Red Mosquito • View topic - Joni Mitchell: "Bob Dylan is not authentic at all"

ThumbingMyWayToNFLD · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:09 pm

So, this is news to me. I had no idea there were any hard feelings between these two.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... full.story

Quote:

LAT: As well, you've had experience becoming a character outside yourself [Mitchell caused controversy when she appeared as an African American male on the cover of her 1977 album, "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter"].The folk scene you came out of had fun creating personas. You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan.

JM: Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

YessCode · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:12 am **Posts:** 3783

I am so glad the reporter asked her to expand on that comment.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:45 pm

*shrugs it off*

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:56 pm

He might be fake, but his music is better and he speaks to me more. Not that I don't like her music. Some of it is great.

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:56 pm

YessCode wrote:

I am so glad the reporter asked her to expand on that comment.

punkdavid · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:57 pm

There has been a TON of discussion about this on the Rust List, and after digesting what I could stomach of it, I think I've come to the conclusion that Joni Mitchell is mentally ill.

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:03 pm

warehouse · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:05 pm

joni mitchell never lies

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:08 pm

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:11 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?

why yes it does

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?

That sentence is very hard to read when written down.

windedsailor · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:27 pm

its called a musical act for a reason guys

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:28 pm

Harmless wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?

That sentence is very hard to read when written down.

Put away your DDT now.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Seriously, Mitchell seems a little paranoid here. Like she thinks the interviewer is fraternising with the evil guys who paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

BadMusic · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:30 pm

What is going to happen now?

washing machine · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:36 pm

Guys, we don't have to take sides. I'm going to put on The Hissing of Summer Lawns and slowly walk away from this thread.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:37 pm

Guys, Reid is right.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

I'm not taking sides. Folk music isn't about taking sides, I know that.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:06 pm

Actually, that's exactly what folk music is about.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Yeah I forgot about the whole folk/protest movement.

Hmmm... I dunno, I think my influence on this thread has dried up.

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