From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V1 #260 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk onlyJMDL Digest Thursday, November 11 1999 Volume 01 : Number 260 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: -------- Re[2]: Re[2]: My Dinner with Joni ["Lori REASON"] thank you [charles atlas sheppard ] Re: false alarms kinda long - longer now! ["Helen M. Adcock" ] BEAUTIFUL Rainbow!! [Julian51469@aol.com] Furry Jazzed Up [James Leahy ] Hissing Demos. [Richard Rice ] Re: Thanksgiving rev./&DJRD ["Catherine McKay" ] Re: Hissing Demos. [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Grace of My Heart [Jerry Notaro ] Learning to love DJRD [Martin Giles ] Joni in the Malls - "Conversation" LOTC ["Brett Code" ] Joni's Jazz [AzeemAK@aol.com] Re: Joni's Jazz ["Mark or Travis" ] joni on blade album/HDCD [Bounced Message ] JoniJest 99 Box Set, CD-R's and Mystery Singer ["Beverly" ] Re: Joni's Jazz [CaTGirl627@aol.com] (JC?) re: PC, but not for me! [Kate Tarasenko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:55:56 +0100 From: "Lori REASON" Subject: Re[2]: Re[2]: My Dinner with Joni Well hey, bring him to New Orleans in May! Lori *************** FIRESIGN THEATRE??? Phil Proctor was a high school classmate of mine and still is a good friend. D LAHM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:58:48 -0800 (PST) From: charles atlas sheppard Subject: thank you I want to thank y'all for being you. I have been on this list for a few weeks. I love the posts but I have to quit for awhile. I will be back. Thank you for downloading my screensavers. If you have personal requests for other artists please let me know and I will see what I can do. good night ===== Be cool, stay warm Charles Atlas Sheppard Support The Nepenthe Journal http://www.freespeech.org/tumbleweed Click on the text link below: Protect Your Privacy on the web! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:27:31 +1300 From: "Helen M. Adcock" Subject: Re: false alarms kinda long - longer now! Raffaele wrote: >However, I still like to think of this verse ('Maybe I've never really >loved...') as the sad confession of a human being whose sensibility leads >he/she to a sort of isolation from the crowd, not because of pretenciousness >but because of the willingness of looking for more, because of a struggle >going on in his/her spirit. Living in such a state of mind (with the 'mind >in the clouds') can be dangerous at times: you look down at the crowd, at >what you have achieved so far, at the chaos of what's around and (possibly) >of your whole life, you lose your balance, stumble and crash down back to >earth. Sometimes you "crash in somebody's arms" and think you might have >finally fulfilled your dreams, but after a while you just realise it has >been another false alarm. Then you can only wish to take off again and reach >for the clouds. I know we've discussed "Amelia" before, but I just had to say that I find this interpretation really interesting. Mainly because it's similar to how I've always interpreted the song myself. Personally, it's one of my alltime favourite JM songs because I relate to it so closely. But I don't think of it as a "sad" confession, more of a "realistic" confession, in that she's becoming aware, through her journey across the country alone (with her thoughts), of her own limitations and "failure" in relationships. Failures is not the word I want to use (or limitations, for that matter), but I can't actually think of a better one at the moment (imagine - Helen's stumped for words!). And maybe the lines "I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude, And looking down on everything" don't mean that she's felt like she's "above" everyone, but that she's just felt that she's been watching everyone else from afar, in order to find her own place in the world. "People will tell you where they've gone..." This verse is amazing. In a few short lines she's summed up my life! People telling me how to live my life, what I should do, when I should do it, when in the end, I need to find my own place. What was right for my mother, brother, sister, cousin is not necessarily right for me - far from it, as it turns out! I've spent 30 years doing what I was told, or was expected to do, instead of doing what I felt, and it's only in the last couple of years that I'm beginning to work that out. Some of my revelations/realisations are going to hurt, shock, disappoint, and delight different people, according to their expectations of me, but my highest priority is me, so everyone's going to just have to like it or lump it! I'm feeling strangely philosophical tonight. Not sure if it's the pouring rain (and almost unbearable humidity accompanying it) or just because it's late and I've had insomnia for the last 4 nights, but just felt like venting a little - and what better way to do it, than to talk about Joni. That's the other thing I love about her. Give me any emotion, and I'll give you a JM song to match it! Try THAT with the Spice Girls! Anyway, I better "try" and get some sleep, though no doubt I'll be switching on again at about 4am! Helen _______________________________ "I don't believe in livin' in the middle with available extremes" - Carole King hell@ihug.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:37:33 +1300 From: "Helen M. Adcock" Subject: Re: De-lurking for Joni's Birthday Jimmy wrote: >SOLD!!!! I'll be there tomorrow Rainbow (if I can scrape up enough aluminum >cans to pay for the flight) I've never been to Hawaii, but hear it's >beautiful. Maybe we can have a Joni-fest there!!! Kakki's a world traveler, >so we can all sneak in her large suitcase and fly for free. Heck, it's close >enough for Pat Henry in Guam to go too! I second the motion! I spent two weeks on Maui about 4 years ago, and have been dying to go back ever since! I absolutely loved the place - so much that I actually seriously thought about moving there! But of course I couldn't subject my baby (cat) to six months of quarantine, so it never happened! But I've never, ever had such a great time on a holiday. I recommend it to everyone! Helen _______________________________ "I don't believe in livin' in the middle with available extremes" - Carole King hell@ihug.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:52:43 EST From: Julian51469@aol.com Subject: BEAUTIFUL Rainbow!! Thank you for such a beautiful post. I have saved it in my personal Joni archives. When I got back on the net, the first thing that I did was look up Joni and company. I don't think that I can help you financially in the way of getting to New Orleans for Joni-fest but I shall encourage and send wishes your way so that you may meet my wife and I there when the time comes. The other day I mentioned to my wife that there would be a Joni-fest in New Orleans and she suprised me by saying, "Cool, let's go!" (Seeing as how we were on our honeymoon during the last Joni-fest.) << "For Joni Mitchell--When She Gets It All Together":>> Thanks to Joni speaking her truths we can get closer to ours. Shaka, Julian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:55:44 -0500 From: James Leahy Subject: Furry Jazzed Up I heard yet another Joni cover on CBC Radio -- Ian Shaw singing "Furry Sings the Blues" from his album of pop standards called "In a New York Minute." Also, a pic of Joni is included in Bryan Adams' book of photos of distinguished Canadian women "Made in Canada." Proceeds from the book go to breast cancer research. Joni is depicted holding up a circular plaque of West Coast native design over her heart. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:23:58 -0500 From: Richard Rice Subject: Hissing Demos. Hello All. The weather here in the midwest is beyond being wonderful. What a great way to ease into the holiday season! I just had my first ear full of the Hissing Demos. ....WOW!!! Fun stuff. I love the take on Dreamland here. Many thanks to Bob Muller for the tapes! Even more thanks for doing some twice. Such amazing generosity. --I would thank you privately save for being confused as to your address. Is your email address SCJoniGuy, now? The Hissing Demos, joy that they are, left me a little confused. I assume these arrangements were done well before Joni gathered a band to produce the album. If so, that amazes me. I always thought of Hissing as being the end product of musical discovery Joni made in the company of other jazz musicians, and that the arrangements were created in a more interactive, improvisational way. Joni Jazz session in a sense. Instead, it seems these pieces were fully formed in Joni's mind well before any artists were culled together to make music. --And what beautiful music it is! Where did these tapes come from? Did the person who supplied them give any information regarding the development of this recording? Joni's ability to arrange a song is absolutely brilliant. Why does MTV waste time 'Real Worlding' snot nosed brats? Imagine a series where Joni is followed w a camera to see the development of a song cycle from first probing into new tunings to the finished CD package, complete with art. I image, for some, such revelations might kill the magic, but for me I would love to hear and see how this process created such wonderful, wonderful tunes as 'Yvette in English." Wish I had more answers than questions. John. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:51:39 GMT From: "Catherine McKay" Subject: Re: Thanksgiving rev./&DJRD Drew asked: "I am looking for DJRD on CD, and don't have much experience with ordering records other than through the mainstream. Where the heck can I get it? (Virgin, Tower, no go, even here in the NY area". I'm really behind on reading my e-mails, so I'm sure someone will have answered this already. I recently bought DJRD through CD-Now on the net - however, I've just read (and read it here!) that they're doing HDCD versions of all of Joni's stuff now (is it true?). That figures, now that I've finally got it. Oh well, that goes on the wish list now. If it's Joni, I don't mind buying another one, if for no other reason, than to boost her sales and confuse the heck out of the marketing types. My experience with CD-Now has been positive - I ordered CDs on the net and rec'd them about 2 weeks later. And, in my case, coming from the US to Canada, they have to go through customs. A lot of this customs hassle we used to get when ordering from the US has been cleaned up, so you don't acutally have to go down to the post office to pay duty and sign a billion forms anymore - they take care of all that for you, so you don't even notice that part. I actually found Mingus and STAS last week on CD in Indigo (this is a big-box book/CD/video chain, maybe this particular chain is Canadian only, I dunno, but there are similar ones elsewhere - this is the type of place I usually avoid like the plague for various reasons, but mostly due to mall phobia). I was surprised and delighted that they had them at all, but disappointed that they were the "special price" versions, which means not much to the booklet (on Mingus anyway.) Can anyone tell me whether the original LP had more stuff in it? e.g., the lyrics to the songs and more Joni art? All this had was Joni's blurb about Charles Mingus, the names of the songs and who played on the album, nothing more. Disappointing yes, but better than nothing at all. At the same time, treated myself to Jonatha Brooke's "10-cent wings", Bruce Cockburn's "Breakfast in NO..." and Emmy Lou Harris' "Wrecking Ball". Yee-haw! Catherine (in Toronto) cateri@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:01:59 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Hissing Demos. John said: <> I created "SCJoniguy" for my Joni correspondence, but "RMuRocks" is still good as well... > Why does MTV waste time 'Real Worlding' snot nosed brats? Imagine a > series where Joni is followed w a camera to see the development of a > song cycle from first probing into new tunings to the finished CD > package, complete with art.>> This is a WONDERFUL idea, John...Joni deserves SO much more attention than she gets...I wonder sometimes as I go through the wealth of unreleased Joni stuff why we have rarities/live box sets from The Doors (who only lasted a short time and debatedly only released 3 decent records), yet we have nothing officially from Joni! She is the top of the musical heap obviously. Of course, the set wouldn't be a best-seller, but I'll bet whoever releases it could make some money on it. They should know about how many units they could sell, and if they released it around this time of year, they get a push from Christmas and boom - there ya go! Maybe between Asylum, WB, Reprise, Geffen, etc. they can't come to terms... <> Well now, we can probably ALL make that statement!:~) Glad you're enjoying the music! Bob NP: Blues Traveler, "Runaround" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:08:35 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Grace of My Heart Finally got to watch my DVD of Grace of My Heart. Man From Mars makes perfect sense lyrically once you have seen the movie. And a bonus appearance by Shawn Colvin. I enjoyed it and watched the bonus program on the making of the film and the 2 hour commentary by the director as the movie played again. That is the beauty of DVD's for a movie lover like me. Larry Klein is the music director and he makes no mention of Joni or the song. Allison does mention the cd release mix up. But there are many Joni mentions in her running commentary. If you have a DVD player I highly recommend it. I thought the musical performances were outstanding, though the storyline was a tad on the soapy side. Jerry np: George Winston - Plains ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:16:58 +0000 From: Martin Giles Subject: Learning to love DJRD Debra said at the weekend.. > DJRD is more of a "pleasure in > sound-making" album, whereas her earlier albums were very wordy, more > cerebral and not as much fun sound-wise. And I'm days behind here as usual, being a 'work access, digest receiver'... I bought DJRD only a couple of months ago, and thinking back on it, I've had a very different way of 'discovering' this album from any other of Joni's. I've realised that I haven't yet paid much attention to the words. i'm completely absorbed in the sound of the album. Joni has used a broader palette of sounds on this album than any other, IMO. Scratchy acoustic and 'jazzy' bass, a whole orchestra, all that fabulous latin percussion, things crossfading out of nowhere, jazzy solos... It's very different from her norm (whatever that might be) and hints strongly at things to come on Mingus. I find that if (as in this case) it takes me a while to get into a piece of music, that I end up loving it more deeply and for much longer than something I 'got' immediately. I'm getting a wonderful sense of anticipation about DJRD - I know that I'm falling in love...slowly. What's the line in dreamland, something about, "burning inside with the thought of things to come". Hope that's right, like I said, I haven't been paying much attention to the lyrics yet. It comes to mind as the previous line has been the subject of much discussion recently! For what it's worth, I prefer to think that the couple in question are anticipating a passionate encounter together, just like I am with the album as a whole. Goin' home now to play it again.......... Martin. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:34:22 -0700 From: "Brett Code" Subject: Joni in the Malls - "Conversation" LOTC At lunch today in the food court of my office tower, I cheered right up when "Conversation" came floating through the air. It's funny that these mall and grocery store people don't just use the hits but pick interesting and somewhat obscure songs to play for people as they shop. Does anyone even know anyone not on the list who has ever heard of "Conversation"? Did it ever get radio play? Obviously Ladies of the Canyon sold more than 600 copies, so lots of people would have heard it - but. . . I wonder why they play somewhat more obscure songs? The 'classic rock' stations could take a lesson or two from the mall music people. Brett ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:54:28 EST From: Gertus@aol.com Subject: Travis record Joni again Don't know whether this has been mentioned already, but the Scottish band, Travis have recorded "River" and put it on the CD single "Turn". This follows their inclusion of "Urge for Going" on their previous single. Their version of "River" has a Joni type piano accompaniment and is unexceptional but should sell well following the success of "Why does it Always Rain on Me" Today, I picked up a copy of Paul Barrera's book "Joni Mitchell Paved Paradise".So far, I've only had a chance to read the introduction but I don't like his style much. He's very critical of Joni's attitude to the media and to people who analyse her lyrics, but I'm not going to make a judgement on the book until I've read it. One thing though, Mr Barrera obviously doesn't subscribe to the JMDL - talking about "My Best to You" he says "The Sons of the Pioneers recorded a song of the same name years ago, I cannot confirm or deny if it was the same song"! Regards Jacky ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:41:18 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni in the Malls - "Conversation" LOTC In a message dated 11/10/99 1:37:09 PM US Central Standard Time, codeb@duncanmccachen.com writes: << I wonder why they play somewhat more obscure songs? The 'classic rock' stations could take a lesson or two from the mall music people. >> True, Brett...I think the people that select this music (is it Jenaya here that does that?) sneak in some personal faves that they know fit the format, adult easy-listening, whatever...I remember how great it was in the days of AOR (album-oriented radio) when the FM stations would play anything they wanted off a new release and you really got a feel for the record as a whole. I used to file away mentally songs that I liked, and as soon as I heard a couple I liked from the same release, it was off to Schoolkid's Records for me! Bob NP: Bruce C.,"Down to the Delta" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:28:52 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Joni in the Malls - "Conversation" LOTC Brett asked: >Does anyone even know anyone not on the list who has ever heard of >"Conversation"? Did it ever get radio play? Obviously Ladies of the Canyon >sold more than 600 copies, so lots of people would have heard it - but. . . I clearly (and happily) recall both "Conversation" and "Morning Morgantown" being played regularly on radio in L.A. when LOTC came out along with "Woodstock", BYT and the "Ladies" title song. My musical friends and I back then sang and played the songs on guitar constantly, even though none of us had the album or songbook. So we must have learned them from listening to the radio and each other. Funny - I don't recall "Circle Game" being played much, though. > I wonder why they play somewhat more obscure songs? The 'classic rock' > stations could take a lesson or two from the mall music people. After all this time on the list, I *finally* can join the ranks of those who have heard Joni played in the market ;-) Last Sunday I was in Trader Joe's in West L.A. and heard "Chinese Cafe" being played on a great sounding, "real" stereo system. What was even better was that several of the shoppers were singing right along like it was the most natural thing in the world to do! Kakk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:00:01 EST From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Joni's Jazz Well call me a wet blanket, but I've been hugely disappointed by most of what I've heard up to now (I've got as far as A Strange Boy). Mostly it's the singing that just doesn't hit the spot. Toshi Reagon is shouting by the end of Trouble Child, Christina Wheeler seems out of her depth, Eric Anderson is, I'm sorry to say, awful; PM Dawn on I's A Muggin' got on my nerves and Joy Askew over-emotes and seems to miss the point completely. Duncan Sheik is okay on Court & Spark, Chaka is touching on wonderful on Hissing, though shaky on Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. I may be biased, but I was expecting the worst of Jane Siberry's performances from what had been posted previously, and actually I think they're pretty good: she seems to "get" the songs, doesn't mess around with them too much and doesn't sound like she's straining, which most of the others are. Erin Hamilton certainly sounds like she's got the chops needed, and the highlight for me is John Kelly - this man really can sing. Ah well, can't please all of the people all of the time... Azeem ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:24:45 -0800 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Joni's Jazz Azeem expounded: > Well call me a wet blanket, but I've been hugely disappointed by most of what > I've heard up to now (I've got as far as A Strange Boy). Mostly it's the > singing that just doesn't hit the spot. Toshi Reagon is shouting by the end > of Trouble Child, Christina Wheeler seems out of her depth, Eric Anderson is, > I'm sorry to say, awful; PM Dawn on I's A Muggin' got on my nerves and Joy > Askew over-emotes and seems to miss the point completely. Duncan Sheik is > okay on Court & Spark, Chaka is touching on wonderful on Hissing, though > shaky on Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. I may be biased, but I was expecting > the worst of Jane Siberry's performances from what had been posted > previously, and actually I think they're pretty good: she seems to "get" the > songs, doesn't mess around with them too much and doesn't sound like she's > straining, which most of the others are. Erin Hamilton certainly sounds like > she's got the chops needed, and the highlight for me is John Kelly - this man > really can sing. And I have to say that I agree with most of what Azeem wrote here. I do have to disagree with his assessment of Joy Askew, however. I thought she was great and I'm very intrigued with her. I want to hear more of her. Also, not being at all familiar with Jane Siberry, I have to say I wasn't especially impressed with her although I don't think she was as awful as some other people have said. Chaka is a wonderful singer but I didn't especially like what she did during this concert. It grates on me when singers slur over the lyrics, especially great lyrics, like *Joni's* certainly are. John Kelly's sweet voice & sincere, heartfelt delivery was like a breath of fresh air. He certainly held his own with the rest of this group and was much better than quite a few of them, imo. Erin Hamilton was ok, I guess although I can't really remember that much of her performance. And most of the rest of the singing was pretty much forgettable, too, imo. The notable exception was Hendricks & Ross. I think they pretty much mopped up the stage with all the other singers at this gig. And lucky me! I'm going to see them tomorrow night at Jazz Alley! WOOHOO! Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:31:12 -0700 From: Bounced Message Subject: joni on blade album/HDCD Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:36:44 -0500 From: BarBearUh Subject: joni on blade album/HDCD delurking for a moment to pass on some of today's joni news... joni will be singing on brian blade's next album. see here for more (including joni pix): http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=allstararticle/fid=155786 Bob wrote: > Is there a significant difference in the HDCD version > sound-wise? My CD player is NOT an HDCD player, but I bought S&L in HDCD > and wow, it really jumps out at ya'. I'm thinking of upgrading my reular > Joni CD's to HDCD and donating my old ones to the library... here's my take on this - i don't know how much the HDCD process does for the discs, but in general, the HDCD discs are remastered and the ones that aren't, well, aren't. what's really different is probably that the original CD releases were crap. BTW - great thread on 'dreamland'! barbara np: poi dog pondering, pomegranate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:44:07 -0500 From: "Beverly" Subject: JoniJest 99 Box Set, CD-R's and Mystery Singer Hi all, I'm de-lurking for a couple of comments and questions. I received my boxed set last week. Thanks, Les!! It's been such a pleasure to listen to so many talented list members interpret Joni's music. The recording quality is terrific! I'm just amazed! Everyone was great! I came sooo close to being there. This set is the next best thing. Question: Does anyone know why my DVD player doesn't "recognize" a CD-R? I now play all my CD's in my DVD player. For lack of room, it replaced my older carousel. BTW, my DVD player is a Proscan. When I insert a CD-R, the digital readout window "says" "no disc." This happened with all four discs. My DVD player is hooked up to the "good" equipment and produces the best sound in the house. I was really disappointed that I couldn't savor this music on five speakers, etc. I can play them in my computer and in my car. Question: WHO is that singing "My Funny Valentine" at the end of the CD at Atty May's? All I can is - WOW! I love this standard and love this singer's vocal gymnastics; going almost Minnie Ripperton (compliment) in some places, and dropping down a couple of octaves on the next note, only to jump back up again. I was just blown away. The singer wasn't credited. Is it a new list member? Would love to hear more! Bev ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:44:16 PST From: "Russell Bowden" Subject: Anthology I just saw this songbook with piano vocal and guitar tunings in my local music store here in Eugene... Wilson Music House 943 Olive St. Eugene, OR 541-345-5312 They had a few other Joni's...Hits and Missed and The Best of Joni Mitchell... Info on another music place in Oregon (Portland) order phone is 1-800-876-9777 Portland Music Company AND try this one: 1-800-452-1133 Sheet Music Service Good Luck. Love, Russ NPIMH Hunter from the orginal Blue..Thank YOU, Kakki ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:11:17 EST From: CaTGirl627@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni's Jazz In a message dated 11/10/1999 7:03:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, AzeemAK@aol.com writes: << Well call me a wet blanket, but I've been hugely disappointed by most of what I've heard up to now (I've got as far as A Strange Boy). Mostly it's the singing that just doesn't hit the spot. Toshi Reagon is shouting by the end of Trouble Child, Christina Wheeler seems out of her depth, Eric Anderson is, I'm sorry to say, awful; PM Dawn on I's A Muggin' got on my nerves and Joy Askew over-emotes and seems to miss the point completely. Duncan Sheik is okay on Court & Spark, Chaka is touching on wonderful on Hissing, though shaky on Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. I may be biased, but I was expecting the worst of Jane Siberry's performances from what had been posted previously, and actually I think they're pretty good: she seems to "get" the songs, doesn't mess around with them too much and doesn't sound like she's straining, which most of the others are. Erin Hamilton certainly sounds like she's got the chops needed, and the highlight for me is John Kelly - this man really can sing. Ah well, can't please all of the people all of the time... Azeem >> THANK YOU Azeem. I didn't want to speak up but since you mentioned it, I thought it was horrible myself. I could barely get thru the first tape. They all kept messing up on songs and their vocals were quite lame. I thought the Joni listers at Asharas sounded much better then these so called professionals!! When I's a mussin came on it went off!!!! Catgirl preparing for the slings and arrows! (((duck!!))))) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:57:22 +0000 From: Kate Tarasenko Subject: (JC?) re: PC, but not for me! Kakki sang: "I am a womyn of heart and mind With time on my hands No biological person I have borne to nurture You come to me like a still growing person And I give you my critical assessment and my positive encouragement You think I'm like you mother, or another person with whom you have been intimate, or your sister or a person you have idealized Or just another still growing person When love causes me to not be actualizing healthy personhood After the enjoyable feelings when you are more grounded Negotiate mutual agreements favorable to you Execute the necessary documentation Accept your commendations Copulate with persons with whom you have not yet achieved a healthy and sustaining bond Does that not leave you with a sense of not acheiving your greatness potential?" Kakki -- This goes into the JMDL Hall of Fame!!!! I'm still laughing -- THANKS!!! Kate in CO ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V1 #260 ****************************** The Song and Album Voting Booths are open! Cast your votes by clicking the links at http://www.jmdl.com/gallery username: jimdle password: siquomb ------- Don't forget about these ongoing projects: Glossary project: Send a blank message to for all the details. 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?