From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2003 #552 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 Friday, November 7 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 552 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Happy Birthday Joni [HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com] Re: profane let me see if i can clear this up (njc) [HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com] re: (K)nights in White Satin - NJC ["mia ortlieb" ] Re: NJC Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues NJC [Bobsart48@aol.com] Re: (K)nights in White Satin - NJC ["Mark or Travis" ] Joni's 60th Birthday [russell brooker ] NJC Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Happy Birthday Joni [Bobsart48@aol.com] Moody Blues NJC ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Joni's Decade of Honors [Bobsart48@aol.com] Today in History: November 7 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Today's Library Links: November 7 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Happy Birthday Joni! [MINGSDANCE@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:11:28 EST From: HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com Subject: Happy Birthday Joni My guide, My mentor, my teacher, my student; tothe one who walks with her eyes open and wonders what she sees. to the one who is not afraid to wonder out loud, to venture a guess ,to take a chance and not too proud to be stumbling forward or walking backwards in order to see the signs she may have missed. to the one who feels deeply, hurts unbearbly, loves unwaveringly, sings honestly, frightens easily and dances radiantly. I thank God for you. I am blessed. Happy birthday to you Joni Mitchell. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:21:07 EST From: HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com Subject: Re: profane let me see if i can clear this up (njc) thank you all ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:34:43 -0600 From: "mia ortlieb" Subject: re: (K)nights in White Satin - NJC Or maybe I just had that song mixed up with "Lucky Man" by ELP. Apparently there are many others who have also misspelled the song title as "Knights in White Satin." After searching on the Internet, I find many people are joking that "Knights in White Satin" is a different song about David Duke and the KKK. Okay, time for bed... before I start spreading some other dumb rumour. Mia _________________________________________________________________ Send a QuickGreet with MSN Messenger http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_games ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:57:24 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: NJC Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues NJC Bob Muller wrote "Enjoy the Moody Blues show! I'm a fan of theirs as well...to me, they were one of the few artists that really justified getting a greatest hits as their individual records were flawed, but their greatest hits collection was wonderful." I will - from what I have seen of their DVD's, their concerts seem to be pretty heavily "hit-laden". We'll hear. Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:17:22 -0800 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: (K)nights in White Satin - NJC When I was about 20 years old I was introduced to a very unique and wonderful person that I eventually became good friends with. Her name was Janey, she was my mother's age (55 at the time), a registered nurse and one of the most free-spirited and open minded people I have ever met. Janey had been married to a gay man and had, I believe, two children by him, both adults by the time I met her. She was one of the first people I ever came out to and her gentle, soft-spoken answer to my revelation was, 'Mark, I know that.' At the time we met she had had surgery and had undergone radiation and possibly chemo-therapy for cancer. This would have been in the mid-70s. I don't know if this is why she first started smoking pot but there were a few of us that used to stop by Janey's place to get high from time to time. She was always very generous with her stash. Eventually I got into the habit of stopping by on my own just to spend time with her. She had this old cabinet hi-fi stereo and would light a mushroom-shaped candle and put on a stack of lps while we smoked. One night she played the Moody Blues 'Days of Future Passed'. Getting stoned was still fairly new to me then and this music took my mind to all kinds of places as I sat in Janey's livingroom with the the glow of the mushroom candle being the only illumination in the room. I will forever associate that album with getting high. 'Tuesday Afternoon' and 'Nights in White Satin' in particular made strong impressions on me and I used to take long walks at night when I was in college, smoking a joint and often singing these songs to myself (later I would sing a *lot* of Joni songs). I also remember hearing Peter Paul and Mary's 'Ten Years Together' album, loving the mellow sound of their harmonies on 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' and also Joan Baez whom Janey insisted on calling 'Joanne Baze', knowing full well the correct pronunciation, singing the songs of Bob Dylan on her 'Any Day Now' double lp. She also played an album by Mort Schumann that I distinctly remember had the Jacques Brel song 'My Death' on it and I also remember a very strange recording that it seems to me was done by Timothy Leary and, unless my memory was fogged from the smoke, a recording of someone reading the procedure for an abortion out of a medical text book with an orchestral version of 'The Hallelujah Chorus' as background music. It was Spring quarter, very near finals time the year after I met her that Janey's cancer came back. I wanted to go home so I could see her but it was impossible for me to get away. I am told that she did mention me before she died that spring. As I said, we had become very close in a short period of time, she even came up to the town where I went to college to visit me when I stayed there over Thanksgiving break to rehearse a play I was in. She was a kindred spirit and I still think about her from time to time to this day. I used to think about that Brel song and the line 'but whatever is behind the door, there is nothing much to do (then a line that I don't remember clearly and then..) ....because in front of the door there is you'. I suppose I like to think that I was maybe one of the people in her life who stood in front of that door and gave her something that made the journey a tiny bit easier before she had to step through it. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:23:24 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: HAPPY 60TH, JONI !!!!!! We love you. Thanks for everything. The next time you're in Cincinnati, give me a call. We'll get some lunch al fresco and bitch about Nixon, the new boss, & "same as the old boss". I'd just like to see you sometime. I stole that from Joni the Mitch. Ya know, the one from Saskatoon who does n't lie. Lama, photographer to the JMDL who notes it is 12:16 AM Eastern Time on Novemeber 7th, 2003 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:36:31 -0800 (PST) From: russell brooker Subject: Joni's 60th Birthday Hello All, This is my first post ever, and I'm certainly not sure whether it will get through or not, but I'll try (Yes I always Try...) A bit surprised that there was not more going on at her websites about her _60th Birthday_ for goodness sakes!!! Can't believe it's been 35 years (gulp!) since I first met Joni. Hard to believe. But she's been a constant (as the Northern Star) in my life ever since then. I interviewed her for the first time (and Leonard C. whom she was "going with" at the time) in her dressing room backstage at The Troubadour in June of 1968. (I got an advance copy of her first LP in May of that year, and already being a singer-songwriter myself, upon hearing the record, it changed my very life). She was 24 then. I've met with Joan several times since then, and have seen her live (only solo with her Martin D-28) 35 times. But that's not what matters. What matters is that she has touched my life, and influenced my music more than even The Beatles (and that's saying alot!). So Here's To You, Joni...you are the most gifted writer, singer, and performer I've ever seen. The most beautiful Woman, in every way. And I'm sure if the Clintons were still in the White House, November 7th would be proclaimed a National Holiday! I don't do "groups", but here's one that is dear to my very Heart. We Do love her, don't we? We sometimes forget that she's the Very Best There Is. And thank God she's still alive (even with all those cigarettes!). - -Russell P.S. It would be interesting to know what she'll be doing on her Big Day, wouldn't it? (Not to pry) She'll hopefully be with family and going out to dinner somewhere! P.P.S. If anyone would like to contact me regarding my Joni experiences, please feel free to contact me directly. All The Best! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:52:09 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: NJC Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC Boy, howdy and amen. Now that's what a rock song should be. The perfect soundtrack for turning onto a downhill on-ramp, on the first warm spring Saturday afternoon, when I had the roof-less Porsche 914. Volume: WAY UP. Hammer: FLOORED. You better check to see that the fillings are still in your teeth after you sing those rapid-fire lyrics. Lama > Bob Muller said, ...to me, they were one of the few artists that really justified getting a greatest hits as their individual records were flawed, but their greatest hits collection was wonderful. "Story In Your Eyes" has always been one of my favorite songs.> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:53:05 -0800 (PST) From: John Low Subject: Richard Brautigan NJC Kate (I think) recently raised the subject of Richard Brautigan, a writer Im very fond of. I know Im late diving into this thread but ... Ill dive anyway! Perhaps my favourite of his novels is "The Abortion" which, yes, does revolve around one but is also about a very unusual library that collects all kinds of weird and wonderful manuscripts, all "the unwanted, the lyrical and haunted volumes of American writing". A welcoming and reassuring librarian, on duty day and night, receives them into the care of the library. He registers them and allows the author to place them on a shelf of their choosing. Among the extraordinary deposits, for example, is "The Culinary Dostoevski" by James Fallon who has collected recipes from the writings of the Russian novelist. "Some of them are very good", he said. "Ive eaten everything Dostoevski ever cooked." Beatrice Quinn Porter deposits a book of poetry, "The Egg layed Twice", containing all "the wisdom she had found while living twenty-six years on a chicken ranch in San Jose." And, my particular favourite, "Growing Flowers By Candlelight in Hotel Rooms". "My room", says the author who lives at the Kit Carson Hotel, "doesnt have any windows, so I have to use candles." I guess being a librarian explains the attraction of this story but Ive enjoyed all the novels, short stories and poems Ive managed to find. I really love Brautigans gentle, quirky humour which, though very American, does illuminate the human condition generally I think. There is even a Brautigan excerpt in Bob Murphys Joni-in-Fiction pages. He references Jonis "Big Yellow Taxi" in his (posthumously published) "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". A wonderful writer, sadly missed! John (in Sydney) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:57:04 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Joni Happy Birthday to the Greatest Artist of the English-speaking World over the latter third of the 20th Century !!! May your next decade be marked by good health and happiness - and be as rewarding and fulfilling as the one just past. Bob Sartorius ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:22:29 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Moody Blues NJC Hi sorry it was a typo...i only had their earlier albums you mentioned & I have no idea what they wrote after those... >Hey Kate, was that "Nights in White Satan" a typo or a joke?:-)... Their early albums were so psychedelic. Magical to listen to, when in that frame of mind! "In Search of the Lost Chord" "To Our Children's Children's Children" "A Question of Balance" "On the Threshold of a Dream" "Days of Future Passed" "Seventh Sojourn" "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 01:37:54 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni's Decade of Honors I was thinking about the decade just past from the perspective of Joni's honors, awards and other milestones. I wonder if at its outset of it she could have foreseen the following (not necessarily in chronological order): Her reunion with her daughter and grandchildren Recording of four new albums Grammies for TI and Both Sides Now Billboard Century Award Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Songwriters Hall of Fame Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Mendel Art Gallery - Voices Both Sides Now and Shadows & Light - the biographies World Leader's Tribute - Toronto TNT Tribute Wall To Wall Joni Mitchell Tribute (Symphony Space NYC) Woman Of Heart and Mind (American Masters) Walk of Fame Companion - Order of Canada appointment Nine Jonifests (and you know there may be more) I imagine I may have left a fair amount out, too. It's been quite a decade for Joni's fans - imagine how she must feel ! Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 02:02:47 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: November 7 1943: Joni was born in Fort MacLeod, Canada 1965: Joni performs at The Chess Mate in Detroit. 1995: Joni played a surprise show at Greenwich's Village Fez Club in New York, in front of 200 fans, including Chrissie Hynde, Carly Simon, Natalie Merchant and Marc Cohn. Things got a bit out of hand when Carly and Chrissie had a "confrontation". Find out More info: http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=40 http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=807 http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1127 1996: Joni's appearance on the CBS This Morning Show is taped and broadcast the next day. 1998: Joni performed in Atlanta. More info: http://www.jmdl.com/performances/docs/981107.cfm http://jonimitchell.com/RoadAgainAtlanta1198.html - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 02:02:47 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: November 7 On November 7 the following articles were published: 1982: "High Spirits Buoy a Joni Mitchell Album" - New York Times (Review - Album, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=291 1994: "Poet-singer-painter Joni Mitchell still one of a kind" - Denver Post (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=885 1994: "Special from Newsday" - Newsday (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=204 1998: "Mitchell and Dylan, Just Like Old Times" - Washington Post (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=422 2002: "Page Six" - New York Post (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=959 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 02:46:59 EST From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: Happy Birthday Joni! I just wanted to wish you a very "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Joni before I drag myself to bed. I hope you get to spend it with Kilauren, Marlin, and Daisy Joan, Myrtle and Bill.It's 2;30 in the morning here and I just tipped my wine and played "My Best To You", with the head phones of course since Rolls just doesn't understand:~) I hated turning 50 so I'm sure 60 ain't much better. I have called all of our radio stations to play your music, even the redneck station and said if you 'don't have her I'm sure you have Amy Grant? So here's to you! Peace and goodnight, Mingus ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2003 #552 ***************************** ------- 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)