From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #192 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 Sunday, July 3 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 192 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #182 ["Laree Martin" ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #182 NJC [Bob Muller ] Re: The Lost Songs [Lieve Reckers ] Re: The Lost Songs NJC [Bob Muller ] Re: The Lost Songs NJC [Lieve Reckers ] Re: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday ["Mark" ] Re: Happy Canada Day! njc [M C ] Re: Happy Canada Day! (njc) ["Mark" ] Re: The Lost Songs NJC [Bob Muller ] Prosopagnosia, the 1st Lilith Fair, LK, BYT and ...Paz? [Walt Breen Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #182 Hi--I'm out of town this weekend and probably won't have email access. Text or call me on my cell if you want to get in touch. Best,Laree - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:58:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #182 NJC Thanks for the update Laree - darn it, I lost your cell#. What was it again? Or just give ME a call. Regular long distance charges to China may apply. Have a great trip! :-) Bob NP: The Who, "The Kids Are All Right" - ----- Original Message ---- From: Laree Martin To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Sat, July 2, 2011 3:19:16 PM Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #182 Hi--I'm out of town this weekend and probably won't have email access. Text or call me on my cell if you want to get in touch. Best,Laree - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:37:18 +0100 (BST) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Re: The Lost Songs Bob, thanks for my first laugh of the day with your: (quote) "Little Green Apples" which is two-thirds of a Joni cover too! (unquote) That makes me think of the good old days (much missed) with Bob Murphy. Any excuse to remember him and send him a posthumous salute is a good one in my books. Lieve in London >________________________________ >From: Bob Muller >To: Susan Tierney McNamara ; Michael Sentance ; "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Saturday, 2 July 2011, 0:12 >Subject: Re: The Lost Songs > ><136) Just Couldn't Help Myself (1) "Together"Caribou CRB 81848 1977 > Co-written with John Guerin; B-side of "Together".> > >Hey Sue - thanks for looking! That's an interesting one to be sure...if you >heard it you'd never guess that Joni had anything to do with it except maybe in >places. Don't know much of the back story on it, it's one of the questions I'll >ask her when I get my long interview with her. > >The record was by O.C. Smith, known for his hit "Little Green Apples" which is >two-thirds of a Joni cover too! > > >Bob > >NP: U2, "Bullet The Blue Sky" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: The Lost Songs NJC Glad I brought out a laugh, Lieve - funny you mention Bob Murphy, today as I was walking to work I passed someone with a Smurfs T-shirt (don't get me started on T-shirts, the Chinese wear lots of crazy slogan T-shirts with NO clue as to what they mean and it's often hilarious) and I immediately thought of Bob. To be compared with him regarding humour is the highest of praise. Bob NP: Steely Dan, "Black Cow" (only ONE LETTER away from being a Joni cover) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:16:00 +0100 (BST) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Re: The Lost Songs NJC Bob I remember your sparring with the other Bob, for instance when you teased him that nobody was interested in his "Joni in literature" collection, and he wrote back saying how your Joni-covers CDs were only useful as frisbees. (Not funny when I write it, but hilarious in your original words.) I hadn't yet met either of you in person, but I just felt so lucky to have found this list with such witty people. And I like your last NP, but shouldn't that have been NPIMH? Or was there really such a lucky coincidence? Lieve - ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob Muller > To: Lieve Reckers ; Susan Tierney McNamara ; Michael Sentance ; "joni@smoe.org" > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, 2 July 2011, 9:54 > Subject: Re: The Lost Songs NJC > >G lad I brought out a laugh, Lieve - funny you mention Bob Murphy, today as I was > > walking to work I passed someone with a Smurfs T-shirt (don't get me > started on > T-shirts, the Chinese wear lots of crazy slogan T-shirts with NO clue as to what > > they mean and it's often hilarious) and I immediately thought of Bob. > > > To be compared with him regarding humour is the highest of praise. > > Bob > > NP: Steely Dan, "Black Cow" (only ONE LETTER away from being a Joni > cover) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:53:08 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday In case anybody hasn't seen it on JoniMitchell.com, I wrote a piece about 'Blue' and 'Hejira' in honor or their 40th & 35th anniversaries. It was way too long to post on the JMDL so I put it up as a Facebook document with the intention of offering to send it to anybody on the list that was interested in reading it. Les was kind enough to ask if it could be included in the library. So in case you aren't a Facebook person or you don't visit the website on a regular basis, here is the link to my Joni thesis: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2384 I was surprised at how many parallels I found between the two albums. Anyway I have been debating with myself whether or not to send this out. My rationalization is that I don't want people who aren't on Facebook to feel like they are missing out. So if you want, you can read it. But you have been warned. If I thought it was too long to send in an email, you know it must be monstrous! Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:06 AM To: JMDL Subject: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday This should be cool to listen to Monday morning. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:57:07 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: German translator? (eventual JC) Achtung Joniphiles! I'm looking for someone/anyone who can translate two relatively short German articles about Joni's 1983 tour into English. Thanks, Les ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 10:28:44 -0700 (PDT) From: M C Subject: Re: Happy Canada Day! njc Happy Canada Day, Aye! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:20:15 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Happy Canada Day! (njc) I was curious about this. I seemed to remember that England celebrates the Queen's birthday on the same day in May even though it's not really the Queen's birthday. Apparently it's the same day as Victoria Day in Canada. According to Wikipedia, anyway: Victoria Day (in French: Fjte de la Reine) is a federal Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday. The date is also, simultaneously, that on which the current reigning Canadian sovereign's official birthday is recognized. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Catherine McKay Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 7:16 AM To: Gerald Notaro ; Brian Gross Cc: Joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Happy Canada Day! (njc) Victoria Day is a different holiday. Victoria Day was traditionally celebrated on May 24, but some time back (I don't remember when), they moved it to the Monday before May 24 (unless May 24 happens to be a Monday.) It's still referred to by many as the May Two-Four weekend (in honour of a carton of 24 beers, beer being the offical drink of summer here. Oh, and winter, spring and fall too.) Canada Day used to be called Dominion Day, but it was changed to Canada Day in 1982. It's kind of a boring name, to be honest. Brian, we write cheques but we use spell-checker, just like 'Muricans. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 19:31:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: The Lost Songs NJC Was not PIMH, was playing on the radio. I stumbled upon a great streaming radio station, WCSX, they have a "Deep Tracks" option, no commercials and classic stuff, much that I haven't heard in forever. They play some Joni, so far I've heard "Free Man In Paris" and "Woodstock". Bob NP: Jimi Hendrix, "Angel" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 23:03:49 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: Prosopagnosia, the 1st Lilith Fair, LK, BYT and ...Paz? Hi gang, I'm starting with prosopagnosia because it isn't all that well known, and because some of you may have gotten blank looks or vague Mona Lisa smiles from me at the '03 Fest despite the fact i was at the '02 Fest and *should* have known you. I depended on Smurph to tell me who people were at both fests. Basically, it's "face blindness", and it can be inherited or acquired, and run from very mild to complete (in extreme cases, after head trauma, sufferers can't recognize that a person *is* a person until/unless s/he speaks. Mine is inherited from my father's side -- I first read about it in a book around 1980, and had the OMG Other People Have This??!! experience. Brought it up at a family gathering, and found out that both my dad and his sister had it, too. (If you want to get a feel for the experience, take a photo of people you know and turn it upside down; the features are all there, but the gestalt doesn't kick in.) People compensate by being good at voices or at spotting physical mannerisms; I use both. It hasppened just yesterday as I was crossing Market Street (did i mention I'd moved back to Saf Francisco? Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...); someone said "Walter?" I knew exactly which person had said it, but I needed more, so i turned around and looked past him. He said, "Walter, over here!" and then I knew who he was. Reason I bring this all up is partly to ask if any other jmdler has it; but also because of a multiple Joni connection. At the SFPL yesterday, I borrowed the dvd of the first Lilith Fair (and was fairly shocked it has been 14 years). I knew all the featured artists, and was looking forward to it. When Shawn Colvin came on to siogn Sunny Came Home, my eyes were drawn to one of her backup musicians, dark, handsome, balding and with a very distinctive body language. Took me a whole minte to finally realize it was Klein. My music collection is buried in storage, and my access to the internet is, at the mo, very restricted, so i can't check -- did he play on the Sunny Came Home album; and/or, did he travel with the Fair for the whole tour? I know joni didn't much care for the Lilith concept, and I can understand her arguments -- but the participants respect for her influences and her songs was obvious from the interviews -- and of course, they close with everyone coming onstage for BYT. Did Larry have to wheedle permission to use it from Joni? I.e., was her disdain that complete thast he would have had to? Naw.... Finally, there was a big burly guy on stage several times playing a couple of different instruments, dark curly hair and a goatee who also looked familiar. Paz, was that *you*?! 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 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #192 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------