From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #168 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 Thursday, May 31 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 168 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: -------- NYC Jonifest kinda long [RoseMJoy@aol.com] comparisons [catman ] Fwd: Re: Midwest fest [Merk54@aol.com] Old Beale Street is coming down... ["Steve Harper" ] FTP Site for trading Joni files ["Brenda J. Walker" ] J&B and Coke ["emmy burns" ] Re: J&B and Coke [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: J&B and Coke [Murphycopy@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:54:18 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: NYC Jonifest kinda long In a message dated 5/28/01 8:07:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, scam1@freeway.net writes: > Rose........You are the woman! Thanks for all of the fun and for > being an excellent driver! > Thank you Sue & Nate for the distant pleasure of your company. I had a blast, I didn't even hit any pedestrians this time around and I also managed to avoid the potholes! Oh and don't let this woman bullshit you, she can play that guitar and sings very well. Give her a time slot at the JoniFest Anne. Yes, of course I got lost. No sooner than I came out of the Holland tunnel, I was in the wrong lane and ended up going up the parking ramp to the Port Authority LOL So now I'm already in a panic, but I managed to find my way to my Chelsea Hotel, checked in and head on down to Judy's Chelsea arriving just about Rose Time. I missed the first set and never got to hear the Mixon's perform (bummer) but I did manage to get smoke in Leslie's eye: ~(Sorry again Leslie) I called Alison & company to let them know I had arrived and they're on there way. I sit at the bar waiting for more people to arrive and in walks Roberto who I've never had the pleasure to meet before, but whom I recognized from his picture. What a sweetheart he is. We chat a bit at the bar and soon Alison, Nikki, Brian, Jeff, Patrick and Julius arrive. We have a drink and smoke our brains out before heading into the Cabaret room where the second set is about to begin. David was awesome of course and his accompanied bass player Dave, just divine. Kay, what can I say about Kay. You guys are in for a treat at JoniFest this year. I hope we hear more from Kay and she comes out of lurkdom. She's a woman of heart and mind. Roberto plays a beautiful piano. I'm looking forward to hearing more of him in Topsfield this year. Ashara get that piano tuned and ready! Alison just never ceases to amaze me with her singing. This woman nails those high notes. Jeff, I think you should follow that dream of yours. Quit your day job honey. Mitch nearly had me in tears with his cabaret rendition of Cherokee Louise. I love this guy. Bob S. from my own home state of Noo Joisey, did some great strumming of California on his acoustic guitar accompanied by our own divine vocalist, Ms. Alison E. After Judy's, Julius and I found our way to Ali's local hangout. Never believe Alison when she tells you she's gonna wait for you. Luckily for Julius and I, I'd been there before and remembered it was right across the street from where she and Jeff lived. All was forgiven ;~) but we did give her hell about it. We hung around a bit and those guys shot a few rounds of pool I head back to my hotel room and call it a night. The next morning we all meet at the Riviera for brunch and yes more cocktails. Nikki and Brian have to leave us and head back home. The sun is breaking through and it looks like it's going to be a Chelsea morning so we go to a music/street fair. After the street fair we promenade through Central Park. Ali guided us through to Willy The Shake's Garden. We caught a glimpse of THOTH who played the violin real good for free (I wonder what's under that gold loincloth?), have an NYC street cart hot dog and head back to Jeff and Ali's before having dinner. (See Alison, I can be from NJ and use big words too) One thing I learned about NY, Don't help feeble old woman across the street and Don't argue with an NYC bus driver. "Mind your own business" The restaurant that is planned for us to have dinner at appears to be closed so we jam at Ali's and Jeff's with no word from Roberto and Patrick :~( We urge Jeff to play for us which he does so beautifully on his new ltd. edition Gibson guitar. Alison was so funny, every time Jeff walked in the room she put his guitar down. It's getting late now so we give up on Patrick and Roberto and decide to order Chinese. After a wonderful dinner we bid our farewells and I head back to Jersey and thanks to Alison, NO, I didn't get lost in my altered state of mind. Thanks for the bandwidth guys and I just want to say thank you to Alison and Jeff for their hospitality. David & Judy Lahm for hosting our Judy's Chelsea JoniFest. Sue and Nate Cameron, you guys know how to party. It was too much fun. Leslie and Steve, again sorry I missed you guys play but please provide us with some MP3's? and... I see.... Patrick, Roberto, Deb, Kay, Nikki, Brian, Bob, I lubs you guys. Last but not least, JULIUS, thanks for protecting me out on the streets. Miss you all already. Rose reporting from NJ rosemjoy@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:14:18 +0100 From: catman Subject: comparisons saw an Intimate Portrait of Melissa Etheridge. I don't like her music but found it interesting. She said she had been likened to a cross between John Cougar Mellencamp and Joni and Janis Jolin and Bruce Springsteen. She said she didn't mind at all as she admired all these people. Pity our Joni couldn't be so gracious. - -- bw colin BRO GC, 950i 940,864, 260, 890,Silver 830 and 270, Passap 6000 Duo80 colin@tantra.fsbusiness.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/tantra_apso/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:22:13 EDT From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Re: Midwest fest Return-Path: Received: from web49.aolmail.aol.com (web49.aolmail.aol.com [205.188.161.10]) by air-id05.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.37) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:19:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:19:20 EDT From: Merk54@aol.com To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Message-ID: Kerry, I will be coming up from the Chicago area, so if you could provide directions from Chicago, that would be great. By the way, my offer to drive someone still holds, so if you live in the Chicago area, and would like a ride to Milwaukee, drop me a line. Jack ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:45:27 From: "Steve Harper" Subject: Old Beale Street is coming down... Well, Ken and I have returned from a worldwind tour of Memphis and Nashville last weekend. Some highlights of our trip..... Watching and listening to Levon Helm (!) play drums at BB King's Blues Club on Beale Street... a complete and wonderful surprise... Seeing some truly funky floor-to-ceiling shag carpeting in the Jungle Room at Graceland, and reading incredible old headlines, including one linking rock-and-roll to the "fall of civilization as we know it" (glad we made it through, somehow)... Standing in Sun Studios with one of the microphones used by Elvis, on a two-room tour that consisted of hearing a number of little ditties like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Great Balls of Fire" in the very spot where they were recorded... Standing on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville....."How-dee!!!!!!! I'm just so proud to be here!" Seeing the old and new Daisy Theatres "staring" at each other from across the street (Ken pointed out that the "new" Daisy is vintage 1940's...) And, of course, we found "Handy cast in bronze, standing in a little park," as we listened to some decent new bands, and I danced a bit on Beale. (The statue went up the year Joni wrote about it, by the way...) I love that song; it is one of the moodiest and experience-rich songs on Hejira, which is basically an album chronicling rich experience. "RJ Anderson, I'm not rich, but I'm gay.......and I am quite familiar with what you play..." ;) Love to all, Steve P.S. Ken and I have noticed that our travels this year seem to hinge around Hejira; we visited Savannah in February, and now Memphis! (Where to next, my dear?) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:56:32 -0700 From: "Brenda J. Walker" Subject: FTP Site for trading Joni files Some time ago someone on the list had setup an FTP site. Is that still going? Brenda ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:39:49 -0700 From: "brian symes" Subject: Joni into ecology / Amelia /Lahminations Joni was doing a post C&S/Miles of Ailses performance at Detroit's Fischer Hall in I think 1975, She Introduced Big yellow Taxi with a story on when she left Detroit in the 60's Dutch Elm disease was killing all the American Elm trees that lined pretty much all of the streets. This teared me up because one of my strange hobbies was growing trees from seeds and nuts in recycled Baskin & Robbins ice Cream containers. Joni was right in BYT, Detroit developers would clearcut whole forests to make it easier to plat out their ticky tacky houses in subdivions titled like "Farmington Woods". This last weekend I was primary Hugger to my Amelia 1-1-99 down and out with PINK EYE/ Virus during a long nap I did get outside to wash the forty windows in my house the only thing that got me thru it was David Lahm's MJT / JM playing on the Boom Box brought outdoors. Digging around in the Pat Metheny box at the local used CD store I discovered "Bright Size Life" with Jaco Pastorius on bass and Bob Moses on drums recorded in 76 it plays pretty nice with Hejira and DJRD. Holy Lahminations didn't anybody bring a camcorder to Judy's place or for Marian's visit to L.A. NP: FUERA / Garcia-Fons and Matiner MER BLANCHE Sign up for a free About Email account at http://About.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:18:25 EDT From: Rhymes46@aol.com Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2001 #238 This week the web site at www.scarecrowsdream.com is featuring a tribute to Joni Mitchell in its Discussion Board section. The purpose of the board is to share thoughts about our favorite artists and their music among other music fans. All fans of Joni are welcome to have a look and maybe post a message or two about their passion for Joni's music. Let us know her recent activities and plans!!! Linda Livingston-Talbott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:32:47 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Lahm's Takes and more from CDNOW I finally came up for a little air tonight from working constantly these days to check out the sound clips of, and order, David Lahm's "More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell." Listened to DJRD, Silky Veils of Ardor, Off Night Backstreet and LOTC. Oh my my - just stunning! It's so awesome to hear these, especially the takes on the DJRD material which is generally obscure to most but so brilliant. The one album that took me 20 years to "decode" and when it did was like a rare and supernatural flower unfolding to me. David, I think you deserve a Grammy nod for this one. I also learned that the long-awaited Buffalo Springfield Box Set can now be advance ordered from CDNow - the release date is July 17th. Also pre-ordered the new CPR "Just Like Gravity" which I expect to be gorgeous - the release date is June 19th. Kakki, back to her old spending vices ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:11:23 -0700 From: "emmy burns" Subject: J&B and Coke A quick question. I am making a mixed tape for my friend (for her 21st birthday) of all the songs in which Joni references alcoholic beverages. In Paprika Plains Joni mentions J&B and Coke. Does anyone know what J&B stands for? For some reason this seems terribly familiar to me, yet I can't pull it up. The other songs I've got are as follows:The Jungle LineIn France They Kiss on Main StreetFurry Sings the BluesA Case of YouThe PriestJust Like This TrainI Had a KingDon't Interrupt the SorrowCareyRaised on RobberyDown to YouThe Last Time I Saw RichardThis Flight TonightBanquetBlueBarangrillBeat of Black WingsLead Balloon Can anyone think of some I'm missing? - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:17:54 EDT From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: J&B and Coke In a message dated 5/31/01 2:16:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, emmyhejira@hotmail.com writes: << Does anyone know what J&B stands for? >> It's a brand of scotch whisky, i think. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:48:16 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: J&B and Coke In a message dated 5/31/01 1:16:18 AM, emmyhejira@hotmail.com writes: << I am making a mixed tape for my friend (for her 21st birthday) of all the songs in which Joni references alcoholic beverages. <> Can anyone think of some I'm missing? >> Just of the top of my head, Emmy, I thought of a bunch: Song to a Seagrams A Case of Bud The Dry Chablis from Des Moines Shadows and Lite Brew Goodbye Pork Pie Lunch Edith and the Six Pack Lesson in Jaegermeister Bud Lite Tonight The Blonde with the Blender A Woman of Seven and Seven In France They Drink on Main Street Hope these help! --Bob ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #168 ********************************* ------- 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?