Also in this interview is another topic we've been discussing. I
assume it the same show in Boston:

Q:Was there an instance when you
walked offstage after two songs?

Joni: There was one time that I was onstage for one song. And I
left. I felt very bad for the audience. It was impossible for me to
continue. There's that old show-business axiom that the show
must go on. But if I listed for you the strikes that were against me
that night, I think that you could dig it. It's not easy to leave an
audience sitting there. I was still in bad health from going out on
Rolling Thunder, which was mad. Heavy drama, no sleepa
circus. I'd requested before the show went on to get
out of it. But it was too late. I had bronchitis. A bone in my
spine was out of place and was pinching like crazy. So I was in
physical pain. I was in emotional pain. I was going with someone
in the band, and we were in the process of splitting up. We were
in a Quonset hut, and the sound was just ricocheting. And I just
made the decision.

Concerning other women:

I have a few good women friends. I like them and I trust them. But
generally speaking, I'm a little afraid of women.

and

I would love to make new women friends, but I hardly have time
to do justice to the ones I have.

RR

Les Irvin wrote:

> At 4/12/2003 12:56 AM, ron wrote:
> >and if it really is about sprinklers im gonna be really, really disppointed.
>
> Prepare to be disappointed! If you can believe what Miss Mitchell says,
> that is... :-)
>
>  From the 1979 Rolling Stone interview:
>
> "The basic theme of the album, which everybody thought was so abstract, was
> just any summer day in any neighborhood when people turn their sprinklers
> on all up and down the block. It's just that hiss of suburbia."
>
> http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=946
>
> Les... by way of your friendly neighborhood JMDL search engine.

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