From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V3 #298 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Tuesday, August 11 1998 Volume 03 : Number 298 The Official 1998 Joni Mitchell Internet Community Shirts are available now. Go to for all the details. ------- The New England Labor Day Weekend JoniFest is coming soon! Send a blank message to for all the details. ------- Trivia buffs! We are compiling an in-depth trivia database on all things Joni. Send your bit of trivia - or your questions you would like answered - to ------- And don't forget about JoniFest 1999! Reserve your spot with a $25 fee. Only 100 rooms have been reserved. Send a blank message to for more info. ------- The Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Joni's paintings, original essays, lyrics and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at and contains Joni-related interviews, articles, member gallery, info on the archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- News [Wally Breese ] Re: Where were you in Aug. '69 [Skin Deep ] Re: Going to the Garden?/Where were you in August 1969? [catman ] Scruggs/'69 [Steve Dulson ] Re: Going to the Garden?/Where were you in August 1969? [Bounced Message ] NJC looking for Jason Long [Michael Yarbrough ] Van & Lucinda join Dylan (no JM) ["Eric G. Postel" ] I Got My MOJO ["Kakki" ] Garden Tickets [LRFye@aol.com] Re: JMDL Digest V3 #297 ["Nixon" ] NJC Music Stuff & NewEngland JoniFest [Heather ] August of '69 ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: JMDL Digest V3 #284 [Michael Paz ] Dennis Quaid (NJC) [Michael Paz ] YES (NJC) [Michael Paz ] aug 69 [Bounced Message ] Mojo detail [Bolvangar@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 98 02:03:28 -0700 From: Wally Breese Subject: News Hi everybody, I'm launching two pages on the Website today. First up, there's a page about a new book called "Musicians and the Internet," which is part of the Ultimate Beginner Tech Start Series, a series of books that introduces readers to the various aspects of music technology. It includes a chapter that features 4 screens from the JMHP! I'm honored to say that there are only two musician Websites featured- Chick Corea's and Joni's. (BTW, the link to our own Ken Slarty's Midi page is seen in a shot of the JMHP's "Sounds" page.) You can order a copy of "Musicians and the Internet" through an 800 number, and you can also enter a contest to win 1 of 25 free copies of the book. Follow the link below: "MashBook98.html" Next up is the page I've designed for the upcoming reviews of Joni's "A Day In The Garden" concert sent in by members of the Joni Mitchell Internet Community (That's you folks!). As I mentioned in an earlier message, Sue McNamara is attending the event as the official homepage reporter and her enthusiastic pre-tour essay is now up, along with another amazing illustration from Ken Corral, done at my request. Thanks to both of you! Follow the link below: "OnTheRoadWoodstock98.html" "People" magazine has a special edition just out on newstands entitled "Unforgettable Women of the Century." It's a 160 page, glossy issue which divides over 100 subjects into categories such as "Icons," "Divas," "Funny Ladies," "Creators" and so on. Joni is featured in the "Creators" chapter, along with Maya Angelou, Grandma Moses, Gertrude Stein and other creative iconoclasts. The JM section includes two beautiful photographs- one small black & white shot of Joni from 1968, and a larger color shot from 1994. Though there are a few minor errors in their biographical info, it's still exciting to have Joni listed among the "Unforgettable Women of the Century." She certainly deserves her position there. Later, Wally The Joni Mitchell Homepage http://www.JoniMitchell.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 02:47:06 -0700 From: Skin Deep Subject: Re: Where were you in Aug. '69 Aug, '69 I was on a small island in Greece off the coast of Turkey called Kos. That June I had gotten a notice that my Draft status had been changed from a "Still in School" to a "1A US Prime" as I had not enrolled in summer school. I took every cent I had and bought a one way ticket from San Francisco to New York and another ticket one way for $200, on Icelantic Air out of the country. If they wanted me they could come and get me. I remember my parents telling me how the service would be good for me. I stayed at the southern part of the island where no one spoke english. The whole time I was there, three months, I met three english speaking tourist. One of them was an American guy who was from my home town, had dated my next door neighbor sister and took a couple of pictures of me back to my mom. Now that's a small world! Needless to say I did not hear about Woodstock until I left that little piece of paradise and got back into the mainstream, Istanbul. I did get to see Ms Mitchell at the Isle of Wight, but that's another story. To all going to The Farm, Have a Good Time and Stay On The Bus. For now, Fred Walzenfree ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:11:59 +0100 From: catman Subject: Re: Going to the Garden?/Where were you in August 1969? I was 11 and living in Singapore. I had never heard of Woodstock or Joni or anyone else! I wasn't into music then. I remember hearing constantly how the Stones were devils in disguise. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:24:30 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Fw: this is a call (njc) From Mariana ~ - ---------- > From: mariana mcconnell > Subject: this is a call > Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 8:06 AM > > > itīs been a week or so, hasnīt it? hey, guess who iīm sitting next to > in the computer room right now...Dave Grohl! well, not really, itīs > actually drew but he looks alot like dave. heīs the guy from the foo > fighters... > so anyway, las fresas have caught the big one back to brentwood...and > you know, i kind of miss them. we had a little party on friday and i > played the guitar. they had me play "building a mystery" about 6 times. > one told me i have a voice exactly like sarah mclachlan which is one of > the best compliments iīve ever gotten on my singing! a favorite was "ice > cream" (sherrieīs favorite) and we translated the chorus into espaņol > (doncha love these spanish keyboards...they give you the little n with > the booger over it). "esta muy lejos el camino abajo". > i went to taxco on sunday which was really no big deal. itīs a > little silver mining town. i got some dresses and a ring but nothing i > couldnīt have gotten in curenavaca, yīknow? i made sort of friends > though with some people and thatīs okay. hmm...thereīs the bell, one > hour until school starts. > so my friends have all gotten their scheduals for next year, or so i > hear from e-mail. itīs depressing, really. 11th grade, yuck yuck. iīm > sort of looking forward to it, because iīm a little stronger this year > and sort of not, mainly because of you-know-who. oh well, i canīt let > him run my life. he canīt even run his own. iīll just focus on whatīs > important to me and get through as best as possible, because thatīs all > i can do.sort of like the foo fighters song: "iīll never tell you the > secrets iīm holding/i know these things must bore you/i can find another > way..." > 2 more weeks here and then california iīm coming home/i felt like > this on my way home. > > see ya > mariana in mexico > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:24:51 -0700 From: Steve Dulson Subject: Scruggs/'69 Deb quoted: >an elegiac take on Joni Mitchell's ``Both Sides Now'' - are >among the highlights of this star-studded effort. If that's the version on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", it's terrific. Oh, yeah, August '69 - I'd just turned 19. Had seen the ads for Woodstock, but was too pathetically inept at life to get it together to go. I did manage to make a trip with three friends up to the next year's Big Sur Folk Festival, though. I like to think I'm better at life these days, but sometimes I wonder!?! ############################################################## Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA steve@psitech.com "The Tinker's Own" http://members.aol.com/tinkersown/home.html "Southern California Dulcimer Heritage" http://members.aol.com/scdulcimer/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:24:11 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: Re: Going to the Garden?/Where were you in August 1969? Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:33:01 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro I was 19 and very excited about going to my first big music festival called Woodstock. I was working between my freshman and sophmore years in college mowing lawns in a state park, and making money for the trip. I had already paid for my ticket, which were not needed as it turned out. I had a bad accident where my foot slipped under a mower on a wet hill and cut two toes very badly. I was hospitalized and put on crutches and had to be under a doctor's care all summer, mostly laying up. I worked hard at physical therapy because I wanted to go to Woodstock so badly. My parents were not going to let me go on crutches. They were much wiser than I. I put up such a fuss that I went off with my friends in a VW bus and headed to Max's farm. We got there a day early and there were about 7000 people there. We had no idea of what was to come. We did acid that day by the "hippie" pond, passed out, woke up sunburned and saw many, many thousands pouring in. We had not much food becuase we thought we could kust drive into town for provisions as needed. Yeah, right. I was very uncomfortable on those crutches, but I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything. I was sure Joni would be there because David Crosby was to sing. No such luck. CS&N were horribly off key and had to be dubbed for the movie. Joan B. was a miracle. The rain sucked no matter what anyone says, and I was very stoned for 90% of the time. Jimi Hendrix was a revelation, and I even like Melanie, which most of the crowd did not. Have funs guys. I'm sure it will be great. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:25:53 -0400 From: Michael Yarbrough Subject: NJC looking for Jason Long Sorry for the bandwidth-- Jason Long, your mail is getting bounced back to me. If you're out there, could you email me privately please? Thanks... - --Michael mwyarbro@zzapp.org NP: 100 Flowers, _100 Years of Pulchritude_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:08:00 -0400 From: "Eric G. Postel" Subject: Van & Lucinda join Dylan (no JM) For those interested: The West Coast Bob Dylan tour has been changed! Van Morrison has been added to all shows **after** Puyallup, Washington. The new tour is as follows: September 22: Puyallup State Fair, Puyallup, Washington (Not with Van) The following are with Van Morrison: 23: Rose Garden Arena, Portland, Oregon 24:Mac Court, Eugene, Oregon 25:Concord Pavilion, Concord, California 26: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mt. View, California 27: Reno Hilton Amphteater, Reno, Nevada Please note that there are price changes involved with the addition of Van Morrison and that Lucinda Williams will be opening all shows with the exception of Reno. Please check the following web page after 12 noon California time on August 10th: http://www.well.com/user/smarcus/mailorder.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:39:00 -0600 From: Today in Joni History Subject: Today in Joni History - August 11 1973: From Rolling Stone's Random Notes page: "It was quite a treat for the fortunate few who squeezed in: Joni, Neil Young, and the Eagles performed two shows tonight and tomorrow night at the Topanga Canyon Corral, a tiny club in the L.A. canyon. Admission was $4, all for the benefit of an anti-condominium movement in Topanga." - -------- Know a date or month specific Joni tidbit? Send it off to JoniFact@jmdl.com and we'll add it to the list. - -------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:47:53 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: I Got My MOJO Finally, finally, after repeated trips to the local record stores I was able to pick up the August MOJO at Tower in Hollywood Friday night and then proceeded to stay up half the night reading it. The article on Joni is so wonderful. Also loved the articles on Gene Clark - the best I've ever read - and Dr. John. What a great publication. A few interesting items found elsewhere in the magazine - The Brian Blade Fellowship is listed as No. 1 on the Jazz chart on page 152, and there is a great web site for songbooks on page 55, including "The Best of Joni Mitchell" and "The Nick Drake Song Collection" Try http://www.musicsales.co.uk Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:16:43 EDT From: LRFye@aol.com Subject: Garden Tickets Hi All, Anyone thinking about making a last minute decision to attend Joni's show on Saturday? I have two extra tickets ... Sorry to hear you're not going, Marsha ... we'll have a shot for you ... Lori in San Antonio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:22:02 +0200 From: "Nixon" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V3 #297 I was eleven, living in the sticks in England, but the summer of '69 was the happiest of my entire life. I'd heard about Woodstock and the whole hippy thing, and it all seemed so wonderful. I couldn't wait to grow up, grow my hair down my back and be a hippy and join everyone in peace and love in listening to music made by 'gentle people' from San Francisco. Adolescence soon crushed these hopes; In England in the early seventies, all my teenage generation grew up into skinheads who spent their Saturday nights kicking in the heads of other skinheads from neighbouring towns. I was devastated, traumatised, like, what happened man? Everybody had shaved off their hair and was acting violent! I think I opted out of adult life at that point, after it began to seem clear that FlowerPower would not be making any comebacks in the immediate future. Fashion is a strange creature. Tube ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:10:09 -0400 From: Heather Subject: NJC Music Stuff & NewEngland JoniFest Hi everyone, While up in Ottawa I went into a Sheet Music & Music Book store. They have the "Misses" songbook and CMIARS songbook. Also, sheet music of Both Sides Now. They are GRANATA MUSIC, 175 Sparks St. Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5B9. (613)234-7666. They have quite a collection of other stuff too. I picked up another Joni songbook that will be given away as a "door prize", so to speak, at the NewEngland JoniFest. Nope. I'm not telling. You'll have to come and find out! There will be other Joni "stuff" to be given away also. I was disappointed to find out that there are only about 10 definites for the New England party :-( What's up!? If you are on the fence trying to decide on weather to come or not, I'm here to push you over to the side that gets you to the NewEngland JoniFest. Soooooooo come on JMDLers!!! Come on over to Ashara's for one hell of a good time celebrating Joni's music and upcoming TTT release!!!!! The folks that attended Julies' Pittsburgh JoniFest had a blast! We are looking to recreate that same great experience. Come on, now ... if there is any way that you can make it - PLEASE COME!!!!! Heather ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:50:10 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: August of '69 In August of 1969, I was 14 and in between freshman and sophomore year in high school. I was a morning paperboy, buying posters, reading Rolling Stone magazine about why Dylan was an Artist and the Monkees were not Artists. I was buying great late 60s music like Sly and the Family Stone. - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** "Thank ewe Falletin me Be mice elf agin." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 21:44:35 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V3 #284 Paul I Wrote: " I'm glad you brought that up. I was wondering about that myself. Anyone > know what kind of Edith Piaf recordings are available these days?" Paul- Tower here in N.O has an extensive list of Edith Piaf available here in New Orleans. If you like I can get a print out and fax it to you or something. They have a couple of big multi-disc collections as well. As you might know, I am a huge Tower Records fan, and I don't mind plugging them shamelessly, or sending them business. Peace, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 22:10:38 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Dennis Quaid (NJC) Julie wrote: "Dennis Quaid beats Brian Keith, hands down, in the hunk department and the twins are excellent actresses." Julie- Glad to hear that you enjoyed The Parent Trap, I am supporting Dennis Quaid in anyway I can. I have enjoyed his acting since Breaking Away (which I thought was a brilliant film). Dennis is a very special person to my family now, for he was mainly responsible for the construction (the main financial benefactor) of a clinic in San Pedro Sula, Honduras that is dedicated to the memory of my late mother, Ruth Paz. La Clinica Ruth Paz was inaugurated in January of this year and has been open since September of 97. We have a staff of one doctor, one dentist, one nurse, one administrator, and two helpers on the payroll. The clinic is there to assist the poor that require medical attention, if they can pay or not. The people have been coming from all over Honduras to go to this clinic. While I was there last week they told me of a man who rode 8 hours on a bus just to come to our clinic. I was so blown away and so proud at what has been accomplished. My mom worked with disabled and sick children for over 30 years and was directly responsible (in life) to help over 20,000 children. We have so many plans for the future which include; a burn unit, a cardiac unit for children, and a lab on site at the clinic. My sister has been overseeing the administration of the clinic and raising funds for the Ruth Paz Foundation in Honduras. I have been asked to sit on the Board of Directors for a local foundation here in New Orleans called International Hospital For Children (the ones who connected my mom to Dennis) and I am running the Ruth Paz Foundation of Louisiana, to raise funds here in New Orleans (where over 90,000 Hondurans live). While I was home I ran into an old friend who is going to work on our web page, so I will keep you guys informed. I also met a man who sat next to me on the way back, who is semi retired and well off, who is going to help us out with setting up some programs within our system. I ran into him in a restaurant two days later so I guess God wants me to work with him. Just something I wanted to share with you guys. Peace, Michael NP-Love Has Many Faces (my fave-O-rite song rite now) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 00:52:58 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: YES (NJC) Craig wrote: "Just returned home from the Yes Concert at the Backyard in Austin." Craig- I am jealous. I really wanted to see this tour. I've only seen them close to 20 times. One of my fave bands of all time. I saw them last Nov. in Houston in a small venue and it was fab. They were suppose to play here in N.O., but could not work out the promoter BS (in a hall that only seats a couple thousand too). Oh well! Glad there is other Joniphiles out there that dig Yes as well. Peace, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:06:46 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: aug 69 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:33:57 -0700 From: Michael Heath It was hot hot hot in toronto...people were talking about this event on some farm in NY... everybody in the musical universe was supposed to be there. I was hanging around the coffee houses and writing dark, existential, self conscious songs about the ruin of mankind and the pain of being alive in a time that didn't seem to fit . I was in no mood to celebrate anything except maybe my own paranoia about the richard nixons and general nazification of america... lots of LSD and painting abstractly on the roof of an abandoned warehouse near the waterfront railway tracks at dawn... sleeping bags, guitars,backpacks,hippies, weird artists and actors,political types, all trying to auger the new world rushing toward us like some demon screaming over the horizon, full of joy, promise and fear. some of us struck out east for the farm to celebrate, the rest of us stayed to birth the future from our secret rooftop atlier. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:23:22 EDT From: Bolvangar@aol.com Subject: Mojo detail Hello all, The August Mojo has made it out here (to the world-famous Tattered Cover bookstore, for those in the Denver area). I agree the pictures are great -- love the one with Bjork and the one of her in the studio in the mid-'70s. Did anyone else notice, in the same issue, the "Songs about Chelsea" sidebar accompanying the article about Chelsea (the place), listing the Joni song as "One Chelsea Morning"? (?!) Last Friday I went to Fort Collins, about an hour north of here, to visit my best friend from high school; and drove back across the prairie, late that night, with a brilliant full moon in the sky, listening to _Hejira_. I usually sing along, but after the first couple of songs I fell silent. - --David NP: Patti Smith, _Horses_ ("I didn't hear them/I didn't see/I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock/and I heard those bells chiming in my heart....") ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V3 #298 ************************** Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?