dihear you met joni mitchell. >> yes, this is what's so great!e other thing about the show. we have amazing animations. tone bell plays our security guard and he has p.t.s.d. he was a vet from afghanistan. so we try to get him to, you know, help himself by smoke weed. but you go inside his head, and you see all these weird things happening. i mean, you know dave javerbaum. >> stephen: i did know dave javerbaum. >> it's like all this stuff that's in david's head. >> stephen: where does joni mitchell fit in? >> oh, right. i forgot that. ( laughter ) how am i looking? is it going okay? >> stephen: the research is catching up with you. >> okay -- >> stephen: short-term memory loss, i believe it is. >> wait a minute! don't confuse me. >> stephen: i won't. >> joni mitchell, we play one of her songs "a case of you" in the third episode when tone is having his breakdown and she came to see the show. i got to meet her. oh, my god. >> stephen: how is she doing? she hasn't been in public forever. >> oh, no, no, no. she came out in public. we almost danced t

. >>> such candor used by joni mitchell. ♪ >> wasn't until i was 13 or 14 when i heard fiona apple. write things so the poetally but it still made perfect sense. writing about personal experiences but still felt like she was speaking to you. >> as a performer, this was only the second time she had sung before a live audience. at the rio olympics in 2016. >> i think i blacked out. i woke up eating pizza. >> she teamed one the guitarist to perform herself the songs she's written for others. >> these vonsongs are just as m a part of me as those. ♪ >> the day sorry became her biggest hit is the same day she wrote issues after a disagreement with a boyfriend. >> i guess so. it was so much my point of view that it felt uncomfortable making it somebody else's. it was a turning point when i realized it was mine. ♪ i've got issues >> setting the stage for her performing career and her bond with fans who hear their inner lives in her words and voice. >> this young girl had followed me around france trying to find me. once she found me, she cried. and just threw herself into my arms. i love th

so whether they be joni mitchell with an acoustic guitar and a dull dulles mer or kiss with makeup andept was a martini bar. >> 1995. i had sold my concert business in 1992 and i didn't know what to do. >> and the movie "swingers" came out. >> i opened the bar and "swingers" came out and god was good to me and then everyone wanted to swing martinis and everyone wants to be vince vaughn. it was like simon and gomorrah here. every night people were passing out, girls with heads on the table. they didn't know how to drink them. i couldn't do it. it was like bringing crack to america. >> in 2001 he was in the beg leagues. five years later the former club owner took his act to broadway, the big apple. >> as much as you've had hometown pride, you wanted to make it big in new york and you wanted it to matter. why is that? >> because that's the standard ride that even has for making it big. i would go to the jam beard awards and was nominated but it was always danny meyer, john georges mario ber telly rngs stephen starr. >> what's that about? >> i was like the philly guy. i was the guy 90 mile