From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #479 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 Saturday, November 12 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 479 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Meeting Joni [T Peckham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:07:02 -0600 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: Meeting Joni Thanks for this fun story, Steve! Made me look at the cover again. I did a lot of embroidering on jeans and blue work shirts back then like so many of us, but that idea never occurred to me. Very cool that you had a chance to show 'em off to Joni and that she responded enthusiastically. And of course, I can't fit into any of my clothes from back then either, but I still have some of the special ones. ;-) Terra On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Steve Dulson wrote: > From: T Peckham > > > I really appreciate hearing all the stories from everyone who has met Ms. > > Mitchell in person. > > Well, I've told this story before - probably too many times - but > since you asked.... > > The first time I met Joni was June 7 1978. I was at the Universal > Amphitheatre in LA with my friend Lori Hitchen to see Bob Dylan. > We had fairly good seats as I usually bought 6- or 7-show packages > in those days. Just before the house lights went down I saw Joni > walk in with Don Alias and sit down a few rows in front and to > one side of us. Bob was good, but I was kinda distracted during > the first set! > > Some months before I had been visiting my friends Rin and Prema in > Santa Cruz, and they showed me a pair of Rin's pants. Around the > hem of one leg, Prema had embroidered the geese heads off LOTC. Of > course **I** had to have a pair of pants like that, so she embroidered > one for me. I was wearing them to the concert that night. > > After the first set, we went over to where Joni and Don were sitting. > I am (or was then) very shy, and very reluctant to force my company on > anyone, but I plucked up the courage to say "Hi Joni, I thought you > might like to see these" and showed her my pant leg. "Ooo!" she said > and bent down to take a closer look, "Very nice!". I told her how > much I enjoyed her music and beat a hasty retreat - other people had > noticed her and a crowd was gathering. So, a brief meeting, but she > showed no sign of annoyance at being approached. > > I still have the pants...wish I could fit in them! :) > > *************************************************** > Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA > FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) > tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #479 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------