From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V1 #31 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk onlyJMDL Digest Monday, May 3 1999 Volume 01 : Number 031 TapeTree #8 is ready to roll. To sign up go to: http://www.jmdl.com/trading ------- Join the Joni Mitchell Internet Community Glossary project. Send a blank message to for all the details. ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at http://www.jonimitchell.com and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, original interviews and essays, lyrics, and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- CD Trees ["Eric Taylor" ] Re: Black Crow ["Eric Taylor" ] Five Most Recent Purchases [Robert Glenn Plotner ] Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell [MGVal@aol.com] TT8 J-Cards [Mark Domyancich ] J-cards #2 [Mark Domyancich ] Southern California ["Tube" ] TapeTree reminder [Les Irvin ] My health, the auction, David Lahm, CDNOW.COM, and a milestone [Wally Bre] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 03:22:05 -0400 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: CD Trees Greetings Siquombites: Now that the new tape tree is out I want to stress my desire that they also be available on CD (and volunteer to help make it happen). Cassette tapes are great until your player eats them - which is why I gave up on tapes several years ago. My state-of-the-art Nakamichi tapedeck has gone the way of my B&O turntable, gathering dust. I haven't had the pleasure of hearing any of the tape trees because I don't listen to tapes anymore. & I don't miss the hiss & crumples of cassettes the same way I don't miss the pops & crackles of LPs.... CaTGirl has generously offered to copy DAT tape trees to CD. This will take many weeks if not months. I will send her a box of CD-Rs next week & when she painstakingly transfers the DAT to CD, I will copy the CDs & snailmail them to fellow Siquombites who send me blank CD-Rs & SASE. & ya know I wouldn't do this for anyone but Joni lovers.... E.T. NP: Fleetwood Mac, The Dance ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 04:07:25 -0400 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Re: Black Crow David Lahm aptly opined: <<"Black Crow" has always been one of the most exciting JM songs for me. The consistent rhythm on the guitar has such immense energy and then the first vocal line slams in totally independent over the top of that beat. As a jazz player, I recognize the harmonic layout as a minor blues of double the usual length. The lyric is a continuous, powerful unfolding of images and mood. And I know I'm always saying this about the tracks I like best: the most amazing part is the rhythm of the vocal. Each chorus of the four is unique and they are equally strong and convincing, and of course, completely un-notatable in their freedom & subtlety. HEJIRA is one of her best works and this may be the best thing on it.>> Black Crow was the song that turned me on to Hejira. "...in a blue sky..." still sends me into a feathered world of wild dreams. While we're talking Hejira, I must say that Amelia is the most enchanting song I've ever heard - particularly the live rendition on S&L. I can't wait to hear your interpretations of Joni, David! "Jazz Takes on JM" is my next investment.... E.T. NP: First Circle, Pat Metheny Group ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 01:53:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Glenn Plotner Subject: Five Most Recent Purchases Ronnie Lane And Slim Chance: You Never Can Tell Van Morrison: Back On Top William Walton: Symphony No. 2 (Bournemouth SO/Litton) Rickie Lee Jones: Ghostyhead King Crimson: In The Wake of Poseidon Robert === Ignatz Mouse's Tape Trade Archive and Seriously Disturbed Humor http://members.xoom.com/rabidfox Thought Experiments, The Metaphysical Think Tank http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thoughtexperiments _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 09:29:09 EDT From: MGVal@aol.com Subject: Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell In a message dated 99-05-02 06:19:14 EDT, ewwtaylor@adelphia.net writes: > I can't wait to hear your interpretations of Joni, David! "Jazz Takes on >JM" is my next investment.... Well, I received my copy of JTOJM from work the other day and have been listening to it off and on this weekend. At first I thought that it would be like listening to the Mingus songs. While at the local "picnic in the park" the other week, I was talking with my daughter and suddenly starting humming "Dry Cleaner...." in my head. It slowly dawned on me that the music being played was the Mingus instrumental. I found it interesting that I couldn't hear it well enough to recognize it on-the-spot, but that I heard enough to kick off the "NPIMH" (now playing in my head), version. I thought that JTOJM would be a jazzy, almost Karoke-version of JM songs. My first listen was the auditory equivalent of a kid hurrying to keep up with their parents' longer strides. Headphones on, I settled stood in the kitchen tackling the dishes and the first tune kicked in. I "looked" for the spot for "We got a break!..." and the race was on. I'd follow the music, try to fit in the lyrics, miss and give up and listen. Then I'd recognize where a set of lyrics should go, try to pick up on the song from there, lose it, miss, give up and listen. So I went back to the beginning to listen to it without a Joni filter in place and boy! do I like it! Not only do I like it, but my teenager likes it as well! With my hearing loss, I find that if I look at the song listing, I can find the "Joni" in each song, if I don't, it's harder to pick up on it, (my inner ear filter isn't on), and I'm just listening to some really, really good jazz. Crisp and clean - not all muddied up with superfluous sounds. (unless, of course, they are there and I'm not hearing them!) "JTOJM" is the first bit of music I've broken down and bought in ages and I'm glad that I did. As soon as I retrieve it from my daughter's CD player, it's going back in my rotation. MG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:50:33 -0500 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: TT8 J-Cards Hey everyone- I finally had the time today to design the j-cards for the next tape tree, available for both Mac and Windows. Have a look at: http://jmdl.com/trading/jcard/ Have a good weekend! Mark NP-Joni at No Nukes rally Mark Domyancich Harpua@revealed.net http://home.revealed.net/Harpua http://jmdl.com/guitar/mark "This conformity factory is now closed!" -Homer Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 16:00:49 -0500 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: J-cards #2 Hi again! Ken brought to my attention that the j-cards for Windows were corrupt. They have been fixed now. The direct link is: http://jmdl.com/trading/jcard/download/win/tt8.exe Mark Domyancich Harpua@revealed.net http://home.revealed.net/Harpua http://jmdl.com/guitar/mark "This conformity factory is now closed!" -Homer Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 18:21:49 +0200 From: "Tube" Subject: Southern California cjenkins@austin.rr.com wrote: >Subject: NJC Last purchases >I just got back after a lovely week in Southern California. I picked up a >few cd's on the trip so to say five would be hard for me to remember. Wow, guess you had to watch out for all those hispanics eh? Tube _________________________________________________________ Get a Life - Get a RomeLife! - at www.fortunecity.com/victorian/plath/175 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:13:01 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: TapeTree reminder Joniphiles - Just a reminder that TapeTree #8 is still in the sign-up phase through Sunday, May 9. Don't miss out on this excellent set of tapes! All the info can be found at: http://www.jmdl.com/trading Thanks, Les ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 99 22:06:38 -0700 From: Wally Breese Subject: My health, the auction, David Lahm, CDNOW.COM, and a milestone Hello all, I want to thank everyone who's sent me their best wishes for my health and happiness. In fact, many of you wrote and said that you joined in the visualization exercise I wrote about in my last memo to the homepage. Very cool! And I'm pleased to tell you that the after-effects of my recent chemotherapy treatments were not as horrendous as they were at the previous session. I had just one particularly bad day and night, and believe me, that's a major improvement over last time. My appreciation also to those of you who expressed interest or participated in the auction of Joni's painting. The winning bid was $5,000.00 and was made by a fan who's been looking to purchase a JM painting for years, even going so far as contacting her managers (back when Joni was represented by Peter Asher management), but with no luck. He is, needless to say, very pleased at winning the auction and has promised to send me a photo of himself with the painting. He's also given me permission to include the painting in the Gallery section of JM.COM, along with the other JM paintings I already have displayed there. I was finally able to connect and have a conversation with musician, David Lahm. He's a very smart and entertaining guy and I think you'll learn a great deal about him and his new album, "Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell," by reading my interview. Our conversation has already been transcribed by the swift and gracious Susan Chaloner, and should be ready to put up on a page sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. Thanks for talking with me, David, and by the way- your album was last month's 3rd largest-selling item purchased from CDNOW.COM through a JM.COM link, right behind Joni's live video "Painting With Words And Music," and the gold disc version of "Blue." My sincere thanks to all of you who've been shopping at CDNOW.COM through the JM.COM links. With the recent release of the "Painting With Words And Music" video, and other new JM related products, the homepage account has been quite healthy. Thank you all! To make it easier to get to a particular item, I've expanded the "SHOP" page to include an image of and a link to all the recent products. Remember, if you want the homepage to get a share of your purchase, you must enter CDNOW.COM directly through one of the links on JM.COM every time you shop. One way to be certain that you're shopping in that manner is that you'll see a "Return to: JONI MITCHELL HOMPAGE" link in the upper right above the light blue line that displays the artist name on each page you go to within CDNOW. I truly appreciate your generosity and caring. Visit the SHOP page: http://www.jonimitchell.com/ShopPage998.html The Joni Mitchell Homepage was born in August of 1995, and I'm proud to say that sometime last week, Visitor #1,000,000 (one million) accessed the entrance page to the site. To celebrate this milestone, and in response to a bunch of requests, I've put up a new page with some additional photos from my first meeting with Joni at The Gorge in George, Washington on May 16th,1998. Thanks for the interest. See the photos at this address: http://www.JoniMitchell.com/MeetingGorgeA51698.html Later, Wally Breese The Joni Mitchell Homepage http://www.JoniMitchell.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V1 #31 ***************************** There is now a JMDL tape trading list. Interested traders can get more details at http://www.jmdl.com/trading ------- The Song and Album Voting Booths are open again! Cast your votes by clicking the links at http://www.jmdl.com/gallery username: jimdle password: siquomb ------- Don't forget about these ongoing projects: FAQ Project: Help compile the JMDL FAQ. Do you have mailing list-related questions? -send them to Trivia Project: Send your Joni trivia questions and/or answers to Today in History Project: Know of a date-specific Joni fact? -send it to ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe onlyjoni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?