From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1440 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, November 20 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1440 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: multi-disc compilation ["Mark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:16:17 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: multi-disc compilation I missed the 'lipstick on a pig' email which surely must have come from Paul Ivice. My apologies to Mr. Ivice if that is not the case. JFYI, Lori, I don't have a high end sound system but hearing the 'Dog Eat Dog' disk that came with the Geffen box set was a revelation to me. The genius of Joni Mitchell is there in 'Dog Eat Dog' and I think I heard it for the first time on that particular record when I first listened to that box set CD. She just used different tools to construct it than she had used before. As far as the new box set is concerned, I felt the same way you did at first. But the booklet, the story behind how it came to be created and Joni's remarks at the Hammer Museum showing of 'The Fiddle and the Drum' have changed my mind. I don't know if the music for 'The Fiddle and the Drum' was re-mastered or if it was the sound system in Seattle's Paramount Theater but the music sounded glorious during the performance of that ballet which included 'The Three Great Stimulants' and 'Ethiopia' from 'Dog Eat Dog'. This is more than a 'compilation'. This is something Joni worked toward for two years. If the ballets are never produced, at least I will have the music they were meant to be choreographed for presented in a way that seems to be Joni's offering of what can only be the next best thing for now. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Lori Renee Fye Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:28 PM To: Paul Ivice Cc: Moni Kellermann ; Joni List Subject: Re: multi-disc compilation > Furthermore, I think any clamoring for Joni to "open her vault" > should stop. There are reasons why Joni did not want to > release that material, probably because she thought it was > less than her best effort, so we should not be so eager for this > material that it encourages her to diminish the quality of her > catalog. Remastering Dog Eat Dog was akin to putting lipstick > on a pig. I agree, Paul -- although I like DED! I wouldn't bother with buying a remastered edition, though. I don't have a stereo system that would do it justice, for one thing. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1440 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------