typical Musician or actor who has a moronic view of politics, "Martial law" and "Dungeons"???????? WTF!! Great songwriter and singer but please lady, race problems and government control is at its all time high. Sorry but you can't blame Bush for what your Savior Barrack Hussein Obamas agenda is(MORE FRICKIN GOVERNMENT!!). Get a clue lady!!
@action1ist - political philosophies are belief systems, just like religions are. She has faith in her political heroes, and is probably as firmly convinced that her Leftist allies would never (say) convert the Ravenna Arsenal into a GULAG (read: "people's dungeon"), as I am convinced that my Catholic Church would never again initiate a Crusades. But, her faith IS just a FAITH, and as long as people like her continue to trust "their" leaders with power, power will be abused.
Seems to me martial law and 'dungeons' have come from the hard left side of the political spectrum the last 100 years. The people she seems to hate fought all that to maintain freedom. My God, get a clue, lady.
History has never been a strong point of leftists.
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin symbolized the 60's and early 70's. It's great to see that two of them are still with us. That was real music back then, it had a real message.
I have always known her name, but I honestly don't know any of her music. I grew up on Motown, Stax, Aretha, James Brown and a few gospel artists like J. Cleveland and the Sensational Nightingales. I mean, there were lots of other things mixed into my musical soundtrack, but Joan Baez was not one of them, although I respect her and her music. Any recommendations as to what I should listen to first.?
I have seen her a couple of times in Gryphon Stringed Instruments, a music store near where I live. First time I saw her in there, I didn't recognize her. A friend had to tell me who she was and I was agog. Saw her there another time, too. Amazing voice... Cheers.
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Joan Baez has a great voice, but is a moral and political idiot. when it comes to politics, she has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. but she can sure sing well
Stopped at my hotel a few weeks ago with her band, lovely lady, I've got a crush on a woman 30 years older than me. But her manager didn't tip our bellmen for the bags we moved. Kind of pissed us off.
neilzep, she is straight. She had an affair with a woman when she was in her early 20s, but since then has dated guys. She was married to David Harris and they had a son, Gabriel.
Joan Baez has never stood for a party, or an certain ideology. She is a humanitarian who has devoted the greater portion of her life to one cause: non-violence. I don't know why everyone just loves to sum that up with word "liberal"
when i met joan baez last year in ma. she was everything i hoped her to be. kind, dignified and caring. i believe she is one of america's greatest treasures. and that voice.....
All most all song music is about politics you want a women or a man , you want to get high, you being dumped by a lover, your wife left you, you going to war, you lost your job, you love god or Jesus,you feel like dancing, wake up if a song has words it's politics, Dogs bark and wine when they want something people sing and talk to point out their desires if you are alive and reach out to fulfill needs thats politics. If you do not want politics in music listen to instrumentals.
Joan Baez is the best in her field of entertainment, nothing can even come near her talent she is so far above the rest, anyone who can discern real talent will know this is true, she is a large part of folk history,thanks for posting,Peter
i hate when people try to sing about politics...i'm not sure why but it's so annoying and sounds so ignorant when they have no foundation to back their complaints and they give no solutions to produce progression
Did you ever hear about the Civil Rights Movement that inspired justice? Sometimes "politics" is simply pointing out what is obviously wrong, like racism or the smothering of human rights. I find it unbelievable that people actually believe that there is no place for politics in music. When done correctly, it can inspire change for the better. History proves as much.
But the key point is that is needs to be done correctly. My point is that a person's message in their music shouldn't be based around politics or a media influenced agenda. It should be based on their desire for a better reality ...the Civil Rights Movement wasn't about politics but standing for a moral cause. Politics shouldn't have anything to do with music because politics are just peoples excuse for complaining without solution. People haven't know true politics since JFK
Politics are just peoples excuse for complaining without solution. People haven't know true politics since JFK ?
The Civil Rights movement certainly was about politics. What were those Southern governors of the time if not politicians? Those people and their politics had to be overcome by true humans with a passionate cause.
People live their politics and politics is in itself a desire for a better reality. That is why one's politics comes out naturally in their music. Any attempt to separate the two is an exercise in futility.
If you feel like an artist is dissing you personally when they see the time they are living in as needlessly authoritarian, it would make sense that you'd wish they hadn't .
Personally I agree with Joan and her candidness in this interview made me love her even more.
so i suppose the world should continue to sing about love that doesn't last and pointless fornication that leads to overpopulation...and how much they love clothing and money....kay cool.
I see your cheap comments on just about every Joan Baez/Bob Dylan video on youtube. If you hate them so much why are you constantly watching their videos? I understand you are against liberals but taking it out on musicians is just ridiculous. Go join a debate team or some shit.
You ought to have seen her a few years ago sitting outside at Starbucks here in San Francisco. There is something innately regal and elegant about her.She is not a great beauty, but there is something very very attractive about her.
A granny at the Grammys. Wow! She doesn't look like a granny though. She's still stunningly beautiful. Good Lord! I can't get over it. She really takes great care of herself. I can only imagine the mind-numbing beauty she was 10, 20, 30, or 40 years ago. We need to get more Mexicans and Scots together to make babies. Ha, ha.
She is beautiful. She was stunning when she was young and she's still got it! Wow! intelligence and beauty...a real classy lady. I hope l look like that when I am in my sixties
I think his bouffant stand up hair is well cool. Probably achieved that gravity defying barnet from a cunning combination of Brycreem and hairspray -or someone had just shot a thousand volts up his arse. For 66 Joan was right on the money.
I think the reporter, if not rude, he has been a little disrespectful towards Mrs. Baez. How can he ask if she had ever attended a Grammy without his getting informed previously?
The Dixie Chicks weren't brace. They (actually ONE of them) spontaneously pandered to a foreign crowd by attacking an easy target. Then, shortly thereafter, they tried to apologize to their stupid right-wing fans, who rejected them. Only then did they sing they "weren't ready to make nice." Sorry to rain on the parade. Love love love Lefty Joan though.
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irrelephant,
what a lost asshole you really are, aye. break the Law and you go to Jail, its that simple. war protesters only embolden the Enemy. war protesters are so out-of-touch with Reality it's laughable. Racism? yeah, Racist Black America! and as if we need more Illegal Hispanics street drug gangs raising hell. and as if the People of South Vietnam couldn't wait to be Imprisoned by Communism, as if they were hollering, ''Ho Chi Minh, Come Conquer Us, We Can't Wait To Be Your Slaves''.
By singing her 60's protest songs Joan raised the conciousness of the nation and helped end racism & the Viet Nam war. Now - thanks to a right wing media supported by defense contractors & an uninformed populous, many have forgotten her message. The country has returned to militarism and calling war protestors unpatriotic. Domestically, we now imprison a high percentage of minorities and supress dissent through coercion. Sad but true, and humanity is the big loser.
*irelephant-She may be a great musician, but she certainly didn't contribute greatly to the end of the Vietnam war, and although i don't believe in races and rather humans as a whole, i think that a lot of people still hold race to be true and therefore racism still exists. Also, i think that it is downright laughable that you think that the media is right wing, i have no other comment but that that is just ignorant
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IMO she is wrong headed. Reasons : supporting Obama for one thing. Then e.g. there is her 1970s "Prison trilogy" song which has the words "raze the prisons to the ground"! What are we to do with all the murderers, rapists, robbers etc. ? I do believe she was consistent in her attack on oppression when she opposed Pol Pot after being anti - the Vietnam war. Others such as Jane Fonda ignored the post war regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia. So some praise due to Baez there.
well, after what you said here, I would say that "insane" may be to strong for what you actually mean. Many things were done during XX century that we might consider exagerated today. But not forget that, for having a balance, we need to have weights in both sides of the stick.
Querzeo, she wanted to destroy the prisons according to her lyrics in "Prison Trilogy". What was she offering to put in its place ? To me that was pretty insane.
I don't know the lyrics, elijahsraven, but I wonder, acording to Dylan's poetry "style" and hers , if those prisons were not an image for, e.g., mind prisons, hatred and prejudice. You know, during all the problems USA was facing, the cold war, racism, women imancipation. I don't really believe that someone like her (or anybody) could litterally agree with the end of prisons, or the end of taxes, or soething like this. Try another aproach to her poetry.
Joans last comment was fantastic and hilarious, "I listen to Opera", lmao, I too love opera, and Johnny Winter and hendrix, yes, dylan, zep, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart ETC.
Can anyone agree with me that it's the inferentiality of music that EVERYONE loves, because it awakens within themselves what is already there. Namely, LOVE and HAPPINESS, it beckons to us 'come hither and seek me diectly' I am your alpha and omega.
Great to hear that so many young people are listening to Joan Baez. A woman who represents much more than the Latino community but the best elements we have in the human spirit and the American society. May her voice never silence...
Wow I just read this about Joan: "No one anyone under the age of 25 has any idea who she is. Let's face it; she's older than dirt and more irrelevant than the muffler bearings on your car", "the grey-haired midget"... :S
If few people under 25 know who Baez is, it speaks merely of the pathetic shallow, youth-obsessed culture, where Generation Y has no interest in anything that came before. Many of them *ought* to learn about Joan Baez, as they might learn a thing or two about courage and integrity. As for relevance, history has found Baez to be on the right side of nearly every issue, including racism, human rights, nonviolence and more recently the environment.
Sorry, your age. I was just being snoopy. Nowadays, one sees very few youngsters @ her shows. I've been a fan since I was 12 in 1964, welcome aboard! She's always been a major icon in the rest of the world, but the US has never given her the props she deserves.
no jjbb81 it shows the sad state of your mind to even make that statement.
marvinbrucefood 6 months ago
te conoci gracias a jenny ´´forest gump' i love you
arlex74 8 months ago
dla 44zbyszek : bardzo mądra,piękie śpiewa i ma coś pięnego do przekazania!
tak trzymać!
MARIAN01051953 10 months ago
Mimo wieku ciągle piękna
44zbyszek 10 months ago
The interviewer is a complete arse...
macmaghnusa 1 year ago
This woman has class!
James1toknow 1 year ago
martial law = patriot act
dungeons= abu ghraib/guantanamo bay
I guess she knows her history.
ejdee 1 year ago 2
Why is he quizzing Joan Baez on the Dixie Chicks? JOAN BAEZ is timeless! The Dixie Chicks are a fad.
vanessa2010jd 1 year ago 3
Wonderfull lady
boywithadolphin 1 year ago
typical Musician or actor who has a moronic view of politics, "Martial law" and "Dungeons"???????? WTF!! Great songwriter and singer but please lady, race problems and government control is at its all time high. Sorry but you can't blame Bush for what your Savior Barrack Hussein Obamas agenda is(MORE FRICKIN GOVERNMENT!!). Get a clue lady!!
action1ist 1 year ago
@action1ist - political philosophies are belief systems, just like religions are. She has faith in her political heroes, and is probably as firmly convinced that her Leftist allies would never (say) convert the Ravenna Arsenal into a GULAG (read: "people's dungeon"), as I am convinced that my Catholic Church would never again initiate a Crusades. But, her faith IS just a FAITH, and as long as people like her continue to trust "their" leaders with power, power will be abused.
steve66oh 1 year ago
Seems to me martial law and 'dungeons' have come from the hard left side of the political spectrum the last 100 years. The people she seems to hate fought all that to maintain freedom. My God, get a clue, lady.
History has never been a strong point of leftists.
uk67 1 year ago
Never thought Baez was attractive, but she does look great for her age.
krelbar 1 year ago
did she say her deathlike backround?
rusle1 1 year ago
she's so lovely,
yellowpowerranger94 1 year ago
matial law and dungeons!
themediamongr 1 year ago
Greg Proops is awsome!
MichelleOo93 1 year ago
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin symbolized the 60's and early 70's. It's great to see that two of them are still with us. That was real music back then, it had a real message.
draygad 1 year ago 2
@draygad There are many still here and I am one happy lady that I found them (finally)!
lesbianmusic 5 months ago
Joan should have won a grammy many, many years ago
scotseza 1 year ago
interviewer and interviewee so respectfully ill at ease with each other
sorabji2 1 year ago
I have always known her name, but I honestly don't know any of her music. I grew up on Motown, Stax, Aretha, James Brown and a few gospel artists like J. Cleveland and the Sensational Nightingales. I mean, there were lots of other things mixed into my musical soundtrack, but Joan Baez was not one of them, although I respect her and her music. Any recommendations as to what I should listen to first.?
kpitt1204 1 year ago
all of her early stuff to give you a taste of what Joan's music is.
scotseza 1 year ago
LEGEND!!!
centralviva 1 year ago 3
The sweet Joan !
Diassinti 1 year ago
joan est toujours belle et jeune,on t aime pour toujours
annabachawi1 1 year ago
Always loved the woman.
geofflovett 1 year ago 2
Great singer but a liberal moron!
Lindylu52 1 year ago
Joan Baez gets more beautiful the older she gets.
ctwriter 1 year ago 7
what a gorgeous MILF
podoz 1 year ago 5
I don't care how old she is - Joan Baez look so beautiful and sophisticated!
solesirching73 1 year ago 7
@kruskalalgorithm i know what u mean! i've always thought so too! w/o any proof! lol
@sjdude cool! gryphon in P.A.? that's awesome. great little shop. priceless experience i'm sure
thequadsqueen 1 year ago
It shows the sad state of the grammys when it takes Joan Baez 40 years to get one.
jjbb81 2 years ago 41
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she lieks herslfe too muhc
mynillywita9milli 2 years ago
She Is Beautiful...
motorcitymiguel 2 years ago 7
Wow had I known someone worthwhile like Joan Baez was gonna appear at the Grammy's I might have considered turning it on.
"I listen to opera" I love her haha
KarmaPolice239 2 years ago 3
she aged very well
mike6459 2 years ago 11
@mike6459 Totally she looks amazing!!! Look at that neckline, those shoulders, her skin. Stunning.
RandiSierra 2 years ago 6
Its probably just me but I've just always assumed Joan Baez was dead, no idea why, but, you know, jolly good to see she's alive and kicking.
kruskalalgorithm 2 years ago
I have seen her a couple of times in Gryphon Stringed Instruments, a music store near where I live. First time I saw her in there, I didn't recognize her. A friend had to tell me who she was and I was agog. Saw her there another time, too. Amazing voice... Cheers.
sjdude 2 years ago 3
That dude is so LAME I can't even describe...
danieldedaldo 2 years ago 3
@danieldedaldo that dude is ablsolutly funny. he was on whose line is it anyways
remington6789 2 years ago 2
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Joan Baez has a great voice, but is a moral and political idiot. when it comes to politics, she has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. but she can sure sing well
nakedBison69 2 years ago
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annitanguera 2 years ago
funny last line - opera!
Dunkleosteus9 2 years ago
She should of mentioned Judas Priest.
FxScalper 2 years ago
I wish they would have let her talk more
neverindoubt 2 years ago
Joan Baez loves opera? Of course she does! What a voice!
tomkellycartoons 2 years ago 4
i love greg proops
WildThangSE 2 years ago 3
she's so nervous to actually look to the camera and speak! But I still like her.
t00thpiker 2 years ago
Always wonderful ..
Marcelo Maya
7steelguitar7 2 years ago 2
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What a hair cut ! Sad old bloke.
SJW439 2 years ago
She's always been great! I've been a fan since the early seventies.
collier1973 2 years ago 3
Haha Greg Proops is so coool... Joan Baez deserves it
Anadnerb 2 years ago 2
Stopped at my hotel a few weeks ago with her band, lovely lady, I've got a crush on a woman 30 years older than me. But her manager didn't tip our bellmen for the bags we moved. Kind of pissed us off.
HooliganBarlow 2 years ago
She's 50 years older than me and I would marry her!
ubersoxfanjpm 2 years ago 29
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she likes girls
neilzep 2 years ago
it's right
punki7793 2 years ago
neilzep, she is straight. She had an affair with a woman when she was in her early 20s, but since then has dated guys. She was married to David Harris and they had a son, Gabriel.
strawberryseason 2 years ago 4
and I !!
(L)
punki7793 2 years ago
@ubersoxfanjpm
So would I
dilila23 1 year ago
she a lady
ghodium 2 years ago 2
She's authentic.
Portis1Luv 2 years ago
Joan Baez has never stood for a party, or an certain ideology. She is a humanitarian who has devoted the greater portion of her life to one cause: non-violence. I don't know why everyone just loves to sum that up with word "liberal"
el3m3ntsk8s 2 years ago 12
I Talked to her shes very nice.
sweeneytodd4me 2 years ago
when i met joan baez last year in ma. she was everything i hoped her to be. kind, dignified and caring. i believe she is one of america's greatest treasures. and that voice.....
fairgirl7 2 years ago 2
All most all song music is about politics you want a women or a man , you want to get high, you being dumped by a lover, your wife left you, you going to war, you lost your job, you love god or Jesus,you feel like dancing, wake up if a song has words it's politics, Dogs bark and wine when they want something people sing and talk to point out their desires if you are alive and reach out to fulfill needs thats politics. If you do not want politics in music listen to instrumentals.
jobedied 2 years ago 3
Absolutely, this is true. It's only when music comments on what comes out of Washington, or what happens between
nations on the world scene that they call
it "politics".
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
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Azbikerboy 2 years ago
Methinks AZ boy fell off his bike one too many times...
bckm54 2 years ago
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Azbikerboy 2 years ago
I love this woman. Her honesty & humor is what we all need esp. now!
caloop 2 years ago 4
god shes so gorgeous.
kristeenloveset 2 years ago 11
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carpet muncher
neilzep 2 years ago
We need more people like Joan Baez in the world.
sandydennisfan 2 years ago 12
une grande dame!
verrebleu 2 years ago 4
Joan Baez had/has such a melodic voice. What a talent ! I was wondering what she was doing these days. Her light will never die.
fgleich 2 years ago 7
She's still touring and she's still great.
I saw her in Princeton, NJ a couple of years ago- she put on a hell of a show!!
OL55CADDY 2 years ago
She looks great.
JessieSoul 2 years ago 9
Joan Baez is the best in her field of entertainment, nothing can even come near her talent she is so far above the rest, anyone who can discern real talent will know this is true, she is a large part of folk history,thanks for posting,Peter
rotwiler50 2 years ago 3
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Joan Baez is fucking dope
steveoah 2 years ago
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i hate when people try to sing about politics...i'm not sure why but it's so annoying and sounds so ignorant when they have no foundation to back their complaints and they give no solutions to produce progression
BSorne 2 years ago
Amen
summermainstreet 2 years ago
Did you ever hear about the Civil Rights Movement that inspired justice? Sometimes "politics" is simply pointing out what is obviously wrong, like racism or the smothering of human rights. I find it unbelievable that people actually believe that there is no place for politics in music. When done correctly, it can inspire change for the better. History proves as much.
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago 2
But the key point is that is needs to be done correctly. My point is that a person's message in their music shouldn't be based around politics or a media influenced agenda. It should be based on their desire for a better reality ...the Civil Rights Movement wasn't about politics but standing for a moral cause. Politics shouldn't have anything to do with music because politics are just peoples excuse for complaining without solution. People haven't know true politics since JFK
BSorne 2 years ago
Politics are just peoples excuse for complaining without solution. People haven't know true politics since JFK ?
The Civil Rights movement certainly was about politics. What were those Southern governors of the time if not politicians? Those people and their politics had to be overcome by true humans with a passionate cause.
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago
People live their politics and politics is in itself a desire for a better reality. That is why one's politics comes out naturally in their music. Any attempt to separate the two is an exercise in futility.
If you feel like an artist is dissing you personally when they see the time they are living in as needlessly authoritarian, it would make sense that you'd wish they hadn't .
Personally I agree with Joan and her candidness in this interview made me love her even more.
steveoah 2 years ago 3
so i suppose the world should continue to sing about love that doesn't last and pointless fornication that leads to overpopulation...and how much they love clothing and money....kay cool.
itzAplatypus 2 years ago 2
I loved playing Country Joe and the Fish's protest song when I was over in Vietnam. Are you a robot ?
fgleich 2 years ago 2
Still beautiful.
kblixt 2 years ago 6
best one...
adaletten 2 years ago 3
chick!!
887690 2 years ago 2
so darn beautiful, looks very young too!
alexismyran 2 years ago 4
she looks gorgeous
dancemachine1919 2 years ago 5
I thought Joan Baez would have been above that bonfire of the cheap and nasty vanities, the Grammys..
Azurju 2 years ago
She's gorgeous. Did you know she has a 3-Octave vocal range? What other folk singer has such pipes?
LePoof 2 years ago 7
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Fucking wacky liberal. She didn't get famous based off her own merit.
BeASimpleMan 2 years ago
I see your cheap comments on just about every Joan Baez/Bob Dylan video on youtube. If you hate them so much why are you constantly watching their videos? I understand you are against liberals but taking it out on musicians is just ridiculous. Go join a debate team or some shit.
el3m3ntsk8s 2 years ago 12
Greg Proops' Hair! I LOVE it! all poofy and stuff!
1gallifrey1 2 years ago 2
You ought to have seen her a few years ago sitting outside at Starbucks here in San Francisco. There is something innately regal and elegant about her.She is not a great beauty, but there is something very very attractive about her.
JordanDurell 2 years ago 2
I love Dylan, but holy shit mang...Baez looks fiiine.
ElNaztyBlanco87 2 years ago 10
Haha. You said it man!
Hanniste 2 years ago
Is he gay he looks it.... weird
ivansnyder 2 years ago
Que nbella la muscica de Joan baez... conciencia total...
vickyvann07 2 years ago
The Era of Big Hair never went away.
7855waldo 2 years ago 3
CLASS...LEGEND...AND BEAUTY
tropicalpancake56 2 years ago 6
he's straight too, isn't that weird?
mozmuse 2 years ago 2
she's beautiful and he's a funny guy.
mozmuse 2 years ago 2
after all those years and she is still very pretty and i can tell she still has that amazing voice to sing with.
xojbabyxo 2 years ago 2
A granny at the Grammys. Wow! She doesn't look like a granny though. She's still stunningly beautiful. Good Lord! I can't get over it. She really takes great care of herself. I can only imagine the mind-numbing beauty she was 10, 20, 30, or 40 years ago. We need to get more Mexicans and Scots together to make babies. Ha, ha.
rickml1776 2 years ago
She is beautiful. She was stunning when she was young and she's still got it! Wow! intelligence and beauty...a real classy lady. I hope l look like that when I am in my sixties
JISAJ 2 years ago 6
I think his bouffant stand up hair is well cool. Probably achieved that gravity defying barnet from a cunning combination of Brycreem and hairspray -or someone had just shot a thousand volts up his arse. For 66 Joan was right on the money.
auckland37 3 years ago
same birthday as Jimmy Page, January 9. She is 3yrs older than Jimmy
cowboysfan782008 3 years ago
Joan was born Jan, of 1941, so she is 68 now, and was 66 in this. That is one young looking chest and neck for a 66 year old woman
cowboysfan782008 3 years ago 4
Joan the one
menosmalus 3 years ago
delighted to see greg proops. he's funny and appears on tv now and then here in britain.
joms67 3 years ago 2
I think the reporter, if not rude, he has been a little disrespectful towards Mrs. Baez. How can he ask if she had ever attended a Grammy without his getting informed previously?
swaingles 3 years ago
It's all part of the interview process.
Interviews would be pretty boring if there were no questions to be asked don't you think?
He probably knew the answers to all the questions, that doesn't mean the viewers do.
timlearybedead 3 years ago
To answer the first person's question, "Where's Bob?" Who cares!!
Joan, your'e the BEST!
Pili Girl
keybit0 3 years ago
WHERES BOB????
todd012473 3 years ago
The Dixie Chicks weren't brace. They (actually ONE of them) spontaneously pandered to a foreign crowd by attacking an easy target. Then, shortly thereafter, they tried to apologize to their stupid right-wing fans, who rejected them. Only then did they sing they "weren't ready to make nice." Sorry to rain on the parade. Love love love Lefty Joan though.
seans10 3 years ago 2
This woman has aged well...
DevaRupa 3 years ago 5
Her voice still sounds young and she has a quick mind. She didn´t miss a beat in this short interview.
pontedupre009 3 years ago
irelephant you are so so right, but I am british, so perhaps I shouldnt comment
freddyscot 3 years ago
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irrelephant,
what a lost asshole you really are, aye. break the Law and you go to Jail, its that simple. war protesters only embolden the Enemy. war protesters are so out-of-touch with Reality it's laughable. Racism? yeah, Racist Black America! and as if we need more Illegal Hispanics street drug gangs raising hell. and as if the People of South Vietnam couldn't wait to be Imprisoned by Communism, as if they were hollering, ''Ho Chi Minh, Come Conquer Us, We Can't Wait To Be Your Slaves''.
MilesMuhldoon 3 years ago
By singing her 60's protest songs Joan raised the conciousness of the nation and helped end racism & the Viet Nam war. Now - thanks to a right wing media supported by defense contractors & an uninformed populous, many have forgotten her message. The country has returned to militarism and calling war protestors unpatriotic. Domestically, we now imprison a high percentage of minorities and supress dissent through coercion. Sad but true, and humanity is the big loser.
irelephant 3 years ago
*irelephant-She may be a great musician, but she certainly didn't contribute greatly to the end of the Vietnam war, and although i don't believe in races and rather humans as a whole, i think that a lot of people still hold race to be true and therefore racism still exists. Also, i think that it is downright laughable that you think that the media is right wing, i have no other comment but that that is just ignorant
wmarquar19 3 years ago
Joan's a legend. One of the greatest singers ever, but politically insane.
elijahsraven 3 years ago
Why politically insane?
mavaddat 3 years ago
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IMO she is wrong headed. Reasons : supporting Obama for one thing. Then e.g. there is her 1970s "Prison trilogy" song which has the words "raze the prisons to the ground"! What are we to do with all the murderers, rapists, robbers etc. ? I do believe she was consistent in her attack on oppression when she opposed Pol Pot after being anti - the Vietnam war. Others such as Jane Fonda ignored the post war regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia. So some praise due to Baez there.
elijahsraven 3 years ago
Oh ok, you lean toward conservative persuasions. That's fine. I thought there was something especially extreme about her politics.
mavaddat 3 years ago 3
well, after what you said here, I would say that "insane" may be to strong for what you actually mean. Many things were done during XX century that we might consider exagerated today. But not forget that, for having a balance, we need to have weights in both sides of the stick.
Querzeo 3 years ago
Querzeo, she wanted to destroy the prisons according to her lyrics in "Prison Trilogy". What was she offering to put in its place ? To me that was pretty insane.
elijahsraven 3 years ago
I don't know the lyrics, elijahsraven, but I wonder, acording to Dylan's poetry "style" and hers , if those prisons were not an image for, e.g., mind prisons, hatred and prejudice. You know, during all the problems USA was facing, the cold war, racism, women imancipation. I don't really believe that someone like her (or anybody) could litterally agree with the end of prisons, or the end of taxes, or soething like this. Try another aproach to her poetry.
Querzeo 3 years ago
it's was in 60's. what does she think about that now ? she had ans has some bizarre ideas like everybody.
nolfan2001 3 years ago
Joans last comment was fantastic and hilarious, "I listen to Opera", lmao, I too love opera, and Johnny Winter and hendrix, yes, dylan, zep, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart ETC.
Can anyone agree with me that it's the inferentiality of music that EVERYONE loves, because it awakens within themselves what is already there. Namely, LOVE and HAPPINESS, it beckons to us 'come hither and seek me diectly' I am your alpha and omega.
Naaah, I bet no-one understands.
bertubus 3 years ago
Yep think yu got it there
tutor3 3 years ago
"It's a nuthouse (and the nut is the one asking braindead questions)"
cuddlyable3 3 years ago
Why is Joan wearing a black armband - anyone know?
cuddlyable3 3 years ago
she is wearing a shawl
neraweh 3 years ago
too far left?
perhaps you're too far right?
JoOnTheRun 3 years ago 3
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No wonder Bob dumped her ! to far LEFT, in left field
desolation155 3 years ago
She looks beautiful.
macassa420 3 years ago 3
ok. i would still totally bang her!
jk jk =D
samhuggies 3 years ago
just by the way, you have the shittiest, most annoying intro music i have ever had to bear!
CT27NX 3 years ago 2
She's fantastic
MysweetJoan 3 years ago 4
looking great joan
nurselondon 3 years ago
She looks great.
macassa420 3 years ago
she does have nice skin....she has a great video on here a remake of "it ain't me babe"
DaphneDreamer 3 years ago
Did she really said: "I listened to opera"??
I KNEW it!
SparrowSaltskin 3 years ago
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Grammy grannyXD
Nismos07 3 years ago
What a beautiful, stylish, and classy lady!!
aeroshine 3 years ago 11
ook how good her skin on her chest and neck look
hahaahahahh who writes that
postero13 3 years ago
shit man i was also thinking that LOL
nothinglikeamuffin 3 years ago
She does look good though for 66 though.
MaximusMission 3 years ago 7
....age my sweet maximusmision -age is but a number....
Joan Baez looks beautiful....PERIOD
vintage suziestew here...(51 a number only)
suziestew 3 years ago 4
always she is Wonderful.
nazanin85 3 years ago 6
i just turned seventeen, and i adore her.
hahahahahahahNO 3 years ago 5
55 years old now and Joan has sung me through many a sad time
rebeca1952 3 years ago
same here, I'm 22 and I know a bunch of people my age and younger who love her
thaliasghost 3 years ago
Great to hear that so many young people are listening to Joan Baez. A woman who represents much more than the Latino community but the best elements we have in the human spirit and the American society. May her voice never silence...
ConserveCompassion 3 years ago 3
still sexy as in '60s
francis5000000 4 years ago 3
hmmm fighting on a joan baez interview, when all she ever sang about was peace?
how about making up and let us have some peace in here? (:
maltesefalcon48 4 years ago 3
Wow I just read this about Joan: "No one anyone under the age of 25 has any idea who she is. Let's face it; she's older than dirt and more irrelevant than the muffler bearings on your car", "the grey-haired midget"... :S
tallyrulz 4 years ago
If few people under 25 know who Baez is, it speaks merely of the pathetic shallow, youth-obsessed culture, where Generation Y has no interest in anything that came before. Many of them *ought* to learn about Joan Baez, as they might learn a thing or two about courage and integrity. As for relevance, history has found Baez to be on the right side of nearly every issue, including racism, human rights, nonviolence and more recently the environment.
mthivier 4 years ago 7
i'm under the age of 25 and i think she's amazing!
captainship 4 years ago 4
:)i'm 15 and i think she's amazing too, that's why i think what this guy said is stupid
tallyrulz 4 years ago
Why does your bio say your 29?
taddyd1 3 years ago
it's a mistake
tallyrulz 3 years ago
what's a mistake?
taddyd1 3 years ago
Sorry, your age. I was just being snoopy. Nowadays, one sees very few youngsters @ her shows. I've been a fan since I was 12 in 1964, welcome aboard! She's always been a major icon in the rest of the world, but the US has never given her the props she deserves.
taddyd1 3 years ago
im 17 and i LOVE her works!
fortuitousnisa 4 years ago 2
wow!
you young posters above who listen to baez give me renewed hope in our future. thanks to all of you for posting. you all made my day.
oshesa1 3 years ago
I'm 16 and I love Joan Baez!
Enright9591 4 years ago 2
Im 21 and i Love Joan Baez , her grace, character and her values!
WILDLIFE123123 3 years ago 2
I hope when I'll be 67 I'll be as beautiful as Joan Baez
tallyrulz 4 years ago 6
why am i so damn attracted to this woman 40 years older than me!! Bobs kickin himself now, she's