From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #301 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 Thursday, June 1 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 301 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: -------- NJC bless Tito Puente [michael w yarbrough ] NJC: N.O., the gatherings [Steve Dulson ] Re: TNT ["Ken (slarty)" ] Narlins Jonifest (NJC) [Louis Lynch ] Re: dumb concert posts [Catherine McKay ] Re: TNT [catman ] Re: TNT absolutly NJC ["Ken (slarty)" ] Re: TNT absolutly NJC [catman ] Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... [SMEBD@aol.com] Re: TNT absolutly NJC ["Ken (slarty)" ] Re: TNT - now TV ads NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: New Orleans Jonifest [Catherine McKay ] Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... ["C.A. Starkey" ] Re: TNT absolutly NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: TNT absolutly NJC ["Ken (slarty)" ] Re: My thoughts about the Clarkston, MI gig [Catherine McKay ] Re: TNT absolutly NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: TNT Tribute/Ian and Sylvia [jan gyn ] Re: My thoughts about the Clarkston, MI gig NJC ["Ken (slarty)" ] Re: New Orleans Jonifest [FMYFL@aol.com] goldie hawn singing "carey" [Bounced Message ] [none] [Bounced Message ] Top ten notable moments [Bounced Message ] NJC, playing stuff over and over ["James O. Phillips" ] Hejira Anon. [Julian51469@aol.com] Chicago concert: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at the Rosemont Theatre ["Pitassi] Journey to Pazfest part 1. (long) (md) [MDESTE1@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:31:00 -0500 (CDT) From: michael w yarbrough Subject: NJC bless Tito Puente Just found out that Tito Puente passed away last night in NYC. It's always sad when a great musician leaves us. Rest well and play on, Tito. - --Michael NP: Paul Kelly, "Gravy" - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Intellects do not believe in God But they fear us just the same." - --Erykah Badu, "On and On" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:34:12 -0700 From: Steve Dulson Subject: NJC: N.O., the gatherings Bob wrote: >Lots of wine consumed, not a Boone's Farm bottle in sight! Bummer! You mean Kakki didn't bring the one she keeps threatening me with? Or perhaps it's still lurking at Casa Alegre.... :) ######################################################### Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA steve@psitech.com "The Tinker's Own" http://www.tinkersown.com "Southern California Dulcimer Heritage" http://members.aol.com/scdulcimer/ "The Living Tradition Concert Series" http://www.thelivingtradition.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:23:32 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT I won't slag you off, as you say, for your opinion of the music since I'm quite a fan DK and wasn't knocked out by her rendition of 'A Case of You' but for the misspelling of her name you should be locked up. ;^) Krull? My God it sounds like a fish! catman wrote: > For the Richard and Diana Krull fans just remember we can't all > appreciate the same things so please don't slag me off for my opinion. > Had enough of that for my dislike of HM's voice on BSN the album. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:26:30 -0700 From: Louis Lynch Subject: Narlins Jonifest (NJC) King Paz and other attendees of the Fest: I enjoy reading about the fest -- it must have been the greatest. Just the fact that people DO something like this makes life seem a little more worthwhile, you know. How many NASCAR bumper stickers do we see on cars every day? And how few celebrations of genius? I signed up to attend the fest early, but I couldn't get out of my contract for an annual Wild West Show. So I just walked around a fairgrounds portraying a singing cowboy (that's Mr. Py Odie to you, sir, and my brother Ky). And in the low energy moments of the show, I thought of you all. THAT'S why cowboys sing such sad songs. They know they're missing a great JoniFest! Regrets, Ky Odie Harper Lou ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: dumb concert posts - --- Mark Domyancich wrote: > There should be a disclaimer: > > "Joni will not be playing the dulcimer, guitar, > piano, will not be > seen with Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Johnny Cash, Pete > Seeger, Tom > Jones or Van Morrison and will not be singing > anything remotely known > to the general public, aging hippies or Presidents > of the United > States. Thank you." > > At 9:09 PM -0400 5/31/00, Deb Messling wrote: > >Kee-ripes! Imagine being so clueless that you'd > plunk down $75 in > >hopes of seeing James!!! sing along with her. How come all these lost-in-a-time-warp *fans* get to go to these concerts anyway? It's just not FAIR! [stomping my feet in pre-tantrum mode]. I mean, seriously, are there really people out there who have so much money that they can just *decide* to take in a concert by never-mind-who - because they sure as hell don't seem clued-in enough to even notice who's doing the concert or what they've been up to for the last, oh, 20 yrs or so? Do they go to concerts every week the way some people watch TV for hours on end, no matter what crap is on?? What do they do for a living? I'm really curious but then, maybe I don't REALLY want to know - it might be too scary! Jeez, I think I'm going to go back and re-read all the poems I wrote when I was 15 - it sounds like there could be a market for this... ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:34:44 +0100 From: catman Subject: Re: TNT How is it spelt then- DK? Diana DK doesn't look right. "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > I won't slag you off, as you say, for your opinion of the music since I'm > quite a fan DK and wasn't knocked out by her rendition of 'A Case of You' > but for the misspelling of her name you should be locked up. ;^) > Krull? My God it sounds like a fish! > catman wrote: > > > For the Richard and Diana Krull fans just remember we can't all > > appreciate the same things so please don't slag me off for my opinion. > > Had enough of that for my dislike of HM's voice on BSN the album. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:43:54 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC It's 'Krall' pronounced like crawl or is 'Krull' the British spelling for crawl? "Look Mother the baby has krulled across the rug" Ken of Scotland Yard, Spelling Divizion catman wrote: > How is it spelt then- DK? Diana DK doesn't look right. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:55:23 +0100 From: catman Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC If i recall you are a canadian and if so you spell correctly like we do! Mind you had I remmebred here name was spelt Krall I still would have pronounced it with a short a as in crap. No pun intended. "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > It's 'Krall' pronounced like crawl or is 'Krull' the British spelling for > crawl? > "Look Mother the baby has krulled across the rug" > > Ken of Scotland Yard, Spelling Divizion > > catman wrote: > > > How is it spelt then- DK? Diana DK doesn't look right. > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:56:12 EDT From: SMEBD@aol.com Subject: Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... In a message dated 6/1/00 11:20:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, catman@ethericcats.demon.co.uk writes: << I am amazed this is still going on. Not only did I post a mail from Judy on this but the woman herself posted to the list yesterday about this. I guess that means she is on the list and getting the mail. I thought she was gracious to even respond to all this. >> Stephen, here, climbing back up on the soapbox one more time. I agree completely with you that it was very gracious of Judy to post a response on the JMDL. To me this is proof positive of the type of person that she is: IMHO, Judy demonstrated that she has no reason to diss Joni and that she didn't (why else would she bother to set the record straight?). I sometimes wonder why some JMDLers are so threatened by Judy (I can understand--but not agree with--someone not liking Judy as a singer or songwriter. Taste in music is personal. But the putdowns bother me. Judy Collins has led a remarkable life and has done much good in terms of the social actoivism that she has done and in writing very honestly about her life and the personal problems she has dealt with. I applaud Judy for who she is. She has been a real hero to me since my teens. I wish there were more people like her in the world.) Stephen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:01:24 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC Oh oh, sounds like I better turn this over to "Insulting Famous Peoples Divizion" And of corse, beeing Canadiens we do spell everything corectly. Ken of the Yard catman wrote: > If i recall you are a canadian and if so you spell correctly like we do! > Mind you had I remmebred here name was spelt Krall I still would have > pronounced it with a short a as in crap. No pun intended. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: TNT - now TV ads NJC - --- catman wrote: >I think if I lived in the USA I would > not bother with a > tv. All those blasted ads! I couldn't believe how > many there were. I > thought our tv was bad enough, although we have two > BBC channels with no > ads. Bad as it is in the US, it's even WORSE in Canada! Most of the shows that our networks air at the same time as they're airing in the US have several extra minutes edited out so as to make room for yet more ads! Sometimes it's unclear how a show ends, or you miss a small but important piece of information that might explain something. And, if a show is being aired at the same time on a Canadian network as it is on the US one, our cable companies are obliged by the CRTC (the Canadian regulatory body for radio, TV and so on) to bump the US one, so that, say, I'm tuned to NBC in Buffalo, but the show I'm watching is also airing on Global in Toronto, they automatically switch it to the Global feed, so I can see MORE ads, less show and of course, Canadian ads, rather than those evil US ones ;) > Also > got quite a surprise at the drug adverts and the > religious ones, which > are not allowed here. Here you're allowed to show drug ads as long as they're over-the-counter meds and not prescription drugs. Lately they're allowed to allude to Rx drugs without naming names or the company. You may wonder how this works... There will be a print ad in a magazine or a TV ad that says "You CAN do something about male pattern baldness - ask your doctor" and they also give an 800 number which (I presume) provides info on whatever drug that shall not be named is supposed to cure your "problem", the idea being, you'll go to your doc and DEMAND a prescription for the stuff. ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:10:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... NJC - --- catman wrote: > > I am amazed this is still going on. Not only did I > post a mail from Judy > on this but the woman herself posted to the list > yesterday about this. I > guess that means she is on the list and getting the > mail. I thought she > was gracious to even respond to all this. Colin, I think this happens due to how and when people receive their posts, when they read them, and when or whether they decide to respond. I've been guilty of this myself on more than one occasion - and so have you, pally! ;) If you're reading through a whole pile of e-mails, you may respond to them as you get them - later, another one arrives that offers clarification of the first but, by this time, you've already responded to the first, thereby setting off another reaction. For my part, even though I could swear up and down that I had this Yahoo account configured to show me the posts in order from oldest to most recent, it doesn't always do that and I'm often reading someone's response to someone else's e-mail before I've read the original, and constantly asking myself, "Heh? What's goin' on here?" but of course, I'm too clued out to bother doing anything about it... ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:12:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: NJC: N.O., the gatherings - --- Steve Dulson wrote: > Bob wrote: > > >Lots of wine consumed, not a Boone's Farm bottle in > sight! > > Bummer! You mean Kakki didn't bring the one she > keeps threatening me > with? Or perhaps it's still lurking at Casa > Alegre.... :) Somewhere, there's a bottle of Boone's Farm with Steve's name on it. You don't know when, you don't know where, but someday, Steve, it's coming for YOU! Bwa-ha-ha! ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:14:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: TNT - --- "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > I won't slag you off, as you say, for your opinion > of the music since I'm > quite a fan DK and wasn't knocked out by her > rendition of 'A Case of You' > but for the misspelling of her name you should be > locked up. ;^) > Krull? My God it sounds like a fish! > catman wrote: Now, hold on just a sec there, Ken - isn't Krull the name of some evil dude in science fiction or video games? If not, it should be... ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:18:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: New Orleans Jonifest - --- "James L. Leonard" wrote: > Wow, Jimmy, thanks for the post. Thanks to Bob and > everybody else for their > reports, too. (I think Bob is only beginning chapter > three.) > > I'm *really* kicking myself for not getting it > together to meet all of you > there. I love New Orleans (understatement), I love > Joni's music (another > understatement), and I know I'd love getting to know > all of you, and > listening to JMDLers perform. Oh bloody hell, me too, me TOO! I tellya, New Orleans is on my list of places I really, really, REALLY want to see one day (before I die, I hope!) (The others are San Francisco, the Greek islands, Hong Kong and there are a few others, but these are places I've never been to and really want to!) Michael and Freda sound like WONDERFUL people and it sounds like everyone who attended had a blast! Some day, when I win the big one, I'm going to do a tour of the Joni-world. ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:19:45 -0400 From: "C.A. Starkey" Subject: Re: This whole thing about Judy Collins... Lord, I have to stop deleting selective posts, I had *no idea* Judy Collins indeed posted herself. This morning, I saw a post with the email address that Catman said due to privacy he couldn't give out the details, which I understand. I have to admit I don't listen to as much Judy as I should, but one of the CD's I used to get out of the library, has a very excellent song, this was YEARS ago, I cannot remember the French title, but I believe the English title was Song of Lost Lovers and it is all sung in French. I absolutely love this song! Even though, I cannot understand a word+, it sounds like one of those songs, about losing a love that you can never reclaim, and I used to think I was the only one that loved Liverpool Lullaby (along with the Beatles cover of In My Life) Those were on a different CD, (I remember that one had a green cover) but they were my favourite songs. *and I have the late Linda McCartney's book, "Sixties", which has a nice picture of Judy in it, in which Linda remarked about her nice blue eyes.* Carol +Which goes to show you the power of music. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: TNT absolutely NJC So how the heck do you pronounce "ball" and "fall"? Do they rhyme with "pal" or "pall"? (I'm razzin' you, or is that rozzin'?) (Anuther Canadien who spels reel gud). - --- catman wrote: > If i recall you are a canadian and if so you spell > correctly like we do! > Mind you had I remmebred here name was spelt Krall I > still would have > pronounced it with a short a as in crap. No pun > intended. > > "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > > > It's 'Krall' pronounced like crawl or is 'Krull' > the British spelling for > > crawl? > > "Look Mother the baby has krulled across the rug" > > > > Ken of Scotland Yard, Spelling Divizion > > > > catman wrote: > > > > > How is it spelt then- DK? Diana DK doesn't look > right. > > > ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:25:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC - --- "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > Oh oh, sounds like I better turn this over to > "Insulting Famous Peoples Divizion" > > And of corse, beeing Canadiens we do spell > everything corectly. > Ken of the Yard > Sew, Ken, wood that bee a divizhun uv thu Arcy-Empy? ore dewya thingk mebbe that SeeSuss thingy? ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:30:19 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC Hell, I 've been pronouncing it wrong all these years. I thought it was the Arcy-Empty. I must have mixed up a constanent with a bowel. As far as the SeeSuss thing - No comment. Catherine McKay wrote: > --- "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > Oh oh, sounds like I better turn this over to > > "Insulting Famous Peoples Divizion" > > > > And of corse, beeing Canadiens we do spell > > everything corectly. > > Ken of the Yard > > > > Sew, Ken, wood that bee a divizhun uv thu Arcy-Empy? > ore dewya thingk mebbe that SeeSuss thingy? > > ===== > Catherine (in Toronto) > catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca > > _______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:33:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: My thoughts about the Clarkston, MI gig - --- valerie cullin wrote: >The rest of the yahoos in the audience were heckling, >yelling insults about "Canadians" which in Michigan >is a big sore spot being >that they are our poor-relation neighbors on the >border, and it was >embarrassing as hell. I would not have blamed her >if she had not gone on >at all. Now, just hold on there a minute, running dog of yankee imperialism - whatchoo mean "poor relations neighbours"? I gots a eddycation and a good job too, and I gets to collect pogey so I can go down to the beerstore for my two-four of a Satiday night when they lays me off when times are slow round the mill. (P.S. If Joni is a *real* Canadian, she would have welcomed the attention, even if it was abusive!) ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:35:36 EDT From: Julian51469@aol.com Subject: Constant Play In a message dated 6/1/00 3:18:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, CatMan writes: << Don strikes it again. Thanks Don. On a different but realted note, do we all go through phases of playing a particular album over and over? I know I do. I did it with TI and NRH and some carly ones too. so which ones do you all play to death? >> Lately, I've been constantly playing the "Day in the Garden" 8/15/98 (since I got it over a year ago) and DJRD (for the last five years or so...almost constantly)...I've gone through three copies of Hejira (vinyl, tape and finally CD)...so I decided to give it a rest. If anyone has not heard the Day in the Garden...I would be happy to make a copy for you...just e-mail me privately and we'll work it out...ya gotta hear this! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:33:42 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT absolutely NJC Being the Joni nut that I am all I could think when I saw (Anuther Canadien who spels reel gud) was 'For Free' Catherine McKay wrote: > So how the heck do you pronounce "ball" and "fall"? > Do they rhyme with "pal" or "pall"? (I'm razzin' you, > or is that rozzin'?) > > (Anuther Canadien who spels reel gud). > > --- catman wrote: > > If i recall you are a canadian and if so you spell > > correctly like we do! > > Mind you had I remmebred here name was spelt Krall I > > still would have > > pronounced it with a short a as in crap. No pun > > intended. > > > > "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > > > > > It's 'Krall' pronounced like crawl or is 'Krull' > > the British spelling for > > > crawl? > > > "Look Mother the baby has krulled across the rug" > > > > > > Ken of Scotland Yard, Spelling Divizion > > > > > > catman wrote: > > > > > > > How is it spelt then- DK? Diana DK doesn't look > > right. > > > > > > ===== > Catherine (in Toronto) > catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca > > _______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:38:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC ROTFL! have you ever tried PRONOUNCING that as a word? Rotful - it sounds almost as disgusting as what *you* wrote! I think we're on some kind of a roll here. I wonder if you're thinking about RC Cola? Is he one of those rappers, I wonder? - --- "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > Hell, I 've been pronouncing it wrong all these > years. I > thought it was the Arcy-Empty. > I must have mixed up a constanent with a bowel. > As far as the SeeSuss thing - No comment. > Catherine McKay wrote: > > > --- "Ken (slarty)" wrote: > > > Oh oh, sounds like I better turn this over to > > > "Insulting Famous Peoples Divizion" > > > > > > And of corse, beeing Canadiens we do spell > > > everything corectly. > > > Ken of the Yard > > > > > > > Sew, Ken, wood that bee a divizhun uv thu > Arcy-Empy? > > ore dewya thingk mebbe that SeeSuss thingy? > > > > ===== > > Catherine (in Toronto) > > catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at > http://mail.yahoo.ca > ===== Catherine (in Toronto) catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:40:25 -0700 From: jan gyn Subject: Re: TNT Tribute/Ian and Sylvia (snip) >And Pat Henry wrote: >>Ian and Sylvia? (are they still around?) >Around, not together. They both are still recording and performing. >Ian has a ranch in western Canada, and his songs are mostly cowboy >oriented these days. He tours infrequently, but puts on an excellent >show. >Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA steve@psitech.com Wow, Ian & Sylvia, I haven't heard that name in years. My parents used to play one of their albums; one of the songs went 'four strong winds..." - -jan BTW, for those in the SF Bay Area, on June 6 (Sunday) Fugazi and Sleater Kinney will be playing a free show in Dolores Park SF starting at noon. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:50:34 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: My thoughts about the Clarkston, MI gig NJC Hell, at least we don't send Canadians down to the States to buy cheaper drugs. That's telling them Catherine! Pssssst - Morphine in the Mail call this Free Toll Free Number (charges may apply) 1-800-Sky-High Catherine McKay wrote: > Now, just hold on there a minute, running dog of > yankee imperialism - whatchoo mean "poor relations > neighbours"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:53:30 -0400 From: "Ken (slarty)" Subject: Re: TNT absolutly NJC It sort of sounds like something that you would clean out of the rain gutters, don't ya think? Catherine McKay wrote: > ROTFL! have you ever tried PRONOUNCING that as a word? > Rotful - it sounds almost as disgusting as what *you* > wrote! I think we're on some kind of a roll here. I > wonder if you're thinking about RC Cola? Is he one of > those rappers, I wonder? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:02:07 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: New Orleans Jonifest In a message dated 6/1/00 1:35:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, catrin_of_aragon@yahoo.ca writes: << Oh bloody hell, me too, me TOO! I tellya, New Orleans is on my list of places I really, really, REALLY want to see one day (before I die, I hope!) (The others are San Francisco, the Greek islands, Hong Kong and there are a few others, >> Catherine, there is no reason why we can't start planning Jonifest 2001 in Hong Kong right now. I've always wanted to go there too, and Pat Henry won't have that far to go from Guam. Who knows, Joni may even show up for that one :~) Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:03:10 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: goldie hawn singing "carey" Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:29:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Erin Stoy Hi all, I wanted to let you know that one of our record stores has put a 1972 Goldie Hawn album on eBay that features Goldie singing "Carey." I don't know if that particular version has been included in the "covers" project that many of you have worked on. The record is still sealed, so I couldn't listen to it. Anyway, I wanted to tell you guys that it's there, in case anyone is interested. Erin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:00:55 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: [none] From: "william" Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:21:12 +0700 In response to Michael Bird's "The Next Joni Album Selection of Songs", well it's spooky that you should contemplate such an idea. My sis lives in America (I don't) and I had emailed her to request a taping of the tribute show in April, so I wouldn't "miss" it. Oh how I'm longing for my next Stateside visit. Anyway. She replied pronto with an emotional account of the show. So there I was so much all a-go-go at the thought of a Joni tribute concert that I decided to concoct one of my own. All my favs playing Joni songs. It takes a lot of effort to imagine others doing her songs as the originals are so ingrained but here's what I came up with. Acoustic set James Taylor - Marcie/ Morning Morgantown Elvis Costello - Blue Motel Room/Don't Interrupt the Sorrow Rickie Lee Jones - Electricity/Sunny Sunday Joan Armatrading - Down to You/ Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Annie Lennox - Ladies of the Canyon/Amelia David Crosby - Rainy Night House/Yvette in English Electric/Band set kd lang - Sweet Bird/Shadows and light David Bowie - Slouching Towards Bethlehem/Fiction Page & Plant - Black Crow/ This Flight Tonight Sting - Furry Sings the Blues/A Chair in the Sky Prince & Chaka Khan - God Must Be a Boogie Man/In France They Kiss on = Main Street Pavarotti - Love/Stay in Touch Just a thought/dream William ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:02:35 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: Top ten notable moments From: "william" Subject: Top ten notable moments Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:25:30 +0700 Interesting to think about Joni's leaner moments on record; least favs, but how about the notable moments on record? The bits that made you go - .............shivery. A tingle up the spine. I'll submit a few of my own for your consideration. Volume one. Top Ten Notable Joni Moments on Record 10) On "Just Ice" the spoken intro to "Face Lift" - the way she says "my sel-i-f". ".......between a middle aged woman and my sel-i-f". We used it endlessly in Bali two Christmases ago. Thanks Joni! Endless hours of silliness. 9) On BSN - the "oh Canada" on ACOY. 8) Off Night Backstreet - the elongation of drain. "...bath tub drai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-n". 7) The riff on "Just Like This Train". 6) "A painter does a painting and he does a painting." The whole spiel. The first time I heard it was at art college. I had a cheapy portable record player but boy what came out of that mono speaker way back then ........... ooosh! 5) On "Just Ice" nearing the end of Hejira - a siren can be heard outside the venue as she sings "I'm travelling in some vehicle, not that one." 4) Woodstock 3) Paprika Plains - the final instrumental "movement". Awesome. 2) Song for Sharon - the way her voice "breaks" on "........satisfaction." Subtle as you'll ever get. 1) Ludwig's Tune - the way her voice jumps to "raw". Here endeth the first volume Willy the Shake ------------------------------ Date: Thu Jun 01 14:23:22 EDT 2000 From: "James O. Phillips" Subject: NJC, playing stuff over and over Thank you to whomever it was that admitted that they are a Heijera addict. Over the weekend and into the earlier part of the week, from Judy Collins' Shameless cd, I was listening to "Melody" and "Song for Sarevejo" over and over, to the point where I can sing both those songs on pitch and so can Patrick. James Phillips - ---------- Message To Spammers -- Game Over! Get spam-free email at http://www.MsgTo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:03:58 -0700 From: "David P. Swanson" Subject: Merrieweather Pavillion Concert Has anyone who attended the Joni's show at Merriweather got a review? I recently saw Ringo Starr at Wolftrap in DC and someone there said her Merriweather concert was really bad. Now, I'm a Joni lover from way, way back so I enjoyed her material immensely. It was the first time I ever saw her in concert and it was wonderful. I'd like to hear from others who saw the Merriweather show. David Paul ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:05:59 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: TNT Tribute/Ian and Sylvia jan gyn wrote: > (snip) > >And Pat Henry wrote: > >>Ian and Sylvia? (are they still around?) > >Around, not together. They both are still recording and performing. > >Ian has a ranch in western Canada, and his songs are mostly cowboy > >oriented these days. He tours infrequently, but puts on an excellent > >show. > >Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA steve@psitech.com > > Wow, Ian & Sylvia, I haven't heard that name in years. My parents used to > play one of their albums; one of the songs went 'four strong winds..." Judy Collins does an excellent version of Four Strong Winds on her Living album, which also contains her Chelsea Morning. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 12:06:16 -0600 From: Bounced Message Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #226 From: "Christine Nunn" Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:54:13 -0400 Stephen, wrote:, climbing back up on the soapbox one more time. I agree completely with you that it was very gracious of Judy to post a response on the JMDL. To me this is proof positive of the type of person that she is: IMHO, Judy demonstrated that she has no reason to diss Joni and that she didn't (why else would she bother to set the record straight?). I sometimes wonder why some JMDLers are so threatened by Judy (I can understand--but not agree with--someone not liking Judy as a singer or songwriter. Taste in music is personal. But the putdowns bother me. Judy Collins has led a remarkable life and has done much good in terms of the social actoivism that she has done and in writing very honestly about her life and the personal problems she has dealt with. I applaud Judy for who she is. She has been a real hero to me since my teens. I wish there were more people like her in the world.) Stephen I couldn't agree more. Judy Collins is NOT Joni and Joni isn't Judy and neither claim to be the other, better than the other, or responsible for the other. This entire thread is overdone at this point. Collins is a lovely singer, with a remarkable range and a huge repetoire of songs that are completely different from our Joni's. Let is rest. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:12:44 EDT From: Julian51469@aol.com Subject: Hejira Anon. Hello everyone. My name is Julian and I've been listening to Hejira for about ten years strait....On the good days I'll just hum parts of it to myself. On the worst (or maybe the best) days I'll put it on constant repeat untill my poor CD player has memorized all of the ones and zeros. But I'll tell you, I have no regrets about it. I feel that people who listen to everything else that's been recorded in the world come from a different set of circumstances. They're up there listening to thier Brittany while I'm just getting on with synchronizing five copies of the album on five different players in five different rooms...ah the drone of five Hejiras! I listen 'till I'm kicking and scratching on the floor and my wife has to take me and prop me up in bed and I sleep on the strange pillows of my wanderlust. People say that I'm foolish and childish and tell me to grow up...and you all know the answer to that one. Damn it! There's comfort in melancholy and if you crank up the volume then there is no need to explain. Everywhere I go (even the crickets clicking in the ferns take me there), everything I do revolves around like particles of everchanging Hejira...I know its hard to have that lofty point of view when you're bound and tied to someone like Joni... I can keep my cool most of the time but I'm a fool when Hejira's on my plate....so fleece me. I don't know about you but I love this vigorous anonymity of this Hejira group...all these emotions and abstractions. It took me a long while to get to where I am now...transportation aint what it used to be what with ferries, highways, pontoon planes, taxies and trains but I can see where this is all leading me. When this ragged soul takes flight searching anything that's shiny in each listening...will you all still love me when I'm down? When I sit all alone with the ole' CD player burning a whole through my umpteenth copy of Asylum's 1087-2 and a rush of radiant happiness flows over me I stop and often think, " Joni has mirrored me and back simplified"...and then I usually just laugh at my denied perfection. Thank you all for creating such a refuge and allowing me a place to put this baggage overload;-) Julian np Hejira ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:18:29 -0500 From: "Pitassi, Mary" Subject: Chicago concert: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at the Rosemont Theatre I was very sorry to read in Valerie's account that the Michigan show last night was delayed and truncated due to Joni's late plane--and tarnished somewhat, perhaps, by loud, unappreciative audience members. But I echo Phyllis's sentiment that the Chicago audience was extremely respectful. They/we gave Joni a standing ovation just for walking out on the stage! And I think there was at least one more, if not more, during the show. Yes, the response was loudest and most enthusiastic for Joni's own songs, both from the BSN cycle, and the handful she performed directly afterward. But I got the feeling that most of the audience knew what to expect, and were not let down by the show. (I even heard one woman in the rest room beforehand tell another, "Now you know what this is about, right? She has a new album, and . . . ). A few random observations: I'm always amazed at how much more powerful Joni's voice seems--to me, at least--live, as opposed to recorded. And Tuesday night's concert was no exception. Unfortunately, the sound system was as "harsh" as the published review sent to the list yesterday said it was, and it pitted Joni against the orchestra on a couple of occasions. Once, there even seemed to be some substantial feedback while she was singing. Joni reached for the water glass often, and because of that, I was a little worried about her voice, but, if she was experiencing difficulty or pain, it really didn't show in her performance. The banter at this show was similar to what has already been posted from the other concerts, although her manner with the audience was very easy, and the remarks didn't seem "canned." She introduced "Answer Me, My Love" by saying that, when you get to this juncture in a relationship, "there are many ways you can go. I chose to plead. And the best pleading song I knew was a Nat King Cole song." Then she preceded "A Case of You" with, "when pleading doesn't work, most people head to the bar. There are many 'weeping in your beer' songs. I chose one of mine." These remarks seems to reinforce her comments on the Rosie O'Donnell show that she sees this song cycle as chronically a change with "Answer Me, My Love," followed by a succession of songs describing different options after that point. Joni also made a comment, before "Comes Love," to the effect that, while she had been raised on fairy tales, her grandson was being raised in "harsh reality." She appeared to be highlighting generational differences. Even so, it was heartwarming to hear the reference to Marlin, dropped so casually into the conversation. Finally, she told an amusing but biting story about Beethoven being suckered into pandering to popular taste by inserting the national anthems of England and France in a composition, only to wind up becoming famous, at the time, for this, "the worst piece of shit he ever wrote." She got a good laugh for that one, but the meaning of the story, in the middle of her "I hate show business" set, was obvious. I was in awe, as usual, with Joni's phrasing, and noted that it was especially good on "Don't Worry 'bout Me." For "Sometimes I'm Happy," Joni was bathed in yellow light, which was quite striking. For the first half of the show, Joni was dressed in a light blue version of an outfit that I think she also wore, in a different color, at another show: the skirt was sheer, the blouse was set off from the skirt at the waist, and there was a cape which Joni sometimes wrapped around herself while singing. For the second half, she wore the black (or silver?) pleated dress that flares out from the waist to the knees, looks triangular--and which, for the life of me, I don't quite "get"! Finally, thoughts on the songs. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the BSN cycle. The orchestra was good, and Joni really seems to have the interpretation on these songs down (despite still using the "cheat sheet" on "I Wish I Was In Love Again"). As for Joni's songs: "Be Cool," which I've neither loved nor hated, but sort of liked, in lukewarm fashion, worked quite well in the orchestral setting. Surprisingly, for me anyway, "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" did not: too bombastic and Wagnerian, with Joni shouting the lyrics, emphasizing the strand of this song which pities the poor suffering artist, and de-emphasizing, I thought, the strand that I've always found much more appealing: advice to an individual, artist or not, facing a great, life-altering, potentially shattering crisis. This is most effective when done quietly. And again somewhat surprisingly, "For the Roses" *did* work: although the presentation here with full orchestra was very different from the solitary guitar accompanying lyrics like "singing your simple sorrow to the soundhole and your knee," there was enough there musically for the orchestra to take it and create something new with, even something as basic as the rising scales before the musical (and emotional) letdown. And that's it from your unofficial Chicago correspondent! Mary P. P.S. Kudos to Laura and Jody J. for organizing such wonderful pre- and post-show meet-n-greets. Seeing old friends and meeting new ones made this night even more special than it already was!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:22:42 EDT From: MDESTE1@aol.com Subject: Journey to Pazfest part 1. (long) (md) ****Might be easier to print this out***** Way down yonder in New orleans Theres a land with those dreamy sceens Its a garden of Eden You know what I mean..... To begin I have to preface my post with a couple of introductory schpiels because we have had recently a new spate of newbies and so rather than to speak only to those who have been on the list for awhile I thought it would be better to sort of set the context for Pazfest. Good grief, the newbies probably think that the purpose of this list is to have arguments (it isnt) and flame wars. Prior to this trip to New Orleans I had met precisely three of the list members. Brian Gross (New Jersey), Mary Grace (Sacramento-Davis) and Darice (SF,CA) for a fleeting afternoon of tea. Brian and Mary Grace had been to a number of the prior Jonilisters get togethers including the two big events at Julie Webbs house in Pittsburgh and Asharas house in Toppsfield, Mass. They shared with me how great these get togethers were. Those get togethers were three day parties at the houses with mirthmaking, music, and traditional party events. They set up a stage at Asharas so that the performers (listmembers who can play and sing) could all perform for the gathering, and it was all tape recorded and throw in some ad hoc videos and a couple of party videos were circulated. I got ahold of them and marveled at the fun everyone seemed to have had. One staunch group of cookers cooked some vibrant vittles throughout and Jonis music flowed throughout the events. Everyone went home happy. There were no accidents, drunks, fights, hanky panky, or obnoxious jerks; and except for the Toppsfield Tac Squad invading the last outdoor show to whine about Asharas failure to obtain a permit for the amplified music, no negative vibes whatsoever. I was determined to attend the next one. I have had occasion over the last two years to trade phone calls with The Great Paz, the Wizard of Oz which is New Orleans, on a number of occasions. In the course of one of those phone calls I told him I was thinking about hosting a Joni Night at the Folk Club here in San Francisco, where I reside. He told me he was already planning on doing the same thing in New Orleans. He asked me if I would come and I told him only if he could line up seven hours of incredible professional musicians playing their ass off. He told me way back then that he would do that just to get me to sing one song. I was kidding, he wasnt. And so last september he told me he had it lined up so I began to make plans. The only problem being that while I was heavily involved in the local music scene for about 20 years playing in clubs and producing independant records for local bands, I hadnt played or sung much in about 6 years since we had our second child. So I had to begin to get back to playing. My callouses were history. Five months later Im on a plane going to a place I had never been before to meet a group of people I had never met before to do something I hadnt done in a long time. Going to a Jonifest is like going to a fantasy folk music camp. It is irrelevant that you have never met anyone. Between the communal love for the art of Ms. Mitchell, and the communal bond that music creates all on its own, the food, the atmosphere and the love that permeates the vibe of the event you dont need to know anyone. This was like the old days in the dorm. A total starnger could have accidentally found the place and have been welcomed. If you have ever considered going but decided against it because you didnt know whether you would "fit in" or something you neednt worry. Our flight Friday to NO was easy although I worried about my guitars safety the entire way. Mikes friend Jack Nielson was waiting for us at the Airport and took us directly to Mikes house. Michael has a lovely wife and two gorgeous boys. N.O. is a huge city with a substantial financial district including the Superdome which looks like a landed flying saucer. It is mostly treelined with everywhere you look you find the ornate metal work. The weather and rain has the town looking weather worn and a painting program wouldnt hurt but there are trees and vegetation everywhere and of course the Mississippi River is everywhere. The trees are so old that the sidewalks are all buckled from the roots. Destrehan, where Michael lives, is a nice suburban area in which each house has its own 1/4 acre or more of land with basketball hoops everywhere. The tall trees all have the lovely Spanish Moss. Now the older NewOrleansians all referred to the moss as "contamination". We drove past what appeared to be waterways and swamplike wetlands with tons of trees on our way to his house. Paz home is a two story place on a culdesac with lots of high windows and light. The entire front room is a recording studio with a giant mixing board and several keyboards, guitars laying around, comfy couches and off the main music room is an entire other room devoted to housing an awesome CD collection. If Bob is a music slut I dont know if Michael isnt a trollop as well. The spacious living room harbors a big grand piano. There was a 5 by 5 foot TV next to the grand piano that was used to watch the bogarted tape of Jonis performance in LA (?). with the orchestra. Pretty spectacular hand held video. The post airport time was just meeting the people there. Of course some music broke out with Mike Steve and David all tickling the ivorys a little. Catgirl will grab a guitar and perform at the drop of a hat. She and her husband are a great match. He of the encyclopedic mind for all time hits with chords and lyrics. Good guitar skills and she of the fine voice and love of performing. I languished on the patio with the weather at about 95 degrees gazing up constantly at the stately trees as the pre-party buzzed all around me. Paz could actually have a great pitch and putt golf course in his back yard its so big. At some point we were shepherded into the vans for the trip to the hotels to register and then to the gourmet dinner. Paz thought of everything. The hotel he arranged for us was but a block and a half from the club where we would play. An easy walk even in the heat carrying my guitar. Splash some water on the face and were off to dinner in the French Quarter. Coming from SF CA where we have tons of fine dining I wondered if this restaraunt would match SFs. Whatever you may have heard about NOs cuisine it is everything good you have ever heard. The menu at Giovannis was a fixed menu with choices.Spicey but not too spicey. Le Menu First Course:Oysters Giovanni: light fried Louisianna oysters served over painted stained glass of three different sauces. or Grilled marinated portobello Mushrooms with brochette, roasted garlic and Saica olive oil. Second Course:Crawfish and corn bisque or Caesar salad Third Course: Spicy pan seared salmon w/ vodka dill cream sauce or Pasta Gambino, penne pasta, sauteed rock shrimp in a cheeze clam sauce or Chicken Marsala Desert I had this sauteed chicken that was really unusual but amazingly good. The seafood Bisque was to die for. My wife insisted that we go back the next night just for that, but alas they had closed for renovations. Dinner normally at this place would cost a couple about $150 with a good bottle of wine. Paz got us in for a flat 45 per person. The wine list was half French and half domestic unlike some of the provincialist California kitchens. Like I said, they KNOW how to do dinner. This is but one of hundreds of great restaraunts in NO. It reminded me of Italy and France where you can go to almost ANY restaraunt even one that looks like hell and get a great great dinner or lunch. The only problem I had is that Im allergic to shellfish which is unfortunate in a town where shellfish were actually invented and you get things on the menu like Crab Popsicles, and Shrimp Coffee Cake Deluxe. Prawn scented candles and Scallops stuffed with crab and shrimp. The token chicken is sacrificed each night by the restaraunt for all the weirdos like myself who have the nerve to come here with an allergy. The waiters were very professional but loose enough to be cool.The coffee was divine. We had basically one huge table seating about 24 and one smaller table seating about 8. The gig at Govannis is that the waiters sing opera while you eat so every once in a while an aria breaks out and since "Lucianno" the waiter is going off the charts AND I was the only one who could sing in Italian you had to just sit and listen to the Barber of Seville serve the crabcakes in the next room. At some point Victor felt compelled to sing "Happy Birthday" to someone on the other side of the room (Phyllis?) and he chose the version inspired by Robin Williams. The waiters were frantically looking through their Italian conversation books for the translation of the word F-----'nbirthday so they could perhaps join in. Desert was a fruit concoction that was the source of my wife and our only vicious argument of the trip as she stabbed with her fork my hand reaching for the last strawberry doused in a cream sauce. Ne'vair attempt to contest a French woman for the last piece of desert. The French will fight over nothing quite like a delicious desert plate. Unfortunately my sweetie was being attacked by a cold all through dinner so we had to pass on the trip to the House of Blues that Mike had arranged. We crashed hard after that dinner. The next day we got up and went to the French Quarter. For those of you who have been to Frisco just imagine the street in our town called Broadway and imagine that that street is multiplied by 10 square blocks just like it. You have everything from hookers dens, voodoo kitchens and bookstores, to the finest restaraunts and antiques stores, huge bars with every kind of great music blaring from the open windows. And for you single guys the proverbial bevies of beauties roaming in packs lookin for love in all the wrong places. WE went into a number of fine antique stores and one was totally off the charts. The stores look small from the outside but they actually fill one or two stories of the entire building above them and so they are massive and filled with world class stuff. We were given a guided personal tour of Raus Antiques including a vaultlike hall with iron walls and temperature controlled atmosphere with the finest treasures. Among the million other gems we saw a 10 foot globe in an ivory base that was made several hundred years ago to a stereo nicolodeon which had two metal plates synchronized that produced an unbelievable effect of a stereo musicbox that was incredible. There was a giant pool table that was double sized with an accompanying cabinet that had an inlay in the face in pearl of the room it came from. Exquisite. They also had this contraption made in England (you naughty brits) that was called the Seige D'Amour. I asked if this happened to be an antique gynocologists examination table and the proprietor literally choked and couldnt stop laughing. he said no it was for the King actually...then he said no more. That store is a must see and it's right in the French Quarter on Rue Royal next to Bourbon Street. A friend of mine told me that the French Quarter has an odor that is exotic to some disturbing to others. Actually it is a combination of all kinds of scents from the food to the horses which abound in their surreys carrying tourists hither and yon. The Cathedral St. Louis was magnificent with its royally painted walls and ceilings. Not within a mile of the best in Europe in size or interior wonders but it IS old for this country (c. 1720). There is a lovely park in front of the Church and in it there are many fortune tellers some of whom looked like they have a personal relationship with the underworld. We bopped around just this district for the rest of the day until it was time to get ready to go to Paz's for the evening party. By the way my wife reports that the Saks 5th Ave is tre tre bon. We visited the flea market which was really cool and had some incredible pen and pencil sets in handmade wooden boxes. The Riverwalk area is great to walk on since you get to view the gigantic Mississippi river. While narrow at the City Edge you can see how big it actually is once you get downstream from the RW point. Put it this way its Huuuuuuuge. They have a streetcar system that is quaint and old looking but get on early because it gets terribly crowded. Costs a buck 50. All in all we got to see 10% of the French Quarter in an entire morning. Its a lollapalooza and if you're traveling there set aside time for more than one visit to the French Quarter. As for the rest of all the tourist gigs there are many many things to do. two weeks wouldnt be hard to fill up at all. Back to the hotel for our ride to Michaels. Got there at around 5, I guess. Chips, dips, a run to the super market for tons of beers, schmoozing, visiting, it was great. Meeting everyone for the first time after exchanging posts for two years is really a trip. While from his posts to me,I had pictured Bob from south carolina to be a lecherous troll hugging a mary tyler moore blowup doll , I found him to be the perfect gentleman, funny, engaging, and one of the nicest people in the world. I told my wife to see if she could secret the Rhoda blowup doll that I had brought with me for Bob back out to the van since it soon became obvious that he didnt need it. You find that with virtually everyone. The personality of the various listers posts is pretty much what you find when you meet them which is why you feel like you have known them all your life. While there was tons of conversation there was not a hint of debate, or even contested views. No politics or religion or hangups, it was such a pleasure.Not even discussion of therapy or clairvoyance. No one should ever change this atmosphere. Leave your politics at home when you go to a Jonifest. Catgirl more or less broke the ice with her guitar sometime in the afternoon and it never stopped until the next morning. Jimmy from Ft.Meyers passed out two gorgeous color prints of Joni to all of us (a fabulous gift). People kept arriving including Brian from NY until everyone who was going to be there was. Michael deciding that the four dozen hot dogs he had in the freezer just wouldnt do asked for volunteers to cook so I decided to offer my sauteed mushrooms. Others whipped up various and sundry delicacies. Even had the world famous Kakki Martini. Whoa Nellie. Jerry Notaro did the giant sausages on the BarB and Mike did his famous Shrimp L'Orange. I sacrificed the token chicken using Mikes sauce and it was great. I think you could actually use that sauce on corn flakes and it would taste great. After dinner the music got more formal as Leslie Mixon joined Messieur Flahm for some jazz formalle. Claude did some songs which introduced one of Michaels unique treats, a box with a hole in it that had some percussion strands in side and this had the amazing effect of sounding like an entire drum set accompanying the singer. Various performers took turns doing numbers and so I enjoyed it immensely and would drift into and out of the house. Steve Polifka and Brian with his band literally. At some point I went out back and people were asking me why I hadnt played yet and the truth was that those inside seemed to be having so much fun it seemed to me it would have been totally presumptuous to intrude so I brought my guitar out back and joined Steve Mixon. Steve is the real deal as a mandolin player, he could play with anyone I have ever heard. We did a Stephen Stlls song (4&20) and Long Black Veil. I had some Joni songs but never got around to them. After Steve and I did two songs Catgirl and her hubby started the juke box thing and before long the people inside joined the people outside for awhile. Then again, after awhile, there were two completely different concerts going on, one inside, and one outside. It was really special. Unfortunately there was no tape recorder going throughout all this. While all this was going on Marian called from Vienna and there we were chatting on the phone with someone 12,000 miles away in the land of Mozart from under the tall trees with the Spanish moss. The hot night was like 85 degrees with no wind to speak of. We all got pretty tired around 2 or so (I had blisters on me fingers) and so Jack began to run vanloads back to the hotel. My wife went in the first trip but I hung out for about another hour it was so neet. Let me say a few words about Bob the music slut. The guy knows the words to every song ever written. He probably knows Tibetan Monks beerhall ditties. Stuff I couldnt turn off the radio fast enough in the 60-70s HE knows the words to. He actually has a fair singing voice besides. I think we need to get this guy up on stage sometime somewhere. Of course his sense of humor and abilities as an MC are unparallelled. In any event Bob became the lead singer during the jukebox phase of the backyard concert. For the record while we were yelling "hit the road jack" at the top of our voices at 2:15 am in the back yard, there was nary a peep from the neighbors nor a call from the constables. I returned to my hotel and I couldnt sleep because my mind was so stimulated from all the music and goings on and my face was sore from smiling and laughing. The next day was the big day. Ill cover that in part 2 including the singers and the songs they did. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #301 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?