{"id":3517,"date":"2010-04-23T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2010-04-23T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:42:53","slug":"when-old-folkies-get-bitter-and-vindictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/when-old-folkies-get-bitter-and-vindictive\/","title":{"rendered":"When old folkies get bitter and vindictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interviewer for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> found Joni Mitchell in a mood to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/apr\/23\/bob-dylan-joni-mitchell?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">settle some old scores<\/a> with fellow 60&#8217;s icons:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. (Mitchell also abandoned her birth name, Roberta Joan Anderson.) Mitchell launched into an unprovoked assault. &#8220;We are like night and day, he and I,&#8221; she scoffed. &#8220;Bob is not authentic at all. He&#8217;s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cowed, the interviewer moved on to safer topics &mdash; such as Prince (apparently a Mitchell fan) and sex appeal. Yet Mitchell still had time to slag off Grace Slick and Janis Joplin (allegedly they were &#8220;[sleeping with] their whole bands and falling down drunk&#8221;), and Madonna. Railing against the &#8220;stupid, destructive&#8221; era we live in, Mitchell took aim at the Material Girl. &#8220;Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all piss and vinegar. Mitchell fondly recalled Hendrix, &#8220;the sweetest guy&#8221;, and late-night listening sessions together. But even this memory is shaded in frustration. &#8220;He made his reputation by setting his guitar on fire, but that eventually became repugnant to him,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;&#8216;I can&#8217;t stand to do that anymore,&#8217; he said, &#8216;but they&#8217;ve come to expect it. I&#8217;d like to just stand still like Miles.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interviewer for the Los Angeles Times found Joni Mitchell in a mood to settle some old scores with fellow 60&#8217;s icons: The Times interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. (Mitchell also abandoned her birth name, Roberta Joan Anderson.) Mitchell launched into an unprovoked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,28],"tags":[311,200],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}