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Joni Mitchell Woodstock, My Old Man Live at Isle of Wight

26-year-old Joni Mitchell performs complete Woodstock on acoustic piano at England's Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. The legendary singer-songwriter's composition was intended for the historic 1969 Woodstock music festival that she ended up not appearing at. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recorded Woodstock for their second album Deja Vu. My Old Man (5:38) from the album Blue follows.

Npr.com review: As Joni Mitchell introduced her fourth song, "Woodstock," a man in the front rows flipped out and needed medical attention. A producer took the concert stage to ask for a doctor. The disturbance, Mitchell said, rippled to the back of the crowd. But she forged ahead nervously, to meager applause. The song would become a signature tune, but at the time it was only the B-side of the single "Big Yellow Taxi," released four months earlier. Many in the audience were probably hearing it for the first time. During the song, Yogi Joe, an acquaintance of Mitchell's, somehow furtively made his way onto the stage. First, he quietly played a drum at Mitchell's feet; then he made a grab for the microphone before he was eventually dragged away. "We are uptight about commercial music co-opting our festival," he tried to explain as the camera followed him backstage.

The crowd was riled up, possibly mistaking Mitchell as just another authority figure who wouldn't let a young hippie have his say. Nearly in tears, she fingered the opening piano chords to a new song, "My Old Man." But music couldn't soothe the savage breast, so she stopped to give the audience what is now considered in Joni lore as the infamous angry lecture:

"Listen a minute, will you? Will you listen a minute!? Now listen, a lot of people who get up here and sing, I know it's fun, you know, it's a lot of fun. It's fun for me, I get my feelings off through my music, but listen. You got your life wrapped up in it and it's very difficult to come out here and lay something down ... It's like last Sunday, I went to a Hopi ceremonial dance in the desert, and there were a lot of people there, and there were tourists. And there were tourists who were getting into it like Indians and Indians who were getting into it like tourists. And I think that you're acting like tourists, man. Give us some respect!"

And it appears the massive crowd gave Mitchell exactly that.
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Purchase the Joni Mitchell, 'Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival' DVD/Blu-ray for the complete concert and documentary. Track Listing:
1. “That Song About The Midway”
2. “Chelsea Morning”
3. “For Free”
4. “Woodstock”
5. “My Old Man”
6. “California”
7. “Big Yellow Taxi”
8. “Both Sides Now”
9. “Gallery”
10. “Hunter”
11. “A Case Of You”

The three-day festival honoring the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock 1969 event is coming to Watkins Glen, New York on August 16, 17 and 18, 2019. Organizers won’t be announcing specific acts until tickets go on sale in February 2019, but Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang says that over 40 performers have been booked already across three stages, including some big-name headliners. “It’ll be an eclectic bill,” Lang says. “It’ll be hip-hop and rock and some pop and some of the legacy bands from the original festival.” Source: RollingStone.com

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