From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #333 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, February 28 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 333 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #329 ["Marian" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:53:51 +0100 From: "Marian" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #329 It was some years ago that I was just by chance in the underground in Vienna and happened to see an ad for a Joni tribute concert scheduled for just a few days later. I was thrilled to find some Joni fans in Vienna and I went to the concert and took a bunch of photos. The singer was okay, but the musicians who accompanied her were amazing. The bass player, Reinhard Ziegerhofer, can play like Jaco Pastorius and switched between an upright bass, a fretless electric bass (with five strings, I think), and a standard electric bass during the concert. The guitarist managed to work out all of the sounds for the songs using standard tuning - it really sounded just as if Joni was on the stage playing with her simplified fingerings. I talked to the musicians after the concert and told them about JMDL and the guitar tabs. The guitarist later told me he wished he had known about it before the concert. The bass player and I became friends and I have been to several of his concerts. He played in an Austrian folk-jazz fusion band called Broadlahn for awhile, but then branched out into giving solo bass concerts of his own compositions. He also played with Joe Zaiwanul at some point and frequently plays with the symphony orchestra in Graz. He has also played bass for at least one other Joni tribute concert. I had a CD of this second concert, but I don't know what happened to it. It was very amazing. If I ever find it, I will send it to Bob to add to the covers collection. Anyway, it is totally possible to sound exactly like Joni without using her tunings - it's just a lot more challenging. Marian + + + + + + + + Sue wrote: - -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:16:19 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: tunings Of course, I completely agree that you can play these songs in the same way in different tunings as long as you are getting the same sound (I used argue with my ex about that all the time). For me it's always been "how is Joni playing it" more from a desire to really get into her creative spirit ... plus the tunings are such a great puzzle ... So I would say playing it how you want to play it as long as it sounds true to the song, or playing it just as Joni plays it in her tunings and her picking/strumming style are both completely valid ... plus I've been to Mutts concerts and there is everything right in the way Dave and Robin perform these songs!! I wish I had a recording of Friday night at Pazfest III in New Orleans (Dawntreader ... ahhh). ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #333 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------