From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #980 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 Tuesday, July 29 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 980 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: 10 Things You Didn't know about Joni Mitchell [Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: RE: 10 Things You Didn't know about Joni Mitchell Yes, I think she did mention it in the Gomeshi interview (I loved that interview). But look up the Q magazine interview from 88 and it mentions being a clothes horse for a department store saving money for the union dues. I'm thinking she was keeping the reasons different to still hide the pregnancy (even though this was the British press). Jamie Zubairi Actor, Artist, Voiceover, Photographer On 29 Jul 2014 19:32, "Susan E. McNamara" wrote: > Yes, that makes sense Jamie, itbs more about the post-polio then the > initial disease. As for the dues issue, she usually tells that story when > she is talking about giving Kilauren up for adoption. I think she > mentioned that in the Jian Ghomeshi interview last year, too. > > > > Susan Tierney McNamara > > email: sem8@cornell.edu > > > > *From:* Jamie Zubairi Home [mailto:jamiezubairi@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:25 PM > *To:* Susan E. McNamara > *Cc:* Joni JMDL > *Subject:* RE: 10 Things You Didn't know about Joni Mitchell > > > > I'd read it was more the weight of the guitar that was keeping her away > from it since the 90s health issues had taken their toll on her spine. It > was only when Fred Walecki made the lighter Parker Fly that she toured. > > As for the other query... I understood that she was too poor to scrape > together the dues too... I knew she'd worked there from an older interview > from 1988 I believe... But maybe the trains she tells interviewers in 1988 > is different to what she tells them in 1998... > > Jamie Zubairi > Actor, Artist, Voiceover, Photographer > > On 29 Jul 2014 18:16, "Susan E. McNamara" wrote: > > I only had two questions about this list: > > 2. A polio victim at age 9, she can't play a wide body acoustic guitar due > to > the pressure it puts on her back and shoulder. (She played the Martin D25, > which I'm pretty sure is a wide body acoustic, for almost 15 years ... I > thought she invented the alternate tuning chord shapes because of her polio > issues.) > > 4. She worked as a salesgirl in a Toronto Simpsons-Sears department store > until she scraped together the $140 to join the musicians' union. (I was > under > the impression that she was even too broke (and also pregnant) to afford > the > union dues ... did she eventually pay the dues?) > > Sorry to nitpick! And I'm late on this thread too ... was happily away at > beach vacation in NC! My skin turned brown and I came home! :) > > Sue > > Susan Tierney McNamara > email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #980 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------