From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1512 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 Wednesday, October 3 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1512 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Blue Motel Room thoughts [Lindsay Moon ] quintessential Joni [Paul Ivice ] Re: Blue Motel Room thoughts [Michael Paz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:05:00 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: Blue Motel Room thoughts I've read a lot of what people have written, that the song doesn't fit, etc. May be true (I like it). I think sometimes Joni just gets ideas or hears sounds in different ways and plays and plays with them. The result may not be up to her usual caliber of Great Art, but I think sometimes she just plays ("Empty, Try Another"). Waaay back a long time ago I suggested on the List that if I were Thomas Dolby and/or Larry Klein and she wanted to put helicopter sounds over something, just let her. Someone blasted me and said "Don't put her on a pedestal!!" That shut me up for quite a while. But I'm just saying she's an artist so she likes to try out things, it pushes her on to new things that interest her and she plays some more. Just some thoughts. Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 21:30:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Ivice Subject: quintessential Joni Anita wrote: I also saw Joni 'The Magdalene Laundries' it for the first time at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 1994, prior to the release of 'Turbulent Indigo' (when I got to meet her for the second time) so it has great memories of a time and place and of great joy in my life,too. That's what I would choose as my quintessentially Joni song today. But tomorrow it may be different! Anita, I agree that Magdalene Laundries captures one of Joni's key themes in that she is speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves, but it lacks most of the other themes or elements that consistently run through Joni's song lyrics, the subject of love being the main disqualifier as a quintessential Joni song. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:49:30 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Blue Motel Room thoughts Yea leave the artists alone!!! tonight when I was looking for the band to get them on stage, I found one of them in an elevator making a video of himself, singing with a loop machine with a chair stuck in the door so the elevator door was making percussion sounds as it banged into the chair. I have to admit it was a very cool groove and the melody was beautiful. I would have given it a 93. I could dance to it and the special effects on the vox made it sound circa "Their Satantic Majesties Request" era which I have been listening to lately. If the video comes out on You Tube I will share it with you. Paz In Kirksville MO, headed to San Fran tomorrow for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and soft opening of Preservation Hall West. Oct 3-8. Party!!! On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Lindsay Moon wrote: I've read a lot of what people have written, that the song doesn't fit, etc. May be true (I like it). I think sometimes Joni just gets ideas or hears sounds in different ways and plays and plays with them. The result may not be up to her usual caliber of Great Art, but I think sometimes she just plays ("Empty, Try Another"). Waaay back a long time ago I suggested on the List that if I were Thomas Dolby and/or Larry Klein and she wanted to put helicopter sounds over something, just let her. Someone blasted me and said "Don't put her on a pedestal!!" That shut me up for quite a while. But I'm just saying she's an artist so she likes to try out things, it pushes her on to new things that interest her and she plays some more. Just some thoughts. Lindsay ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1512 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------