From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #146 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Tuesday, March 21 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 146 Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund," with all donations going directly into the upkeep of the JoniMitchell.com website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds, and it will now be up to Jim to continue. If you would like to donate to this fund, please make all checks payable to: Jim Johanson and send them to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA 01983 USA ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage can be found 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 http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Birthdays NJC ["Helen M. Adcock" ] FW: tunings ["Alison Einerson" ] Re: ANNOUNCING....... [CaTGirl627@aol.com] For Free [Bounced Message ] Re: New JMDL UK member NJC [CaTGirl627@aol.com] Re: NJC Modern @phorisms [Marian ] RE: Birthdays NJC ["Wally Kairuz" ] Ticket prices ["Kakki" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:12:47 +1200 From: "Helen M. Adcock" Subject: Re: Birthdays NJC WallyK (finally back among us - it's about time!) wrote: > Bob, who shares a birthday with Bruce Springsteen & Ray Charles > i share a birthday with marelene dietrich...does that count? I share mine with (among others) Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Mick Jagger, Stanley Kubrick, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley and George Bernard Shaw! If you'd like to check your own birthday, try the following link: http://www.famousbirthdays.com Hell _______________________________ "I don't believe in livin' in the middle with available extremes" - Carole King hell@ihug.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:51:49 -0700 From: "Alison Einerson" Subject: FW: tunings - ---------- From: "Alison Einerson" To: catman Subject: Re: tunings Date: Mon, Mar 20, 2000, 9:58 AM Hello all, As I have just (finally!) been able to start reading the _JM Companion_ , I actually know the answer to this! I am only about one quarter the way through, but I just read an interview with JM where she stated that polio was the reason that tunings were so appealing to her. As Colin mentioned, she did not have the agility in her left hand to get the sounds out like she wanted them with normal tunings. Tunings were a "godsend". Sorry I can't quote directly, I don't have the book at work with me. Alison E. in SLC - ---------- >From: "catman" >To: >Subject: tunings >Date: Mon, Mar 20, 2000, 2:24 AM > >According to some bumph I read, the reason Joni developed alternate tunings >is they are easier for her left hand to play, due to the affects of her >polio. Is that true? > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:42:40 EST From: CaTGirl627@aol.com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING....... In a message dated 3/20/2000 3:15:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, AsharaJM@aol.com writes: << 1) A nonrefundable check in ANY amount, payable to Les Irvin, and sent to me at: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA 01983 >> THIS pleases me to no end. Les has put out money from his own pocket month after month year after year for the Joni site and THIS list!! WE are all so indebted to him. Come on everyone dig deep and show just exactly how much you care about this list and the fabulous Joni site. Les is one of my favorite people and never accepts any offers of anything except for maybe a Cd or two so let him know how much we love him and this wonderful place. Oh and Ashara you can count on me being there and I do remember that you love Angels and dolphins!!! Hugs, Catgirl ps Ebay has so many Hejira Songbooks up for auction I will be donating a couple for the raffle amoung some CD goodies!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:50:01 -0700 From: Bounced Message Subject: For Free Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:14:54 -0600 From: "H.D. Motyl" first of all, Thank you, Jody for the CD of the 1973 songs. Right now, I am listening to For Free and everytime I hear the opening chords of this song--on whatever version--I feel a complete sense of sadness. There is a sadness becuz nobody stops to hear the player but, more importantly, there is a sense of loss in the narrator/singer (hence, her sense of sadness) that she cannot play "real good for free" anymore. She got the velvet curtain calls, the good hotel, the limousines, and the gentlemen escorts. The loss arises from the singer/narrator not being able to go back (a kind of "You Can't Go Home Again") to the simplicity of playing what she wants, when she wants. Almost as if she realizes, with hearing him playing for free, that she has bought into a system that will never allow her again to play for free. She will always be answering to someone, giving into something, having to go somewhere. "I meant to go over and ask for a song, maybe put on some kind of harmony, but the signal changed and I heard his refrain . . . " is her moving forward on the road she chose, with the echoes of her old life disappearing into the air behind her. Imagine how the attitude of later career Joni would imbue this song! Mmm. Howard M. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:58:20 EST From: CaTGirl627@aol.com Subject: Re: New JMDL UK member NJC In a message dated 3/20/2000 11:31:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, luvart@snet.net writes: << Bob, who shares a birthday with Bruce Springsteen & Ray Charles > >i share a birthday with marelene dietrich...does that count? >wallyk Only if my birthday shared with Sophia Loren counts ;-) Heather >>I share mine with Helen Keller. When I was growing up and found that out I thought I was going to go blind....yikes!!! Catgirl ps Yes I was like ten....... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:35:34 +0100 From: Marian Subject: Re: NJC Modern @phorisms On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:42:13 EST Dmascall@aol.com wrote: > It certainly doesn't qualify as an aphorism, but possibly our > German-speaking listers can tell us if there's such a thing as "heim@" I've never seen that before, but it looks like a play on the word "heimat" (pronounced high-mat) which I think usually means homeland or native country. Marian Vienna ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:37:02 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Birthdays NJC hell, i always thought you were an aries, not a leo. where did i get that idea? by the way, i envy you. i'd like to share ANYTHING with kevin spacey... wallyk > I share mine with (among others) Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Mick Jagger, > Stanley Kubrick, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley and George Bernard Shaw! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:04:28 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Ticket prices Don't worry too much - the Greek has either four or five levels of pricing - the lowest is around $32 and the other venues will probably follow along the same range. And it is a smaller than usual venue, like the others scheduled, so even the cheapest seats shouldn't be too horrific. On the other hand, look at what you are getting - Joni, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Mark Isham, Peter Erskine and a 71 piece orchestra of the creme de la creme. We'd probably pay a good chunk just to see Wayne or Herbie alone. P.S. to Ashara - loved your Jonifest jingle! Good Time Kakki - ah, my reputation grows ;-D ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #146 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?