From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V3 #465 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Saturday, November 7 1998 Volume 03 : Number 465 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: -------- HomeSchooling (NJC) [mann@chicagonet.net] PPV & JONI'S BIRTHDAY CARD [Wally Breese ] Re: PPV & JONI'S BIRTHDAY CARD [LRFye@aol.com] Edie Brickell Fans (NJC) [Mark Domyancich ] PPV ["Deb Messling" ] Re: PPV ["M & C Urbanski" ] Re: PPV [Jeanne M Whitlock ] Re: PPV [TerryM2442@aol.com] Brian Blade [JAWebster2@aol.com] PPV and stuff [Michael Paz ] Re: PPV ["M & C Urbanski" ] Wash Post Critic Adores Joni! [Janet Hess ] Re: PPV [Diana Duncan ] Re: You know you are addicted to Joni when . . . [LRFye@aol.com] SJC ["Eric Taylor" ] Past lives - New Poll? ["Eric Taylor" ] Central California PPV Party a roaring success! [Phyliss Ward Subject: PPV & JONI'S BIRTHDAY CARD Hi everyone, I want to invite all of you who watch Joni's PPV special in the U.S. to send in their review to the JM.COM page devoted to this program. I'm also very interested in receiving reviews from you folks in Canada and the U.K. where the show is only an hour. It'll be interesting to compare the two edits. Leslie Mixon, who viewed my advance tape last weekend, has already sent in her review. To read or to send in a review, go to this address: http://www.jonimitchell.com/EagleRockSpecialPage1198.html#Setlist Also, yesterday I Express-mailed Joni's birthday card from all of us in the JM Internet Community. It arrived today at Joni's hotel in Atlanta, where she checked in this evening. You can view a reproduction of this year's birthday card at this address: http://www.jonimitchell.com/BDCard1198.html Later, Wally Breese The Joni Mitchell Homepage http://www.JoniMitchell.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 21:15:22 EST From: LRFye@aol.com Subject: Re: PPV & JONI'S BIRTHDAY CARD Wally B. wrote: > Also, yesterday I Express-mailed Joni's birthday card from all of us > in the JM Internet Community. It arrived today at Joni's hotel in > Atlanta, where she checked in this evening. The card is BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for doing such a terrific job! I'm sure Joni is enjoying it this very minute ... Lori San Antonio ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:49:09 -0600 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Edie Brickell Fans (NJC) Hey guys! I just found out that Edie has rejoined her band and are now recording new stuff since they broke up 8 years ago. Here is the article from Rolling Stone: Something New from the Bohemians Bohemian lifestyle yields two new songs. Edie Brickell and Co. return to a New York studio ANNI LAYNE (October 26, 1998) No one would ever accuse her of being prolific, but given that she and her New Bohemians have a greatest hits record in the offing after releasing just two records, there's probably something to be said for Edie Brickell's measured musical philosophy. In preparation for that record, Mrs. Paul Simon reunited with the New Bohemians in a Manhattan studio last Friday to begin recording the group's first new material in nearly nine years. Now married with children, Brickell is tiptoeing back into the music spotlight with two brand new songs penned earlier this month by herself and New Bohemians guitarist Kenny Withrow, with whom she wrote 1989's hit single "What I Am." The new tracks -- "The Boys in the Band" and "One Last Time" -- will be included on a forthcoming greatest hits album, Brickell's first release since her 1994 solo effort, Picture Perfect Morning. "It seemed timely [to release a greatest hits album] now because you see a number of young women with acoustic guitars and great voices out there now," says Geffen A-&-R rep Tony Berg. "I think a lot of those women listened to Edie while they were developing as musicians." The New Bohemians' yet untitled best-of collection will cull material from only two albums -- 1989's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars and 1990's Ghost of a Dog, which was a relative flop. The temporary reunion is scheduled to conclude this Thursday at New York's Sear Sound studio and will mark the first time that wayward drummer Brandon Aly has played with the New Bohemians since their pre-Geffen days in Dallas. Seattle engineer and long-time New Bohemians' friend Dave Castell will aid the in-studio process. Simon, Brickell's better half, will not contribute to the project, as previously rumored. As of now, there are no plans for the Bohemians to tour behind the album. ___________________________________ | Mark Domyancich | | Harpua@revealed.net | | http://home.revealed.net/Harpua | | http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/mark | |_________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:51:49 +0000 From: "Deb Messling" Subject: PPV I hope you all enjoyed your PPV show. I enjoyed my Barney movie very much, , but the box crapped out two minutes into the Joni show. Ron called the cable company and said, "I think this is an emergency." So a guy came out and we're fixed for 11:00 p.m. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:00:03 -0500 From: "M & C Urbanski" Subject: Re: PPV - ---------- > From: Deb Messling > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: PPV > Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 5:51 PM > > I hope you all enjoyed your PPV show. I enjoyed my Barney movie very > much, , but the box crapped out two minutes into the Joni > show. Ron called the cable company and said, "I think this is an > emergency." > > So a guy came out and we're fixed for 11:00 p.m. Hey mine crapped out to as soon as she hit the first note on the guitar! I started screaming! I figured either we all got shit on or I'm never writing another parody before a Joni event!!!!!! I hope you get it taped!!! Marilyn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:06:49 -0500 From: Jeanne M Whitlock Subject: Re: PPV I did get it on tape, but not very good quality. I called my cable company and bitched because the picture kept blinking....they tried to fiddle with the signal, but it STILL wasn't great. So at least they're not charging my account. But I could still see it, anyhow! And it's got more than a few priceless moments! Knit, knit, knit .... Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:24:50 EST From: TerryM2442@aol.com Subject: Re: PPV I missed the first 60 seconds because the damn show didn't click in until I changed channels and came back. But when I did...Ooooooh, was it fantastic! What a treat to see Joni relaxed and happy. She looked radiant, beautiful. All the tears that I held back during her Detroit show, found their way down my cheek tonight when she began singing Amelia. I think the camera man must be a guitarist. There were so many great closeups of her hands and thanks to him, I can now go practice some of the songs I've been fouling up on. It became much clearer to me how she really does use that instrument like an entire orchestra. And Brian had me gasping. Playing snare with his bare hands! If anyone out here in Joniland is a drummer, please tell me what kind of cymbals he uses that offer such exquisite shimmering sounds. I still can't get over Joni dancing away! I kept looking for jmdl'ers in the audience. Wally, was that you behind Joni? The only other person I recognized was a quick shot of Pearl. Where was everyone?? Terry I loved her good humor when she asked for the words to Song For Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:06:06 EST From: JAWebster2@aol.com Subject: Brian Blade Here's where I admit that I have let about a week's worth of digests pile up. This may have been revealed already. Brian Blade just signed on to do an 18 month tour with Seal. This does not bode well for those of us who thought maybe Joni would enjoy touring so much that she'd decide to headline her own smaller-venue tour. Poop. jessica ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:07:21 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: PPV and stuff Hi List- I am checking my emails real quick here, I am about 12 or 13 digests behind on the and I guess I will catch up when I plug back in to my former life before Mitch. . We did alot of good work today and I am blessed to have a wonderful team working with me on the relief effort. The PPV was awesome tonight, I watched with Freda and the kids.Julian sang along and cooed JOE-neeee. The paintings were so beautiful and I saw lots of pretty people there like Wally, Pearl, Marilune (I think). The sound was quite good through most of the show.I am bummed I have to miss Atlanta tomorrow, unless a miracle happens (which I guess could happen seeing how I have seen a few miracles lately). Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:13:18 -0500 From: "M & C Urbanski" Subject: Re: PPV - ---------- > From: TerryM2442@aol.com > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: PPV > Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 11:24 PM > > I missed the first 60 seconds because the damn show didn't click in until I > changed channels and came back. But when I did...Ooooooh, was it fantastic! > Terry > > I loved her good humor when she asked for the words to Song For Sharon I loved that part too! I thought Yes it's the JMDLers in the audience giving Joni the words to her own song! Loved her story about the lady. I wish Joni would do story tellers on VH1 or A&E do her biography. I called my cable co. I have the second round "playing real good for free" since my recording screwed up. Joni is going to air again on tues night at 11pm. I hope to have the quirks fixed by then! Marilyn I live in a box of paints ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 00:23:41 -0500 From: Janet Hess Subject: Wash Post Critic Adores Joni! A review hot off the Post site; Richard Harrington shows that it wasn't just the JMDLers among us who were entranced by Joni's performance Thursday. - ------------------------------------------------------ Mitchell and Dylan, Just Like Old Times By Richard Harrington Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 7, 1998; Page C01 Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, two of the most influential, literate singer-songwriters of the last half century, performed a sold-out concert Thursday night at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House. Cold, cavernous Cole may not have been the best venue for these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, but they made the best of it, Mitchell with a warm, richly textured set that drew heavily from her '70s work, and Dylan with a typically reconstructive romp through his back pages. After a brief opening set by roots rocker Dave Alvin and a too-long set break, Mitchell took to the stage alone and launched into one of her classic tracks, "Big Yellow Taxi." It's been 17 years since Mitchell performed in the Washington area, and in that time, her voice has taken on deeper, duskier hues that add emotional authority to her ruminations on romantic entanglements, spiritual rootlessness and the restless reveries that lead her to, as "Amelia" puts it, sleep "on the strange pillows of my wanderlust." Superbly backed by a quartet including trumpeter Chris Botti and pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz, Mitchell cast her songs in shimmering arrangements built around her characteristic open tunings in different keys. (A new electronic gizmo allowed her to alter those tunings instantly, as opposed to the laborious changing and retuning of guitars from the past.) Graceful, luminous chords cushioned the lilting "Night Ride Home" (with atmospheric coloring from Botti's muted trumpet and terse underpinning by drummer Brian Blade), underscored the giddy sensual recklessness of "The Crazy Cries of Love" and gave proof to the lovely "Hejira," in which Mitchell confessed "There's comfort in melancholy/ When there's no need to explain." It's not explanations that Mitchell's songs offer, but explorations, a notion underscored by recurrent images of cars (especially taxis), trains, planes and empty roads that stretch forever yet so often lead back to the self. The simply cast "Amelia" conjured the fabled aviatrix to bemoan a lack of romantic connection ("Like me she had a dream to fly/ Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms"). Other highlights included the sinewy "Harry's House -- Centerpiece," the edgy, accusatory "Sex Kills" and "Magdelene Laundries," a bittersweet narrative about wayward souls and the intertwined hypocrisies of church and state in Ireland. Mitchell saved the best for last. She revived "Comes Love," a sly 1939 torch song associated with Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day, investing it with both sassy humor and world-weary resignation, and taking the torch notion literally by smoking a cigarette during the instrumental breaks. And for a solo encore, Mitchell revisited "Woodstock" almost 30 years on. Only this time, its generational idealism was replaced by an ineffable sense of sadness over unkept promises and diluted dreams. This latest local stop on Bob Dylan's Neverending Tour found the recent Kennedy Center Honoree in a feisty mood, albeit not quite as focused as in his most recent shows at the 9:30 club. Dylan remains enlivened, and at times emboldened, by his rock-and-roll band, to the point of taking most of the lead guitar breaks despite not being anywhere close to the technical mastery of band member Larry Campbell. Nonetheless, Dylan seemed to be having great fun from the moment he walked onstage looking like one of his own characters, the Man in the Long Black Coat. (His wardrobe also included white boots and slacks studded with silver dots running up the side.) He opened with a brief electric set of "Gotta Serve Somebody," "I'll Remember You" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again," so dramatically reconstructed (as a hard blues shuffle) as to be almost unrecognizable. The same might have been true of "Mr. Tambourine Man," revisited as an off-kilter newgrass tune with bracing solos featuring lots of stuttering, clipped note runs. Initially off-putting, it proved ingratiating by the time the last verses rolled around. The acoustic portion of the show included the night's only cover, the Stanley Brothers' "Stone Walls and Steel Bars" (complete with raw three-part harmonies), "Tangled Up in Blue" (the only time Dylan played harmonica) and "Don't Think Twice," with Campbell pattern-picking the familiar melody. Going electric again, Dylan and the band essayed "Blind Willie McTell," an obscure gem full of deep South atmospherics, and another relatively obscure but great song, the spiritual-like "Every Grain of Sand." He then jacked the power level up another notch with a roof-raising "Highway 61 Revisited," featuring a triple-guitar attack in which Bucky Baxter's pedal steel helped create a full metal racket. For a generous five-song encore, Dylan mixed electric and acoustic: The former included the foreboding "Love Sick," "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat," " 'Til I Fell in Love With You" and, to better effect, an acoustic and largely faithful "Blowin' in the Wind." A finale of "Forever Young" left even Dylan's oldest fans feeling at least momentarily rejuvenated as they left the hall. Special correspondent Mike Joyce contributed to this review. © Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:30:33 -0600 From: Diana Duncan Subject: Re: PPV At 11:24 PM 11/6/1998 EST, TerryM2442@aol.com wrote: >I missed the first 60 seconds because the damn show didn't click in until I >changed channels and came back. But when I did...Ooooooh, was it fantastic! Mine did this too. So I didn't get the very beginning of the producer talking but I'll survive. I taped it and played it back after and it looks pretty good. I can't believe my daughter, Chelsea, watched it with me. Of course she kept falling asleep. It wasn't that she didn't like it. She said it was so pretty and mellow that she just kept drifting off. At least that's better than she usually talks about the woman who's song she's named after. Of course Joni was radiant and I loved seeing her paintings so close up. Joni's voice was in no way up to the melodious, smooth voice we heard at the Chicago concert. You could tell she was cutting her notes short. In Chicago she drew them out with a long slide. I saw Mariana, and I thought I saw Kakki and of course Wally. I kept thinking of looking for other when the camara paned the audience but I guess I was mesmerized by Joni. Now that I have it on tape I can really look around. BTW, Deb, we ordered Chinese to eat along with Joni my living room. These last few weeks have been Joni-heaven for me! Diana ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:33:22 EST From: LRFye@aol.com Subject: Re: You know you are addicted to Joni when . . . Your lover says, "You would leave me for Joni Mitchell." And your lover is right. Lori (single in) San Antonio ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:34:02 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: SJC Julie wrote >The man in front of me looked gaaagaaa. >Joni was smmmmmmmokin' and her cigarette >couldn't have complimented the moment better... >After she finished "Comes Love" >everyone looked as if they could use a cigarette. Fine reporting jewels! So sorry I missed the closest concert yet but I just can't handle the beltway... Immortals tend to age gracefully I notice. Hesus once said: "It's not what goes into your mouth that will hurt you, but, rather, what comes out of it." Perhaps this helps explain how Joni can sound & look better all the time whilst chain-smoking the Breath of the Great Spirit & singing her big heart out. Remember when Barbra smoked a joint on stage during a McGovern fundraiser (Live At The Forum) and belted out On A Clear Day You Can See Forever? Geezeus, that is the best Babs ever sounded! & Bonnie! Woah, she is another prime example. I Can't Make You Love Me has got to be the most beautiful ballad ever sung by anyone (besides perhaps Vincent by Don McLean but then that is another thread)... %~} E.T. AMBIDEXTEROUS (leaning left) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:55:38 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Past lives - New Poll? Susan C. queried: >What if we had a poll in which we each said what time >period in history we think we may have lived in before, >or would have liked to??? Back in '83 I ate 3 amanita muscaria mushrooms from under a redwood tree and opened death's door. Facing a storm brewing on the Mendocino coast at midnight I looked back millenia to see history unfold through the eyes of 7 strangers named John (Jean, Johannes, etc.) Wow what a trip! When my Mom said she wanted to name me John but my Dad insisted upon Eric shortly thereafter, I assumed the pename >jonEric< & went out on a limb (literally, I lived in a treehouse hoping to photograph Bigfoot & prove homo sapien sapiens evolved in America)... I don't know what it all means but the lesson I learned is that I'm SO glad to be alive today to witness these unparalleled times. Happy to be here now, E.T. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:35:34 -0800 From: Phyliss Ward Subject: Central California PPV Party a roaring success! I'm too tired now to tell you guys alll all the details but suffice it to say I think Joni's popularity just grew a bit in the Central Valley of California. We had a great Party. Awesome Concert (as you well know). A great group of folks I call freinds who absolutely LOVED IT! More tomorrow, but now, sleep... - -- Phyliss pward@lightspeed.net http://www.bodywise.com/consultants/bpward ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V3 #465 ************************** Don't forget about these ongoing projects: FAQ Project: Help compile the JMDL FAQ. Do you have mailing list-related questions? -send them to 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?