From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2002 #568 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 Saturday, December 14 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 568 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: For Free - Ick??? [Wtking59@cs.com] Re: For Free - Ick??? --NJC [Wtking59@cs.com] headphone tips ["PAUL PETERSON" ] Re: best music this year---Laura Nyro [Wtking59@cs.com] Today's Library Links: December 14 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] RE: stevie wonder njc ["Kate Bennett" ] False Alarms ["William Chavez" ] downtown messiah - njc but jane siberry content ["patrick leader" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:56:29 EST From: Wtking59@cs.com Subject: Re: For Free - Ick??? In a message dated 12/13/2002 walterphil@excite.com wrote >>"tin angel" you can keep. and i agree with you about "for free". ick<< WHAT? Sheer SACRILEGE Walt!!! What in the world are/were you thinking??? ;-) "Tin Angel" is surely one of the best songs from "Clouds," and the same thing goes for the original, "Ladies of the Canyon" version of "For Free." Both tracks are classic---and absolutely essential. XXXOOO, Billy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:02:44 EST From: Wtking59@cs.com Subject: Re: For Free - Ick??? --NJC BTW, I can't handle Mariah Carey in any way, shape or form. She's got to be almost as annoying as Celine Dion in my book. Good grief!!! ;-) XXXOOO, Billy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:31:35 -0500 From: "PAUL PETERSON" Subject: headphone tips Headphone tips Get over the ear design, light enough and loose enough for extended listening without fatigue. Try them on at the store (or buy from a store that will let you exchange them if they turn out to be uncomfortable). No headphone will filter out all outside noise except the noise cancellation designs which I have not tried but have read that they can alter the sound to a lesser or greater degree. Of the non- noise cancellation designs, there is a trade off between comfort and amount of outside noise that gets in. I have found that one of the most common failures involves the failure of the connecting wire to the individual phones. Eventually you will accidentally pull on these wires and the cheaper ones will break the circuit at the point of connection. I have had particular bad luck with SONY headphones shorting out one or the other channels. One thing to look for is a design that connects the wires to the headphone with a plug as opposed to a permanent connection. The last headphones I bought were the Sennheiser HD560. I don't know if they are available still, but they have lasted longer than any headphones I ever owned (going on 8 years), they sound great, and I can listen for hours without my ears getting cramped. Friends have bought other Sennheiser models and agree that Sennheiser makes a quality product. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:07:29 EST From: Wtking59@cs.com Subject: Re: best music this year---Laura Nyro In a message dated 12/13/2002 > steve@hatstand.org wrote: >>Okay apart from TLOG which I truly love I've been listening to these albums constantly this year:<< >>ELI & THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION (remaster) ~ LAURA NYRO Such a revealation. I can't believe she's so unknown. What a voice and I love those tempo changes. She can do really happy songs and then extremly sad songs. Can't wait to get New York Tandenberry.<< It's called "New York Tendaberry" Steve, and if you like Joni's "Blue" or "For the Roses" I think you're gonna LOVE it. In fact, I can't recommend another disc more highly. Simply put, it's my all-time favorite recording, and I believe it's one of Joni's too. "New York Tendaberry" (1969) still stands as a benchmark masterpiece of unparalleled importance and influence, and remains perhaps the darkest, most brilliant achievement of Nyro's trailblazing career. Only Joni truly compares. After all, Joni's often been quoted as saying she took a considerable amount of direction from the great Laura Nyro... ...and it shows. Regardless, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession" - ---it's great too! ;-) XXXOOO, Billy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:06:46 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: December 14 On December 14 the following item was published: 1975: "Mitchell, Young and the Decade of Despair" - Los Angeles Times (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=569 - -------- Can you type? http://www.jmdl.com/typing/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:26:32 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: stevie wonder njc me too, i finally decided what i'm asking santa for this year...what a voice! ps john leventhal produced this cd... >> That new Joan Osborne is currently at the top of my want list. She can take a really familiar song and make it her own. Bob << ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:39:13 -0500 From: "William Chavez" Subject: False Alarms Thanks Catherine! Somewhere in there (in what you wrote) was a key word. "I Think I Understand" is no longer a "false alarm" Will _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:40:05 -0500 From: "patrick leader" Subject: downtown messiah - njc but jane siberry content having dinner at the bar with a friend tonight at dojo's, 4th and mercer, some of the cheapest eats in nyc. some guys near us look like they might be techies or road crew for someone at the bottom line, a well-known folkie-plus club just across the intersection. one says, "dar's singing it tonight, syd straw tomorrow". both artists i've heard at the bottom line. in walks jane siberry. a connection clicks in my mind so i say "hey are you doing something at the bottom line tonight?" she's a bit taken aback (so is my friend, who thinks i'm crazy and doesn't recognize her) so i say "this is Jane Siberry, Christopher" and introduce myself, and she recognizes my name from being a subscriber to her email list, and from the time i ordered directly from her on the phone and she had to call me back to tell me my card was declined. at the time she said "don't worry, it happens to me too" so she orders her dinner and we're all three into a lovely conversation. my friend is a canadian, so they have that. we're all performers so we have that. we talk about her journey, positive and negative, having her own label. biggest news: she's finally completing an album of all new original material, her first since "maria" (1995) which was her last album with reprise and one of my top ten albums all time. turns out she's performing in the bottom line's "downtown messiah" now in its fifth year. after a while she says, "you know, i have a couple of comps for the late show tonight" looks in her calendar, says "well, my extra comps are for tomorrow, but i'll just put you on the list. you may not get seats, but you'll get in" pretty cool. we buy her dinner (not exactly extravagant at dojo's). she leaves. we have three hours to kill. we leave the restaurant, and i can't find my umbrella. we go back to my place, listen to some jane siberry. back to the bottom line. turns out we do get seats, great seats. before the show, i see jane out front so i go over to thank her, point out our great seats. she says "great. oh, i have your umbrella." gives it back. about the show: it's just this odd beast, an electrified, hippified, folkified messiah using the kinds of artists that play the bottom line. soloists included martha redbone, randy brecker, terre roche, david johanson (truly bizarre, and kind of wonderful), jane (just perfect on 'if god be for us, who can be against us'), marshall crenshaw, dar williams, vernon reid, and richard barone, formerly of the bongos, who apparently found his perfect look in 1983 and hasn't felt a need to change. which was just fine with me. musically, it was all over the map stylistically, which was, i think, the point. there was an amplified string quartet, grand piano, drum and standing bass, 20-person choir, solo instruments including a recorder several times. it was so interesting hearing baroque ornaments on recorder, or acoustic guitar, or perfect handelian scales done by an r&b singer. the show was not a home run, but it was awfully fun. bob, this is for you. instead of being sung, the recitatives were all spoken by a woman with a terribly midwestern accent. that probably cut seven hours out of the event. also it ended with the hallelujah chorus, (cutting out about the last 45 minutes of music). earlier, when we were talking to jane, she said she's drawn to move back to new york. i hope she does. anyway, the show is being recorded for broadcast (and i assume, webcast) on wfuv, dates 12/20 and 24. last year's 'downtown messiah' is being broadcast on npr this month (that's a big deal for these folks). and new yorkers who can't see one of two shows tomorrow (saturday) night, or go to see jane solo at the bottom line on sunday (12/15), can hear the downtown messiah for FREE on tuesday, december 17, in the rebuilt wintergarden at world financial center. patrick np - jane siberry - tree [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:47:20 -0500 From: "William Chavez" Subject: Faro/Faboo NJC >Is that like fabulously taboo? Like divinely decadent? >Or deliciously sinful? I like the sound of it anyway. This could be the beginning of a new word on the list. Lets just decide on in its exact meaning before somebody jumps all over someone else because of its misuse. Will _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2002 #568 ***************************** ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)