From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #103 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 Friday, March 30 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 103 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. Information on the 4th "Annual" New England JoniFest: http://www.jmdl.com/jfne2001.cfm The Joni Chat Room: http://www.jmdl.com/chat.cfm ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- How to be like Joni Mitchell [Gordon Mackie ] back on air [catman ] the guys who cleared the floor ["shane mattison" ] Re: offer withdrawn [Catherine McKay ] Amazon $8.99 Sale ["Brenda J. Walker" ] Musical instrument strumpet-style ["John van Tiel" ] Joni Moment [AzeemAK@aol.com] Re: my long fall from grace... ["Mike Hicks" ] RE: Musical instrument strumpet-style ["Wally Kairuz" ] Re: Joni Moment [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] re: my long fall from =?iso-8859-1?Q?grace=85?= [Nancy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:54:25 +0100 From: Gordon Mackie Subject: How to be like Joni Mitchell The post the other day about how someone could go to a fancy dress party as Joni reminded me of a couple of very old anecdotes. I can't remember where I read them but they have stuck in my consciousness It was either Crosby or Nash who was quoted as saying that Joni was as 'modest as Mussolini' That might give you a tip about attitude...lol. Linked to this was an item about how 'Judgement of the Mooon and Stars' was about Joni comparing herself to Beethoven ...which has also reminded me of something from way back. We had an English teacher in 3rd year secondary ( is that 9th grade...) who used said JOTMAS for poetry class. How radical that must have been. It's wet, dull and grey here...and that's just the weather...off to listen to presentations on comparative practice in community education Enjoy your day Gordon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:35:13 +0100 From: catman Subject: back on air a measage just arrived from jeff(smoe owner) to say we are back on line. - -- bw colin colin@tantra.fsbusiness.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/tantra_apso/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:59:51 -0700 From: "shane mattison" Subject: the guys who cleared the floor thanx for your thanx guys - really appreciate it when i'm new to the list -new tidbits- an old friend, we'll call him 'grier', and i have shared some joni prairie times...grier is older than me, but we're both divorced guys...so grier and i have gone off on joni prairie trips...grier saw joni at the 'great depression' during her calgary days in the mid sixties when grier was in his "puff the magic dragon" period...anyways we were sharing "paprika plains" with his ex, cherry, and ecided to drive to joni's birthplace...our joni prairie treks was not why cherry left him..!..we took off in '80 to fort macleod in grier's mustang convertible...grier's grandad was one of the mountie founders of fort macleod...we got down there...cruisin' the metropolis...its a pretty neat town, an old theatre, excellent chinese cafe on main street...we bumped into an old geezer on this main thoroughfare asking about joni..."oh yah...the Andersons...i remember..." and he directed us out to the old airbase, WWII places, always in green plywood, that dot the prairies...places where yanks got into the war earlier than their country...brits like my ex's father in moose jaw...and johnnie canucks like bill anderson...all posted together for training on the RCAF Harvards to get them into the war...some of whom were in the battle of Britain...the yanks even dragged planes across the invisible border secretly....anyway here grier and i were, feeling like farts in a windstorm...looking at the green peeling buildings and huts..."well what do we do know?" "so this is where she lived 0-3 years old...cool man" knowing very much the only thing happening was the mighty chinook wind that made us and our voices even smaller...i think it was "geezer" that informed us she was only there till she was 3 and off to saskatchewan..."and thats the rest of the story" but the somewhat stark recollection forms a nice background to "amelia" 'cause these airbases are a real part of joni, her first home...a boarded-up but historic and dramatic home to have...a travellors' home...people who lived for the air, like 'amelia', or the 'right stuff', indeed a kind of sam shepard environment, with nothin' but the wind and the howlin' coyotes, with 'sweetie's snack bar boarded up now'....the green pealing paint and boarded up windows..."they're such sky oriented people"...so grier and i didn't know at the time what we'd connected with...only joni could make a busy lawyer like him go off in the midst of business on a pilgrimage to fort macleod...he still has it in his memory...and we 'got it for keeps'.... ciao, shane ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:25:45 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: offer withdrawn - --- catman wrote: > Now it's my turn to bitch: > > A few days ago I made an offer which in terms of > time would have cost me > at least 3 days and about $100. This was to donate a > joni/jmdl sweater. > This was no little hurried job. You would have had a > quality, > professional garment worth about $150. > It doesn't bother me that you weren't interested. > What bothers me is > that not one person even bothered to reply. Ahem, Catman, Colin, dearest. I WAS going to reply to say, "What a wonderful idea!" but I'm trying to stop myself from sending *that* kind of post these days, because it is a bit "me-too-ish" and in fact, the mood I'm in these days, I'd probably be sending one of *those* kinds of posts to just about everyone. (Maybe it's one of this hormonal things - hormones - hate'em!) Quite honestly though, I'm not sure what my saying what a great idea that would be would really mean much anyway - if you do do it and there are raffle tickets to buy, you can bet I'd buy some. I made an oblique reference the other day to your sweaters in a P.S. asking you to knit me a sweater and you very kindly send me pictures of some of your work. **Trust me, people, this guy makes beautiful stuff.** I still think it's a good idea, but that and [insert local currency of your choice] will buy you a cup of coffee. I can't see anyone being against the idea either, but maybe people didn't realize they might be expected to reply (?) Anyhoo, I, for one, hope you reconsider. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:12:11 -0800 From: "Brenda J. Walker" Subject: Amazon $8.99 Sale Don't know if this has been posted yet, but most of Joni's back catalog is on sale at Amazon for $8.99 as a part of their Classics Sale. Joni http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/149482/107-6282673-4088546 Classics http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/549740/ref%3Dmk%5Fchs%5F15/107-6282673-4088546 Brenda ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:49:28 +0200 From: "John van Tiel" Subject: Musical instrument strumpet-style Yes Wally, English as second language can be tricky. During my student days in Durham (UK) -- Yes, Arthur B, I was there at the same time as you were -- I once went to watch a classical wind music ensemble. After a great bassoon solo piece I remarked to one of my friends: "Isn't that a great baboon player?" It took me weeks to be taken seriously again ... John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:42:59 EST From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Joni Moment I went to see Kiki Dee yesterday at the Kashmir Klub, which seems to be getting a lot of free publicity at the moment :-) It was a really beautiful set, just her and her superb guitarist Carmelo Luggeri. She sounds great, an example to any singer who's been on the scene since the 60s, been Very Famous, and wants to continue making music; her songs are far more personal now, she doesn't try to take her voice places it doesn't want to go, and looks great, not trying to look any younger than she is (mid 50s). After enchanting us all, she came back for an encore, and guess what? She sang Big Yellow Taxi! She has quite a few Joni tunes in her repertoire, and felt this was the one to go with. It was a great rendition, which breathed life into the old workhorse. I will see if I can get hold of a recording, but I'm not making any promises! Were you there, Arthur? Azeem in London NP: Lucinda Williams - Joy (from a great concert recording - thanks to the kind lister who sent it to me ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:12:57 -0500 From: "Mike Hicks" Subject: Re: my long fall from grace... > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:54:15 -0500 > To: Ricw1217@aol.com, joni@smoe.org > From: Heather > Subject: Re: my long fall from grace... > Reply-to: Heather > ohhh .. you are still a cool dad! anyone else get the old eyeball roll > from family and friends when they know you are e-mailing about joni? > > heather No, I keep it from my wife. mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:04:12 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Musical instrument strumpet-style oh john!!!! it's incredible how we spend our whole lives studying languages and these things still happen to us!!!! wallyK, np: some baboon music -----Mensaje original----- De: John van Tiel [mailto:john.van.tiel@wxs.nl] Enviado el: Jueves, 29 de Marzo de 2001 09:49 a.m. Para: joni@smoe.org CC: Wally Kairuz Asunto: Musical instrument strumpet-style Yes Wally, English as second language can be tricky. During my student days in Durham (UK) -- Yes, Arthur B, I was there at the same time as you were -- I once went to watch a classical wind music ensemble. After a great bassoon solo piece I remarked to one of my friends: "Isn't that a great baboon player?" It took me weeks to be taken seriously again ... John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:04:35 -0500 From: slarty Subject: Re: Fwd: MORE JAZZ TAKES...and a request More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell has been rated as one of the top 10 requests on the CBC's After Hours web site. They have a beautiful web site by the way which you can see here. http://winnipeg.cbc.ca/afterhours/ Check under "Top Album Picks" to see David's cd. I've heard them play it at least 3 times in the last month. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:41:10 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Moment << She has quite a few Joni tunes in her repertoire, and felt this was the one to go with. It was a great rendition, which breathed life into the old workhorse. I will see if I can get hold of a recording, but I'm not making any promises! >> Very cool moment, Azeem! I was totally not ready for the great job she did on Carey...I underestimated her - all I'd heard from Kiki was that duet with Elton, "Don't Go Breaking My heart", which was a great pop ditty but certainly nothing to write home about. So glad to see she's doing some Joni...maybe BYT will turn up on a record or something! Bob NP: Indio, "My Eyes" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:17:45 -0600 From: Nancy Subject: re: my long fall from =?iso-8859-1?Q?grace=85?= Heather, I was listening to my cassette of the "fonimitchell" group that Ashara had copied for me (thanks, Ashara!!) on my way to meet my mother in law for lunch. When I got there, I told her about the interview from Joni's "Voices" art exhibit (recorded on the flip side of cassette), and I thought it would be cool to meet some of the other people on this list, and she just said, "I guess I've never gotten that excited about a musician." (She doesn't know what she's missing, does she?!!) I was so excited to see Joni in concert last May in Chicago. Told several people about it, and only one (1) person said he likes her music. The rest didn't know who I was talking about. :-( - --Nancy-IA (surrounded by corn fields) ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #103 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?