From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #440 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 Friday, April 5 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 440 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Giving Jeff Lynne his due, njc ["Mark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:13:12 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Giving Jeff Lynne his due, njc 'Starship Trooper' would be on my list of favorite spring songs. I think mainly because they played it over the loud speakers as pre-concert music at an outdoor 'SUNI Days' concert when I was in college. I was in a state of messed-up consciousness after taking some hallucinogen or other and the moment when those first guitar chords came blasting out has consequently lodged itself in my memory tracks. But I love that song anyway, stone cold sober. Some of those old Yes songs can still make my imagination soar into other worlds. Dave Blackburn mentioned 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most' and 'Spring Is Here' as jazz standards about spring. I love Bette Midler's version of the first from her 'Some People's Lives' cd. And Carly Simon did a beautiful rendition of 'Spring Is Here' on 'Torch'. Not your conventional jazz chanteuses, I suppose. But these really are nice versions of beautiful songs. Mark in Seattle 'Once I was a sentimental thing Threw my heart away each spring...' 'Once there was a thing called spring When the world was writing verses like yours and mine....' - -----Original Message----- From: Susan E. McNamara Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 1:54 PM To: Michael Paz Cc: Laura Stanley ; jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com ; JMDL Subject: RE: Giving Jeff Lynne his due, njc Paz my dream is to play Starship Trooper with a full band. Crazy!!! :) Susan Tierney McNamara Prospect Research Officer Office of Prospect Development Alumni Affairs and Development Cornell University 349L, 130 Seneca Place Ithaca, NY 14850 phone: 607-255-3871 fax: 607-254-7166 email: sem8@cornell.edu From: Michael Paz [mailto:michael@thepazgroup.com] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 4:51 PM To: Susan E. McNamara Cc: Laura Stanley; jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com; JMDL Subject: Re: Giving Jeff Lynne his due, njc ME TOOO! Oh I ain't suppose to say that!!!! oPPPPS. Huge Yes fan here. As a matter of fact I have seen them for than any other band over the years 30+ shows and counting. Miss Jon Anderson lately tho. Love Paz Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com On Apr 5, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: I guess I'm ok with grandiose, because I prefer ELP and YES to ELO. I guess I'm also into three letter bands. :-) I give Jeff Lynne his due though ... I thought the Wilbury albums were brilliant ... especially the tracks with Roy Orbison. ahhh Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Laura Stanley Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:04 AM To: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com Cc: JMDL Subject: Re: Giving Jeff Lynne his due, njc Hi Jim, I love ELO!!! Strange Magic they have. Her's a favorite of mine, another good example of the driving beat you mention and a very uplifting song: http://youtu.be/98P-gu_vMRc Love, Laura Sent from my iPhone On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:57 PM, jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com wrote: The jmdl often tolerates brief discussions of other artists. Can we talk about Electric Light Orchestra's writer, producer, & singer, Jeff Lynne? I saw a documentary about him featuring praise from Tom Petty, George Harrison's son, and Paul McCartney on Palladia (a cable tv channel dedicated to popular music of the rock era). It seems to me that Lynne had lots of good ideas as a producer, even though he seems to do the same simple drumming on every track. I like his approach to bombast, walking a line between ELP's grandiosity and the tuneful Yes songs. Some of his stuff makes for great top-down, driving music. "Do Ya?" and "Ma Ma Ma Belle" come to mind. I love what he did with Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". I love every note on "Out Of The Blue", which was a double-LP back in the day. Jim L PS- Movie critic Roger Ebert died today. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #440 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------