Conversation w/ LB in NYC - on sale now

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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

As a seasoned, iconic musician, it must have been rather uncomfortable to sit in front of an audience and go through "the process" like that; it's sort of like an opera diva singer doing scales before an aria. And this is one of the reasons why Joni Mitchell rarely toured- because all of her songs were in different tunings, she found the logistics of playing a full set to be a nightmare of complexity. She would literally build her set around groupings of songs that were in the same tuning just so that she didn't have to re-tune in between each song.

Toward the end of her career she found a guitar that she could program tunings. She was so happy!!