From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1560 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, November 2 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1560 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Graham Nash's "Wild Tales" ["Mark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:39:10 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Graham Nash's "Wild Tales" 'Acid booze and ass Needles guns and grass Lots of laughs Lots of laughs Everbody's saying that Hell's the hippest way to go Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it though.. Well, we know Joni had a serious cocaine habit a bit further down the road. Thank the powers that be that she went on that cross country road trip. She came back clean and gave us 'Hejira'. But I wonder sometimes just exactly what the connotation of 'I'm gonna take a look around it though' was. It's no surprise (at least not to me) that Graham was involved with a lot of substance abuse in the glory days of CSN and sometimes Y. We also know about James Taylor's heroin addiction. I can't imagine Joni going that route, especially given her powerful view of the ugly side of it in 'Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire'. In spite of her sometimes seemingly outrageous spouting off about this, that or the other thing, I've always felt that Joni is a person with a solid base of good common sense. Certainly she has wisdom, something she started to acquire at a very early age judging by the songs she wrote. I guess I'll have to read Graham's book to see if he says anything about what Joni's participation was in all the partying that was going on around her. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Lindsay Moon Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 6:31 PM To: Joni List Subject: Graham Nash's "Wild Tales" (snip) I also will say that yes, it was part of the times, but it did seem to me (a non-drinker) ridiculous! the excuses he made for getting loaded constantly. Was really defending himself on "expanding his mind" by dropping acid, doing mountains of coke, etc. Several times he says "we were doing way too much cocaine" and in the next sentence he admits to ingesting outrageous quantities  I wonder what his creative output might have been had he laid off the drugs and booze for a period... (snip) Lindsay ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1560 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------