco before the shadows closed around him. The film, I think, captures some of the greatest moments of pop music. I wish the footage that was NOT used in the final film version was available too. I’d pay a pretty penny for that. A magical moment in time I feel grateful to own.
" before the shadows closed around him" touching words about one of the most beautiful and brilliant soul of our time. His Music is still among us :)
This is a masterpiece. Compositionally, musically brilliant Joni is such a gifted lyricist and guitarist we will never see repeated.This goes down as one of her greatest achievements from the superb"hejia' studio album that is in my all time top ten albums. H et selection of accompanying musicians is exemplary. Jacob Pastorius and Pat Metheny whose contributions is so tastefully considered that it is just a match made in heaven.
Shadows and Lights is one of the most important live album in music history
And Miles of Aisles is another . .
One of the most beautiful songs written - and to be followed by Pat's solo accompanied by Lyle is just the icing on the cake!
Right up there with her brilliant best, and my absolute favourite from Hejira. A timeless, bitter-sweet masterpiece.
Probably my favorite song of Joni's. What a talent and what a gift to humanity.
Writes sings and her guitar playing impeccable just sheer beauty Vocally gifted like Ella Fitzgerald makes it sound so easy in brilliance.
And a tribute to greatness,talking about the hero’s among us. Like she didn’t come back… never found, probley went down in a cloudburst. Over and so ‘done’ not Ever seen or heard from. We love her brave face, unafraid of eternity. So well told… It opens your feelings up.
Just so beautiful. Joni's singing and playing plus Pat Metheny's beautiful solo. Just sublime❤
She's ours, and Canadas National Treasure! Thank You Joni!
Possibly my favorite song of hers. So much feeling in this song, I love how it takes its time and slowly builds and swells in tiny moments. The lyrics are so vivid and the melody/chords are so soothing, it could just go on forever.
Always heard her popular songs when I was young and thought, "What weird but amazing chords!" I'm actually a drummer but I've never heard such beautiful different chords blended together like this. Heard this song on Rick Beato: What have I been missing my whole life? What an incredible artist - Can see the pictures she paints perfectly in my mind!
Beato says jump and all of you who buy go jumping.
Yeah, those tunings and chords. And the way she strums and picks. All that talent!
All kinds of 50th anniversary of Joni's lp 'Blue' now, books and lps coming up....new generation will be turned on to Joni's SUBLIME talent...
@@joseantoniomartin3155 yep. That's the way you discover music you've missed.
Yep, the Beato video was the one that finally got me to pick up some of her albums. I was aware of her all my life, of course, but never really got into her until then. My brother tried to get me interested as a teen by giving me "Blue", but it didn't take at the time. I guess I wasn't ready. Now I can't get enough.
Pat metheny amazing !
Definitely - and so young here.
This record is absurdly brilliant: the musicians, Joni´s voice, the setlist... Since long ago I´m in love with Joni´s music. I have 114 Joni´s tracks in my smartphone: superlative, mesmerizing, heart-touching!
Todas y cada una de sus canciones
Shadows and Light is a stunningly great album and essential to hear before you die if you are a true connoisseur of the finest music.
THERE'S ONLY ONE JONI MITCHELL..THE BEST..THE ORIGINAL GENIUS ..ONE OF A KIND ...ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD I LOVE HER FOREVER...KEEP CHARGING WILD WONDERFUL WOMAN...MY LIFE HAS BEEN SO MUCH MORE MEANINGFUL WITH YOUR MUSIC AND ART IN IT !!!..THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL ANGEL❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Still so moving, so deep, so true, so heavenly-musically. - Such a great Album: Joni - the best. Pat is great. Don Alias, wow. Paco, miss you. Lyle Mays, miss you too.
(trad. al español al final)
Why are we Argentines so addicted and in love with her despite not understanding exactly her lyrics, but do we have the ability to capture the emotion that her voice transmits?
Witch, Angel, a Higher Self?
It will be that she activates our well-trained tango and sentimental gene?
¿Porqué los argentinos somos tan adictos y enamorados de Joni a pesar de no entender exactamente sus letras, pero tenemos la capacidad de captar la emoción que transmite su voz?
Bruja, Ángel, un Ser Superior?
¿Será que Joni activa nuestro bien entrenado gen tanguero y sentimental?
I always weep when I watch this. Beautiful.
Love Joni - But actually makes me long for Mays and Metheny - Managed to see those guys 7-8 times in Minneapolis , nothing like it !
Surely one of the most beautiful guitar solos ever, part of one of the most beautiful songs ever written . Sympathetic keyboards from Lyle too.
Truth...Lyle is a wonderful gift...
@@jazzfusioner9840 But mainly thanks to Joni for writing what seemed like an endless book of magical songs. My name is Carey and I wish it had been me getting out my cane.
@@cccustard one of the great musical confluences, ever, with this extraordinary team of musicians/songwriters expanding their horizons....as they would being the finest examples of musicians...In great music Dirt Cobbler
Impeccable taste of melody poetry and music. Tribute "to the ghosts of aviation...some find their paradise, others come to harm...spent their whole life in clouds and altitudes looking down"...from " pillows of wanderslust". So fitting to those in aviation. Everyone of them I've met...I've admired.
Music for the soul by a once-in-a-lifetime talent.
She brings the vibe back, there it is now.
A terrific ensemble of brilliant musicians headed by Joni.
A most wonderful song and such an amazing story, told by one of my favorite songwriters, singers and guitarists. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays are great too.
Thank you so much for uploading this! I've been searching for this since I first heard it back in 1982, and it's a real gem! Pat just takes us aloft on the strings of his guitar, and I feel so safe and comfortable. (I love flying, but I am so terrified of air turbulence! We hit rough air back in 1971 and took a 6,000 foot tumble through wind sheer on our way to Chicago on June 21. Our pilot was a WWII fighter pilot, and thank God he had the training and experience he did! Our landing gear was broken, and he put that DC8 down with a four point landing that couldn't have been any better. I believe God with piloting that airplane with him, because we were the last plane to land before the airport was closed. There were two storms that merged right over us at the airport, and we had flown through one of them. We then had to get on another airplane right after the airport was reopened to fly to Moline, Illinois. I'm glad we did that, because I didn't want to get on another airplane after that experience. Pat's music helps me through those rough experiences and gives me so many reasons to celebrate life and give thanks to God for all I encounter. I've been listening to him since 1978 or so, but I really fell in love with his music in May of 1982 when I heard an interview with him for the first time. I really hope I get to meet him, because he still inspires me.
dude.. this is a super band.. joni, pat, jaco..
I've loved her music forever
Oh to have a Tardis! This would be one of my first destinations! Best wishes to you MS. Mitchell, hope your are doing well!! All of this group are pure genius! Tears in my eyes!
Dios mío!!! Qué sentimiento!! Que Artista! Qué mujer de luz creando caminos y sentimientos!!
Irrepetibles e inimitables!! Tin Navio se quita el sombrero.
Thank goddess for Joni . She’s been my constant for54 years!
When the wonder comes out! One of the best and inspired guitar solo of the improvised music.
So long ago it seems and I just discover that video. Joni sings and Metheny plays. I had heard them before of course but never saw that solo live. And I never realized it was about that Amelia, all these years. I am a happy idiot. Thanks for posting this!
Whenever I hear this, no matter what version I am transported and travel with you Joni . I have such a strong mental image to accompany the experience and it’s the same every time. Such poetry and such music is timeless. Thanks so much Joni . For this and everything else you have ever done.
Excellent song and Pat's solo and background chords were hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunting
I've never seen his style of playing guitar before. It's one-of-a-kind. Brilliant sounds from those talented fingers.
This song always chokes me up. It's evocative and beautifully melancholy.
One of the best musicians list to play together : Joni Pat Jaco Don Lyle Michael and The Persuasions
....Joni later played with Wayne Shorter - the great musicians saw the music in her 'simple' songs ...and she appreciated where they took them ...
God, if this doesn't reduce you to a puddle I don't know what will. Brilliant performance by a brilliant artist.
it doesn't.
Heart wrenching vocals. All hail Joni!
What can be added to Joni Mitchell's outsized talent? ... that elegance that her music has and her lyrics even to vanish on stage when Pat begins her solo covered by the unique and alien sound of Lyle Mays. It's a "decisive Moment" in the purest Henri Cartier-Bresson style.
Lyle Mays entrance was so smooth and impactful
Yes, he had a feel and an intuition for music like few others. he and pat were very lucky to find each other.
Divine. Joni, Pat, all of them.
Loveliest most heart felt voice ever.
One of my favourite albums. A unique line up and a unique vibe. Brilliant.
My favorite Pat's solo ever!
Pat...my all time favorite modern jazz guitarist👍
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness.
It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly ❤❤❤❤❤❤
She is Sublime.
Lyrics [Verse 1]
I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens, it was the strings of my guitar
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
[Verse 2]
The drone of flying engines is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue of picture postcard charms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
[Verse 3]
People will tell you where they've gone, they'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise, others just come to harm
Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm
[Verse 4]
I wish that he was here tonight, it's so hard to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
So this is how I hide the hurt as the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm
[Verse 5]
A ghost of aviation, she was swallowed by the sky
Or by the sea like me she had a dream to fly
Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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[Verse 6]
Maybe I've never really loved, I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude
And looking down on everything, I crashed into his arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
[Verse 7]
I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel to shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s over geometric farms
Dreams Amelia, dreams and false alarms
Outstanding interpretation at the end from Metheny evoking a strange sadness and a welling in mine eyes...
Beautiful performance by both 😍
just wonderful
Revolutionary solo, everything changed forever, sound of a fallen angel and the power of Youth. thank you forever and ever Pat
Stunningly beautiful composition and performance by Joni, but when Pat begins his solo that follows, and Lyle strikes his first chord-- tears. Reduced to a puddle, as one commenter put it.
Joni is amazing....
What a testimony to Joni's monumental gifts that she was able to birth these moments and allow such disparate mammoth talents - Pat, Jaco, Wayne - to manifest at their most beautiful and yet still encompassed by her lyricism and her strength. I have not flown a plane in the last 20 years that I have not heard that solo and looked out the window at the "geometric farms". Irreplaceable.
Hauntingly beautiful !
Awesome collaboration....wish I could have been there.
Ones purest stuff is revealed at this not to young...not too old age. Pats Solo here is etched into my DNA,...more than any other rendering of playing that Ive heard anywhere.
As a career pilot with two daughters and one lovely granddaughter this song is priceless.Added a musician and student of song this song is life and hope
Thank God for Joni Mitchell!!
❤
Music for forgotten heroes, beautiful.