[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


>     One of my favorite Joni songs is "Banquet",the first song on FTR.The
> song
>really sais so much about life on earth in this day and age.Does anyone 
else
>love this song?

I meant to reply to this the day it appeared, and then thought against it, 
and then decided to ... Oh, the indecision!

When I was a senior in high school in 1974 and about a year into my Joni 
insanity (which grows each day I'm happy to say) we had a class project 
that we would make a videotape of what America meant to us or some such 
thing.  Not being able to think of anything original and feeling very 
self-conscious, I recited the lyrics to "Banquet."  (Makes perfect sense, 
what America means to me from a Canadian's point of view ...)  Afterwards, 
another classmate came up and said, "oh, I wish you'd told me you were 
going to do that.  I'd have accompanied you on piano."  I'm afraid I never 
would have been brave enough to sing it, but it was nice that someone knew 
of it.  I can only hope that tape has been burned somewhere.  Sheesh!  You 
know I'd only share these kinds of things with you guys!

Lindsay

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