This is the event that basically set things in motion that Joni no longer did concerts and didn't play solo anymore. This concert killed the early Joni Mitchell sound and she went out with bands doing jazz after. She had befriended that crazy guy weeks before this concert and it came back to bite her.
This is Isle of Wight 1970 she was going to be at Woodstock but her manager had her booked already for the Dick Cavett Show and regards to her comments toward the audience, any one who disagrees obviously has no clue about the difference in really Hearing and receiving the music instead of just listening to it, i feel so sorry for the people who have never been able to actually feel a song and are just chewing the bubble gum of the melody instead.
The "song" is Woodstock, but this footage is from The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Click thumbs up to encourage RESOFT56 to correct his caption/title.
Talk about full of herself. OK she has song writing talent but she probab;y got paid and those muppets probably paid to go and watch. If they want to make a noise , why shouldn't they?. It is not as though she did not have amplication. Great singers like Roy Orbison could shut up an audience by their voice and songs even when appearing before the Beatles ! You have to earn respect baby.
You don't get it man. She was not being "full of herself" at all. The obnoxiousness began when the acid tripping lunatic stormed onto the stage disrupting her performance, which created a ruckus in the audience as well...all she was doing was trying to calm everyone back down (to the peaceful state they had just been in) so she could finish her performance. Her audiences have always respected her. She wasn't the issue. It was the disruption from crazy man that started it all.
I just wanted to apologize publicly for the first time. I'm sorry I jumped on stage like that. I was there to talk to an old friend of mine, Joni Mitchell. As the head of the Official Committee to Paint the Fence Invisible, I just wanted to show Joni some swatches. A big mixup, sorry about that. We are stardust, though. -- Yogi Joe
Right. Joni Mitchell was NOT at Woodstock, due to the fear of her manager. But CSNY played Woodstock there. She penned it at the same time and gave it to them to play. So how did this video happen with Joni Mitchell at Woodstock???
From Wikipedia article on Isle of Wight Festival 1970: "Following her rendition of "Woodstock", a hippie named Yogi Joe interrupted her set to make a speech about Desolation Row. When Joe was hauled off by Joni's manager, the audience began to boo until Mitchell made an emotional appeal to them for some respect for the performers."
That's amazing. This was at Isle of Wight in 1970. I saw this from backstage - freaks me out to see it after all these years. That wasn't Woodstock but it was an amazing happening nonetheless.
@gazork I remember her statement being aired in the news and what an effect that had on me as a teen then - how secure she was with herself to stand up and ask for what she deserved - was powerful.
Mega Bogus!!! This YouTube is entitled 'Joni Mitchell at Woodstock'. Bogus title - Joni never was at the 1969 festival. And she certainly could not have sung this song 'Woodstock' at Woodstock since she did not pen the song until AFTER the festival.
@ShinyJedi : My Dear Shiny - I do not mean to bitch... that is not my style. I was attempting to set the record straight about Joni's performance that has been mislabeled. It could have easily have said 'Joni Mitchell at the Isle of Wight. Historically, chronologically... this posting does not do Joni justice.That is all I meant to say, Shiny.
@MegaJohnWadd Hi. She penned it at the same time as the festival and let CSNY play it. Her manager thought it would be too rough for her to appear there. What a mistake he made, and she also felt bad she didn't appear, after all.
She never played Woodstock. She was asked to, but her stupid agent told her she would be better off doing a talk show and not sit in a field with bunch of hippies. So she sat all weekend watching the news reports plus getting calls from Graham Nash. And she realized she made a huge mistake by not going. So she wrote the song. If that was me, I probably would have fired or shot that idiot. Nothing has ever come close to Woodstock, nothing. And nothing ever will.
I love how the little light goes on in Joni's head when shes appealing to the English crowd..."I went to a Hope ceremony in the New Mexico desert last week..."
Dont get me wrong, I totally respect her talent....but you gotta laugh. And the crazy guy, forever immortilized in this film...poor fella, I hope he sobered up and found his bearings..."We are Golden, We are Stardust..." Well I suppose in one sense...
Joni was not in Woodstock. She wrote the song from what she heard about the festival from her then boyfriend, Graham Nash. Joni was scheduled to appear on the Dick Cavett Show during the Woodstock Festival
@l0renz0 shit what a dickhead... i just wish that Dick had a high fever 40 degrees that day...
Jeff Beck Group was in the programm as well but they split up a few days before the Woodstock festival... dumbheads... and Iron Butterfly miss the helicopter for the show ... unfortunate events...
HEY - FIX YOUR TITLE - Mitchell watched the Woodstock television coverage from a hotel room-she wasn't there! This is the last/best Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Joni wasnt at Woodstock ======but she DID write the famous song and here her performance of it elsewhere has been dropped into footage of Woodstock===strange huh
She did want to go to woodstock but was booked to do the Dick Cavet show and her manager convinced her to stick to her obligations. Upset, that she couldn't go, she wrote a song about it while she was in the motel room before the show.
Some of these people are running our country and we wonder why they want to ban guns and make us run our cars on water. The current democrat party were all stoned hippies in the 1970s.
@MattNatural I don't know if it's God's will or Satan's, but this was a momentary blip in even Joni's radar. Look around you, Matt, it's impossible not to see the profound ugliness around us. Americans suffer, but nothing like the suffering in 3rd World and developing nations who can't feed their own population, wars, some of them that we brought on etc. I doubt we're ever going to see life's effects in this life without seeing a whole lot of ugliness, too.
Did Charles Manson's "family" finance a trip for him to go to the Isle of Wight Festival? I agree that it looks and sounds like him. The shorter stature is correct, the schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur are there as well. I hate to think that there are two of him.
I love Joni but I didn't quite get her point about the Indians and the tourists. Was she saying the audience was getting too rowdy & not into the softer side of the music? I think folk singers had a tough time at these predominantly "rock & roll" festivals. These early festivals tried to marry the folk crowds and rock crowds into one but they were, and remain, very different animals.
@freespyrit Email as we know it today was about a year old at this time and was pretty much the province of Multics geeks and similar types, and CSNY didn't perform it at Woodstock.
@tubatalabal Lol... well the "email" part of my post was obviously a little humour. And email "as we know it today" certainly wasn't "a year old at this time"... perhaps you're also joking! And you're also wrong about CSNY. They played two sets, and Neil joined them in the middle of their acoustic set.
@freespyrit Good to hear you were joking! But read again: CSNY didn't perform IT at Woodstock, I said--the song. Obviously they performed at Woodstock. We've all heard the record and seen the footage.
As for email--the MAIL command was added to Multics, the precursor to Unix, around 1969. There were earlier message systems, but they were pretty different from what we have today. And the prototype ARPANet came into existence around 1968, with a primitive mail macro. So, no, I'm not wrong.
@tubatalabal Yes, I read the "it" as "at". But "email as we know it today", would include more than its mechanics. Distribution, penetration and facility are a huge part of what email is as we know it today.
She was in LA watching the news when Woodstock was going on. That's when she wrote the song "woodstock", later made famous by CS&N, who incidently played their first gig at Yasgers farm. This footage of Mitchell is of her at Isle of Wight, interdispersed (for some strange reason) with Woodstock footage. Joni was not at Woodstock.
This is indeed the Isle of Wight. Joni famously did not perform at Woodstock--because, I seem to remember, her manager couldn't be bothered with the traffic.
jwo06 is right, instead of going to Woodstock she stayed in California to make an appearance on Johnny Carson under the advisement of her Manager. She immediately regretted the decision and wrote this song in the week after the festival.Very groovy.
Joni never attended Woodstock... she watched some of it in TV and then wrote this song "Woodstock". She recorded it on her album " Ladies Of The Canyon" (1970)and it was also covered by her friends CSN&Y on their "Deja Vu " album (1970).
This clip is from the Isle of Wight Concert in 1970.
I love Joni and love the song, but this is a HOAX. Joni had a commitment to appear on Dick Cavett's TV show in New York City that weekend and WAS NOT AT THE WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL. When her buddies CSN&Y retuirned to the city after performing at the fesitval and told her all about it,, THEN she wrote the song. There were more outdoor festivals that summer and fall (notably one at Big Sur) where this may have been recorded and edited in with Woodstock footage.
She famously never got to woodstock, stayed in NY to do a TV show (dick cavett or mike douglas or one of those) while CSNY chartered a helicopter. One of her regrets...
Are you sure because I Don't Know!...I dreamed that NYC was levaled turned into the beautiful green fields I saw like California!....(but I guess many are so proud and unthankful!)...the cold war..metamorphosis..In The Garden of Eden..FOX! Rock's Czar!
@williamfeuer it was Dick Cavett...and CSN joined her on the show, fresh (so to speak) from their performance there...That guy looked like 'Charlie' didn't he?
There was a big trip in the counterculture about having to pay to see music festivals. Many of them believed music should be free and considered everybody's. They didn't get the fact that it takes money to pull off something as big as the Isle of Wight Music Festival because that is how the world works. So they bitched and moaned and refused to pay money. Most of the people who attended snuck in and didn't pay. The same thing happened at Woodstock.
Guess what the result of all of that was. Isle of Wight marked the end of the era of the great rock festivals. You should see the full documentary.
The nut case who interrupted Joni Mitchell wanted to bitch on the microphone about how "I believe this is MY festival!" and how people shouldn't have to pay to see something so phenomenal and incredibly expensive to create. Those stupid assholes ruined one of the greatest trends that ever existed on this planet.
Yeah, and he also sort of thinks and talks like him. Manson, Isle of Wight, and Altamont are what ended the major era of the hippies. That sucks because some really phenomenal music came from that culture. I think it is the greatest music in the history of the world.
@jwo06 You are so right, jwo06.....Joni did not perform at Woodstock. Her manager convinced her instead to appear on the Dick Cavet show, which she did.
Joni did not play Woodstock. She was planning to, but the festival crowds threatened to interfere with a scheduled appearance on the Dick Cavett show. If she had played Woodstock, it is very likely she wouldn't have made the show in time. Instead, we got this song.
I think she regretted missing WS deeply - perhaps even somewhat ashamed, since it didn't really come out until many years later that it was due to her manager's advice. Originally many thought it was due to traffic problems. My own opinion was that she and her manager underestimated Woodstock's full impact and ...well, the Dick Cavett Show was a big gig at the time. It would not have been career smart to cancel it.
I absolutely agree. But she did manage to write the definitive song about the event and the song was included over the end credits of the ultimate documentary of the film. So, in a weird way, she made up for it. But, yeah --- I think she was angry at having missed the musical event of her generation.
Oh you are so right there. By the way, I read somewher that she lost her taste for folk festivals over the years. It may have been the distracting noise, incidents like this video, or just the plain "folk tourist" commercial scene that turned her off. The genre anti-folk (a group of youngsters sitting around a room and singing from the perspective of youth) may be the antidote.
Yeah, I think that's right. I once saw her, years ago, at a benefit concert for Leonard Peltier and she forgot the lines to "The Last Time I Saw Richard" because the audience was more of a loud Willie Nelson group (also on the bill!) and she said as much --- that she was losing her taste for festivals. And that was maybe 15 years ago or more.
She wasn't the only one who couldn't see ahead of time the festival's impact. Tough call, huh? The Cavett show WAS the Cavett show and prior to its happening Woodstock could easily have seemed just another gig...everyone learned better of course. Funny thing (and fortunately for Joni), despite her absence, her writing the festival's theme song cemented her presence there in the public consciousness anyway, so she gets to have her cake and eat it too, even if she might not have seen it that way.
Joni Mitchell was quite an inspiration to me with her open acoustic guitar style which included a unique folk jazz sound and incredible lyrics. Listen to "Clouds" and "Help me"
The video you are watching is from a California concert, Joni never played at Woodstock, Geffen told her she would never be able to get in and out to be on the Cavett show on Monday. Crosby Stills and Nash flew in, by helocopter and Joni watched the whole damn thing on TV in her hotel room in New York City. She wrote "Woodstock" that night and performed itt on Cavett when the boys crashed her interview. This is common knowledge. She was never there.
Joni Mitchell: Played a controversial set; Following her rendition of "Woodstock", a hippie named Yogi Joe interrupted her set to make a speech about Desolation Row. When Joe was hauled off by Joni's manager, the audience began to boo until Mitchell made an emotional appeal to them for some respect for the performers. After the crowd quieted down, Mitchell closed her set with "Big Yellow Taxi"
This is not Woodstock. This is Joni singing Woodstock at some other concert... maybe the Isle Of Wight judging by the way the officer is dressed. Anyway, Joni did NOT perform at Woodstock. I was there and believe me, I would have remembered it. I was a huge fan even then. Check her bios. She was not there.
some things have not changed; many of us were trying to bring about some better way of living and being; many are so wrapped up in their paranoia, their narrow-mindedness and she saw that and as a performer spoke directly to it in this performance; she wrote the song, was not at Woodstock, but captured the aura of what was happening then; it has been and always will be about the music and the many people who were trying for a better way to be;
I'm sorry, but check any biography of Joni mitchell, she was unable to play woodstock and has since regretted it. The song Woodstock is not necescarily abnout the festival but of the time and generation which it represents.
shes beautiful
yarpyarp85 2 weeks ago
it's charles manson?
TheLongvideos 3 weeks ago
This is the event that basically set things in motion that Joni no longer did concerts and didn't play solo anymore. This concert killed the early Joni Mitchell sound and she went out with bands doing jazz after. She had befriended that crazy guy weeks before this concert and it came back to bite her.
darnrabbits1 3 weeks ago
This is Isle of Wight 1970 she was going to be at Woodstock but her manager had her booked already for the Dick Cavett Show and regards to her comments toward the audience, any one who disagrees obviously has no clue about the difference in really Hearing and receiving the music instead of just listening to it, i feel so sorry for the people who have never been able to actually feel a song and are just chewing the bubble gum of the melody instead.
DylanFanification 2 months ago 2
The "song" is Woodstock, but this footage is from The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Click thumbs up to encourage RESOFT56 to correct his caption/title.
heartofmotherearth 2 months ago
woodstock is not, this song called woodstock. this Isle of Wight Festival, 1970
56113856 3 months ago
Talk about full of herself. OK she has song writing talent but she probab;y got paid and those muppets probably paid to go and watch. If they want to make a noise , why shouldn't they?. It is not as though she did not have amplication. Great singers like Roy Orbison could shut up an audience by their voice and songs even when appearing before the Beatles ! You have to earn respect baby.
Telford90 3 months ago
@Telford90
You don't get it man. She was not being "full of herself" at all. The obnoxiousness began when the acid tripping lunatic stormed onto the stage disrupting her performance, which created a ruckus in the audience as well...all she was doing was trying to calm everyone back down (to the peaceful state they had just been in) so she could finish her performance. Her audiences have always respected her. She wasn't the issue. It was the disruption from crazy man that started it all.
heartofmotherearth 2 months ago
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Fuck you hippies
masterchief609 3 months ago
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I just wanted to apologize publicly for the first time. I'm sorry I jumped on stage like that. I was there to talk to an old friend of mine, Joni Mitchell. As the head of the Official Committee to Paint the Fence Invisible, I just wanted to show Joni some swatches. A big mixup, sorry about that. We are stardust, though. -- Yogi Joe
BigBrauner 3 months ago
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BigBrauner 3 months ago
OK, at the Isle of Wight festival. Makes sense. Not Woodstock. Thanks.
arunachalagirl 3 months ago
Right. Joni Mitchell was NOT at Woodstock, due to the fear of her manager. But CSNY played Woodstock there. She penned it at the same time and gave it to them to play. So how did this video happen with Joni Mitchell at Woodstock???
arunachalagirl 3 months ago
Right. Joni Mitchell was NOT at Woodstock, due to the fear of her manager. But CSNY played Woodstock there. So how did this video happen???
arunachalagirl 3 months ago
wait, why wasn't she at woodstock?
evilthesaurus 3 months ago
This was at the Isle of Wight festival . some weirdo who looked like Charles Manson got on stage and scared the crap out of her.
gotglasses 3 months ago
OMG that's Charles Manson in this video talking who is calling Joni a friend of his and quoting her lyrics.
eJazzTravel 3 months ago
From Wikipedia article on Isle of Wight Festival 1970: "Following her rendition of "Woodstock", a hippie named Yogi Joe interrupted her set to make a speech about Desolation Row. When Joe was hauled off by Joni's manager, the audience began to boo until Mitchell made an emotional appeal to them for some respect for the performers."
scrabtree1 3 months ago
LSD = Swivel panels on the invisible fence.
termsofusepolice 3 months ago
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Just watched the Making of Woodstock documentary. Joni Mitchell was at Woodstock but left before she performed to be on a television show.
atlrkbod 3 months ago
Just watched the Making of Woodstock documentary. Joni Mitchell was at Woodstock but left before she performed to be on a television show
atlrkbod 3 months ago
That's amazing. This was at Isle of Wight in 1970. I saw this from backstage - freaks me out to see it after all these years. That wasn't Woodstock but it was an amazing happening nonetheless.
gazork 3 months ago
@gazork I remember her statement being aired in the news and what an effect that had on me as a teen then - how secure she was with herself to stand up and ask for what she deserved - was powerful.
Catlovertea4 3 months ago
what were the songs she played?
sTapleEVA 3 months ago
Is that Charles Manson?
suthrnlad 4 months ago
@suthrnlad Had to be.
Catlovertea4 3 months ago
Mega Bogus!!! This YouTube is entitled 'Joni Mitchell at Woodstock'. Bogus title - Joni never was at the 1969 festival. And she certainly could not have sung this song 'Woodstock' at Woodstock since she did not pen the song until AFTER the festival.
MegaJohnWadd 4 months ago 8
@MegaJohnWadd Quitcherbitchen and get a life dude. You may be right in what you say but why bother to point it out? Just enjoy the performance
ShinyJedi 3 months ago
@ShinyJedi : My Dear Shiny - I do not mean to bitch... that is not my style. I was attempting to set the record straight about Joni's performance that has been mislabeled. It could have easily have said 'Joni Mitchell at the Isle of Wight. Historically, chronologically... this posting does not do Joni justice.That is all I meant to say, Shiny.
MegaJohnWadd 3 months ago
@MegaJohnWadd Thanks for the response... I guess I should have taken your post with a bigger grain of salt. No offense meant and none taken, we good?
Jedi
ShinyJedi 3 months ago
@ShinyJedi - We're cool. If you are as big a fan of Joni's as I am, we can be very, very cool! Take care.
MegaJohnWadd 3 months ago
@MegaJohnWadd Guess I just didn't like the term 'bogus'. No offense meant and none taken. We good?
Jedi
ShinyJedi 3 months ago
@MegaJohnWadd Hi. She penned it at the same time as the festival and let CSNY play it. Her manager thought it would be too rough for her to appear there. What a mistake he made, and she also felt bad she didn't appear, after all.
arunachalagirl 3 months ago
@MegaJohnWadd
Very true !
ukraininoak 3 months ago
Just listen!!!SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
hap1951 4 months ago
Good for her, Woodstock was a dump.
Dexterluckful 4 months ago
This is at the Isle of Wight festival 1970
thejamzron 4 months ago
She never played Woodstock. She was asked to, but her stupid agent told her she would be better off doing a talk show and not sit in a field with bunch of hippies. So she sat all weekend watching the news reports plus getting calls from Graham Nash. And she realized she made a huge mistake by not going. So she wrote the song. If that was me, I probably would have fired or shot that idiot. Nothing has ever come close to Woodstock, nothing. And nothing ever will.
writer125 4 months ago
Charlie???
kleighism 4 months ago
I love how the little light goes on in Joni's head when shes appealing to the English crowd..."I went to a Hope ceremony in the New Mexico desert last week..."
Dont get me wrong, I totally respect her talent....but you gotta laugh. And the crazy guy, forever immortilized in this film...poor fella, I hope he sobered up and found his bearings..."We are Golden, We are Stardust..." Well I suppose in one sense...
Classic footage! Love it,,,,,,,,,,,Rock On!!
Razzzz77 5 months ago
@Razzzz77 it's actually spelled "Hopi" which is a Native American tribe
GravityGrave 4 months ago
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wallyrange 5 months ago
I couldn't really understand what anyone was saying.
sandinyourshoes 5 months ago
correct this please - it's misleading :(
susaninmaine 5 months ago
Joni was not in Woodstock. She wrote the song from what she heard about the festival from her then boyfriend, Graham Nash. Joni was scheduled to appear on the Dick Cavett Show during the Woodstock Festival
l0renz0 6 months ago
@l0renz0 shit what a dickhead... i just wish that Dick had a high fever 40 degrees that day...
Jeff Beck Group was in the programm as well but they split up a few days before the Woodstock festival... dumbheads... and Iron Butterfly miss the helicopter for the show ... unfortunate events...
BohemianConspiracy 5 months ago
She is so pretty...
megaladon73 9 months ago
the song is woodstock
PrestonDowMusic 9 months ago
WOODSTOCK SONG BY JONI MITCHELL ...LIVE AT ISLE OF WIGHT 1970....LIVING LEDEND.
thinkmorrison 10 months ago
WOODSTOCK SONG BY JONI MITCHELL ...LIVE AT ISLE OF WIGHT 1970....LIVING LEDEND.
thinkmorrison 10 months ago
Ok, Isle of Wight, 1970. Mitchell wasn't in Woodstock. This video is the best performance of her. Charles Manson (huahuahua)
Bylylyw1000 11 months ago
Joni was there at Woodstock in spirit.
bubb3432 1 year ago
This woman is a genius..
tomk773 1 year ago
HEY - FIX YOUR TITLE - Mitchell watched the Woodstock television coverage from a hotel room-she wasn't there! This is the last/best Isle of Wight Festival 1970
7777Scion 1 year ago
absurd charles manson ridiculous and bad,cry for jony mitchell for this vid.
maocridi 1 year ago
Yup Isle of Weight 1970... the BBC covered it in a documentary called "sink the island"
BongoBrido 1 year ago
Joni wasnt at Woodstock ======but she DID write the famous song and here her performance of it elsewhere has been dropped into footage of Woodstock===strange huh
tim60s321 1 year ago
Joni wanted to be at Woodstock, but her handlers didn't let her. She wrote Woodstock the next day after she would have appeared.
WholenessNow 1 year ago
She was not at Woodstock.
BartA22 1 year ago 6
Commitee to Paint the Fence Invisible...goovy man groovy!
DsveysNavy 1 year ago
She did want to go to woodstock but was booked to do the Dick Cavet show and her manager convinced her to stick to her obligations. Upset, that she couldn't go, she wrote a song about it while she was in the motel room before the show.
MichaelLebury 1 year ago
yea whoever thinks that joni mitchell played obviously dont know shit!!!
MrJoe630 1 year ago
Famously, Joni never played Woodstock!
truthseeker444 1 year ago
It was the DIck Cavett show. Saw it on a documentary the other day.
matt13104 1 year ago
Wow Charles manson at a Joni Mitchell concert?
Longsleeeves 1 year ago
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freespyrit 1 year ago
Some of these people are running our country and we wonder why they want to ban guns and make us run our cars on water. The current democrat party were all stoned hippies in the 1970s.
joshcoa 1 year ago
Jesus....Mansonesque
fishfoodlad 1 year ago
Cmon, man, don't be changing history...she wasn't there...which makes her song even more poignant
unclebobunclebob 1 year ago
His moment of fame. Well at least this nutcase wasn't carrying a gun, like Oswald.
gigie555 1 year ago
Man I could really see the distress in joni's face.. ugh..
Why's there gotta be an ugly side to life??
MattNatural 1 year ago
@MattNatural I don't know if it's God's will or Satan's, but this was a momentary blip in even Joni's radar. Look around you, Matt, it's impossible not to see the profound ugliness around us. Americans suffer, but nothing like the suffering in 3rd World and developing nations who can't feed their own population, wars, some of them that we brought on etc. I doubt we're ever going to see life's effects in this life without seeing a whole lot of ugliness, too.
christoJihad2 1 year ago
not a chance thats him
by the way ,I love that prairie Canadian accent
tub9988x 1 year ago
please have a look at my version of woodstock...I'd love to know your thoughts Anna Corcoran - woodstock
AnnaC0212 1 year ago
they should have let him pain the fence invisible!
apexpark 1 year ago
Joni didn't perform at Woodstock, this is Altamont.....what a horrible event that was....
mctalks 1 year ago
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mctalks 1 year ago
Joni never performed at Woodstock
mctalks 1 year ago
Joni Mitchell didn't make it to Woodstock, but she wrote the exquisite song
kikicrete 1 year ago
Who the hell is the santa clause like guy?
GUITAPHIL 1 year ago
Regarding the crazy man: Manson was in prison at this time in 1970, so it isn't him, and, after reviewing photos, doesn't look that much like him.
mca56rpa 1 year ago
Did Charles Manson's "family" finance a trip for him to go to the Isle of Wight Festival? I agree that it looks and sounds like him. The shorter stature is correct, the schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur are there as well. I hate to think that there are two of him.
mca56rpa 1 year ago
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island711 1 year ago
I love Joni but I didn't quite get her point about the Indians and the tourists. Was she saying the audience was getting too rowdy & not into the softer side of the music? I think folk singers had a tough time at these predominantly "rock & roll" festivals. These early festivals tried to marry the folk crowds and rock crowds into one but they were, and remain, very different animals.
island711 1 year ago
That guy saying "I believe this is my festival" looks a lot like Charles Manson!
TheRailwaystationist 1 year ago
she was on the dick cavett show i believe that weekend. but wrote it and emailed it to CSNY to perform at Woodstock.
freespyrit 1 year ago
@freespyrit Email as we know it today was about a year old at this time and was pretty much the province of Multics geeks and similar types, and CSNY didn't perform it at Woodstock.
tubatalabal 1 year ago
@tubatalabal Lol... well the "email" part of my post was obviously a little humour. And email "as we know it today" certainly wasn't "a year old at this time"... perhaps you're also joking! And you're also wrong about CSNY. They played two sets, and Neil joined them in the middle of their acoustic set.
freespyrit 1 year ago
@freespyrit Good to hear you were joking! But read again: CSNY didn't perform IT at Woodstock, I said--the song. Obviously they performed at Woodstock. We've all heard the record and seen the footage.
As for email--the MAIL command was added to Multics, the precursor to Unix, around 1969. There were earlier message systems, but they were pretty different from what we have today. And the prototype ARPANet came into existence around 1968, with a primitive mail macro. So, no, I'm not wrong.
tubatalabal 1 year ago
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freespyrit 1 year ago
@tubatalabal Yes, I read the "it" as "at". But "email as we know it today", would include more than its mechanics. Distribution, penetration and facility are a huge part of what email is as we know it today.
freespyrit 1 year ago
@freespyrit Whatever, dude. Email was invented in the late 60s, is the point. (Protip: when you're wrong, just admit it.)
tubatalabal 1 year ago
Wacked out libtard hippie scum.
equinoxranch 1 year ago
This is Joni Mitchell singing "Woodstock" at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970.
john1000003 1 year ago
Is that Charlie Manson at 2:58? just kidding..... it looks like him though......
beelzabubba 1 year ago
i wonder what diss guy is doin now
hiphophippies 1 year ago
She turned Woodstock down to do a TV-show.
cecilito77 1 year ago
She was in LA watching the news when Woodstock was going on. That's when she wrote the song "woodstock", later made famous by CS&N, who incidently played their first gig at Yasgers farm. This footage of Mitchell is of her at Isle of Wight, interdispersed (for some strange reason) with Woodstock footage. Joni was not at Woodstock.
beelzabubba 1 year ago
she didn't go to Woodstock, did she?
fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 year ago
This is indeed the Isle of Wight. Joni famously did not perform at Woodstock--because, I seem to remember, her manager couldn't be bothered with the traffic.
RussMoxham 1 year ago
That dude's got some good acid in his head.
carioca56 1 year ago
Yeah.... Joni Mitchell watched woodstock on TV..lol She never actually went because she was told nobody was going to go.
rosydonut 1 year ago
IOW festival 1970
iowdave 1 year ago
sorry not carson Dick Cavett
goulldspellah 1 year ago
jwo06 is right, instead of going to Woodstock she stayed in California to make an appearance on Johnny Carson under the advisement of her Manager. She immediately regretted the decision and wrote this song in the week after the festival.Very groovy.
goulldspellah 1 year ago
Hey poster: what did Joni do? Write a song about the concert she was about to perform in? Dumb ass.
atty1chgo 1 year ago
Joni never attended Woodstock... she watched some of it in TV and then wrote this song "Woodstock". She recorded it on her album " Ladies Of The Canyon" (1970)and it was also covered by her friends CSN&Y on their "Deja Vu " album (1970).
This clip is from the Isle of Wight Concert in 1970.
tonto4848 1 year ago 2
crosby stills nash and young sung that song at woodstock not her
carkid5798 1 year ago
Joni Mitchell was never even near Woodstock during the `Summer of Love! Don`t know where this was filmed but it wasn`t Yassger`s Farm!
greycatcruzer 1 year ago 2
This is from the Isle of Wight Festival
gushjones 1 year ago
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ComedyLab 1 year ago
I love Joni and love the song, but this is a HOAX. Joni had a commitment to appear on Dick Cavett's TV show in New York City that weekend and WAS NOT AT THE WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL. When her buddies CSN&Y retuirned to the city after performing at the fesitval and told her all about it,, THEN she wrote the song. There were more outdoor festivals that summer and fall (notably one at Big Sur) where this may have been recorded and edited in with Woodstock footage.
PurpleHouse2658 2 years ago 2
@PurpleHouse2658 Nope, this is just the Isle of Wight Festival, after Woodstock. I'm sure a hundred people have said so already, though.
RussMoxham 1 year ago
@PurpleHouse2658 The clue is in the police uniform. It's British. Isle of Wight.
RussMoxham 1 year ago
history caught and shared!@ thanks
DungeonSF 2 years ago
Poor guy, a classic example of mental-illness. Oh the suffering he's been through.. and his poor family. There but for the grace of God go us..
celloprofundo 2 years ago
what eejit u don't interupt joni ever !
whirlyfan 2 years ago 2
I agree, he must be a Manson wannabe.
How sick!
larry930legend 2 years ago
poor joni
pizzabuddah 2 years ago
Joni Mitchell blew off Woodstock for a gig on the Dick Cavett show. Ironic!
cunnidvd 2 years ago
not woodstock, but i'm sure you know that by now.
this is isle of wight.
thanks jwo06
julieyard1 2 years ago
She famously never got to woodstock, stayed in NY to do a TV show (dick cavett or mike douglas or one of those) while CSNY chartered a helicopter. One of her regrets...
williamfeuer 2 years ago 27
Are you sure because I Don't Know!...I dreamed that NYC was levaled turned into the beautiful green fields I saw like California!....(but I guess many are so proud and unthankful!)...the cold war..metamorphosis..In The Garden of Eden..FOX! Rock's Czar!
foxyroxstar 2 years ago
@williamfeuer it was Dick Cavett...and CSN joined her on the show, fresh (so to speak) from their performance there...That guy looked like 'Charlie' didn't he?
hocuspocusfocusable 1 year ago
Lay Down ( Candles In The Rain) by Melanie is far better than Woodstock by Mitchell
caravaggio31 2 years ago
I didn't understand what went on.
caravaggio31 2 years ago
There was a big trip in the counterculture about having to pay to see music festivals. Many of them believed music should be free and considered everybody's. They didn't get the fact that it takes money to pull off something as big as the Isle of Wight Music Festival because that is how the world works. So they bitched and moaned and refused to pay money. Most of the people who attended snuck in and didn't pay. The same thing happened at Woodstock.
thimoneus 2 years ago
Guess what the result of all of that was. Isle of Wight marked the end of the era of the great rock festivals. You should see the full documentary.
The nut case who interrupted Joni Mitchell wanted to bitch on the microphone about how "I believe this is MY festival!" and how people shouldn't have to pay to see something so phenomenal and incredibly expensive to create. Those stupid assholes ruined one of the greatest trends that ever existed on this planet.
thimoneus 2 years ago
The guy looks like Charles Manson.
caravaggio31 2 years ago 2
Yeah, and he also sort of thinks and talks like him. Manson, Isle of Wight, and Altamont are what ended the major era of the hippies. That sucks because some really phenomenal music came from that culture. I think it is the greatest music in the history of the world.
thimoneus 2 years ago 3
No doubt about it.
Dead, Airplane, Doors, Mamas and Papas, even Robert Plant was an english hippie as he described himself.
Today, live with Beyonce, Eminen, 50 Cent and Jay Z!
caravaggio31 2 years ago
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her voice is a gift
doodlesxlove 2 years ago
a man's blues, what do you mean?
SilveryScreen 2 years ago
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SilveryScreen 2 years ago
This is not at Woodstock, it's at Isle of Wight in 1970.
jwo06 2 years ago 41
You're right
elbalajazz 2 years ago
@jwo06 You are so right, jwo06.....Joni did not perform at Woodstock. Her manager convinced her instead to appear on the Dick Cavet show, which she did.
Lonestarry 1 year ago
@jwo06 Joni never played Woodstock
sperk31161 5 months ago
@jwo06 Joni never played Woodstock
sperk31161 5 months ago
so what the fuck!she's still Joni,she's still famous and prolific. assholes,feel sorry for yourself.
garzaeduardo 2 years ago
well it was sung at woodstock, but not by her.... and yes i imagine that must have been so hard for her
joeadd778 2 years ago
It wasn't sung at Woodstock because it was written during Woodstock.
whotookaegir 2 years ago
This wasn't at Woodstock
larrygentry 2 years ago
Right, this is actually the Isle of Wight Festival the following summer.
aarfeld 2 years ago 3
Charles Manson needs to get back to the garden..
darganx 2 years ago 5
Correct,this was not Woodstock,and it was a disaster for her, she was in tears.
lancitos 2 years ago
It's correct that Joni was only one of Woodstock public?
RESOFT56 2 years ago
It's not Woodstock, dude. It's the Isle of White.
baco82 2 years ago 2
Joni did not play Woodstock. She was planning to, but the festival crowds threatened to interfere with a scheduled appearance on the Dick Cavett show. If she had played Woodstock, it is very likely she wouldn't have made the show in time. Instead, we got this song.
turtlens 2 years ago
Exactly.
billysscreeningroom 2 years ago
I think she regretted missing WS deeply - perhaps even somewhat ashamed, since it didn't really come out until many years later that it was due to her manager's advice. Originally many thought it was due to traffic problems. My own opinion was that she and her manager underestimated Woodstock's full impact and ...well, the Dick Cavett Show was a big gig at the time. It would not have been career smart to cancel it.
nblumer 2 years ago
I absolutely agree. But she did manage to write the definitive song about the event and the song was included over the end credits of the ultimate documentary of the film. So, in a weird way, she made up for it. But, yeah --- I think she was angry at having missed the musical event of her generation.
billysscreeningroom 2 years ago 4
Oh you are so right there. By the way, I read somewher that she lost her taste for folk festivals over the years. It may have been the distracting noise, incidents like this video, or just the plain "folk tourist" commercial scene that turned her off. The genre anti-folk (a group of youngsters sitting around a room and singing from the perspective of youth) may be the antidote.
nblumer 2 years ago
Yeah, I think that's right. I once saw her, years ago, at a benefit concert for Leonard Peltier and she forgot the lines to "The Last Time I Saw Richard" because the audience was more of a loud Willie Nelson group (also on the bill!) and she said as much --- that she was losing her taste for festivals. And that was maybe 15 years ago or more.
billysscreeningroom 2 years ago
She wasn't the only one who couldn't see ahead of time the festival's impact. Tough call, huh? The Cavett show WAS the Cavett show and prior to its happening Woodstock could easily have seemed just another gig...everyone learned better of course. Funny thing (and fortunately for Joni), despite her absence, her writing the festival's theme song cemented her presence there in the public consciousness anyway, so she gets to have her cake and eat it too, even if she might not have seen it that way.
dantean 2 years ago 2
Joni Mitchell was quite an inspiration to me with her open acoustic guitar style which included a unique folk jazz sound and incredible lyrics. Listen to "Clouds" and "Help me"
DonnieMayer1 2 years ago
GhostDye,,
I think you're right . It is the Isle of Wight gig. It sure as hell ain't Woodstock. My apologies and good for you,
TheRussell7 2 years ago 2
The video you are watching is from a California concert, Joni never played at Woodstock, Geffen told her she would never be able to get in and out to be on the Cavett show on Monday. Crosby Stills and Nash flew in, by helocopter and Joni watched the whole damn thing on TV in her hotel room in New York City. She wrote "Woodstock" that night and performed itt on Cavett when the boys crashed her interview. This is common knowledge. She was never there.
TheRussell7 2 years ago 4
i thought this was the isle of wight!?
GhostDye 2 years ago
Joni Mitchell: Played a controversial set; Following her rendition of "Woodstock", a hippie named Yogi Joe interrupted her set to make a speech about Desolation Row. When Joe was hauled off by Joni's manager, the audience began to boo until Mitchell made an emotional appeal to them for some respect for the performers. After the crowd quieted down, Mitchell closed her set with "Big Yellow Taxi"
minzcat 2 years ago
lol who let charles manson out of jail? :D
niox20 2 years ago 2
Wow! That was pretty intense!
nearfalse 2 years ago
I'm always eager and willing to spread the gospel of Joni, always looking for new converts, so any questions or recommendations, just ask.
fleenster 2 years ago
Yea its ISLE OF WIGHT 1970,,,
chicfunk 2 years ago
This is not Woodstock. This is Joni singing Woodstock at some other concert... maybe the Isle Of Wight judging by the way the officer is dressed. Anyway, Joni did NOT perform at Woodstock. I was there and believe me, I would have remembered it. I was a huge fan even then. Check her bios. She was not there.
fleenster 2 years ago 3
I love you Joni
dreamygreen74 2 years ago 3
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soho1080 2 years ago
some things have not changed; many of us were trying to bring about some better way of living and being; many are so wrapped up in their paranoia, their narrow-mindedness and she saw that and as a performer spoke directly to it in this performance; she wrote the song, was not at Woodstock, but captured the aura of what was happening then; it has been and always will be about the music and the many people who were trying for a better way to be;
califbaby1969 2 years ago 3
you mean joni mitchell sings "woodstock"
dubbedcrazy 3 years ago
she has a song. called woodstock. about woodstock.
stilllifeculture 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but check any biography of Joni mitchell, she was unable to play woodstock and has since regretted it. The song Woodstock is not necescarily abnout the festival but of the time and generation which it represents.
goldiecox34 3 years ago
Joni was not at Woodstock!
kimhanson 3 years ago 3