Joni Mitchell - I Don't Know Where I Stand - Concert Unknown (AKA Germany 1968)

[zimzoomit]

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I am having a difficult time posting my advocacy messages on this thread.

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I can TOTALLY empathize with Joni's lyrics/thoughts in her songs, Magdalene Laundries, even though I was not a bonafide Catholic.

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Though enrolled in Catholic school in Jaffa, Israel, at age 7 (my father was a Catholic], I learned, shortly thereafter, at that YOUNG AGE, that people, often AWFUL people, used religious tactics to separate/exclude "deserving" persons (of their own choice) from others who "deserved" .. YES. I learned this when I was the daughter of a diplomat! Oh please..if a God, Buddha or Higher Power abounds, let him/her SAVE us from frauds!

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I particularly focused on traditional music, in my late teens & early 20's, a decade later, loved/learned Bothy Band tunes.

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Also, to the commentor who posted below, about Sandy Denney,..well, I also admired Sandy Denney, particularly when she was with Fairport Convention [think..All Around My Hat & All Ye Roving Minstrels.

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For the better part of my professional work & life, I worked in social services & in occupations that HELPED women, so can IDENTIFY w/DISADVANTAGED women. My musical "bent" or hobby, & it's professional gains, if only minimally, only ads to my SERIOUS intent to help other women who have been, similarly, domestically abused.

[zimzoomit]

I especially love most of the tunes of Joni's on her album, Turbulent Indigo, as, I can IDENTIFY with most of those songs, whether from my own perspective/life, or from MANY women who I befriended who experienced sexual abuse or domestic violence, from 1969 through 2011.

[zimzoomit]

sorry..typo..I meant..MY EGO IS NOT THERE. Now I only want to sit back, enjoy/appreciate life, & other artists who endeavor to achieve, maybe not on a "great" level, but on a LOCAL level, & who PASS DOWN their KNOWLEDGE to the next generation, do not "grab" all the "glory" for themselves, but who MENTOR other youngsters, w/out corrupting them.

[zimzoomit]

Joni.., maybe I will get the courage to have my S.O. record me, in his basement, 36 track recording studio, MY arrangements/interpretations of "Marcy" and "Don't Know Where I Stand", so I can prove my points.., buy my EGO is not there, but I might so that, b/c I am now age 60, want to "pass the torch" to other female musicians..am tired.., sort of like in your song, Midway Down The Midway. Got me?

[zimzoomit]

You were not my only influence, though. Many others came after you, including many aspiring jazz artists (I, too, became an aspiring/paid jazz vocalist in my region) as is typical w/most musicians. Later, I admired songs by Eric Anderson, like Down At The Cantina. I read, only lately, that you learned some of your open tunings from him. Nevertheless, I admire your work.

[zimzoomit]

The first songs of yours I learned, note for note, open tunings, were Don't Know Where I Stand and Marcy. Those were songs I first learned from the high school peer who taught me them, in or around 1970, & we performed together, duo style. I would later earn $, for years, performing live, in small venues, thnx to your influence.

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I met the mother of Judy Collins, when she visited John Clark, in Gold Hill, CO, supposedly who knew Judy & CS&N, but I never met Judy, but someday, I want to sit w/you, play guitars/dulcimers w/you, know if or not the open tunings I learned of your songs are right. I also met Garnet Rogers, brother of Stan, another Canadian artist I admire. I am now age 60. I forget NOT what you, even if by proxy, taught me. Love you Joni.

[zimzoomit]

Joni, I so admire you. I learned your open tunings, & also dulcimer tunes you did, learned probably four songs on your first two albums, at age 16, in the late 70's, from a FEMALE friend, who performed w/me in high school. I went on to perform in 6 states, from ages 20-36 (or later) I want to MEET you someday.

[mthivier]

Sublime. The late Sandy Denney, one of Joni's few true singing and songwriting peers, also did a lovely cover of this song.

[basha220175]

Funny how on the song in the album she sings "all alone in California" and here it's "Carolina".

[arushingmd]

thank you for uploading this amazing show. The clarity is insane!

[DataDame]

Very possibly my favorite Joni Mitchell song. Happy to find it here.

[puddypuss]

thanks for putting this on, a good find.

[billyguns2]

This is one of Joni's most inspired creations, and my poor words cannot hope to adequately convey what I feel every time I hear it.

[Okinawamiamor]

@billyguns2 I discovered Joni with this song.

[Bflatblues55]

Amazing.

She leaves me breathless... her voice is the finest instrument I think I shall ever hear. Ever.