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.
@eyemagistus. Thanks for your appreciation of my comments. I really would like to enhance such suggestion. In my beloved country worthy to talk about it, I'm afraid to find to right person at the right place, when I'm on journey. First of all I hope that the shadow of war would be aside, then comes the green light for such true dream to reward Joan Baez. Hearty thanks for your wonderful thought. With renewed seasons greetings (Happy Easter) to every body. And thanks again for remembering me. 🌅💐🎊⚖️🕯️😍🙏
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❣️
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.
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!
The most amazing woman i ever met...at Esalon Big Sur i watched thrm rehearsing for the festival later...pn a small wooden platform they were dancing...she walked over⁹ (pregnant) and said you can do it too anf i did and renjoyed a really fum time.
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.
This was a wonderful documentary, why are there only 64 comments? I worked at a radio station for 12 years in the 70s/80s. My coworker was going to interview her at her concert in town, I asked him if I could go with him. He said OK but you’re on your own I can’t be responsible for you. Imagine my surprise when during the interview he had to leave for a few minutes and there I was all alone in the dressing room with her completely unexpectedly. It really caught me off guard and I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t have the courage to say I love Mimi, I love you, I love sweet sir Galahad, I love the hitchhiker song and the song about David. I didn’t want to act like a fan. Living in Santa Barbara for 60 years I would run into countless celebrities but this one really knocked me for a loop. I would never ask for an autograph because I didn’t think it was respectable. Instead I asked her how she disciplined her son Gabe… Oh well you can’t regret things like that. She very calmly and down to earth answered my question
I dodged the draft board. In 1972 I was in Texas and I got a letter telling me if I did not report to the draft board in TN they would send the police for me. I refused to report to the draft board. I was in basic training for the USAF.
If i met Joan Baez today; I'd simply tell her this; " You are an amazing, strong, powerful woman with this voice that simply touches everyone's hearts and soul. You've done so much for the world, not just how you sing, but when you stand up for whats right. That is the type of person i want to become.."
In the mid '90s Joan Baez came to the used bookstore where I worked. She was polite, kind and down to earth. I was awestruck. She has been a hero of mine since the 70's. A voice like an angel and beautiful guitar picking.
I first time I saw/ heard JOAN sing was around 1972-73 ish while i was a student at UCLA , a huge fan of the UCLA Bruins, and John Wooden, and my good friend at the time Bill Walton,...as i recall tickets were only $2.50 per person !!
best female artist of the modern era. thankyou so much JB for the beauty you bring the world, the deepest glimpses into rare visions of God's grace and love for all creatures great and small.
I met Joan a couple years ago in Minnesota. She got in my cab and I drove her two blocks to the stage door of the Paramount Theatre in St. Cloud. Anyway, she's a nice lady. I didn't know it was her until I opened the back of the cab so she can take her guitars. I didn't realize it until the last second it was her and she gave me a big smile.
Thanks, dear Brian for this wonderful portrait. Now I am 67 years old and I love Joan since I was 15, when casually I eard her wonderful voice and her wonderful songs, also about protest for many things, like Vietnam war. I know and I try so sibg all her songs. A HUGE, bRIAN, FOR THIS GREAT GIFT TO ME!!
I left a message and in trying to repair a word it fisappeared My father a foneman who loved flying even as a little boy Hr went into the marines to fly In love with it HE WAS A photographer in the 1 st war he was semt We had no idea where viet nam was or what dad did. In 13 months the man who came home wasnt the father, or husband or man we knew HE SUFFERED PRIVATELY ALL OF HOS LIFE and we as his children felt his pain Regret and feeling so guilty sitting in the dark No pne will ever know the horrors of war and how it ripples over the earth and the many generations Hear me now. God in heaven move in the hearts of man to turn from war of any kind. War has never solved a problem only encouraged people to act without thought Pray will ypu for future generations We can live without war If there is another war i am so sure it will touch and damage every living soul.Come quickly. LORD Jesus
You -special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful,tender,lost,sparking ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. IT’S UP TO YOU. Would it embarrass you very much if I were to tell you that I love you?” This is what Joan Baez answered once when asked on what to do to make ours a better world to live. Pure poetry, pure wisdom, pure kindness. Joan Baez, a bodhisattva among us ,knows how to touch the best we whatsoever have in our hearts and souls. Her voice is as powerful, tender ,warmand truthful as ever. Love and Gratitude, from Brasil
Que Joan est belle aujourd'hui et antan, pleine de grace et d'amour, une madone au sourire éblouissant et puis quel voix! Mais surtout quelle conviction dans cette grande grande dame!
Someone who was paying really close attention to Joan did a beautiful job of selecting images and past film clips for this film. Whether they "really knew" her or not (as she says in the beginning, people feel as if they've known me all my live but they don't really know....who I am) - it is a beautiful job.
Where is Joany Baez's Nobel Peace Prize ?? I have adored this gifted songstress for over 50 years. Not just for the silken vocals, but for the peaceful existence it begs of us?? ✌✌ I reflect on lines from the tome, "Is it you or could it be Me"? "He stares at the beggar and wonders whether he ate, Why are our lives not filled with love, instead of this Hate?"
Happy 82nd birthday next January, our darling Joanie! I never supported Joan's politics, but have in one format or other, probably every song she has recorded, and been a lifetime lover and loyal fan since I first heard "Night they drove old Dixie down" sometime in the early seventies. I attended her first Australian concert in 1974 and saw her again some years back in Canberra, where I managed, at great personal risk to get her to sign my copy of "Come From the Shadows" It is my most precious musical possession. No-one had such phenomenal clarity and purity of voice as did Joanie in her prime, and her breath control was second-to-none. She will leave us eventually, and I for one will be inconsolable....
Of course, you must know that Joan Baez must realize that she is canceled by today's Left, the one she once supported for having done songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." I don't think Joan is on board with the Left these days. In "Masked and Anonymous" Dyland does a straight version of "Dixie." That is intolerable now. It's the perfect example of how the Left ends up devouring its own, just as in the Fench Revolution. And none of them ever seem to learn.
Joan. With regard to Gabe. If you had been the exact opposite Gabe would still have resentments. My mother was an author. She wrote 12 books. She had five children. Three are psychologists. I adored my mother. She was an “enfant terrible”. She wrote what was regarded by the Catholic Church and the city of Boston and almost every one of our suburban neighbors as a dirty book. There were good Christians with sandwich boards in front of our house trying to get us to move. Prior to this she had been the editor of poetry at the Ladies’ Home Journal where she wrote poems like “How tall is Robert?-three teddy bears tall, one medium bounce of a red rubber ball.” No one was prepared for the novel which had two housewives cheating on their husbands with each other. My two sister and one brother psychologist siblings still complain incessantly about the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches she didn’t make. I cannot be at a Thanksgiving dinner with them. They are in their 60s and 70s. I am filled with admiration for my mother’s presence in my life and I got a hell of a lot more from her than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Joan, it’s not you. It’s Gabe. My mother told me, “Bobby, the most important lesson in life to learn is the difference between your problems and other people’s problems.” (Not in a societal context where you take the opposite tack…in personal relationships). It’s Gabe’s problem. You were Joan Baez. You had to be Joan Baez because not to be Joan Baez would have a steep price to the world for the sole resentment of a kid who needs to face reality-an imperfect world. Do not feel guilty. Do not even feel regret. It’s like regretting the other side of a seesaw goes down when yours goes up.
I was, as a teenager, and still am, as an oldie, in admiration of this wonderful person. First her celestial voice attracted my attention, and then her commitment to peace. My feelings of admiration and gratitude are now stronger than ever.
Many thanks to you for creating this well-done documentary about a truly unique and extraordinary individual of our lifetime. I had the privilege of meeting Joan Baez in the 1980s. I will never forget the warm welcome that she gave to me, a complete stranger. She embodies her ideals in real life and now serves as an inspiration to all of us who still believe in peace and democracy.
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
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
Always loved Joan Baez and her music, her beautiful voice, and tasteful guitar playing. Some of her politics were a little far out, but that didn’t take away from her musical talent
I met Joan Baez a couple times in 1988 and 1995. She has a perfect voice. She is the most decent person I think I've ever known of. But she was/is naive. Wise as she is, Plato was wiser. Plato knew and said, "Only the dead have seen the end of the war." It's sad, but war is in our nature. War is nature - just look at it. All species fight and compete for survival. I was up for the draft during the Vietnam War, but i did not burn my draft card. I thought it all over. I heard her words and the words of others. But what I knew was that I was a benefactor of being a citizen of the United States of America, and what comes with that is a duty to it. So if I was called, I would have gone and done my best. I was young then. Some of my friends are young forever. I spent years researching in order to understand how and why that war happened. It was partly a rotten deal, partially just so that generals could general and the makers of arms could profit. But it was also the inevitable trajectory of history. Much earlier decisions and the fact that the Japanese had occupied Vietnam In WW2 and the rise of aggressive communism also made it inevitable. I doubted the Domino Theory. I thought it was an excuse to make war for profit, etc. But once we were out of SE Asia, the communists moved into Laos and Cambodia and millions were murdered in those countries and Vietnam. Our war cost one million and a half or more dead Vietnamese. But millions more died after we were gone. So is protesting a war that holds back a dam of death right? I have studied history all of my adult life. One thing I have noticed is that politicians and people who attempt to be social movers, activists, preachers, etc, act arrogantly. They often cause greater harm with their actions than would have occurred if they had let things be. And "The Revolution?" Joan and Bob Dylan are totally rejected by the Left, today. They are as hated as any average white conservative is hated by the Left. But with all of this, I still respect Joan Baez for her commitment to her principles because I never saw her protest as Jane Fonda did, actually wanting American boys to die out of her childish hatred (unresolved daughter issues). Joan Baez was the daughter of loving parents, and of a father who was a genuine pacifist who as a physicist, refused to take part in the Manhattan Project for creating a nuclear weapon (even though it saved far more lives by ending the war quickly). Joan Baez, like her father, was, is genuine, but naive.
I find it interesting that she says no one knows anything about her. Not to argue but I think it's evident she cares deeply about humanity and all of creation.
Such a beautiful melodic voice !!
Blessings, Joan 🙏
" ... we both know what memories bring, they bring diamonds and rust."
That's a precise summary of this documentary.
I recollect all of this, had the folk albums of Baez & Dylan!!! Love & miss them all!!! RIP 🎶🎼👏👏🙏🙏🫶🏼🫶🏼
PORTRAIT OF YOUTH REMASTERED (C)2006
Love this woman so very much❤
Joan Baez is forever !
Awesome, Breaking, Beautiful! Thank you ❤️🇺🇸
Full love,Joan, thank you for all!!!
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.
Joan Baez deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
I heartily agree
@eyemagistus, absolutely agreed!! Yes we can suggest it. Her struggles remain beyond all praise. 💖🌟🙏
@eyemagistus. Thanks for your appreciation of my comments. I really would like to enhance such suggestion. In my beloved country worthy to talk about it, I'm afraid to find to right person at the right place, when I'm on journey. First of all I hope that the shadow of war would be aside, then comes the green light for such true dream to reward Joan Baez. Hearty thanks for your wonderful thought.
With renewed seasons greetings (Happy Easter) to every body. And thanks again for remembering me. 🌅💐🎊⚖️🕯️😍🙏
Yes.
Why for singing ...Not a good writer ...Visited her country's enemy.....Good woman for sure but Nobel prize
Tangled in your thought...but freed many a knot..within all creed...🌹
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❣️
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.
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!
The most amazing woman i ever met...at Esalon Big Sur i watched thrm rehearsing for the festival later...pn a small wooden platform they were dancing...she walked over⁹ (pregnant) and said you can do it too anf i did and
renjoyed a really fum time.
She truly was a spokesperson for Civi Rights her songs and life reflect a person filled with a warrior heart for justice and peace.❤
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.
Its real good to hear from an Angel 💘
This was a wonderful documentary, why are there only 64 comments? I worked at a radio station for 12 years in the 70s/80s. My coworker was going to interview her at her concert in town, I asked him if I could go with him. He said OK but you’re on your own I can’t be responsible for you. Imagine my surprise when during the interview he had to leave for a few minutes and there I was all alone in the dressing room with her completely unexpectedly. It really caught me off guard and I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t have the courage to say I love Mimi, I love you, I love sweet sir Galahad, I love the hitchhiker song and the song about David. I didn’t want to act like a fan. Living in Santa Barbara for 60 years I would run into countless celebrities but this one really knocked me for a loop. I would never ask for an autograph because I didn’t think it was respectable. Instead I asked her how she disciplined her son Gabe… Oh well you can’t regret things like that. She very calmly and down to earth answered my question
Back in Berkeley in 67 her records were expensive to buy.
Some time later I found they we're worth the cost.
This compilation of Joan Baez's life brings me to my knees.
Amazing..Thank you
Merci beaucoup
I dodged the draft board. In 1972 I was in Texas and I got a letter telling me if I did not report to the draft board in TN they would send the police for me. I refused to report to the draft board. I was in basic training for the USAF.
♥️🌷👍🪷🌸 Joan Baez & Mimi...both are beautiful, gentle, kind, compassionate, generous & wise SOULS.....
♥️🌷🌻 Consciousness, the unique individual soul is eternal, immortal. .....Plato
♥️🌷🌻For each individual immortal SOUL cannot be killed; the soul cannot be burn, drown, suicide attempt, euthanasia.
My mother, my eternel love!!!
joan baez is a great gift for all of us no matter where live in this crazy world especially nowadays.long live joany
She is a national treasure....one of the greatest American talents and patriots of the 20th and 21st centuries.
No soul sold, no makeup, no facelift. Hey Madonna, I pity you...
Conviction in her beliefs, non-violent actions and using her voice to express them without malice..💖
Consistant on and off stage!
Pretty cool!! 🤗😎
Foley Square. Veterans Day 2011. You sang Joe Hill for Occupy Wall Street. Thank you!
If i met Joan Baez today; I'd simply tell her this; " You are an amazing, strong, powerful woman with this voice that simply touches everyone's hearts and soul. You've done so much for the world, not just how you sing, but when you stand up for whats right. That is the type of person i want to become.."
Beautiful Voice BEAUTIFUL HEART!
👍♥️🌷🙏🪔🪔🪔🪷🪷🪷
What a gift ... what an extraordinary, wonderful, priceless gift. Thank you.
Joan is my greatest inspiration and has been for over 50 years. Thank you Joan - I love you
Joan Baez deserves Nobel peace prize!
My favorite thing about Joan Baez is her love for song. It really gets to me and inspires me.
In the mid '90s Joan Baez came to the used bookstore where I worked. She was polite, kind and down to earth. I was awestruck. She has been a hero of mine since the 70's. A voice like an angel and beautiful guitar picking.
Great.. you are so lucky to feel her directly
I first time I saw/ heard JOAN sing was around 1972-73 ish while i was a student at UCLA , a huge fan of the UCLA Bruins, and John Wooden, and my good friend at the time Bill Walton,...as i recall tickets were only $2.50 per person !!
best female artist of the modern era. thankyou so much JB for the beauty you bring the world, the deepest glimpses into rare visions of God's grace and love for all creatures great and small.
I met Joan a couple years ago in Minnesota. She got in my cab and I drove her two blocks to the stage door of the Paramount Theatre in St. Cloud. Anyway, she's a nice lady. I didn't know it was her until I opened the back of the cab so she can take her guitars. I didn't realize it until the last second it was her and she gave me a big smile.
I really envy you.
Thanks, dear Brian for this wonderful portrait. Now I am 67 years old and I love Joan since I was 15, when casually I eard her wonderful voice and her wonderful songs, also about protest for many things, like Vietnam war. I know and I try so sibg all her songs. A HUGE, bRIAN, FOR THIS GREAT GIFT TO ME!!
She is and was extraordinary.
A beautiful voice and a beautiful human being!
No words... just admiring in silence...
😮
I left a message and in trying to repair a word it fisappeared
My father a foneman who loved flying even as a little boy
Hr went into the marines to fly
In love with it
HE WAS A photographer in the 1 st war he was semt
We had no idea where viet nam was or what dad did.
In 13 months the man who came home wasnt the father, or husband or man we knew
HE SUFFERED PRIVATELY ALL OF HOS LIFE and we as his children felt his pain
Regret and feeling so guilty sitting in the dark
No pne will ever know the horrors of war and how it ripples over the earth and the many generations
Hear me now. God in heaven move in the hearts of man to turn from war of any kind. War has never solved a problem only encouraged people to act without thought
Pray will ypu for future generations We can live without war
If there is another war i am so sure it will touch and damage every living soul.Come quickly. LORD Jesus
She is a beautiful great musician !
Her rendition of Brothers in Arms surpasses all others
We still have so many coffee houses, but no one sings in them anymore 😐
Being a pacifist I wqs vibrating the love and empathy and anti-war of Joan.
You -special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful,tender,lost,sparking ruby
emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. IT’S UP TO YOU. Would it embarrass you very much if I were to tell you that I love you?” This is what Joan Baez answered once when asked on what to do to make ours a better world to live. Pure poetry, pure wisdom, pure kindness. Joan Baez, a bodhisattva among us ,knows how to touch the best we whatsoever have in our hearts and souls. Her voice is as powerful, tender ,warmand truthful as ever. Love and Gratitude, from Brasil
Joan Beas, a bodhi sattva among us.... great..
Without meaning to, Joan showed us how to live the truth in our life courageously, fully, and authentically.
What a beautiful gift you are, Joan. Grazie
GOD!HOLY!!!GODBLESS!,KEEP!《THIS VALIANT WOMAN TRUE. DAUGHTER OF THE IMMACULATE💝 MOTHER
OF GOD》Amazing GRACE!
TRULY A M A Z I N G🎵💞🎶🐦🙏THANK❣YOU JOAN🌹
She still looks great, and still sounds heavenly. x
speechless
Que Joan est belle aujourd'hui et antan, pleine de grace et d'amour, une madone au sourire éblouissant et puis quel voix! Mais surtout quelle conviction dans cette grande grande dame!
Как и мой кумир Джоан,я уверен что мои песни меня переживут!
ссм. ,,ПЕСНИ ИВАНА КОПЕЦА"
One of the finest hours i have spent this year. Got to know one of the Worlds finest person, a little better
love her .....
Someone who was paying really close attention to Joan did a beautiful job of selecting images and past film clips for this film. Whether they "really knew" her or not (as she says in the beginning, people feel as if they've known me all my live but they don't really know....who I am) - it is a beautiful job.
Read her books "Daybreak" and also "And a voice to sing with" Amazing Human Being and amazing musician.
wow
❤❤❤❤❤❤🧡❤
Thank you.
Where is Joany Baez's Nobel Peace Prize ?? I have adored this gifted songstress for over 50 years. Not just for the silken vocals, but for the peaceful existence it begs of us?? ✌✌
I reflect on lines from the tome, "Is it you or could it be Me"?
"He stares at the beggar and wonders whether he ate,
Why are our lives not filled with love, instead of this Hate?"
Joan Baez has been a gift in so many ways. Jan Behaeghel was right - words fail.
Thanks for sharing this. I was happy to meet Joan Baez during her stay in Prague a few days ago. She is amazing!!!
Happy 82nd birthday next January, our darling Joanie!
I never supported Joan's politics, but have in one format or other, probably every song she has recorded, and been a lifetime lover and loyal fan since I first heard "Night they drove old Dixie down" sometime in the early seventies. I attended her first Australian concert in 1974 and saw her again some years back in Canberra, where I managed, at great personal risk to get her to sign my copy of "Come From the Shadows" It is my most precious musical possession.
No-one had such phenomenal clarity and purity of voice as did Joanie in her prime, and her breath control was second-to-none. She will leave us eventually, and I for one will be inconsolable....
Of course, you must know that Joan Baez must realize that she is canceled by today's Left, the one she once supported for having done songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." I don't think Joan is on board with the Left these days. In "Masked and Anonymous" Dyland does a straight version of "Dixie." That is intolerable now. It's the perfect example of how the Left ends up devouring its own, just as in the Fench Revolution. And none of them ever seem to learn.
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 sadly i think you're right
Joan. With regard to Gabe. If you had been the exact opposite Gabe would still have resentments. My mother was an author. She wrote 12 books. She had five children. Three are psychologists. I adored my mother. She was an “enfant terrible”. She wrote what was regarded by the Catholic Church and the city of Boston and almost every one of our suburban neighbors as a dirty book. There were good Christians with sandwich boards in front of our house trying to get us to move. Prior to this she had been the editor of poetry at the Ladies’ Home Journal where she wrote poems like “How tall is Robert?-three teddy bears tall, one medium bounce of a red rubber ball.” No one was prepared for the novel which had two housewives cheating on their husbands with each other. My two sister and one brother psychologist siblings still complain incessantly about the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches she didn’t make. I cannot be at a Thanksgiving dinner with them. They are in their 60s and 70s. I am filled with admiration for my mother’s presence in my life and I got a hell of a lot more from her than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Joan, it’s not you. It’s Gabe. My mother told me, “Bobby, the most important lesson in life to learn is the difference between your problems and other people’s problems.” (Not in a societal context where you take the opposite tack…in personal relationships). It’s Gabe’s problem. You were Joan Baez. You had to be Joan Baez because not to be Joan Baez would have a steep price to the world for the sole resentment of a kid who needs to face reality-an imperfect world. Do not feel guilty. Do not even feel regret. It’s like regretting the other side of a seesaw goes down when yours goes up.
Spent two days downloading how sweet the sound only to find it here ffs 🤦🏻♀️
You have used your formidable talent to do good all your life.
I was, as a teenager, and still am, as an oldie, in admiration of this wonderful person. First her celestial voice attracted my attention, and then her commitment to peace. My feelings of admiration and gratitude are now stronger than ever.
She's in the top 10 of all humanity
J Stone. Love Joanie
forever!
Many thanks to you for creating this well-done documentary about a truly unique and extraordinary individual of our lifetime. I had the privilege of meeting Joan Baez in the 1980s. I will never forget the warm welcome that she gave to me, a complete stranger. She embodies her ideals in real life and now serves as an inspiration to all of us who still believe in peace and democracy.
Please Bring Her Back , Great Lady
She’s still around
Awesome!
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
8:01 best theres ever been.
I had no idea of her TOTAL commitment....... and that voice..... WOW!
I can’t believe Bob was invited to the Obama White House for music of the civil rights movement and not Joan
Dylan went to very few protest Joan went to lots of protest.
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
I love you Joan Baez. I thank God for you. You are my most favorite next to my sister Atzen. Thank you BBC for this.
Anybody has the date of this programme?
Always loved Joan Baez and her music, her beautiful voice, and tasteful guitar playing. Some of her politics were a little far out, but that didn’t take away from her musical talent
Joan Baez embodies the Nobel Peace Prize
Very amazing! Thank You so much mr. Brian!
She silenced me for an hour.
One fine hour......
You couldn't say that better...
I have recently written a poem on her.She is truly great as a singer and as a humanist.
An autobiography....time to get hold of a copy...thanks for nthe heads up!!
It is a great book. I read it about a very long time ago. Perhaps it is time to do that again.
Best theres ever been.
I met Joan Baez a couple times in 1988 and 1995. She has a perfect voice. She is the most decent person I think I've ever known of. But she was/is naive. Wise as she is, Plato was wiser. Plato knew and said, "Only the dead have seen the end of the war." It's sad, but war is in our nature. War is nature - just look at it. All species fight and compete for survival. I was up for the draft during the Vietnam War, but i did not burn my draft card. I thought it all over. I heard her words and the words of others. But what I knew was that I was a benefactor of being a citizen of the United States of America, and what comes with that is a duty to it. So if I was called, I would have gone and done my best. I was young then. Some of my friends are young forever. I spent years researching in order to understand how and why that war happened. It was partly a rotten deal, partially just so that generals could general and the makers of arms could profit. But it was also the inevitable trajectory of history. Much earlier decisions and the fact that the Japanese had occupied Vietnam In WW2 and the rise of aggressive communism also made it inevitable. I doubted the Domino Theory. I thought it was an excuse to make war for profit, etc. But once we were out of SE Asia, the communists moved into Laos and Cambodia and millions were murdered in those countries and Vietnam. Our war cost one million and a half or more dead Vietnamese. But millions more died after we were gone. So is protesting a war that holds back a dam of death right?
I have studied history all of my adult life. One thing I have noticed is that politicians and people who attempt to be social movers, activists, preachers, etc, act arrogantly. They often cause greater harm with their actions than would have occurred if they had let things be. And "The Revolution?" Joan and Bob Dylan are totally rejected by the Left, today. They are as hated as any average white conservative is hated by the Left. But with all of this, I still respect Joan Baez for her commitment to her principles because I never saw her protest as Jane Fonda did, actually wanting American boys to die out of her childish hatred (unresolved daughter issues). Joan Baez was the daughter of loving parents, and of a father who was a genuine pacifist who as a physicist, refused to take part in the Manhattan Project for creating a nuclear weapon (even though it saved far more lives by ending the war quickly). Joan Baez, like her father, was, is genuine, but naive.
Joan, have you ever been to Lubbock?
Should be singing and Joan. Take care from one guitarist to another
I think Bob Dylan was the love of Joan Baez life! He broke her heart😢
I don't care one way or another what he calls her.
you are very welcome
I find it interesting that she says no one knows anything about her. Not to argue but I think it's evident she cares deeply about humanity and all of creation.
Baez is just wonderful 👏
A scoop how can man not ❤ Joan she presented bob learned him a lot she was a goodes not so many madonna Deep relations to bob take diamonds and rust❤
One hundred miles
Did he even acknowledge her pursuit for peace and social justice? .
AMEN.GOD BLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SHOOMA AMEN.
What happen to her son and husband,
Divorced in early seventies, still with her son
Big Love!
Show me her George W.....
I'm pretty neutral about it.
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