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Post by kmarie on Apr 23, 2010 14:45:01 GMT -5
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/23/bob-dylan-joni-mitchellJoni Mitchell in 1970Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk, Friday 23 April 2010 09.56 BST In an outspoken interview, Joni Mitchell claims Bob Dylan's 'name and voice are fake', but remembers Jimi Hendrix fondlyBob Dylan is "a plagiarist", Joni Mitchell said in a rare interview this week, offering cranky comments on old Bob and warm memories of Jimi Hendrix. The legendary singer-songwriter, who has wrestled with health problems, said she may quit music to lobby for recognition of her rare medical condition. But let's begin with Dylan. Mitchell was speaking to the LA Times as part of a joint interview with performance artist John Kelly, who has performed Mitchell's songs in drag. The Times interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. (Mitchell also abandoned her birth name, Roberta Joan Anderson.) Mitchell launched into an unprovoked assault. "We are like night and day, he and I," she scoffed. "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception." Cowed, the interviewer moved on to safer topics – such as Prince (apparently a Mitchell fan) and sex appeal. Yet Mitchell still had time to slag off Grace Slick and Janis Joplin (allegedly they were "[sleeping with] their whole bands and falling down drunk"), and Madonna. Railing against the "stupid, destructive" era we live in, Mitchell took aim at the Material Girl. "Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point." It wasn't all pee and vinegar. Mitchell fondly recalled Hendrix, "the sweetest guy", and late-night listening sessions together. But even this memory is shaded in frustration. "He made his reputation by setting his guitar on fire, but that eventually became repugnant to him," she recalled. "'I can't stand to do that anymore,' he said, 'but they've come to expect it. I'd like to just stand still like Miles.'" If Mitchell seems ornery, it may simply be because she is feeling better. Last year, the singer announced that she suffers from Morgellons syndrome, a rare skin condition. It's a controversial diagnosis – many doctors deny that Morgellons is real, calling it delusional. "[It's a] weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space," Mitchell told the Times. "But my health's the best it's been in a while. Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since 23 December." "Garbo and Dietrich hid away just because people became so upset watching them age, but this is worse," she said. "Fibres in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer – a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year." "In America ... [doctors] send you to a psychiatrist," Mitchell explained. "I'm actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that's owed to them." Then again, this campaign will need funding. Perhaps Bob Dylan could record a benefit album?
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Post by kmarie on Apr 23, 2010 16:29:39 GMT -5
WOW, she must really have been feeling bad. Joni Mitchell said she has not been out since Decemer 23rd until 2 nights ago. I am happy to hear she is feeling better AND that she wants to battle for Morgellons sufferers. I was hoping to be able to read about the song she dedicated to Morgellons sufferers.
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Post by ibzahp on Apr 23, 2010 17:15:15 GMT -5
Thanks so much for posting this-what great news!
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Post by 2.99(plus~tax) on Apr 23, 2010 20:40:14 GMT -5
joni,
if you ever read this.....thank you. from the bottom of my willful heart, I thank you.
Ali
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Post by kiki on Apr 23, 2010 20:47:07 GMT -5
Nice to read some good new- thanks!
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Post by kammy on Apr 24, 2010 8:44:51 GMT -5
Thank you, Joni - we so desperately need you! Love to you and yours.
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Post by kmarie on Apr 24, 2010 14:44:40 GMT -5
Yes, Thank You Joni Mitchell Here today are some other sources that have picked up the story making more publicity for Morgellons disease. I received these below from the Google NEWS alert: www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/757762www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/joni-mitchell-accuses-bob-dylan-of-plagiarism-1952970.html( Same article, just different publications ) Mitchell talked at length about a skin condition she claims to suffer from. Morgellon's syndrome is regarded by most doctors as a delusional condition where sufferers imagine fibres growing under their skin, rather than a clinical disease. But Mitchell said it left her largely housebound, calling it a "weird, incurable disease that seems it's from outer space. But my health's the best it's been in a while. Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since 23 December."
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Post by ibzahp on Apr 24, 2010 16:59:54 GMT -5
Joni, if your listening -Thanks from the bottom of my heart for talking about what its like to have Morgellons. It really takes guts to talk about it because the condition is so misunderstood by the public and neglected by the medical establishment. That is something that needs to change and needs to change now. There are a lot of people suffering
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Post by justhanginin on Apr 24, 2010 18:08:44 GMT -5
Thank you Joni, for having the courage to come out in public with your story. It is very disheartening to say the least when our doctors, the people who are supposed to help us, treat us like we have rocks in our head.
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Post by kmarie on Apr 24, 2010 18:48:55 GMT -5
WOW, the LA TIMES too! Got this from Grady: morgellonspgpr.wordpress.com/Original LINK at Los Angeles Times:www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-jonimitchell-20100422,0,601452,full.story --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAT: You've come out in the media as a sufferer of a controversial condition known as Morgellons. How is your health currently?JM: I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space, but my health's the best it's been in a while, Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since Dec. 23: I don't look so bad under incandescent light, but I look scary under daylight. Garbo and Dietrich hid away just because people became so upset watching them age, but this is worse. Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer — a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year. But I have a tremendous will to live: I've been through another pandemic — I'm a polio survivor, so I know how conservative the medical body can be. In America, the Morgellons is always diagnosed as "delusion of parasites," and they send you to a psychiatrist. I'm actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that's owed to them.
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Post by Lynn on Apr 25, 2010 0:56:33 GMT -5
I fallowed the links and at the secound link alot of people are responding and treating her like a crazy lady. I tried to leave a short reponse in support with some links to news cast vedios of other celebrities and news articles of celebs with this dease and short info about it being a bacterium dease and not a skin dease. I tried to explain how it starts inside and spread and affects all the rest of the body and how it invites others problems to piggy back along with the dease. Than my stinkin computer frooze up and it took forever to just close it all down without ever getting the post out. Would be nice if others would fallow the secound link and leave their two bits in there. Maybe a few close minded dummies will open their eyes that are leaving such hateful responses to what Joni Mitchell said.
In Light Lynn
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Post by bannanny on Apr 25, 2010 22:30:19 GMT -5
I sure do admire her for stepping up... I wish we could somehow invite her to the board but I don't know how to go about that. If anyone can find an email for her tho, I'll send her one with the link to our family here. I'm sure she'd appreciate it... just as much as we apppreciate what she's doing for all of us.
big hugs ~~ bannanny
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Post by mercury on Apr 26, 2010 4:25:35 GMT -5
Joni, you're the best! I've loved you and your music since I was a kid. Thank you for speaking out for us. We really need you. Lots of Love! Merc "white flags of winter chimneys holding truce against the moon in the mirrors of a modern bank from the window of my hotel room" (from Hejira by J. Mitchell)
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