From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2000 #312 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, June 5 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 312 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: -------- Nazareth and cheese (cheesy nazareth?) njc most likely [evian ] The Treatment on KCRW: Mitchell & Geffen [Ken Corral Subject: Nazareth and cheese (cheesy nazareth?) njc most likely > Oh, no, am I the only one who groooveth to this cover?? > > Say it isn't so! > > Bru > Well Bru, I gotta admit... I almost prefer the remake to the original! I dunno, maybe because my sister played it to death when I was a kid and just got so used to it... but I really do dig it! The inner circle will be rolling their eyes and saying "It figures" about now ;) Happy Monday y'all! Evian np: The 2 mins. I was able to d/l of the new Madonna single... frigging awesome song! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 00:52:32 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Thanks again (NJC) on 6/4/00 2:00 AM, JMDL Digest at claud9 wrote: > Many have already so clearly expressed how incredible and meaningful your > efforts for the NO Fest are to all of us. I personally want to tell you > again that you and your family could have not been any more welcoming to me. > I felt so at ease and at home. And if I weren't already all grown up, I > would have pleaded for immediate adoption ;-). As you might have read, I > kept my promise and went to see Joni in New Jersey (Thanks to RickyLee and > his friend I don't have to kick myself ....!!! It was the perfect ending to > my most magical odyseey ever! When Joni walked on stage, I so intensely > recalled the countless precious moments with such incredible people -- I was > in tears for two songs straight. (any more would have royally pissed off the > lovely lady with the large behind next to me) As a matter of fact, I am > still not quite right in the head. I even miss the ringing of your cell > phone ;-) Claud LOL!!!!!! The remark about the damn cell phone killed me. I wanna throw this damn thing out the window. It hasn't rung once today. I am SO glad you got to see Joni. I guess Dave probably told you I had called whilst you were at the show. I got all giddy thinking about everyone getting to see Joni. I wish I would have gone a second time, but then I have had a Joni-Blessed year (which Freda points out to me every chance she gets). It's looking more and more like I won't be at the Mendel Galleries, or Ashara's this year, but I am hoping my angels are watching over me and change all that. I skipped over abunch of digests, still have #270 thru #292 to catch up with, but I jumped up to read about the rest of the shows and the reviews on the party. Thank you all for such wonderful reviews and thoughts and feelings about JoniFest2000NewOrleans. I hope less puts all of your wonderful words up on the page. Marcel, I strongly suggest you get some professional help (and I don't mean from those hooker friends of yours and BTW thanks for the pics of you and the donkey in Tijuana). I am still going thru withdrawel (which coupled with the fact that I quit smoking again since Monday the 29th) and the kids have asked for you and Kakki. Puppy Girl has totally come out of her shell cause of you. We can't get her to leave us alone now! I am SO sleepy. I hope to be able to catch up with the reviews on the page tomorrow. gnight all. Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:23:33 -0700 From: Ken Corral Subject: The Treatment on KCRW: Mitchell & Geffen A couple of weeks back someone asked about "The Operator", the book on David Geffen by Tom King. King is, I guess doing a book tour and was on a local Southern CA.radio interview show called The Treatment hosted by Elvis Mitchell. Joni's name came up several times and there was a substantial JM segment about three quarters of the way through. Here is the brief bit of info given at KCRW's web site: Elvis Mitchell hosts author Tom King, a reporter at "The Wall Street Journal" since 1989, who has reported on the entertainment industry from the paper's Los Angeles bureau since 1991. His current book is "The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood." Aired Friday June 2nd. - -AND- Here are some of the relevant portions of the interview: __________________________________ TOM KING: ...and at the same time I just couldn't help but want to listen to these other people who had never really been heard before. ELVIS MITCHELL: You didn't really get Joni Mitchell. She's the one interview you couldn't get. T K: Oh God! MAN did I want to talk to Joni Mitchell. I think she's probably been here in this studio talking about her music and it bums me out that I didn't get to meet her. Not only because I'm a huge fan of her music but because she's a central figure in David Geffen's life. You know, even though Joni Mitchell's albums were never blockbusters like the Eagles had... EM: ...but she's hugely influential. TK: ...Oh, my goodness!... EM: ...and "Free Man in Paris" is a great song. TK: ...and "Free Man in Paris" is a great song that she wrote while walking down Champs Elyses with Davis Geffen, ya know with Robbie Robertson and his wife Dominique...but nobody...I don't think there was any other artist that had a more direct impact on David Geffen's career than Joni Mitchell...I think he helped her as much as she helped him* *(note: He means "I think she helped him as much as he helped her" as he says in his book.) There were so many artist who looked and said Joni Mitchell wanted to be on Geffen's label. That was an incredible advertisement for him. EM: It seemed that to me..and especially after reading the book too, that Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro were sort of the cornerstones of what made people take him seriously as a force in the music business and he truly loved them early on...what do you think sort of made him turn against them? TK: ...in the case of Joni Mitchell, ahem..oh man, I mean these two battled over everything. They each have a laundry list of betrayals that I'm sure to this day each of them can cite chapter and verse of and the fault, I think probably lies somewhere in the middle. EM: You really do?..because, again I wonder if its this thing where he falls in love with this thing and then some way when he can't have it anymore, he decides to try to destroy it...and that's happened in so many of the cases in the book that you detail. TK: Yeah it does...its just, its almost frightening, ya know what kind of a pattern this is. It happens over and over again...but you know, Joni Mitchell had legitimate gripes too. She was, ahem...In her moment of glory with "Court and Spark" coming out in February of 1974, you know the album that had that song "Free Man in Paris" on it and in that moment, she couldn't get David Geffen on the phone. He had dumped her like a hot potato and had moved on to Bob Dylan, who he'd successfully signed to Asylum. And he'd masterminded that famous reunion tour EM: The tour that was called "The Rolling Blunder Tour"... _________________________________________________ You can hear the entire program via Real Audio. Here is the url, JC doesn't start until roughly halfway through, so skip ahead. http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?tmplt_type=program&show_code=tt KenC- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:19:58 -0700 From: Steven Barton Subject: Re: tim curry covers " cold blue steel..." Hi, I'm new to the list and am intrigued by the covers project. Are these compilations available for trade? I rummaged through my music collection and noted a few JM covers. I guess these may have appeared on the early volumes (is there a master list somewhere?), but just in case they have been overlooked, I will list them: BSN - Clannad, from "Switch" soundtrack That Song about the Midway - Bonnie Raitt Chelsea Morning - Neil Diamond Chelsea Morning - Fairport Convention I Don't Know Where I Stand - Barbra Streisand I Don't Know Where I Stand - Fairport Convention I Don't Know Where I Stand (Live for BBC) - Fairport Convention River - Janis Siegel and Fred Hersch Also, with the All-Star tribute, we now have 16 more covers. I was able to fit them all on one audio CD (64 min). Steve SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 6/3/00 1:03:36 PM US Central Standard Time, > cassysweet@email.msn.com writes: > > << I only have Volumes 1, 2 and 3 there are more? >> > This triggered a long post, so if you're totally apathetic about covers, you > probably want to move towards that "scoll" or "delete" now! > > Well, Volumes 4, "The Power Of Cheese" is in progress... here's what's on it > so far: > > 1. Adrienne Barbeau, "I Had a King" > 2. Claudine Longet, "BSN" > 3. Boomtang Boys, "BSN" > 4. Kathie Lee Gifford, "Born For You/The Circle Game" > 5. Leonard Nimoy, "BSN" > 6. Nazareth, "This Flight Tonight" > 7. Doris Day, "BSN" > 8. Hole, "BSN" (side note - the juxtaposition of Doris Day and Hole is > brilliant, if I do say so myself!) > 9. Trish Colter/Paul Read, "Carey" > 10. Mabel Mercer, "BSN" > 11. Carteret High School Choir, "BSN" (the guy who sent it to me called it > the ultimate cheese, but this one made me cry...the sentimentality, the fact > that these high school kids are singing about "both sides now" when they've > barely seen ONE side of life, I dunno what it is, but as far as this disc > goes, it's interesting because as one man's cheese is another man's banquet. > 12. Jim Nabors, "BSN" (Thanks Jimmy, the mailman was holding his nose as he > handed the envelope to me! ;-) > 13. Elvis Presley, "You're So Square (I Don't Care)" > 14. Robert Goulet, "BSN" (Not here yet) > > And I also put the finishing touches on Disc 5, and it's another gem. Here's > what it contains: > > 1. Mathilde Santing, "I Had A King" > 2. Dianne Reeves, "River" > 3. Travis, "Urge For Going" > 4. Crosby & CPR, "Yvette in English (live) > 5. Thomas Dolby, "Jungleline" > 6. Judy Collins, "Chelsea Morning" > 7. Judy Collins, "Michael from Mountains" > 8. Gary & Randy Scruggs, "Woodstock" > 9. Chet Atkins, "BSN" > 10. Rosanne Cash, "River" > 11. James Brown, "How Do You Stop" > 12. Gerard Crosson, "BSN" (instrumental) > 13. Sarah McLachlan/Lilith Fair, "BYT" > 14. Nazareth, "This Flight Tonight" Unplugged & EXCELLENT! > 15. Jason Falkner, "BSN" done power pop style - WOW! > 16. Cristopher Grener, "Night In the City" nice guitar instrumental > 17. Buffy Saint-Marie, "Song to a Seagull" > > So there you go...thanks to the following for the seeds, your complimentary > copies of Volume 5 will be sent to you soon: > > Patrick Leader > Kakki > Stephen > Leslie > Craig S. > John the Happy Dutchman > Clive > Phillip the Happy Irishman ;-) > > I'm not officially offering for trees until I finish Volume 4, so hand in > there and soon you can get your grubby paws on Volume 3/4/5. > > And if you need to play catch up and need Volumes 1 and/or 2, they're > available 24/7. Just let me know. > > Bob > > NP: Talking Heads, "Pull Me Up" ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2000 #312 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe joni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?