From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #428 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, April 3 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 428 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: late 70s session men, njc ["Randy Remote" ] late 70s session men, njc ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Phil Ramone, R.I.P. , njc [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Joni in the Morning [Kate Johnson ] Re: Quintessential Covina - 1989 Interview [Merk54@aol.com] Re: Quintessential Covina - 1989 Interview ["Eaton, Shari" Subject: Re: late 70s session men, njc Yeah, Jim, that was a good article. Also Waddy has been Stevie Nicks' music director since the first Belladonna tour, which also had Kunkel on drums. RR From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > The new Rolling Stone (Don Draper is on the cover) has a nice article > about the session men who made james taylor famous, plus David Lindley. > There are short comments from these familiar names: Danny Kortchmar, > Waddy Wachtel, Craig Doerge, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:34:58 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: late 70s session men, njc The new Rolling Stone (Don Draper is on the cover) has a nice article about the session men who made james taylor famous, plus David Lindley. There are short comments from these familiar names: Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Craig Doerge, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel. David Crosby is quoted with nice things to say about their musicianship. He talks about the song "Deja Vu" in particular. They said that "The Section" was brought together by Peter Asher, to build the foundation of the sessions for "Sweet Baby James". The band had lots of bad times with James Taylor. They tell some stories that illustrate that he wasn't the nice guy that his publicists portrayed so successfully over the years. Since I have always read liner notes, I got a lot out of the article. The author, David Browne, listed some of the songs that these guys helped to create: It's Too Late Sweet Seasons You've Got A Friend How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Doctor My Eyes Werewolves Of London Poor Poor Pitiful Me & Joni's "Carey" Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:55:32 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Phil Ramone, R.I.P. , njc It's worthwhile to take a look at his 50+ year career, quite impressive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ramone My first knowledge of his work was with Billy Joel's "The Stranger" but he had his hands in many many other successes. An interesting bit of trivia, he also produced the first album ever released on CD when Sony chose Joel's "52nd Street" as it's first compact disc offering. Bob From: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com To: JMDL Date: 04/01/2013 01:09 PM Subject: Phil Ramone, R.I.P. , njc Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org Rolling Stone said he was 72. The NY Times and Billboard said he was 79. LA Times said he was 82. He produced Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" which won a Grammy for Album Of The Year, among many other successes. When he started out, mono was king and records were recorded "live" without overdubbing. Jim L - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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From a newstory here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/04/01/health-music-as-medicine-levit in.html Music as medicine has huge potential, study suggests b?b 1b.b?b 1b.b?b 1b. Stubblejumpin'Gal http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/blondiblathers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Re: Quintessential Covina - 1989 Interview Anita, The guy hovering around in the back ground is my best friend Marty from high school. I've been trying to get him to release this interview for years now, and he finally agreed to do it. The story behind the interview is pretty amazing. Quintessential Covina was a small local cable access progress, kind of like Wayne's World, based in Covina, CA. I think they were on once a week, and mostly showed videos, and did goofy sketches, etc. Occasionally they would luck out and get a local celebrity to stop by and visit the show. As it happens, Marty and his wife are both big Joni fans, and on a whim, they decided to contact her management staff to see if she would be willing to do an interview for the show. Unbelievably, a couple of days later, they hear back that she has accepted to do the interview. If I recall correctly, it was right around the time the Chalk Mark came out, and they were looking for ways to promote it and the associated videos, which is why Joni agreed to the interview. David asked about the art book she was flipping through. It's my understanding that this was the catalogue from the art exhibit she did in Japan. Again, if memory serves me, she did a big art show in Japan, and she used the proceeds of the show to fund the making of the videos for Chalk Mark. Marty said she was absolutely delightful during the interview, and she even graciously recorded a personal message to me at Marty's request. During the interview, she drank a bottle of Sundance Natural Cranberry Sparkler, which Marty still has under glass as a momento from the evening! (Creepy or sweet? You decide.) The original interview was broadcasted over two nights, and was much shorter than what is included here. For example, in the original broadcast, the whole section of her talking about her artwork was missing. To me, the original version was targeted for a general audience, while the extended version would be more geared to true fans. I'm so glad Marty decided to release the entire interview, as it's remarkably more interesting than the one that aired. I haven't had a chance to watch it on YouTube yet, so I don't know if he included some of the conversations that had no video. I hope so, because some of her comments were priceless. I especially liked the one where she stated that she planned on mooning the camera at the end of the interview in response to some censorship issues the show had with the mayor of Covina! I might be biased because of my personal connection with this interview, but I truly think it's very special. What are the odds that Joni would show up and do an interview for a local cable show that would be seen by such an extremely limited audience? Anyway, I'm glad it is out there now. I sent a few people on this list a copy of the broadcasted interview a while ago. If you enjoyed it, I encourage you to watch the unabridged version. It's really much more interesting for the true Joni fan. Jack In a message dated 4/1/2013 9:32:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time, lawntreader@googlemail.com writes: Vincenzo, this is just great! I never knew Myrtle liked "Dancing Clown" bit I am not surprised. Joni wrote a song that made her Mother happy. I bet Myrtle never got on the phone and said, "Roberta, I love that song, Hejira. My dear daughter, how wonderful that you have managed to capture the essence of human existence in just one tune. Well done!" I suppose your Mother tapping her foot to Dancing Clown makes the song worth something. Given Joni's work, though, for her Mother to choose that song.....maybe Myrtle found Joni's intellect or pain overwhelming. In the interview I also really like the fact that someone is hovering in the background. So real, What a super find. Thanks for sharing Anita On 1 Apr 2013, at 14:17, Vincenzo Mancini wrote: > This would seem to be the whole interview! > > part 1: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1gCku0w1sw > > part2: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo16bzxD7g > > > part 3: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byMUupXAeJ8 > > > Enjoy! > > Vincenzo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:28:03 -0700 From: "Eaton, Shari" Subject: Re: Quintessential Covina - 1989 Interview This interview falls in the top five video interviews with Joni, imo. Thank you for sharing. I love when he asks 'is there anyone you'd like to work with?' and she says 'ahhh yeah.' There's a warm innocence in her tone .. like she has a crush on Miles or her heart skips a beat with the possibility of the new expressions she'd discover. Lots of Joni, Shari On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > Thanks for these links. I had not seen this interview before. I learned that Joni loves "It Never Entered My Mind" as interpreted by Miles Davis. > > Jim L'Hommedieu > > On 01/04/13 09:1721, Vincenzo Mancini wrote: > >> This would seem to be the whole interview! >> >> part 1: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1gCku0w1sw >> >> part2: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo16bzxD7g >> >> >> part 3: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byMUupXAeJ8 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #428 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------