From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2002 #26 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 Tuesday, January 15 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 026 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. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Mr.P:VG-8 orVG-88?? NJC [Michael Paz ] Re: ANNOUNCING........... A LOGO CONTEST!!!!!!!! [Michael Paz Subject: Re: Mr.P:VG-8 orVG-88?? NJC i don't care for the VG-88. I was talking about the VG-8 and I have found them with the pick up included although not lately. I have got 3-4 of them in the last few weeks for friends on the list. Rumor has it that we are gonna have this VG-8 jam at AsharaFest this year. Tons of Vg-8's in unison. Oh yeah! Paz on 1/14/02 10:06 AM, Bree Mcdonough at bree_mcdonough@hotmail.com wrote: > Your post went to the trash before I had a chance to ask you a question. > The price you mentioned....is that for the VG-88 alone, or does that include > the Gk.2AH Divided Pickup? I know they have come down in price.....but the > 550 would be extremely low. > > Thanks, > Bree > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:50:31 -0800 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING........... A LOGO CONTEST!!!!!!!! What do we win??? A weekend getaway with Ashara???? A Joni guitar???? A VG_8????HUH HUH HUH. Paz NP-Landslide-Tori Amos Live on 1/14/02 1:25 PM, AsharaProducLLC@aol.com at AsharaProducLLC@aol.com wrote: > A Northeast Back to the Garden Jonifest 2002 LOGO CONTEST!!!!!!!!! All you > creative people out there........get your pens, paper, pencils, watercolors, > pastels, scissors, oils, acryllics, crayons, magic markers and other creative > implements, and send your entries for the most WONDERFUL logo for Jonifest > 2002 to: les@jmdl.com. > > All entries must be received by February 14, 2002.* > Please keep it simple. > At that time, all entries will go up on a website to be voted on by all of > you. > > Hugs, > Ashara > > * Get working on those logos now! You don't want to wait til the Valentine's > Day deadline, and leave your sweetheart to watch you in the throws of > last-minute logo design craziness!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:58:58 -0800 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings revisited (njc) You mean the one I loaned to Jimmy last Mardi Gras that is a mini on me and a maxi on Jimmy?? Paz on 1/14/02 4:04 PM, Murphycopy@aol.com at Murphycopy@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/14/02 1:22:14 PM, kate@katebennett.com writes: > > << I wanted to be Galadriel (or at least find out where she got that > incredible dress with sparkling lights) >> > > Probably borrowed it from Jimmy or Paz. > > --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:42:17 +0100 From: "John van Tiel" Subject: Re: Hey Joe! Where you goin' with that free CD in your hand... (NJC) Bob, the Covers Man, wrote: "And I got a pretty funny one over the weekend, by a European guy called James Last. Apparantly when the "Stars on 45" phenomenon caught on, this guy put out record after record of pop medleys with people clapping their hands, and in lieu of singing the actual lyrics, just singing da-da-da-da-da and such. Last's records were called "Non-Stop Dancing". Can any Euro's fill us in with any more info about this guy?" James Last - or as he was called here James Overlast (Dutch for noise pollution) - was/is a German band leader who has been running a very successful show for over 35 years here. In the 70s he was a downright phenomenon in Germany, Holland, Belgium and, I believe, the Scandinavian countries. Yes, he specialized in medleys and at the time it seemed that he produced an album a week and was on television every night playing for gigantic crowds, on every German and Dutch channel - much like Andre Rieu is now (is he known in the US). He sold fantastic amounts of record. On flee markets in Holland, it is fair to say that every second LP you find is a James Last one. I can't believe someone ent through all of them to find you a Joni James Last would medley anything. As long as he got the audience (average IQ of room temperature numbers) clapping and Non-Stop Dancing. Combinations were fabulous: Should he still do it, I would not be surprised that he would take a gangsta rap tune, a Mariah Carey song, a Dolly Parton tune, Hotel California, Metallica and Yankee Doodle Dandy and call it American Medley. The scene would look as follows: Long rows of Germans sitting at tables, looking serious and clapping stiffly but enthousiastically as if their arms were connected to elastic bands (nothing as funny as serious Germans clapping - my friends and I used to gather to watch these shows and roll over the floor laughing exclaiming "Zooper, zooper.") James Last conducting his band with his back to the musicians and his ever-smiling face to the camera looking like a lower middle management bank employee ("mortgages up to 40,000" department). Velkom zu ze hotel Kelly Fornia. The crowd would go mad. Women of questionable dressing taste would drag their poor men into the isles to dance. Confetti would pour from above (never understood this combination of giant German pints of beer and confetti - I guess that's why they have lids on them). Three hours of clapping. And everyone would look serious! Hilarious. Prime time German television in the 70s - and still, believe it or not. The shows would last at least 3 hours and that is a lot of Medleys. James Last was every music lover's nightmare in Europe in the 70s. Muzak at its worst. And everywhere, even in the streets. Never expected to see HIM featured on the JMDL. But to be fair to the musicians ... I once saw a behind the scenes documentary in which the band was practicing - and here was a big band from hell playing Duke Ellington and great big band tunes like young gods. "Of course we can never play these on stage. Ve have a different audience." Yip. If any Joni member ever visits me here in Holland, I will treat him/her to a Saturday night of German television. It will be the zooper highlight of your trip, I'll promise you. James Overlast :-))) ... you made my morning, Bob! Oh yes, anyone in Europe who wants the latest volume of Bob's covers (or earlier releases), please write to me for more details. Feeling zooper at the Dutch coast, John P.S. Sorry Karen, Helga, Claudia and others of German origin or inclination on the list. But it is a Dutch national pastime to make fun of Germany and Germans. And to quote John Cleese: Don't mention the football !! PPS The Stars on 45 phenomenon was a Dutch project. I apologize to the world in retrospect. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2002 #26 **************************** ------- 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?