From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #169 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Friday, June 10 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 169 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #160 [Maggie McNally ] Where I First Heard Albums or Songs [Don ] Google home page - njc [M C ] RE: Albums or songs that you never forget when you heard [jlamadoo@sbcglo] Re: Lots of stuff (NJC) [Jim ] Woman Who Rock + Facebook + Joni Mitchell [est86mlm@ameritech.net] Kakki and the rest of you Springheads njc ["Randy Remote" ] how long and other catch-phrases that go bump in the night njc [Robert Pr] NJC Re: how long and other catch-phrases that go bump in the night njc [B] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:51:10 -0400 From: Maggie McNally Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #160 Gosh, but it is great to read about all these memorable albums. I remember the first play of For the Roses. I was already onto Joni, buying every album the minute I could, but for some reason FTR is the one where I can close my eyes and picture the place and the feeling as the music washed over me for the first time. Same thing for my (even) younger self. I remember the "wow" of hearing the Doors and Jefferson Airplane for the first time. It was so powerful and so, so, carnal. Strong stuff for a 13ish year old girl stuck in the middle of the state if Maine. Maggie McNally Sent from my iPhone > -------- > > > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:39:16 -0400 > From: Gerald Notaro > Subject: Re: Albums or songs that you never forget when you heard them for the first time > > All Joni, Surrealistic Pillow, Christmas ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:11:22 +1000 From: Don Subject: Where I First Heard Albums or Songs In my 14th year I was struck by two pieces of music where the opening 30 seconds of each piece still has the same effect on me 42 years later. The first piece was Overture track 1 side 1 Tommy I used to go to friends house each Friday night to listen to albums Abbey Road was played to death (Still get played once a week. The Soundtrack to Hair also copped a flogging. Then one night my friend said I got new album by the Who. He pu it on an I was floored by just the opening. Tommy gets played a couple of times a year when I can get time to hear it in it's entirety. The 2nd piece is Carry On Track 1 side 1 Deja Vu. My high school teacher turned me on to CSN and grass (both on the same day), thanks John. The intensity of the drone strings in D modal tuning that Crosby plays whilst Stills Stills plays that simple intro and then you are hit by the harmonies and they are so so pure. I am having a copy of these two albums go to my grave with me. Both on Vinyl too as the covers were pretty cool as well. Cheers Don in Cold Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:29:54 -0700 (PDT) From: M C Subject: Google home page - njc Check out the Google home page banner today, 6/9/2011. Maybe play a song. http://www.google.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:19:09 -0700 (PDT) From: jlamadoo@sbcglobal.net Subject: RE: Albums or songs that you never forget when you heard I remember the first time I heard "Gallow's Pole" because the story was so grim and I was at a friend's house. I have many LP vinyl records that I still play. Since they are not dusty, they still sound (mostly) like new. I had so many albums that I decided not to try to replace every one with a CD. If you want to, you can still listen to records. One thing about listening to records is that you don't have to commit to listening for 45 minutes, just for one side at a time. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Subject: Re: Lots of stuff (NJC) Sounds like you've been busy and fixing to hit the road again. I see the Ruth Paz Foundation is up to number 7 now. You didn't tell us we have to vote daily for the next 5 days so here's your link again. Please click here (and then on the facebook link to sign in and vote): http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/1270?code=BhJkFCPAMtiwc5RxTVhq I forgot about the Yes - Close to the Edge album. That's another one I wore out on the turntable. Look forward to seeing you in LA if not sooner. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:08:07 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Woman Who Rock + Facebook + Joni Mitchell http://www.facebook.com/BIO?v=app_211805402171741&#et_cid=26618902&et_rid=393587063&cmpid=Email-lifet-sweeps-2011-0609-June92011 I'm not on facebook so I cannot win (waaahhhh). But you can win a trip for two to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. They smartly added Joni's picture to the ad. Anyone who enters......are there any questions regarding Joni in the "Test Your Knowledge" portion of the sweepstakes? Just curious if/what there is. And if anyone is able to "capture" a pic of the question/answer please forward it to me. Thanks! Laura Another freebie for you Facebook subscribers http://www.facebook.com/UniBall?sk=app_126716294069209 Play 3 times a day. Just keep closing the error window for the free code and click on the free link again. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:15:04 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Kakki and the rest of you Springheads njc BS's June 1 show is downloadable on the Big O site (free) These are usually only available for a few days. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=792 ps you may have heard that David Gilmour joined Roger Waters onstage in London to play "Comfortably Numb" a couple of weeks ago. For that show and others go to the homepage and look in the lower left. RR > I'm off to Santa Barbara tomorrow for the Buffalo Springfield reunion > concert. > Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:53:46 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: HOSL vs. Hejira vs. DJRD; oh, and Mika/Joni reference DJRD is my favorite of all time. It see,s to me she combined the best (jazziness of HOSL plus transcendental lyricism of H) of the previous two, plus the genius of Paprika Plains, and just had a KICKASS good time doing it. Funniest album cover of all time, too, at least until TI, which I hooted at out loud the first time I saw it. Always amazed when people hear I love JM, and say, but she's so GLOOMY! Really??!! Oh, I'm staying with a friend here in San Francisco (feels like hoooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!), who was turning me on to a Franco/Anglo singer called Mika whom I'd never heard of; in one Utube video he was being interviewed outside the '07 Grammies, and he said he was hoping to catch a glimpse of La Joni and maybe touch the hem of her dress. "HA!!" I said to my friend. I actually like Mika, btw, alhough I understand he's sick to death of the Freddy Mercury comparisons. Cheers, Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:09:54 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: njc My first Muni crazy vs. my first Bluetooth exp vs. return to Crazy I first moved to San Francisco in '90. Not long after, while sitting on a "Muni" (public) bus, I became aware of the person behind me having a vivid conversation with a person who wasn't sitting there next to them. Takes all kind, I figured. Then around 2000, after many dozens of crazies on Muni, but also as cellphones began to proliferate, I became aware of someone doing "the usual", but something gave me the impression that the conversation wasn't insane (who knows, something subliminal?); I turned and saw something stuck in the man's ear. Ah, he wasn't insane -- just a showoff. Full circle: Several years later, I turned around to tell someone that I was thrilled that he could afford a state-of-the-art bluetooth, but could he please lower his voice when I saw, oh dear, he didn't have a phone at all. Riddle: What's the difference between schizophrenia and a bluetooth? A. I don't know, but check to see first. Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:01:18 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: the story remains the same NJC Bob wrote: > think everyone has a story that contains the phrases "Boone's Farm", "Led > Zeppelin" and "throwing up". At least they should. > > Bob Well, since I am a decade off from all y'all as a child of the 80s, my story is the same, but substituted with "Southern Comfort", "Def Leppard's Hysteria", and "throwing up." And add a loooong diatribe about how much I wanted to bed Lisa Bonet, apparently, and the story still gets told today, 24 years later. The ingredients change, but the story remains the same. And it has been about 24 years, and I have yet to even SNIFF Southern Comfort since that fateful night. And, of course, let me add the story about the last time I ever smoked dope, since music was involved as well. I was never much of a pot smoker - 3 or 4 times a year was good enough for me. I either had a great time laughing hysterically, or being put in a mellow, sleepy mood. However, the last time, it was different. I dunno if i was just a little bit loopy that night, or if it was laced with something, but I will never forget that, for some reason, Billy Idol's Rebel Yell was playing in the car - why, I can't seem to remember, because it would have been a very dated album at that point. But anyway, I remember the tape flipping to side two and Flesh for Fantasy came on, and i kept hearing "flesh... fleshhhh..... fleeeessssshhhhhhhh" over and over, and it was freaking the ever-loving hell out of me. So then we pulled up to my friends house and we went in, and for some reason we took the same stupid tape in, and I was forced to listen to it while I was semi-hallucinating, and my friend's mother had this damn Mayan calendar tapestry in their hallway, and it was the UGLIEST thing ever, but for some reason, if I stared at it, I was fine. The minute I looked away, the room started rolling and such. So I spent a few hours just staring at this ugly Mayan thing, with this thing with its tongue sticking out at me from the centre, and I was completely fine, but the second I looked away? It was like a bad dramamine commercial. But anyway, I still can't hear "Flesh for Fantasy" or the Scorpions (which someone put on after Billy) without thinking about that night, which, sort of unfortunately, put an end to my days of ganj... Rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:19:48 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: how long and other catch-phrases that go bump in the night njc Bob responded: > > <"How Long" by Ace (on my tinny a.m. radio in my office, where the > antenna has to touch the blind on the sealed up window in order to get > reception for my favorite oldies station - btw, this song still rocks!)> > > Indeed - a nearly perfect bit of pop music magic, featuring Paul Carrack's > outstanding vocal. Haven't heard it in forever. We used to change the words, > kind of a play on "How Long" if you can use your imagination and think of how > high school guys would complete that phrase... > > Bob I never ever made that connection, and I thought I saw the pornographic in everything! That one was just too obvious, I guess! I have to admit that my wife and I had endless fun making jest of the local candidates names in our recent federal election. The two MPs running in our riding had the last names "Mushinski" and "Hoback." WELL. Of course, I said they sounded like some sort of porn star names, one Sunday morning, and then all gloves were off, and, well, the two of us pretty much became Beavis and Butthead and had a great time using those names in ways in which they weren't supposed to be used. It was obvious proof that we were soulmates, if nothing else. And tell me, how can you let the name "Hoback" and "Mushinski" pass without comment? Anyway, I'll spare you the names. but let me say that the very fact that we could come up with clever names for things shows that we ain't all that bad. Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: NJC Re: how long and other catch-phrases that go bump in the night njc Well, you'd have a laugh-a-minute fest here in China...last names like Wang, Wong & Dong are commonplace, and the Chinese that work with American companies choose an "American" name for business use. Most pick names like Jerry, Tina, Tiffany, etc. but some like to get creative and pick American words they like such as Shiny, Silky, Lucky, Glitter etc. So you put that with the last names and it's hard to keep a straight face sometimes. Had a meeting today with a Sales Manager named Harry Ding. Bob NP: Rolling Stones, "Playing With Fire" ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #169 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------