Thanks for that video...my parents often listened to her songs, my father covered her (and a lot of other protest & folk songs) for himself, played it in school with his pupils..a lot of memories are coming up..also the events during my youth in the eraly 1990s when the yogoslawian wars were raging. We lived some 500 km north to the (former) yugoslavian border, people fleed and looked for some place to live on...the world needs peace, and there is nothing of it in sight - so lets not loose hope.
I had some friends who attended folk music meetings at a corner house in the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. This was before 1965. During this time period we went together one night to hear Joan Baez sing at the UC Berkeley Greek Theater. The first thing she said before she began singing was to say something about taking off her shoes. I was amazed and stunned. I can still see her on the stage as if it were moments ago. Then maybe a year or two later I was at a Big Sur Folk Festival at the Esalen Institute. I can recall it as clear now as it was then as I was walking along and saw her and her sister Mimi sitting on the grass. Both of them looked up at me. Mimi had just lost her husband Richard to what I recall was a motorcycle accident. Me being then as I still am to some measure, shy, said nothing.
"Lot's wife looked backward, and she was turned into a pillar of salt. I looked backwards and was turned into a statue of bronze." John Landy, referring to the statue outside of the stadium commemorating the pivotal moment of the Miracle Mile
what a voice - love her voice - sad to see her on biden's side of late tho - seems strange as she used to stand up for good stuff - wouldve thought she would back Trump - anyway stunning voice
Totally crazy for liddell not to compete in the 100 mtrs in my opinion it was a much bigger sin to waste god given talent by not competing in the 100 mtrs
I have been to the stadium. It's a shame they tore out the track and replaced it with a jogging trail painted like a track. North America has a tradition of tearing out great track stadiums. St. Louis, Los Angeles twice (and they will do it again), Montreal and Atlanta. All Olympic tracks, gone.
Only an idiot thinks that a woman can run a 47 second 400 meters without drugs. I ran that fast in college at the Penn Relays. I thought I was going to die. And most of the 48 second 400 meters by women are drug enhanced as well. People just don't know how hard that race is.
Wonderful portrait of Joan Baez!! My idol, my role model and my first music teacher! Tried to model her to a T since I was 8 years old! Can't believe she ever had stage fright!! Thank you, Daddy, for introducing me to her so early in my life! <3 <3 <3
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama (b. 1961) for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". That was a premature honor. Baez was a Human Rights and Equality Activist sacrificing her life and continues to strengthen equality - Baez has spoken through her music for the people of the world for generations. She sacrificed Jail and threats and push back. She didn't have a security detail either. Even if Obama was of age, he would not have sacrificed his life for those of others. He's just not wired that way.
I notice that DOWNRIGHT HIDEOUS section of English society raises it's TOTALLY REVOLTING head YET AGAIN. I am referring to the bit where the narrator talks of Abrahams being English, but Liddell only being referred to as British and NOT Scottish as he SHOULD HAVE BEEN. One day someone MUST explain why so many English (I would like to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR that I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING against the English) INSIST upon being DELIBERATELY STUPID, IGNORANT AND PERSISTENT regarding this TOTAL GARBAGE about England being the whole of Britain. Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland
When Diamonds and Rust first came out Joan Baez denied that it was about Dylan and I totally believed her, years later I heard that she had written it about Dylan and was open about it, and if I ever had the opportunity to speak to Joan Baez, I’d tell her about how I hung outside of the big picture window with the folding table and the owners of the local lesbian bookstore at Stephen Talkhouse in Miami because I was too late to buy a ticket to her show but rode the bus up there anyway and that I got the chance to enjoy Diamonds and Rust as both a deep love song of an anonymous couple and as the story of one of the mythological love stories of the era, and how much I enjoy knowing that❣️
Always enjoyed your singing John I remember you seeing in back in the 60s I think one of the thing the things about your voice it’s nice as the cry that you have in it you let your voice cry I’m going to Jehovah’s Witnesses so I never did join the war movement we don’t do that in any country if you would like to learn more about it we have free study lessons for anyone that wants to learn more about it
