From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1379 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 Monday, October 14 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1379 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni and the loss of her Martin D-28 [simon@icu.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:22:50 -0400 From: simon@icu.com Subject: Re: Joni and the loss of her Martin D-28 On Oct 14, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > Great stuff on Joni's guitars, Simon. Thanks. What is the definitive story of what happened > to Joni's Martin? I've heard several versions, but I'm not sure which one is right. I am pretty > sure it was a Martin D-25 that was given to her by a soldier in 1967, right? > Boy, I would love me that guitar!!! :-) Sue, The following, from ACOUSTIC GUITAR Magazine - Aug. 1996, is the true story, confirmed by Joel Bernstein. Joni Mitchell has never quite gotten over the first guitar she loved and lost: a 1956 Martin D-28 she got circa 1966 from a marine captain stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The guitar had accompanied him to Vietnam and was in his tent when it was hit with shrapnel. "There were two instruments and all this captain's stuff in there," Mitchell says. "When they cleared the wreckage, all that survived was this guitar. I don't know whether the explosion did something to the modules in the wood, but that guitar was a trooper, man." Mitchell played that D-28 on all her early albums. Before she recorded COURT And SPARK, it was damaged on an airline, and soon after it was stolen off a luggage carousel in Maui. Wistfully, she adds, "I've never found an acoustic that could compare with it." The sad thing is, that guitar is probably out there somewhere. Someone likely owns Joni's D-28 and doesn't have a clue to its history. Joel regrets not recording the Serial No. when he had the change. We'll never know. andmoreagain, - - - - - - - - - - simonM ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1379 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------