From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #286 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Monday, July 10 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 286 The 'Official' Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. --- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. --- Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund" with all donations going directly towards the upkeep of the website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds. it is now up to US to help Jim 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 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Lead Balloon [John Downes ] Re Pat H.'s Post on Joni at Saskatoon! [john low ] Re: Songs For & About JONI (The List) [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: question: TTT artwork [Richard Rice ] Re: TTT artwork - Joni's answers ["Kakki" ] Re: Saskatoon Magic ["Kakki" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:30:25 -0600 From: John Downes Subject: Lead Balloon Hi everyone, I am curious to know about the situation which is portrayed in the song Lead Balloon from Taming the Tiger. Does anyone know the background of this song? - -John in Edmonton ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:48:4 +1000 From: john low Subject: Re Pat H.'s Post on Joni at Saskatoon! pat henry wrote: >penny, PLEASE tell me you gave her my address! Good on you, pat! I really hope Joni writes to you! The memories you've shared with us have given all of us, I'm sure, a much greater feel for those early years. They certainly have in my case. Cheers, John (in Sydney). __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:40:50 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Songs For & About JONI (The List) << >I'm 80% certain they also sampled "Sweet Bird" on some record or other. if anyone can confirm this and identify the Album, i'll have a friend send it to me.>> They did NOT sample Sweet Bird on any of their releases...I spent an hour poring over their discs which are LOADED with credits! I about went buggy-eyed! :~) <> Title would be "Circle Of Amour". And my Crystal Ball only has 4 CD's, I musta got ripped off! There's also an Eric Kloss song called "Joni" which has to be inspired by her, even though it's an instrumental. He plays the piano in a C&S style... And "Luke" Bloom on your list is actually "Luka", although it's not his real name. He's the brother of Christy Moore, a very famous singer and writer in his own right, but didn't want to be in his shadow, so he took his name from Suzanne Vega's song and the character in Ulysses by James Joyce. You probably knew all that but maybe it will interest somebody else. Thanks for posting all that info, btw! A wonderful reference. Bob NP: Hedge & Donna, "Josea" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:41:07 -0500 From: Richard Rice Subject: Re: question: TTT artwork Hi Nickel Chief, The painting you were inquiring about is indeed Joni and Don Freed. The skyline is that of Edmonton Canada. They were in Edmonton for the Edmonton Folk festival. (Duh.) What year? I'm sure someone on the list can tell ya. The skyline went up in a whoosh, the effect of new found oil money, so most of the buildings are modern glass and steel structures. Joni was taken by the play of light on them. In a certain light the reflection of the sun on them seemed Cathedral like and she wanted to capture that effect. The other cool story is, during Joni's stay at the fest, it rained and after doing her set, she doned a yellow rain parka and wore a big floppy straw hat. It was enough of a camaflouge that Joni was able to wander the crowds without anyone taking notice of her! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:47:00 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: TTT artwork - Joni's answers (With apologies to those who have heard this before) The painting location is Edmonton, Alberta and it is Donald's profile in the painting. After Joni's L.A. art exhibit last December at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) a tiny college radio station, KCSN, interviewed Joni at LACE along with Mendel director Gilles Hebert. I obtained a tape of the interview from a recording service. Unfortunately, the tape had a lot of static due to the weak signal of the station and was difficult to understand in parts. Listmember Lindsay Moon and I worked on deciphering it and Lindsay transcribed it for the list. The entire interview is in the articles section of the JMDL web site. Joni provides many insights and explanations for the TTT and BSN paintings in the interview. Here is what she says about the Edmonton skyline painting: Rene Ingle, interviewer: "And I have two more paintings that I want to spend some time with. They're two that I had my strongest reaction to. Is this you crouched here --" Joni: "Mm-hmm." "-- in this painting, and will you tell us a little about it?" Joni: "This is Edmonton, Alberta. Most of my relatives live there. In the distance you see a skyline. The Edmonton skyline came up late and fast because of oil money and is mostly glass buildings, so from a distance the pink glass or blue glass, it's quite an Oz-looking place. And in the bend in the river there is a foot bridge or a bicycle bridge, and there's a bicycle path that comes along this side, again, right at that point that stands out at the left-hand side. The following day I gave a concert. So this is the day before the concert and very close to the concert site but this is the North Saskatchewan River. The figure in the foreground is my boyfriend who's from my hometown. Donald and I grew up playing on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, and one of the reasons that a lot of these images of he and I -- well, they're not all here -- they take place -- we have a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan thing about walking in parks. I don't know, it's just something locals do, you know. So we always end up in every city that we are renting bicycles whether it's in Rome and riding our bikes through parks and a lot of the images that I track home with me to paint come from those public spaces." Kakki NP: Joni live 1972 "Case of You" (thank you Stephen!) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:15:34 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Saskatoon Magic Hi CC and welcome to the list! What an absolutely fantastic experience for you to chat with Joni's father! Thank you for sharing this. A few of us who have seen the photo scans of her parents at the opening have also been commenting that his spirit indeed shines right through - how wonderful to hear first-hand (ear? ;-) confirmation of this! Kakki ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #286 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list at ------- Siquomb, isn't she?