c Karma wrote:
> We also know
> Dylan's reaction at an advance listening to "Court and Spark": he fell
> asleep during its play. While Joni has shrugged off the effects of that
> event, I can't help but wonder if she found his reaction a little
> underwhelming, to say the least.
Considering how open Joni is about how she feels, my guess is she's not holding
in a negative reaction, and that there was some reason for his falling asleep
other than the music that happened to be playing... tail-end of a 3-day party
maybe or something like that. If Joni truly felt insulted, we'd know about it.
> I would even go so far as to say that if
> he had shown a more encouraging response, Joni's subsequent dealings with
> the record business may have been less acrimonious.
Maybe so, although Joni is so intent on doing things her way she was bound to
run into conflict.
> It's clear that Joni
> reveres Bob, a point of view to which probably any person who writes songs
> is compelled, but I wish she could emerge from behind his penumbra. It
> wouldn't hurt to see Bob kiss a little Joni ass.
After reading the story about Tangled Up in Blue, my thought is he may have
done that already in a way that Joni would understand. She seems to have no
trouble turning her back on people who treat her badly, so I truly doubt if she
reveres him only because of his songwriting ability.
The two things we know about, the incident you mention and Bob's comment about
Joni being one of the guys, can't be the whole story between them.
Debra Shea
NP: Christine Collister, An Equal Love, "In the Beginning"
