I've seen Joni live twice. The first time was with Van Morrison and Bob Dylan at the UCLA arena in 1998. We had awful seats, but to see Joni was fantastic. We sat in the top row of the arena, which is designed for basketball, so the acoustics for music are pretty lousy. It really left me wondering what the appeal of Bob Dylan is, though. He just played the first song, when the people sitting below us arrived. They were young and clearly stoned and whooping it up. When Bob started playing the second song, one of them yelled " play Maggie's Farm!" My lover leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, "He just did. " Not that I could tell, since during the whole set it sounded like he was singing with mashed potatoes in his mouth. I didn't understand one word he sang the entire set. It was appalling.
But Joni was sublime. While she was playing Amelia, which I think is a gorgeous song, our friend who was with us, who is a musician but doesn't know Joni, leaned over to me and said "That's an amazing song. " I bought him the album the next day. The second time I saw Joni, was also in L.A., but this time at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. I'd never been there before, and it was a warm summer night, so it was fantastic. It was the Both Sides Now tour, I think it was the first night of the tour in fact, but Joni wasn't nervous and she looked fantastic, and both she and the orchestra sounded wonderful. I much preferred the second concert, because the setting was so wonderful, and we weren't in a basketball arena full of people who didn't really appreciate Joni, but were there to see Bob Dylan. On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 07:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > has anyone seen joni live? > if so can you tell me (us) about it?
