dsk wrote: > Deb Messling wrote: > > > ...as shows go it wasn't nearly as good > > as the next one I saw, at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium during the Shadows & > > Light tour. That was an astonishing show. From my point of view, it was > > her dream band, and I loved when she sang with the Persuasions. Despite > > the size of the venue, the audience was just rapt. I remember hearing gasps > > when she sang Amelia. > > I was there, too, my first time seeing Joni. Yes, the audience was > completely awed. If they weren't Joni fans, they were fans of someone in > her band (and probably most were Joni fans by the end of the concert). > My boyfriend at the time wasn't at all interested in going until he > heard Pat Metheny would be there, and then nothing would have kept him > away. I think everyone there was intensely interested in what was going > on.
This legendary show was referred to many times during the Joni's Jazz show, especially her performance of Amelia. Must have been a Joni high point. Jerry
