From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1264 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 Thursday, September 5 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1264 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum njc [Lori Renee Fye ] The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni [Ange T Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum njc I didn't even think to post this here. http://rawwscoop.com/2013/09/03/making-your-voice-heard-on-us-military-intervention-in-syrias-civil-war/ Peace ... really ... PEACE. No more war. Lori ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:42:21 +0100 From: Anita Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum njc I find it incredibly hard to witness the suffering of the Syrian people. The film shown by the BBC after the gas attacks were simply harrowing. I think it was an old British prime minister (Eden I think) who said we need "Jaw, jaw not war,war." If only people would talk. I simply know if I lived in Syria I would want help to stop the fighting and killing. The problem for us as we stand by helplessly watching is what intervention would really help. Personally, I don't think bombing will. Anita On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:31, Barbara Sullivan wrote: > I agree, well said Babs!! > > > >> From: BarbaRent7@aol.com >> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:00:41 -0400 >> Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum >> To: joni@smoe.org >> >> With all this chatter about Syria, I can't help but recall Joni singing her >> excellent tune, The Fiddle & the Drum on the Dick Cavette Show during >> Vietnam's War. America never seemed bothered by massive killings in Uganda, >> China and the USSR when up to 50 million were murdered by their regimes so > no >> matter what trumped up reason we should NOT go into any conflict with >> Syria. Let the U.N. enforce the violations of the Geneva convention or let > the >> uber-wealthy Saudi Arabians, but NOT the USA (again). The V.A. doesn't care >> about injured veterans now, so what will happen when WW3 starts up? It is >> beneath Obama's intelligence to get suckered into this quagmire. With the >> Bushes it was to be expected! It will only push ahead the bad idea for >> Keystone XL and other environmental disasters while removing our rights one > after >> another under the 'state security' veil/ lie. Joni is SO lucky to be back >> in Canada the only normal country in this western hemisphere (besides >> Equador and Venezuela). Does Kerry not recall he started the V.V.A.W.? >> >> La Paz Contigo, my comrades >> ex-hippie Babs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:31:21 +0100 (BST) From: Vincenzo Mancini Subject: JOINING MITCHELL There's an upcoming tribute in Lisbon on Nov 14, 2013 LISBOA, Centro Cultural de Belim (Grande Auditsrio) | 21H00 More details at: http://www.misty-fest.com/index.php/pt/artistasportugues/149-joining-mitchell - -tributo-joni-mitchell Promo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25SPBzsBjM Vincenzo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 08:42:05 +1000 From: Ange T Subject: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni I sat in my seaside apartment on the east coast of Australia last night with a pile of printed Joni guitar tabs and detuning sheets. I printed them over ten years ago, when I was living in Bangkok. Back then I was working as a journalist-by-day and had scored myself a second job as a folk singer by-night, in a little hole in the wall bar. It was my first paid gig ever and I was 22 years old. I got the gig by accident and I needed to figure out how to fill 2 hours of live music....so, when my newsroom colleagues weren't watching, I printed Joni...not just one song, or two, but a whole encyclopedia of Ms Mitchell's mind-blowing music. I've lived in many places around the world since then...and I've carried that pile of song sheets with me. Every now and then I will feel inspired to pick up my guitar and reminisce about my time as a folk singer in Thailand - and that little wooden bar, full of hippy-song-loving Thais, where I sang Joni tunes. That's what happened last night. I fell in love with Joni's tabs and tunings all over again...but also experienced that feeling of utter frustration as a vocalist trying to sing her songs. I mean - seriously - the woman's voice = NOT OF THIS WORLD. For example, Conversation, I tried to play it with the cappo all over the fret board last night....each time I'd find a part of the song that sat perfectly for my voice...but all that resulted was another part of the song that was impossible to sing. I've read many articles that talk about the sweet high notes of Joni's younger voice...but for me it's the low notes that she sings with such warmth and ease that truly hurt my brain/vocal box. How can she sing 'apples and cheeses' and then 'songs to play' in the same breath? What a freak! Okay, here ends the rant of a vocally frustrated Joni fan...think I'll go back to singing Bob Dylan covers...ha! Ange in Oz angetakats.com.au ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1264 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------