{"id":21714,"date":"2024-08-13T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2024-08-13T21:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:38:22","slug":"music-joni-mitchell-isle-o-wight-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21714","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Joni Mitchell, Isle o\u2019 Wight, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joni Mitchell (Documentary) The Isle Of Wight Festival, England 1970 BluRay 5.1 surround 96KHz\u201424bit\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EgrtMpG-UHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reading my recently acquired Mojo Joni Mitchell special today, and an article on <em>Blue<\/em> talked a bit about her 1970 Isle of Wight performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far I\u2019ve only ever seen\/heard one or two of her tracks from this event, and I had judged it a mistake for her to even perform at such a huge rock concert. Pearls before swine, poss? But certainly an inappropriate setting for such subtle, delicate, gentle music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7599-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21718\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7599-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7599-1-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Reading this\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For me Joni really only ought ever to have been experienced performing in intimate coffee house type settings, or at Jazz Caf\u00e9 type venues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think gigs over a certain size are mostly a bad idea. They\u2019re more about money (\u2018bums on seats\u2019), than quality of experience, for either artist or audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, reading about how her Isle o\u2019 Wight set evolves, made me want to watch the whole thing. I don\u2019t yet know if the above video is just that, or not, as I have yet to watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading my recently acquired Mojo Joni Mitchell special today, and an article on Blue talked a bit about her 1970 Isle of Wight performance. So far I\u2019ve only ever seen\/heard one or two of her tracks from this event, and I had judged it a mistake for her to even perform at such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Joni Mitchell, Isle o\u2019 Wight, 1970&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-5Ee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21720,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions\/21720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}