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
June 03, 2020, 10:34 PM
NK402
Never agreed with her politics but always thought she would make for an interesting date.
June 03, 2020, 10:43 PM
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.
I can temporarily forget her politics when listening to that. (Love her guitar work, too.)
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
June 04, 2020, 10:58 AM
HRK
Great voice, but not a big fan of the music, it's just not my scene man, more into heavy rock!
June 04, 2020, 11:42 AM
pulicords
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."
June 04, 2020, 12:13 PM
flashguy
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
June 08, 2020, 03:25 PM
TigerDore
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.
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.
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June 08, 2020, 11:17 PM
NK402
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.
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".
