From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #360 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 Wednesday, October 19 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 360 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Photo & Trouble Child and Malibu Colony House connection [est86mlm@amerit] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:15:15 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Photo & Trouble Child and Malibu Colony House connection This is an interesting discussion because for the last two weeks I had been trying to find information and photos of Joni's Malibu house and then the article from Malibu Mag and the links with all the pictures shows up. Here's an interesting note from a Linda Ronstadt interview with Rolling Stones Magazine, where the author writes that Malibu Colony is referred to in Trouble Child in Joni's song. I think of this line, the coming and going, of people moving in and out of Malibu Colony in Malibu: "a river of changing faces Looking for an ocean" LOS ANGELES- "Miss Ronstadt's line is busy. You'll have to wait. I gotta check you." The beefy guard at the front gate of Malibu Colony waits and dials again. Still busy. Twenty minutes later, the guard gives up and waves me through. "You could be here all day," he cracks mirthlessly. "But listen . . . if I don't hear from her within five minutes" . . . he pauses for effect . . . "you'll meet the sheriffs. You don't want to meet the sheriffs." The Colony. A tract of roomy beach houses strung along the Pacific 25 miles north of Los Angeles. Considering the surroundings, it's not surprising that Malibu has almost always been inhabited by artists, though the enormous cost of year-round, triple-security living makes it a select few at that. The Band built their studio here. Dylan, Neil Diamond and Eric Clapton recorded here. Neil Young named Zuma after the Malibu community where he lives. Joni Mitchell refers to it in "Trouble Child" . . . and Linda Ronstadt posed for the softly erotic cover of Hasten Down the Wind just outside her picture window. http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs227-linda-ronstadt/ In the book: Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir by Julia Cameron one gets a sense of what Malibu Colony (where Joni lived) was like and the drama going on there. *http://tinyurl.com/3t8jt3k * Some food for thought. Here's a link to a photo of Joni painting in the Malibu Colony house with the door opened out to sea: http://www.corbisimages.com/images/DZ003089.jpg?size=67&uid=4ea29ccd-2752-441d-86bc-4f09cc81d3c6 This article mentions four homes in 1983. http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1629&from=search Joni in her Malibu home can be seen in her Good Friends Video (thanks to bob1bob's post in the Library) http://jonimitchell.com/library/video.cfm?id=114&from=search Laura ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #360 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------