Hey Mr. Bob,
Thanks so much for transcribing this Joni story!! (I'm obviously way behind in
reading messages.)
So Joni herself connected the images on the Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's
clouds, as always with her own personal twist to the connection. Great story,
and I'm glad to know I wasn't completely off the mark all these years in
connecting those paintings to Joni's lyrics, although even if I had been, well,
it wouldn't matter. I would have continued to see those paintings in the lyrics
along with hearing Joni's appreciation of the healing and spiritual
possibilities of art... where's her outright story about that I wonder.
Joni also told a story at the BSN concert in New York City last May about seeing
Mr. Magoo in the clouds, uh, pleasing himself. She apparently loves clouds and
the pictures she sees in them. Her description of Mr. Magoo's activity was
completely crude, which was a very funny surprise from public Joni. I've always
been curious... did Joni tell that story at any of her other concerts, or only
here in big bad NYC?
Debra Shea
NP: Kirsty MacColl, _Bad_ with lyrics that make me smile:
"Look out world I'm about to be bad." Sounds good to me...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> << These are the clouds of Michelangelo
> Muscular with gods and sungold
> Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads. >>
>
> Well, I've been sitting with this message for about a week, waiting for the
> time to transcribe an introduction that Joni gives to the song on her '83
> WTRF tour...there are several, this is the one she told to the crowd at
> Clarkston Pine Knob, on the 4th of July 1983:
>
> "A few years ago I was driving along the Gulf of Mexico, and I was coming up
> on the Mississippi Delta when I saw a strange cloud formation, and it
> reminded me of Michaelangelo...you know the story of Michaelangelo, right?
> Well, Michaelangelo, was uh...well, his record company was pretty rough, you
> see, he liked to work in white marble, that's what he felt he did best, but
> they insisted that he had to do the Sistine Chapel roof. ....
