From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V3 #325 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Friday, August 28 1998 Volume 03 : Number 325 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: -------- Summer in the Young Blood ["Julie Z. Webb" ] little joni noises ["Wally Kairuz" ] RE: Joni Harmony [jc]/ phair's egg[njc] ["Wally Kairuz" ] Re: little joni noises [Helen Gill ] Re: Joni Gold CDs/Special Ed. on Tower ??? [davidmarine@webtv.net (David ] Re: little joni noises [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: little joni noises [Helen Gill ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:36:19 -0500 From: "Julie Z. Webb" Subject: Summer in the Young Blood At 12:47 PM 8/27/98 -0600, stevephotoofthemindspring wrote: >I joined because I am a lifelong fan and I had hoped to read relevent things >about joni >Instead I am reading about a haagen daas accident or other seemingly >irrelevent things. >I have found that only a small portion of any given jmdl digest has anything >to do with joni >is this a "stoner" thing? am I missing the boat? Dear Stevephoto of Mindspring, Aren't Marsha and Patrick the epitome of diplomacy! I agree with every word, but want to share my feelings too. I've subscribed to the JMDL since Dec of 96, and it seems to me that there has never been as much "JC" content on this list since plans for the "The Garden" began. So rejoice and be glad. This is probably the best it is going to get till TTT comes out.....well---- (unless Janet Reno herself speaks up next with a stain to explain.......) Look at it this way, we're here, so near, get used to it. (Hey, can I get credit for that slogan?) Trust me honey, if you think this is bad, access years of JMDL transcripts-----where **irrelevent** NJC topics dominated the list. If we Joni fans had ourselves a good ol time hangin' in there---with our irrelevent NJC life stories----way back when our Joni wasn't doin' a damn thang---- we certainly wouldn't have lasted this long. I mean, how many times can we dissect "Sweet Bird"? It's your turn to share your fresh perspectives and musings. We need you, if not we get bored easily and behave very badly as we go off on lots of tangents. (It's a rich exchange it seems to me...) Ok, everybody so get your mouses ready, roll up your sleeves, take a deep breath and......scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll You know what this is all about...it's about the summer, and that garden's ripe and juicy...Yep, it's just the summer in the young blood, ripe and juicy in the young blood teasing to go down to ... COTTON AVENUE because A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue- That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes (OH MY GOD, DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!) I guess it's just the summer in the young blood Ripe and juicy in the young blood Teasing to go down to ... Cotton Avenue To hear the shiny shiny music See all the shiny people dancing to it Anytime you go to ... Cotton Avenue You see that summer storm brewing in the southern sky By the time it hits here I'll be dancing high and dry To rhythm and blues On Cotton Avenue Poor boys'll be hanging around outside in the street They got all the latest words They're dancing to the latest beat While they're hustling and sizing you On Cotton Avenue If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you've got no place special Well my dear You just so no place ... special ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:37:06 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: little joni noises > > >Along these lines, has anyone noticed in "The Gallery" the sound of Joni's >fingernails picking the strings? It's quite quiet, and only one finger, >but it clicks away on and off right through the song. LISTEN CAREFULLY! >Has anyone else got any other little background noises? Such as the >barking dog in BobDylan's Bootleg "Every grain of sand". > >helen. >click click click > well there's joni's nails all over the piano parts on the Blue album. can you hear them? right hand nails. wallyk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:38:37 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Joni Harmony [jc]/ phair's egg[njc] >So I was wondering what songs my pals here like best when they hear a Joni >choir going. > >Terry > have you noticed? there are "choir" songs like chelsea or carey or let the wind and then there are "multiple Joni" songs, like blue motel or djrd overture: different jonis following different melodic lines that now converge, now diverge. and later, more or less with chalk mark, she started the mantra background vocals [number one, beat of black wings, etc.] the harmonies on c&s are the most challenging to the untrained ear: they're so dissonant sometimes. on pirates and on the magazine, rickie lee jones uses almost the same harmonies as found on c&s. i think. but i love rlj too, mind you. incidentally, everybody go buy your latest liz phair now! it's a terrific album. don't miss it. wallyk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:13:56 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Bruce and Elliott (NJC) For Mariana and other Angelenos - This week's New Times has a long, favorable review of Elliott Smith's new album on page 59. Also, the Newport Folk Festival is happening at the Greek Theatre on September 20th with Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson, Nanci Griffith, John Hiatt, Joan Baez, Marc Cohn, Bela Fleck, Beausoleil, Mark Eitzel and Wilco. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:28:24 +1000 (EST) From: Helen Gill Subject: Re: little joni noises On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Wally Kairuz wrote: > well there's joni's nails all over the piano parts on the Blue album. can > you hear them? right hand nails. > wallyk Yes yes yes, you reminded me of them, I had thought they were piano keys being pressed, as in the piano keys themselves were clicking. aah a revelation! i've got another harmony highlight for you all: Joni at The Last Waltz! Tell me there is anything better than Neil Young singing "Helpless" (cocaine and all) and Joni in the background harmonisiing like nothing else! i've always thought she looks remarkably like that long blonde muppet from the Muppet Band, and the shots of her silouhette as she sings Helpless only make this clearer. That muppet is meant to be Joni! helen. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: davidmarine@webtv.net (David Marine) Subject: Re: Joni Gold CDs/Special Ed. on Tower ??? Hey Don -- If you like NRH, the limited edition is nice to have. I love the ritual of opening the package by un-looping the string, gently holding up each image, and then looking through the cards again as "Night Ride Home" plays..... David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:43:20 EDT From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: little joni noises In a message dated 8/28/98 1:36:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wallykai@interserver.com.ar writes: << >Has anyone else got any other little background noises? Such as the >barking dog in BobDylan's Bootleg "Every grain of sand". >> I've always thought I hear the sound of a candle being blown out at the end of "Down to You." Has anyone else ever noticed this? Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:55:09 +1000 (EST) From: Helen Gill Subject: Re: little joni noises Helen Gill wrote; > >Has anyone else got any other little background noises? Such as the > >barking dog in BobDylan's Bootleg "Every grain of sand". >> Paul wrote; > I've always thought I hear the sound of a candle being blown out at the end of > "Down to You." Has anyone else ever noticed this? oooooh, eerie, I shall have to go and listen! more more more! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V3 #325 ************************** Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?