From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #124 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, April 5 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 124 Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund," with all donations going directly into the upkeep of the JoniMitchell.com website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds, and it will now be up to Jim to continue. If you would like to donate to this fund, please make all checks payable to: Jim Johanson and send them to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA 01983 USA ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage can be found 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: -------- Traveling with Will and Grace [AngelinoCoyote@aol.com] Re: Costco and Tape Tree ["Scott Tennell" ] Salon people interview [CarltonCT@aol.com] Joshua Jazz and Joni in SF [JRMCo1@aol.com] Boston on May 28, 2000 [Robert Holliston ] re: joni's book does indeed exist! [Dmascall@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:51:46 EDT From: AngelinoCoyote@aol.com Subject: Traveling with Will and Grace I promise this is no late April Fool's joke (Clark). Having just returned from DC last night, I am back on the road today, checking into the Monaco Hotel in SF, staying till Friday. I told my pierced, genex bellman as he toted my big old bag that I have been on the road so much lately, I was going crazy - bored and lonely but finally in my 3rd favorite city. He asked if I had ever stayed at the Monaco - I said I had not. He said "You'll love this place. Just have a relaxing evening, order in room service, have a Jacuzzi and play some music on the CD system. If you need CDs, I have some." Of course, knowing my JMDL pals would have me certified for not carrying at least 12 CDs as I travel, I said, "Well, I did bring a few." Not five minutes later, he came back, saying, "here's a few of my favorites, give them back to me on Friday." I scanned his cache and saw Court and Spark. The other stuff was kinda scary (okay, except the Guns and Roses, which I do like). I said, "So you like Joni Mitchell?" He replied, "Hell yeah man, she's cool. Does 70s rock-and-roll." He went on to explore my traveling selection consisting of HOSL, DED, BSN, and H. He said, "Ya mean she did some more stuff? My mum turned me onto this disc a few months ago." Feeling suddenly of a parental age with eyes rolled upward, I simply replied, "Yes, Matt." He said, "Ya know, my mum said she's gonna be on Will and Grace tonight." Tempted to ask him what he was smoking, I asked, "Doing what?" He replied, "Singin, man." I explained that my friends on the LIST hadn't told me that. He said, "What?" Never mind. Trying to conjure up an image of Joni singing with Will, Grace, Jack, and Karen doing back-ups was more than my travel weary body could take. I ran a bath. Freshly jacuzzed, full of Monaco pizza and a nice cab, the phone rang. It was my boyfriend telling me to turn on Will and Grace. Yet another surreal experience in SF. I watched, mouth falling on the floor - listening to Matt's C&S (first time in years). Well, Matt, she may have not sang on the show or even been on the show, but you gave me a show and yet another chapter in my memoirs tentatively titled, "The Men I Have Known." Good night my good pals on the list. I am putting BSN in the CD system to calm the frayed nerves of this boy now seemingly of a parental age. No regrets, Coyote Casa Alegre Hollywood, California I'll be dancin' on a pony keg. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:31:19 -0700 From: "Scott Tennell" Subject: Re: Costco and Tape Tree Scott Tennell wrote: > I was in Costco today to pick up a case of bottled water. As I walking > to the back of the store where the many cases of water sit on pallets, > the section of cds caught my eye. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw > a box of Joni BSN cds. She's becoming so mainstream these days. (Ha! > Ha!) > > I am new to the list but a long time Joni listener. I was wondering how > the whole tape tree thing works. Could someone please enlighten me? > > I'll be at the Concord show, Section 103 Row K. Can't wait! I hope > these are good seats. I was first in line at BASS at 12 when they went > on sale. I can't believe how far back my seats were only minutes after > they went on sale. I tried later that night online for the fun of it. > And the seats that came up were actually closer and sounded better. I > will never understand the crappy ticket system we have to deal with. > > These are exciting days for all of us! > Sincerely, > Scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:33:39 EDT From: CarltonCT@aol.com Subject: Salon people interview - --part1_84.376184b.261c3843_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I finally checked this out after some listers recommended it. I have always loved this picture of Joni tanned and in the desert. Learned a few things too -- like Joni's mom "quoted Shakespeare the way some people quite the Bible." Salon People | Joni Mitchell - - Clark np: David Wilcox - Big Horizon - --part1_84.376184b.261c3843_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: RbtRodi@aol.com From: RbtRodi@aol.com Full-name: RbtRodi Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:30:42 EDT Subject: FYI To: CarltonCT@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 146 Don't know if you saw this. Salon People | Joni Mitchell More later. X O R - --part1_84.376184b.261c3843_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:46:17 EDT From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Joshua Jazz and Joni in SF I had one of those synchronistic Joni days in San Francisco today, friends. Taking the ferry to work across the SF Bay from Marin, per usual, my thoughts turned to Wally and I watched the seagulls at play in the sun drenched sky. I was perusing the SF Chronicle entertainment section and came across this Siquomb quote in the "personals" section: "The music business just makes me sick. It's a joke. Can you sit and enjoy any kind of music or awards shows? Where are the adults? Where is the class? This is whiners and screamers and screechers and they're all full of themselves over nothing, you know, just like the scum that populates this business. I'm ashamed to be a part of it. I hate it with a passion. - Joni Mitchell, whose new album is Both Sides Now, in Rolling Stone" But wait, there's more... Then turning the page, I saw that Joshua Redman, who is directing the San Francisco Jazz Festival this year, would be playing a free noon concert at the Virgin Megastore, 3 blocks from my office. Moreover, the concert would be recorded and a CD of the performance would be burned on the spot. A drawing would then be held and 12 lucky attendee would go home with a copy of the CD, which would be signed by Joshua and the band. The concert was fabulous. Joshua and his quartet played four songs from their new CD, "Beyond." Very adult. Very Classy. As fate would have it...I won! I spent an hour after the show chatting with Joshua about jazz and Joni (of course) after he signed my CD. His wife is an uber-fan of Joni's and insisted on playing Blue in its entirety at their wedding reception in New York a few years back. The New York Times wrote about their wedding and the Joni connection at the time, he said. Anyway, I intend to send the CD to Michael Paz. I'm hoping he'll agree to burn copies for himself and anyone else interested in having a copy. I'll want the original back though, Mikey. :-) Peace and love to all. - -Julius np: Joshua Redman "Beyond Live @ Virgin Megastore San Francisco" April 4, 2000 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:37:05 -0700 From: Robert Holliston Subject: Boston on May 28, 2000 Hey, y'all! First, like all of you, I loved Joni on Letterman! Been loving BSN for a while, but it was so great to see her looking so relaxed and at home, and to hear such expressive singing. One of the things Miles Davis said he loved so much about Billie Holiday's later recordings was her incredibly elastic rhythm (I think she always had that, and so did he). And now Joni, always an epic fan of both Miles and Billie, just having such fun with rhythm! So, you can imagine how excited I am to be going to one of the concerts!!! Yes, my dear friend RickieLee has weathered the slings and arrows of outrageous Ticketmaster to ensure that we have seats, so yet again, I'm heading to beautiful Boston. My fingers will be crossed until then, though, because I'm playing a concert myself the previous night in Vancouver, and am scheduled to land at Logan airport a mere three hours before showtime - if anyone emails me saying, "you dumb hoser, that one's in the afternoon!" I'll just gather up my Canadian dignity and.........go anyway. After all, Boston also means Ric! Anne! Ashara! ChuckE! Barbara! Maybe a quick trip to Connecticut (Heather!) Then New York - my very accomodating travel agent arranged for me to fly into Boston, and out of New York. So.....Patrick? Kay? Kenny? Can you keep a few hours free during the first three days of June to hang out with a balding old Canuck with middle-aged eyesight? I'll retreat back to lurkdom now...... love to all, Roberto ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:57:13 EDT From: Dmascall@aol.com Subject: re: joni's book does indeed exist! Last time I posted about availability of a Joni book I was wrong but....here goes. My trade database says this book (ISBN 0609600087) is the "Collected Lyrics & poems" (or is it the other way around) - and though I can't consult my own copy the publication date fits in with this. What might be more interesting is something entitled "Art Book" by Joni Mitchell which has a release date some time in 2001. I'll post the ISBN for that if anyone wants it. However, the book trade databases still show Joni's "Autobiography" down for release some time this year, which doesn't seem very likely. David Mascall ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #124 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list at Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe onlyjoni-digest" to ------- Siquomb, isn't she?