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Post by jhar26 on Oct 13, 2013 12:14:54 GMT -5
Another great who will probably never sing again because of health issues. A lenghty and interesting interview with Joni Mitchell....
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Post by erik on Oct 14, 2013 18:53:57 GMT -5
A real shame that she too is out of the game now because of health problems--though, like with Linda, she is at a point in her life where she has nothing left to prove to anyone, especially not the critics. "Both Sides Now"; "Ladies Of The Canyon"; "River"; "Help Me"; "Big Yellow Taxi", etc., etc.--we will sure never see anything like that in today's music. The corporate cosmology of our time point-blank wouldn't allow another Joni Mitchell to escape from Indie-Land (IMHO).
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Post by jhar26 on Oct 16, 2013 5:10:13 GMT -5
A real shame that she too is out of the game now because of health problems--though, like with Linda, she is at a point in her life where she has nothing left to prove to anyone, especially not the critics. "Both Sides Now"; "Ladies Of The Canyon"; "River"; "Help Me"; "Big Yellow Taxi", etc., etc.--we will sure never see anything like that in today's music. The corporate cosmology of our time point-blank wouldn't allow another Joni Mitchell to escape from Indie-Land (IMHO). Probably not. The music industry has always been ruled by suits , and most of them not very honorable suits at that. But at least a lot of them were suits who loved music as well as dollars and euros. But I doubt that many of todays suits have ever even heard a Joni Mitchell album. And those that have probably think that it wouldn't make them enough money because you can't jump up and down to it. In reality though the fact is that if they would get behind a Joni or Linda-like talent they COULD make lots of money over an extended period of time. The potential record buying public isn't exclusively made up of 14 year olds.
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Post by erik on Oct 16, 2013 9:26:02 GMT -5
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The irony, of course, is that it was a future "suit" in the form of David Geffen, along with his associate Elliot Roberts, that got Joni through the door, and several other good folks of note too. And Joni and Linda each came into the business at the right time, in the late 1960s, long before the corporate mentality made the business all but exclusively about the money.
As I said in another thread, the corporate mentality is to look at the quarterly balance sheets--that is, roughly every ninety days, they have to be making money, usually lots of it. And far too many of them are obsessed with this mantra, which allows for the Biebers and the Swifts to rule the roost. If any of them still had the long term vision like Geffen had in his heyday, maybe you'd get the quality back in on a mass scale. As it is, the Joni/Linda types that exist, and they do exist, are all out there on the fringe. As Fats Domino sang back in 1955: "Ain't that a shame?"
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Post by cymru56 on Oct 16, 2013 20:47:50 GMT -5
Quote by jhar26: True, but I for one was buying Joni's albums at 14 and along with many of my peers showed no interest in the Beiber equivalent of the time (sorry Donny!). I doubt if the music industry will ever change - there will always be the Beiber and Joni eqivalents - with the real question being the quality of the music they produce. Today we have female artists such as Adele and Laura Marling providing quality and I would guess having more sales success than Joni ever did.
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