SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Joan Baez - "Too bad you're a communist"
Page 1 2 
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Joan Baez - "Too bad you're a communist" Login/Join 
aileron
Member
Picture of aileron
posted June 01, 2020 12:27 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by cjevans:
I remember Joan Baez 'Rejoice in the Sun', the movie 'Silent Running'.

An environmental-themed post-apocalyptic science fiction film. Fantasy for some perhaps.


A great Bruce Dern movie

 
Posts: 1519 | Location: Montana - bear country | Registered: March 20, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
NK402
Member
posted June 03, 2020 10:34 PMHide Post
Never agreed with her politics but always thought she would make for an interesting date.
 
Posts: 2561 | Location: Central Virginia | Registered: July 20, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
kkina
Lost
Picture of kkina
posted June 03, 2020 10:43 PMHide Post
I recently found out why Baez' cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by Robbie Robertson and The Band uses markedly different lyrics. Apparently she never had a printed copy of the words, so recorded what she thought she heard, obviously mishearing many of the lyrics.



ACCU-STRUT FOR MINI-14
"Pen & Sword as one."
 
Posts: 17493 | Location: SF Bay Area | Registered: December 11, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
flashguy
Muzzle flash
aficionado
Picture of flashguy
posted June 04, 2020 10:50 AMHide Post
Her rendition of "Plaisir d'Amour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhGsQk_3tZY

I can temporarily forget her politics when listening to that. (Love her guitar work, too.)

flashguy



Texan by choice, not accident of birth
 
Posts: 27911 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: May 08, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
HRK
Thank you
Very little
Picture of HRK
posted June 04, 2020 10:58 AMHide Post
Great voice, but not a big fan of the music, it's just not my scene man, more into heavy rock!
 
Posts: 25682 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
pulicords
Member
Picture of pulicords
posted June 04, 2020 11:42 AMHide Post
I really enjoyed her music and even went to one of her concerts back in the 1970's, when (if memory serves me correct) she took a lot of heat for criticizing the silence of her "liberal" friends for ignoring the plight of those being murdered and otherwise abused in Cambodia (under Pol Pot) and Vietnam.


"I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken."
 
Posts: 10325 | Location: The Free State of Arizona | Registered: June 13, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
flashguy
Muzzle flash
aficionado
Picture of flashguy
posted June 04, 2020 12:13 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Great voice, but not a big fan of the music, it's just not my scene man, more into heavy rock!
I'm a Classical music person. Haven't cared for any "popular" music since the 1940s (with a few -- very few -- exceptions).

flashguy



Texan by choice, not accident of birth
 
Posts: 27911 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: May 08, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
TigerDore
Member
Picture of TigerDore
posted June 08, 2020 03:25 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
He is quoting exactly what the apologists for communism and socialism claim today...

Yes, I was definitely zinging the Left for that "Bolshev" (love that term!) laden excuse. I was also zinging them for their assertion that we can have a democratic form (Democratic Socialism) of totalitarian government.



.
 
Posts: 9630 | Registered: September 26, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
kkina
Lost
Picture of kkina
posted June 08, 2020 03:37 PMHide Post
Joan is still activisting...



ACCU-STRUT FOR MINI-14
"Pen & Sword as one."
 
Posts: 17493 | Location: SF Bay Area | Registered: December 11, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
TigerDore
Member
Picture of TigerDore
posted June 08, 2020 04:10 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I recently found out why Baez' cover of [i]The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down[

I'm not sure she understood the true meaning of the song. Otherwise, I don't believe she would have performed it.


.
 
Posts: 9630 | Registered: September 26, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
NK402
Member
posted June 08, 2020 11:17 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I recently found out why Baez' cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by Robbie Robertson and The Band uses markedly different lyrics. Apparently she never had a printed copy of the words, so recorded what she thought she heard, obviously mishearing many of the lyrics.

[FLASH_VIDEO]<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nnS9M03F-fA" width="560"></iframe>[/FLASH_VIDEO]


Her botching the lyrics of a song was not unusual. I had an album of hers once that on the back of it was an apology that said something along the lines of "Miss Baez apologizes to the writers of any songs whose lyrics she may have altered".
 
Posts: 2561 | Location: Central Virginia | Registered: July 20, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 2  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Joan Baez - "Too bad you're a communist"

© SIGforum 2025