Not much info on this one, but I know a few things:

1) It hasn't circulated much outside of the Joni Mitchell Discussion List (www.jmdl.com).

2) It appears to be the complete show (see minor exception below).

3) Had some funny track-change issues, and abrupt on/off at the end of each disc (with a burst of diginoise during some leading silence on d2t01); all of these issues I have fixed, and aligned on sector boundaries. The final song (the encore, "The Circle Game") ends abruptly as the tape runs out, but I left that as-is, so as not to fade out over any actual music.

This is a very quiet (read: too quiet: crank it up!) recording of Joni in France a few months before "For The Roses" was released. The source has a reasonably low hiss floor, and no distortion on the high notes (a problem which plagues many audience tapes of early Joni). Voice and instrument is clear, and Joni puts on a subdued (for her), but sweet performance. I have never seen another tape of this concert.

Artwork included. Originally seeded to DIME 2005-12-18. Happy birthday, dad!

-Doc

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Joni Mitchell
L'Olympia Theatre, Paris
June 15, 1972

AUDIENCE RECORDING, QUALITY = B

Setlist:
Disc One:
01) This Flight Tonight
02) Electricity
03) Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
04) Big Yellow Taxi
05) Cactus Tree
06) See You Sometime
07) For Free
08) Banquet
09) All I Want
10) A Case Of You

Disc Two:
01) Carey
02) A Lesson In Survival
03) Woodstock
04) Blue
05) You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio
06) For The Roses
07) Both Sides Now
08) Rainy Night House
09) The Circle Game