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JMDL Digest Monday, January 12 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 012
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TOPICS and authors in this Digest:
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Re: Southern California Jonifest 09 and Sharon answers [Lieve Reckers
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Re: Man on a Wire NJC [Laura Stanley ]
Re: Joni vids on Youtube [Michael Paz ]
RE: Joni vids on Youtube ["Michael O'Malley" ]
RE: Joni vids on Youtube ["Les Irvin" ]
NJC - Drummer Kenny Aronoff playing in the back up band... Inauguration 2009 ["Cassy" ]
Re: Joni vids on Youtube ["Jerry Notaro" ]
Re: Joni vids on Youtube [rflynn@frontiernet.net]
Re: NJC - Drummer Kenny Aronoff playing in the back up band... Inauguration 2009 [Michael Paz ]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:57:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lieve Reckers
Subject: Re: Southern California Jonifest 09 and Sharon answers
Hello Jill!
Maybe you have received the answers privately, but otherwise I'll
quickly reply to your question about the SoCal fest.B It is indeed happening,
Dave Blackburn it organising it on 24-27 September in Idyllwild.
This is the
website: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/SoCalJoniFest09/?yguid=2526198
Hoping to see you there!
Lieve in London
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009
17:04:09 -0800
From: "Jill Haas"
Subject: Re: Southern
California Jonifest 09 and Sharon answers
JoniListas,
..been a long time
gone, and I'm realizing how much I miss this JMDL
community. I've been
catching up on e-mail from y'all (about a year's
worth), and this popped
up...Excuse my ignorance if a So. Cal. Jonifest has
come and gone, been given
up on or is in planning stages, but I would
definitely be interested if one is
coming up.B I also have at least three
Joni lovin' friends in So. Cal who
would not even need their arms twisted to
attend their first Jonifest.
B B
With help from some friends I still see in the JMDL posts, I was able to
make
it to Full Moon a couple of years back, and it was one of the best
times I've
ever had. I think I'll get my pictures out.
B B Sooo...Please, anyone
w/details about future North American fests, let
me know where to find info!!!
(cut)
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:21:02 -0800
From: "Randy Remote"
Subject: Countdown to Bushlessness njc
Comedians all over America are mourning the loss of the
dweeb that made their jobs so easy. Perhaps it is time
to reflect on Dubya's legacy of torture...of the English language.
RR
Greatest Quotes of GW Bush:
http://tinyurl.com/9xk6kp
"The fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the
machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the
machine-making place." - May 27, 2008
"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans
right here in the Oval Office." - June 26, 2008
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:37:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Laura Stanley
Subject: Re: Man on a Wire NJC
Michael in Quebec wrote:
However, what struck me the most in this movie, is the
toll that this obsession/passion took on his personal life.
SPOILER to follow - skip the next two bits if you're planning to see this
movie.
How can you not be moved by the ambivalence and hurt still felt, thirty years
later, by his two closest friends at the time? Clearly this man had a profound
influence on their lives. He somehow had the charisma to embark them in his
passions, but they apparently paid dearly for the privelege of that intimacy.
Thirty years later, their emotions around this event and their friendship are
still so alive and raw. That really impressed me, in contrast to Petit, who
only seemed to have positive things to say about the experience. This reminds
me of the lines in Joni's song, Down to You, when she writes, Old friends seem
indifferent I must have brought that on; old bonds have broken down, love is
gone.
When artists are catapulted to fame, their lives are changed in many ways.
Often things must be left behind, including relationships.This scenario seems
to be almost unavoidable: I've seen it ocur time and time again in the lives
of many different artists. It seems to be part of the price they pay for their
art and for their success. I must admit I've grown to become uncomfortable and
ambivalent about this aspect of the artistic ego, how it consumes the artist
and the people nearest to him or her. We are uplifted and moved forward by
great art and great achievements, but these often come at a great price for
the artists themselves or for those who share their lives.
I'm not sure what to think about all this, just thought I'd throw it out
there.
Hi Michael,
Are Petit's friends from the time of his walking between the WTC not still his friends today?
I got the impression, especially from his old girlfriend, that it was a period of growth for both of them, and they equally moved on not because of Petit's becoming famous but because the task had been done. I understood that it was the immensity of the dream rather than the relationship that was the bone between them up to that point. It was like a fairy tale relationship. The scale of the fulfillment of the dream was much greater than is typically common, but this pattern isn't that uncommon in relationships is it? Petit's girlfriend said she personally sensed completion that set her free from him. Maybe it was just 'fox and the grapes' on her part, but it seemed to me that there was a moving on for all of them that wasn't just based on Petit's fame.
By the end of the movie, I was left with a sense of how many times I've moved on in friendship. And I began to wonder about the life expectancy of my current relationships. People change, and all of the people in the movie changed after their shared goal was reached. I've heard that relationships based on need end when the need no longer exists. This is what it reminded me of. I started wondering if people are like Spring flowers that bloom close together and when they come up the next year there might be more space between them as other flowers appear, still in the same garden but further apart... It seems to be just life. This theme in the movie was more impressive to me than the circus act as incredible as it was.
When Petit's friend cried as he recalled the events, I got the sense of it being because he was an integral part of was something so beautiful that there was never to be another event in his own life to top it. I didn't see it as tears of some kind of change in his relationship with Petit but rather tears in a great personal accomplishment of his own involving Petit. I got the feeling that Petit's friends saw him as an instrument they used to fulfill a goal they held very personal... they knew that without them it wouldn't have been possible. It was as much their's as his. They were not his puppets on string; rather it was more the other way around. This paradox was the genius of the circumstances. The wire walk wouldn't have been as incredible without what was behind it that the movie captured.
So much of my life is based on my circumstances which are constantly changing, sometimes dramatically and sometimes imperceptibly. When Joni says she must have brought on the indifference of friends with whom love is no longer shared and bonds are broken, I can understand her thought and have had similar thoughts myself many times. But, I also am resigned to the fact that things are not solely dependent upon me. If I thought so, I'd not only be wrong but my perception of myself would be grandiose.
Having gone through the experience of school, this bonding and then parting of friends is very familiar to me. After graduation, we drifted a part. This is what I sensed with Petit and his friends.
Love,
Laura
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:39:19 -0600
From: Michael Paz
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
Michael
Does the video for Night Ride Home skip a few lines at the beginning?
I have never had that happen before but it does on mine.
Best
Paz
Michael Paz
michael@thepazgroup.com
Tour Manager
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
http://www.preservationhall.com
On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Michael O'Malley wrote:
Hi gang,
A couple of great Youtube videos I came across this weekend:
Melody Gardot with Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter, redoing the Edith cut
immortalized by Tina Turner here: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6Mbv8hzH0
And a better quality vid of Joni singing Night Ride Home, in studio in
Norway,
from her Klein years, here
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8
I wish someone would repost a better quality vid of Joni singing NRH
outdoors,
by that canal, in the Netherlands.
Enjoy,
Michael in Quebec
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:08:56 +0000
From: "Michael O'Malley"
Subject: RE: Joni vids on Youtube
Hi Michael, Yes it is weird - that little skip at the beginning. Must be from
the source material. Good thing it's just one little blip !
Michael
Paz wrote:
Michael
Does the video for Night Ride Home skip a few lines at the beginning? I have
never had that happen before but it does on mine.
Best
Paz
Michael Paz
michael@thepazgroup.com
Tour Manager
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
http://www.preservationhall.com
On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Michael O'Malley wrote:
Hi gang,A couple of great Youtube videos I came across this weekend:Melody
Gardot with Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter, redoing the Edith cutimmortalized
by Tina Turner here: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6Mbv8hzH0And a better
quality vid of Joni singing Night Ride Home, in studio in Norway,from her
Klein years, herehttp://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8I wish someone would
repost a better quality vid of Joni singing NRH outdoors,by that canal, in the
Netherlands.Enjoy,Michael in
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:50:23 -0700
From: "Les Irvin"
Subject: RE: Joni vids on Youtube
Joniphiles -
One of the new features of the revised JoniMitchell.com will be a database
of all the Joni YouTube videos I/we can find. My goal is to correctly date
each of them and have all the links together in one place on the site. Of
course, I'm only looking for actually videos of Joni, not those photo
collage things done while an album cut plays in the background.
So... if you are cruising YouTube, I would greatly appreciate you sending me
links to the Joni vids you find.
Thanks,
Les
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:44:22 -0800
From: "Cassy"
Subject: NJC - Drummer Kenny Aronoff playing in the back up band... Inauguration 2009
Kenny Aronoff has played so many pressure-filled and prestigious
performances that few things intimidate or rattle him.
Last month's Kennedy Center Honors, where The Who, George Jones, Barbra
Streisand, Morgan Freeman and Twyla Tharp were celebrated? Nice gig, but
another day at the office, as it were, for the Bloomington-based musician.
Next Sunday might be a little different. The former John Mellencamp Band
member knows that he'll be sitting behind the drum kit for a nationally
televised concert on HBO called "We Are One: the Obama Inaugural Celebration
at the Lincoln Memorial."
He knows President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden
will be there. He knows thousands will gather outside the massive and
impressive Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the concert. And he
knows he'll be playing with, as the Presidential Inauguration Committee
phrases it, "some of the biggest acts in the world of entertainment."
But Friday afternoon, driving on a Los Angeles freeway on his way to a
recording session, he acknowledged by phone that he still didn't know
exactly who he was going to be backing in the concert. At that point, he
only had a list of songs to learn. "I'm learning 'Pride in the Name of Love'
(a U2 song), so what does that tell you? We may be doing 'Pink Houses'
(Mellencamp), so what does that tell you? We're doing a James Taylor song,
so, like those other songs, you say to yourself, 'I can only imagine one
person singing that.'
"I'm learning Stevie Wonder's 'Higher Ground.' Who might sing that?" Aronoff
asked. The only performer he actually knew he'd be backing was Bruce
Springsteen, and that was only because Springsteen himself had already
announced to the public he'd be playing the star-studded Obama celebration.
"It's insane!" Aronoff exclaimed. "It's going to be really, really intense
because there is so much work to be done beforehand."
Even at that, Aronoff isn't intimidated.
"You dream to get a gig like this. If you're into that sort of thing. And I
am," he said.
For Aronoff, learning the songs is merely the first step. He'll arrive in
Washington on Wednesday and begin rehearsing with the backing band on
Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the 10-15 featured artists will rehearse
with the band, and at that point, any number of musical changes and
modifications might take place. Aronoff expects to be revising his musical
charts deep into the night each night.
"One of the reasons this will be so heavy is that it's going to be on
television, and on television, you are literally working with seconds. If
you are not right on it with timing, and I mean right on it, you have ads
that people are paying millions of dollars for, cued up and ready to go. So
you have to bring every song in on time," Aronoff said.
To add to the pressure, musically, the drummer is the guy driving the bus.
It will be up to Aronoff to start every song exactly on cue, keep a perfect
tempo and end every song exactly on time. And there will be a producer, a
stage director, a musical director and others operating under exactly the
same, demanding scenario.
"It's unbelievably complicated," Aronoff said. Fortunately, the Obama team
hired the legendary filmmaker and producer George Stevens Jr. to coordinate
it all.
"He's the one who started the Kennedy Center Honors and he's the best there
is," Aronoff said. "He has a team that is awesome. They can put anything
together, they're such professionals."
Aronoff was chosen for that same reason - his professionalism and breadth of
abilities.
"At times like this, I think back to my time going to school at IU, and the
jazz guys were saying, 'Why are you playing classical, too?' The classical
guys were saying, 'Why are you playing jazz?' And all of them were saying,
'Why are you playing rock and roll?' I've always liked all of it, you know,
so I have to say, I stayed on that path, and it's paid off big time. Even
within pop music, I can play rock or reggae or hip-hop. Whatever. So maybe
there's a lesson in that; I don't know."
Aronoff said that he's been told that the final rehearsal sessions will be
recorded in case extremely inclement weather hinders the live performance.
"Again, with television, you can't have any excuses," he said. "They have
their time slot; they have their advertising; the show has to go on. So we
could actually be playing on stage with our prerecorded rehearsal blasting
through the loudspeakers. Nobody wants to play that way, but if it's 10
degrees and your hands are freezing, you have to have a backup plan.
"The main thing for me to do is my job. I'm like a running back in football.
My job is to concentrate on getting the ball into the end zone. To do my
job. At the end of the day, you look at the scoreboard."
The veteran drummer is confident he can handle the task handed to him. But
he did acknowledge feeling a sense of awe at what the event means.
"It's the inaugural concert for President-elect Obama. It's history. It's a
once-in-a-lifetime event. So, yeah, that is something you can't help but
know it's not just another gig," he said. "I've played with all kinds of
famous musicians and entertainers, and so I'm used to that. But the
president of the United States? That's a little out of my league."
Tune in to show
The Obama Inaugural Celebration concert will take place at 2 p.m. next
Sunday in Washington, D.C. The event will be broadcast on HBO from 7-8:30
p.m. that night. HBO will unblock its signal so that anyone with cable,
telcos or satellite television will be able to view the show for free,
whether they subscribe to HBO or not.
If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ?
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:48:37 -0800
From: "Cassy"
Subject: Inauguration Announcements - NJC - Musical guests
INITIAL TALENT LINEUP CONFIRMED FOR WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA INAUGURAL
CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, KICKING OFF INAUGURAL OPENING
FESTIVITIES, PRESENTED EXCLUSIVELY BY HBO JAN. 18
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George Stevens, Jr. Executive Produces;
Don Mischer Produces And Directs;
Michael Stevens Is Producer And Writer
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) is pleased to
announce the producers and initial talent lineup for WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, the Opening Celebration for
the 56th Presidential Inaugural, to be presented exclusively by HBO on
Sunday, January 18 (7:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT). The event will be free and open
to the public, kicking off the most open and accessible Inauguration in
history.
The special will be executive produced by George Stevens, Jr. (The Kennedy
Center Honors), and produced by Don Mischer (Olympic Ceremonies) who will
also direct the special, and Michael Stevens (The American Film Institute
Salutes) who is also writing the special, and will be a production of The
Stevens Company in association with Don Mischer Productions.
Musical performers scheduled for the event include Beyonce, Mary J. Blige,
Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock,
Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher
Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am, and Stevie
Wonder. Among those reading historical passages will be Jamie Foxx, Martin
Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington. The Rt. Reverend V.
Gene Robinson will give the invocation. Rob Mathes will be the music
director and arranger for the backing band, which will support all of the
artists. Additional performers will be announced as they are confirmed.
"Our intention is to root the event in history, celebrating the moments when
our nation has united to face great challenges and prevail," observed George
Stevens, Jr. "We will combine historical readings by prominent actors with
music from an array of the greatest stars of today."
"This is a great opportunity to capture an historic event in a very
meaningful setting," noted Don Mischer. "We will have the statue of Abraham
Lincoln looking down on our stage and a crowd of hundreds of thousands of
people lining the mall -- a tableau any director would relish."
"We have found that the great artists are eager to take part and each one is
working with us to find music that expresses the optimism and hope that
people bring to the Obama inauguration," said Michael Stevens.
Televised to the nation, the Opening Celebration will be a declaration of
common purpose and new beginnings. The Sunday afternoon performance will be
grounded in history and brought to life with entertainment that relates to
the themes that shaped Barack Obama and which will be the hallmarks of his
administration.
HBO will televise the event on an open signal, working with all of its
distributors to allow Americans across the country with access to cable,
telcos or satellite television to join in the Opening Celebration for free.
The 56th Inauguration promises to be the most inclusive in history, and the
Opening Celebration is one of a series of inaugural events that reflect that
commitment.
On Saturday, the President-elect, Vice President-elect and their families
will journey to the nation's capital via train, holding events that are free
and open to the public along the way. They will be joined by a group of
everyday Americans they met along their road to the White House. On January
19, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President-elect Obama will call on all
Americans to make an ongoing commitment to serve their communities and their
country. A new website, USAservice.org, makes it easy for Americans to
organize service events or find existing events to participate in. To date,
nearly 5,000 events have been organized across the country.
That evening, Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, and their families will host a
free "Kids' Inaugural" concert to honor military families, broadcast live on
the Disney Channel and Radio Disney.
This spirit of openness will continue on Inauguration Day, when, for the
first time in history, the entire length of the National Mall will be open
to the public for the swearing in ceremony. Local D.C. students have also
been given the chance to receive tickets in front of the White House for the
Inaugural Parade for themselves and their family members based on the
submission of essays answering the question, "How can I contribute to my
neighborhood through community service?"
On the evening of Inauguration Day, the first ball that President Obama and
First Lady Michelle Obama will attend will be the first-ever Neighborhood
Inaugural Ball. The ball will be broadcast live on ABC and over the
Internet, bringing together neighborhoods across the country in the spirit
of unity and celebration.
The sum of these public events is an Inauguration that allows more Americans
than ever before to come together as one nation and one people, united in
our resolve to tackle our greatest common challenges and move this country
forward together.
For the latest information on the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, please
visit www.pic2009.org
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:11:58 -0800
From: "Cassy"
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
A few to get you started, Les.
Warmly,
Cassy
Night Ride Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8
Help Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8
Sex Kills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYXotKXe54
Goodbye Blue Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlxCP0fhsI
Joni Mitchell Finding Her Daughter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLw8XZVlalA
River with Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yYtciRkGs
Urge for Going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2NgDnX-Uwo&feature=related
Girl of the North Country with Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QO0jQ0PB0&feature=related
The Fiddle and the Drum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJLqdcJZJ0&feature=related
Moon At the Window
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9wKL-J0SI&feature=related
Furry Sings the Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3c-i9mUowo&feature=related
Street Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoG2pMBAOQ&feature=related
Harry's House (Rosie O'Donnell appearance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9K6Zoa7FY&feature=related
My Old Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_PIuEmj8s&feature=related
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:19:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jerry Notaro"
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
Les,
Please note that many of these are temporary,at best. You Tube addresses
are a moving target.
Jerry
Cassy wrote:
> A few to get you started, Les.
>
> Warmly,
> Cassy
>
> Night Ride Home
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8
>
> Help Me
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8
>
> Sex Kills
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYXotKXe54
>
> Goodbye Blue Sky
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlxCP0fhsI
>
> Joni Mitchell Finding Her Daughter
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLw8XZVlalA
>
> River with Herbie Hancock
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yYtciRkGs
>
> Urge for Going
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2NgDnX-Uwo&feature=related
>
> Girl of the North Country with Johnny Cash
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QO0jQ0PB0&feature=related
>
> The Fiddle and the Drum
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJLqdcJZJ0&feature=related
>
> Moon At the Window
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9wKL-J0SI&feature=related
>
> Furry Sings the Blues
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3c-i9mUowo&feature=related
>
> Street Light
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoG2pMBAOQ&feature=related
>
> Harry's House (Rosie O'Donnell appearance)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9K6Zoa7FY&feature=related
>
> My Old Man
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_PIuEmj8s&feature=related
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:34:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: rflynn@frontiernet.net
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
A few more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8&feature=related
Help Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XOV34vsjfg&feature=related
Circle Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg&feature=related
BSN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg&feature=related
BYT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFgxKov8Ts&feature=related
Amelia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZcK48cTiU&feature=related
Coyote
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From: "Cassy"
To: "Les Irvin"
Cc: "JMDL"
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:11:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
A few to get you started, Les.
Warmly,
Cassy
Night Ride Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8
Help Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8
Sex Kills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYXotKXe54
Goodbye Blue Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlxCP0fhsI
Joni Mitchell Finding Her Daughter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLw8XZVlalA
River with Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yYtciRkGs
Urge for Going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2NgDnX-Uwo&feature=related
Girl of the North Country with Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QO0jQ0PB0&feature=related
The Fiddle and the Drum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJLqdcJZJ0&feature=related
Moon At the Window
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9wKL-J0SI&feature=related
Furry Sings the Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3c-i9mUowo&feature=related
Street Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoG2pMBAOQ&feature=related
Harry's House (Rosie O'Donnell appearance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9K6Zoa7FY&feature=related
My Old Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_PIuEmj8s&feature=related
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:32:38 -0600
From: Michael Paz
Subject: Re: NJC - Drummer Kenny Aronoff playing in the back up band... Inauguration 2009
WoW! What a report Cassy. Do you have a day job?? LOL Thanks for the
info. I will be tuning in. I am in TV heaven at the moment cause I had
a two hour fix of 24 last night and more tonight.
Luv
Paz
Michael Paz
michael@thepazgroup.com
Tour Manager
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
http://www.preservationhall.com
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Cassy wrote:
Kenny Aronoff has played so many pressure-filled and prestigious
performances that few things intimidate or rattle him.
Last month's Kennedy Center Honors, where The Who, George Jones,
Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman and Twyla Tharp were celebrated? Nice
gig, but another day at the office, as it were, for the Bloomington-
based musician.
Next Sunday might be a little different. The former John Mellencamp
Band member knows that he'll be sitting behind the drum kit for a
nationally televised concert on HBO called "We Are One: the Obama
Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial."
He knows President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe
Biden will be there. He knows thousands will gather outside the
massive and impressive Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the
concert. And he knows he'll be playing with, as the Presidential
Inauguration Committee phrases it, "some of the biggest acts in the
world of entertainment."
But Friday afternoon, driving on a Los Angeles freeway on his way to a
recording session, he acknowledged by phone that he still didn't know
exactly who he was going to be backing in the concert. At that point,
he only had a list of songs to learn. "I'm learning 'Pride in the Name
of Love'
(a U2 song), so what does that tell you? We may be doing 'Pink
Houses' (Mellencamp), so what does that tell you? We're doing a James
Taylor song, so, like those other songs, you say to yourself, 'I can
only imagine one person singing that.'
"I'm learning Stevie Wonder's 'Higher Ground.' Who might sing that?"
Aronoff asked. The only performer he actually knew he'd be backing was
Bruce Springsteen, and that was only because Springsteen himself had
already announced to the public he'd be playing the star-studded Obama
celebration.
"It's insane!" Aronoff exclaimed. "It's going to be really, really
intense because there is so much work to be done beforehand."
Even at that, Aronoff isn't intimidated.
"You dream to get a gig like this. If you're into that sort of thing.
And I am," he said.
For Aronoff, learning the songs is merely the first step. He'll arrive
in Washington on Wednesday and begin rehearsing with the backing band
on Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the 10-15 featured artists will
rehearse with the band, and at that point, any number of musical
changes and modifications might take place. Aronoff expects to be
revising his musical charts deep into the night each night.
"One of the reasons this will be so heavy is that it's going to be on
television, and on television, you are literally working with seconds.
If you are not right on it with timing, and I mean right on it, you
have ads that people are paying millions of dollars for, cued up and
ready to go. So you have to bring every song in on time," Aronoff said.
To add to the pressure, musically, the drummer is the guy driving the
bus. It will be up to Aronoff to start every song exactly on cue, keep
a perfect tempo and end every song exactly on time. And there will be
a producer, a stage director, a musical director and others operating
under exactly the same, demanding scenario.
"It's unbelievably complicated," Aronoff said. Fortunately, the Obama
team hired the legendary filmmaker and producer George Stevens Jr. to
coordinate it all.
"He's the one who started the Kennedy Center Honors and he's the best
there is," Aronoff said. "He has a team that is awesome. They can put
anything together, they're such professionals."
Aronoff was chosen for that same reason - his professionalism and
breadth of abilities.
"At times like this, I think back to my time going to school at IU,
and the jazz guys were saying, 'Why are you playing classical, too?'
The classical guys were saying, 'Why are you playing jazz?' And all of
them were saying, 'Why are you playing rock and roll?' I've always
liked all of it, you know, so I have to say, I stayed on that path,
and it's paid off big time. Even within pop music, I can play rock or
reggae or hip-hop. Whatever. So maybe there's a lesson in that; I
don't know."
Aronoff said that he's been told that the final rehearsal sessions
will be recorded in case extremely inclement weather hinders the live
performance.
"Again, with television, you can't have any excuses," he said. "They
have their time slot; they have their advertising; the show has to go
on. So we could actually be playing on stage with our prerecorded
rehearsal blasting through the loudspeakers. Nobody wants to play that
way, but if it's 10 degrees and your hands are freezing, you have to
have a backup plan.
"The main thing for me to do is my job. I'm like a running back in
football. My job is to concentrate on getting the ball into the end
zone. To do my job. At the end of the day, you look at the scoreboard."
The veteran drummer is confident he can handle the task handed to him.
But he did acknowledge feeling a sense of awe at what the event means.
"It's the inaugural concert for President-elect Obama. It's history.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. So, yeah, that is something you can't
help but know it's not just another gig," he said. "I've played with
all kinds of famous musicians and entertainers, and so I'm used to
that. But the president of the United States? That's a little out of
my league."
Tune in to show
The Obama Inaugural Celebration concert will take place at 2 p.m. next
Sunday in Washington, D.C. The event will be broadcast on HBO from
7-8:30 p.m. that night. HBO will unblock its signal so that anyone
with cable, telcos or satellite television will be able to view the
show for free, whether they subscribe to HBO or not.
If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ?
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:38:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: rflynn@frontiernet.net
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLOMBbRVB0&feature=related
Just Like Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqtNaKEmJdg&feature=related
Favorite Color
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp3lJg07u4w&feature=related
Me & My Uncle
There's zillions of them
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Cassy"
To: "Les Irvin"
Cc: "JMDL"
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:11:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Joni vids on Youtube
A few to get you started, Les.
Warmly,
Cassy
Night Ride Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCzKGRKGu8
Help Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8
Sex Kills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYXotKXe54
Goodbye Blue Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlxCP0fhsI
Joni Mitchell Finding Her Daughter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLw8XZVlalA
River with Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yYtciRkGs
Urge for Going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2NgDnX-Uwo&feature=related
Girl of the North Country with Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QO0jQ0PB0&feature=related
The Fiddle and the Drum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJLqdcJZJ0&feature=related
Moon At the Window
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9wKL-J0SI&feature=related
Furry Sings the Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3c-i9mUowo&feature=related
Street Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoG2pMBAOQ&feature=related
Harry's House (Rosie O'Donnell appearance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9K6Zoa7FY&feature=related
My Old Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_PIuEmj8s&feature=related
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:33:46 -0600
From: Michael Paz
Subject: Re: NJC - Drummer Kenny Aronoff playing in the back up band... Inauguration 2009
WoW! What a report Cassy. Do you have a day job?? LOL Thanks for the
info. I will be tuning in. I am in TV heaven at the moment cause I had
a two hour fix of 24 last night and more tonight.
Luv
Paz
Michael Paz
michael@thepazgroup.com
Tour Manager
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
http://www.preservationhall.com
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Cassy wrote:
Kenny Aronoff has played so many pressure-filled and prestigious
performances that few things intimidate or rattle him.
Last month's Kennedy Center Honors, where The Who, George Jones,
Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman and Twyla Tharp were celebrated? Nice
gig, but another day at the office, as it were, for the Bloomington-
based musician.
Next Sunday might be a little different. The former John Mellencamp
Band member knows that he'll be sitting behind the drum kit for a
nationally televised concert on HBO called "We Are One: the Obama
Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial."
He knows President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe
Biden will be there. He knows thousands will gather outside the
massive and impressive Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the
concert. And he knows he'll be playing with, as the Presidential
Inauguration Committee phrases it, "some of the biggest acts in the
world of entertainment."
But Friday afternoon, driving on a Los Angeles freeway on his way to a
recording session, he acknowledged by phone that he still didn't know
exactly who he was going to be backing in the concert. At that point,
he only had a list of songs to learn. "I'm learning 'Pride in the Name
of Love'
(a U2 song), so what does that tell you? We may be doing 'Pink
Houses' (Mellencamp), so what does that tell you? We're doing a James
Taylor song, so, like those other songs, you say to yourself, 'I can
only imagine one person singing that.'
"I'm learning Stevie Wonder's 'Higher Ground.' Who might sing that?"
Aronoff asked. The only performer he actually knew he'd be backing was
Bruce Springsteen, and that was only because Springsteen himself had
already announced to the public he'd be playing the star-studded Obama
celebration.
"It's insane!" Aronoff exclaimed. "It's going to be really, really
intense because there is so much work to be done beforehand."
Even at that, Aronoff isn't intimidated.
"You dream to get a gig like this. If you're into that sort of thing.
And I am," he said.
For Aronoff, learning the songs is merely the first step. He'll arrive
in Washington on Wednesday and begin rehearsing with the backing band
on Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the 10-15 featured artists will
rehearse with the band, and at that point, any number of musical
changes and modifications might take place. Aronoff expects to be
revising his musical charts deep into the night each night.
"One of the reasons this will be so heavy is that it's going to be on
television, and on television, you are literally working with seconds.
If you are not right on it with timing, and I mean right on it, you
have ads that people are paying millions of dollars for, cued up and
ready to go. So you have to bring every song in on time," Aronoff said.
To add to the pressure, musically, the drummer is the guy driving the
bus. It will be up to Aronoff to start every song exactly on cue, keep
a perfect tempo and end every song exactly on time. And there will be
a producer, a stage director, a musical director and others operating
under exactly the same, demanding scenario.
"It's unbelievably complicated," Aronoff said. Fortunately, the Obama
team hired the legendary filmmaker and producer George Stevens Jr. to
coordinate it all.
"He's the one who started the Kennedy Center Honors and he's the best
there is," Aronoff said. "He has a team that is awesome. They can put
anything together, they're such professionals."
Aronoff was chosen for that same reason - his professionalism and
breadth of abilities.
"At times like this, I think back to my time going to school at IU,
and the jazz guys were saying, 'Why are you playing classical, too?'
The classical guys were saying, 'Why are you playing jazz?' And all of
them were saying, 'Why are you playing rock and roll?' I've always
liked all of it, you know, so I have to say, I stayed on that path,
and it's paid off big time. Even within pop music, I can play rock or
reggae or hip-hop. Whatever. So maybe there's a lesson in that; I
don't know."
Aronoff said that he's been told that the final rehearsal sessions
will be recorded in case extremely inclement weather hinders the live
performance.
"Again, with television, you can't have any excuses," he said. "They
have their time slot; they have their advertising; the show has to go
on. So we could actually be playing on stage with our prerecorded
rehearsal blasting through the loudspeakers. Nobody wants to play that
way, but if it's 10 degrees and your hands are freezing, you have to
have a backup plan.
"The main thing for me to do is my job. I'm like a running back in
football. My job is to concentrate on getting the ball into the end
zone. To do my job. At the end of the day, you look at the scoreboard."
The veteran drummer is confident he can handle the task handed to him.
But he did acknowledge feeling a sense of awe at what the event means.
"It's the inaugural concert for President-elect Obama. It's history.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. So, yeah, that is something you can't
help but know it's not just another gig," he said. "I've played with
all kinds of famous musicians and entertainers, and so I'm used to
that. But the president of the United States? That's a little out of
my league."
Tune in to show
The Obama Inaugural Celebration concert will take place at 2 p.m. next
Sunday in Washington, D.C. The event will be broadcast on HBO from
7-8:30 p.m. that night. HBO will unblock its signal so that anyone
with cable, telcos or satellite television will be able to view the
show for free, whether they subscribe to HBO or not.
If Iraq's biggest export was broccoli, would we still be there ?
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:52:31 -0800
From: "Randy Remote"
Subject: Fw: Please VOTE for a Department of Peace NOW njc
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Yoko Ono
To: Randy Remote
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:35 PM
Subject: Please VOTE for a Department of Peace NOW
Dear Friends
Hi. This is yoko ono.
I fully support the idea of voting for a DEPARTMENT OF PEACE.
Please read the following instructions and VOTE!
VOTE for a Department of Peace NOW
Make sure the BLUE VOTE BUTTON next to the title has turned to a RED VOTED
BUTTON in order for your vote to be counted
Vote HERE
VOTE to appoint a Secretary of Peace in a Department of Peace and
Non-Violence
Our planet, our media, our social interactions, our homes all suffer from the
epidemic of inter-personal violence and warfare that plagues America. With the
establishment of a Department of Peace and Non-Violence, with a respected
Secretary of Peace in the PresidentBs Cabinet, and a program to reduce
violence in cities, nations, and even in our homes, we will all benefit from
the growth of a culture of peace. While this is a new layer of the Federal
Government, it is a positive force for change, for handling the rage and
violence that has cost our country billions in emergency rooms, police
protection, broken homes and marriages. This is not an attempt to circumvent
or replace the Department of Defense nor to co-opt the Department of State.
This is a new entity, in the PresidentBs Cabinet, a Department dedicated to
training peace-keepers, educating our children, and suggesting non-violent
alternatives to hostility, and war. We are asking for a motive and a method to
counteract violence, with positive potentials for resolution of conflict, by
individuals trained to work with local, state and national approaches,
building a United States that no longer glorifies warfare and deadly force,
but brings to the table a sincere desire for peace, and a methodology to
achieve it.
Stephen Zendt (I am a Senior Citizen, work in Financial Services), Walnut
Creek, CA, Dec 02 @ 01:07PM PST
Ideas for Change in America
Ideas for Change in America is a nationwide competition to identify the best
ideas for change in America. The top 10 ideas will be presented to the Obama
administration just before inauguration day and form the basis of a nationwide
advocacy campaign to turn each idea into actual policy.
Links
National Website: www.ThePeaceAlliance.org
MySpace: www.MySpace.com/DepartmentofPeaceFlorida
Videos: www.Youtube.com/DOPFloridaCampaign
Read the Federal Bill to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence in
Congress [pdf]
www.IMAGINEPEACE.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:34:55 +0000
From: "Michael O'Malley"
Subject: RE: Man on a Wire NJC
Dear Laura,
Wow. I'm very touched that you took the time to think about this, then sit
down at the keyboard to get these thoughts out. You express so articulately
some currents I was sensing in their relationships, but I could not articulate
them. I also appreciate your honesty and your sharing of your personal
experience. So thank you very much for all that.
I guess I have my own issues around changing friendships and relationships
that I need to explore, and this film simply pushed my buttons. One of the
hardest lessons I had to learn in my own life is that friendships don't
necessarily last forever. I could not know this in my twenties, nor did I want
to believe it. Friends that I had held dearly drifted away, or walked away,
and those losses affected me deeply.
I agree that people change - not fundamentally, but perhaps their needs change
as life brings them new experiences. For example, I think of friends who have
married and had children, which often creates huge shifts in their social
needs and interactions.
I have often thought that people come together as friends or lovers, to share
information and life experiences, and when those exchanges are done, they
often separate. I think of this as a + warm arrangement ;. This is perhaps
similar to your idea of friendships based on need.
Here is my take on the individuals in this film. The woman was his confidante
and lover. She understood that he had chosen her, and she was happy to enjoy
the ride while it lasted. But clearly she was not his muse and she seemed to
accept that. She was more than happy to share a part of his dream, but she
also understood that she had to let him go, that perhaps he could no longer
carry her along on his trip. I have learned that some people don't have strong
passions or dreams in their lives, and they are quite happy to adopt those of
their friends and lovers.
It is the friendship between the two men I find most puzzling. Clearly there
were deep bonds between them. What created the seismic shift in the attitude
of the friend ? Did he feel he was being consumed by the dreams and passions
of the other? Did he need to pull away in order to forge his own destiny away
from the magnetic pull of Petit ? Was he envious of his friend's success ? Did
he feel that Petit's obsessions were too close to the edge ? Was he crying for
the lost dreams of his youth? For the loss of their bond ? For the loss of
their community ? For the memory of the intensity and beauty ?
Clearly Petit's proximity was transformative to the lives of these two
individuals. And I am brought back to the scenario of the artist who's
greatest love will always be his art, in spite of himself, since he has no
choice in the matter. Perhaps it's a survival instinct, stronger than the
bonds of love. I don't know.
Anoter thing that struck me in the film, that I forgot to mention, was how
wonderful it was to see this team of subversives enter the World Trade Center
as spies, in order to choreograph for pasterity a moment of great magic and
beauty for the delight and awe of the whole world. This in contrast, of
course, to another group of people who would make similar manoeuvres years
later, but with hatred in their hearts instead.
Thanks again Laura.
Michael
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:37:52 -0800
> From: sillyseabird@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Man on a Wire NJC
> To: michael_quebec@hotmail.com
> CC: joni@smoe.org
>
> Michael in Quebec wrote:
>
> However, what struck me the most in this movie, is the
> toll that this obsession/passion took on his personal life.
>
> SPOILER to follow - skip the next two bits if you're planning to see this
> movie.
> How can you not be moved by the ambivalence and hurt still felt, thirty
years
> later, by his two closest friends at the time? Clearly this man had a
profound
> influence on their lives. He somehow had the charisma to embark them in his
> passions, but they apparently paid dearly for the privelege of that
intimacy.
> Thirty years later, their emotions around this event and their friendship
are
> still so alive and raw. That really impressed me, in contrast to Petit, who
> only seemed to have positive things to say about the experience. This
reminds
> me of the lines in Joni's song, Down to You, when she writes, Old friends
seem
> indifferent I must have brought that on; old bonds have broken down, love
is
> gone.
>
> When artists are catapulted to fame, their lives are changed in many ways.
> Often things must be left behind, including relationships.This scenario
seems
> to be almost unavoidable: I've seen it ocur time and time again in the
lives
> of many different artists. It seems to be part of the price they pay for
their
> art and for their success. I must admit I've grown to become uncomfortable
and
> ambivalent about this aspect of the artistic ego, how it consumes the
artist
> and the people nearest to him or her. We are uplifted and moved forward by
> great art and great achievements, but these often come at a great price for
> the artists themselves or for those who share their lives.
> I'm not sure what to think about all this, just thought I'd throw it out
> there.
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Are Petit's friends from the time of his walking between the WTC not still
his friends today?
>
> I got the impression, especially from his old girlfriend, that it was a
period of growth for both of them, and they equally moved on not because of
Petit's becoming famous but because the task had been done. I understood that
it was the immensity of the dream rather than the relationship that was the
bone between them up to that point. It was like a fairy tale relationship.
The scale of the fulfillment of the dream was much greater than is typically
common, but this pattern isn't that uncommon in relationships is it? Petit's
girlfriend said she personally sensed completion that set her free from him.
Maybe it was just 'fox and the grapes' on her part, but it seemed to me that
there was a moving on for all of them that wasn't just based on Petit's fame.
>
> By the end of the movie, I was left with a sense of how many times I've
moved on in friendship. And I began to wonder about the life expectancy of my
current relationships. People change, and all of the people in the movie
changed after their shared goal was reached. I've heard that relationships
based on need end when the need no longer exists. This is what it reminded me
of. I started wondering if people are like Spring flowers that bloom close
together and when they come up the next year there might be more space between
them as other flowers appear, still in the same garden but further apart...
It seems to be just life. This theme in the movie was more impressive to me
than the circus act as incredible as it was.
>
> When Petit's friend cried as he recalled the events, I got the sense of it
being because he was an integral part of was something so beautiful that there
was never to be another event in his own life to top it. I didn't see it as
tears of some kind of change in his relationship with Petit but rather tears
in a great personal accomplishment of his own involving Petit. I got the
feeling that Petit's friends saw him as an instrument they used to fulfill a
goal they held very personal... they knew that without them it wouldn't have
been possible. It was as much their's as his. They were not his puppets on
string; rather it was more the other way around. This paradox was the genius
of the circumstances. The wire walk wouldn't have been as incredible without
what was behind it that the movie captured.
>
> So much of my life is based on my circumstances which are constantly
changing, sometimes dramatically and sometimes imperceptibly. When Joni says
she must have brought on the indifference of friends with whom love is no
longer shared and bonds are broken, I can understand her thought and have had
similar thoughts myself many times. But, I also am resigned to the fact that
things are not solely dependent upon me. If I thought so, I'd not only be
wrong but my perception of myself would be grandiose.
>
> Having gone through the experience of school, this bonding and then
parting of friends is very familiar to me. After graduation, we drifted a
part. This is what I sensed with Petit and his friends.
>
> Love,
> Laura
>
>
>
>
>
>
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