From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #255 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe JMDL Digest Monday, May 15 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 255 The 'Official' Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. --- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. --- Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund" with all donations going directly towards the upkeep of the website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds. it is now up to US to help Jim 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 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2000 #254 [Evan + Vanessa Thomson ] Re: JMDL Digest V2000 #254 (NJC) [Evan + Vanessa Thomson ] toontown in June [evian ] Re: L.A. Concert Report--The Rest (Long) ["Kakki" ] RE: Please!! Help me!! :) ["Wally Kairuz" ] Joni Thru the Eyes of a 9 year old ["Patricia O'Connor" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:11:57 +1000 From: Evan + Vanessa Thomson Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2000 #254 > > > > ....must be getting bored with al,k this concert talk by now so i thought I > would tell you what a thrilling weekend we had. > First of all the weather has gone from cold to in the 80's overnight. > My brand new pc blew up this morning. Or rather the monitor did. It went pop pop > pop and died. So i can't use it(this monitor won't go on it) till it is replced. > ALL my imoprtant stuff is on the other one-like the stuff to make and print the > UKJMDL gathering cd's. > I bathed and grromed dogs. Oh and hoovered the lawn and did a load of laundry. > So I pity you people really, you could have had the weekend i had but instead > you had suffer thru those concerts. What a shame. > > bw > colin > Lol! :-) Poor Colin, it's been an exhausting weekend with Oprah's big surprise and now this... I had a pleasant weekend as it was Mother's day! I finally received my copy of BSN... I'm so far behind everyone else! It's just magical... Concerts shmoncerts! Who needs to see Joni live when I've got... (wait, I'm thinking...) it'll come to me... Vanessa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:12:13 +1000 From: Evan + Vanessa Thomson Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2000 #254 (NJC) > > > > ....must be getting bored with al,k this concert talk by now so i thought I > would tell you what a thrilling weekend we had. > First of all the weather has gone from cold to in the 80's overnight. > My brand new pc blew up this morning. Or rather the monitor did. It went pop pop > pop and died. So i can't use it(this monitor won't go on it) till it is replced. > ALL my imoprtant stuff is on the other one-like the stuff to make and print the > UKJMDL gathering cd's. > I bathed and grromed dogs. Oh and hoovered the lawn and did a load of laundry. > So I pity you people really, you could have had the weekend i had but instead > you had suffer thru those concerts. What a shame. > > bw > colin > Lol! :-) Poor Colin, it's been an exhausting weekend with Oprah's big surprise and now this... I had a pleasant weekend as it was Mother's day! I finally received my copy of BSN... I'm so far behind everyone else! It's just magical... Concerts shmoncerts! Who needs to see Joni live when I've got... (wait, I'm thinking...) it'll come to me... Vanessa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:17:41 -0400 From: Janet Hess Subject: Thanks to all the left coasters! (NJC) I too want to chime in and let my JMDL sisters and brothers know how wonderful it is to read your reports. Is this a great time to be a Joni fan or what? Hugz to all, Janet & Deanna Ivy the Wonderkitty, who seems to enjoy "Both Sides Now" when I play it late at night especially - --- Let all these dogs go running free The wild and gentle dogs Kennelled in me. Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 23:22:34 -0600 From: evian Subject: toontown in June Our Katie of the North wrote: > Would everyone attending the Mendel opening consider wearing a nametag > identifying themselves as a JMDL member? You'll know me -- I'll be the > one accompanying the kid on silver crutches -- but how will I know you? > Ok, I'll be the one who is about 5'10, 200 lbs (maybe less if the effects of the past three weeks of antibiotics doesn't abate), a goatee, brown hair and eyes, and the one who looks like he's 18, furiously chainsmoking and yakking incessantly with Ashara about God knows what! Seriously, anyone want to meet before hand? I am hopefully going to somehow score the afternoon off, so I'll be in S'toon by 2 pm, and will probably be meeting Ashara at the Bess. Why don't we all try to meet sometime in the late afternoon downtown, around the Bess/Sheraton/Riverbank area? Maybe we could go for a quick bite and drink downtown or on Broadway or something beforehand? Then again, since they aren't selling tickets, maybe we should be safe and just hang out in front of the Mendel all afternoon and pack sandwiches ;) Anyway, afterwords, what do y'all want to do? Check out the Jazzfest, or shall we just find some quiet lounge and gab our asses off? What do y'all think? Suggestions? Evian P.S. Ashara honey, it's in the mail as of 4:30 this afternoon, and I'll catch up with ya sometime this week if things ever slow down!! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:40:18 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: L.A. Concert Report--The Rest (Long) Lindsay - good to see you surface with a good review! You wrote: > New Joni Lore: Overhead a man near me telling someone that Joni had gone to Woodstock two days >(Phylliss heard four days from someone else) before the event to do a sound check. Anyone ever >heard this? Show me the tape and I'll believe it. You too?! He also told Scott and Shawn Price the same story. This is some new Joni lore. Scott and Shawn both thought he sounded credible. Shawn later found a Joni colored pen painting in my STARART book entitled "The Road to Woodstock" and wondered some more about it all. > Felt she really perked up when Herbie came on-stage -- just in from an airplane she announced. Yes, she did perk up and wow, he was fantastic. He came onstage in a rush and she seemed so happy and relieved to see him - he was, no doubt, another trapped and delayed in the traffic snarl! >"For the Roses," I felt, lacked a little cohesiveness, but I might feel differently if I heard it a few more >times. It was just so thrilling to hear it performed after so long. I wanted to write some more about the FTR selections tonight since more thoughts came to me today, and I've also been provoked by some of the sentiments toward them in the JM.Com reviews. As I raved before, I was just blown away by the two FTR selections, but not because they were perfectly rendered - they were not, and it didn't matter. The music in both the FTR songs is incredibly complex. As Scott related about our chat with the 74 year-old trombone player at the gas pump, they were being attempted by an orchestra who had only rehearsed them for a few hours prior to the concert. He expressed to us that several members of the orchestra felt bad and a bit embarrassed that they could not always follow the music because it was "so unusual, so inside" and he said that they were getting a lot of the notes wrong at times. But what was so great was when he went on and on in awe of that particular music. He just shook his head in wonder and said it was like nothing he'd ever heard before. Bottom line - they were completely bowled over by her genius. I'm still getting a big grin thinking about his comments. At 4 a.m. this morning as the party here was winding down ;-) some of us had a chance to hear the concert again, ahem. I listened most intently to the FTR selections in particular and now feel that "For The Roses" was the most awesome music of the night. There is a very haunting quality to this rendition and there is something happening there that is startling and not quite explainable. It took my breath away all over again. >Then after the concert some guy two rows down was complaining about "Joni Stupid Mitchell." >Looking at me with my beatific grin he said, "did *you* like it?" I said I *loved* it, and he remarked to >his friend, well, I'll find someone who hated it as much as I did. My stars! What was he expecting? >Some of his reaction might have been due to the drink in his hand, which I think was not his first. Those were probably the &#@!*&'s behind us who kept yelling out "play Help Me!" Think I was the one who finally scared them off early when I went into my ecstatic writhing at the start of "Ludwig's Tune" heehee. Kakki NP: For the Roses ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 00:51:42 -0500 From: mann@chicagonet.net Subject: Program Pictures For anyone interested in seeing the concert program..............there are pictures of it already on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331699786 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331869991 For anyone interested in a Free Meatball dinner at Ikea.......go to: http://www.ikea.com click under the section called "spring forward" then go to "empty stomach"... and print out coupon for Buy 1 Get 1 Free. Laura ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 03:04:18 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Please!! Help me!! :) somehow i have the impression that juliana would like to get a copy of the tnt tribute tape. am i mistaken? wallyk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 03:02:30 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Please!! Help me!! :) >find placid waters, a quiet still place > to wait. Try listening to For The Roses. > this one cracked me up!!!! love, wallyK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 02:42:41 -0400 From: "Patricia O'Connor" Subject: Joni Thru the Eyes of a 9 year old My nine year old niece Julia was visiting me today. I walked into the living room and she had a pile of CDs on the floor. She said"You have 18 Joni Mitchell CDs!" I acknowledged that was true. She said that she was going to put the CDs in order from earliest to latest. Julie is decidedly NOT a Joni Mitchell fan, "She sounds like an old bag" she says, "She makes all those weird noises" she says. (Julie does a mean imitation of Joni singing Chelsea Morning, second only to her disparaging imitation of Springsteen's Thunder Road) She then proceeded to put the CDs in chronological order (except for HSOL which confused her). I asked her how she knew the order, she said"I just looked at the covers and started when she looked the youngest and ended where she looked the oldest." Patricia O'Connor p.a.oconnor@att.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:57:25 +1200 From: "Helen M. Adcock" Subject: Jacqui Fitzgerald - NJC (long) Those of you with Vol. 3 of the "Covers and Contributions" CD's will have heard Jacqui Fitzgerald, who covered three JM songs - Dry Cleaner From Des Moines, Be Cool and God Must Be A Boogie Man. I recently wrote to Jacqui, mainly to express my appreciation, and also to let her know how well-received she has been on the JMDL. I won't recite my letter - it was a little effusive, but hopefully conveyed the right message! I also made a point of saying that this was a "non-profit" project, but was a little nervous about her response. Well, her reply just arrived: "Dear Helen you opened your letter with the phrase "I hope this letter does not offend you". I must say that "delighted" would be a more apt term than offended. Delighted that an album I made 15 years ago still works for people. And delighted that my Joni covers are being so well received. Thank you so much for taking the time to write to me and tell me these things. I personally have always held Joni's work in very high esteem...something magic happens when one person is responsible for both the melody and the lyric. They weave together in a way that is "whole" somehow. (Sting is another singer-songwriter that weaves magic). I have enclosed a copy of my last CD. No Joni covers I'm afraid, but seven of my own compositions (the lyrics for the originals are printed on the inside cover). The three cover versions are songs that I have loved since the first time I heard them, and always wanted to do my own versions of...hope you enjoy them. If anybody is interested on obtaining a copy of this CD it is available from this address for $25 a copy. Thanks again for your very complimentary letter...it really made my day, Yours, Jacqui Fitzgerald" Unnfortunately no CD was enclosed! She either forgot she was going to send it, or changed her mind - but I plan on ordering it from her anyway - I love her voice, and I also love supporting local music! I'll post a review once I've received it, then if anyone's interested I can obtain more copies! But it is wonderful to find an artist prepared to take the time to reply personally like this - and her letter was hand-written in a beautiful "calligraphic" script - something I'll be hanging on to! Hell _______________________________ "I don't believe in livin' in the middle with available extremes" - Carole King hell@ihug.co.nz ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #255 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?