From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1132 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://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, August 18 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1132 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood [est86mlm@ameritech.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:12:29 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood Lindsay, This was VERY interesting reading. Some I knew of but the details about house lease I didn't or the fact that Joni called Nash when she was thinking of selling the house. Interesting that she thought Nash may want to go back and reminisce. Thanks for posting. Laura Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:10:42 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: The Dream: For Kakki's Birthday I just finished reading "Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood" by Michael Walker. Really enjoyed it. Towards the end when the hippies are moving on and things are deteriorating into cocaine addiction around the canyon, there is this little blurb which I have been meaning to share  and am inspired by our own "Lady of the Canyon" Kakki, whose birthday is nigh: "Joni Mitchell was one of the first to go, forsaking her house on Lookout Mountain for Bel-Air. She and Nash had separated -- Nash wanted to marry, she didn't. "It was not a happy time for me," Nash says. "I was deeply in love with Joan, more than I would have admitted to her. I don't know why that is, but men are strange sometimes. When we parted I went to San Francisco, bought the first house I saw, and moved in. It was hard." Mitchell leased the house to Ron Stone, her neighbor and co-manager. Although he soon became successful enough himself to move to gaudier quarters, he didn't, even after "everybody I knew with the exception of Mark Volman had moved out. I could have afforded better. I didn't want better. I stayed for romantic reasons." Stone ended up leasing the house from Mitchell for the next twenty-seven years -- "she was a good landlady" -- and raising his children there. "There was a mystical kind of atmosphere in the house." he says.  He freely admits that actually living in the house "was a nightmare. When it rained, it leaked. Cold air came through the cracks. I never really noticed until I lived in a proper house."  The house, says Stone, "was somehow blessed. A lot of bad things happened in that neighborhood, but nothing happened to the house." There was the time, when Mitchell still lived there, that the house next door -- shared by Canned Heat -- burned in a furiou! s blaze that somehow spared hers. "By all rights it should have burned the house to the ground, but for whatever reason it blackened the back door and stopped," Stone says.  On January 17, 2005, Nash answered his phone in Hawaii, his home for the past thirty years. It was Mitchell, calling from L.A. "She said, 'Do you want to go to the house?' I said, "What?' She said, 'I'm thinking of selling it.' I said, 'Really? Why?' She said the people renting it, three guys came over the fence and tried to rob them. And Joni thinks that those things are signs, and so she thought it was a sign that she should give it up. She wasn't there to protect it. So she wanted to know if I wanted to go back and reminisce for a few minutes." Nash, about to leave on a world tour with Stills and Crosby, declined. So that's the story on the house in Laurel Canyon that some of us visited. Good to know that the house we all find so magical, so do the people who actually lived there and made music there. Gives me a good feeling. Lindsay ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1132 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------