This question of whether or not Joni was dissing her audience on Miles of Aisles. As always, she's a complex paradox. On the one hand, she appears to be gently chiding her fans for asking her to stay the same and do the singles. On the other hand, she decided to leave that MOA heckler in there, didn't she? How many artists would KEEP a heckler's comment on a live album? Ya know he says something like "Joni you have more class than Richard Nixon and Gomer Pyle combined!" She liked it. Sure it was a compliment, so she liked it. But if she hated her audience, would the live album have happened at all? If she dreaded performing, she would have excluded it. Further, as I remember it, after everyone laughs, you CAN hear a tape edit, then he's repeating himself, "You have more class than all THREE of those mothers." I don't know how long the guy went on shouting but she took the time to edit his comments for time. She didn't can him. Just the opposite- she _kept the good part_. Sure he was rude, but wild things run fast. :) All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu np: Circle Game from MOA
