From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V3 #463 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Friday, November 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 463 The Joni Tour Pages: http://www.jonimitchell.com/Tour98.html http://www.jmdl.com/articles/tour98.htm ------- Join the concert meet and greet lists by sending a message to any of these addresses: -Syracuse@jmdl.com Rochester@jmdl.com CollegePark@jmdl.com -NewYork@jmdl.com Kanata@jmdl.com Atlanta@jmdl.com ------- JoniFest 1999 is coming! Reserve your spot with a $25 fee. Send a blank message to info-jonifest1999@jmdl.com for more info. ------- The Official 1998 Joni Mitchell Internet Community Shirts are available now. Go to http://www.jmdl.com/ for all the details. ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at http://www.jonimitchell.com and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, original interviews and essays, lyrics, and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: You know you are addicted to Joni when . . . ["M & C Urbanski" ["Daugherty, Stephen" ] CBC? [bg26140@binghamton.edu] Re: educating marieve... [RickieLee1@aol.com] Re: educating marieve... [Rob Jordan ] Re: lefty/righty...a new poll(NJC) [Rob Jordan ] "Blue" [Barrylauri@aol.com] Re: Urge for "Blue" [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: lefty/righty...a new poll(NJC) [catman ] You know you're a Joni addict when... [Phyliss Ward ] Re: educating marieve... ["Kakki" ] Atlanta Tickets? [Richard Stringer-Hye ] Re: educating marieve... [heather ] Re: CBC? [Mark or Travis ] Re: left/right (NJC) [Rob Jordan ] Re: educating marieve... [Mark or Travis ] Re: Urge for "Blue" [RickieLee1@aol.com] Re: Urge for "Blue" [RickieLee1@aol.com] Re: "Blue" [Mark or Travis ] Re: educating marieve... [Mark or Travis ] Re: left/right (NJC) [TerryM2442@aol.com] Re: "Blue" [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: left/right (NJC) [Wolfebite@aol.com] Re: Educating Kakki (NJC) ["Kakki" ] CBC? [Jeanne M Whitlock ] Re: left/right (NJC) [Phyliss Ward ] Message From Julie: Maryland Concert [TerryM2442@aol.com] DC/College Park [Janet Hess ] Re: lefty/righty poll (NJC) [Susan Chaloner ] Re: educating marieve... [Susan Chaloner ] Re: Stay in Touch [Susan Chaloner ] Re: God hates Rolling Stone reviews/Joni Crosses the Street [Susan Chalon] I can die now... [Michael Yarbrough ] Re: educating marieve... [heather ] (SJC) Jonatha Brooke in concert in Atlanta (long) [Marsha ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:06:37 -0500 From: "M & C Urbanski" Subject: Re: You know you are addicted to Joni when . . . - ---------- > From: Howard Motyl > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: RE: You know you are addicted to Joni when . . . > Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 11:21 AM > Howard wrote: > You buy other artists albums because Joni sings on them--even though you > may not know the artist or how much she sings on the songs. (Seal, > Hancock, James Taylor (Mud Slide Slim) . . . ) > > You *always* have at least one Joni CD in the 5 disc player. Don't forget Carol King's Tapestry! I have a separate magazine for our CD player with nothing but Joni ( 6 hours worth at a time! ) ....When you make your daughter buy Amy Grant for Big Yellow Taxi. Or Heart for their rendition of River...and reading the cover to find out what they say about Joni. ...When you meet Joe Sample and ask him what Joni is like... OK OK I was only 21. I didn't mean to ignore his talent... But God, he played on Court & Spark! Marilyn I live in a box of paints ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:23:25 -0600 From: "Daugherty, Stephen" Subject: Left handed and suffered through life for it... Steve D. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:21:10 -0500 (EST) From: bg26140@binghamton.edu Subject: CBC? There has been talk about a CBC show, possibly a short version of the upcoming payperview show. Could somebody please mention when this show will be on? Thanks, Eric ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:39:52 EST From: RickieLee1@aol.com Subject: Re: educating marieve... thanks to don and phyllis and pj and kakki. good suggestions all! i especially liked the one of the sire of sorrow, which i would not have thought of. i am also, i think, going to include slouching towards bethlehem, as the poet in her might find it interesting (either that, or a travesty!) and refuge of the roads (just because it is my favorite). and i agree with your suggestion don about keeping them chronological. i was planning on doing that. (and yes, DED is WAY too advanced for marieve!!! this is strictly JONI 101 -) as far as your question regarding what kinds of classical music, kakki? i am not sure. altho i believe it is almost exclusively operas, in which she is as fluent as all of us are in jonispeak. i doubt if there is an opera she does not know by heart. keep em coming, if you think of any others. this should be an interesting experiment simply because this will be marieve's absolute first exposure to popular music. start with the best... (if this doesn't go over, i am going to park in her driveway and play jungle line at top volume until she begs for mercy!!!) thanks again! love ric ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:44:51 +0000 From: Rob Jordan Subject: Re: educating marieve... Joni's so out-of-keeping from most poular music that came before her, that I don't think it matters a bit that Marieve hasn't been brought up in that tradition. As a poet, I would assume she would appreciate the deep'n'meaningful side of Joni... Refuge of the Roads, Hejira, Down To You, Lesson in Survival/Let The Wind Carry Me, Chinese Cafe, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter would be some of my choices. Avoid at all costs Ray's Dad's Cadillac!! Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:13:00 +0000 From: Rob Jordan Subject: Re: lefty/righty...a new poll(NJC) At 09:27 05/11/98 -0500, John M. Lind wrote: >This could be a little spice to the original query. I knew a guy in college >who was right handed but played guitar upside down, ie: a regular standart >tuned right-handed guitar turned over and played left handed. There're a few well-known guitarists who play this way: Bobby Womack is one; Albert King was another; and when I saw Karl Wallinger of World Party play this summer, it looked like he was doing it too. I always wondered how they learned, I mean did they have to turn their "Guitar Chord Encyclopaedia" upside down? BTW, I'm right-handed, but I dress to the left. Ooh missus! Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:29:01 EST From: Barrylauri@aol.com Subject: "Blue" While I was driving today I had the strongest urge to play "Blue". It's finally getting colder here and every time the weather turns chilly I immediatly play this recording. Actually, I tend to listen to DJRD more in the summer. I don't know why but I inherently associate some of her music with the changing of the seasons. Is that nuts or what?? Laurie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:29:00 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Urge for "Blue" In a message dated 11/5/98 7:32:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, Barrylauri@aol.com writes: << While I was driving today I had the strongest urge to play "Blue." It's finally getting colder here and every time the weather turns chilly I immediately play this recording. >> Though I love "Blue," I would think "Urge for Going" would be the more appropriate song for this mood. That's what I play this time of year, especially tonight, which will be our first chilly night here in North Florida. Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:31:12 +0000 From: catman Subject: Re: lefty/righty...a new poll(NJC) > > > BTW, I'm right-handed, but I dress to the left. Ooh missus! I didn't always know what that meant! I dress to the right. Rob, you surprised me! > > > Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:35:57 +500 From: "Kim Korman Brown" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V3 #462 Hi gang Here's one of those "you know when you're a Joni fan if..." my best friend Genevieve and I used to sign our letters hands alike magnet and iron the souls... Thanks everyone for your warm hearts. What a great group of folks. Kim ......................................................... "You and I have brains, the others have fluff." (Winnie the Pooh) http://futurerealm.com - The HeartThread Resource Page http://worldcommunity.com - The World Community Network http://wtne-sales.com - Washington Times National Weekly National Sales Office http://musicviews.com Music Reviews by Kim Korman Brown ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 17:45:58 -0800 From: Phyliss Ward Subject: You know you're a Joni addict when... You know you're a Joni addict when... You keep the TV on all day tuned to the PPV preview channel just in case you walk by and happen to see the promo for the Joni concert again. Your housekeeper calls you to say that they have been heavily promoting the Joni concert on the local classic rock station - - Phyliss pward@lightspeed.net http://www.bodywise.com/consultants/bpward ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:56:02 -0500 (EST) From: some millers Subject: re: NJC: lefty poll >Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:26:24 +0000 (GMT) >From: Howard Wright >Subject: NJC: lefty poll > >I'm right handed. > >Just to get boring and slightly serious for a second ... > >If you are genuinely interested in getting a good poll of lefties and >righties from the JMDL, this probably isn't the way to do it. The key is >whether the people that reply are a random sample or not. My guess is that >lefties will be more interested in responding, which will skew the >results. howard, i appreciate the point, but do you really think this is the kind of forum to get into drawing random samples? surely, if everyone responded, then this method would be far superior than any sample. for what it's worth, me thinks your post has injected a counterveiling bias. to wit, it seems to have precipitated a string of righties coming forward without another lefty since. does this mean that these competing biases will compensate for one another, and in the end we can make use of the numbers? >As someone mentioned recently (sorry, I forgot your name - a Biologist I >think?) sorting out the results into what is statistically significant and >what are just random variations is not trivial. that would be james a. murray, aka jimbo. >Howard > >P.S I promise never again to use the words "statistically significant" in >a JMDL post! > >------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:06:07 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: educating marieve... Ric rote: >as far as your question regarding what kinds of classical music, kakki? i am not sure. altho i believe it is almost exclusively operas, in which she is as fluent as all of us are in jonispeak. i doubt if there is an opera she does >not know by heart. Well, if it is strictly opera (wow) then you must include Pirate of Penance, no? And "Summertime" is a must, too. btw, a house ball drilled in the right direction, I assume, is a bowling ball for a left-hander. But now what is "dress to the left/right"? (Since it made the catman chortle, maybe I don't want to know!) Kakki NP: CNN - Larry King droning about the elections (Borrrr-ing!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:13:19 +0600 From: Richard Stringer-Hye Subject: Atlanta Tickets? A couple of weeks ago it was posted that the Joni/Bob tour had a date scheduled in Nashville on November 11. I pateiently waited for the tickets to go on sale but they never did. Now I find out that the tour will end this Saturday in Atlanta at the Alexander Arena and I am ticketless and depressed. All that waiting. All that anticipation. Stifled! If anyone has tickets they would like to sell or can refer me to a ticket source for the Sat. show I would be most appreciative. If this doesn't work it's off to scalper hell. Thanks, Rick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 21:20:33 -0500 From: heather Subject: Re: educating marieve... At 11:44 PM 11/5/98 +0000, you wrote: >As a poet, I would assume she would appreciate the deep'n'meaningful side >of Joni... Refuge of the Roads, Hejira, Down To You, Lesson in Survival/Let >The Wind Carry Me, Chinese Cafe, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter would be some >of my choices. > this is a good selection. i would throw in "electricity" and by all means let her borrow your poems & lyrics book. she seems like a person who would like to see words. heather (who is slowly becoming left handed and learning to type with 7 fingers - ring & pinky from the right) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:28:21 -0800 From: Mark or Travis Subject: Re: CBC? bg26140@binghamton.edu wrote: > > There has been talk about a CBC show, possibly a short version of the > upcoming payperview show. Could somebody please mention when this show > will be on? > > Thanks, > Eric My TV Guide says Sunday at 9pm Pacific time if that helps. (We get a CBC station here in Shoreline WA.) Mark in (well right next to, anyway) Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 02:50:06 +0000 From: Rob Jordan Subject: Re: left/right (NJC) At 18:06 05/11/98 -0800, Kakki wrote: >But now what is "dress to the left/right"? (Since it made the catman >chortle, maybe I don't want to know!) Well, Kakki, since you asked... it's a question a traditional gents tailor would ask when fitting a man for a pair of suit trousers. Get the picture? Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:44:12 -0800 From: Mark or Travis Subject: Re: educating marieve... RickieLee1@aol.com wrote: > > thanks to don and phyllis and pj and kakki. good suggestions all! i > especially liked the one of the sire of sorrow, which i would not have thought > of. i am also, i think, going to include slouching towards bethlehem, as the > poet in her might find it interesting (either that, or a travesty!) and refuge > of the roads (just because it is my favorite). I thought 'The Dawntreader' was an excellent choice. Also: Song to a Seagull I Don't Know Where I Stand Chelsea Morning The Gallery Morning Morgantown The Blue Boy Real Good For Free (love the piano on this one) All I Want Blue (again love the piano) Banquet (other fine suggestions from FTR) Down to You (I've always thought the instrumental interlude sounded very classical) People's Parties/Same Situation Sweet Bird Shades of Scarlet Conquering (people have already suggested good songs from Hejira) Jericho Dreamland (give it a little global flavor) The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey (a tad on the avant garde side but impressive imo) Love My Secret Place The Tea Leaf Prophecy Night Ride Home Two Grey Rooms Sire of Sorrow (seconding that emotion!) Love Puts on a New Face Stay in Touch That's my short list! Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:03:31 EST From: RickieLee1@aol.com Subject: Re: Urge for "Blue" In a message dated 98-11-05 20:34:14 EST, IVPAUL42@aol.com writes: << especially tonight, which will be our first chilly night here in North Florida. Paul I >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:03:32 EST From: RickieLee1@aol.com Subject: Re: Urge for "Blue" In a message dated 98-11-05 20:34:14 EST, IVPAUL42@aol.com writes: << especially tonight, which will be our first chilly night here in North Florida. Paul I >> which means what mr. ives? low 70's??? come on up to boston sir and find out what chilly REALLY means.... brrrrrrrrrrr. love, ric ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:47:34 -0800 From: Mark or Travis Subject: Re: "Blue" Barrylauri@aol.com wrote: I don't know why but I inherently associate some of her music > with the changing of the seasons. Is that nuts or what?? Not at all! Hejira is a winter album if ever there was one. Court & Spark is summer, summer, summer! And Clouds is autumn (along with Carole King's Tapestry and others) Anyway that's what the are to me. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:52:04 -0800 From: Mark or Travis Subject: Re: educating marieve... Kakki wrote: > But now what is "dress to the left/right"? (Since it made the catman > chortle, maybe I don't want to know!) > > Kakki > You probably don't but it has to do with male anatomy and where the male in question chooses to put it in his pants. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:23:47 EST From: TerryM2442@aol.com Subject: Re: left/right (NJC) In a message dated 11/5/98 9:53:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, rob.jordan@which.net writes: << Well, Kakki, since you asked... it's a question a traditional gents tailor would ask when fitting a man for a pair of suit trousers. Get the picture? >> Kakki, If you didn't get it, you're not alone. They really fit trousers for that?? Terry, wondering if the pocket is also tailor made ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:26:13 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: "Blue" In a message dated 11/5/98 10:09:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, Mark-n- Travis@worldnet.att.net writes: << Court & Spark is summer, summer, summer! >> Hissing of Summer Lawns is also obviously a summer album., while I always think of For the Roses as a spring album. (spring from a boulder like a mama lion.) Ladies of the Canyon is summer, too. others? Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:34:44 EST From: Wolfebite@aol.com Subject: Re: left/right (NJC) reminds me of that sophie tucker joke.. (don't know if anyones posted this yet) it was a beautiful sunny day and sophie was out a hangin her laundry when her neighbor said 'soph- how is it that you know when to hang out the laundry. everytime I do it rains?' and sophie says 'each morning i look at my boyfriend ernie and if it's hangin to left- it's going to rain - and if it's hangin to the right- it's going to be sunny.' and the neighbor says 'well soph- what if it's stickin straight up in the air' and soph says 'on a day like that, who thinks of doing laundry' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:28:08 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Educating Kakki (NJC) Thank you Rob, Mark and Rickie Lee. I'm always learning something new here. It's nice to know we have so many of well-tailored men on this list, ahem. >If you didn't get it, you're not alone. They really fit trousers for that?? > >Terry, wondering if the pocket is also tailor made LOL!!! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:48:00 -0500 From: Jeanne M Whitlock Subject: CBC? Hi Eric (and anyone else who gets Canadian TV); my local listing (in Detroit) says this Sunday at 9 PM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:10:21 -0800 From: Phyliss Ward Subject: Re: left/right (NJC) TerryM2442@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/5/98 9:53:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, > rob.jordan@which.net writes: > > << Well, Kakki, since you asked... it's a question a traditional gents tailor > would ask when fitting a man for a pair of suit trousers. Get the picture? > >> > > Kakki, > > If you didn't get it, you're not alone. They really fit trousers for that?? > > Terry, wondering if the pocket is also tailor made I continue to be amazed at how educational this list is! - -- Phyliss, who also learned a new one today too, whether she wanted to or not... pward@lightspeed.net http://www.bodywise.com/consultants/bpward ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:31:34 EST From: TerryM2442@aol.com Subject: Message From Julie: Maryland Concert Hi, JulieZWebb phoned me- she's unable to get online to report on tonight's incredible show but will be up bright and early to send off her review. Sounds like it was another winner! Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 00:00:09 -0500 From: Janet Hess Subject: DC/College Park Joni blew me away...and she kept apologizing tonight for not being in good voice because of what she called "a bug" she'd picked up. I'm too giddy to write more at the moment, but goodness what an evening with Joni! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:05:10 -0800 From: Susan Chaloner Subject: Re: lefty/righty poll (NJC) Flip a coin: I'm dual handed ;~D And right now it's a blessing: I can paint faster this way :~) Back to the brushes... Susan L.A. "...That's always been a tricky one for me..."-JoniM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:05:52 -0800 From: Susan Chaloner Subject: Re: educating marieve... RickieLee1@aol.com wrote: > can anyone help me with some suggestions? Love to :~) Anything that cutie Klein is playing on, including "Lead ballon." ;~D Also I would make "Stay In Touch" the extro on the tape...What can I say? I love that sax! ;~) Susan L.A. "...Clinging like fire to fuel..."-JoniM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:43:46 -0800 From: Susan Chaloner Subject: Re: Stay in Touch HowardW wrote: > You can hear cymbal hits on some of the off beats between Joni's > guitar strums. Anyone else hear this? And Diana D responded: > It sounded like a really soft cymbal brush but the tempo is different. It > drove me crazy!!!! Well, that's just our Joni emptying out old habits ;~) Susan L.A. "...That's always been a tricky one for me..."-JoniM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:45:25 -0800 From: Susan Chaloner Subject: Re: God hates Rolling Stone reviews/Joni Crosses the Street wallykai wrote: > Rolling > Stone is the epitome of inanity when it comes to many things, but its > reviews take the cake: they should win the Pulitzer for shallow-mindedness. Hey Wally love; Rolling Stone did do one good thing: Gave Ferron's "Shadows on a Dime" a raving review...I guess the mag had a brief moment of temporary sanity in 1984 :~D > I also hope she'll > choose not only bluesy, minor key songs, but the "sillier" kind too, > "Someone to watch over me", "I'm old fashioned", and Roberto's specialty: "I > can cook too". Oh YES! "I can cook too" is an absolute must!!! Heads up Joni and I hope you're feeling better today. > While we're about it: Roberto, what do you say we make a tape of standards > for the list, you at the piano and I at the microphone. We should be so lucky! Let's hold them to it! Nail them to a date...When can we expect this masterpiece my sweets? > [Maybe we can have Susan > LA add MORE sassy lyrics] How could I resist such an harmonious opportunity? ;~) I was going to watch a mindless film this evening but now I am inspired to create...Can you bear the imperfections? :~) Where in the hell did I put my pens? I guess I gave away too much Sally-Anne come back! I just need to retrieve one bic :~D Susan L.A. "...Let light hearts remake us..."-JoniM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 01:37:54 -0500 From: Michael Yarbrough Subject: I can die now... At some point after my love for Joni's music congealed, a fear began to seize me that I would not ever get the chance to hear her live before she retired, or worse. I just grew up too late, I thought. Thank the Goddess I was wrong. I have been convinced for a while that we are now seeing Joni learn to use her voice with the aplomb she has long employed as a wordsmith and composer. I now know I'm right. Even though she felt under the weather and lacked some of the vocal elasticity I've heard from the Day in the Garden performance, it was clear that she has learned how and when to deploy her unique shapings. The gentle sorrows of "Amelia," the percussive exclamations of "Black Crow," and the anguished melismas of "Magdalene Laundries" all shrank the basketball arena to a confessional booth. Of course my 9th row seats didn't hurt. :-) The real stunners, of course, were "Trouble Man" and "Comes Love," when she was freed from the obligation of telling a story she created and reinvigorated someone else's tale with her own stylings. I think her rediscovery and performance of these jazz and R&B standards are direct roots of the vocal renaissance we are now enjoying. Unfortunately, we were deprived of "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter," "Moon at the Window," "Free Man in Paris," and "Facelift," perhaps due to her illness. Nonetheless it was a memorable and worthwhile evening, for Chris Botti's unmuted trumpet sighs in "Magdalene," for Greg Liesz's tight steel slurs in "Amelia," and for Brian Blade's everything. Bob Dylan was great as well. His singing did not bother me at all, and his band was incredible. I must thank a lot of people on this list, especially Brad Fors, for increasing my appreciation of his music. I do have to say though that Dylan's skills as a lyricist and bandleader dwarf his overwhelmingly unfortunate guitar solos. Those should have been left to his guitarist, who is a fine player. I'm also not crazy about most Dylan fans. They were respectful enough during Joni's set, unlike previous shows, but I found their habit of cheering every time Dylan sang a given song's title as a lyric more than a little perplexing. "Don't think twice now / It's alright." "Woo- hoo!!!." Um, OK. They also wildly applauded every single one of his guitar solos. They must have loved that root note he hangs onto as much as he did. But I'm being too mean now. His one harmonica solo was excellent and it was a generally energetic and tight show I'm glad to have seen. Now I'm looking forward to more revelry with BarBearUh, Patrick, Bob H., Bill, Julie, Alan, Sherrie, Duane and clan over the next two days!! - --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 21:29:42 -0500 From: heather Subject: Re: educating marieve... At 06:06 PM 11/5/98 -0800, you wrote: >Well, if it is strictly opera (wow) then you must include Pirate of Penance, >no? And "Summertime" is a must, too. > i agree with this too. and don't forget to loan her "the" book! > >NP: CNN - Larry King droning about the elections (Borrrr-ing!) > Yeah, what's with this I hear about Jesse "the bod" Ventura is govenor of Missouri?? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 03:12:39 -0500 From: Marsha Subject: (SJC) Jonatha Brooke in concert in Atlanta (long) Jonatha Brooke (formerly of The Story) just performed a solo acoustic set at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta, and we were fortunate to hear 15 beautiful songs. I am blown away by this woman every time I see her (3 since last November). For me, I think she is one of the finest talenta out there for intelligent lyrics, accomplished playing (with alternate tunings and chord/ rhythm shifts that match SIQUOMB's, as well as a controlled and gorgeous voice. News from her label/marketing front: she was dropped by MCA and is doing the independent thing like Ani DiFranco and Jane Siberry. I met her, and she said she might call Ani to get info on pitfalls, etc. This further example of a female artist being mistreated by a major label sickens me for Jonatha, as I think she is a monumental talent. In 3 weeks her new "Jonatha Live" will be offered by her website and at: 1-877-FOR-BAD-DOG This is going on my gift list to distribute to friends for Christmas. Jonatha was gracious to pose for pics and sign autographs. I gave her some photos of her I took in Los Angeles and Atlanta. When I mentioned our Fred Simon (Hi, Fred!), and how I knew he introduced Jonatha to Ingrid Graudins, her accompanist, she smiled and said, "Yes, and Fred never lets me forget it!" I adore Jonatha. Those of you unfamiliar with her might recognize the breathy "GoodYear... GooohoodYear" tire ditty she does nationally. I fear she will be relegated to the Joni Mitchell Shrine of Our Ladies of the Under-rated/Under- appreciated Church of the CD Discount Bin. Amen. Well, it was a nice beginning to a fab Joni weekend here in Hotlanta. I look forward to the PPV tomorrow night, and then Joni on Saturday. Your Mouth O' the South signing off, Marsha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:17:48 +0800 From: "D.J. Toman" Subject: Cat Stevens >my boss was a director/dir of photography for 30 years or so and he worked >with cat in the early 70s (he shot a tv special if i remember). i was such a >big stevens fan, so i was very excited when i found out he had worked with >him. he said something like this about cat: "buddhist my ass. he was one of >the nastiest, most temperamental little shits i ever worked with." this >coming from a guy who also worked with nixon, and was none too fond of him. > >barbara >np: smashing pumpkins, adore Just a little correction: Cat Stevens became a Muslim, not a Buddhist. For tempestuousness, my grandfather was a stage hand on TV sets at one time. He loved to talk about Jackie Gleason as the worst human being who ever drew breath. - --David in Taiwan homepage and tape list: http://www.ou-online.com/milesian ` ` __o - o `__'\o_ ` _ \<,_ - Trivia Project: Send your Joni trivia questions and/or answers to Today in History Project: Know of a date-specific Joni fact? -send it to ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?