Joan Baez was never a great guitar player. She still isn’t; competent but not very good. But she had a beautiful voice that soared effortlessly above the hubbub of raucous pop cacophony that passed for music in the ‘60’s. In those days I was beguiled by her voice and her politics: the politics no more and the voice isn’t quite what it used to be but still a nostalgia indulgence for me.
Here she is in a farewell concert playing what appears to be a rather delicious Martin 0-45 guitar:
1965. Celebrity opinion on marriage: anti-marriage.
2011. Celebrity opinion on marriage: pro-marriage. Gay marriage, that is.
This is what is known as progress in the rarefied strata of celebrity intellectuals. Let no churlish cynic complain that it is too easy for celebrities to gain public attention by trotting out their vapid meanderings. Mrs. Gag-Gag (the spelling may be a bit off) says she is poised to become a minister of religion in furtherance of her cause. Now those are fighting words: eat your heart out Christopher Seitz.
