In France They Kiss on Main Street
Joni Mitchell, guitar & vocal
Pat Metheny, guitar
Jaco Pastorius, bass
Lyle Mays, keyboard
Don Alias, drums
posted by Flickhead at
12:49 PM
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Joni Mitchell, guitar & vocal
Pat Metheny, guitar
Jaco Pastorius, bass
Lyle Mays, keyboard
Don Alias, drums
5 Comments:
I enjoyed this! It was nice to see how Metheny took the solos in a different direction from Robben Ford's on the original...
I should netflix the dvd.
Glad you liked it!
It's one of Joni's best touring bands. (Michael Brecker joins them on sax.)
I'm not up on technical terms, so I don't know what kind of video Shadows and Light was shot on, but it looks a little fuzzy and poorly lit. And the insert shots (Rebel Without a Cause, Joni dressed up like a blackbird, etc.) come off a little clunky.
But the performance itself is generally excellent, and offers a rare opportunity to watch Jaco Pastorius play.
I caught the "Shadows & Light" tour, as I've caught almost every tour Joni's ever done. She's a longtime favorite. I recall she was criticized for her appearance around this time. Someone called her a Beverly Hills frau or something like that.
The "clunky" video inserts were, I believe, a fascination Joni had at the time with superimpositions, images layered on top of other images, like the virtual reflections in windows.
I think my favorite Mitchell pairing is with B.B. King when--at a Bread & Roses concert--she helped him sing "The Thrill is Gone." This was during the Mingus days when all the Black musicians were calling her Lady Joni.
Her's is a marvelous mirror of a career. My whole life is there. From my hippie underpinnings, through the aspirations and compromises of the '80s, right on u to her most recent, simple complaints. Would that we would have listened earlier.
Michael: I believe the comment about her appearance had to do with her looking like a "Marin housewife" in The Last Waltz.
For some reason, that nugget's been rattling around in my head for 25 years.
I believe yer right!! Isnt' that funny we should remember that after all these years? I think it's because it was right at that time that we were trading our tie-dyes for three-piece suits and our peace signs for computer keyboards.
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