From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2001 #198 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, April 29 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 198 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. Information on the 4th "Annual" New England JoniFest: http://www.jmdl.com/jfne2001.cfm The Joni Chat Room: http://www.jmdl.com/chat.cfm ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Joni & Leonard Cohen (long) ["Deb Messling" ] little Joni reference ["Diane Evans" ] Joni & The Doobies [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: the album form [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Joni & Leonard Cohen ["kerry" ] Re: Nice opus if you can get it NJC ["Lori R. Fye" ] jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) [Yael Harlap ] "nice one, Bob" ["shane mattison" ] Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen [Catherine McKay ] Re: "nice one, Bob" [Catherine McKay ] More scrabble(njc) ["Victor Johnson" ] Inman Park Festival Update!(njc) ["Victor Johnson" ] Midwest Joni -fest (NJC) ["Steve Polifka" ] Re: the album form njc [philipf@tinet.ie] Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen [philipf@tinet.ie] Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen [Catherine McKay ] Re: jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) [TerryM2222@aol.com] Re: jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) [Yael Harlap ] Bruce Hornsby - a late contribution. NJC [john low ] Eric Andersen (some Joni content) [john low ] New McCartney Interview. NJC ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Eric Andersen (some Joni content) [IVPAUL42@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:37:35 -0400 From: "Deb Messling" Subject: RE: Joni & Leonard Cohen (long) I don't think the definitive Joni biography will be written by Joni herself. From a literary perspective, I'm sure anything she writes will be fascinating, but few people have the objectivity required to depict themselves and their compatriots fairly. I hope someone responsible and talented starts this project soon. Kakki said: > I was just discussing this with another jmdler the other night. I really > wonder how she would put it all together. She is so open and brutally > honest at times, I wonder if she will feel the need to censor > herself some. > I have a feel it may be a long time coming. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:27:57 -0500 From: "Diane Evans" Subject: little Joni reference Yesterday it was teacher appreciation day at our local Border's store. That means teachers get a nice discount on purchases so I picked up a couple extras.:-D One of them was a book called "Daughter of God." Lo and behold ;-) on page 13 was a reference to Joni's lyrics and her Biblical inspirations. Love to see her influence acknowledged in these subtle ways! BW Diane NP: CSN Dark Star _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:38:19 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Joni & The Doobies << I hope someone responsible and talented starts this project soon. >> Sorry, Deb...I can't take on any new projects right now! LOL! And also, I hope I didn't give the impression that discussing the detail and specifics of 'what's about who' is unseemly or irrelevant. Like another jmdl'er told me, it is gravy on top of the other in-depth discussions we have regarding Joni's work. Kakki and other Socal JMDLer's, your commentary is always very insightful as you were immersed in the LA music scene and provide so much clarity and detail! Keep it coming! Speaking of projects & SoCal rock, I'm forging ahead with our JMDL Doobie Brothers CD Tree. I received the Pat Simmons 1983 "Arcade" LP this week and transferred it to CD last night. I had not heard it before. It has a nice LA jazz/rock/soul presence to it, a little dated but then again it's almost 20 years old! (Hard to believe!) This will be on the same CD with Kakki's "Rarities" album. Disc 2 will be the two Tom Johnston LP's, and disc 3 will be a live show from the late 70's in London on their "Fault Line" tour. Depending on how the rest of the weekend goes, I may have this finished up in the next couple days. What I need to determine at this point is who all is interested in getting a copy of this 3-CD tree. I don't have a feel for how many Doobie Brothers fans we have out there... So, if you are interested, send me a private message so I can set up the proper structure for distribution. And, of course, more covers news is just around the corner... ;~) Bob NP: John Hammond, "2:19" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:41:33 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: the album form << So who called it Song To A Seagull if not Joni? >> Colin, my reference was to the subtitles she gave to the album sides: Side 1: I Came to the City Side 2: Out of the City & Down to the Seaside Bob NP: John Hammond, "Heartattack & Vine" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:29:55 -0500 From: "kerry" Subject: Joni & Leonard Cohen Kakki wrote: >>However, I have thought about this more and can see another side to it. With the exception of suspecting some of Blue and FTR were about JT, I lived in virtual ignorance of who these characters were for almost 30 years until I joined the list. So in a way, I had a lot of time to be blissfully ignorant and not have the knowledge of who they were about impinging on my experience of the songs. It may be that discussing "who is that one about" sort of cheats the people here who are just now or recently experiencing her music from feeling the music fully from their own perspective and emotions. That may not be fair to them.>> This makes sense to me. When I buy a new album, I like to listen to it a few times, then read the lyrics and only then try to figure out what the meaning of each song might be. If an album came with a whole written explanation of each song, it would ruin the mystery. I think hearing stories later either from an artist or from others enriches the song and gives it another layer. It's almost like folklore. Experiences with visual art can be similar. It's nice to view it first and then hear the stories about it. For example, Joni's painting, "Georgia O'Keefe's Rain Barrel." I enjoyed it first, then heard that her cat had peed on it. This information added a new dimension - I marveled at how the pee fit right in and created a new effect! Kerry NP - My ferrets scratching to be let out. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 07:45:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lori R. Fye" Subject: Re: Nice opus if you can get it NJC Catherine wrote: > The next dilemma is (esp. for classical stuff), do I file it under > the name of the composer? The performer? The conductor? > And what do you do if it's got more than one composer, or more > than one soloist? AAAggghh! Trying to make order out of chaos > seems to produce more chaos. That it does! A few months ago, Mary and I bought a nice CD player that holds 400 disks ... it took WEEKS to get all of our CDs loaded, titled, and categorized. Mary has a lot of classical, and we ran into the same dilemma. Since the unit allows you to assign disks to one of eight groups, we "solved" the problem by grouping the classical by the "predominant" instrument. We ended up with: Violin (we're both really into this instrument in particular, so we created its own group) Strings Piano Woodwinds Horns Percussion Orchestra For the last group, we chose Jazz/New Age. Of course this limits my ability to create other (and to me, more important) groups -- eight groups is way too few! It didn't work out perfectly, as some classical CDs are compilations, but it does help. Lori near DC ~ Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:39:33 -0400 From: Yael Harlap Subject: jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) hi everyone!!! i saw j.bro play last night. it was so AWESOME! i'm sad it is over - i always feel that way after a concert - regretful. i swear i wish i could live my life in music because there is nothing i love that much as the sound. and I got to chat with marvelous Terry M! Terry - it was so great to see you and your daughter again!! I hope I get to hang out with you again even besides potential Asharafest. so i think i mentioned my past front-row-girl jonatha adventures in Borders in ann arbor and LA. anyhow i met her twice in february... so i went up early yesterday like i'd gotten in the habit of doing with the tori shows. i almost forgot my concert ticket but then i ran up to get it. i dashed out to the car holding many things. i dumped them all in the car and zoomed off to detroit. cheerfully. innocently. not realizing that i dropped my ticket in the driveway. hmm. by the time i realized it, it was too late - i mean, since i was so early, i could have gone back for it, technically, but i was like, no. i figured i'd figure it out later. so i got there, parked, walked 8 blocks in the wrong direction, came back and discovered i'd parked right around the corner from the venue (yay! except that i misread the parking sign and parked there during peak no-park hours and got a $30 ticket). i went and hung out and this crew person came by and asked if i was a "fanatic groupie" and i laughed and said no. soon after this other guy Bob, who IS a bit of a fanatic groupie, showed up and we chatted. and then two others, so it was four of us for a while. and then Jonatha came in to the venue (it was this small club) and said hi to us briefly and did sound check - for a while we could even see it happening - they didn't kick us out of the building until halfway through and even then we just lolled on the stairs and the doors were open. meanwhile i was rushing around trying to figure out the ticket stuff (i called ticketbastard). and we chatted with this trememdous bigot who was the busdriver. OH MY GAWD i have never met such a bigot. i swear he was making these incredibly sexist remarks and then if that weren't bad enough he started making racist comments too. i was like, i'm not standing here anymore, and i moved. he was this little old white guy who kept saying y'all. he said that he'd heard that michigan women wanted only two things, is that right? and i was like whatever. the two things were... i can't even remember. money and something else. i felt like saying "i'm a lesbian so do those rules still apply to me?" just to see what he would say! but i couldn't be bothered. he did say he would get me in if i couldn't get my ticket. weird how people can be nice and such jerks at the same time, isn't it? so baybee i was front and center. really. and the show was so great! i love dancing around and listening and making eye contact with jonatha and the band members, being playful. sometimes i would just close my eyes to hear the music rather than have this playful experience and that was amazing too because the music was just so GOOD! and there was a lot of back-and-forth chatter, which was cool. ahhh, so great! i need more! . so then after the show i was hanging around outside talking to mr. bigot a bit, and he asked me if i wanted to go get a drink with him at the hotel. i actually considered it - what was i thinking? rest easy, though - i didn't. then i heard jonatha was inside signing so i dashed in to say hi. and right after i did security told people they couldn't go in. (i think they wanted her to get out already, you know). so i stood in a short line behind Terry, and when i got to jonatha she told me it was so fun to have me in the audience because i look like i'm having so much fun and that some people just sort of stand and stare (she demonstrated how some people stand and stare). and we chatted briefly, and i said something about how its so fun and sometimes i just really wish i were doing that with my life and she said but you kind of are (i guess meaning because i am going to the shows and really getting into them). she was very nice and sparkly! i wanted to ask her if she wanted to have coffee but i thought that would have been pushing it! :-) next time. we'll go out for coffee. :-) hugs y'all ;-p - -Yael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:38:55 -0600 From: "shane mattison" Subject: "nice one, Bob" Catherine wrote: well, it just goes to show you that, once again, "nice" is a muddy word...as Steve Martin so eloquently put it... "Well EXCUUUUUUUUUUSE MMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" shane ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:03:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen - --- Kakki wrote: > Catherine wrote: > > > Nice one, Bob. Like you,who Joni wrote these > songs > > about doesn't interest me much. Well, maybe just > a > > little - it does add context in some cases. But I > > find the whole business of trying to find out who > the > > lover du jour was voyeuristic somehow. > > This is what I don't understand. If Joni herself > reveals these people and > her experiences with them either overtly in > interviews and in stage patter, > or implicitly in her songs, why is it voyeuristic to > discuss what she has > already (often very candidly)revealed? I guess I just wasn't aware that Joni did this. I've only seen her in concert twice, and I don't recall her naming names. If she wants to talk about it, that's OK with me, but I wouldn't be asking her for personal information if she didn't volunteer it. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:06:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: "nice one, Bob" - --- shane mattison wrote: > Catherine wrote: > > > > well, it just goes to show you that, once again, > "nice" > is a muddy word...as Steve Martin so eloquently put > it... > > "Well EXCUUUUUUUUUUSE MMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" > I meant it in the NICE way. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:36:08 -0400 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: More scrabble(njc) We played five games of scrabble today and in the fourth game I had a chance to scrabble out on my last turn and win the game but I tried a word that was challenged and I lost the challenge. It was then I immediately realized the word I could have played...STUPIDER...how I ironic. I did redeem myself in the last game though, scrabbling out with EQUATION midgame which ended up being the turning point of the game, which I won by about 30 points. Victor Victor Johnson http://www.cdbaby.com/victorjohnson "Just beyond the morning falls the river of your dreams, Escaping from the day these wild creatures run away." Victor Johnson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:45:27 -0400 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: Inman Park Festival Update!(njc) For anyone planning on coming to see Kate Bennett and myself tomorrow you are in for a treat. We will be joined by a fabulous fiddle player named Adam. We worked out a set up in the mountains this week and it's really sounding quite magical. We will go on at 12:00 noon sharp and do about a 45 minute set. There will be music following, lasting till 6 or so. If you're coming from I-20, take the Moreland exit, north, and drive till you get to Little Five Points, turning left onto Euclid by the Zesto's and the Brewhouse. Park anywhere you can and walk down Euclid into Inman Park till you get to the big tent at Euclid and Elizabeth. If you're coming from I-85, get off at the Freedom Parkway exit downtown, heading east towards the Carter Center, away from downtown. Take it till it dead ends at Moreland and turn right. Take Moreland south to Euclid and turn right, parking anywhere you can find and follow above directions. Hope to see some Jmdlers out there! Victor Victor Johnson http://www.cdbaby.com/victorjohnson "Just beyond the morning falls the river of your dreams, Escaping from the day these wild creatures run away." Victor Johnson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:47:59 -0400 From: Doug Brode Subject: From the song: Refuge of the Roads Greetings, I met a friend of spirit He drank and womanized I'm wondering if the "friend of spirit" was also the same guy who played "Coyote." "Refuge of the roads" kinda goes with "prisoner of the white lines on the freeway." Was Joni having trouble dealing with touring back then? Cheers, Doug ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:59:09 -0500 From: "Steve Polifka" Subject: Midwest Joni -fest (NJC) Hi all! Kerry has been recieving quite a few emails regarding our little Midwest get together-which may become a full blown Joni-fest! Yikes! So I have a few questions: What kind of events would you like to experience- like a dinner, a concert-games, raffles prizes... Are you a musician/ would you perform? As Kerry and I talked, we realized it would be alot of work, and alot of fun, so input would be helpful! What are the best weekends for you??? May or June? Or? You can email either her or myself. Thanks, Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:31:27 +0100 From: philipf@tinet.ie Subject: Re: the album form njc Victor wrote: > > I bought Zeppelin 4(this is a true story) after my parents took me to a > seminar on the evils of rocknroll. LOL ! That's one seminar my dad would have liked to have sent me to. You obviously failed the final exam. > And I have never really > been interested in single too much as I've always found if I really like a > song then I most likely will want to hear more by that artist, hence buy the > album. > Same here, if I know I like one song, I usually buy the album on the assumption that it's got some others on there that I'm going to like too. I think of it as buying a collection of songs and I'm usually happy if I like 70% of an album. By putting a track like MFM out on a single the company would be making a statement that here is a special song that deserves a wider audience than it would get as merely a track on an album. Philip NP Broadcast - Booklovers ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:38:58 +0100 From: philipf@tinet.ie Subject: Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen > Catherine wrote: > > > Nice one, Bob. Like you,who Joni wrote these songs > > about doesn't interest me much. Well, maybe just a > > little - it does add context in some cases. But I > > find the whole business of trying to find out who the > > lover du jour was voyeuristic somehow. > My opinion on this varies. I'm not really sure what's right. Knowing the background dosen't make a song any more enjoyable but it's certainly interesting to know some of the context. Joni is an important poet and academics in universities spend time discussing who Auden or Yeats were talking about in poems. Maybe it's time that Joni was awarded an honorary doctorate in music. Bob Dylan and some other pop people, Paul McCartney I think, got them. Philip NP Bruce Springsteen TV concert - ripping it up on Badlands. . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:39:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen - --- philipf@tinet.ie wrote: > Knowing the > background dosen't make a song any more enjoyable > but it's certainly > interesting to know some of the context. Joni is > an important poet and > academics in universities spend time discussing who > Auden or Yeats were > talking about in poems. Maybe it's time that > Joni was awarded an > honorary doctorate in music. Bob Dylan and some > other pop people, Paul > McCartney I think, got them. Good points. They'd have to give her a very special doctorate, I think - kind of like there are degrees of black belts. What she does is so beyond what others have done. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:28:32 EDT From: TerryM2222@aol.com Subject: Re: jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) Woo Woo! OhmaGawd, what a SHOW. Heyo, Yael- it was great seeing you. My, that girl was standing right under Jonatha's nose. The music was beyond incredible- she did songs off many of her albums, but it was also stunning to hear stuff off of Steady Pull. Looks like she may have something going with the bass player, who could be a young Sting. Well, look-wise anyway. The lead guitarist is incredible. I couldn't figure out how he got that axe to whistle, and I was pretty neat to see someone playing a monstor Gretch. Y'all just need to get that Steady Pull album. Yeppers. As Yael described, some of us lucky ones got to meet her after the show. MICHAEL PAZ, listen up- I told her how my daughter and I been to all her local shows, yada yada , but then told her how I'd heard how great she was on MY FRIEND Michael Paz's radio show. Ooooh, her face brightened. She said to SAY HI to Michael Paz for her and how she really enjoyed being on the show. Michael, you made a good impression on her. Woo Woo....still coming down from the JoBro show. That girl can SING. Terry www.addconsults.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:58:00 -0400 From: Yael Harlap Subject: Re: jonatha brooke rocks! (NJC) More Jonatha Brooke... Terry,are you undergoing withdrawal? I am! >The music was beyond incredible- she did songs off many of her albums, but it >was also stunning to hear stuff off of Steady Pull. Looks like she may have >something going with the bass player, who could be a young Sting. Well, >look-wise anyway. The lead guitarist is incredible. I couldn't figure out how >he got that axe to whistle, and I was pretty neat to see someone playing a >monstor Gretch. According to Mr. Bigot (the bus driver), I shouldn't "look at the boys" in the band because they're all married. Jonatha is the only one who is single (says the bus driver). And YES, the lead guitarist was incredible! I was wondering how anyone's fingers could move that fast. If any of your fingers can move that fast, please teach me. - -Yael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:07:46 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Nice opus if you can get it NJC There's a funny part in the movie "High Fidelity" where the record collector is reorganizing his collection...... chronologically by date of acquisition. Paraphrasing, "So if I want to listen to the Clash'es "Train In Vain", I have to remember that I bought it just after Linda and I broke up, and before I had my Miles Davis' ballads phase...." Catherine of Toronto said, > do I file it under the name of the composer? The performer? The conductor? And what do you do if it's got more than one composer, or more than one soloist? AAAggghh Lama BTW, Note to whom ever started the thread: funny subject line! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:08:07 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Joni & Leonard Cohen Kakki asked: > If Joni herself reveals these people and her experiences with them either overtly in interviews and in stage patter, or implicitly in her songs, why is it voyeuristic to discuss what she has already (often very candidly)revealed? Okay. First off, I agree with you, as always, dear. I don't find it offensive. That said, some people just don't like "gossip". If a friend told you about personal detail, that's cool and part of why friends are important to each other- we share a layer of intimacy that strangers don't. But if you then discuss that personal detail with 5 others, to some people, it's gossip and unseemly. (Or in this case, 700 others...) Anyway, I'm so glad you're back. Lama ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:19:20 +1000 From: john low Subject: Bruce Hornsby - a late contribution. NJC Hi all, Greetings from Lurkdom! I have enjoyed reading the various posts on the Bruce Hornsby thread (thanks Marian et.al.). Ive only got one of his CDs, "The Way It Is", but after reading recent recommendations I must chase up a few more, though I rarely see them on sale here and hardly ever hear his name spoken. His association with the Grateful Dead has been mentioned and, co-incidentally, Ive just finished reading Blair Jacksons excellent biography of Jerry Garcia. In this Hornsby is quoted about his call-up to the Dead following Brent Mydlands untimely death. I thought Marian and others might be interested in reading what he said: "I think they wanted me to actually join the band. And if theyd caught me in 1984, before I got my own career going, I probably would have lived happily ever after as a Grateful Dead piano player  I think that would have been great. But they caught me in 1990. I had three records out, Id sold a couple of million records and I didnt feel like I could give that up completely." Jackson goes on to describe the first concert he played with the Dead at Madison Square Garden: "Sitting animatedly at a concert grand piano directly to Garcias left, Hornsby instantly became Garcias main foil. Here was a really top-drawer pianist, with a style as distinctive as Garcias, ready and eager to jump into the musical fray with ten fingers blazing. He says he knew about a quarter of the Deads songs when he hooked up with the band, yet he went out onstage the first night with no rehearsal. But it was apparent from the first minute that he understood the Deads music and had internalized their approach to playing. He seemed to be overflowing with confidence yet not at all arrogant. He and Garcia traded grins and musical licks all night. Bruce was definitely a star in the best sense of the word  charismatic and talented." So, given another time and circumstance, Hornsby might have ended up a permanent traveler on the long strange trip. Cheers, John (in Sydney). PS. I also thoroughly enjoyed the thread on the identity of Coyote. I had no idea it was Sam S. but Im now convinced. Ive got a copy of his "Motel Chronicles"  a kind of heijira account of his own. __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:29:33 +1000 From: john low Subject: Eric Andersen (some Joni content) Hello again, While Im out of lurk mode can I ask, does anyone else like Eric Andersen? He is not mentioned much on the list, despite having Joni associations. I read somewhere (Hinton I think) that Andersen was an early influence on her and introduced Joni to open tunings. Is that correct? I have both his re-issued and re-mastered 1972 album "Blue River" (on the title track of which Joni Mitchell sings backing vocals) and a more recent work "Memory of the Future" (1989). Hes an interesting songwriter and Im surprised his reputation never made it to OZ along with that of others of his generation. I gather he has always had quite a large following in America but I cant recall ever hearing his music played on the radio here in Sydney. Perhaps I was always in the wrong place or listening to the wrong radio stations, who knows. Anyway, Ive only come across him fairly recently and Im still enjoying the thrill of discovery we all get when we click with a new (to us) musician, writer etc. Best wishes, John (in Sydney). __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:39:26 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: New McCartney Interview. NJC http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010428/re/people_mccartney_dc_6.html Since this link is so long, you may have to reconstruct it. Good luck. Lama PS- Paul McCartney was the driving force in various incarnations of the band "Wings". I guess he played bass in an earlier band too but I'm not sure. I think he's from Long Island or something. :) np: Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" sample lyric: "Could I ever find in you, again, things that made me love you so much then? Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone? Oh, Caroline, no." Did you guys know that Brian Wilson lost all hearing in his right ear as a child? No wonder he prefers mono mixes! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 02:04:43 EDT From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Eric Andersen (some Joni content) In a message dated 4/29/01 1:40:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, johncb@start.com.au writes: << I have both his re-issued and re-mastered 1972 album "Blue River" (on the title track of which Joni Mitchell sings backing vocals) and a more recent work "Memory of the Future" (1989). Hes an interesting songwriter and Im surprised his reputation never made it to OZ along with that of others of his generation. I gather he has always had quite a large following in America but I cant recall ever hearing his music played on the radio here in Sydney. Perhaps I was always in the wrong place or listening to the wrong radio stations, who knows. Anyway, Ive only come across him fairly recently and Im still enjoying the thrill of discovery we all get when we click with a new (to us) musician, writer etc. Best wishes, John (in Sydney). >> I like his "Is It Really Love At All," and have used it on several compilation tapes. Paul I ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2001 #198 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?