In a message dated 10/22/00 6:44:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In a message dated 10/22/00 5:15:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm not sure if she is... she seems light hearted about the whole thing.
>Fend off...? More a little digression really.
Fend off ... retort ... answer ... whatever you want to call it, Joni is
very
clearly using this digression to explain why she is not eager to honor the
requests for the older song. She says, "Nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint
a Starry Night, again, man.' hehehe. He painted it, that was it!" Why else
would she have even brought this up if not to respond, however light
heartedly, to requests for her to sing an old song *again*? And my complaint
still stands: no one was asking her to "paint" (create) the song again,
merely to sing it again ... which is what songs are meant for.
-Fred Simon
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She is in one long breath fending off the requests for old songs and also
entreating her audience to open up to her newer material, which is what she
seems to have mostly prepared with a new band and a new sound. Remember, this
is from "Miles of Aisles," which is recorded while she is still making the
transition from solo performer to one backed by a band, much akin to what
Dylan did when at Newport when he brought The Band along with him.
Paul I,
who removed Boy George from the subject line because he has no use for or
interest in that worthless POS, though I do like Bowie.
